Sloane, Sir Hans M.D., P.R.C.P., F.R.S., (1660-1753), physician, assembler of the collection that formed the nucleus of the British Museum

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1699-1753

10 items

Purchased from: Tregaskis, London, September 1928 (acc.48934); Stevens, London, July 1924 (acc.91796), September / October 1930 (acc.75567), March 1931 (acc.56474); Sotheby's, London, July 1929 (acc.50838), July 1930 (acc.56370), April 1933 (acc.67462); John Wilson, Eynsham, December 1990 (acc.348402); and Hellmut Schumann AG, Zürich, May 1995 (acc.349865). Provenance details of no.6 not recorded (acc.67430).

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

A copy photograph of MS.7633/10, a letter by Henry Newman, is held by Wellcome Images as L0049736-7