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DM162 - Brunel Collection
10 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel Letterbooks
2a - Letterbook 2a: 1839-1854
Ref No
DM162/10/2a/folio 8-10
Title
Letters to GH Gibbs and to the Trustees of the Clifton Suspension Bridge
Description
Letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to GH Gibbs, 21 January 1840. Brunel has strongly recommended that the London Committee [of the Great Western Railway] adopt the telegraph between Bristol and Bath. He is not sure whether making the same recommendation to the Bristol Committee 'will produce mischief' and asks Gibbs for his advice.
Letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the Trustees of the Clifton Bridge, 22 March 1839, requesting payment for professional services and expenses.
Date
1839-1840
Format
Manuscript
Extent
3 sheets
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