| Description | Written from the Eastern Steam Navigation Company at 13 Gresham Street, London. The minute is signed by John Yates, the Eastern Steam Navigation Company's secretary, and records a resolution that Brunel has been requested to communicate with both John Scott Russell and James Watt & Co in order to prepare the documents needed to complete the provisional contracts for the building of the ship. (The following page, Folio 80, is blank). |