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Letter 3719

Philip Henry Zollman to Hans Sloane – February 11, 1730


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Date: February 11, 1730
Author: Philip Henry Zollman
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 274-275



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[fol. 274] Paris 11th February 1730 n.s. Sir I received the honour of your Letter of the 5th past O.S. no sooner than the 5th instant n.s., and senr the enclosed immediately to Mr Woolhouse; His answer went last night by Avison the Messenger, who was dispatched for England; but as I would not return thanks to your very kind Letter to me in such a hurry as I was in all that day, I beg leave to do it by this day’s Post. However I recommended particularly to Mr Avison to take on the road the Packet of Physical Disputations for You, which by Gollen the Messenger’s death had been so long detained with his other things, but is safe and will be delivered to by Mr Avison. As for another Packet since from Mr Woolhouse, containing a month of the Journal of Trevaux, and a Physical Treatise, I have sent it likewise some time ago by a Messenger, who being dispatched from this Exc’y Mr Walpole’s House, I do not perfectly remember his name. I think it was Mr Randal, who having been very ill soon after his arrival in England, might have neglected to, and probably has since his recovery delivered it. It is the greatest satisfaction to me to hear that my endeavours to serve You and the Royal Society have been acceptable. As I am conscious that my own stock would be too poor to supply so learned a Body, I laid hold of any thing that putt itself as it were in my way, and made use of all other Opportunitys that offered, to shew my zeal for the society’s service, in which I am greatly encouraged by the approbation You are pleased to give it. I shall think myself very happy in receiving for the future Your particular orders [fol. 275] and Directions, You being the best Judge how far and in what particular way I may be employed. I had gathered some more very curious fossils at Hautefontaine, which I left in the hands of Dr Petit at Soissons. I shall gett some of them back again, and send them by a proper Opportunity. I am with the greatest zeal and Respect Sir Your most humble and most obedient servant P.H. Zollman.

Philip Henry Zollman (c. 1680-1748) was the Royal Society’s first Assistant Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, a post he assumed in 1723. He first landed in England in 1714, was trained in several foreign languages, and regularly corresponded with Leibniz (Derek Massarell, ‘Philip Henry Zollman, the Royal Society’s First Assistant Secretary for Foreign Correspondence’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 46, no. 2 (1992), 219-234).




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Letter 2530

Bernard Guillaume (Bernardi Guilielmini) to Hans Sloane – December 23, 1721


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Date: December 23, 1721
Author: Bernard Guillaume (Bernardi Guilielmini)
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 162-165



