Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence

• Reference:GB 254 MS 102/12/12
• Dates of Creation:1859
• Physical Description:
  1 bundle

• Scope and Content

  Correspondence: 1859. Miscellaneous topics pertaining to engineering and business matters together with current, general and family affairs. Correspondents and contents include: Robert Baxter, Moulin-Lille, France (asking if PC can find a position for his brother); Institution of Engineers in Scotland (programme for meeting at which PC was to give a talk on steam engines); James Carmichael, À Ailly-sur-Somme, France (includes reference to problems with flax spinning in Dundee, an accident at the Works of M. G. Edwards of Dundee, and steam boilers) Dr. McGavin, Magadalen Place, Dundee (Discusses an orphan named John M. Hunter in PC’s employ) David Russell, 57 Abbotsford [Place?], Glasgow (concerns the widow of the Rev. Alex Campbell); D. Baxter, Hamburg (Includes reference to flood [at Dens works?]; James Sinclair, Stirling (includes discussion of pumps); James Spence, H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth (Thanks PC for kind note he sent on the death of James Sinclair’s child). (65 items)
  NB this bundle includes a letter from Robert Baxter to Peter Carmichael 5 Jan.1859 stamped with two blue French Empire stamps. This letter and some others in this bundle have had the part with their authors’ signatures cut out. Also James Carmichael to PC 11 April 1859 stamped with one Orange (40c) French Empire stamp

• Access Information

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• Archivist's Note

  Description compiled by Kenneth Baxter, April 2011

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• Accruals

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• Additional Information

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