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Sir,
The very ill state of Mr Boulton’s health, which is now attended with all the excrutiating torments which nephritic disorder can inflict, deprives him of the pleasure of replying, with his own hand, to your favor of yesterday.
You will perceive by the inclosed card, that the proprietors of this manufactory found it expedient at an early period of Mr Boulton’s long illness & confinement, which has continued with very small intervals for near five years, to prohibit the exhibition of the works carried on here, since which, for the sake of consistency, it has been necessary for Mr. Boulton to wage war with feelings most dear to him, to decline the honors extended him not only by persons of high rank & distinction, but those also of his most intimate & dearest friends.
You will readily conceive, Sir, how much Mr Boulton’s mind must suffer on each occasion like the present, in which his own personal feelings of respect & gratitude, are opposed by a resolution so firmly resolved on, & so uniformly persevered in, that any infraction of it, at this time, is little less than utterly impossible.
The Mint, however, M’r Boulton’s own private concern, having been, in some degree, preserved in an insulated state, he desires me to inform you, that if you can make it convenient to come over at about eleven or twelve o’Clock this forenoon, Mr Mynd, Mr. Boulton’s Nephew, who has the care of that department, will do himself the honor of shewing it, & the Plate Room, to you, & any friends who may be of your party.
I have the honor to be with high respect,
Sir
your obt Servt
Wm Cheshire
for whom shou’d Mr Mynd, by any possible chance,
be absent, Mr Hammond is requested to enquire.
Soho Sepr 29th 1806
Geo. Hammond Esqr
&c &c &c
Royal Hotel
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