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Fols. 162-165 Sr. The Character which I heard of You some few years ago and some reflexions lately made, occasions the writing this Letter. As I know you not personally, so, Sr. I am not known by You; but that You may know what I am, please to give your self the trouble to read what follows, and you shall never have a just cause to repent you of it. it has pleased God to bless me so, as to attain to the knowledge and preparation of a Universal Tincture, so much talked of and pretended to: but as rarely known and seen. Next to the honour of God and our common Salvation. I prefer the contemplation of this, to all other things; as esteeming you of little or no value in comparison of it for the knowledge of God and universal nature and of this holy science are inseparable: for the more we advance in the later, the more must we, of necessity, in the former also. Notwithstanding this, for my Probation and Humiliation, what has happened to some in all ages, was permitted to befall me also; yt is, to loose so pretious and invaluable a treasure; which reminds me of these words: Ego quos amo, arguo, et eastigo. I have seen in a most eminent manner how the anger of God was inkindled against those who betrayed me in a very cruel manner. God forgive ym: I heartily do. may they truly repent of it, This prediction was occasioned by one mans acquaintance, whom I had for some years made my friend and confident and thought to be a person of unexceptionable piety and fidelity. Ictus Piseator sapit. Nothing but a train of miracles could have extricated me out of such a sea of danger and sorrow, and anxiety of spirit, which brought upon me grievous bodily sickness caused by the inexpressible trouble of my mind. I have been forced to leave France all on a sudden, destitute and forlorn, and to take post and ride day and night, which I could not have done, but by immediately selling a piece of […] Gold and two small Diamonds such I had about me, for I must not return to the Hotel, for fear of falling into the same circumstances as did, Alass! a most venerable sage, whose hairs are as white as a swan, who has been imprisoned and afterwards sent down to L’Isle de Sainte Marguerite, for no other reason than a suspicion of being an Adeptl where, without a miraculous deliverance, he will in all probability spend the rest of his days. I understand since (by Monsr. de Marêchal Bezon who had letters concerning him from Monsieur La Bret Intendant de Provence, and that too by the Duke Regent’s orders) that his manner of living and behaviour is most abidying, wonderfull and amazing. though the Duke of Orleans has vastly enriched himself, at the expence and utter ruin of hundreds of thousands, yet his detestable thirst after Gold continues still the same by which we clearly see, covetousness not […] only to be Idolatry, and the root of all Evil, but in its nature […] insatiable as that abyss from whence it proceeds: though his attempts of this kind will Eternally be in vain; for where God gives so great a blessing; strength and patience to a righteous and innocent sufferer will be given in proportion. In these piteous circumstances, Sr, after several years spent abroad, I lately came for England, where I had left a little brechold [sic] estate, which I found sold by my unkle, in my absence, since dead; which he had no right nor title to do, but poor man falling into strait circumstances, his reflecting upon my being a single person, and having no letter from me for several years, might be one occasion of it, which has put me to very great and pressing inconveniences, yet will I not go to Law if it be: any ways avoidable. Ei qui vult tecum judicio contenere, et tumicam tuam tollere, dimitte ei et pallium. Now by all this, I would not be understood, as if I had the least presumptious [sic] thought to pretend to inform you how to make Gold. God forbid. By so doing I should infallibly incur the displeasure of the Allmighty, and extreamly hazard the salvation of my soul. My design, Sr, is only to know, whither you are in the least manner initiated into that part of our art, wch is the Gift of God, which leads to a Universal Medicine; or whither your heart be, in the sight of God, disposed to receive such a blessing. Otherwise that a certain great person once said to Johannes Baptista Van Helmont a very learned honest man, is applicable to your self, were you President of all the Colledges of Physitians upon Earth Videlicet, Charissime […] nisi eo devenias, quod unico Remedio quea curare quenlibet morbum, manebis in by tocimio, utcun senex eva seris. After the Great Tincture, or medicine for metals, that is reserved for those to who in God will bestow it. T’is a sin through vain curiosity to search after it: yet a much heavier crime is it for those who willfully impose upon the over credulous, which credulity proceeds either from too great a curiosity, or an insatiable Avarice, but very often, if not alwaysm from both. These wretched and detestable pretenders are those, Sui [?] manos pollicentur montes, et petunt drachmas parvasl and justly are they lashed by Mr Johnsons Alchymist: yet he that reproaches the Art it self, as yet remains in a thicker than Ægyptian darkness, as to the pure