Date:9th of May 1821
Description:This letter from Soho House to Mr Evans of Bull Street concerns the livery for the coachman and footman. It reads 'Mr Evans is requested to observe that in the next Livery Suit for Mr Boulton's Coachman which he is to have in the course of a few weeks the breeches are to be of plush similar to those of the footman and not as to him before of corduroy. In the striped waistcoat made for the footman, the stripes run in the wrong direction - they should be upright & not across. In any future one he is requested to attend to this alteration. Soho May 9th 1821' Soho House was by this time the home of Matthew Robinson Boulton and his young family.
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