| Description | A series of letters to Sheridan (grandson of the playwright) who lived at Frampton Court, Frampton, Dorset, about a station to be built at Frampton. The group as a whole concerns the efforts of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the Great Western Railway Company to build a broad gauge line west of Salisbury to Exeter.
'I shall possibly have to ask you to attend a 2nd reading on 12th March of Southampton Salisbury broad gauge...'
The letters have been arranged according to the numbers on the top of the first page of each letter; this numbering is not in date order. |