Thomas Beddoes to Davies Giddy, 11 July 1804

11 July
1804

Dear Giddy

I thank you for your intelligence resp^g the Middlesex election – I admire all I have seen of the private character of one candidate also his <public> intentions, but doubt how far he carries them rightly into execution – I sh^d hope he w^d not stand another contest – especially as he can have no chance.

In addition to my other commissions, I w^d beg you if you go through Soho Square – to buy me at Lunn’s No 30

Epistolae Obscurorum virorum –
Van dale Dissertat^s de Antiquitatibus
---- de oraculis Veterum –

Also to bring Dulau’s new catalogue & if it fall in your way to enquire if any Italian bookseller has any stock of Italian books –

I suppose among the other commissions you include bringing down the carriage, if you get one – Between Luck & Cunning I suppose Mr Pitt will find himself at liberty to commence a new course of exp^s on British life & property & with as much confidence as if he had succeeded in the preceding – yr^s very thankfully

Thomas Beddoes

Address: Davies Giddy
Endorsement: Doctor Beddoes / 1804 / July the 11^th
MS: Cornish Archives DG 43/4

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