BIB_ID
403483
Accession number
MA 8917.38
Creator
Nuttall, George Ricketts, Dr., 1788-1831.
Display Date
[1821].
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Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (5 pages, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.5 cm
Notes
The date of writing is based on internal evidence and a pencilled note on the letter. There is a postmark, but the date is not visible.
Addressed to: "Miss Elizabeth Barrett/ Hope end/ Ledbury/ Herefordshire."
Addressed to: "Miss Elizabeth Barrett/ Hope end/ Ledbury/ Herefordshire."
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Asking in detail about the symptoms she is experiencing, especially her pulse, her heartrate, the timing and intensity of the pain, and the state of her bowels; suggesting that the illness may be dyspeptic in nature: "Your active turn of mind, & inactive state of body, together with your age &c incline you, as well as other young ladies under similar circumstances to dyspeptic complaints"; urging her to be candid with him: "You have too much good sense, my dear Elizabeth, not to be candid with me, on a point, of so much moment to yourself, & those who love, & value you. In matters of this kind, false delicacy might, & have, often, led to the most ruinous consequences; therefore scrupulously attend to all I have suggested to you, for observation"; giving her specific prescriptions to have made up.
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