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THOMAS BEWICK TO - - GRAY. 



Dec. 14, 1822. 

 MR. GRAY. 



D r SIR, 



We returned from Tynemouth on Wed. 

 last 1 1 Inst. after having been there 9 weeks, the 

 warm bath has certainly acted very powerfully upon 

 my wife, & I think has done her much good tho' she 

 is still far from being well while I was there I kept 

 myself busy in day light with cutting Birds on the 

 wood for the next & perhaps the last Edition I shall 

 live to see printed you will see in the book of Birds 

 many descriptions without any figures of them, 

 these gaps I am anxious to fill up, to be ready for 

 another Edition when it may be wanted At Tyne- 

 mouth I Engraved 5 new Birds & one vignette & 

 by Candle light I filled above 33 pritty close written 

 4to. pages of a memoir of my own Life* this has not 

 extended beyond the time that I was at school, but 

 even this contains a good deal of biographical mat- 

 ter concerning the Characters of the people I knew 

 I intend as I go on to notice others, who I deem 

 deserving notice, & none more so than your grand- 

 father, & your uncle, f & my plan is to continue my 

 observations of men & things in the same kind of 

 way of course some will be long & some short, 

 These will be (if I live) interlarded with moral re- 

 marks as to character, those I can say no good of 

 will be short, & I hope pithy, but without ever men- 

 tioning their names. 



You may be sure that I felt much flattered by the 

 remarks of some very warm friend in the "annals of 



[* See note to p. 42.] 

 [f Probably Gilbert and William Gray, see pp. 62 and 67.] 



