| Description | Dear Father,
I sincerely sympatise with you under the numerous misfortunes which seem ready to overwhelm you. Misfortune never comes alone is an old proverb, and in the present instance but too justly verified. But I hope you will consider that your ill health would be the greatest that could befall us, and as long as that is not, the other afflictions of life will be more easily born.
Your instructions for the stopping of the cutting out shop and rolling mill shall be attended to, but your request respecting the mint I do not so clearly understand. You mention in your postscript that you have found a means of disposing of the coin, and consequently we may continue to work as usual; am I to infer from thence that you can dispose of the pieces with Monneron’s name upon them, and therefore to continue the same device? or only with regard to the preparations for the completion of the presses? You know that the size of the pieces will be changed in a few days, the stock of the larger ones beeing nearly worked up. I shall expect your answer as soon as possible, and in the interim continue coining.
Mr. Brown will inclose your account herewith, and I am happy to see are perfectly safe.
I remain, dear father, your dutiful son,
Mattw. R. Boulton
PS. Mr. Harold has sent me not[e] respecting the conveyance for Fox’s house on Birmingham Heath; he wishes it to be made as soon as convenient, being desirous of finishing the business.
[Edited transcript.] |