| Description | (The bottom half of the letter—i.e. the portion concerning the engine—was deliberately cut away, and is now in the Boulton & Watt Collection.)
Dear Sir,
My father is just gone from home for a day or two, but desired me to tell you that the mode you proposed paying the money is perfectly agreable to him, say, £3000 in a bill payable on the 20th of July. £1000, payable the 20th Feby. & £1000 payable 20th March.
[My father was mistaken or calculated wrong respecting the power of the engine. He thought Mr Spodes engine had been calculated equal to 3 horses only and therefore when he said 6 horses, he meant an engine of double the power of Spodes which it seems must be 10 horses—he therefore wishes it to be so.
I beg my best respects to Mr M Boulton & am, Dear Sir,
Your obt hbl Servant
Thos Wedgwood]
PS. I am now treasurer of the Staffordshire Bowmen Society & shall remit you a bill for the buttons in a day or two.
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