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JOURNAL DES PATENTES ET BREVETS D'INVENTION
SOUS LA DIRECTION DE M. CHARLES LECLERC
Paris le 8 8ber 1847
Master
We have the honour of informing you, we describe successively in our Journal which is looked with favour, Description and Drawing of Patents, taken by Inventers, in order to facilitate selling of their Privileges in our country.
The Patent you have taken for improvements in obtaining and applying motive power, having already fixed our attention, we You are invited to send us whether your's patent's litteral transcript whether a full account of it. That we may afford advise <sic> on merit and scientific points, connected in your Invention.
Receive Sir, our very sincere compliments
Charles Leclerc
Eng civil
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Master
William henry Fox Talbot
of Lacock Abbey
in the county of Wilts