Note 319 — Chapter XIX · Boulton’s Application of the Steam-engine to Coining.
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In a letter written by James Lawson to Matthew Robinson Boulton shortly after his father’s death, he observed,—“God only knows the anxiety and unremitting perseverance of your father to accomplish the end; and we all aided and assisted to the best of our powers, without ever considering by whose contrivance anything was brought to bear. Indeed the bringing of everything to bear was by your father’s perseverance, and by his hints and personal attendance; for often he attended and persevered in the experiments till we were all tired.”—Lawson to M. R. Boulton, January 10, 1810. Boulton MSS.