Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations.

  • Pehr Kalm
Date:
1892
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Credit: Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    His wife, whom we have just mentioned, and with whom he had spent the greater part of his life, lay buried in the churchyard here in Chelsea, where Sir Hans Sloane had erected ahandsome monument of hewn stone over the grave, which was on the S.E. side of the church against the wall. Round about this carved grave was an iron railing, järn-galler. On the east and west sides were Sir Hans Sloane’s arms, vapen. On the south side there was nothing written, but the hewn stones were there quite smooth. Dcubtless Sir Hans Sloane wished to leave others freedom to engrave there his In Memoriam and laudatory Epitaph, åminnelse och låford, after his dust once comes to be preserved beneath it together with that of his wife. [Sir Hans Sloane died Jan. nth, I753> nearly five years after Kalm’s visit, and just before this Tome was published.] On the north side of this monument there were tbese words, quite free from show and flattcrie : “ Here lyeth the body Of Dame Elizabeth Sloane, Wife of Sr. Hans Sloane, Baronet, Who departed this life The 27th of September, 1724, Aged 67.”* [T. I. p. 390.] * This Epitaph having perished with the slab on which it was written has disappeared and has been replaced by another on a substituted slab. “Here lies interred Elizabeth Lady Sloane, Wife of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., Who departed this life In the year of our Lord, 1724, And the 67th of her age.” Copied April 14, 1888. Thus not only the original Epitaph, but the date of her death, and her age, had been forgotten. [J. L.] H 2
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