Letter from John Wesley Hackworth, The Towers, Didsbury to Elizabeth Holmes (nee Hackworth)

Taken to meet Mrs Adamson and Miss Macnay (eldest daughter) been in Manchester with Mr Adamson, has been asked to give a paper on the ‘loco and railway system’ at an Engineer's meeting, Sister Nightingale [Prudence Hackworth] asked him to go into business arrangement with Mr Adamson, not very likely as he appears to have ‘a great many irons in the fire’.