| Description | "Stevenson the gardener’s accident."
Liverpool 17 Octr 1810
M. Robinson Boulton
Soho
Birmingham
Sir
We were this morning favored with yours of the 25th, & the writer instantly went to call on Mr. Stephenson, whose sufferings have been most excruciating, & who was yesterday in a very perilous situation indeed—since the unfortunate accident, he has been unable to pass any water, but what was forced by means of surgical operations, repeated thrice, one of them today, & the symptoms of his case are now more favorable, but by no means free from danger—inflammation of the injured parts, being so great, that a mortification was much apprehended, if it had not really commenced—he is in the hands of most respectable medical men, Dr. Jardine & Mr. Ellison, who have been & are unremitting in their attention, visiting him two or three times each day, & he has a nurse constantly waiting on him—he desires us to say that he feels himself much better today, & hopes he shall continue to mend, & to add, that more care & kindness could not be shewn to any one, than he has received, both from the Doctors, & the people of the Inn—he farther begs his grateful duty to you for your kind letter which we shewed him—the business which you sent him to Preston about, he accomplished—Dr. Jardine tells us, that he cannot move from hence in less than ten days, even under the most favorable issue—it may therefore be necessary to break the matter to his wife, but of this you will be the best judge—he has borne his sufferings with great fortitude, & the medical men place strong hopes in the evident soundness & strength of his constitution, which has supported him, & they trust will carry him through—we feel quite interested in his recovery from the interview the writer had with him, & you may depend we will take care that every possible care & attention shall be shewn him, & we will drop you a line tomorrow to say how he is going on, interim & always remain with much respect
Sir
Your Mo: O Serv
Whitehouse & Galan
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