| Description | Madam
I feel considerable difficulty in the liberty I take of addressing you on the subject of Mr Boulton’s relapse, well knowing that every thing which is proper to be communicated to you will regularly flow through the usual channels;—but conceiving it to be more my duty to comply implicitly with Mr Boulton’s than to run the risk of adding to his indisposition by opposing to them my own opinions I trust you will from this consideration have the goodness to overlook what must otherwise appear to you absurd, if not the effect of an impertinent officiousness.
Mr Boulton received in due course your favor of the 9th & he regrets the utter impossibility of replying with his own hand & of confirming the good accounts you had heard of his health; he desires me to state that the weakness of his frame & intellects in the latter days of last week have been so extreme that he has neither had power to move nor memory to think, which he considers to have been in part owing to an opiate pill having experienced similar effects from the same cause in former instances. I have however the great satisfaction to add, that Mr Boulton was yesterday on the mending hand & is considerably better to-day than yesterday.
Understanding that you are nearly on the wing for Heathfield I beg leave to wish you & Mr Watt an agreeable journey & a good sight of all your friends in this neighbourhood.
I am, with great respect,
Madam
Your most obt Servt
Wm Cheshire |