Light of nature. These unhappy Alchymists can do nothing without quantities of Gold, and why? because the honour of God, and their Neighbours Good they have not at heart, but only vile and sordid gain acquired by fallacious means. He yt knows not what to do with Gold; yt is, he yt cannot find an Ins of Gold in the forever, will never know how to improve and augment it in the later. the most accurate solutions of Gold in the best corrosive liquours, (without out Homogeneal Vegetable Mentruum) do little more than he who dissolves salt in common water, for we cannot call, neither the one, nor the other, a Radical Solution for no Radical Solution can be without a previous putrefaction. This is the key to all true medicine. O how blind are those yt suffer ymselves to be deceived, when they see not their matter putrify in the beginning, according to the joint […] consent and common voice of all true philosophers. This one thing alone, duly considered, will for ever prevent out deceiving ourselves or being deceived by others and this I have faithfully communicated to you, to prevent all kind of imposition, though I should never see you. No perfect putrefaction can be without a Radical solution. no separation, no purification. no purification, no multiplication. All which can never be without a previous death or putrefaction. as it is written: Except a Grain of corn fall into the Earth and dye, it abideth alone, but if it dyes it bringeth forth much fruit. and again; Thou fool, yt which thou sowest is not quickened, except it dye. please to remember the common school Axiom: Corruptis Unius Generatio est alterius; et vice versa. Here, Sr, I have led you to the very central, Cardinal point. what effect these great truths may have upon you, I know not. T’is my duty to resign my self and what is here fundamentally and honestly disclosed to you to the Providence of the most High; as to the Event of what is written I am to be indifferent. if the hand of God is in this matter, His counsel shall stand and prevail. Tho if I did not hope His secret providence to be in it, I would not upon any account or consideration have thus addressed my self to you. You are to answer for what use, you shall make of it. for my part I have given you hints sufficient. my views only regard a medicine for the poor, that God may make use of you as an instrument of His Love, against the now prevailing vials of His wrath, when all Europe is threatened with the fatal scourge of pestilence and famine, for where the former is, the later never is wantingl and all this is a judgment upon Christendom, for its insatiable pride, covetousness, piacular [sic] and perseverance in sin, the forerunner of final impenitence […] the consideration of which makes me fearfull of burying my talent in a napkin; and the Character I have heard of you, has occasioned my thus applying my self to you, hoping to meet with a man of probity and Taciturnity. My business is not to trifle. Do you know, Sr, any thing of our secret fire, or to be plain with you, of our first Agent? for without this subtle and Adeptical preparation first, you can never kill and make alive (or quicken and multiply the principle of Life, and mortifye That of death, wch is all one and the same thing) at one and the same time. T’is by this secret alone we purifye. For want of this, Poutanus [sic] ingenuously declares, he erred two hundred times. He yt has experimentally known this preparation thoroughly is a Master; he yt knows nothing of it is not yet a scholar, and consequently knows nothing of a true medicine. If you know this Art of perfect putrefaction, which I have twice wrought with my own hands, let me have but the smallest hint thereof, and I shall immediately understand you; and this will give me occasion to communicate something to you, which (if I find the aforesaid disposition) will greatly rejoyce you, and wch is more, enable You to do good to some thousands of the poor, whose dayly labour is their whole estate, and who cannot do it, because they languish under distempers ignorantly termed incurable. yea, in such a case, confine not your charity to England, but let the poor in any other Country profit thereby, where any plague or pestilential maladies may rage […] Sr,Your charity to the poor gives excellent and edifying savour, this will render you acceptable to God, and praise worthy of all honest men. If you think it worth your while, let me have your sentiments, as to what I have touched upon. You well know this Command of our Lord. Nolite dare Sanctum canibus, ne que mittatis margaritas vestras ante porcios: ne forte conculcent eas pedibus suis, et conversia dirumpant vos. The Apostle Saint Paul sais: If any one love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. Now no one can love God, but by strenuously endeavouring to keep His commandments. as it is written: If ye Love me, keep me commandments. Let us then avoid this terrible Malediction, and gain His Temporal and Eternal Blessing, which I wish from the bottom of my heart. I am Sr, your most humble and most obedient Servant Gulielmi Please to direct as follows and it will be safely conveyed to me. vizt. For Mr S. to be left at Mr Morris’s near the Duke of Ormonds head at Kensington Kensington December the 23d 1721.

