| Description | Soho, near Birmngham, October 28th, 1811.
Reverend Sir,
I was favored in due course with your letter acknowledging the receipt of the two guineas sent by Mr. Robinson Boulton for the use of the Widow Stevenson, and subsequently with your report of her situation and views, the detail of which is equally obliging and satisfactory. Mr. Boulton’s absence from home, and the attentions due to his friends during our late musical festival, and some minor Causes, have precluded an earlier [attention] to the object of your kind solicitude, but, I trust, under your good guidance, that no material inconvenience has accrued to the Widow from the circumstance and that you will ever view in the most favorable light any apparent disrespect in the periods of acknowledging your much esteemed letters.
The contemplated scheme of easing the burthen of rent by providing for the accommodation of lodgers it will be prudent to try the effect of in one room first, and it is hoped that in the fullest extent the expedient is not intended to supersede the more eligible one (as it appears to us) of teaching children; for though the schooling money considered individually be indeed trivial, yet the aggregate, if successful in point of number, might probably prove adequate, with the parish help, to the support of the family and has the advantage of being exempt from risk and expence. In this view of the case the contingents for which provision remained to be made will I believe be covered by the five guineas inclosed herein, and Mr. Boulton, with respectful compliments, requests you will have the goodness to direct its appropriation.
It is pleasing to observe the kind consideration of Mr. Royds in his remitting five pounds in aid of the widow’s wants and confirms the high opinion I had formed of that gentleman’s liberality from poor Alexander’s report of it; Mr. Royds’ character having been, as I well remember, a favorite subject in his grateful recollections.
I have communicated to John Stevenson the good account you have given of his mother, which affords him great pleasure. The boy enjoys good health, attends a night school, and goes on well. I remain respectfully, reverend sir, your most obedient humble servant,
Wm. Cheshire
Inclosure.
The Revd. H. G. D. Yate,
Bromesberrow,
near Ledbury. |