From Thomas Beddoes to William Reynolds   October 1789

In the autumn of 1789, after passing the long vacation in Shropshire, he meditated an excursion with his friend down the Wye. He was, however, prevented from executing his intention; and in a short note addressed to him in October, laments that he shall ‘be debarred from feeling any of those soothing sensations, which the retired scenes of nature inspire, particularly in the melancholy season of her slow decay’.