Autograph letter signed by Dr Thomas Beddoes (“T. Beddoes”), to Joseph Priestley, a letter of recommendation written on behalf of Davies Giddy (Gilbert), “a young man of very extensive & accurate information...desirous of an introduction to you” and giving news of his own work (“...I am pleased to hear that you think my mineralogical ideas worth attention. I hope I may some time have an opportunity of shewing you the specimens which have led me to form my opinions...”), two pages, 4to, integral address leaf (“Revd Dr Priestley”), docketed and annotated by Gilbert, guard, printed identification slip, Oxford, 11 July (1791) Written when Beddoes was Reader in Chemistry at Oxford. A few years later he was to take up Priestley´s idea for the therapeutic application of ‘factitious airs´ or gases at his Pneumatic Institute at Clifton, where his young assistant Humphry Davy was to conduct his famous experiments with Nitrous Oxide or Laughing Gas. Davies Giddy, afterwards Gilbert, was a close friend of Beddoes, whose wife fell passionately in love with him. After Beddoes´s death, Gilbert stood guardian to his son, the poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes.
Autograph letter signed by Dr Thomas Beddoes (“T. Beddoes”), to Joseph Priestley, a letter of recommendation written on behalf of Davies Giddy (Gilbert), “a young man of very extensive & accurate information...desirous of an introduction to you” and giving news of his own work (“...I am pleased to hear that you think my mineralogical ideas worth attention. I hope I may some time have an opportunity of shewing you the specimens which have led me to form my opinions...”), two pages, 4to, integral address leaf (“Revd Dr Priestley”), docketed and annotated by Gilbert, guard, printed identification slip, Oxford, 11 July (1791) Written when Beddoes was Reader in Chemistry at Oxford. A few years later he was to take up Priestley´s idea for the therapeutic application of ‘factitious airs´ or gases at his Pneumatic Institute at Clifton, where his young assistant Humphry Davy was to conduct his famous experiments with Nitrous Oxide or Laughing Gas. Davies Giddy, afterwards Gilbert, was a close friend of Beddoes, whose wife fell passionately in love with him. After Beddoes´s death, Gilbert stood guardian to his son, the poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes.
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