For the next year or two Harvey lived quietly at Oxford, making dissections and carrying on his professional work amongst the courtiers who thronged the town. It appears too from the following report that Dr. Edmund Smith was living with him in Oxford. The memorial consists of a letter from Richard Cave to Prince Rupert, concerning the health of his brother, Prince Maurice. It is preserved among the Rupert Correspondence in the British Museum, and it runs-- "May it please your Highness. "This last night arrived here at Milton, Dr. Harvey and Doctor Smyth and this morning they were with the other two Doctors having seen and spoken with his Highness your brother intreateth me to write as followeth. "That his sickness is the ordinary raging disease of the army, a slow fever with great dejection of strength and since last Friday he hath talked idly and slept not but very unquietly, yet the last night he began to sleep of himself and took his rest so quietly that this present morning when Doctor Harvey came to him he knew him and welcomed Doctor Smith respectively and upon Doctor Harvey's expression of his Majesty's sorrow for and great care of him he showed an humble, thankful sense thereof. Doctor Harvey asking his highness how he did, he answered that he was very weak, and he seemed to be very glad to hear of and from your Highness as was delivered by Doctor Harvey. "Now the Doctors having conferred and computed the time have good hopes of his recovery yet by reason that the disease is very dangerous and fraudulent they dare not yet give credit to this alteration. And concluding the disease to be venomous they resolved to give very little physic only a regular diet and cordial antidotes. The Doctors present their most humble service to your Highness and subscribe themselves "Sir, "Your Highness' most humble servants, "WILL. HARVEY "ROBERT VILVAIN "EDMUND SMITH "THO. KING. "MILTON, _Oct. 17th, 1643_." Dr. Aveling, from whose "Memorials of Harvey" this letter is copied, says "the treatment by 'very little phisick' and 'only a regular diet' seems to have been successful, for Cave, writing soon afterwards to Prince Rupert, says: "Maurice is not able yet to write letters, but hath this day taken physic and so intends to bid his physicians farewell."