Report of the Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye, occasioned by the false and caluminous statements contained in a letter addressed by Sir William Adams to the Right Honourable and Honourable the Directors of Greenwich Hospital.

  • London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Report of the Committee of the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye, occasioned by the false and caluminous statements contained in a letter addressed by Sir William Adams to the Right Honourable and Honourable the Directors of Greenwich Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    That he failed in his attempt to see Dr. Farre, but left at his house a message intimating, that he had commissioned Mr. Milford to propose his editing Mr. Saunders' work. That shortly after that communication, Sir William Adams heard from several quarters, that reports were circulated that he had endeavoured to get at Mr. Saunders* notes, in order to rob him of his posthumous fame. That to prevent fur- ther misrepresentation, he addressed an explsu- natory letter to Dr. Farre, dated 28th Februaiy, 1810. That about ten days afterwards, on his return to Exeter, he received from the Secretary of the Infirmary, a communication stated to have been made, before a Select Committee, by the young man already alluded to. That imme- diately upon receiving the Secretary's letter, he wrote a reply to it, which he requested J^r. Milford to deliver to Dr, Farre, and personally to acquaint him with the proposals he had de- puted him to make, but that Mr Milford, seeing in the whole of this attack, the hostile spirit which had prevented his applying to Dr. Farre on the former occasion, did not think it worthy his interference, and therefore simply forwarded the letter without a comment. Your Committee have attentively investigated this statement, and they report to you as follows:—^ That so far from Mr. Saunders, at the period