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Soho, July 10th, 1809.
Respected Sir,
I have handed to Mr. Küchler your Letter and the Dies, &ca.—the former I read to him as distinctly as I could, and if the arguments it contains have not fully convinced him that there was no intention of either injuring his reputation as an Artist, or wounding his feelings as a Man, by submitting the characters of the Dies to the correction of Dr. Wilkins. I fear nothing that I have been able to add to them can produce that effect; but be this as it may, he has promised, with apparent good Humour, to proceed upon the latter, according to your directions, without delay.
Your Groom having informed me that the articles alluded to for the tandem would probably come in a parcel to Mr. Watt, Jr., I have this moment enquired of that Gentleman respecting them, who says you mentioned them in a letter to him, but he has not yet heard of their arrival.—Mr. Clay wrote a note to you some time since, which I have found on your Table and inclose herein, stating that he could not match in Birmingham the cloth of your Tandem, and your Lad Samuel has this Day confirm’d his testimony by trying with as little success all the principal Shops; I have therefore thought it proper to send you the inclosed pattern for you government in directing 3/4 of a yard, or a yard, of it, to be sent from London.
Mr. Pearson and Mr. Haden having quitted their residences in the Garden, I beg to ask if it wou’d one more agreeable to you that the Buildings should be immediately pulled down, and arranged as per agreement with Millar, or that the measure should be suspended ’till your return.
A person called here on Friday by desire of Mr. Hopkinson to look at the Coach on sale, when I answered his enquiry as to the price he said that he understood you had offered it to his Friend in London for £50.—If this be the fact and you have not committed yourself on the occasion, allow me to suggest that that sum can be had for it here without any risk or expence of conveyance.
I remain, most respectfully and gratefully, Sir, your oblig’d and obedient Servant,
Wm. Cheshire |