Gulielmi informs Sloane that he has the ability to make ‘a Universal Tincture’.




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Letter 3015

William Reading to Hans Sloane – March 12, 1723/24


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Date: March 12, 1723/24
Author: William Reading
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: f. 148



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[fol. 148] Sion College London March 12 1723/4 Honoured Sir, A Specimen of the Catalogue of Sion Library has, I hope, been communicated to you by Mr Becket Surgeon. The Book is now printed, and I am drawing up a List of Subscribers, wch I intend to put into the Printers hands next Week. I presume to consult you Sir, if you have room at the College of Physicians, or Royal Society to take a Copy. Last time I called, Sir, at your House, you were sick in Bed. I hope you have now better health. I am Sir y’r most humble serv’t Wm Reading Library Keeper

William Reading was appointed librarian of Sion College, London, in 1708 with the support of Bishop Compton and oversaw the expansion of its collection. He held lectureships at various London churches. Reading reorganized the collection, wrote a celebrated catalogue of its holdings (1724), and published works of ecclesiastical history as well as his own sermons (R. Julian Roberts, Reading, William (16741744), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23237, accessed 29 July 2013]).




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An Eighteenth-Century Rogue

A letter that begins “Since the Unfortunate Affair in Kensington whereby I lost all my Substance, My Expectations and my friends” caught my attention while I was rooting through documents in the archives.

Botanist Richard Bradley found himself strapped for cash. He was managing to scrape by “at the publick Expence”, but publishing was an expensive business and all of his money had gone to paying off booksellers. He was even considering going abroad: “my Inclinations are for it, Even into the Most Dangerous country”. Bradley was unsure which was worse: “to live upon Expectations at home is as bad as it can be to venture one’s Life among Savages abroad”. What he truly wanted was “to have a Garden of Experiments for General Use”—something, no doubt, that Bradley hoped would capture Sloane’s attention, given his interest in and support of the Chelsea Physic Garden. He concluded that such a garden would allow him to “gain an Improving Settlement” and to “do my Country some Service without restraint of Booksellers”.

As a scholar, I was struck by his indebtedness to booksellers, but what on earth was his “Unfortunate Affair”? I just had to explore the letter’s background! A bit of digging revealed Bradley to be a bit of a rogue who constantly asked for (and received) money from his friends. Historian Frank Egerton has taken a sympathetic view; Bradley was a man who lived in an age when there was no government support for scholarship and, lacking personal wealth to support his investigations, he ended up in a cycle of constant debt. A fair point… though Bradley seems to have been particularly bad at managing his affairs.

Cannons Park, Middlesex (destroyed). Engraving from Vitruvius Brittanicus, vol. 4, by J. Badeslade & J. Rocque (London, 1739), plate 24. From Wikimedia Commons.

Born in 1688 to a middle-class London family, Bradley received a good education, but never attended university. He published widely on popular medical and scientific topics. He was known for his expertise in botany and managed to attract high-ranking patrons, including James Brydges, the Duke of Chandos (and husband of Cassandra Willughby). Brydges hired Bradley to oversee the planting of gardens at his estate, Cannons Parks, and even helped him out financially in November 1717, sending money to pay off personal debts. Then, in 1719, Brydges found that Bradley had mismanaged a substantial sum. It seems likely that this is the “Unfortunate Affair”. But he recovered and by 1724, William Sherard had recommended him for the position of Professor of Botany at Cambridge. As part of the Professorship, Bradley promised to found a botanical garden.

Bradley was, perhaps, generally unreliable. The Royal Society notes that “his ignorance of Latin and Greek and his failure to perform his duties caused great scandal”. Yet, despite his many problems, Bradley was still able to persuade people to invest in him. If his relationship with Sloane is typical, I can understand why. Bradley comes across as likeable in his correspondence. Starting in 1714, he occasionally sent Sloane news (e.g. of a hermaphroditic horse) and illustrations (e.g. a lizard from Sloane’s cabinet). In return, he sometimes asked Sloane for advice or employment recommendations.

Bradley again found it difficult to make ends meet by 1726. He had not founded his botanical garden and had trouble attracting students (whose fees were needed to support him). He wrote to Sloane offering him a saffron kiln in return for a favour: help in—of course—getting free from the “booksellers’ hands”. The following year, Sloane noted at the bottom of another letter from Bradley: “Sent him a guinea”. In 1729, Bradley’s financial problems appeared to have been sorted he married a wealthy woman. But within a short time, Mary Bradley’s money had gone to pay off his many debts, and the unlucky couple was forced to sell off household furnishings and move into more modest lodgings.

Bradley died as he lived in 1732, after a long and expensive illness that left his wife and child in debt. The last letter about Bradley was from his widow, asking Sloane for support. And, given his history with Bradley, Sloane likely provided the widow with assistance.

