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but few of them contain anything of interest. In the’ 8th letter, 
apparently addressed to Petiver, sending him some drugs from Fort 
St. George, he writes :— 
In a postscript is— 
“T had a Letter from our Comon Friend Dr. Sherard last 
weeke w came over Land dated Aug. 7” and w* it a Collection of 
Ranunculi he was then in health & seems to intimate that he shall 
not come for England yett having hired a Country house to reside 
in when his businesse permitts w* is accomodated w” a pretty 
large garden.” 
With these letters are two to Sloane from Thomas Uvedale, a 
kinsman, probably the brother, of the botanist, the translator of 
Philip de Comines. He writes from Hampton Wick, so that pro- 
bably the plants in vol. 12 of the Sloane Herbarium endorsed as 
from “Dr. Uvedale, Hampton Court,” are from him, and not from 
Robert Uvedale, 
ure ie 
. pp. 
321—351, the earliest bearing date April 30th, 1695, and the 
latest Feb. 28rd, 1721. It is true that these letters contain com- 
paratively little of any interest. Dr. Richardson seems once or twice 
of his household “ having had the small-pox within the compass of 
less than three months last past,” eleven, including six of his own 
children, being down together. In 1700 he says that he had cor- 
responded with Sutherland of Edinburgh “for some years”: in 
ugust, 1702, he mentions a visit from “Dr. Sherard and young 
rennius ’’; and in 1707, the receipt of a letter from Consul Sherard, 
then at Smyrna, and the present by Sloane of his work on Jamaica. 
