Papers of H M Whitcombe, c1970-1983, preliminary sketches and drawings, correspondence, copy drawings and other working papers concerning a series of oil paintings of early locomotives by H M Whitcombe. These paintings are illustrated in "After Rocket: The Forgotten Years 1830-1870" by H M Whitcombe, published in 1981. Twenty-seven of these paintings are held in the NRM Pictorial Collection. 2 boxes.