| Description | Concerning: commencing the pressing of Russian coinage and the completion of the machinery; Count Wassilieff and the settlement of Boulton's accounts; the wages of the workmen on departure; a gift from the Russian Emporer to Miss Boulton; the sudden death of the Minister of Finance Vasilieff [Vasilyev]; James Duncan's fever; fear of delaying the workmen's departure to the late season, particularly James Walker and his wife who are 'elderly folks'; and Zaccheus Walker Jr's feelings of abandonment in the lack of correspondence from England or word on his father's health. |