4 Old Square
Lincolns Inn

24^th Aug^t. 1842

WH. F. Talbot Esq^r

D^r Sir,

The Solicitor General has allowed the Report on your Patent ^<1> for the following matters–

1^st. Fr the use of the Solution of Gold with one of the baser Metals –

2^nd. With Borascen acid

3. In the mode of preparing the metal

“ The same for platinum

“ But not for the substitution of the oxides of Silver instead of the chloride in the process of silvering metal, –

Will you send us instructions whether you will proceed with the Patent for this – in order that the matter may be pushed forward.

We are
Your obed^t Ser^v

Poole & C^o

N H Ritchie

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Notes:

1. WHFT took a patent entitled ‘Coating or covering metals with other metals’, U.K. number 9528, filed 25 November 1842 and enrolled 25 May 1843.