| Description | Soho, October 14th, 1809.
Sir,
When Mr. Boulton was setting out for Cheltenham he desired me to request, on your return home, that you wou’d do him the favor to make enquiry respecting a Gardener who advertized for a situation in Aris’s Gazette of the 26th ultimo and referred for particulars to No. 18, High Street, Birmingham, which proves to be the Seed Shop of Messrs. Harmer & Riddle, of whom, for reasons that he will explain to you, Mr. B. wishes to avoid making any direct enquiry, or indeed to have it at all known, except to ourselves, that a more competent Gardener than the one he now has wou’d be desireable to him.
I take the liberty therefore to inclose a list of the heads of enquiry that we have usually made on such occasions, of which you will have the goodness to select such as you think needful, or add any other that you may think proper.
I am, very respectfully, Sir, your most obedient Servant,
Wm. Cheshire
George Barker, Esqr.,
Birmingham.
[The “heads of enquiry,” on a separate sheet, are as follows.]
Name.
Married or single.
Age.
General qualifications.
And particularly whether he has had much experience in the planting of Forest Trees, the superintence of workmen, and taking an account of their time.
In what situations he has lived.
Last situation, how long he held it, and cause of leaving.
Terms, having a House found him rent free. |