Has sent a batch of interesting letters especially John Rohnson [?] and Timothy Hackworth letter to Thomas Wrigley written by aunt Prudence [Prudence Nightingale (nee Hackworth)] from dictation direct personal statement ‘I have had to do with the locomotive from its [sic] commencement a period of more than thirty nine years and perhaps some of the most startling improvements in the locomotive engine have originated with me’.