| Description | Brunel asks for Guppy's advice about a complaint he has received from Maudslay, Field, and Sons: a young man employed by Maudslay's has been 'induced to leave their employment and enter those of the Steam Ship Company' [Great Western Steamship Company].
'Mr Humphrey's explanation of the terms and circumstances connected with the engagement of the young man are not satisfactory to me - I have always maintained a position agreeable to myself and advantageous to those for whom I act professionally; now one of the rules I have always strictly adhered to has been never to allow persons to be engaged except with the knowledge of the parties with whom they may be - in the present case I think Messrs. Maudsleys have some ground of complaint and I am anxious to satisfy myself as to the real state of the case that I may either most decidedly exculpate the company's agents or at least clear parties - I should like to see the young man himself and then talk to Humphries about it this evening.'
Written on paper headed 'Great Western Railway Office, Corn St, Bristol'.
See DM1306/7/34 for another letter about this dispute. |