TALBOT4695

Eaglesbush
heath

Jany 11 – 1843

Sir

I received your favour of the 9^th inst ¹ and must beg you to pardon me for having committed so great a practical blunder as to have asked a Patentee gratuitously to communicate the method of his patented invention ² – but I was quite ignorant of the Patent having been taken out or I should not have, in the first place, endeavoured to infringe it, which it seems I have been doing, or in the next place have made the request contained in my last, for which I sincerely beg pardon, I trust you will accept the above as my excuse

I am Sir Your ob^t Servt
John Dickinson Brunton