Thomas Beddoes to an Unknown Correspondent, undated [fragment]
Beddoes, Stock remarks, displayed ‘wonderful equanimity in youth; and this quality of mind he appeared to cultivate upon principle in advancing life; for upon an occasion, in which he had unintentionally given offence to a person of much mechanical ingenuity, who resented, too hastily, an inconsiderate expression which an irritable mind only could have misunderstood, he shortly afterwards readily availed himself of an accidental opportunity of serving him. “I will do what I can for him” he observes in a letter to a friend, “being determined never to be offended at the soreness of ingenuity in narrow circumstances, or to feel sore myself on slight provocations”’.
Published: Stock, p. 394