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Document number: 08924
Date: Thu 14 Dec 1865
Postmark: 14 Dec 1865
Recipient: TALBOT Charles Henry
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Bodleian Library, Oxford - Fox Talbot Personal Archive
Collection number: FT10064
Last updated: 24th April 2015

Lacock
Thursday

My Dear Charles

I think the patent case about Pullies of Tangye v. Scott <1> now pending before Sir W. P. Wood, <2> seem a very curious one – My friend Grove <3> is one of the Counsel for plaintiff. There is a long report of it in the Times <4> by which I see that the trial will be resumed on Friday. I forwarded a letter to you the day after you went.

Your affte Father

Envelope:

Charles H. Talbot Esq
New University Club
St James’s St
London S.W.

Notes:

1. A ‘trial by special jury of certain issues directed in the cause for the purpose of determining the novelty and validity of an invention for “a new and improved pulley,” patented by Thomas Aldridge Weston, in April, 1859, and also the question of infringement by the defendants,’ The Times (Thursday, December 14, 1865), p. 11. The plaintiffs being Messrs. Tangye, Brothers, one of whom being Sir Richard Tangye (1833–1906), manufacturer, and the main defendant being James Stott, a retail ironmonger.

2. William Page Wood, Baron Hatherley (1801–1881), Lord Chancellor.

3. Sir William Robert Grove (1811–1896), scientist QC, member of royal commission on law of patents, 1864.

4. The Times (London).