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[Letterbook copy letter] Inspector General's Office, Admiralty [to] Henry Peake, Surveyor of the Navy, In answer to some insinuations he had received about the Metal Mill Copper made by Mr Jos[ep]h Tucker Master Shipwright of Plymouth

[Letter] Pimlico [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth/Joseph Bramah & Sons, [re tests with Proving Machine for chain cable at Woolwich Dock Yard]

[Printed price list (with ms. amounts) of] Cast Iron & Wrought Iron Articles, made at Gospel-Oak Iron Works, near Dudley, by John Read. [Endorsed on verso 1805 Jan by S Goodrich]

Sketches of parts of Capt Brown's Proving Machine for Chain Cables/[S Goodrich. Notes and ink sketches]

[Draft statement to Navy Board/Portsmouth Yard Officers] S Goodrich, J A, J G, [re proposed sizes of hemp cables for anchors from 25 cwt downwards]

[Letter] Navy Office [to] S Goodrich, Portmouth Dock Yard/Sir H[enry] Peake, Explaining his Son John's project about hollow mixed metal Screws for fastening on Ships' planks etc

[Draft letter] Mile End, Portsmouth [to] N C Edwards, Navy Office/S Goodrich, [re Sir Thomas Hardy's mooring shackle and swivel]

Copies of letters to be sent to Mr Lloyd

A General Statement of the Services which have been performed by the late and present Mechanists under the directions of the Inspector General of the Naval Works since their appointments/S Goodrich, [being] a return made to the Commissioners

[Copy statement] Plymo. Yard [to] Navy Board/[Officers] T Roberts, T Hollinsworth, J Peake, - Creight, [re placing of 118 copper sheets from John Williams on the bottom of the Phoebe for trial]

[Letter] Navy Office [to] S Goodrich/Geo. L Taylor, 'Asking for a Sketch of the Mast Hoop Heating House which I contrived'

[Memorandum]: calculations re weight and cost of cast iron pillars/S Goodrich. Watermarked 1802]

[Letter] Nelson Square, Blackfriars Road [to] S Goodrich/John Lloyd, [re length of jib for cranes at Chatham; mentions Maudslay's; mentions work on lock gates for Mr Mathews at Woolwich Arsenal]

[Draft letter] Portsmouth Yard [to Navy Board/Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], T A, [re the overweight of chain cables]

Letterbook copy letter from Inspector General's Office to Admiral Markham

Table showing the size proposed of Iron Cables for Hempen

[Draft report] P[ortsmouth] Yd. [to Navy] Bd./[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], T G, R L M, [and ?, re accounts of Mr Street for his blowing machine]

[Letter] London [to] S Goodrich/Geo. Hawks, [re subpoena to his (Hawks's) 'trial with Brunton about Chain Cables']

[Draft letter] Portsm.Yd. [to] Navy Board/[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], J A, [being an explanation of specimens for suction hose, screws and strainers proposed for Truscott's pump]

Copy [letter] Portsmouth Dock Yard [to] Sir Wm Strickland, Boynton, near Molton, Yorkshire/S Goodrich, [forwarding (and bearing) an account for the Commissioners of Bridlington Piers of his expenses re visit to and work on Bridlington Harbour between 1813 Nov and 1814 Sept]

Copy letter to Navy Commissioners

[Draft letter] Sunderland [to] J Grimshaw/S Goodrich, On the Straightening of Sunderland [Wearmouth] Bridge. [With pencil sketch re same, bearing (unrelated?) calculations on verso]

[Memorandum re] Lt Burton's Plan for Rowing a Frigate [and] Lt Burton's Plan of propelling Ships/[S Goodrich. Mr Donkin and his foreman have been 'sent down by the Admiralty to undertake this work'. Bears pencil sketch]

Queries by Mr Heard given me on the Occasion of my [Goodrich's] Journey into Cornwall. [Addressed to] David Grant, South Place, Finsbury, London

[Printed forms: time and price sheets for workmen in ropery re Spinning; Tarring, Dividing, Laying etc. Watermarked 1802]

