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[Draft report] Portsmouth Yard [to Navy] Bd./[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams, re waste per hundredweight upon burning copper sheathing]

1p

[Draft] Estimate for a new Building Slip in the North West Part of the Yard, [Portsmouth; Materials and Workmanship/S Goodrich]

1p

[Draft letter] P[ortsmouth] Yd. [to Navy Board/S Goodrich, re expenses incurred during his trip to Newcastle]

3p on 1 leaf

Air Vessel for the Delivering Pipe of Large Fire Extinguishing Engine; Air Vessel for the Suction Pipe Annotated line drawings, Scale 3":1'

23.5 x 37.5cm

[Letter] Chatham Yd [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Dock Yard/John Kingston, [re] Expense of manufacturing Roman Cement. [Bears note by his brother, William Kingston]

3p on 1 leaf

Copy [report] Navy Office [to Navy Board]/S Goodrich, on Mr Mitchell's Pump

2p on 1 leaf

[Draft letter] Portsmouth Yard [to Navy] Bd./S Goodrich, N D[iddams, re being unable to manufacture milled lead at Portsmouth Yard]

3p on 1 leaf

[Draft letter] Portsmo.Yd. [to] Committee of [Navy] Bd./S Goodrich, [re sale of old mixed metal of inferior quality]

3p on 1 leaf

[Draft report] Portsmo.Yd. [to Navy] Bd./[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams &] T A, [re] Papers & Plans from Mr Edwards relative to the rowing of Ships of War of all Classes in Calms

2p on 1 leaf

Memoranda and calculations respecting Sir Wm Congreve's proposals

8p on 4 leaves

An Account of Experiments made in breaking pieces of Mr Hawks' Chain Cables in his Proving Machine

1p

[Draft report] Portsmouth Yard [to] Navy Board/[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], J P, S J, J H, [re plan of William Parsons, 'one of the Students of Naval Architecture', for heaving up ships upon slips]

8p on 2 leaves

[Letter] Ports. Dock Yard [to] S Goodrich, Borough, London/Wm Heard, [re Experiments with Lt Rodger's Hose Syphons. Reference to Mr Holl's 'dreadful accident']

3p on 1 leaf

[Estimate]/Wilson, [Master Mason, re] 2 New Slips [at Portsmouth Yard]

1p

[Draft report] Navy Office [to Navy Board]/S Goodrich, [re] the specimens of the Brass Hose Joint and Leather Hose [referred to in letters from] James Black

2p on 1 leaf

[Draft report] Portsmouth Dock Yard [to] Navy Board/[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], T A [et al, re] additional statement referred from Capt Phillips relative to the Capstan proposed by him

3p on 1 leaf

Sketch of the Idea now proposed by Capt Phillips for fitting his Capstan/[S Goodrich] Ink sketch

31 x 20cm

[Draft report] Portsmo. Yard [to] Navy Board/[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams et al, re system of issuing stores manufactured in the Yard]

3p on 1 leaf

[Draft report] London [to Navy Board]/S Goodrich, [re] Plan of the Rev Dr Cartwright for Working Ships' Pumps

2p on 1 leaf

Letter from Portsmouth Yard to S Goodrich

2p on 1 leaf

Experiments made with Lt Rodgers Syphons on Board the Wellesley of 74 Guns/[S Goodrich. Bears ink sketch]

1p

[Section of road wheel]/S Goodrich Line drawing, Scale 1:4

37 x 23.5cm

[Draft report] P[ortsmouth] Yd. [to Navy] Bd./[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams, being an account of the expense of Lt Rodger's siphon]

2p on 1 leaf

[Draft report] P[ortsmouth] Yd. [to Navy Board/Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams, re possibility of manufacturing chain pumps at Portsmouth Yard. Refers to 'Mr Collin, the Contractor for Chain Pumps']

4p on 1 leaf

[Draft report] London [to Navy Board]/S Goodrich, [re] cost of manufactruring Iron Chain Cables at the respective Manufactories of Captn Brown and of Messrs Brunton Middleton & Co

4p on 1 leaf

[Letter] Sherbourn Lane, London [to] S Goodrich/David Mathews. [Commissioners of Bridlington Piers have presented their petition to the House of Commons]

2p on 1 leaf

[Copy report] Portsmo.Yd. [to Navy] Bd./[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], T G, R L M [et al, re Street's accounts for Blowing Machine]

2p on 1 leaf

[Letter] King's Bench Walk, Temple [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Dock Yard/Cha. Moore, [inviting assistance in contested patent for lacemeking machinery. Bears draft reply, Feb 9, declining invitation/S Goodrich]

3p on 1 leaf

[Ms. extract] from the Globe Newspaper: Most valuable discovery in Metallurgy in the Anglesey Mines. Copper.]

