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13 Norfolk Street, Ardwick Green. - Miss Gaskell sent Milnes' note; went to Polygon on north side of Manchester, near which 'the younger Mr Fairbairn' lives and missed meeting Milnes at the Ardwick Green one [home of Fairbairn's father]; heard him in the Free Trade Hall on Thursday night. Thanks him for note on Yarns by a Manchester Spinner; many are badly spun.

Salford, Manchester - Although EH cannot attend the BAAS meeting at Liverpool due to illness, he would like to introduce WW to William Fairbairn - 'the engineer to whose liberal views I am so much indebted - and whose manufactory, while it is supplying models to the scientific man, and machines to all parts of Europe, is - to say nothing of his place in London - one of the lions of this neighbourhood'. EH was sorry not to see the subject of impact in WW's History of the Inductive Sciences.