From Thomas Beddoes to Richard Phillips   4 August 1808

Dear Sir

I dare say you have heard of Isaac Jenkins – I am trying to get out with a companion – I mean to send you in 2 or 3 days a small tale – If it be too trifling a concern for you put it into the hands of the small-ways bookseller whom you most approve – You must fix the price – as to advertising in the newspapers, little of that can be afforded –

I keep it standing intending to improve it & soon to get an ingenious artist to sketch one or two humorous designs for it – When it is perfect, if it takes, we may print by 1000s –

I shall send a long important article for yr next journal – But it will not be with you before yr eighteenth or 20^th – I am not ambitious of standing prominent

I am
Dr Sir
yrs truly

Thomas Beddoes
4 Aug^t 1808