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Document number: 8292
Date: 19 Jan 1861
Dating: 3 Mar 1860 - 14 Jan 1861
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: BANKS William & SON
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 3rd April 2010

[This is an invoice for the period of 3 March 1860 - 14 January 1861, with the following letter.]

[printed notepaper:]
To W. Banks & Son
Engravers,
Lithographers, Draughtsmen. Steel and Copperplate Printers, &c
26 Waterloo Place
Edinburgh

Jany 19/1861

Sir/

You will see from a Note that I have enclosed in the parcel with plates fm Greigs the Engineers, that they cannot Case Harden the steel from its thinness, this I was doubtful of from the beginning as all the plates I can get hardened were of a very thick description, fully ½ an inch thick.

I am Sir yours respectfully
William Banks

H F. Talbot Esq