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Ref NoMS 3782/12/40/275
TitleCopy letter. Matthew Boulton [Soho] to Josiah Wedgwood Jr. [Etruria].
LevelItem
Date8 September 1795
Description(2 pcs.)

Dear Sir
Methinks it is a long time since I had the pleasure of seeing you which I endeavourd to do when I was last in town; but I was one day too late. I hope & beg of you never to pass Birmingham without favouring me with a call, or rather takeing your Bed at Soho Hotel, where you & every branch of your Family will ever find a more hearty welcome than at any Inn upon the London Road.
Allow me to request your attention to the small commission mentd. on the other side: & to beg you will remember me most kindly to your mother, to your fair partner, as well as to Miss Wedgwood, & every sprig of the Tree.
I am with great regard
Dear Sir
Your faithfull friend & Obedt. Servt.
Mattw: Boulton
Boulton & Watt Junrs. are gone with Ladies to Warwick Castle this morng upon a pleasurable plan, which is not very common now with them, as they are both becoming fearcely men of business.
I hope to be at your Canal meeting on ye 29th.


Mr. Wedgwood
Please to make for Mattw. Boulton 2 Compleat Table Services of plates & dishes with every other necessary & 2 Compleat Desert services of the most handsome & fashionable design.—I have seen some Desert plates &c. with different plants & flowers with their names on the lower side suitable to young Bottonists which I think pretty but I leave all to your tast & beg the 2 Services may be in seperate packages as the one is for my own use, & the other is intended as a present to my Junr. friend Garbett.
Please to send them both to Birmgm. with one Invoice th. . . [The rest of the sheet has been torn away.]
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