| Description | Written from the Senior United Service [?] Club, Pall Mall. He has met Brunel at the house of Sir Richard Airy. He asks Brunel's permission for his brother Sir David Cunningham, and his aide-de-camp, Mr Ellis, to visit the Leviathan (SS Great Eastern) and gives details of Cunningham's past command.
Annotated, probably by Brunel, with a brief note of his reply. |