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The Cotman Letters 1834

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/3/1/3
Page: 11

  • Description

    Copy of letter from John Sell Cotman to Arthur Dixon, 7 January 1834

    Cotman assures the pharmacist Dixon of his good spirits and promises to provide the recipe for some medicine. He urges him to keep up the Cotman family’s spirits.

    Date: 1834

  • Transcription

    Addressed to Mr. Arthur Dixon.
    7, Old Burlington Street.
    Jan[uar]y 7th 1834.

    Friend of My Children
    I enclose two autographs for your acceptance. Good Society, Good Friends and good living, have caused such Good excitem[en]t, have made me so happy, so strong and so full of spirits, that I have been obliged to apply to a little medicine of an apparent nature. The recipe has done me so much good – it is so good and so pliant to take, that I trust it will be agreeable to you to have it, and you shall too on my return[.] For you if have it not it will be an acceptable addition to your pharmacy – and if you have it, I have only said my say and no harm done. Remember me most kindly to our friend Geldart.
    Y[ou]rs My Dear Sir Most truly
    J.S.Cotman.

    Keep up the Spirits of My folks. I am calm, collected, and perfectly happy and let them be so.

Copy of letter from John Sell Cotman to Arthur Dixon, 7 January 1834