Here's the second letter from Psycho Tidey:

"                                         Ithaca Oct 28th, 1856
  Mr.J.B.Anthony Esq
                        Providence
                                  Dear Sir
                                          I recd your satisfactory
  reply of the 25th inst. today. I do not of course expect persons
  to deside further than you have done relative to my proposed enter-
  prise until they have had opportunity of practical demonstration
  and the opinion of judges respecting my inventions.
  I am not by any means desirous on my own part of enter-
  ing into any scheme about the success of which I have any
  misgivings nor would I presume to present a device of
  mechanism for inspecting of New England judges were
  I of the apprehension that it lacked any of the elements
  requisite to its correctness.  I have also another article
  invented by me in my last for which a covent is only filed
  which I did not deem proper to represent by my last
  on account of the unreasonable length to which that letter
  was protracted.  This a saw gauge - a device necessary as
  an accompaniment for all slitting buzz saws. It is a
  portable gauge placed at the side and on the table of buzz saws
  and very conveniently adjusted to any desired distance from the saw
  against which the stuff strides according to which distance
  of the gauge from the saw is the width of the stuff sawed.
  All slitting saws have a substitute for this device but they
  are far from being convenient or satisfactory. A rude
  and imperfect model of this gauge together with my
  improved bench plane I think I shall be able to furnish
  you the latter part of this week. Of the beveling
  planes I have none on hand but will try to procure
  one which will probably be sufficient to illustrate
  the principle. Your Most Obedt Servt,
                                       M.B Tidey"

  Translation - It seems as though Tidey is offering up his in-
ventions to the Co. for their inspection as proof of the success
of his business. He also seems to hint, or at least, sounds hopeful
of entering into an agreement with the Co. for making his inventions.

  His description of the saw gauge is interesting. It sounds like 
it's some sort of device for regulating the width of board as it's
being cut by a circular (buzz) saw; i.e. a fence that fits on the
table of the saw.
 
  It's also interesting to note that he mentions his bench plane 
patent, which was granted just some months earlier on March 24,
1857. This patent seems to have come in two styles, but is based
upon a cast iron throat insert upon which the iron is bedded and
against which the wedge butts. One style has the cast iron insert
screwed directly to what is normally the plane's bed, while the 
other has a hole bored through the side of the plane into which
a circular rod is fit, which then receives screws to secure the
cast iron insert forward of it. This latter style is capable of 
having its cast iron insert adjusted upward via a screw as the 
plane's sole wore. 

  Sounds like a neat idea, doesn't it? But like all of Tidey's
plane patents, it was a miserable flop. Even his beveling plane,
which was patented just 3 years earlier, had become extinct as
evidenced by Tidey's inability to locate an example to send on
to the PTCo. His mentioning this fact probably quickly clued the
PTCo in that they were dealing with a dude who possesed some 
hairbrain ideas. His letters alone would be proof enough that
he was a walking pool of mental quicksand.

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Patrick Leach
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