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little more attentive to their customers. I must be informed in 

 the positive, whether the castings will be at Bristol by the next 

 spring-tide, as a vessel is engaged for the purpose of taking them 

 to Cornwall. 



" Yours, &c., 



"R. T. 



" MR. JOHN RASTRICK, 



" Chepstow, South Wales." 



Rastrick, whom he had known at the Thames Drift- 

 way, had become the managing engineer at the Bridge- 

 north Foundry. 



[Rough draft.] 



'' ME. GrEORGE CoWIE, " CAMBORNE, September 2Qth, 1815. 



"I received your favour of the 20th, and on the 23rd 

 called on Mr. Win. Sims, your engineer, who went with me to 

 Beeralstone Mine the same day. We arranged on the spot 

 what was necessary for the engine. I hope it will be at work 

 in good time, before the winter's floods set in. Nothing can 

 prevent it, unless the castings are detained by contrary winds. 

 The boilers are nearly finished in Cornwall. The castings at 

 Bridgenorth are in a forward state. I intend leaving this 

 evening for Bridgenorth, to ship the castings, both for Herland 

 and Beeralstone. It was the wish of the agents on the mine 

 that these castings might be sent to Swansea, and taken from 

 thence to the mine with a freight of coal. I shall, if possible, 

 get the Herland castings in the same ship. The workmen 

 making your boilers want an advance of cash to enable them to 

 finish. They provide both iron and labour, for which they are 

 to receive 42?. per ton for the boiler when finished ; the weight 

 will be about 8 tons. You may send this money to Mr. Sims or 

 to me, or otherwise you may direct it to Mr. N. Holman, boiler- 

 maker, Pool, near Truro. 1001. will satisfy them for the present. 

 J hope to be in London this day week, and will call at your 

 office. 



"Yours, &c., 



'* K. TREVITHICK," 



