| Description | Docketed "Terms for North Downs."
Summarised "Glad the vessel has arrived with the castings. Hornblower and the new air. Concerning copper companies. No danger of having a law suit about cranks. Mentions a double crank. To take shares in Cornish mines."
Dear Sir
my last was the 21st since which I have received yours of the 19th I believe the best thing we can do with Mr. Scott is to send him in his account every quarter day as a thing of course until he pays it and enter into no dispute with him so we have got all weekend I rejoiced to hear that the betties Jeff is safely arrived so that's all now hope you'll bring pool into good humour would you have me send any Smiths from home or should I now write for Mr. Right to come from Scotland as 2 oak timber I expect you will receive from Higgins at Chepstow all you want I did as you requested with your excise receipt for the servant
I am much easier since you have found that all the errors that have lately blown a Tempest in our minds come from the hornblowers there shall sooner press me into the earth than they shall press down a piston with steam however I will get all the information from the Patent Office I can and then when I have sent you all do with Jethro as meet unto you but you will then form a better judgement if captain Paul encourages them to wrecked one at quil unity and they should fail I would give them a hint they must not expect more indulgence from us I have no printed account of myth or last four and therefore I have sent you a copy from my abstract of the acts of parliament which are annually published in respect to north downs I don't suppose they will now go on with the mine as copper is so falling in price 79 is the East India contract and the Birmingham price as offered by printed letters from the copper company is £86 per turn but the Paris mountain company are all now at Birmingham and have offered it at 80 lbs by being determined to undersell dissociated companies and thus the poor Cornish mines profits are sported away by the actor of the copper Smith's I have much to say up on that subject but have not time by this post the rule and price I fixed for the will virgin adventures was £63 per month for a cylinder with a nine feet stroke and 63 inches in diameter and you will find that Paul dice will pay us after that rate Ann chase barrel would come to much more they say as the square of 63 times by 9 feet stroke equals 35,721 is to 63 lbs per month so is the square of any other size cylinder and by the length of its stroke to the price for monthly it and by this rule well we're virgin cylinders calculated and agreed for amounting to 2525 lbs per annum and after that agreement was made some doubts arose in my mind from sundry informations respecting the winter water and being desirous of having power enough I did out of pure goodwill add some inches to diameter of most of the similars and now I refused to abate everything of those terms to Paul dice as I know their barrel would come to all that money yet I offered to give them a few inches in diameter of cylinder as I had done to wheel virgin if they I would accept it
I no nothing of the quantity of their water and therefore can only estimate them by the aforesaid rule which gives for free engines 56 diameter 9 foot stroke £1800 per annum but as you may probably come at a knowledge how many strokes it might be necessary upon the average you will be better qualified to settle the prices but keep the bill as level as possible the rivers will grumble I think we should carry as friendly disposition towards Cornwall as possible keeping symbol level and in all Searchlight concerns take a small share I think in ND we might take 1 / 32
remind always centre out licence against their money the Cooper trade though now much agitated will find its level in time and though we have the trouble of erecting a few more engines in Cornwall then will be used yet a few spare engines will always encourage adventuring I have had very little time to myself since I last wrote Mr garb it took a part of Sunday appan Bedworth business chiefly upon winding coals parrots and all his partners are now assembled in convocation at Bedworth and will sit awake and therefore I don't think it prudent to try the lead pipe there at present I have often wished it tried but I fear I can't do it till I come back from London and then suppose it was done at Bloomfield and by the time I return Joseph will be come back for I have now nobody to do the least job there is no danger of we having a lawsuit about pranks because we shall neither make nor vend JW will take the whole of the contest off our hands which is one reason why I prefer advising him to make the double crank you refine 2 nicely to suppose they can claim any right to any part of it and I think it an opportunity that should not be lost
you're worth it ingenious an amiable friend arkwright has totally lost his patent which he has renewed from time to time in new words and has entered specifications that know man can understand and therefore his patent was last week set aside I was engaged all day yesterday with Mr and Mrs shoes Mr and miss Williams Mr and Mrs Moore of the Adelphi Mr and miss Wilkinson Mr rotten an Mr Williamson all copper merchants Wilkinson is here and will have his forge farewell yours affectionately M Bolton
I have been so much engaged that I have not done anything since my last about airs but shall very soon clear up my mind and let you know they results of my experiments
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