Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence
- Reference:GB 254 MS 102/12/3
- Dates of Creation:1845-1846
- Physical Description:1 bundle
Scope and Content
Correspondence: 1845 – 1846. Miscellaneous topics pertaining to engineering and business matters together with current, general and family affairs. Some letters originally sent to Baxter Brothers, rather than Peter Carmichael specifically. Correspondents and contents include:
James Low, Monifieth (recommending John Mathers as a porter);
David Smith, chairman, Princes Street Yearly Society (thanking PC for use of the school room for meetings);
William Nairne, Milnhaugh, (engineering and machine matters including discussions regarding an ‘atmospheric railway’, reference to a published article criticising his propelling engine, condolences on the death of Charles Carmichael);
David Carmichael (regarding a summons by PC to return immediately to Dundee from [Cwm Avon Works, Taibach] in consequence of the illness of his cousin Charles Carmichael, Ward Foundry);
James Spence, Portsmouth (Death of Charles Carmichael, discussion on steam engines, experiments in the naval dock yard, his career, news of the army in India and possible war with America);
Robert Baxter, Lille, France (regarding hackling machinery and the quality of flax);
John Sturrock (although PC has marked on the front Jas Watson), Scottish Provident Institution (regarding an annuity for two ladies, with copy letters from PC);
William Thomson & Co., Brown Square Foundry, Belfast (regarding the design, fabrication and performance of a heckling machine patented by PC and Thomas Marsden);
D[avid] Gavin Scott, Dunfermline (regarding the nature and infringement of a patent);
David Peter, 10 Canning Street, Salford (machine and engineering matters);
William Johnston, Editor, Mechanics Magazine Office, 18 Nelson St., Glasgow (regarding the submission of information for publication by PC);
John Drummond, Les Moulins, Lez Lille, France, (request for advice about machines, including [William] Nairne’s patent machine, and production);
George Drummond, Rutherford Works, Dunfermline (mainly family matters);
Stephen Cotton, No. 1, Elmwood Vale, Leeds, (requesting samples of hemp tow and yarns);
John Batley, Leeds, (request for information on hackling; thanks PC for providing this);
Lord and Brook, Albion Foundry, Leeds (requesting permission to manufacture hackling machinery incorporating PC’s payment).
[31 items]
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Description compiled by Kenneth Baxter, April 2011
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