| Description | Has received Pulteney's letter and the five copies of his thesis, three being bound at Mr Nourse's. Thinks it would be more "respectfull" to have copy destined for Dr Huxham bound also. Thanks for Wilson's Synopsis and for the account of Pulteney's "herborizing" in the West of Scotland. Has dined with [Maxwell] Garthshore and thinks he will do very well. Lord Bath and the "benevolent lady, your kind friend" have come to town. Watson has told her of Pulteney's activities in Scotland; she will pass on information about him to Lord Bath including the "obliging things which Sir Alexander Dick and Dr hope said of you." This lady thinks Pulteney should come to town as soon as possible and she will introduce Pulteney to Lord Bath. He should have made a "suit of fashionable London cloath, and a wig fit for a doctor." It may be proper for Pulteney to spend the summer at "Tunbridge in the shape of a Physician, where you may possibly not only get some practise, but be ready to pay your devoirs to Lord Bath, who proposes to spend his summer there and will, I dare say, give you his countenance. There is no place like Bath, Tunbridge or Scarborough so fit to set a physician upon his legs." Dr Garthshore has provided an apartment for Pulteney in his house. |