Note 200 — Chapter XIV · Financial Difficulties—Boulton in Cornwall—Attack and Defence of the Engine Patent.

“Though your long stay, when you were last here,” wrote Henderson, the resident agent, “must have been attended with great inconveniences, yet you are now very much wanted in Wheal Virgin affairs. Different interests have produced a sort of anarchy.... Were Mr. Watt here now, I don’t think his health would allow him to stand the battles with the different people. I have not written to him freely on this subject, as I am afraid it would hurt him.... Your authority here as an adventurer has much greater weight than anything I can propose.”—Henderson to Boulton, 4th February, 1781. Boulton MSS.