Letter from John Wesley Hackworth, Sunderland to Elizabeth Holmes (nee Hackworth)

Letter is headed ‘Consultant Engineer and Patentee, Sunderland’; Account of the funeral service of John Erricsson of ‘Erricsson and Braithwait’ built the ‘Novelty’ repaired by Timothy Hackworth; note from Bob Young [Robert Young] about ‘Glendening’ [?] father was a brick maker, enquires about the possibility that Samuel Holmes is running a ‘gunboat business’, hopes this is untrue; discusses newspaper articles written about Timothy Hackworth.