William Sherard - Hans Sloane - 1706-03-29
William Sherard
William Sherard - Hans Sloane - 1706-03-29
| FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ | 15939 |
| InstitutionName of Institution. | London, British Library |
| InventoryInventory number. | Sloane MS 4040, ff.187-8 |
| AuthorAuthor of the document. | William Sherard |
| RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. | Hans Sloane |
| Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . | March 29, 1706 |
| PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. | |
| Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. | Thomas Herbert, Antonio Picenini, John Purnell |
| LiteratureReference to literature. | Burnett 2020b, pp. 611, 623Burnett 2020b |
| KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ | Commission Unfulfilled , Commission |
| LanguageLanguage of the correspondence | English |
| External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ᵖ |
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".
'Nothing has made me more uneasy in this country, than the finding myself incapable of serving my Ld Pembroke, as I hop’d & expected to have done. I have neglected no opportunity of buying what medalls presented here, & have writ to all ye places where I cou’d fix any corrispondence in order to procure them, and yet after above two years search have met but wth two of his note. Dr Picenini who is gone for England by way of Leghorn will wait upon you, & justify what I write. He is in company with Mr Purnell a Gentn of this factory, who will be glad to wait on my Ld & shew him what medalls he has pick’d up here in about 20 years. I have seen them & cannot guess they are worth in any part of Europe ye quarter they cost here. I can’t pretend any skill my self, but I have by me most of ye books necessary for ye understanding them. Merchts have ye same notion of them, yt ye Turks have, yt they are all jewellery.' (London, British Library, Sloane MS 4040, ff.187-8; Burnett 2020b, p. 611)
