| Description | (Transcript by William Cheshire.)
Soho, near Birmingham, October 6th, 1810.
Sir,
The estimation in which you stand with Mr. Boulton, and the favorable report I was enabled to make of the trees I had seen at your nursery, would have determined him to procure from you the supply for which he has immediate occasion; but, having in the mean time received some information which induces him to believe that the removal of fruit trees northerly is the reverse of good gardening, and especially to this bleak and sterile soil from so mild and rich a spot as your nursery, he has consequently been directing his enquiries to some of the Lancashire nurseries, and being yet undecided, I have to request that you will not make any reserve, to the prejudice of your regular sale, of the trees I pointed out to you as likely to suit my employer in the event of his determining to receive them from your part of the country, since the circumstances which I have now noted to you render it doubtful from whence they will be ultimately procured.
I am respectfully, sir, your most obedient servant,
(sign’d) Alexr. Stephenson
Mr. Biggs,
at his Nursery,
Worcester. |