Letter from Samuel Holmes, New Jersey to Robert Young

Suggestions regarding book; transcript of 'day book'; animal power, dandy carts, describes railway lines around Soho works; date of Hackworth's contract and issues surrounding it, extracts from the ledger; ‘do give [?] uncle John [Wesley Hackworth] in full and quote from him as often as possible. He was a living actor in the drama’ ‘ he knew, if he does make statements he had a right to he knew. Why there is no writer that compares with him’, goes on to describe John Wesley Hackworth; Stockton and Darlington Railway, Edward Pease head of railway system and Timothy Hackworth head of locomotive system; Planet; ‘Edward Pease made Stephenson…Timothy Hackworth made himself’, ‘Hedley never did a hands turn in his life’.