Letter from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom
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A letter from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom dated 5th May 1849. In the letter, Stephenson writes that he hopes to attend Board meeting but has little to add. "I am doing everything in my power to press forward the preparations for floating" (the tubes of Britannia Bridge) but is "exceedingly anxious". Hydraulic presses are "progressing very rapidly".
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5 May 1849
London
My dear Sir,
It is my intention to attend the Board next Wednesday. I do not know that I can say any thing more positive than I did at our last meeting _ I am doing every thing in my power to press forward the preparations for floating, but I dare not go too far in this direction. I am almost ashamed to say that I am getting nervous &
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exceedingly anxious _ Mr Clark may have told you of the last plan I decided upon _ it is a great improvement upon any former devised as regards the arrangement of ropes, and can hardly by possibility get wrong during the operation -
The hydraulic presses will be the last things ready _ they however progressing very rapidly.
Yours faithfully,
Robt Stephenson
Capt Moorsom Ret
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