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Document number: 10025
Date: 15 Jan 1843
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: DAVIDSON Robert
Collection: Bodleian Library, Oxford - Fox Talbot Personal Archive
Collection number: FT10047
Last updated: 24th April 2015

[This is a response to Doc. No: 04696 - the body of this agreement is in the hand of WHFT - Davidson signed it and an associate of W. R. King added the witness.]

I hereby acknowledge that the model of a saw mill exhibited by me at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadily (being on the principle of a patent gratned to W. H. F. Talbot Esq. for "Improvements in Motive Power") is so exhibited by me by and with the permission of the said patentee, and not otherwise.

And I hereby undertake not to make any other engine or model within England and Wales upon the principle of the said patent or which shall be an infringement thereof without the written license and permission of the said patentee first had and obtained.

Robert Davidson

Witness
Ar. A. Rasch
11 Serjeants Inn
14/1/43