Letter – Henry Richmond to Robert Mulcaster – 14 Apr 1766

To Mr R[ober]t Mulcaster at Blaydon                                         Newcastle 14 April 1766

Sir        I have this day given Mr Isaac Wilson a Ticket for 20 p[iece]s of refined DWB1 Lead, but if you have none of that sort you must deliver him such as you have that is refined. The truth is, I suspect the quality of this lead; having complaints from abroad about it, and before I send any more think it better to have it tried at home, but this you will keep to yourself. It will be necessary, I doubt, to have all that sort of refined lead run through your reducing furnace, that there may not be any discredit brought upon S[i]r W[alte]rs Refined Lead at foreign markets. If Mr Isaac Hunter sends any masons or reducers to look at your furnace and examine your method of reducing you will let them have the necessary information in their respective branches of business for they must not go on reducing at this blast furnace any longer. I am etc    HR