1795

Thomas Beddoes to James Watt, 10 June 1795

Dear Sir

The reason why you did not see the Considerations sooner was that my uncertainty respecting your place of residence at the time of its publication. The reason I do not send you any now I believe you to be at Birm^m is because I have given away to contributors all the copies I had at this place. The only remedy I have is what you will read on the other side. I did indeed desire Dr Carmichael to let you see his copy, provided you had not left Heathfield –

I wrote as you suggested to Dr Redfearn, who promises to communicate his experience. He says ‘an important case of haemoptysis will be communicated in a short time; it has been in a progressive state of amendment since the inhalation of hydrocarbonate; <in a case of spasmodic asthma this has been used> with much relief for many hours after dose; & a case of pituitous asthma is, I think, in a fair way of being infinitely mitigated by oxygene – As the sheets of the Appendix are printed, I will send them to you – I hope you will not be long before you publish some of your new obs^ns & Edns relative to your new apparatus &c as mentioned in a former letter –

W. Reynolds is so ill that there is much more to fear than hope. Had it been possible, I sh^d have gone to see him; but if he recovers I shall think it incumbent in me to go to see as soon as I am tolerably disengaged for 3 days: & then I shall not fail to call on you –

I am D^r Sir

Yours in some haste

Thomas Beddoes

Of the copies one is meant for you one for Mr J. Watt & one for Mr Boulton

Sir

Please to deliver to Mr Watt’s order three copies of my Considerations on my acc^t

Thomas Beddoes
10 June 1795

To Mr Johnson
Bookseller London

Address: To / Mr Watt / Heathfield / Birmingham
MS: LoB MS 3219/6/2/B/60
Endorsement: Dr Beddoes / Clifton 10^th June 1795 / Pneumatics / Illness of W^m Reynolds