| Description | "His acknowledgements for my testimonial in his favour."
Birmingham April 19th 1816
Respected Sir,
After a lapse of more than 4 years & engagements in other services, to have received from under your hand any testimonial in favor of my conduct at Soho I should have felt it my duty to acknowledge with humble & grateful thanks; but the very prompt & handsome reply with which you have honored my Nephew M'r James Deykins's letter, & the ample justice you there render to my poor services, is so signal a mark of your especial grace & favor that I should feel it almost infamous to withold for one moment the expression of my warmest & most grateful acknowledgements;-nor can I help regretting that the poverty of my language can do so little justice to your goodness, & the feelings of my own heart, on so interesting an occasion:-yet, believe me Sir, I do feel most sensibly an instance of your kindness which has, if possible, augmented my respect for the Family & which will never cease but with the existence of it's object.
I remain, soliciting with all deference my duty to Miss Boulton,
Respected Sir, your much obliged
& most obedient huml Servt
Wm Cheshire
M Robinson Boulton Esqr
Soho.
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