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Credit: A memoir of John Deakin Heaton, M. D., of Leeds. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![the Iieircsscs—for .siicJi \\\(\ (I;uigliU;rB of Mr. I')iims were—from the young tradesman was too great to be bridged over; but judging by certain letters whicli remain, and l)y memoranda discovered l^y liis son after his deatli, he h)ng cherislied a great regard for one of tlie young hidies wliom lie had seen as children running about the rooms in which he had himself hved, and who continued for many years to show a sincere affection and respect for their father's old and faithfid servant. The correspondence which was maintained between Mrs. Binns and her daughters on one side, and Mr. Heaton on the other, after the removal of the family to London, is in the highest degree honourable to both parties. It shoAvs the wealthy widow and daughters cherishing a warm feeling of respect and gratitude towards their old friend. There are many invitations to the young bookseller to visit London and make the house of Mrs. Turner—the elder daughter of ]\ir. Binns—his home. There are little presents and messages regularly interchanged between the fashionable people in London and the simple frugal tradesman in Leeds. After his wife's death, when, appar- ently on the strength of his improved position in business, Mr. Heaton allowed himself to indulge in recollections of the past, when the handsome daughters of his old .patron were constant visitors to the shop, there was apparently a decided disposition](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21209741_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
