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Drawing of Furness Railway 0-6-0 4'51/2" Between Wheels 4' 8 1/2" Gauge Copy

Drawing of Portpatrick Railway 0-4-2 4' 8 1/2" Gauge Locomotive General Arrangement

Cinema advertising poster for "The Doctor in the Nude" and "Mama's Dirty Girls"

Record of reserve bids and schedule

‘An extract from an article which appeared in the London Quarterly Review for January 1858 relative to the invention of the steam blast in the locomotive’

Envelope from Prudence Nightingale (nee Hackworth), Leamington to Thomas Greener Tulse Hill Gardens, London

Envelope from an unknown sender in St John’s Wood to John Wesley Hackworth, Consulting Engineer, Darlington

Envelope from an unknown sender in Northallerton to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Cross Bank, Batley

Copy of correspondence in the ‘Glasgow Herald’ on the first Railway in Great Britain (the first public railway)

Notations for division.

Trains and vertical motions of the wheels and axes of the right, middle and left groups of Plan 28a for multiplication as performed in working Notation 268

Trains and vertical motions of the wheels and axes of the right, middle and left groups of Plan 28a for division as performed in working Notation 290.

Vertical positions of some of the wheels of Plan 28a. Notation 348 cycles.

Skeleton of vertical motions for all operations.

Photo entitled 'Royal Engineer detachment, South Kensington Museum'

An x-ray of Lord Rigley's hand

[Letter] Portsmouth [to] S Goodrich/J Nolloth, [re] Capt Elliot's Cable Shackle

[Letter] London [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Yard/J Webb [for] Hawks, Stanley & Co, [re strain on cables]

[Letter] Navy Office [to] S Goodrich/Geo. L Taylor, [re] New Boiler House and asking for particulars re the new Millwrights Shop

A Press/[S Goodrich. Watermarked 1812] Ink sketch

[Letter] Navy Office [to] S Goodrich/Navy Comr. Percy Fraser, [requesting information re pure iron after Goodrich's visit to S Wales]

Design for perpetual oven

[Letter] Welbeck Street [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Dockyard/S Bentham. [He hopes to visit Goodrich at the Yard; is 'much in want of any cash']

[Draft letter] Upper Eaton Street, Pimlico [to] Navy Commissioners/S Goodrich, [re estimate of value of wooden screw press at Deptford Yard. Bears calculations (not sent)]

[Annotated sketch of] Level of water taken from bottoms of Drains and Wells when all the Penstocks from South to North Docks were open. [Ground plan/S Goodrich], Plymouth Yard Ink sketch

[Printed prospectus of] The Alliance British & Foreign Life and Fire Assurance Company

[Letter] Sheerness [to] S Goodrich, Navy Office/John Kingston, [reporting progress of New Navy Well, Sheerness. Bears minute, Feb 9, to R A Nelson, Navy Board/S Goodrich, re this letter and a drawing for guidance of Sheerness Officers]

Design for a copper mill for Mr Davenport

[Letter] Leicester Square [to S Goodrich]/R Percy[?, re the advantages of Broderip's steam engine]

Table shewing the dimensions and weights of the Chain Cables to be used ... as substitutes for Hempen Cables .../[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], T A, Portsmouth Yard. [Bears also 'Further Specification']

[Extracts re sale of old iron in years 1820-1824/S Goodrich]

Copy [report] Royal Naval Arsenal, Lisbon [to] Capt Joze Xavier Bressante Leite/S Goodrich, [on extent of work and expense of repairing Dock at Lisbon. With copy of same in Portuguese]

An Account, Portsmouth Yard, [to] R[esident] C[ommissioner]/J N, W H for S Goodrich, shewing the Expense of all the Copper Boilers made at this Yard for the two 30 Horse Steam Engines at the Wool Mills, and the 50 Horse Steam Engine at the Metal Mills

[Draft letter] Upper Eaton Street [to] Navy Commissioners/S Goodrich, [retaining drawing of New Navy Well at Sheerness and submitting another]

Calculations [and notes] respecting my large Fire Engine'/S Goodrich

[Letter] Sheerness [to S Goodrich]/John Kingston, [informing him the Well is finished]

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

[Draft report] Portsmouth Yard [to Navy Board/Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], T A, on the Statement and Plan proposed by Lt John T Kelsall for working the Chain Pumps ...

[Draft] Memorandum, Portsmouth Yard/S Goodrich, [to] Comptroller of the Navy, Sir T B Martin, [re] Store of Old Copper [at the Yard]

[Calculations re hemp-beating/Wm Heard?]

[Letter to] S Goodrich/Sir S Bentham, [re] the Stone Slip for Chatham

[Draft letter] Portsmouth Yard [to] M I Brunel/S Goodrich, [re size of delivery pipe of force pump at Chatham Yard. Bears sketch]

Copy sketch of the new gun wharf at Victualling Quay

[Letter] London [to] S Goodrich, Mile End, Portsmouth/Alex. Wilson from Petersburg, 'Sending me a Sketch of Morton's Slip and mentioning about his proving Machine ordered of Murray' [of Leeds. This is probably patent no.4352 of 1819 Mar of Thomas Morton]

[Letter] Navy Office [to] S Goodrich/Sir H[enry] Peake, [re mixed metal pattern scuttle lids. Expresses concern for Goodrich's 'irreparable loss']

Copy [letter] Portsmouth Yard [to] Mr Fenwick/S Goodrich, [re the working of Fenwick's hemp-beating machine]

[Illustrated advertisement for John Lamb's firehearth and condenser, manufactured by James Rutherford, East Smithfield, London. Re Lamb's patent no. 2952 of 1806]]

[Letter] Chatham [to] S Goodrich/Thos. Milton Jnr. 'His Father has begun the New Well at Sheerness'

Experiments made with Lt Rogers Syphons on Board the Wellesley of 74 Guns, Commiss[ione]r & Officers present/[S Goodrich? Bears ink sketch, and pencil sketch on verso]

[Printed trade circular:] Hayle Foundry. Harvey and Company's Price of Castings, etc [Bears notes on verso, and note by Goodrich 'Given me 29 May 1830']