Photocopied letter and original notes from Samuel Holmes, New York and Pacific Steamship, Coal and Lumbar Company, Broad Street, New York to Robert Young

These papers may have pages missing and appear to be unordered, possibly two separate letters. Encloses notes marked ‘copy’ and ‘presented by the Baltimore and Ohio Railway’ on the ‘Samson’, ‘Albion’ and ‘Sans Pareil’ which were descriptions accompanying three engines at the World’s Fair; Hackworth’s ledger; purchase of Soho; Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company; general reminiscences and descriptions of Timothy Hackworth and Soho Works; Jack Hackworth [John Hennon Hackworth?] had written to ask him for money; John Wesley Hackworth the ‘the best informed man in England upon the Railway question’.