| Description | [3 pcs] [FRAGILE] Endorsed: ‘Copy to Mr. Watt.’ With 2-pp. transcript. Declining a proposition to buy a property (unspecified). ‘… I never shall feel myself comfortable in turning my back side to the Sun & my face to the Westerly or Northern blasts & Storms, I therefore see no use in buyuing No. 131 & 132 & at the same time leaving the Lawn I have cultivated to be polluted with every kind of Newscences my View depriv’d of the Church &c I never will live in my house where all the nearest objects around me not only deprive me of the sight of what is agreeable, but furnish me with objects that excite pain & reflections that are unfavourable to the cultivated part of human nature. No, I had rather reside in a humble cottage & enjoy the fresh air unpolluted with the Smoaks of Soho on one side or the Riots of the Beggarly Clubs on the other than to pay 2 or 3 Thousand pounds as an acquiescence of such like unpleasant circumstances. I have therefore determined to rest upon my Ores [oars] & buy nothing unless I can buy as much at a reasonable price, as will prevent all possibility of any neusance (except my own) on the South West side of the Turnpike road resigning my self to the fates on the opposite side. I will therefore buy no. 133, 134, 135, 96 & 136, or I will buy non[e] but am willing to buy from Hockley Brook up to Scales…’ |