| Description | Bromesberrow, near Ledbury,
Herefordshire.
4th of November, 1811.
Sir,
That I may not keep you one moment in suspense concerning the safety of your letter and its inclosure, I write immediately to announce its receipt on this day. Time, of course, will not allow me to wait for a specific declaration of the poor widow’s repetition of grateful acknowledgements for Mr. Boulton’s renew’d bounty: both you and I can well venture to anticipate them. The money has in each instance been transmitted to an intelligent and reputable man at Newent, who married a niece of M. Stevenson, and by whose advice her plans there are conducted. I concur with you and Mr. B. in opinion as to the prudence of persevering in the school, which will I trust produce a certain, though at present but small, income. I hope it will progressively increase. The money, I have no doubt, will be duly applied in the way suggested—furnishing a chamber for which I think it will (with the former donation and Mr. Royds’s gift) be adequate. A lodger will then lessen the expence of rent.
Benjamin Stevenson was here to-day and brought a favourable report of his mother’s general health; the family will doubtless rejoice at the gratifying account you give of the interesting John. Please to make my best compliments acceptable to Mr. Boulton: it is superfluous to add my slender tribute of approbation of his liberal behaviour, charitable acts bring their best reward with them, in hand, by the approbation of conscience. To you many thanks are due, for the ready and handsome manner in which you carry into effect your worthy employer’s humane directions. I am, sir, your faithful well-wisher,
Hy. Gs. Ds. Yate |