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

[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']

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

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

[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]

[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']

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

[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]

[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]

[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

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

[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']

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]

[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)]

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']

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

[Table and notes detailing] A proportion of time for White Hawser laid Ropes to lay in boiling Tar, suppos'd to be very near, or quite Tarr'd through each Rope Aug 16 1749. [Endorsed on verso by Goodrich 'Given me by Mr Martin Master Ropemaker in 1820']

[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

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

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

Sheet 6 showing even difference figure wheels; even difference warnings; large stereotype sectors, vertical motion and calculations conveyed to printing sectors, to large and small stereotype sectors.

[Memo re] Weight of Boilers of Echo and Confiance

[Draft letter to Navy Board's] Resident Commr/[Portsmouth Yard Officers] S Goodrich, J N, [re dredging a shoal from entrance to Portsmouth Harbour]

Boiler of the Brunswick Steam Vessel taken when I returned in the Vessel from Plymouth ...'/[S Goodrich. Bears notes on verso] Pencil sketch

[Letter] Steam Engine Manufact[ory], Leeds [to] S Goodrich/M[atthew] Murray, ['Asking me to recommend a Copper Refiner' for a mill in Holland]

[Draft letter] Portsmouth Dock Yard [to] C Logan, Liverpool/S Goodrich, [sending] a Copy of the Scale of Proof adopted by the Navy Board for the Iron Cables supplied by Contract. [Bears said copy]

[Printed trade circular illustrating] Chimney & Flower Pots, Vases & other articles in Cement manufactured by Wyatts Parker & Co. [Bears, on verso, their prices etc for Roman Cement] Lithograph

[Table:] Statement of the Iron expe Stebbing took out a patent (3363) re compasses in 1810 Jul]

[Draft report] Portsmouth Yard [to Navy Board/Officers] S Goodrich, J P [et al, re] Capstan proposed by Messrs G & A Day [and] whether it assimilates with and is preferable to Captn Phillips Plan

[Extracts re sale of old iron and contracts for same (with Bunn, Millington, Crawshay, Guest) in years 1819-1824/S Goodrich]

[Table, notes, ink sketches/William Heard? and S Goodrich, re] Experiments made with one of the Chain Pumps on Board the Minerva Frigate in Portsmouth Harbour

[Letter] Navy Office [to S Goodrich]/John Knowles, [re proportions of copper and tin in 'mixed metal'. Bears Goodrich's reply of Dec 23]

[Draft] Estimate for Hoses for Truscott's Pumps/[S Goodrich]

[Drawings of] Ball and Socket Joint for Copper Suction Pipe for the Yard Engines/[William Heard. Two of three sheets endorsed 'S Goodrich'] Pencil drawings and line drawings, Scale full size

Memoranda

[Draft report] London [to] Sir Byam Martin, Comptroller of the Navy/S Goodrich, [re paddle wheels and engines of Capt Ross's vessel Victory. Refers to (Archibald) Robertson of Liverpool and his patent for paddle wheels (no.5749 of 1829 Jan), and to Messrs Brothwait & Erickson]

Lower Ribs for the South Dock Gates ... /[William Heard] Line drawings/pencil drawings, Scale ~":1'

[Letter] Old London Street [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Dock Yard/Gordons & Biddulph. 'They have made the Capstan for the Apollo Yacht entirely of Brass. [Bears précis of Goodrich's reply of Aug 2]

A one Horse Dung Cart with cost ... [for Mr Sampson/S Goodrich] Annotated ink sketch

[Draft report to Navy Board]/S Goodrich [pp. Portsmouth Yard Officers, re copper sheathing from Briton frigate]

[Table giving size, weight and cost of cordage and iron chain cables/S Goodrich]

[Letter] Navy Office [to] S Goodrich/Sir H[enry] Peake, [re] Mixed Metal hollow Screws for fastening Planks on a Ship's bottom of his Son John's proposing. [With annotated line drawing with wash, full size, re same]

[Draft report] Portsmouth [to Navy Board]/S Goodrich [pp. Yard Officers, re trial of Rothery's siphon]

[Extracts from Dictionary of Practical Medicine by James Copeland 1837, re cancer and its treatment/S Goodrich]

Letter from Navy Office to S Goodrich

[Letter] Plymo. Yard [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Dock Yard/Wm Neil, [re] Boiler of Corn Wood Mine Pumping Engine. [Bears ink sketches]

[Scheme of chemical analysis for metals] Furnished to S G by Friend Barry of Plough Court, London

[Draft report] Portsmouth [Yard, to Navy Board/Officers] S Goodrich, J P, S J [et al, re working of chain pumps by winches and capstans compared. Refers to Capt Owen, Lt Edwards, Capt Phillips. Bears note of 1834 Jan 28/S Goodrich, re tests made of the pumps on the Leven]

Memo/S Goodrich, re] Stourbridge Bricks and Potts [made at] Westwood Moores & Rider's Manufactory at Stourbridge and wharf No.10 Paddington

[Minute] High Street, Portsmouth [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Dock Yard/Mr Stebbing, [re and with] Statement of the Examination of the Weight etc of the different parts of two Copper Buoys. [With 'Examination of Value of Mr Stebbing's Buoys/S Goodrich]