| Description | Written on headed paper from Normandy's Patent Marine Aerated Fresh Water Company Limited, Offices, 9 Lancaster Place, Strand, London. The letter requests an early appointment with Brunel so that Normandy can discuss his distilling apparatus with a view to its inclusion on the Great Eastern. The letter lists some existing customers, including a foreign navy, the Atrato and the Peninsular and Oriental company. The letter may have originally been accompanied by Normandy's pamphlet explaining his apparatus (DM1306/11/22/1). The letter was copied out as DM1306/11/1/5/folio 84-85 in Brunel's letter books of Great Eastern correspondence. |