386 APPENDIX. 



* THOMAS BEWICK TO 



NEWCASTLE, isth Nov., 1808. 

 DEAR SIR, 



Your letter of the fourth inst., enclosing 

 your promissory note at six months, came safe to 

 hand. Having calculated upon being sooner paid, 

 I was, I confess disappointed; but, however, on 

 thinking all matters over respecting your present 

 expenses in, as yet, an unproductive publication, 

 and remembering your continual good wishes 

 towards me, I now see that I have to thank you 

 for the above remittance. You make me smile 

 when you talk of my "accumulated wealth." I 

 might, indeed, have been, by this time, as rich 

 as I ever wished to be, if my publications had 



been 



but that not being the case, that day must be 

 longer put off. It may, indeed, happen in all 

 good time, viz., when I am unable in the line of 

 my business to be longer useful to the world. I 

 may then, indeed, in the down hill of life, have it 

 in my power to attain to the summit of my wishes, 

 in retiring to a cottage, by a burn side, surrounded 

 with woods and wilds, such as I was dragged from 

 when young to exhibit myself upon the stage of 

 the busy world. To such a place as this I hope 

 to retire; and, if I am enabled to show kindness 

 to old friends, and to be a good neighbour to those 

 around me, and at the same time to fill up my 



f An eminent publisher by whom he had been employed to 

 embellish an extensive work. 



