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Dear Madam,
Amidst all our riots and hurly-burlys I have enjoy’d good health and spirits until this day; but in consequence of not allowing myself one moment’s relaxation yesterday and writing till past ten at night, and then eating pidgeon pye, I have had a bad night and have a sick stomack and a bad head to day, insomuch that I cannot think or work, to which add the task of entertaining Alderman Curtis to day at dinner.
Finding that Mr. Matthews was gone to the sea to wash away his sins and lay in a stock of health for the winter, I have let my demands upon the E. I. Co. sleep; but as I find myself under the necessity of paying Mr. Edwards and Mr. Morris 4627£ for copper, I must renew my application to the Company, and herewith send them my account, by which you will see that they owe me £7341. 11s. 11d. and I have requested them to pay five or six thousand to Mr. Matthews.
I beg the favour of you to send the letters to Mr. Wissett at the India House the moment you have read the unseal’d one (after putting in a waffer), as it perhaps may arive time enough to lay before the Fryday’s Committee; and when Mr. Matthews returns I must request of him to see Mr. Wissett and receive what they may think proper to pay.
As carved memorandums upon our stamps and in sundry work shops at Soho have existed ever since the 8 August 1770, and finding the whole manufacture of one mind and determin’d to make a holiday on the 8th, and as all our workmen stay’d obey’d orders during the late riots, I resolv’d to give them one treat and one happy day before I dyed, which I, with the help of the finest day we have had this summer, accomplish’d my wishes and theirs in an eminent degree.
The facts of the day our news papers publish’d and sent me a few copys, one of which I herewith send you, as I am perswaded we could not be more happy than you wish us.
I hope Mr. Matthews will return with all the improvements in his health he hath sought at the sea, and I further hope that before the summer closes you and he will make Soho a visit, where you will always be kindly received by, dear madam, your affectionate friend,
M. Boulton
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