Benjamin Hotchkiss

ALS signed “B. B. Hotchkiss,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8.25 x 10.5, Hotchkiss & Co. letterhead, February 4, 1874. Handwritten letter to "Mr. Norris" regarding a weapons contract, in part: "About the £1000 my idea is that if I place the Gun in your hands it is to pay me the expenses of keeping it alive for 6 years whilst it has been resolved—not as a royalty for contracts being got at this time but for my giving up many chances to take the contract myself. I do not know the Remingtons in the matter this is a transaction between us…In your proposed agreement you want to put my gun on an equal footing with the N in all the talk and maneuvering which took place in your last 3 visits to Paris it was always said or I so understood it." In very good to fine condition, with light creasing, minor edge wear, and a thin horizontal stain.