| Description | "With impressions from the East India Company seal and half-pie die. On the alteration of the polygraphic lathe. Taking down the houses at Hockley. Winter and the allotment at Needwood. Piece to be taken away for the alteration of the road at Murray." (Directed to the Post Office.)
Soho, February 15th, 1809.
Respected Sir,
Agreeably to the instructions left with Mr. Küchler, I have the pleasure to inclose an impression of the Company's Seal, and of the obverse of the Half Pie, to either of which any alteration that you may think proper can be made.
Upon particular enquiry into the nature and object of the alteration of the polygraphic lathe, which has impeded the progress of work the completion of which is anxiously wished, I find, as far as I am able to comprehend Mr. Busch, that the circumscribed power of the adjusting bar was such that a difference so inconsiderable as was required between the size of the struck piece to be worked from, and the die to be acted upon, could not possibly be effected in that state of the Machine.-In adapting it to the desired object, Mr. Busch has considered it expedient to have two die dishes, instead of a die dish and chock,-by which means the necessity of working from an impression will be obviated, at the same time that by lengthening the adjusting bar the minutest variation of size can be readily accomplished. Mr. Busch trusts you will excuse him for a delay in the execution of your commands, which he considers to have been, in the present instance, unavoidable, and the more especially as the alteration will be permanently useful, and complete, as he thinks, the perfection of the Machine.-I should have had pleasure in confirming the expectation held out to you yesterday, that the alteration would be completed in a day or two, but a closer enquiry forbids the hope of the machine being set to work before the conclusion of the present week, at which time all the parties concerned are agreed that it will be ready.
I am sorry to perceive that Messrs. Knott & Lloyd have omitted this week the advertisement of the Coach.-The directions to them were the same as to Mr. Jabet, viz. "To be continued 'till further orders." I have seen Messrs. Knott & Lloyd on the subject, who, on reference to the order, have begged to apologize for the omission. There has been no application in consequence of the advertisements except an enquiry from Mr. Wallace of the price, on Sunday week.
James Sansom having declined to say at what price per thousand he would undertake to pull down, dress, and stack the Bricks and Tiles of the Cottages, I have applied to Lloyd and Milner; the former asks 7/ per thousand for the Bricks and the same price for the tiles, in addition to which he said he should expect an allowance for taking up the floors, &c.-Miller (or Milner) wou'd engage to do it at 5/ per thousand each, and to carefully pull down, deposit, and arrange the other materials as proposed; from some conversation with Webster, Milner's offer appears reasonable, in which I am confirmed by a Note from Mr. Hurt in reply to an enquiry made in consequence of some remarks from Lloyd. Viz. "Our Men set the price of pulling down the Wall and dressing the Bricks themselves at 4/ per thousand-but they declare that they wou'd not undertake another job of the same sort under 6/.-I suppose from 5/6 to 6/ is a fair price."
Mr. Winter was over here some days ago, and desired me to inform you that Mrs. Thacker has circulated an opinion that he is about to monopolize your allotments of Needwood Forest;-to obviate what he considers an injurious aspersion, he is particularly desirous of your permission to lay to her Farm 8 Acres of the allotment which lie the most contiguous to Yoxall Farm, which he observes is the proper quantity in proportion to her other land. Mrs. Thacker alleges that she has a Team not fully occupied which cou'd be advantageously employed on the occasion, and Mr. Winter says he will see that the land is properly cultivated. He also desired me to note to you that the Commissioners have determined on an alteration of the Road at Murray, by which a part of your Land, known by the name of the Big Piece, will be taken away, say about 400 square yards, for which he doubts not a proper compensation will be made.
I remain, respectfully and gratefully, Sir, your most obedient Servant,
Wm. Cheshire
M. Robinson Boulton, Esqr.
Bath.
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