Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 29 May 1787

Messrs Mulcaster 							Farnacres 29 May 1787.



       We have rec[eiv]ed you two letters of the 27th & that of the 28th Inst and observe you have done right in filling no more than 7 Casks with Litharge which compleats the Quantity agreed upon. What you observe as to a Beam and Scales capable of weighing six or seven hundred weight at a Cast as also with respect to the having a Boring in the end of the Backs is perfectly agreeable to our own Sentiments, but as we have not had any Answer from Mr Fishwick in consequence of our last Letter to him, we cannot yet say whether we shall make an Agreement with him & Co. or not. As Mr Fishwick told us the Casks he w[oul]d send w[oul]d be watertight we do not apprehend that any harm could be done to the Litharge by the Rain, nor do we believe that a little rain w[oul]d do any harm to the Litharge for the purpose Mr Fishwick wants it. The Trials which have been made & which it is proposed to make will clear up everything as to the Litharge <Tender> Business, and in case we sh[oul]d find that the working of the Litharge Slags & Test Bottoms with Black Slag Tails will answer, it certainly will be an advantage to the Undertaking at Langley Mill. We are 

       Your Humble Servants

       Walton & Turner