Letter from John Hughes (Urkside Iron Works, Newport) with enclosed press cutting. Hughes refers to Richard Trevithick’s first locomotive made at Penydarren where his father, John Hughes, was a foreman at the time and encloses a press cutting from the ‘Star of Gwent’ newspaper (28th November 1857) relating to Mr. Thomas Ellis’ presentation of a lithograph of Richard Trevithick’s locomotive engine to the paper. (2 sheets)