| Description | Written from 18 Duke Street, Westminster, London. The letter accepts Beale's alternative suggestion for the manufacture of the iron bars that Brunel wants and requests Beale put in train the immediate manufacture of a small sample of the bars with certain caveats as to the shape of the bars in cross-section. There is a rectangular box drawn in pencil under the text with the label 'Sketch' - possibly indicating that the original letter had a sketch drawing demonstrating Brunel's point as to the cross-section of the bars. |