3Q2 APPENDIX. 



THOMAS BEWICK TO EMERSON CHARNLEY. 



GATESHEAD 28 May 1826 



Mr CHARNLEY 

 DR. SIR 



After the severe illness with which I have 

 been visited, I am order' d to drink the waters &c 

 of Buxton, or those of some other watering place 

 in hope of their restoring health & vigor how 

 this may answer I know not, but I intend to try 

 & am now preparing to sett off for that purpose 

 I am aware of the heavy, & at this time in- 

 convenient expense this will bring upon me, and 

 am using every exertion to come at the means to 

 enable me to meet it, and it is on this account I 

 now solicit payment of your Christmas account 

 which I hope it will be convenient to you to settle 

 while I was beset with grief & disease Mr. 

 Roxby's pretty little "Fisher Garland" was put 

 into my hands, and this as far as it went, threw 

 in upon me its proportion of vexation, this I 

 never expected from Mr. Charnley, who I had 

 fondly considered as my friend & who ought to 

 have known better than to get my design copied 

 to embellish the little book the copy-right of 

 every artists designs is secured to him by an 

 express law & the punishment for copying them 

 or imitating them is quick short & summary, both 

 upon the person who employs an artist and the 

 artist himself who executes them. I trust you 

 will see this in its proper light, & in future not 

 attempt to act so improperly I suppose Mr. 

 Nicholson is the artist who was employed in this 



