[ [280] Watt to Boulton, 17th April, 1786.
[ [281] Watt wrote Boulton from London, 1st October, 1789,—“I called on Wyatt (the architect) last night. He says the mill sold above 4000l. worth of flour last week and is doing well.”
[ [282] For further particulars as to the Albion Mill, see Life of Rennie in ‘Lives of the Engineers,’ ii. 137.
[ [283] Watt to Boulton, 23rd September, 1786.
[ [284] He spoke of Goodwyn’s Brewery engine, finished in 1784, as the best that Soho had up to that time turned out—it “performed wonderful well—not the smallest leak and scarce any noise.... The working gear and joints are the best I ever saw.”
[ [285] Watt to Boulton, 24th February, 1786.
[ [286] Boulton to Morris, 2nd November, 1786.
[ [287] “Your mind, my friend, is too active, too powerful for your body, and harasses it beyond its bearing. If this was the case with any other machine under your direction, except that in whose regulation your friends take so much interest, you would soon find out a remedy. For the present permit me to advise a more ample use of the oil of delegation through your whole machinery, and I am persuaded you will soon find some salutary effects from this application. Seriously, I shall conclude in saying to you what Dr. Fothergill desired me to say to Brindley—‘Spare your machine a little, or like others under your direction, it will wear out the sooner by hard and constant usage.’”—Josiah Wedgwood to Watt, December 10, 1782.
[ [288] Watt to his brother-in-law, Gilbert Hamilton, Glasgow, June 18, 1786.
[ [289] “Mr. Watt hath lately remitted all his money to Scotland, and I have lately purchased a considerable quantity of copper at the request of Mr. Williams.... Besides which I have more than 45 tons of copper by me, 20 of which was bought of the Cornish Metal Company, and 20 of the Duke’s at 70l., and not an ounce of either yet used. In short, I shall be in a very few weeks in great want of money, and it is now impossible to borrow in London or this neighbourhood as all confidence is fled.”—Boulton to Wilson, 4th May, 1788.