Thomas Beddoes to William Clayfield, Sat. Evening 18??

I have been out seeing patients every one of these days. I should be glad of a xxxx by way of a specimen – will they let one change it – I w^d send my man early to you on Monday on this important business . . . You have no idea what an irresistable desire I have of locomotion . . . I do pound things in a mortar . . . I am not afraid of the passage, &c

MS: Offered for sale by Richard Hatchwell, 1984; formerly in the possession of the Clayfield family

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