| Description | (Directed to the Hotel de Chaulnes, rue d'Enfer.)
You cannot, my dear son, treat me so cheap nor so agreeable as by a repeatition of such favours as your last, which was dated the 30th January, viz. three weeks ago.
I take this opportunity of sending by Mr. Collens the six pair of stockings you requested for Mr. Manuel. Such stockings are sold in the shops here at 5s. and 6s. per pair, according to the conscience of the shop keeper; these cost 4/6 per pair.
I have also sent one pair of extra fine stockings, which you may present to Madam de Lessert, if you please, as a specimen of the spining of a mill we have lately set to work by one of our fire engines . I have also sent you a little chymical book wrote by Mr. Kerwin, and I beg you will present to Mr. Manuel with my best compliments the last publication of Mr. Callonne's. I likewise beg Mr. Manuel will do me the favour to accept of a Soho steel watch chain. Don't unpack the one pair of stockings, which I would not have presumed to have given Madam de Lessert upon any other grou[n]d than to have shewn her a specimen of good spining. Please to present my best compliments, with the stockings, to one of the best of women and beg she will accept them and excuse my freedom. If she or Madamoiselle wish for more, I will send them as many as they please.
I have much more to say, but Mr. Collins waits for this.
Present also my respectfull compliments to Mr. de Lessert , Madamoiselle, and your young friends; likewise to Mr. Guyott.
Adieu, my dear Matt. I am ever your very affectionate father,
Mattw. Boulton
If Mr. Collens want 10 or 20 guineas, pray desire Mr. De Lessert to furnish it.
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