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very few portable engines.
Jem Clapham dined with me at the Beverley arms & then I proceeded to London.
Wed[nesday]. Dec[embe]r 16. On coming down to breakfast at the G[rea]t Northern hotel, I found John Fowler waiting for me *
He struck me as a tall handsome man a little awkward in gait probably from the length of his limbs There was also I thought a little nervousness in his manner at first
I agreed to take a bed with him at Tottenham that night, & go to Ipswich, where his machinery was in the morning –
As soon as he rec[eive]d information of my coming from the Peases, he telegraphed down to Ransomes at Ipswich to get the machinery into working order. [37]
Then I went to seek Mr Stephenson, but as I
