How did you know where to look for Hamersley? Did he leave word at your Office?

He tells me you & Mr. Whitford are to send an expert to examine the machine, & that if the report is fully favorable the proposed business can be engineered.

Of course the expert’s report will be thoroughly favorable; it certainly will be, if he is an old practical typesetter (like myself,) for he will perceive the value of the thing.

HamersleyⒶemendation said that the foreman of the Herald composing rooms was here last Saturday to examine the machine; was satisfied with it, & said he should advise the Herald to order $150,000 worth (30 machines.) I do not wish to ⟦More than necessary, I should think, for 30 of them would do the work of 150 men.⟧ I mean

However, my object now in writing, is to say, if you should carry Hamersley’s project through, telegraph me when it is actually done, for I shall want to scrape up some money & buy another block of this stock, here, if I can get it. I reckon it will take about a hundred thousand machines to supply the world, & I judge the world has got to buy them—it can’t well be helped.

How did you find out where Hamersley was?

And how is your brass?