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Peter Hotton to Hans Sloane – December 9, 1698
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Date: December 9, 1698
Author: Peter Hotton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 165-166
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Peter Hotton (1648-1709), also known as Petrus Houttuyn, was Professor of Botany and Medicine at Leiden University. He supervised the university’s botanic gardens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Houttuyn).
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Richard Poley to Hans Sloane – May 27, 1727
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Date: May 27, 1727
Author: Richard Poley
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: f. 305
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On hearing of Sir Isaac Newton’s death Poley’s ‘thoughts were immediately Foc’d on you to succeed him as President of the Royal Society’. He discovered that Sloane was elected to succeed Newton in the ‘Amsterdam Gazet of this day’. Poley was sad to hear of Newton’s death, but thinks Sloane is the only ‘Person to repair the Loss of so great a Man’.
Richard Poley (d. 1770) graduated B.A. from Queen’s College Cambridge in 1704. He was a Fellow of Queen’s College from 1717 to 1716. Poley was the Secretary to the British Envoy in Sweden from 1725 (http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27poley%27%29).
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Herman Boerhaave to Hans Sloane – July 9, 1728
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Date: July 9, 1728
Author: Herman Boerhaave
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 200-201
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Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch physician, botanist, and humanist famous for his teaching at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Leiden. He was a fellow of the Academie des sciences and the Royal Society (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Boerhaave).
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Andrew French to Hans Sloane – March 30, 1729
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Date: March 30, 1729
Author: Andrew French
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 82-83
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French thanks Sloane for his favours and offers his service.
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Katharine Windham to Gibbons – June 18, 1698
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Date: June 18, 1698
Author: Katharine Windham
Recipient: Gibbons
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 85-86
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Windham adds on fol. 86: ‘I desire you will send an answer to this as soon as possible which will oblidge your patient as well as yr ser K Windham’. The letter was sent to Dr Gibbsons’ residence but is addressed to both Gibbons and Sloane.
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Ann Ashe to Gibbons – June 18, 1698
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Date: June 18, 1698
Author: Ann Ashe
Recipient: Gibbons
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 85-86
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Windham adds on fol. 86: ‘I desire you will send an answer to this as soon as possible which will oblidge your patient as well as yr ser K Windham’. The letter was sent to Dr Gibbsons’ residence but is addressed to both Gibbons and Sloane.
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Bernard de Jussieu to Hans Sloane – February 4, 1729
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Date: February 4, 1729
Author: Bernard de Jussieu
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 55-56
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De Jussieu writes that Monsieur Pajot’s garden is perfect and has several rare plants. He hopes that Sloane will urge Mr Miller to provide a recommendation to Pajot’s gardener.
Bernard de Jussieu (1699-1777) was a French naturalist and brother of Anthoine de Jussieu. He earned his MD at Montpellier and practiced medicine from 1720. Jussieu joined the Jardin des Plantes in 1722, edited a new edition of Tournefort’s ‘Histoire des plantes’ in 1725, and was admitted into the Academie des sciences in the same year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_de_Jussieu).
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Katharine Windham to Hans Sloane – June 18, 1698
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Date: June 18, 1698
Author: Katharine Windham
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 85-86
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Windham adds on fol. 86: ‘I desire you will send an answer to this as soon as possible which will oblidge your patient as well as yr ser K Windham’. The letter was sent to Dr Gibbsons’ residence but is addressed to both Gibbons and Sloane.
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René Jacques Croissant de Garengeot to Hans Sloane – January 18, 1729
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Date: January 18, 1729
Author: René Jacques Croissant de Garengeot
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 45-46
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Garengeot received two letters from Jean Douglas, which informed him that Sloane recommended him to the Royal Society. He was honoured and promises to uphold its reputation. Charles Denis has sent one of his anatomical works to the Royal Society.
René Jacques Croissant de Garengeot (1688-1759) was a French surgeon. He was Surgeon-Major of the Régiment du Roy and the Physician-in-Ordinary of the Roi au Châtelet. Garengeot was a member of l’Académie de chirurgie de Paris and the Royal Society (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/René-Jacques_Croissant_de_Garengeot).
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Richard Beard to Hans Sloane – December 10, 1728
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Date: December 10, 1728
Author: Richard Beard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: f. 23
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Beard encloses an account of an ‘affair [that] made so much noise in the country’. He went to see the source of the story himself so as to ‘collect the best information I could from her friends’.
Richard Beard (c. 1688-1734) was a physician. He took his MA at Glasgow (1709) and MD at Leyden (1713). Beard practiced at Worcester and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1726 (https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27beard%27%29).