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Soho Decembr. 15-1794
Dear Madam
Yours of ye 13 I have recvd & thank you for your kind Enquiries respecting Buchn. the result of which accords with all I have yet heard of him & with my own opineons: and in consequence of that opineon I wrote to him by your last Thursdays Box & and I send you a Copy of my letter that you may see the state of my mind least he should call on you to talk of that matter. When you next send any parcel pray return the inclosed letter & inclosed Copy.
I must own I am desireous of borrowing in Town rather than in the Country for many reasons I will tell you of when we next meet & from Loggens letter youl see I am likely to succeed with good men-for I know Loggen to be one. It appears that he has 2500 ready & the rest 1500 more may be had in another Month. I wrote to Loggen on Fryday to say I would accept his terms, least it should be snapt up, & to day I have wrote him every particular & sent him plans of the Land & buildings. I have also sent him my original Leases which are of themselves good security for double the sum proposed. I explaind to him the reasons why I cannot be possessed of my new Title deeds 'till after Xmass Day & I have some hopes he will not require them, as I have explaind to him that I shall often want referance to them in consequence of my setting leases for Building houses upon, haveing ground sufficient to build 200 Houses without annoying my own or my prospects. I am of your opineon that the loan will make Cash very scarce. I beg you will be quite silent both with tongue & pen respecting my treaty with Loggen particularly as nothing is yet decided,-I remain perfectly satisfy'd with my purchase as it is a property that must inevitably encrease in its Value every day but more rapidly if there comes a Peace & I have no doubt but my Soho Estate will bring me in an annual rent of one Thousand £ a Year before I dye.
I fear my daughters Knee is out. I went with her Yesterday to the only 2 Skilfull Surgeons in Birmgm. & they were both so ill in bed they could not see her.
Mrs. James arived on Tuesday & sat with me & my daughter more than ½ an hour when I explaind to her all the favourable & the unfavourable circumstances of my House & Household. We both liked her appearance & at length I introduced her to Mr. Taberner & recommendd mutual Civility & harmony. They then retired to the Room we call the Kitchen but in fact it is not so as we have had all our Cooking done for twelve months past in the Back Kitchen. Mrs. James next day mentd. to me how much lighter & pleasanter it was than her underground room in George Street. Harper was polite to her & layd her a carpet to put her feet on. However on Thursday she wished to speak to my daughter alone & then she told her she must go back to London immediately for if she stayd till Spring we should know her Value & it wd. then be a greater disapointment to us to part with her: moreover she said now was the time to get a place, that she meant to learn to dress Hair & live with some single old Lady but she said she had a Cold & would take the liberty of staying 3 or 4 days to take James's Powder.
She complains principaly of her being obliged to sit in a Room calld a Kitchen & has a blew flag floor which is never damp as it is over a dry Vault & there is always a large Fire in it. she also complains for want of a private room to do her distilling & other business. Its true my House wants many Conveniences & now its my own I shall take an early opportunity of consulting Mr. Wyatt in some necessary alterations.
I suppose Mrs. James will return today & if I dont pay her traviling Expenses I beg you will. I suppose 4 or 4½ Guineas will do it. |