Letter from Robert Stephenson to Samuel Smiles
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- 1857-09-28
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- Correspondence from Robert Stephenson to Samuel Smiles
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- Stephenson, Robert
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Letter dated on 28 Sept[ember] [18]57 in Newcastle. Letter starts with 'Dear Smiles, I send you a slip which was forwarded to me the other day by Mr Georg Elliot ...' mentioning coal mines. Also mentions 'my father' [George Stephenson], Edward Pease [co-founder of Robert Stephenson & Co] and Thomas Richardson [banker]. Places mentioned are Caledonian Canal and Robert visiting Edinburgh in 1822.
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28 Sept 57
Newcastle
Paragraph from Barnsley Times
Dear Smiles
I send you a slip which was forwarded to me the other day by Mr George Elliot an eminent Coal miner in the neighbourhood _ it is evidently from a practical miner and I think worthy of record in my fathers life. Did I name in my last (if not I intended to do so) that it was Thomas
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Richardson & not John that joined my father in the Factory with Edward Pease.
It was Thomas Richardson of the well Known firm of Richardson Overend Gurney & Co He was the man who first started the disc’t business as distinct from Banking in London.
I shall be here until Thursday morning when I leave on a cruise for the Caledonian Canal a work I have not seen since I was in Edinburgh in 1822 -
Yours faithfully
Robt Stephenson
S. Smiles Esq
S'o Eastern R'way