28 Upper Ebury Street
Pimlico
London
Sir
Seeing you have taken out a Patent 1 for Covering Metals, permit me to ask if by your process you can cover Steel Wire with Fluid Copper in certain lengths. (say for instance a Needle about two feet long) stopping an inch short of each end, without materially injuring the temper, Eye or Point.
The favour of answer [sic] will much oblige, Sir Your Most Obt Sevt
John Sarvis
Feby 13/1843
To
W.H. Talbot Esqr
Laicock Abbey. Wilts
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