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Samuel Pepys to Hans Sloane – October 14, 1701
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Date: October 14, 1701
Author: Samuel Pepys
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 256
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Pepys thanks Sloane for his visit and for the sermon. He has passed it onto the ladies, who enjoyed it. Pepys returns the sermon to Sloane.
Pepys was a naval official who is best known as a result of the publication of his diaries, which recount the various political and social happenings of his day (C. S. Knighton, Pepys, Samuel (16331703), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21906, accessed 19 June 2013]).
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George Cheyne to Hans Sloane – March 22, 1703/04
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Date: March 22, 1703/04
Author: George Cheyne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 249-250
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Cheyne cannot wait on Sloane. He asks Sloane to favour John Pracy by publishing 3 pages of his geometrical text in the next Philosophical Transactions.
George Cheyne was a physician and published many books on philosophical and health-related topics. He promoted taking the waters at Bath and his popular treatise ‘An Essay of Health and Long Life’ (1724) served as a guide to good living. He suffered from extreme obesity, at one point weighing roughly 448 pounds (Anita Guerrini, Cheyne, George (1671/21743), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5258, accessed 5 July 2013]).
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Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset to Hans Sloane – December 19, 1731
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Date: December 19, 1731
Author: Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: f. 55
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[fol. 55] Pettworth Decembr the 19th 1731 Sr Not having heard from you since I saw you last in the month of July when I desired you to speak to Mr. Miller or to others of your acquaintance to gett mee a good, Honest sober and ingenious Gardener skillfull in the most usefull Branches of a Kitchen Garden & of a Pleasure Garden. I ffear you have forgott the promise you then was pleased to make mee. therefore I doe now Remind you of it, & at the same time. I send you some of my winter venison as a Prooffe that I have not fogott you. I am your most humble servant somerset When you doe hear of a Right good Gardener pray send him to Bridgewater to northumberland House.
Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (1662-1748) was a prominent politician and courtier known as the ‘Proud Duke’ (R. O. Bucholz, “Seymour, Charles, sixth duke of Somerset (1662-1748)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25158, accessed 5 July 2011]).
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John Armstrong to Hans Sloane – February 7, 1732
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Date: February 7, 1732
Author: John Armstrong
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 62-63
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John Armstrong (1674-1742) was a military engineer. He served as Lieutenant in St John’s Regiment of Foot (1691), under the Duke of Marlborough, as Major-General and Quartermaster-General (1713), Chief Engineer of England (1714-death), Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Foot in Ireland (1717), and Master Surveyor of the Ordnance (1722). Armstrong was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1723 (Paul Latcham, ‘Armstrong, John (1674–1742)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2014 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/659, accessed 24 Aug 2015]).
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Martin Lister to Hans Sloane – March 10, 1703/04
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Date: March 10, 1703/04
Author: Martin Lister
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 257
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Martin Lister was a physician and naturalist who was honored by being appointed second physician to the queen in 1710. He wrote and published several medical and natural history works, some of which appeared in Philosophical Transactions, as well as serving as vice-president of the Royal Society briefly in 1685-1686 (J. D. Woodley, Lister, Martin (bap. 1639, d. 1712), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16763, accessed 11 May 2011]).
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Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton to Hans Sloane – June 10, 1732
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Date: June 10, 1732
Author: Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: f. 128
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Walpole was ‘informed that ye Living of Chelsea of which you are Patron is likely to be vacant’. He recommends ‘ye Revd Mr Haneley’ for the post.
Horatio Walpole was a politician, diplomat, and younger brother of Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He worked closely with his brother and represented several constituencies throughout his career as an MP including Great Yarmouth and Norwich (Philip Woodfine, Walpole, Horatio , first Baron Walpole of Wolterton (16781757), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28595, accessed 8 Aug 2013]).
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John Evelyn (b. 1620, d. 1706) was a diarist and writer who demonstrated a remarkable knowledge of horticulture. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Society.
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Douglas D. C. Chambers, ‘Evelyn, John (1620-1706)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8996, accessed 9 July 2013]).
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John Locke to Hans Sloane – August 22, 1701
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Date: August 22, 1701
Author: John Locke
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 221-222
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Locke was a philosopher, physician, and highly influential proponent of liberalism in England (J. R. Milton, Locke, John (16321704), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16885, accessed 24 June 2013]).
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Elizabeth Welwood to Hans Sloane – April 3, 1731
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Date: April 3, 1731
Author: Elizabeth Welwood
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 219-220
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Welwood recommends a young woman in need to Sloane. She would like to ‘be an out Patient in St Bathollemws [sic] Hospetall. She not being able to pay for Meddissons’.
Elizabeth Welwood (c. 1670-1732), née Tregonwell Seymour, married the physician and writer James Welwood (1652-1727) in 1703 (Elizabeth Lane Furdell, ‘Welwood, James (1652–1727)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29023, accessed 17 Aug 2015]).
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John Morton to Hans Sloane – February 7, 1703/04
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Date: February 7, 1703/04
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 245-246
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Morton desires Sloane’s correspondence. He was encouraged by Hatton to seek it. He thanks Sloane for favouring his election to the Royal Society and is happy to be a member. Morton is honoured that Sloane intends to visit him.
John Morton was a naturalist who was in correspondence with Sloane from roughly 1703 to 1716. Morton contributed nearly one thousand specimens (fossils, shells, bones, teeth, minerals, rocks, man-made artifacts, etc.) to Sloane’s collection (Yolanda Foote, Morton, John (16711726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19364, accessed 2 July 2013]).