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Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Copy letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the Directors of the Great Western Railway

Scottish letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for obtaining sulphur, sulphurous acid and other products from pyrites

Collection of copy letters, business and personal, of Richard Beamish

Volume entitled: "Commander's Complete Book. H.M. Ship Queen, 116 [guns]"

Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Copy plans and papers relating to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway first-class railway carriage

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

Volume entitled; "Specimens of turning by Henry Perrigal Esqr. and given by him to Jas. Wilcox"

Volume entitled: "[Record of] Lead ore raised at Longstone Edge Mines, Sampled ... and sold"

Letters patent granted to Thomas Clarke and John Varley for 'An improvement on the atmospheric system of propulsion which is also applicable to other motive purposes'

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Volume entitled: "Magpie Mine Resolution Book"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

Sketch books of drawings of fragments recovered from the shipwrecks of the Royal George and the Edgar

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Manuscript entitled: "Catalogue of the Apparatus of Philosophical Instruments, in the Collection of Her Late Majesty Queen Charlotte, at the Observatory at Richmond in Surrey"

Letters patent granted to Stephen Geary for 'Improvements in the preparation of fuel'

Volume entitled: "Arrete du Ministre des Travaux Publics portant reglement pour l'Ecole Nationale des Mines, Paris"

Working Drawing for No 136 Locomotive

Handwritten summary of legal case against railway labourers laying the rails for the Clarence Railway across a road

Printed Clarence Railway report

Letter from D. Gardmen to unknown (presumably Hardwick) offering contract for gravel paths and suggesting a type of stove for the new station

Letter from Stephen Salles to unknown (presumably Hardwick) offer to model Euston Station, rejected

Notice entitled 'At the Special General Meeting of the Proprietors of the Clarence Railway, Held at the Town Hall, Stockton...'

Letter from Hardwick to unknown regarding screening of counter in Great Hall Euston due to cold drafts experienced by staff

Notice entitled 'Clarence Railway'

Great Western Railway – Drawing No 2 Side elevation and Cross Section

Notice entitled 'At Special Meeting of the Company of Proprietors of the Clarence Railway Company, held at the George and Vulture Tavern, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London...'

Letter from Hardwick to Mr Lund (?) regarding the ‘ornament in the resistance of the new building at Euston Station’

Letter from Hardwick to Euston Station Enlargement Committee, regarding the completion of buildings with accompanying report from a member of his staff

Printed prospectus for the London and Birmingham Railway Hotel and Dormitories, Euston Station

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Printed pamphlet entitled 'A Short and Sure guide to Railway Speculation. A Few Plain Rules how to Speculate With Safety and Profit, in Railway Shares. By a Successful Operator.' Dedicated to George Hudson by ‘A Director’. 6th ed, with additions

‘Experiments, Practical Working etc., of J. Gray’s Patented Improvements in Steam Engines, etc.'

Pages 77 and 78 of the manuscript section of Robert Stephenson's diary

Cross-written letter from Miss Smith to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Vilvorde, Belgium

Cross-written letter from Elizabeth Dove, Leeds to Prudence Nightingale (nee Hackworth), Darlington

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing plan and elevation of Curzon Street Bridge

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing plan of upper diameter of columns, approx. 1/4 of total surface represented, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing plan and elevation of bridge over Curzon Street, Birmingham, signed by Joseph Branson, Edwin Gwythen and Robert B. Dochray

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing section of the principal building's cornice and architrave, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing plan at foundations and elevation towards Grand Central depot, signed Robert Stephenson

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing section of principal building showing pilasters and columns along with a plan of the same area on first floor, signed by Philip Hardwick, Grissell and Peto

Drawing of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham (London & Birmingham Railway), showing details of girders (section), traverse section of girder and ceiling of basement, elevation of column in basement. Also plans and side elevation of base of column and plinth, signed by Joseph Branson, Edwin Gwythen, Robert B. Dochray and another