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The next and last letter is without date or address — it is 
evidently addressed to some medical friend. 
“ Sir, 
Your obliging letter came safe to hand on the 12 th of 
this Instant : its contents were very acceptable, and I am glad to 
see a friendship cultivated for so short a space of time still remains 
without diminution. I think it demonstrates that should it be 
ever our fortune to live nigh each other, it would be very agreablo 
to us both — for my part, I should take it as a very great addition 
to my happiness. I think your Clergy seems to have very little 
dependence on God Almighty’s providence, and to have done more 
harm by their bad example, than they can retrieve, perhaps, as long 
as they live, by their preaching. I’m much obliged to you for 
your description of the China works at Chelsea ; they would be a 
most delightful sight to me could I see them. 
“ Without any compliment, I sincerely believe an ingenious man 
with good conduct — such as yourself — might do very well in 
Norwich, either as a physician or surgeon, or both ; at present we 
have only three of any note, one of which is mightily afflicted with 
gout, viz. — 
M. 0. a physician 
M. H. a surgeon 
W. W. a physician 
“ The next are nothing more than common Apothecaries, and 
only make work for people of better judgment. I know it would 
be a work of some time ere you would be known, but then 
I am satisfied it would answer your desire. My interest and all 
the friends I can make you may depend on.” 
In a letter to one of his masters, he says, “ our Trade is very 
brisk, & I have rose our Flour twice since I see you, and it still 
goes off. Hous d at 28/. Wheat Rises, & I gave 16 9 pr comb 
yesterday for what I bought, and have upwards of a 1000 combs 
by us.” 
In January, 1746-47, a Natural History Society was formed in 
Norwich, to which Mr. Arderon contributed the opening address, 
in which ho alludes to the service rendered by the microscope to 
natural history. He then proceeds to point out the resemblance 
between the animal and vegetable kingdoms. 
