2 volumes Documents relating to an article on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in the Edinburgh Review, October 1832
320 Design for fixing an additional pump in the new navy well at Sheerness, and details of the additional apparatus for the pumps
1p [Letter] London [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Yard/J Webb [for] Hawks, Stanley & Co, [re strain on cables]
2p on 1 leaf [Letter] Navy Office [to] S Goodrich/Geo. L Taylor, [re] New Boiler House and asking for particulars re the new Millwrights Shop
2p on 1 leaf [Letter] Navy Office [to] S Goodrich/Navy Comr. Percy Fraser, [requesting information re pure iron after Goodrich's visit to S Wales]
3p on 1 leaf [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']
2p on 1 leaf [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)]
32 x 40.5cm [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
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]
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']
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]
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]
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]
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]
5 sheets [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']
1p [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]
2p on 1 leaf [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
11p on 3 leaves [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]
