| Description Of Item | He has had no success in his efforts at improvement and his health has been affected; he has not had any success with his dramas, has received public criticism but hopes the Caledonian Theatre will help; his application for a professorship in London was unsuccessful; he has had praise for his work for the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh but 'I cannot live on praise'; his daughter Margaret has started dress-making and Jane working at a school for young children due to necessity of them earning their livelihood; he is unable to pay his own debts; his son proposes to write on the botany of St Vincent when he is there and Dr Graham said that nothing had been done on it previously and Poole suggests interesting the government in the subject; he gives the advice that 'not to be precipitate either in forming conclusions...or publishing your observations. Let these be most carefully made, independent of theory'; and he recommends Annesley's book on the diseases of India. The letter was never sent. |