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).

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

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