Manchester Millions, l^ol. xh'v. {\goo). A^o. 14. 15 



v^- so they have lo everyljody else who have seen ihcm. I o;ave Matthew 

 Gregson a couple & have shown them to many other ingenious peo]:)le. 

 There is only one thing amiss, which is that they can use none of them this 

 year to come as they are in mourning I mentioned this to Morland* and he 

 told me you cou'd very easily do off some in Black for present use, if it can 

 be done vvith(out) much troulde to you they would be glad to liave a few Init 

 not otherwise 



I see you have advertized the Fiddling Bout, which I dare say will be 

 very Capital. I don't go over to Dublin as I intended Mr. Wm. Earle I 

 find wishes I wou'd give it up which I certainly shall witht much hesitation 

 rather than it shou'd L^e any inconvenience to these good ladies. As this is 

 the case I may perhaps find time to steal over to Manchester at your Joyous 

 Week. there is a party of Musical Chaps forming amongst whom are 

 Daulby, Eyes, Wyatt etc — perhaps I may be able to join in & take a few 

 lessons in Catch singing, but more of this hereafter. 



Mrs Earle & the Young Ladies left Crosby yesterday, they are now at 

 Darby, but get to Allerton by Sunday when I hope to see them. Mrs 

 Hardman was well to-day. 



Daniel Daulby was very fond of agricultural pursuits, 

 and was a great fruit grower — breeding a special kind 

 of gooseberry known as the " Manchester Red ;" and 

 he appears to have trained this plant up a brick wall, as 

 it produced better fruit when treated in that way. 

 The Eyes alluded to was Mr. Chas. Eyes, of Liverpool, 

 the son of the engineer who surveyed the "Sankey" canal 

 from Prescot to Li^verpool in 1755. An allusion is made 

 in Taylor's letter to Philips on February 25th, 1785, to a 

 journey by Eyes to London on the matter of some plans 

 to be submitted to Parliament. He was an architect and 

 surveyor. A Mr. Edward Eyes, a member of the same 

 profession, is mentioned in Smithers' " History of Liver- 

 pool " as living in 1825, while it might be mentioned 

 that William Roscoe was in 1769 articled to Mr. John 

 Eyes, Solicitor, of Liverpool. 



In a letter, dated December 9th, Taylor tells of 

 his projected journey to Norwich to spend Christmas 



* I'alrick McMorland, the miniature painter, who was born at Man- 

 chester 1741, and died at Liverpool just one hundred years later. There are 

 several of his letters to Col. Leigh Philips in this collection. 



