| Description | Soho, August 30th, 1811.
Reverend Sir,
Mr. Boulton, on the eve of a journey to Lemington, to which place he went on Monday last, gave me directions to send, thro’ your obliging hand, two guineas to the Widow Stevenson, which was accordingly done yesterday, in a parcel by coach, directed as this letter. The date of yours being two days antecedent to that of mine, and post marked Hereford, 28 August, I am in hopes that it may be in your power to account for my not having been in possession of it before mine was sent off, otherwise it may excite a suspicion with you that I have acted disingenuously, and that my parcel was the consequence of your letter, which did not reach my hand ’till this morning.
I intend to embrace the earliest moment after Mr. Boulton’s return, which is expected to be in a few days, to lay before him your narrative of the Widow Stevenson’s migration, and I doubt not the measure which has been adopted of placing her in a situation affording the good prospect of contributing by her own exertions to the maintenance of her family will meet his approbation.
If it will not be trespassing too far on your goodness I shall thank you to mention what further sum you think at this time needful, for though Mr. Boulton’s charitable donations flow spontaneously, and the object in view would certainly be rather impeded than accelerated by any thing like dictating to him, yet I cannot help thinking that it wou’d be well to have some kind of estimate ready to lay before him of the extent and precise nature of the present want, which no one is so well qualified as yourself to make a computation of in that economical way which is most conducive to permanent charity; and with these views I hope to be excused for the great liberty I have taken—remaining, reverend sir, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,
Wm. Cheshire
The Revd. H. G. D. Yate,
Bromesberrow,
near Ledbury,
Gloucestershire. |