| Description | Dear Sir
I am this moment returned from the Country, and almost too late for the Post to acknowledge the receipt of your letter—When I proposed this as the best season for Painting, I did not mean in the least to hurry the Business.
With respect to a convenient time to myself to send men, I beg Miss Boulton may entirely be suited and whenever the house is ready, if you will do me the favour to write I will send them down as soon after as posible—that is, not exceeding a week after I know of it.—be assured I had not any doubt as to the ill conduct of some of the men but as these rascals when they called on me to settle their accts spoke ill of Mitchel & Kelly I asked you in confidence, whether they had been Guilty of misconduct, though I never saw any thing but strict attention & sobriety in Mitchel ever since he has been with me—yet I had my doubts, and wished to be certain before I sent them down—again
Whenever you think the work will be ready by giving me the earliest information, that I may arrange other matters accordingly—
and you will oblige
Dear Sir
your Humble Servant
Cornelius Dixon
Berwick Street
April 29th 1805
[Address-label.] Mr Cheshire / at Matthew Boulton Esqr / Soho / near Birmingham |