| Description | Thanks him for his parcel enclosing samples of steel made of English iron, “in the several states of converted, cast, and manufactured into half a dozen razors.” Hopes the experiment of converting English iron will be successful, so as to remove the necessity of relying on foreign iron, and has arranged for the samples to be tested as to their suitability for making tools, &c. (Copy of an original in William Cheshire’s hand, signed by Boulton.) |