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  1 1|           the works at Soho where Boulton and Watt were manufacturing
  2 1|         forget," he writes, " Mr. Boulton's expression to me when
  3 1|           which Watt invented and Boulton sold was not that which
  4 5|        heartaches. I received Mr. Boulton's, to whom my compliments."
  5 6|               CHAPTER SIX~Matthew Boulton of Soho~" I would not be
  6 6|       Birmingham days was Matthew Boulton the big hardware manufacturer.
  7 6|        big hardware manufacturer. Boulton was not merely a competent
  8 6|  excursions into coal-mining, but Boulton was fully occupied with
  9 6|       invention he naturally told Boulton about it, for he knew that
 10 6|          them into his own works. Boulton's interest was at once aroused,
 11 6|            In 1767 Watt went, but Boulton was away, and it was his
 12 6|      showed him over the factory. Boulton had been for some five years
 13 6|        the partner he had chosen. Boulton and Small were just as eager
 14 6|      should settle here, and that Boulton and I should assist you
 15 6|          put to him, was to allow Boulton a limited share in the business,
 16 6|   inventor and manufacturer which Boulton regarded as essential. Boult
 17 6|         at the prospect of losing Boulton's help and with it the hope
 18 6|      Warwick, Stafford and Derby.~Boulton's reply to Watt is a masterpiece.
 19 6|           Watt's insistence, made Boulton a new offer. He proposed
 20 6|        pounds, to be fixed later. Boulton was to have a year in which
 21 6|         only time to say that Mr. Boulton and I have agreed with Dr.
 22 6|      shake hands with you and Mr. Boulton on our connection, which
 23 6|          drawings of an engine to Boulton, which he at once began
 24 6|      whole situation was changed. Boulton and Small had accepted the
 25 6|        The price had been left to Boulton. This put Watt in a very
 26 6|          could not ask his friend Boulton to pay a high price for
 27 6|           ruined Roebuck also put Boulton into temporary difficulties,
 28 6|           hands of trustees. This Boulton had not expected, and at
 29 6|       equal right to share in it. Boulton was himself a creditor to
 30 6|          new partner ship between Boulton and Watt. In May, 1774 Watt
 31 6|         Watt left Glasgow to join Boulton at Soho.~Birmingham had
 32 6|          permanent value.~Matthew Boulton set himself steadfastly
 33 6|           Against these practices Boulton never ceased to wage war. ."
 34 6| throughout with genuine antiques.~Boulton inherited a comfortable
 35 6|           and nobility of Europe; Boulton won recognition as the greatest
 36 6|      resources that Watt found in Boulton the ideal associate. Watt
 37 6|          well as a partner, and I Boulton's personality fitted him
 38 6|    compared with the worries that Boulton had voluntarily taken upon
 39 6|           friend's anxieties. But Boulton's patience never failed,
 40 6|          delicate, nervous child. Boulton was like a comfortable arm-chair
 41 6|        Watt was his superior, but Boulton has a place among the great
 42 6|        engines were good. In 177I Boulton had heard that four or five
 43 6|          had stolen Watt's ideas.~Boulton realised that he had no
 44 6|           execute a single order. Boulton's first care was to discover
 45 6|         up to London to prospect. Boulton favoured the plan of surrendering
 46 6|         term of twentyfive years. Boulton now felt that he could safely
 47 7|     breeze, Genius and worth with Boulton there reside, Boulton, of
 48 7|        with Boulton there reside, Boulton, of arts the patron and
 49 7|     public trials. He could trust Boulton to see that all the more
 50 7|           experiments with Small, Boulton had got his cylinders from
 51 7|        Shortly before Watt joined Boulton at Soho Wilkinson had invented
 52 7|         When he went to Broseley, Boulton forbade him to let the engine
 53 7|           Glasgow to get married. Boulton corresponded with him regularly,
 54 7|           but, at Watt's request, Boulton prepared a statement containing
 55 7|   missives." It amounted to this. Boulton held two-thirds of the property
 56 7|          of engine-making," wrote Boulton to Smeaton in 1778~~ as
 57 7| operations were in progress. Soon Boulton provided him with a small
 58 7|           wrote fierce letters to Boulton demanding their instant
 59 7|          their instant dismissal. Boulton quietly shifted them on
 60 7|          of close friendship with Boulton and Watt, but was not put
 61 7|           progress he was making, Boulton's financial position was
 62 7|         reward for his invention. Boulton therefore adopted the following
 63 7|           fairly satisfactory for Boulton. It enabled him to sell
 64 7|       from that first sketched by Boulton. The engine was built and
 65 7|          described in a letter of Boulton to the Carron Ironworks,
 66 7|          engine building," writes Boulton, " but shall take our profits
 67 7|           saving is to be paid to Boulton and Watt " in recompense
 68 7|       least recover the goods. In Boulton's case that was not so.
