1798

Thomas Beddoes to James Watt Jr, [19 March 1798]

Dear Sir

I am under some anxiety respecting the fate of a very impudent begging or borrowing letter I wrote some 10 days ago to Mr J. W. Perhaps the mail of today may deliver it. Will you order me a chemical lamp with a larger burner than usual which W. Clayfield thinks will be an advantage. Will you send 5 well-made but plain Argands – single I think will do as well – or if they come cheaper, 2 double & 2 single – I shall begin about the 22^nd & of course should have the last articles by the 20^th. Will you tell Mr Boulton that I received his Magazine Encyclopedique, of which for want of a proper partition some of the sides are rubbed; It is the best book for a physician’s chaise I have seen – Pray when w^d Mr B wish it sh^d be returned – will you ask him?

I think W. Clayfield has found the sulphate of strontian – If so, I will send you some –

I find the contracted Argands chimneys will admit the wick to burn much higher as Morveau says in one of the last Ann. Chymiques. We are trying if you cannot get more light by widening the part above the contraction – They will not send me, I suppose, any chimneys from Soho – I do not wish it as we have a very handy & tame workman at the glass house here.

I want Mr Forman to send me an invoice of the goods last forwarded as I have an opportunity to sell 2 furnaces – I want the particulars which I have mislaid –

Mrs B desires to be remembered. She is in great anxiety also about the letter –
I am
Dear Sir
Yours truly

Thomas Beddoes

Endorsement: Dr Beddoes Clifton / March 1798 / Wants own Argands Lamps for his Lectures
MS: LoB MS 3219/6/2/B/67