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Letter from George Stephenson to Philip Maddison Regarding Engine Designs

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Copy letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the Directors of the Great Western Railway

Commonplace book of William Lewin

Mathematics school exercise book of William Scamp

Notebooks of G.H. Wollaston relating to Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping

Translation in one volume of 'The Art of Metals (Ores) in which is taught the true method of treating by mercury those of gold and silver: the manner of smelting them all and how they are to be refined and separated from one another'

Notebook of John Urpeth Rastrick

Papers of George and Robert Stephenson Regarding the Moreton Rail-Road

Letter describing the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway and the death of Sir William Huskisson MP after being run down by the "Rocket"

Drawings - the Peel & Williams Phoenix and Soho Foundries

Notebook comprising 'Account of Blaenavon Iron Works'

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

Catalogue of new double stars by F.G. W. Struve, annotated copy blonging to J.F.W. Herschel

Volume of plans of mines and mining districts in Mexico

Day-book of John Walker, chemist and inventor of the Friction-Match

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Manuscript entitled: "Catalogue of the Apparatus of Philosophical Instruments, in the Collection of Her Late Majesty Queen Charlotte, at the Observatory at Richmond in Surrey"

Lecture Notes on Chemistry

Letters patent granted to Stephen Geary for 'Improvements in the preparation of fuel'

Volume entitled: "A plan of a Course of Lectures on Arts and Manufactures, More Particularly Such as Relate to Chemistry by William Farish"

Volume entitled: "History of the Framework Knitting and Lace Trades"

Collection of letters to Richard Trevithick, mainly concerning the design and efficiency of steam-engines

School exercise book of Hugh Hansford, Free School, Gillingham, Dorset

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Letter from Leighton Dalrymple, Lieutenant Colonel. Account of his visit to Wakefield and Leeds, including a description and sketch of John Blenkinsop’s Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca'

Letter from Henry Booth, company secretary and treasurer of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, to James Loch, Bloomsbury Square, London with a report on the survey of Chat Moss by Thomas Shaw Brandreth

Autograph letter from William Brunton, Engineer, giving a description of his Steam Horse, Butterley Iron Works

Letter from John Backhouse to his sister describing the opening train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway

Letter from Francis Mewburn, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton

Letter from John Rennie, London to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton-upon-Tees

Letter from Edward Pease to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton-upon-Tees

Letter from (Charles?) Backhouse, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton

Note of those appointed to the Committee of the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Working Drawing for No 136 Locomotive

Letter from Richard Otley, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton

A note covering the haulage charged on the Stockton and Darlington Railway 1828-1829 and extracts from the relevant General Meeting minutes

Notice entitled ‘Stockland & Auckland Canal. The subscribers to this undertaking are particularly requested to attend a meeting… for the purpose of receiving the accounts…’

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother

Letter from Joseph Pease, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck, London

Pamphlet entitled ‘A Further Report on the Intended Rail or Tram Road, from Stockton, by Darlington, to the collieries, with a branch to Yarum [sic]’

Printed Clarence Railway report

Letter from Robert Stephenson to his stepmother

Letter from Francis Mewburn, Darlington to Leonard Raisbeck

Letter from John Rennie, London to George Raisbeck, Stockton-upon-Tees

Letter from Edward Pease, John Backhouse and William Kitching to Mr Randyle, Stockton

Notice of proposals by the Royal Exchange Assurance for loss or damage by fire

Notice entitled ‘Canal. The projected canal from the Tees to the coal district near Auckland, having now become a popular question, permit me to make some observations on this subject’

Notice entitled ‘Stockton and Auckland Canal. The committee of the subscribers to this undertaking… received from Mr. Leather, the engineer, a variety of information relative to a survey, which he has just finished, which most satisfactorily obviates every important objection that has been urged against the plan…’

Letter from D M Peacock, Stainton to Leonard Raisbeck, Stockton-upon-Tees