Perhaps Mrs Bradley was better than her husband at money management, as she was never heard from again.

Sources

F. N. Egerton, “Richard Bradley’s relationship with Sir Hans Sloane”, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 25 (1970), 59–77.

F.N. Egerton, “Bradley, Richard (1688?-1732)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005.

Letter 0490

John Ray to Hans Sloane – March 2, 1697/8


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Date: March 2, 1697/8
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 35-36



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[fol. 35] Sr I have this morning sent back by Carrier the Section I last received from You, & intreat you to send me the remainder of the Copy or as much as is ready for I intend to apply my self wholly to it, till I have finished it, being desirous to get the Work off of my hands. For upon this sad Accident & by reason of my growing infirmities I am well mortified as to naturall studies & enquiries, though I shall not so long as life & strength last wholly desert them, but make them some part of my parergon & diversion, as I should only have done before. I should be glad to hear of your health and welfare: my wife is full of grief having not yet been been able fully to concoct her passion, she tenders her humble service & thanks for all your favours, with whom joyns Sr Your affectionate friend & humble servant John Ray B.N. March 2. 1697.

John Ray informs Sloane that he has finished reading over and critiquing the latest section of Sloane’s work, and encourages Sloane to send the next part as quickly as possible, for Ray is not sure how long his health will hold out and he will be unable to continue his intellectual pursuits. He states that the recent passing of his daughter has made him more sensitive to his mortality.

Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).




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Letter 2308

Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – December 30, 1718


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Date: December 30, 1718
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 179-180



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Charlett thanks Sloane for ordering him books. Mr Whiteside has been taking care of the museum and it is ‘in perfect order’. Dr Clark and others offer their thanks to Sloane for his donations to the Bodleian Library. He writes of a copy of ‘Horaces advice’, which is in good condition and titled ‘Rebus omissir Atvia servandem pestico talle Chentem’. Charlett was elected Master of University College at Oxford in 1692 and held that post until his death in 1722. Charlett used the mastership to gain influence, especially through persistent letter-writing to numerous correspondents, sharing the latest literary, political, and scholarly gossip (R. H. Darwall-Smith, Charlett, Arthur (16551722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5158, accessed 1 June 2011]).




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Letter 3148

Baba Sultanum to Hans Sloane – February 23, 1725


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Date: February 23, 1725
Author: Baba Sultanum
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 321-322



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Sultanum claims to have discovered a wonderful medicine. Sloane can meet him at the Grecian Coffeehouse to discuss the remedy.




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Letter 1750

William Sherard to Hans Sloane – May 28, 1711


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Date: May 28, 1711
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 289-290



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[fol. 289] Dear Sr Tho I had not now of a letter from you this Convoy, in answer to my last, I can’t bear troubling you. I hear from Dublin my Lady Rawdon is dead, & I rekon Sr John is now at age, who I hope is how.e will pay his fathers debts. I know Sr. yr influence you have upon that family & desire yr kind assistance. I have sent a letter of Attorney to Mr Robt Sherard of ye Post office who has the Bond for 180tt in his hands. I don’t expect it can presently be discharg’d, tho I hope (sr Arthur having been to long dead) most of ye debts are paid off. I hear ye astute in Chesshire is moving ag’d to yr family, & shou’d be glad to know if it be viable to debt is it should be, by ye morty age. Any service you shall please to do me by yr own or friends interest in this affair, shall be gratefully acknowledged. I am glad to hear you have purchas’d Dr Plukenets plants; I had wrote to Engld about them, but wth no other design, But yt they might not be sold to a foreigner; they are better in yr hands then mine, since I promise my self ye use of them at my return, for my Pinax you will have heard there is a Dr of Bala yt is about an adition of it, but he pretends to give an acct of above 20,000 plants, wch will far out do mine. I have fresh hopes of recovering ye collection designed me by Dr Tournefort, & promises of all his duplictes. [fol. 289v] The service I can do ye Academia for Antiquites, has much promoted my interest in this affair. I beleive twoud be no difficult matter for you to procure Sr Arthur Rawdons Jamaica collection, & then I might hope of adding to mine, such as were lost. I have sent you ye three first vol. of ye Giornale de letterati printed last year at Venice, not knowing whether they may have yet reached Engld they will be deliver’d to you by Mr Stonestreet or my brother. I have sent above an hundred Greek inscriptions to Mr Chishull by this convoy, besides what e had before from Eeyra & other places. he writes me he shall be ready for them at ye return of oe ships, having ye only diversion I have less in these parts, if I may call yt a diversion yrs accompanied so much danger fatigues & expense for wnt of some books my Pinax is at a stand; I have sent a note of them to Mr stonestreet hoping he will procure me them a line from you at yr leisure would be very acceptable to Dear Sr Yr obliged humble servt W.Sherard Smirna May 28.1711 my humble service to yr Lady & family

