Thomas Beddoes to James Watt, 1 July 1794

Dear Sir

I thank you very kindly for the attention you pay to me & the apparatus. A cylinder I sh^d suppose with you will do better than a pot. In either case the principal object is to have it right at top. I will send you manganese as you desire by the next wagon. The Mendip manganese has this remarkable property that it gives first azote as usual, then oxygene, then azote in prodigious abundance & with prodigious rapidity.

I thought perhaps you may know some honest workman capable of fabricating compleat apparatuses reservoirs & all, whom it might be charity to introduce to the public as the manufacturer.

I am at this moment straightened for time; otherwise I sh^d tried to muster up some more obs^ns on this subject; though I am not sure that consideration w^d have supplied me with any of importance – my respects to Mrs Watt –

I am Dear Sir
Yours

Thomas Beddoes

July 1

Address: James Watt Esq / Heathfield / Birmingham
Endorsement:Dr Beddoes / July 1^s 1794
MS: LoB MS 3219/4/28/07

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