Sir,
In my capacity as Joint-Editor of the Polytechnic Journal, with Dr Irving the Patent taken out by you in December 1841 for “Improvements in Coating and curing Metal with other Metals &c” has been brought under my immediate notice, – and it has appeared to me that it may be applied to more extensive and important uses. –
I shall be happy to enter upon details, on being favoured with a line from you; and in the meantime (with an apology for thus intruding without a formal introduction) I have the honor to be
Sir Your very obedt Serv
W Montagu
C.E: F.S.A.
32 Southampton Stt
Strand.
W. H. Fox Talbot, Esquire,
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