Sherard was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques (D. E. Allen, Sherard, William (16591728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355, accessed 24 June 2011]).




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Letter 3575

Thomas Dereham to Hans Sloane – March 19, 1729


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Date: March 19, 1729
Author: Thomas Dereham
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 67-68



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[fol. 67] March 19. 1729 Sir I received lately yours of the 17 Jan. last whereby I was very glad to learn that you had received at the same time by Mr Coleman the teeth of the shark, & found them they very teeth of the Lamia, & Canis Carcharias, & I agree with you that the serpents tongues of Malta may have come from this sort of Fish. I must now entreat you to present my most humble acknowledgments unto the Royall Society for the rare present of severall choice new books that are come to my hands, whereof I am sending abstracts about Italy to informe this part of the learned world with the progress we make in all manner of sciences, & shall have them soon printed at Bologna by that Accademie call’d the Instituto. The great discovery made by Mr Bradly will be very acceptable, when seen per extensum as you make me hope, by the next Transactions, which are to come to me with another token of the Society’s bounty, for which be pleased to anticipate my truest thanks. The Chronologie of Sr Isaac Newton takes here very much, being come over translated into French, & the objections of F. Souciet have mett with the ridicule they deserved so that his glory is fully vindicated in his Opticks, & Chronologies. We have suffer’d here a few weeks agoe an allmost irreparable loss by the death of the most illustrious Monsigr Bianchini, whose new Globes of Venus, & the book explaining the same I hope is by this time come to your hands with other books collected by me for the use of the Society, & I am endeavouring to gett somebody to publish his plan of the Domus Aurea Neronis, that he has left wanting very little of being quite finished, & that would be very acceptable to the learned world for the severall curious discoveries, & very probable conjectures he has made assisted by vast erudition never before collected out of antient Authors. You will find here annex’d some letters of my learned correspondents, to inform you with the litterary news of these parts, & also some reflections of the Monsigr Bianchini upon a paragraph of a letter of the ingenious Dr Derham to me, whereby he very clearly settles the difference between Mr de la Hire, Dr Derham, & Father Carbone of Lisbon. A curious Freind of mine would fain to know whether the Thermometers of John Fowler in Smithins Alley near the Royall Exchange mention’d in ye Phil. Trans. no. 398 Paragr. VIII. cap.1. be safely transportable, & what be the price of all those mention’d in said Chapter, for he would in such a case order a merchant to send them over, & I would entreat you to cause the kind assistance of some intelligent person in the purchase thereof. [fol. 68] Since you are so kind as to undertake to forward the subscriptions for the edition of the Chronological Table of the Emperours of China that will be ready here for the press in two months time, I would further entreat you to take upon your self the receiving of them to the number of fifty at a louis d’or a piece, & every subscriber shall have seven Tables for his share, & you might be pleased to pay the whole summ to Mr Green, who might give you a bill of exchange for the said summ upon Messrs Godfrey, & Chambrelan of Leghorne his correspondents for me to whom I would immediatly dispatch the three hundred, & fifty copies directed to you, to be sent over by some good ship, that you might make the due distribution unto the proprietors receiving them by the same way & direction you continually do the other things I send you over, & upon the sure hopes of your exhibition I now advance the money out of my own pocket to forward so usefull a piece of work. I am extreamly obliged to you for all your favours, & remain Your most Obedient, & most humble servant Thomas Dereham

Sir Thomas Dereham (c. 1678-1739) was a British expatriate and Roman Catholic who lived in Italy. He had a close association with the Royal Society (https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27dereham%27%29).




