[ Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield, discoverer of manganese steel and inventor of silicon steel. ] Six Typed Letters Signed (all 'R A Hadfield') to Sir Henry Trueman Wood, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts, including a reference to his achievements.

Each of the six letters is 1p, 4to. In good condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. With the Society's stamps and annotations. On topics including the printed version of a paper given by Hadfield and the offer to the society of a paper by his friend 'Mr E. P. Reynolds of Bournemouth' (whose father 'Mr E. Reynolds […] was the mainspring of the Engineering side of Messrs Vickers, Sheffield'). On 30 November 1915 he writes, regarding 'Dr Dugald Clerk's recent excellent Address as Chairman', that he 'wrote Sir Philip Magnus on this same subject in reference to a letter he contributed to “The Times” […] I think this country has done “more than its share” in the science of Metallurgy. Our leading men of science have been kind enough to say that the first great development in steel alloys sprang from my paper “Manganese steel” to the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1888, and the great French scientist, Monsieur Floris Osmond, a person friend of the late Sir William Roberts-Austen, made the remarks given in the enclosed statement P.5694, [not present] which also includes the remarks of several other distinguished men regarding my research work, yet I am certainly not a German.' Also present is a compliments slip with typed note by Hadfield, and a typed copy of a note from Hadfield to Wood.