[Letter] Navy Office [to] S Goodrich/Sir Byam Martin, [re] Cornish Manufacturers [who] may be trusted to fit Marine Steam Engines

[Letter] Navy Office [to] S Goodrich/H Rogers, [re and bearing copy of minute of J Barrow, Admiralty of Jan 19 to the effect that the office of Mechanist and his clerk at Portsmouth would not at present be altered. See /1329]

[Letterbook copy letter to] Navy Board/S Goodrich, [re erection of metal mills and millwright's shop etc]

[Draft report to Navy Board/Portsmouth Yard Officers] S Goodrich, J N, [re pumps proposed by Lt Sicklemore. (Last page bears part of a different report)]

[Copy letter] Upnor, Rochester [to] J W Croker/C Phillips. [His 'improved Capstan fitted on ... Seringapatam is completed and ready to undergo any trial'. He suggests it could face the same trial as the capstan of Mr Whitmarsh's on the Curaçao]

[Not to] Mr Goodrich/? Guppy, [on use of pure copper nails for ships' bottoms]

[Letter] Navy Office [to] S Goodrich/H Rogers. He is appointed Chief Clerk of the Stores branch in lieu of Mr Rolt [who has been] superannuated. [He now has much more work and much less pay]

An Account given me by Mr [Joshua] Field', being Result of an experiment made to ascertain what quantity of wheat could be ground with one of Woolf & Edwards [9hp] Steam engines ... [at their] manufactory, Lambeth, July 12 1811. [Relates to planning Albion Mills; see 1802 correspondence]

Calculations about Pumps for the Apollo/[S Goodrich. Bears note of Mar 9 on verso/S Goodrich]

[Draft letter to Navy Board]/S Goodrich, [re length of use of his 'Wooden Boiler']

Extracts from Farey [A Treatise on the Steam Engine ... 1827] relative to the Albion Mills 1786 & 1789/S Goodrich

[Draft] Observations/S Goodrich, [re] the large Mixed Metal Block Shell designed by him and made for Jamaica in consequence of Comr. Woodriffe's suggestion on account of the White Ants destroying the Wooden Careening Block Shell

[Copy letter to] Mr Vernon/S Goodrich, [re cost of manufacturing old iron into new Bears account re same for period 4 to 23 Nov 1816]

[Letter to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Dock Yard/C Graham, [re chain cables]

Letter describing the death of Vivian's son, Andrew and his own attempts to sell his share in the joint patent of 1802

[Letter to] S Goodrich/W Rogers. [He has informed Vernon of his appointment as Master of the Metal Mills]

[Notes and calculations/S Goodrich, re] Mr Frost's Steam Engine

Copy of a paper [i.e. memorandum] handed to W J Henwood by Mr W Lewin assistant to Mr J Rennie relating to the trial of Wilson's Engine at Huel Towan Mine in Cornwall

Account of the Expence of Workmanship of Lines and Twine ... during the last year of the last War/J W Lloyd [and] W Fenwick, Chatham Rope Yard

Calculations respecting the proposed New Slips [at Portsmouth Yard/S Goodrich]

[Ink sketches of chain cable links of Bruntons and of Brown/S Goodrich. Bear annotations]

Mem[orand]a [to] Mr Inkpen/Commissioner J H, [including copy letter, Feb 10, Stamford Street/George & John Rennie, re 'Power of the Mill at Deptford']

[Letter] Portsmouth [to] S Goodrich/W Rogers, About the report to be made on the expense of manufacturing Copper, in answer to Grenfell's attack. Refers to various visitors and the 'Trial of Sir Home Popham']

[Copy minute] Admiralty Office [to] Navy Board/John Barrow, [re and bearing copy letter, May 4, Cork St, Bond St, to Viscount Melville/Nath'l Ogle, re his 'improved method of generating steam'. Goodrich is to investigate. Nathaniel Ogle took out a patent (no.5927) in 1830 April re boilers]

[Notes/S Goodrich. 'At Mr Hawks' Manufactory, Gateshead ... Tried Experiments in his Proving Machine [and on his] Iron Chain Cables'. [Table gives comparison with tests made with machines of Capt Brown and Messrs Brunton]