Thomas Beddoes to Thomas Robert Malthus, 6 March 1806

6 March 1806

Sir

Allow me just to thank you for the explanation with which you have favoured me – I entirely agree with you, if that be of any consequence. Indeed I have committed the same reflections in substance to the printer – I was only fearful lest any of y^r expressions should be <mis>interpreted into a false security ag^t scrophula & consumption, for the progressive increase of which last we have every medical, physiological & I think statistical reason.

Indelicate as it may be to intrude on you, I intend to trouble you soon to read over two or three 8^vo pages – which I hope will require no observation & of course no answer to the enclosing letter will be wanted – I am Sir

With great respects
Y^r obed^t Ser^t

Thomas Beddoes

Address: The Reverend / Mr Professor Malthus / Hertford
MS: Kanto Gakuen University
Published: T. R. Malthus: the Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University, vol. I, ed. John Pullen and Trevor Hughes Parry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 79–80

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