BOYLE, Robert (1627 - 1691). Letter signed to Samuel Clarke, n.p. [London], 8 August 1668, written in the hand of an amanuensis, 2 pages 4to with conjugate leaf addressed to 'Mr Samuel Clerk Esq., Beedle, Present at his house in Holywell, in Oxford' Boyle begs to be excused for his delay in answering Clarke's letters, due to his absence from town, and his amanuensis falling sick, and expresses fear that there may be difficulty in setting aside an unsatisfactory 'Version', by an unnamed author, without causing considerable offence - 'some Distast, or at least Jealousy to y e Author of it', suggesting a tactful way of getting round this. He continues 'You gave me hope that I should suddainely hear from you about y e Gentelman y t meant to try his Pen upon one sheet of the Pneumaticall Exp[eriment] t s that are now printing at Oxford give me leave to refresh your memory & to desire y t as soone as he has done w t he intended you would do me y e favour to show it to our most Learned friend D r Wallis, whose approbation will inferr mine.' and, concluding, he records his favourable impression of Mr Marshall, for whose visit he is indebted to his correspondent. An interesting letter, written shortly after Boyle had moved from Oxford to his sister's house in London, and addressed to the 'Architypographus' of the University of Oxford and Law Bedel (a post created by Archbishop Laud). Clarke was also a distinguished orientalist, but it is in his capacity as supervisor of the university's printing and publishing that Boyle writes to him here. The 'Pneumaticall Experiments' which he mentions are probably his ' Continuation of New Experiments Physico, Mechanical, touching the Spring and Weight of the Air and their Effects ', the first part, published in 1669. 'Dr Wallis', who is to see the finished product, is John Wallis, Professor of Geometry, one of the divines selected to review the Book of Common Prayer, and 'Mr Marshall' is probably Thomas Marshall a Laudian exile who left Oxford for Holland in 1647, and was able to supply Clarke with type from Holland for the new university press in 1668, when it could not be obtained in London.
BOYLE, Robert (1627 - 1691). Letter signed to Samuel Clarke, n.p. [London], 8 August 1668, written in the hand of an amanuensis, 2 pages 4to with conjugate leaf addressed to 'Mr Samuel Clerk Esq., Beedle, Present at his house in Holywell, in Oxford' Boyle begs to be excused for his delay in answering Clarke's letters, due to his absence from town, and his amanuensis falling sick, and expresses fear that there may be difficulty in setting aside an unsatisfactory 'Version', by an unnamed author, without causing considerable offence - 'some Distast, or at least Jealousy to y e Author of it', suggesting a tactful way of getting round this. He continues 'You gave me hope that I should suddainely hear from you about y e Gentelman y t meant to try his Pen upon one sheet of the Pneumaticall Exp[eriment] t s that are now printing at Oxford give me leave to refresh your memory & to desire y t as soone as he has done w t he intended you would do me y e favour to show it to our most Learned friend D r Wallis, whose approbation will inferr mine.' and, concluding, he records his favourable impression of Mr Marshall, for whose visit he is indebted to his correspondent. An interesting letter, written shortly after Boyle had moved from Oxford to his sister's house in London, and addressed to the 'Architypographus' of the University of Oxford and Law Bedel (a post created by Archbishop Laud). Clarke was also a distinguished orientalist, but it is in his capacity as supervisor of the university's printing and publishing that Boyle writes to him here. The 'Pneumaticall Experiments' which he mentions are probably his ' Continuation of New Experiments Physico, Mechanical, touching the Spring and Weight of the Air and their Effects ', the first part, published in 1669. 'Dr Wallis', who is to see the finished product, is John Wallis, Professor of Geometry, one of the divines selected to review the Book of Common Prayer, and 'Mr Marshall' is probably Thomas Marshall a Laudian exile who left Oxford for Holland in 1647, and was able to supply Clarke with type from Holland for the new university press in 1668, when it could not be obtained in London.
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