Thomas Beddoes to Davies Giddy, 11 September 1802
Dear Giddy
As you have taken the trouble to make remarks on my essays, I cannot but make haste to answer your query respg the sulfate of iron, which is made by adding nitrous acid (strong) to sulfate of iron & rubbing till no more effervescence arises – about one part acid & two iron sulfate – then dilute it suppose with three parts water – & begin in proper cases with 2 or 3 4 drops.
I shall correct the passages you point out & other similar – Indeed the essays have been written under such unfavourable circumstances that when I come to revise them they will undergo great changes as to form though probably not as to substance. Now when I am writing to you, I have not finished a third part of that essay which is to appear in the first part of Octr – & so from journeys & other interruptions, it has been almost throughout – However three more pas will finish what I have to do at present –
My wife will write soon – She is very thin & weak
I am Dear Giddy
Yours Truly
Thomas Beddoes
11 Sepr 1802
[in Anna Beddoes’s hand:] I will write soon indeed I have been & am very busy nursing a sick friend
yours sincerely
Anna
little Anna sends her love
Address: Davies Giddy Esq / Tredrea / Marazion / Cornwall
Endorsement: 1802 / September
Postmark: 122 / BRISTOL / SEP11 / 1802
MS: Cornish Archives DG 42/11