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[Letter] Portsmouth [to] S Goodrich/J Nolloth, [re] Capt Elliot's Cable Shackle

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

1235

Design for fire-extinguishing engine

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']

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

4p on 1 leaf

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

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

2p on 1 leaf

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

1p

[Chart of Thermometer readings, showing] Height of Fahrenheit at Ascension [Island] 1820 & 1821

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?]

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 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]

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']

2p on 1 leaf

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

1p

Estimates for Digging up & removing the Shoal at the Entrance of Ports. Harbour/[S Goodrich]

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

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']

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']

BLANK

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

1p

[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']

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

325

Drawing of sprocket wheels for chains of a chain pump

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?]

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.

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.

1p

[Memo re] Weight of Boilers of Echo and Confiance

6p on 3 leaves

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

37 x 22.5cm

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

285

Transverse section of a chain pump for a frigate

1p

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

2p on 1 leaf

[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]

25.5 x 20.5cm

[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

3p on 1 leaf

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

440

Engraving of Price's patent accelerator for steam packets

2p on 1 leaf

[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