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Original patents Coupler Sett feed locks is [send??] to me directly and unconditionally No assignment papers sent to Dunn¹ at New York last February Write you tonight I.B. McQuesten

¹ For information on the McQuestens' involvement with William Dunn's patents, see W2554a.