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

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

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

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

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'

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Volume entitled: "Magpie Mine Resolution Book"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

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'

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

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'

A letter from Brunel recommending "practical men"

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

Visitors pass

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

Untitled. [Operations for the Analytical Engine]

A letter from Brunel to Monsieur D'avannes, commenting on the working conditions, accident and health records of the workforce at the Thames Tunnel

Great Western Railway – Drawing No 2 Side elevation and Cross Section

‘Experiments, Practical Working etc., of J. Gray’s Patented Improvements in Steam Engines, etc.'

Printed pamphlet entitled 'A Short and Sure guide to Railway Speculation. A Few Plain Rules how to Speculate With Safety and Profit, in Railway Shares. By a Successful Operator.' Dedicated to George Hudson by ‘A Director’. 6th ed, with additions

Letter from D. Gardmen to unknown (presumably Hardwick) offering contract for gravel paths and suggesting a type of stove for the new station

Letter from Stephen Salles to unknown (presumably Hardwick) offer to model Euston Station, rejected

Printed prospectus for the London and Birmingham Railway Hotel and Dormitories, Euston Station

Cross-written letter from Miss Smith to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Vilvorde, Belgium

Cross-written letter from Elizabeth Dove, Leeds to Prudence Nightingale (nee Hackworth), Darlington

Notice entitled 'Clarence Railway'

Notice entitled 'At Special Meeting of the Company of Proprietors of the Clarence Railway Company, held at the George and Vulture Tavern, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London...'

Notice entitled 'At the Special General Meeting of the Proprietors of the Clarence Railway, Held at the Town Hall, Stockton...'

Handwritten summary of legal case against railway labourers laying the rails for the Clarence Railway across a road

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