| Description | Dear Madam,
I sincerely congratulate you upon your dawn of peace with Mr. Taylor by arbitration, which I am perswaded will take off a load from your mind and prove a much more agreeable and more profitable method of terminating all disputes then Chancery. I wish B. & W. could do the same thing in lieu of going into the Court of Common Pleas.
In regard to my own business with you I have very little to say, as it lyes in a very little compass.
1st. As to my Currant Account, it shall be wiped off in a few weeks, or at least so soon as I can sell off my stock of copper, which is now very great* [Marginal note: *£10,000 worth], but when that is sold and I have paid what ballance I owe on Coinage Account, it appears (by an account deliver'd to me this morning by Mr. Brown) that I shall have a net ballance in hand of £7500. Copper is no more a drug than gold; there is a considerable demand for it at a high price. I sold 10 ton on Saturday to Mr. Bowser of the Forest Copper Warehouse, payable in three months, cash.
2d. I wrote to Mr. Wedgwood and have given him notice to pay off the mortgage on the 20 January, which is the day the half year expires. You will have therefore to consider whether you can make it convenient to your self to take it, and what ever is most agreeable to your self, you may depend upon it will be most so to me, as I have your peace, happiness, and prosperity at heart as much as any friend you have in the world.
With these unchangable sentiments I remain, dear madam, your faithfull and affectionate friend,
Mattw. Boulton
We talk of being in town on Saturday next.
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