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[Transcript of Letter from W. O. Davis to Misters Stephens and Matlock, February 3, 1880]

Description: Transcript of a letter from W.O. Davis, Lindsay, Davis & Garnett Attorney's at Law to Misters Stephens and Matlock concerning case being handled in Cooke County rather than Montague County. The letter tells the sheriff the author will "see him out" if there is any trouble over it.
Date: February 3, 1880
Creator: Davis, W. O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Windmill.

Description: Patent for windmills by making them self-regulating and "it consists in the construction and arrangement of devices whereby the force of the wind is made to move the wind-wheel and crank-shift backward and turn the vane, and also in the devices for turning the vane at will" (lines 14-18).
Date: February 3, 1880
Creator: Tevis, James H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stylographic Fountain-Pen.

Description: Patent for stylographic fountain pens to improve them by allowing the "ink to flow freely from the point of the pen" (line 35) and allowing easy, pressurized ink refills.
Date: February 3, 1880
Creator: Fisher, Charles N. & Downes, Charles L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bird-Cage.

Description: Patent for improvements in bird cages by "having a woven-wire casing the meshes of which cannot be penetrated by ordinary insects, such as flies,&c., will be lured into the cage to be devoured by the bird" (lines 16-21).
Date: February 3, 1880
Creator: Flato, Fridrich W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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