Note 332 — Chapter XX · Prosperity of Soho—Young Boulton and Watt—The Riots—William Murdock.
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“I have sent my son to Mr. Wilkinson’s ironworks at Bersham, in Wales, where he is to study practical book-keeping, geometry, and algebra, at his leisure hours; and three hours in the day he works in a carpenter’s shop. I intend he should stay there a year; what I shall do with him next I know not, but I intend to fit him for some employment not so precarious as my own.”—Watt to Mrs. Campbell, 30th May, 1784.