TALBOT8062

4 Queen Street Place
New Cannon Street
London March 23 1860

H. F. Talbot Esq^re

Dear Sir

A few days since I received a Box of iron ore from Mess^rs Carpmael, ¹ with a request that I would examine it with reference to its fitness for steel making –

You are perhaps not aware that my process deals only with Molten crude iron after it has been obtained from the ore, we have therefore no means of testing the value of the specimens, The analysis you forward shews every fitness for the production of pig-iron of average quality, and is certainly rich enough in iron to render it a most valuable smelting material, the entire absence of Sulphur is very important, but the quantity of Phosphoric acid is a great draw back for steel making its true value for that purpose I could only determine on seeing a complete analysis of pig iron made from this ore,

My new process is in daily operation at the Works of Myself and Partners in Carlisle Street Sheffield, ^<2> where I should be most happy to shew it to you at any time you may happen to be in that neighbourhood.

I am Dear Sir yours most truly
H. Bessemer
for Bessemer & Longsdon

[envelope, flap embossed "Bessemer & Longsdon, N^o. 4 Queen Street Place, New Cannon S^t. London":]
H. F. Talbot Esq^re Lacock Abbey
Wiltshire