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[Letter to] S Goodrich, Navy Office, London/[J Kingston, re] proposed New Well House, Sheerness. [Bears line drawing with wash) of same]

3p on 3 leaves

[Letterbook copy letter] Upper Eaton St, Pimlico [to] Navy Board/S Goodrich, [being report on revision of Laing & Barwell's prices for firehearths]

1p

[Letter] Queenborough [to] S Goodrich, Navy Office/William Heard, [re] Specific Gravity of Brickwork of the Mass

1p

An account of the denominations and length of flax yarn as spun [given to Goodrich in Newcastle]

3p 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 ...']

1p

[Letterbook copy letter] Upper Eaton St, Pimlico [to] Navy Board/S Goodrich, [re Lamb's firehearths]

3p on 1 leaf

[Letter] Woolwich [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Dock Yard/John Peake Junr, [re] his hollow mixed Metal Screws for fastening on Ships' Planks

5p on 2 leaves

[Letter] Bridgnorth [to] S Goodrich, Navy Office/John U Rastrick, [being] Observations about rolling Iron

3p on 1 leaf

[Draft letter] Portsmouth Yard [to] E Gandy/S Goodrich, [correcting the mistake in his letter of Feb 23 to Sir Byam Martin regarding the loss of weight in copper sheets of Mr Williams on the Pandora]

3p on 1 leaf

[Copy letter] Inspector General's Office, Admiralty [to] Mr Vernon/S Goodrich, Offering the situation of Master of the Metal Mills and pointing out the conditions

3p on 2 leaves

[Draft report] Portsmouth Yard [to] Navy Board/[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams and ?, re 'the model of a Timber Carriage proposed by Mr Goddard of Portsea']

3p on 1 leaf

[Draft report] Portsmo. Yard [to] Resident Commissioner/S Goodrich, J Nolloth, [re experimental copper sheathing on Galatea from Messrs Grenfell, Messrs Shears and from Portsmouth]

3p on 1 leaf

Copy [reports] Plymouth Yard [to] Navy Board/[Officers] E Churchill, W R Bright, J Atkins, J Moore, [re] Mr Williams's Copper on Phoebe and Pandora. [Bear copy note, Feb 11 to the officers/H P and R S, re same]

7p on 2 leaves

[Draft letter] Mile end Lodge, near Portsmouth [to] Ralph Creyke/S Goodrich, re duty on coals for benefit of Bridlington Harbour]

4p on 4 leaves

[Letterpress copy letter] Upper Eaton St, Pimlico [to] Navy Commissioners/S Goodrich. [on Hawkes's iron cables compared with Capt Brown's]

4p on 1 leaf

[Letter] London [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth/Joshua Field, Giving an account of Mr [Jacob] Perkins Engine

3 items

Stationary invoices

4p on 1 leaf

[Letter] Hammersmith [to] S Goodrich, Friends Cottage, Portsmouth/Simon Goodrich [nephew, re domestic matters and his shop (see /1067)]

1 item

Metal Mills

235

Letter from Andrew Vivian to Richard Trevithick concerning patent and business controversies

1p

[Letter] Woolwich Yard [to] S Goodrich/Edwd Sison, [re] a Weigh Bridge ... to be supplied by Mr Sheppard

4p on 1 leaf

[Draft letter] Portsmouth Yard [to] Navy Board/[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], J P, [re new pump for air and water, invented by Capt Barron, late Commander of the Chesapeake, U.S. Navy]

5p on 2 leaves

Draft report relating to copper coins

4p on 1 leaf

Report, Perran Wharf near Truro [to] Editor of the Cornish Gazette/Wm J Henwood, [re] the duty of Wilson's Engine at Huel Towan Mine in Cornwall at a trial made by Cornish Engineers & Mine Agents, 1828 May 6 & 7

2p on 2 leaves

[Pencil sketches of] Smelting Furnaces procured from Mr Vernon's Brother/[S Goodrich]

2 leaves

Drawing in detail with dimensions of the large Forge Hammer, [Relates to metal mill machinery At Deptford]

37.5 x 26cm

Captn. Ross Vessel the Victory as traced by Mr Fearnall's Draftsman. [Section] Ink sketch (from tracing)

1 leaf of pencil sketches

[Ideas for windmills, boilers/S Goodrich] 1 of pencil sketches

2p on 1 leaf

[Draft letter] London [to Navy Board]/S Goodrich, [re new contract for firehearths]

8p on 2 leaves

[Draft report] Portsmo.Yd. [to Navy] Bd./[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], J P, [re Parsons's model of machine for testing ropes]

24 x 32cm

Tenons for the Upper and Lower Rails, for the South Dock Gates into the Basin .../[William Heard] Line drawing with wash

19.5 x 31cm

Section of Lower Rail of South Dock Gates at the End next the Meeting Style/[William Heard] Pencil drawing

1p

[Draft] Estimate of the Expense of two Gangs of Men one by day the other by night for Rolling 20 Tons of Copper Sheathing ... for John Grenfell/[S Goodrich]

9 x 20.5cm

The Pier of No[rth] Slip, [Portsmouth Yard] Ink sketch

4p on 1 leaf

Portsmo.Yd. Estimate for two new Building Slips in the north part of the Yard. Materials/Workmanship

1 bundle

[Miscellaneous pencil and ink sketches/S Goodrich]

[Printed trade card of] Taylor's Architectural Library, High Holborn, John Weale successor to the late Josiah Taylor ... Bookseller [now at] the Royal Astronomical Society

[Printed trade card of] Taylor's Architectural Library, High Holborn, John Weale successor to the late Josiah Taylor ... Bookseller [now at] the Royal Astronomical Society

3p on 1 leaf

[Notes and calculations/William Heard, re] Meteor Steam Vessel [to ascertain] Power of her Engines ... 67 Horse Power each Engine

1p

Copy [letter] Gateshead [to] Navy Commissioners/John Abbot; [copy minute] Navy Office [to] Store[keepe]r Gen[era]l/S Goodrich, [both re question of retesting Abbot's chain cables after delivery]

1 item

Journals and Memoranda - Book no. 61

1 item

Memoranda

1p

[Letter] Marton near Bridlington [to] S Goodrich, Ports. Dock Yard/Ralph Creyke, [asking his opinion on Shipowners' report of his (Goodrich's) plan]

3p on 1 leaf

[Copy letter] Portsmouth Yard [to] Respective Officers, Portsmouth Yard, [giving his opinion 'of making trial ... of the Blocks proposed in models by Lt Shuldham']

4p on 2 leaves

[2 bills to] Navy Board/Rannie & White, for Machinery fixed on Board HMS Active [in March and May 1819]

2p on 1 leaf

[Letter] Fratton [to] S Goodrich/James Linaker. [He is ill; mentions 10 ton cranes]

1 sheet

Tabulated statement to Brig. Gen. Bentham

3p on 1 leaf

Draft report relating to steam machinery

4p on 2 leaves + 2p on 1 leaf

[Details of] Examination of the Head of Mr Goodrich phrenologically by Mr DeVille. [With rough draft of same]

2p on 1 leaf

Experiments with Lt Rodgers Syphons over the North Basin Dock Gates/[S Goodrich? Bears pencil sketch on verso]

1p

[Letter] Sunderland [to] S Goodrich/John Grimshaw. [He has sent in his report on ropemaking to the Commissioners of Naval Revision]