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Ref No	DM162/10/12/folios 11-20
Title	Letterbook 12: 1841-1866
Description	DM162/162/10/12/ folio 14. Letter relating to the Great Eastern Steamship, the Great Western Railway and the South Wales Railway. Memorandum including economical long voyages by large vessels carrying own coal, sketches, dimensions, mode of construction, communication with John Scott Russell, McCalmont, Burke, Claxton and Eastern Steam Navigation Company Directors, adoption of views but opposition, resignations, adoption of plans by new Board of Hope, Talbot, Miles, Baker and Potter, efforts to raise capital, additions to Board, calculations, dimensions fixed, specifications, tenders and contracts, Russell and Blake, shares and shareholders, commencement of work, work on engines and ship construction, etc. 25 February 1854.
Date	25 February 1854
Format	Manuscript volume
Extent	10 folios

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