4> MEMOIR OF DR WRIGHT. 



It is incidentally mentioned, in the course of the sub- 

 sequent correspondence, that Mr Wright had made 

 a voyage to Greenland in the summer of 1757 ; and, 

 in the winter of that year, we find him again engaged, 

 with his wonted ardour, in the acquisition of the know- 

 ledge which was necessary for the successful practice 

 of his profession. 



At this early period, Mr Wright, in a letter ad- 

 dressed to his parents, on the occasion of his proceed- 

 ing to London for examination at Surgeons' Hall, 

 discovers some indication of those habits of providence 

 and forethought which marked his after life. The 

 letter is in the nature of a testamentary disposition. 

 It acknowledges the food and raiment with which he 

 had hitherto been provided ; the liberal education 

 which had been afforded him, and the acquirement of 

 a profession which was to make him independent of 

 farther assistance, should health and strength be grant- 

 ed. He authorises his father to uplift a legacy which 

 had been bequeathed to him by a deceased relative, 

 and assigns to his parents, and, failing them, to his 

 brother James, his whole means and estate, with any 

 pay which might be due to him at the time of his 

 death. To his brother he writes, on an envelope, that 

 his hopes of obtaining an appointment were not so 

 sanguine as he had led his father to believe, but that 

 he could not think of alarming his parents by the com- 

 munication of his own feelings of anxiety and suspense. 



Another indication of his habits of method and ar- 

 rangement, and of the strict integrity which uniformly 

 regulated his most indifferent actions, is to be found in 



