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Harvey, and Vivian, and would have been finished "and the 

 engine shipped long since had not these partners in the iron 

 foundry quarrelled with each other, and the Lord Chancellor 

 has laid an injunction and set idle their foundry. I have since 

 ordered the castings to be made at a foundry at Bridgenorth, in 

 Shropshire, belonging to Hazeldine, Kastrick, and Co., who will 

 complete the engine and send it to you in about two mouthy, at 

 which time I intend to be in town to set it to work before it is 

 shipped for the West Indies. 



" I remain, Gentlemen, 



" Your very humble servant, 



" RICHD. TREVITHICK. 

 " MESSRS. PLUMMEB, BARHAM, AND Co., 

 " London. 



" P.S. Immediately on my receiving your order to prepare 

 an engine for Mr. Pickwood I wrote to inform him that I had 

 begun it, and enclosed a drawing of the engine with the method 

 of connecting the engine to the cattle-mills, and requested he 

 would remit to me his remarks on it, which I received by the 

 last packet, from which it appears for the best that the engine 

 is not in a forward state, because the parts would not have been 

 so suitable to the purpose as they will now be." 



Fortune was against Trevithick. A difficulty between 

 his brother-in-law Harvey, and his old partner Yivian, 

 with Blewett, retarded the completion of the engine ; 

 and the castings so anxiously waited for were ordered 

 from Hazeldine and Eastrick. The wrought-iron work 

 was made by the old smiths in his neighbourhood, who 

 had long been in the habit of hammering his schemes 

 into shape. This patchwork way of constructing 

 engines made success much more difficult. 



Trevithick often laughed heartily at the following 

 incident which occurred during tbis quarrel at Har- 

 vey's works :- Blewett sent a handsome silver teapot 

 to Miss Betsy Harvey, who kept her brother's house, 



