Papers of David Skene: correspondence: Letter from David Skene to his father, Andrew Skene Letter from David Skene to his father, Andrew Skene, in which he expresses surprise and concern at not having heard from his father; his present employment is attending the hospitals, especially the Charité and the Hotel Dieu on particular occasions; he is finished with Mr Petit's courses and the body he was dissecting; he thinks he may practice midwifery and dissect another body; he has yet to see all the sights and curiosities of Paris and is planning to leave in late April or early May; he requests his father's aid in determining his route home and in deciding where to take his degree; the least price to take his degree is at Rheims where they charge 10 guineas but he thinks that this is 'altogether too much for a thing that is despicable ... that a man conceals his being a Rheims Doctor like a crime'; he has not found the books his father wanted, 1 April 1753. 1 April 1753