| Description | Addressed to Mr Allison rom H.E.Baker, this letter discusses various topics pertaining to the hopeless quest of knowing whether the introduction of lime to a furnace charge made a definite in the contents of pig iron, the introduction of lime led to wholesale robbery of both furnace and bloomery slags, furnaces at Cawthorne, Parkers Furnace, Barnsley, Monk Bretton Priory, difference between an artificial and natural cold blast iron, exports to China and Lilleshall, enclosed samples of one connecting pin from a furnace at Cawthorne and whether it was forged from scrap or from the bloomery at Cinder Hill Farm, the other sample is the Helmsley Bomb. |