From Thomas Beddoes to Davies Giddy   11 October 1800

Dear Giddy

I have just received my Leipzig books, sent thence on the 10 of June – The delay was most unexpected and most unaccountable. I see no possibility of receiving another parcel before next spring or summer – For I c^d give no order till I had examined the catalogue of the last fair – I shall not therefore in consequence of your last letter order the articles of your former – If you wish it, I can do so in the winter & it will come to the same thing – You will have the Homer of Heyne in town supposing it to have been published – I see a 3rd edⁿ of his Virgil advertised as to come out with 200 plates – This conjunction of two fine arts I am glad to see, as it will greatly promote the comprehension & taste of those who can afford the book –

I suppose security will long be the order of the day in Great Britain – I believe the condition of the poor, particularly the peasantry, to have been growing worse for many years – & that the war is only a great aggravation of a disease under which the country without that w^d have certainly laboured – indeed I think this is deducible from the simplest principles of political economy.

I am
Yr^s truly & in haste

Thomas Beddoes

11 Oct^r 1800