Lincolns Inn
20 Sept/42
W. H. F Talbot Esq
Dr Sir
The Specification of Woolrich <1> will not be enrolled ’till January 1843 consequently we have no means of ascertaining of what his invention consists till then – We shall not be able to inform you ’till the 24th Ins whether any opposition will be entered to your present Patent – A Caveat has therefore been entered by the party a notice of whose application for a Patent we send by this Post – and till we in the event of his entering opposition to your Patent it will be of very little use to offer your undertaking to – Mr Elkington & Dr Leeson <2> – We will <use?> it if we think it will prevent opposition but at present we have had no <illegible deletion> instruction from them upon the subject –
We are Your <Obt?>
Poole & Carpmael
W. H. F Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Nr Chippenham
Notes:
1. John Stephen Woolrich, who took a patent for ‘Coating with metal the surface of articles formed of metal or metallic alloys’, U.K. number 9431, August 1842.
2. See Doc. No: 04274.