Letter from John Wesley Hackworth, Darlington to Thomas Greener, London

Negotiation with Darlington firm ‘use of new device - pending on the patent office- for which I am applying for a patent’ ‘sister Nightingale’ was the forwarder of the American paper ‘no doubt truth will ultimately prevail’ ‘you remind me of the remark a certain man who said ‘nowt is nowt’! I quite agree with him! By the same mile I believe something is something!’ Lists people who have died since he moved to London.