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Mary Heathcote was the daughter of Lady Elizabeth Parker and Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet, who married in 1720. In 1749, she married Thomas Parker, the 3rd Early of Macclesfield. They had three children–Lady Elizabeth Parker (d. 1829), George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield (1755-1842) and Thomas Parker, 5th Earl of Macclesfield (1763-1850). From March 1764, she was known as the Countess of Macclesfield. She died in 1812.
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Samuel Smith to Hans Sloane – April 9, 1702
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Date: April 9, 1702
Author: Samuel Smith
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 323
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A man from the country who had an article in the Philosophical Transactions has a letter for Sloane. Smith saw William Derham, who had received a letter from Sloane. Smith had left a note at ‘Childs’ to meet Sloane, but there was a mix up and they did not meet.
Samuel Smith apprenticed to the book trade in 1675 and was indentured to the bookseller Samuel Gellibrand followed by Moses Pitt. Smith joined the Stationers Company and became freeman of the company and then freeman of the city of London in 1682. Smith published the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions from the beginning of his career and he and his partner Benjamin Walford were officially named ‘printers to the Royal Society’ in 1693 (Marja Smolenaars, Ann Veenhoff, Smith, Samuel (bap. 1658, d. 1707), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/63289, accessed 27 June 2013]).
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Thomas Fuller to Hans Sloane – January 6, 1725
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Date: January 6, 1725
Author: Thomas Fuller
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 309-310
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Fuller recommends the bearer, George Lake. He is a surgeon trained in pharmacy and has performed surgeries in Paris. Lake is looking for work near Covent Garden. Fuller asks for Sloane’s opinion of his letter on smallpox inoculation: Sloane MS 4047, fols. 302-303.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) was a physician. He was admitted Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1678/9 and practiced medicine at Sevenoaks, in Kent (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1677).
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Balthasar Ehrhart to Hans Sloane – September 21, 1724
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Date: September 21, 1724
Author: Balthasar Ehrhart
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 251-252
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Balthasar Ehrhart was a physician, of Memmingen.
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – May, 1727
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Date: May, 1727
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: ff. 290-291
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703 and his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1708 his Itinera aplina tira was published in London. It was dedicated to the Royal Society. His largest project was the Itinera per Helvetiae alpines regions facta annis 1702-1711, dedicated to his travels and published in four volumes in 1723 at Leiden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Scheuchzer).
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – May 5, 1727
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Date: May 5, 1727
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: f. 289
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703 and his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1708 his Itinera aplina tira was published in London. It was dedicated to the Royal Society. His largest project was the Itinera per Helvetiae alpines regions facta annis 1702-1711, dedicated to his travels and published in four volumes in 1723 at Leiden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Scheuchzer).
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John Brewster to Hans Sloane – July 10, 1707
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Date: July 10, 1707
Author: John Brewster
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: f. 378
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Brewster invites Sloane to dine with the Society of London’s Apothecaries at the Restaurant Garden near St George’s. Albin, Mathews, Metcalfe, and Barker are stewards.
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – January 26, 1727
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Date: January 26, 1727
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: f. 249
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703 and his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1708 his Itinera aplina tira was published in London. It was dedicated to the Royal Society. His largest project was the Itinera per Helvetiae alpines regions facta annis 1702-1711, dedicated to his travels and published in four volumes in 1723 at Leiden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Scheuchzer).
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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – August 30, 1724
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Date: August 30, 1724
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 226-227
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Steigertahl thanks Sloane for the Madeira wine. He viewed Mr Tobham’s garden. He sends greetings to Sloane and his family.
Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).
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Jean-Paul Bignon to Hans Sloane – September 18, 1724
Item info
Date: September 18, 1724
Author: Jean-Paul Bignon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 249-250
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Library, Scholarship, Social
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Subjects
Anatomy, Bibliotheque du Roi, Books, Jamaica, Lithotomy, Memoires de l'Academie, Natural History
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Date (as written)
September 18, 1724
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Origin (as written)
à Paris
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Others mentioned
William Cheselden Sir Douglas Jacob Benignus Winslow
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Patients mentioned
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Bignon apologizes for not writing sooner. He has been very busy managing the ‘Bibliotheque du Roy’. He thanks Sloane for continuing to send books on the arts and sciences. Bignon is not sure whether Sloane received the latest Memoires de l’Academie. He discusses treatises on lithotomy and anatomy. He is
looking forward to reading the second volume of Sloane’s Natural History of Jamaica.
Jean-Paul Bignon (1662-1743) was a clergyman, librarian to Louis XIV, member of the Academie francaise, and mentor of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Bignon).