1806

Thomas Beddoes to Davies Giddy, 19 May 1806

Dear Giddy

I wish I c^d persuade you to discuss your troubles on acc^t of the money – The ultimate loss is very improbable in my apprehension – But as I should probably want the money or part of it to settle in London – since I must expect to be a great deal out of pocket the 2 first years – I rather wish you to sell out & to purchase exchequer bills – thus I may have it at command

I thought I had understood from a former letter from you that it c^d not be sold out under 12 months. But this must have been a mistake of mine –

I think the pale nurse you saw as good a creature of her kind as can exist – I do not expect anything behind the scenes. And the child is very happy & well – I have not myself been well for 24 hours these 6 months – But I have never confined myself a moment – a foulish chronic rheumatism at times, & at other times a fever of the mucous membrane of the nostrils & chest equally foulish – But the digitalis w^h I have taken for 2 days past seems salving these complaints – The late hot weather caused much sickness here –

I have been baffled a good deal by want of firm health in getting on with the report from the Institution – which will consist of plain facts & ought to be as useful a book as ever was published in medicine –

Will you ask Johnson how many copies of John Hunters several works he has sold within 5, 3 2 or 1 years – & whether he has any objection to my using the fact, if it suit my purpose, in the book now printing here for him.

Be so good as remember me to yr father sister & Guillemard not forgetting little Anna & her mother – I am fatigued & confused by writing this letter – Farewell

Yours truly

Thomas Beddoes

19 May 1806

Address: Davies Giddy Esq / At J. Guillemard’s Esq / 27 Gower Street / London
Endorsement: Doctor Beddoes / 1806 / May the 19^th
MS: Cornish Archives DG 43/42