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Memoranda made [on] Journey to the North in 1803 to visit Mr Grimshaw's Ropery, and to the West of England/[S Goodrich. Commences with 'Journey to the North ... in company with the General and Mrs Bentham for the purpose of seeing Messrs Grimshaw's & Co Patent Ropery Manufactory at Sunderland and Mr Chapman's D[itt]o at Newcastle upon Tyne. Bears numerous ink sketches, line drawings etc]

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

[Letter] Portsmouth Yard [to] S Goodrich/H Wentworth, Complaining of Mr Kingston's treatment of him

[Letter] Howland Street [to] S Goodrich/Charles S Drewry, [re] performance of a 30 horse engine (Boulton & Watt) at Bromley in Essex [which is similar to that] at the Wood Mill at Portsmouth. [Mr Farey wishes to see the new corn mill at Depftord]

[Letter to] S Goodrich/Gen.Bentham; Mentions his having written part of remonstrance to the Adm[iral]ty

[Letter] Ramsgate [to S Goodrich]/J Wood, [re estimate for cistern and well sinking, Ramsgate, in connection with watering ships in the Downs]

[Rough pencil sketches re ways of heating water for domestic bath/S Goodrich, London]

[Draft memorandum]: Explanation and Remarks upon the accompanying Model for a Steam Engine Boiler with observations relative to its construction in large [sent to] Mr Lloyd/S Goodrich

[Draft letter] Portsmouth Yard [to Navy Board]/S Goodrich, [re proposed sizes of iron chain cables as substitutes for hempen; includes table]

[Letter] Metal Mills, [Portsmouth to] S Goodrich, Inspector General's Office, Admiralty/H Vernon, Respecting the difficulties in refining Copper

[Draft report] Portsmouth Yard [to] Resident Commr/[Officers] S Goodrich, J H, T A, [re Bagrie's method of working ships' hand pumps tested on the Prince of Wales

[Letter] Friends Cottage, Mile End, Portsmouth [to] Mr Courtney, Woolwich Dock Yard/S Goodrich, [re proving machine at Woolwich and its positioning]

[... for] Ironmongery Goods [etc, as mentioned in the Schedule]

[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]

[Letterpress copy letter] Upper Eaton St, Pimlico [to] Navy Commissioners/S Goodrich, [re six portable chest (i.e. fire) engines ordered from Mark Noble]

[Letter] Steam Engine Manufactory, Leeds [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Dock Yard/Mw. Murray, [re] Mr Jessop's metallic elastic spiral Packing [Pistons, reporting unfavourably on them]

[Notes re four] Experiments with Mr Goodrich Fire Engine against Noble's large Fire Engine. 'Noble's Engine was taken out of the Boat on this occasion'/[William Heard. With postscript of Mar 12/S Goodrich]

[Letterbook copy report to Navy Board]/S Goodrich, [with, and objecting to the charges in,] Mr [John] Roebuck's Bill for Horse Wheel Machinery for Malta

[Letter] Gravel Lane, Southwark [to] S Goodrich/Wm Dryden, [re performance of steam engines]

[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]