KRUPP ALFRED: (1812-1887) German Industrialist. A.L.S., A Krupp, in pencil, one page, 4to, n.p., 25th March 1879, to an unidentified recipient. Krupp states, in part, 'This last drawing… appears to be well done and I hope the whole will please. Only the lower bearing of the pivot is not as I desire it; but this may easily be altered in the designs which we give. I think that we keep the originals for ourselves and have some draftsman from other offices to assist in copying the originals.' The letter was apparently written in response to the final drawings of what Krupp described as the first naval pivot gun. Partially laid down and with a minor tear to the head and one at the foot, a very small hole in the page, only very slightly affecting one word of text and not the signature, about G