| Description | London Saterday night
My dear Creature
I am now in the midst of a Crowded Coffe house & therefore cannot write to thee all I wish to say. but can in general say that all hethertoo goes to my Wish & my proceedings here in respect to thyselfe give me the most perfect Satisfaction
I have receivd [1] great pleasure at two plays a discription of which would fill many sheets of paper yet my pleasure was very deficient for want of thee & thee only for when anything here strikes me with great pleasure I at the same time feel a restless pain for want of thee to partake of it every thing I see thats pretty I have a mind to buy for thee but then I consider thou art in mourning [2] & canst not ware it at present & by the time thou art out of it I hope to bring thee to choose for thy selfe for realy London is a Charming Place & I promise my self great Joy in shewing thee some of its delights. I cannot return so soon as I expected for the days are so short & Cold that Business cannot be dispatched as I intended. I have no particular News Nor do I want to hear any so much as hearing of thy health & happiness. If god will bestow on thee the former, I will not fail to secure to the the latter. my best wishes & prayers attend thee who art the source of all the real Joy & happiness that does or ever will attend thy
Very sincere & loving Swain
Mattw. Boulton
I was at Dollers this afternoon & saw Mrs. Doller who lives in the same place & is well but Mr. Doller is Dead
My Brother John is well & he is to see the King & all the royal Family to Morrow
my Love to thy Brother & my best God bless you to Mamma
[Address-label:] To / Miss Nancy Robinson / in Boar Street / Lichfield / Staffordshire
[1] MS. recveivd.
[2] For her sister Mary, Boulton’s first wife, who had died in August. |