Letter from Erasmus Darwin to Matthew Boulton, 1800/11/09

Darwin writes to Boulton about the enclosure of land.

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At Mr Galton’s Crescent

Birmingham

Nov. 9-1800

Dear Boulton,

My friend Mr John Gisborne of Holly-bush in Needwood Forest has desired me to write to you to solicit from you a refusal of your allotment, if that forest comes to be inclosed (which I hope it will be) if you mean to dispose of it; and I am sure, you can not oblige a more respectable and valuable character who by having married Miss M. Pole and making an extraordinary good husband, is by many names endeared to me.

I shall inclose his letter to me, and am dear Boulton your old and sincere friend.

E Darwin