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S^t Leonards
>May 1^st
1841

Dear Sir,

Many thanks for your obliging letter. I fear one or two of my letters have not reached you, as I am confident not one of your letters have been left unanswered. I did not acknowledge the receipt of your two Printed Letters ¹ from the Athenæum; ² but I am positive that I thanked you for the two interesting Portraits ³ which you were so kind as to send me.

Had I thought that you had retained your plans of taking out a patent ⁴ I would not have troubled you with my last letter, as it is essential to the success of your Patents that there be no previous publication. But I had inferred from something I had read or heard that you had given up the Idea of a Patent.

You are quite right in saying that you requested only a Quarter’s delay. ⁵ By another Quarter I meant, not two, but one after the Quarter in which my Review ⁶ was to have been written. Your suggestion of an Appendix will I think remove the difficulty; and I beg that you will not at all even consider yourself as under any obligation to send me any information till you can do it with perfect security to your Patents, and till it is otherwise convenient to you. I write this in great haste, regretting that I should have plagued you on the subject from my anxiety for the Review.

I am Dear Sir Ever Most Truly yrs
D Brewster