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to say " It could never be brought into the industry of that 

 district; that it was only adapted for Flax-spinners." I wrote 

 him in June to inform him of my success in having it spun by 

 the Messrs. Oossley and Sons, of Halifax, and received the 

 following : — 



New Bridge Mills, Manchester, 

 June 21th, 1862. 



Sir, — I am honoured by your communication of the 26th instant, and I beg 

 to congratulate you upon the success which you report to me. 



I am, Sir, faithfully yours, 

 (Signed) THOMAS BAZLEY. 



Mr. J. Hill Dickson. 



Being then in Manchester, determined to have my Indian 

 fibres spun on the finer description of cotton -spinning machi- 

 nery, but finding after several weeks trial that nothing but 

 cotton could be believed in, I despaired of doing anything in 

 the great cotton cloth mart, until I chanced to learn that my 

 old but early in life friends had turned cotton-spinners as well 

 as Flax, and I met two of the firm on 'Change, and being told 

 by Mr. Thomas and Mr. C. Birley that I should have air the 

 assistance they could give at their mills, I accepted the invita- 

 tion of Messrs. Birley Brothers, cotton -spinners, in Preston, 

 who are also Flax-spinners in Kirkham (for whom I was agent 

 in Belfast for many years, up to my leaving in 1842 for London), 

 to have my material tried at their works, and having spent 

 nearly three months in that quarter, I at last saw my way to 

 success in their mills, and also in the mills of Mr. W. Paley, 

 where I had French hemp and Flax from green unretted straw 

 into a sliver, as perfect as any cotton could be made, and as I 

 had a considerable quantity of rheea spun by the Messrs. Birley, 

 I left for Liverpool in October, and the following week had 100 

 spools of yarn sent me, with the following letter : — 



Hanover Street Cotton Mills, 



Preston, November 4th, 1862. 

 Dear Sir, — We duly received your letter this morning ; no one being at the 

 mills to-day, we merely send you the yarn we have spun as requested. There 



