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[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

4p on 1 leaf

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

3p on 1 leaf

[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]

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Design for a copper mill for Mr Davenport

6p on 2 leaves

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

4p on 1 leaf

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']

2p on 1 leaf

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

8p on 2 leaves + 7p on 2 leaves

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]

1p

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

1p

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

2p on 1 leaf

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

2p on 1 leaf

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

3p on 1 leaf

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

2p on 1 leaf

[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 ...

4p on 1 leaf

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

2p on 1 leaf

[Calculations re hemp-beating/Wm Heard?]

1p

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

4p on 1 leaf

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

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Copy sketch of the new gun wharf at Victualling Quay

3p on 1 leaf

[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]

2p on 1 leaf

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

3p on 1 leaf

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

1 leaf

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

1p

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

2p on 1 leaf

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]

1 sheet

[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']

1p

Notes made] Reading M. Ch. Combes Traité d'exploitation de Mines beginning here with account of the Machines à Vapeur/[S Goodrich]

2p on 1 leaf

Copy [letter] Lee, Lewisham, Kent [to] J W Croker/E Edwards, [re better working of chain pumps on H M Ships]

8p on 2 leaves

[Draft report] Portsmouth Yard [to] Navy Board/[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], J P, S J, J H, [re plan of William Parsons, 'one of the Students of Naval Architecture', for heaving up ships upon slips]

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[Ink sketches nos. 1 to 5 re Mr Ward's Boilers on the Echo steam vessel/S Goodrich. Nos.1-2 and 4-5 bear notes on verso]

6p on 3 leaves

[Draft report] Portsmouth Yard [to] N[avy] Bd./[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], J A, [re insertions to contract 'for chain pump gear' and 'for fitting carpenters' Sea Store']

2p on 1 leaf

Calculations respecting the Question in Mr Bramah's Letter of [Feb 28/S Goodrich]

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Journal & Memoranda

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[Draft letter] Portsmouth Yard [to] N[av]y Bd./[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams and R T J?, re price of oval illuminators from Pellatt & Green]

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[Draft report to Navy Board/Portsmouth Yard Officers] S Goodrich, J N, [re state of copper on bottom of Victor; one side had copper of Grenfells, the other had Metal Mills copper]

1p

[Draft letter to Navy Board/Portsmouth Yard Officers] S Goodrich, J N, [re] Task Work Prices at the Metal Mills for Rolling and Pickling thick Copper Plates for Boilers

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[Letter] Bridgnorth [to] S Goodrich, Navy Office/John U Rastrick, [giving an account of his tour of the West Country: going to Davenport's copper mill near Swansea; seeing Woolfe's engines in Cornwall; travelling with Trevithick to Plymouth Dock Yard; reporting on Onions' steam wheel, etc]

2p on 1 leaf

Memorandum of the proportions of John Thompson's Hydraulic Test. [Bears note by Goodrich, and calculations on verso]

3p on 1 leaf

[Printed prospectus:] Proposals for the formation of a company for carrying on the Portsea Island Gas Works ... [to be called 'The Portsea Island Gas Light Company']

1p

Extracts and Memoranda made on the occasion of a Report to the Committee of Navy Board/[S Goodrich, re cost of manufacturing cordage at Chatham Yard]

1p

[Letter] Eaton St [to] S Goodrich/Edwd Holl. He is going to Chatham on the business of the Slip

4p on 1 leaf + 5p on 2 leaves

Copy [letter to] Editor of the Repertory of Patent Inventions/S Goodrich, [re] Mr Tredgold's Errors about Rotary Pistons in Steam Engines. [With notes and calculations re same/S Goodrich]

8p on 4 leaves

[Draft] Lecture the 2nd [to Philosophical Society, Portsmouth]/S Goodrich, 'cut out of my Lecture Book No.2', [re history of the steam engine. (Incomplete)]

2p on 1 leaf

Copy [letter and memo] Deptford Yard [to] Sir George Grey/John Hodgskin, [re supply by Mr Bacon of Stourbridge Bullheads to Portsmouth, and doubting that Bacon can deliver Stourbridge Fire Bricks to Deptford 'at his Price compared with the Makers [Messrs Ruffards of Stourbridge] Price in London']

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Contract No.3 Plan No.12 Arch for the Passage of White Beck under the Embankment across Halton Valley

3p on 1 leaf + 2p on 1 leaf

[Copy letter] Thornton Row, Greenwich [to] Navy Commissioners/Com. John Jekyll, [finding fault with workmanship and attitude of Maudslay & Co. With copy estimates of Captain Jekyll's plan of 'converting ships' pumps into engines for extinguishing fire'

4p on 1 leaf

[Draft letter] Portsmo.Yd. [to] Commissioner Sir George Grey/S Goodrich, [re] Gen'l Cuppage's proposal about the Forge Hammer [in the remanufacture of old iron (see /785)]

3p on 2 leaves

[Notes and pencil sketches of] Mr Galloway's Paddle Wheels fitted on H M Steam Vessel Carron of Pair 50HP Engines Boulton & Watt - Take[n] at Portsmouth Dock Yard 11 Dec 1832

1p

Copy [letter] Victualling Yard, Deptford [to] Commissioner Hill/Henry Emery, Master Miller, [re] the most advantageous part of the Mill to have the Dressing Machines

2p on 1 leaf

[Particulars re] 2nd Experiments made in Beat[in]g Hemp by the Machine/[William Heard?]