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    "ocrText": "Sir\nAfter 3 attempts to see you at your house your servard informed me\nyou requested my attendance at your office I went at the appointed hour,\nbut was told you was engged a wenta second time but to no purpose, and\nhave concluded to address you by letter on the subject of my business\nI have by me, on paper, an anthere of my bullet machine explanatory of\nthe principle shewing how the bars are applied and the balls formed and\ndelivered; and believe its would satisfy you lifyou have any doubt of\nthe correcting of the stated product. I thought it probable you would want\nsome information on that or some other part of the business and wished\nto shew my readines, not only to throw what light I could on any part\nof the subject that might seem to require it, but to produce evidence if\nyou concerned it to be necessary.\nI also felt anxious to know whether I have time to prepare for publica\na condensed view of the subject to meet the eye of each of the members of\ncongrep, before the final decision, if in your opinion there would be no\nimpropriety in such a course.\nI beg leave to above you that my importunity does not proceed from\nany doubt of your melination, are ability to do me justice, for I have\nfull confidence in both, but from the interest myself and family feel\nwe have in the business, and from a desire to smitnnthing on my\npart, that might contribute to your information.\nThe following circumstance will sheez, that while I was doing no morethan\nmy duty toward my country, I have greater claims to her perstive than has\ncommonly been imanagine For: Just before Mr Enshins, the Bortish me\nnister left this place for England he send Mr Shitter to meto inquire\ninto the propertres of my invention, and in particular what the prometim\nmusket balls would be with an assurance that on receiving a statement\nwhich I soon after went him, he would lay the matter before his government.\nI then offered the invention to the British government through him, and when\nMr Foster came I had afair apportunity of rowning and perhaps femishing"
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