Sire,

Your Majesty having been Most Graciously pleased to grant me Patents for extracting printing and writing ink from waste Paper, by reducing it to a pulp, and converting it into white Paper, fit for writing, printing, and for other purposes; and also for manufacturing Paper from Straw, Hay, Thistles, waste and refuse of Hemp and Flax, and different kinds of Wood and Bark, fit for printing, and almost all other purposes for which Paper is used,

And Your Majesty having in September last year condescended to permit me to lay at Your feet the first useful Paper which has ever been made from Straw alone without any addition of rags; the Gracious Reception it has met with from Your Majesty, the approbation of the Publick, and the encouragement which the Legislature has given me by passing an Act of Parliament in its favour has engaged me to reprint these lines on Paper manufactured from Straw solely in a more improved state, although not yet brought to such a state of perfection as it will be made in a regular manufacture, which must be entirely constructed for such purpose, and which I most humbly flatter myself will now much sooner be established by the indulgence which Your Majesty's Parliament has granted me. This new Essay proves, there cannot be any doubt that good and useful Paper can be made from Straw alone.