"John Tradescant" Quotes from Famous Books
... "the history of the Tradescants is involved in considerable obscurity." He does not, however, seem to have been aware that some light has been thrown on that of the elder John Tradescant by the researches of Dr. Hamel, in his interesting Memoir published in the Transactions of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg in 1847, with the following title:—"Tradescant der Aeltere 1618 in Russland. Der {392} Handelsverkehr ... — Notes and Queries, Number 81, May 17, 1851 • Various |