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[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]

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

[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

[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]

[Letter] Portsmouth [to] Portsmouth Officers/Geo. Stebbing, [re sizes and weight of copper buoys to be supplied by him]

[Letter] Lambeth [to] S Goodrich/Henry Maudslay, [re] the Painting of Tanks with boiled Linseed Oil & White Lead

[Draft report] Deptford Yard [to] Navy Board/S Goodrich [and Deptford Yard Officers, re experiments with chain pumps on Lt Edwards's plan. Bears tables re experiments made Oct 20-25 with capstans and winches]

[Letter] Admiralty [to] S Goodrich/[pp.] Sir George Clarke, Introducing Sir George Mackenzie to see [Portsmouth] Dk.Yd.

[Draft report] London [to Navy Board]/S Goodrich, [re his visit to Newcastle to examine the method of making chain cables at the Iron Works of both Messrs Gordons and Co and Messrs Millington and Co]

Calculation about Mr Shorter's Spiral Paddle Wheel/[S Goodrich. Experiment tried in Goldsmith's Company barge]

Contract No.1 Plan No.6 Section of Cutting

[Draft report] London [to Navy Board]/S Goodrich, on the Boilers of the African S V written on Messrs Maudslay's [i.e. Maudslay Son & Field] & Lt Kennedy's Letters [of Jul 8 and May 30 respectively]

Plan of the rolling mill with engine house and boilers belonging to Messrs Vivian and Sons

[Draft letter to] N[avy] Board/Portsmouth Yard Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams et al, re Tiffin & Co's prices for black lead melting pots]

[Letter] Portsmouth Yard [to] Edward Churchill, Mas[te]r Ship[wrigh]t, Plym[out]h/S Goodrich, Recommending Mr Neil as a fit person to superintend repairs of Steam Vessel Engines

Dimensions of Contest Gun Brig - proposed for a digging Engine/[S Goodrich]

Leeds and Selby Railway - 5 Contracts

[Letter] Pembroke Yard [to] S Goodrich/Thos. Roberts, [re the fixed copper boiler at the Yard, 'put up under the directions of Mr Wallace, Clerk of the Works'. With copy report, May 19, to Thomas Roberts/William Wallace, re tightness of boilers since they were fitted]

Estimates about Mr Ward's Boiler [as compared with existing ones/S Goodrich. Includes answers to some questions asked in /1602. Bears copy letter, Nov 6, London to Sir B Martin/Thos. Ward, and pencil sketch and numerous calculations]

[Draft report, Portsmouth Yard, to Navy Board/Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], J H, J R, [re improved quality of copper manufactured in the Yard, put on ships Andromache, Euryabus and Tees(?)]

[Letter] Plymo. Yard [to] S Goodrich, Falmouth/W Neil, [re 'Pale (Paul) Wheels', and the failure of paddle wheels on the Confiance]