Letter from Robert Stephenson to Samuel Smiles
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- 1847-1859
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- Correspondence from Robert Stephenson to Samuel Smiles
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- Stephenson, Robert
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Letter dated at 34 Gloucester Sq Thursday Eg.[?]. Letter starts with 'Dear Smiles, I only returned home last night when I read your letter in the Engineer news paper. I saw Bidden & Manby in the [?] and we all agree that your letter clears the matter altho' I dare say, a good deal more [?] correspondence will be Kept up about the blast, but nothing can be so clear in that Geo Stephenson was the real inventor of it...' Also mentions the 'Wylam Engine'.
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34 Gloucester Sq
Thursday E'g.
Dear Smiles
I only returned home last night when I read your letter in the Engineer news paper _
I saw Bidder & Manby on the subject and we all agree that your letter closes the matter altho' I dare say, a good deal more acrimonious correspondence will be kept up about the blast, but nothing can be so clear as that Geo Stephenson
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was the real inventor of it, and nothing confounds me more than to see that a question is raised upon it.
I was quite aware that Jonathan Forster had a little misled you as to the Wylam Engine, but I said little on the subject beyond your questioning the authenticity of the statement made by Jonathan, for when you saw him, he was a very old man and I dare say his memory was failing _ I remember the Wylam Engine and I am positive there was no blast pipe_
Yours faithfully
Robt Stephenson
S Smiles Esq