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John Chamberlayne to Hans Sloane – May 30, 1702
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Date: May 30, 1702
Author: John Chamberlayne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 349
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Wanley told Chamberlayne to contact Sloane to procure back issues of the Philosophical Transactions. He requests the first 6 and last 2 volumes of 1700. He asks Sloane to provide him with two discourses, unpublished, by a Governor.
John Chamberlayne was a translator and editor specializing in modern languages which he studied at the University of Leiden. He translated works on many topics, was a fellow of the Royal Society, and published three works in the Philsophical Transactions (Reavley Gair, Chamberlayne, John (1668/91723), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5060, accessed 30 May 2011]).
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Jacob Bobart to Hans Sloane – December 17, 1685
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Date: December 17, 1685
Author: Jacob Bobart
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 18
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Bobart apologizes for his tardy response to Sloane’s discourse on botany. He promises to be more prompt in the future.
Jacob Bobart (1641-1719) was a botanist and son of Jacob Bobart, the elder (c.1599-1680). He worked with his father at the Oxford Physic Garden for nearly 40 years (D. E. Allen, ‘Bobart, Jacob, the younger (1641–1719)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2742, accessed 5 June 2015]).
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Anne Pierrepont (d. 1734/35) was the daughter of Robert Pierrepont and Anne Murray. She married Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington some time after 1705.
Reference:
G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/1, page 788.
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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Jacob Bobart to Hans Sloane – March 25, 1708
Item info
Date: March 25, 1708
Author: Jacob Bobart
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: f. 123
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Scholarship, Scientific, Social
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Subjects
Botany, Entomology, Insects, Seeds, Specimens, West Indies
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Date (as written)
March 25, 1708
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Oxon
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Others mentioned
James Petiver Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
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Patients mentioned
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Bobart discusses Sloane’s botanical scholarship. He is eager to ‘hear what becomes of Dr Schutzers Iter Alpinum, or Mm. Maria Merions promis’d curious remarks upon part of the family of W. Indian Insects’. Bobart asks whether Petiver is preoccupied with his work and if the seeds arrived undamaged.
Jacob Bobart (1641-1719) was a botanist and son of Jacob Bobart, the elder (c.1599-1680). He worked with his father at the Oxford Physic Garden for nearly 40 years (D. E. Allen, ‘Bobart, Jacob, the younger (1641–1719)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2742, accessed 5 June 2015]).
Posted on February 4, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Jacob Bobart (1641-1719) was a botanist and son of Jacob Bobart, the elder (c.1599-1680). He worked with his father at the Oxford Physic Garden for nearly 40 years.
Reference:
D. E. Allen, ‘Bobart, Jacob, the younger (1641–1719)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2742 [accessed 5 June 2015]).
Dates: to
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Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland to Hans Sloane – February 14, 1709
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Date: February 14, 1709
Author: Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 98
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Her Majesty grants Sloane permission to become a member of the Academie des sciences in Paris. He is also allowed to correspond with Abbe Bignon ‘upon matters relating onely to Literature, and the Improvement of Arts and Sciences’.
Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, was a prominent politician during the reigns of Queen Anne and George I. He studied at the University of Leiden and was interested in scholarship as well as being fluent in several foreign languages (Henry L. Snyder, Spencer, Charles, third earl of Sunderland (16751722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26117, accessed 30 May 2011]).
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Thomas Short to Hans Sloane – April 3, 1731
Item info
Date: April 3, 1731
Author: Thomas Short
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: f. 218
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Short has not had occassion to write as of late. He asks if there is anything ‘in our manufactury that woud be acceptable to you’. Short was glad to hear of Sloane’s success in treating Lord Malton’s (Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham) youngest daughter. He would like know what she was sick with. Short was not consulted when the girl was in town, as another physician was consulted. He discusses what the other doctor prescribed. Short requests a book from Sloane. He tried to procure it from Leiden, but to no avail.
Thomas Short was a Scottish physician who settled in Sheffield. He traveled throughout England examining the medical effects of mineral waters and published works promoting their use in 1725 and 1766 (Norman Moore, Short, Thomas (c.16901772), rev. Patrick Wallis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25461, accessed 24 July 2013]).
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John Chamberlayne to Hans Sloane – September 7, 1714
Item info
Date: September 7, 1714
Author: John Chamberlayne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 290-291
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Chamberlayne plans on releasing a new edition of his ‘State of Gr. Br.’ He wants ‘the best Ingraver in London’ to work on it and asks Sloane to suggest one for him.
John Chamberlayne was a translator and editor specializing in modern languages which he studied at the University of Leiden. He translated works on many topics, was a fellow of the Royal Society, and published three works in the Philsophical Transactions (Reavley Gair, Chamberlayne, John (1668/91723), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5060, accessed 30 May 2011]).
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Jacob Bobart to Hans Sloane – July 9, 1713
Item info
Date: July 9, 1713
Author: Jacob Bobart
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 161
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Bobart hopes the growing season will be a success. He thanks Sloane for remembering him and praises his collection of plants and ‘other Naturall rarieties’.
Jacob Bobart (1641-1719) was a botanist and son of Jacob Bobart, the elder (c.1599-1680). He worked with his father at the Oxford Physic Garden for nearly 40 years (D. E. Allen, ‘Bobart, Jacob, the younger (1641–1719)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2742, accessed 5 June 2015]).
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JJ Dillenius to J.G. Scheuchzer – Jun. 2.
Item info
Date: Jun. 2.
Author: JJ Dillenius
Recipient: J.G. Scheuchzer
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 325
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Sr
[A?] [gen?]tleman of my Acqaintance is desirous
to see Sr Hans Sloanes Collection. As soon
as there be an opportunity I hope you will
favour him & let [is?] know him. His name is
Brown & is at Mr Batemans in Soho Square.
I believe he will take an opportunity to wait
on Sr Hans Sloane & you himself within
a few Days: With my humble Service &
respects to Sr Hans Sloane
I am your most
obliged humble Servant
JJ Dillenius
Jun. 2.
Dillenius informs Scheuchzer that an acquaintance by the name of Brown would like to meet Sir Hans Sloane. Johann Jakob Dillenius (1687-1747) practiced medicine in Grünberg, Hesse and served as town doctor in Giessen. He was also a botanist and the first president of the Botanical Society (London). Dillenius was elected FRS in 1724 and served as foreign secretary of the Royal Society in 1728-1747. G. S. Boulger, ‘Dillenius, Johann Jakob (1687–1747)’, rev. D. J. Mabberley, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7648, accessed 13 July 2015]
