Two letters from John Austen, medical student to his guardian Francis Cobb at Margate Two letters from John Austen (the first from 12, Sutton Street, Borough; the second from 2 George Street, Trafalgar Square, Stepney), medical student Scope and Content To his guardian Francis Cobb at Margate, Kent. Requests money for a course of clinical lectures, states his intention of sitting the College of Surgeons' examination, refers to writing to 'Captain Coggan', and explains 'I have been obliged to change my lodgings in consequence of the petty thefts practised by the people at the last'. 2 October 1816 - 26 August 1817