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Liverpool, 14th October 1810.
Sir,
I am extremely sorry to inform you by the request of Mr. Stephenson, who met with an most serious accident of Friday night last in coming on the mail box from Preston to Liverpool, by a sudden jolt was thrown on the iron that surrounds the box and let upon his private parts. The inflammation is so very great that the surgeon is apprehensive of a mortification. He has been in agonizing pain for forty-eight hours, not being able to pass any water. This evening the surgeons have performed the operation of forcing his water, since which time he has been much easier, but by no means out of danger. He wishes you to make this known to his family as easy as possible, as he does not apprehend the serious danger himself. He hopes he shall soon be better. The surgeon wishes by all means that some male friend shou’d come to Liverpool immediately on the receipt of this, as he cannot by any means say he is out of danger.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
sign’d, Philip Acton
Crown Inn, Red Cross Street
[Docketed as follows.]
Philip Acton, Crown Inn, Red Cross Street, Liverpool, October 14th, 1810. Communicating information of an unfortunate accident having befallen Mr. Boulton’s gardener A. Stephenson.
Replied to by Mr. Z. Walker, October 16th, and a letter written also by him to Messrs. Whitehouse & Galan on the 15th October, requesting them to see that Mr. Stephenson had the best medical aid and that every possible attention shou’d be paid to his comfort in every other respect. |