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Letter 3597

Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet to Hans Sloane – April 12, 1729


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Date: April 12, 1729
Author: Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 96-97



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[fol. 96] Hothfield 12. April 1729. Sir Hans In answer to your Letter of the 3rd April. I did not intent that you should have the trouble of writing to me, but only desired that you woud call on my Daughter Harold, and tell her what publick Charities you most approvd of that she might impart them to me; And I do rather wish that you woud recommend to me some considerable publick Charitys that I might contribute to them whilst I live than to leave it to be done by others when I am dead and shoud be pleasd if you coud recommend to me any worthy Honest man that woud rightly dispose of Charitys when I am dead, and am concernd that you shoud trouble your self in rects for such little sums you gave, for had there been Thousands instead of Hundreds I shoud have concluded you would have dispersd of them as justly as if I have done it wth my own hands but being sensible this little Concern had been too troublesome to you, you shall have no further trouble in it, but coud wish youd recomend some Honest Man that justly wd dispose sometimes of 100 to poor Familys that have great Charge of Children for I take that to be the best Charity. As I mentiond to you formerly how much I approvd of our Hospitall being built and settled for the preservation of Houndlings so finding it now mentiond in the London Evening post, that at the Assizes in Surry it was approvd of by the judges, and that subscriptions were begun, and as it was thought it woud go on wth great success I shoud be glad to hear your opinion of it, when the method is settled of raising money by a large subscription for purchasing Lands and building the said Hospitall, and I shall be inclined to subscribe to so good a Charity when I hear the management of it will be put into such hands as will effectually go on wth it, and I suppose the subscriptions will be to pay so much yearly towards the building the said Hospitall and I coud wish that the new merchants in London were as much inclined to provide for the poor Seamen that that [sic] lose their limbs in their service, and have no sort of provision made for them when they come home but begging and starving. You may conclude I have continued well since you have not so long heard from me relating to me health for I have had no symptoms of the Gout in my Stomach since I receivd your last directions, nor in any other part of my Body, but am grown within this year very deaf, and my sight so fails me that I cant read a Letter but have reason to bless God that these infirmitys did not come upon me sooner for I dont feel the pain and weakness wch too much attends the Age of 85 wch I shall be if I live till next August, and as I coud never live in London, without being tormented wth Coughing and Colds, so I very seldom have any of them here, and as I was 30 years ago sullinged for deafness wch then perfectly cured mee so I now believe if I was carefully sullinged in June, it woud as perfectly restore me to my hearing wch I desire to hear your opinion of, and shall always continue Your Faithfull Friend Thanet I dont desire to hear from you till you can give me a perfect acct of the settlement of this Hospitall

Thomas Tufton (1644-1729), 6th Earl of Thanet, was a nobleman and politician. He served as Captain of the Troop of Horse, Member of Parliament for Appelby from 1668 to 1679, and was eventually invested as a Privy Councillor in 1702. He was Lord-Lieutenant of Cumberland from 1712 to 1714 (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 III, page 297).




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  • Patient info
    Name: N/A Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet
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  • Description

    'I have had no symptoms of the Gout in my Stomach since I receivd your last directions, nor in any other part of my Body, but am grown within this year very deaf, and my sight so fails me that I cant read a Letter but have reason to bless God that these infirmitys did not come upon me sooner for I dont feel the pain and weakness'.

  • Diagnosis

    Hearing loss.

  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:

    'I was 30 years ago sullinged for deafness wch then perfectly cured mee so I now believe if I was carefully sullinged in June, it woud as perfectly restore me to my hearing wch I desire to hear your opinion of'.


    Ongoing Treatment:

    Thanet solicits Sloane's opinion.


    Response:
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  • Medical problem reference
    Ears, Gout, Stomach, Eyes