JB/539/184/001

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I thank you for your information about Patents as to what you are pleased
to say to the disfavour of my invention which you know nothing of, I care
not one farthing for it notwithstanding you enforce it by "Mind I told"
"you so". A Model of it I hope to find made & in good order at my
return to Petersbourg. The reason of my not telling you what it is for
even was only least the letter should be seen, and my over-great
circumspection makes me fear that it would be in anybody's power
to invent it if they even knew the object of it. A further reason indeed was
that one person I thought necessary to trust with it and therefore
not chose that there should be a possibility of its being known by other means
even if I trusted no one else with it should it become known I might
conclude it was from him. What I can tell you is that it is for
working in wood and that from calculations made and as ample
as possible with respect to the expences of the work done by it; it cannot
fail of being profitable under the most disadvantageous circumstances.
In the part of the country where I am and indeed in this whole country
it would be exceedingly usefull. I have great hopes of getting it out on fact
so as for one to have the profits without any advance for the
expence of it. I may say I am sure of having it tried whenever
I please that is of having the machine erected and worked without
any expence to me whatever but then it will belong to another. This would serve with respect to
profiting by it afterwards in England, but what I want is an
exclusive priviledge for it here. I have been advised (by a person
whose judgement you would have a very good opinion of if you knew
him) to get a Patent by some means or other in Holland at
the same time as in England. He has spent a longtime in that country
and is well able to judge how well it would answer there.
Indeed there is no country in which it would not, but I want to
introduce it here first.

Identifier: | JB/539/184/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1781-05-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings	Patent
Folio number	184	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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