2p on 1 leaf

Copy Account [to] Navy Board/A Keddell [and] P Martin, of the Number of Men etc necessary to Spin and prepare Yarns to furnish 3500 Tons of Cables and Cordage in one Year, supposing the same to be laid by a Steam Machine

1p

Extracts and Memoranda made on the occasion of a Report to the Committee of Navy Board/[S Goodrich, re cost of manufacturing cordage at Chatham Yard]

1p

Form of the Tender for supplying His Majesty's Dock Yards at Deptford and Woolwich with Chain Cables and Articles connected therewith

4p on 2 leaves

[Pencil] Sketch of Mr Rangely Rotative Pump; [Ink] Sketch of Knipe's Rotative Pump. [John Rangeley had two relevant patents, 3681 and 4021 in 1813 Apr and 1816 May respectively; Francis Noble Knipe had two relevant patents, 1817 and 1818 in 1791 Jul]

2p on 1 leaf

[Draft] Estimate for Making Buoy Chain on a reference from Mr Hawks/[S Goodrich]

1p

[Draft letter, Portsmouth] Yd. [to Navy Board/Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams, re model of American pump]

4p on 1 leaf

[Draft letter to Navy Board/Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams, re new cocks for wash deck pumps. Refers to Mr Hannaford, plumber, of Plymouth. Bears ink sketch]

4p on 2 leaves

Copy [letter] London [to] Navy Board/S Goodrich, [being a reply to objections of Brunton, Middleton and Brunton's to the draft contract for cables (see /897)]

8p on 2 leaves

No.4 Table of Proportions of Iron Cables to Hempen with the Proofs they should undergo .../S Goodrich, Ports.Yd.

1p

[Notes re] Chatham Hemp beating Machine/[S Goodrich. Bears later pencil notes of 1821 May]

1p

[Draft report] Portsmo.Yd. [to Navy] Bd./[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], J P, [re Lt W T Jebb's 'six fold Purchase for heaving up Ships']

4p on 1 leaf

[Draft report] Portsmouth Yard [to Navy Board/Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams and ?, re Commr. Woodriff's 'suggestion of trying Iron shelled purchase Blocks']

2p on 1 leaf

[Draft report] Portsmouth Yard [to] Sir T Byam Martin, Comptroller of Navy/S Goodrich. ['I still remain in my former opinion ... but shall be happy to yield to experiments sufficiently exceeding the results of good practice ...']

3p on 1 leaf

[Draft letter] Portsmouth Yard [to Navy Bd./Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams, re copper from the Tartar, and observations on improving the manufacture of sheet copper; experiments are recommended]

5p on 2 leaves

Memoranda respecting the Power of Men/[S Goodrich]

2p on 1 leaf

[Letter] Lambeth [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth/Joshua Field, [asking about boiler fireplaces for burning smoke and mentioning steamer with paddle wheel amidships (i.e. London Engineer - see ARCH: MAUDRAW). Bears rough sketches]

3p on 1 leaf

[Letter to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Dock Yard/John Kingston, [re dredger. Bears comments by Goodrich]

2p on 1 leaf

[Notes:] Observations on reading Barlow on the Strength of Timber etc. [i.e. 'An essay on the strength and stress of timber ...'/Peter Barlow, 1817]

1p

[Letter] Brompton [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Dock Yard/John Kingston, [re laying suction pipe of force pump through wharf. Bears ink sketch]

3p on 1 leaf

[Draft report] Portsmo.Yd. [to Navy] Bd./[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams et al, re centre bit auger of John] Peake, assistant to the Master Shipwt of Sheerness Yd.

3p on 1 leaf

[Draft letter] Mile end Lodge, Portsmouth [to] David Mathews/S Goodrich, [giving his opinion on the proposed alteration to pier]

2p on 1 leaf