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John Chamberlayne to Hans Sloane – February 17, 1710/11
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Date: February 17, 1710/11
Author: John Chamberlayne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 252-253
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Library, Material Culture, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship
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Subjects
African Languages, Books, Egyptian Artifacts, Prayer Books, South American Languages
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Date (as written)
February 17, 1710/11
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Petty France
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
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Chamberlayne returns a prayer book, which he borrowed from Sloane. He asks whether Sloane has ‘any other Lds Prayer in any of the Dialects of S. America, or any of the African Languages’. Chamberlayne is looking for a ‘Paper of Mr. Sraves [?] abt some Raritys in Egypt lately read in the R. Society’.
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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Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland to Hans Sloane – October 16, 1711
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Date: October 16, 1711
Author: Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 357-358
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Transcription
Spencer gives Sloane permission to rule as he wanted to at the ‘Councill to day’ regarding the collection of books.
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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Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland to Hans Sloane – November 2, 1711
Item info
Date: November 2, 1711
Author: Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 5
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Spencer would like to know what happened with ‘the affair of the Books’, which came up at the last Council meeting.
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 (1675–1722)’, 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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Jacob Bobart to Hans Sloane – January 4, 1697/8
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Date: January 4, 1697/8
Author: Jacob Bobart
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 6-7
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Bobart extols the virtues of the free exchange of ideas for the enlightenment of the ignorant. He asks Sloane, a ‘great oracle’, for his help resolving some unspecified issues he is having.
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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John Chamberlayne to Hans Sloane – February 5, 1711/12
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Date: February 5, 1711/12
Author: John Chamberlayne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 26
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Chamberlayne writes that Prince Eugene of Savoy would like to view Sloane’s collection. He would be much obliged by an invitation to do so.
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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John Greenfield/Groenveldt to Hans Sloane – September 29, 1714
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Date: September 29, 1714
Author: John Greenfield/Groenveldt
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 299-300
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[fol. 300] worthy Dr. your former favours gives me encouragement, to make my application to you once more: I presume that you know, that i was forced to come out by ye Act, and since that, i have taken a little house in St Jonahs, part whereof i have lett to so good an advantage, that (that being joined with my small practice) encouraged me to hope i shall gett before hands in ye worth. Could i but taise a small sum of money to pay ye charges that i was at in going to ye house! I begg pardon for this liberty, but hope it will be ye last time that i shall have occasion that i am forced to make such a request: I shall for ever own ye great obligations You have all ready laid upon Good Dr Your obliged humble servt. to Command jn’o: Greenveldt The Gentleman that brings this letter is my particular friend. Sept: 29th. 1714.
John Groenveldt (bap.1648 d.1715/16) alias Greenfield, was a physician and surgeon. He began studying medicine at the University of Leiden and finished his degree at Utrect in 1670. Greenfield joined the Colegium Medicum and had a successful medical practice with partner Henricus Velthuys in Amsterdam where they provided surgical and medical services as well as administered medicines. He moved to London and joined the Royal College of Physicians in 1683. He fought censors and several law cases over some of his medicines which caused his practice to decline in the early 1700s. (Harold J. Cook, “Groenevelt, Joannes (bap. 1648, d. 1715/16)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
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John Chamberlayne to Hans Sloane – December 23, 1714
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Date: December 23, 1714
Author: John Chamberlayne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 4-5
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Chamberlayne suggests that Sloane send a letter to Jablonski. He asks why he has stopped receiving the Philosophical Transactions free of charge. Their agreement was that he got a subscription if he translated Dutch scholarship for the Royal Society.
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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Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – July 29, 1712
Item info
Date: July 29, 1712
Author: Patrick Blair
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 64-65
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship, Scientific, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Books, Copper Plates, Ears, Elephants, Fellowship, Holland, Otolaryngology, Publishing
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Date (as written)
July 29, 1712
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Coupar-Angus
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Others mentioned
Herman Boerhaave Joseph Pitton de Tournefort James Petiver
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Patients mentioned
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Blair thanks Sloane and the Royal Society for publishing his work. He would like to know what he should charge for copies of his other treatises. He is currently research elephants’s ears and producing copper plates of them. Blair asks Sloane to send the books from Leiden that he had requested. Mr Petiver told him the Royal Society is considering making him a Fellow.
Patrick Blair was a botanist and surgeon whose papers were published in the Transactions. In 1715 Blair joined the Jacobite rebellion as a battle surgeon but was captured and condemned to death. He was visited by Sloane in prison in the hopes the latter might secure a pardon. Sloane was successful and the pardon arrived shortly before Blair’s scheduled execution (Anita Guerrini, Blair, Patrick (c.16801728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2568, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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Gottfried Sellius to Hans Sloane – February 21, 1732
Item info
Date: February 21, 1732
Author: Gottfried Sellius
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 72-73
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Sellius sends his compliments on behalf of the new society established at Nuremberg, of which he is a member. He sends the society’s ‘feuilles’ and hopes that Sloane can procure subscriptions for them in England. He knows Sloane to be a competent judge of such things. Sellius recently married and established himself as an ‘Avocat à la Cour Provinciale d’Utrecht’.
Gottfried Sellius (1704-1767) was a German academic, translator, and initiator of the project that led to the production of the Encyclopédie. He studied at Marburg and Leiden and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1733 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Sellius).