Autograph Letter Signed "D Brewster" to "Dr Bostock", Liverpool, medical writer, etc.

Natural scientist (see DNB). Two pages, 4to, some damage and marking but text clear and complete. "You will have probably seen from the progres of the Encyclopaedia, that we are now approaching very rapidly to the article Galvinism [underlined] which you were so kind as to undertake. We are printing at present the article Fortification . . . & I think we shall require it for press on the Ist of |September." He asks for an estimate of the number of sheets the article will occupy, how many plates or separate figures to illustrate. "As the length of the Encyclopaedia is limited to 20 volumes, it would be of great consequence to comprehend the article in as short space as possible without injuring it." Note (from Net): "In 1807 he undertook the editorship of the newly projected Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, of which the first part appeared in 1808, and the last not until 1830. The work was strongest in the scientific department, and many of its most valuable articles were from the pen of the editor." His correspondent, Bostock, published a work on galvinism and "contributed several articles to Brewster's ‘Encyclopædia'"