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Document number: 8053
Date: 12 Mar 1860
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: PITTAR Richard W
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: Acc 21472 [envelope only]
Last updated: 19th April 2012

Seend. /
12 March. 1860.

Dear Sir

Yours of the 20th of Feby has remained a long time unanswered, but the fact was, when it came here I was absent from home –

I am much obliged by your offer of 20 tons of your ore – but it would be impossible for us to try so small a quantity, besides which we should not like to put into our furnaces a strange ore & with which we were not acquainted – as it might put our furnaces altogether out, a rather serious matter <1> – Nothing can be going on better than we are here – every day shows us that we can make first class iron, & those who have bought & tried it say that better iron they never had, nor could have. /

I remain Dear sir Yours very truly
R.W. Pittar

H. F. Talbot Esq.

[envelope:]
H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Lacock


Notes:

1. see Doc. No: 05637 - WHFT's reply to this letter

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