 69 7|         been bought and paid for. Boulton could not go down and take
 70 7|           that, apart from these, Boulton and Watt had received nothing
 71 7|       once more comfortably full. Boulton was inclined to be lenient,
 72 7|         be moderate," he wrote to Boulton, " and, if possible, consolidated
 73 7|         which I live at present." Boulton did his best; but even when
 74 7|          came to such a pass that Boulton and his friends had to take
 75 7|          they naturally called on Boulton for repayment. He only saved
 76 7|            He practically accused Boulton of breaking their agreement,
 77 7|        agreement, forgetting that Boulton had for four years been
 78 7|     driven almost to distraction, Boulton kept his temper. He asked
 79 7|     melancholy. His wife wrote to Boulton begging him to forgive her
 80 7|          good is diminished." But Boulton was ill too, and at times
 81 7|    engines of over £3¡¡¡- In 1783 Boulton had a balance, and at once
 82 7|       pounds had been invested by Boulton in the development of the
 83 8|      CHAPTER EIGHT~The Triumph of Boulton and Watt~" Pasta. The ships
 84 8|         had increased this to 26. Boulton was not exaggerating when
 85 8|           to other problems. When Boulton first contemplated the idea
 86 8|         the calamity. He wrote to Boulton, who had gone to Ireland
 87 8|           for his invention. Even Boulton, who was quicker to grasp
 88 8|           of the whole world. But Boulton was fully alive to the importance
 89 8|        this idea, but both he and Boulton had played with it at intervals
 90 8|           wheel, and sent them to Boulton. " I send you enclosed,"
 91 8|    prosperity. In this prosperity Boulton and Watt could claim a share.
 92 8|          of its subjects. In 1786 Boulton and Watt proceeded to Paris,
 93 8|       nervous exhaustion. In 1782 Boulton had handed over to him the
 94 8|     accounts, and since that date Boulton had been more and more in
 95 8|         of business, which by Mr. Boulton's frequent and long absences
 96 8|        fact that, at this moment, Boulton was facing a financial crisis,
 97 8|          balance at the bank. But Boulton was deeply involved in other
 98 8|  old-established Manchester bank. Boulton badly needed an extension
 99 8|        When it is remembered that Boulton had, throughout the hard
100 8|            even to help a friend.~Boulton weathered the storm, and
101 8|            In these circumstances Boulton and Watt decided to put
102 8|       could write triumphantly to Boulton, " We have WON THE CAUSE
103 9|     entered into partnership with Boulton, he found the task of keeping
104 9|  burdensome one. Any office under Boulton's control could be relied
105 9|       Society was the creation of Boulton and Small, and it contained
106 9|  philosophers who clustered round Boulton and Darwin, and of whom
107 9|         years of manhood, Matthew Boulton.~Yet he was not lonely.
108 9|         1770 he wrote that he and Boulton were very anxious to devise
109 9|            In two long letters to Boulton he carefully criticised
110 9|          who was already pressing Boulton and Watt to take him into
111 9|        own, Watt wrote angrily to Boulton, asking him to make him
112 9| operations, they made advances to Boulton and Watt with a view to
113 9|       were being produced outside Boulton's factory. There were the