1799

Thomas Beddoes to Matthew Robinson Boulton, 16 January 1799

16 January 1799

Dear Sir

The success of what I have attempted in the way of <popular> medical instruction and the helplessness of medicine in many cruel disorders have induced me to extend my plan of information. For this purpose I am going to undertake an elaborate course of lectures on the properties of animal nature & particularly that of man –

To make the course more distinct & lively I find it necessary to procure some expensive works of anatomy from Germany & have sent an order to Leipsic which will exceed the sum I mentioned as the utmost Mr Busch should pay Martini viz £25.00 in one year – & sh^d you write to Hamburg I request you to desire Mr Busch to pay him his bill which may be £40 or 50 – I desired him to keep them by him till Easter Fair for the chance of any interesting new books – so there will be no hurry.

I regret troubling you again. By putting me in the way of procuring books from Leipsic, you have done me a most acceptable service – & I wish I had any chance of returning it – I am D^r Sir

your obliged friend

Thomas Beddoes

16 Jan

PS Martini informs me Mr Busch has paid him 42 rix dollars for books now coming over – If you will order my acc^t including this to be sent, I will with thanks remit the amount.

Mr Knox (J. W.’s friend) did not pay me for the small air-apparatus, which was put into my acc^t in a supposition he w^d pay me –

The apparatus for the pn^c Instⁿ arrived – For that we shall pay when we have collected some more money –

Address: M. R. Boulton Esq^re / Soho / Birmingham // Bradford January seventeen 1799 / Free / BHobhouse
MS: LoB MS 3782/13/8/18
Endorsement: Dr Beddoes / Jan^y 16^th 1799 // Desires the credit lodged with Busch in favour of Martini of Leipzig to be extend^d 25£ – / Success of his Lectures & project for extend^g them