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Scottish letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for obtaining sulphur, sulphurous acid and other products from pyrites

Collection of copy letters, business and personal, of Richard Beamish

Volume entitled: "Commander's Complete Book. H.M. Ship Queen, 116 [guns]"

Letters patent (no. 1216) granted to Joseph Webb for 'Improvements in Rotary Engines'

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'

Bound manuscript volume entitled: "Diary of a Week in North Wales By Henry Sharrock"

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

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

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Curteis and Kingsford, Solicitors

Copy plans and papers relating to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway first-class railway carriage

Volume entitled; "Specimens of turning by Henry Perrigal Esqr. and given by him to Jas. Wilcox"

Volume entitled: "[Record of] Lead ore raised at Longstone Edge Mines, Sampled ... and sold"

Notes on Civil Engineering

Letters patent granted to Thomas Clarke and John Varley for 'An improvement on the atmospheric system of propulsion which is also applicable to other motive purposes'

Notebooks of Mark Scott on South Hetton Colliery

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

Volumes entitled: "The natural history of British shells including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discover'd in Great Britain systematically arranged ('in the Linnean manner')"

Volume entitled: "Magpie Mine Resolution Book"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

Copy correspondence between John Wood, chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue, and various parties regarding coffee and chicory, with reports

The Illustrated London News Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations

Sketch books of drawings of fragments recovered from the shipwrecks of the Royal George and the Edgar

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"

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

Volume entitled: "Arrete du Ministre des Travaux Publics portant reglement pour l'Ecole Nationale des Mines, Paris"

PHD: 'Specimens of the work of spiral and oval drawing machine'

Diary of Robert Stephenson

Melksham Turnpike Trust

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

Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

Invoice from Peel, Williams and Peel for a steam engine supplied to Messrs Coates and Wright

Notes and observations on ores and compounds

Temporary staging

A letter from Brunel to G Dollond saying the entrance to the tunnel will be at Wapping

Drawing entitled 'Sectional Drawing for a Steel Protected Cruiser for Colonial Defence to be named'

Stepping No. 1 on or in central wheels. Figure 1. Figure 2. Various unnumbered elevations, plans and details.

Brunel's autobiographical note

A letter from Davies Giddy advising Richard Trevithick on his future course of action following the failure of a claim for government assistance

A letter from Brunel recommending "practical men"

Notebook titled 'Draft Notations and Sketches of Notations: Cases'

Elevation of parts of middle group drawn in plan on No. 127.

See designs dated 1834 November 27 and 1834 December 29.

Visitors pass

Receipts and charges for various accounts and goods plus lists of addresses and of fruit trees planted by A. Parkes