Letter from James Hay Beattie to James Dun Letter from James Hay Beattie, London, to James Dun, providing an abridgement of James Hay's journal of the Beatties' activities in London between Tuesday 1 May to Thursday 17 May. Entry for 17 May talks about the Beatties' overturned carriage: "Thursday May 17th. I have just now received your letter, and am glad to hear that you are well, and amuse yourself with fishing. As you desire to know it we have received any hurt in coming to England, as I suppose you have heard a report of our being overturned. I shall give you an account of it. About a mile from Easingwold, which is the next stage North from York, the horse, on which our driver rode, fell, and threw the driver from his back; the other horse did not stop, but rode on, by which means he dragged the wheel of the chaise first over the body of the horse, then of the driver, whose side was much cut, and so the Chaise was overturned. I got no hurt but a scratch or two on my face, by the broken glass; and a strain in my arm, which I kept in a sling a day or two. We sent the driver back to Easingwold for another chaise, and other horses, and got very well on to York. I have not got much accquainted with any young people here, there being but few in the houes where we commonly visit". 13 May 1781