Letter from Robert Stephenson to Samuel Smiles
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- 1857-06-08
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- Correspondence from Robert Stephenson to Samuel Smiles
- maker:
- Stephenson, Robert
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Letter dated at 34 Gloucester Square 8[?] June [18]57. Letter starts with 'My Dear Sir, Now that your work...' including a mention of 'my father' [George Stephenson] and Manchester & Leeds Railway.
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- Identifier:
- STESI/1/8
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34 Gloucester Square.
8 June 1857
My dear Sir,
Now that your work is advertised I believe you will get a good deal of correspondence of my father's _ I enclose you a little batch from Thomas Gooch who was associated with my father in the execution of the Manchester & Leeds Railway _ I have no doubt more will come to hand, but you will perceive that much of the correspondence could scarcely with propriety be published at this time _ the allusions to the map of the Gt Western to wit!
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Those who have perused the volume you left at the Institution, not beyond 2 or 3, like the tone and feeling of the Biography very much indeed _ They like both the hand and the heart that produced it._
Yours faithfully,
Robt Stephenson
S. Smiles Esq
So Eastern R'way