Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence

• Reference:GB 254 MS 102/12/9
• Dates of Creation:1856
• Physical Description:
  1 bundle

• Scope and Content

  Correspondence: 1856. Miscellaneous topics pertaining to engineering and business matters together with current, general and family affairs. Correspondents and contents include: Report by the Dundee and Arbroath Railway Company; James Spence, H. M. Dockyard, Portsmouth (family and seasonal news, published and proposed articles, engineering matters, ship repairs and his failure to get the job at the Woolwich Arsenal; arrival of the ‘young Baxter’ from Lille, France (with ‘fancy’ shirts), poor health of his son and PC’s continued incapacity and consequent depression); D. Cruikshank, 38 Charles Street, Westminster (family matters and the ‘shocking event in Edinburgh’ [death/suicide of Hugh Miller?], proposed visit of family to PC); William Nairne, 228 High Street, Perth (account of how he was made bankrupt by his eldest son and with PC’s help was able to buy a druggist shop for himself and his third son); Assessment by Dundee Parochial Board for the Support of the Poor of the Parish of Dundee for the year 1st February 1856 to 1st February, 1857: £176; James Carmichael, À Ailly-sur-Somme France (coal and church matters; cost of chartering/purchasing a vessel; the Crimean war; family matters; samples of yarn; comparative price of Russian and Picardy flax; the design of hackling machines; the possibility of his becoming a partner in his company on the withdrawal of Mr Baxter and raising the necessary capital); Rev. James Thomson (regarding a line from PC for the admittance of a boy to the hospital); [P.] M. Duncan of John Brown’s, Dundee (payment of an invoice; Charter Party for the vessel Lee, to be loaded at Seaham with coals for Abbeville); William Henderson, Riga (peace conference for the Crimean War; high price of flax; the efficiency of his wood mill); S. Stevens, 24 Bloomsbury Street, London (delivery note); George Lowden, 25 Union Street, Dundee ( design for a mounting); John Carmichael, Carestane; James Paterson, Dundee (regarding William Nairne); Potts, Cairnie & Ray, Edinburgh (drawing and estimate for a bookcase); Dr Henry S. Boase, Claverhouse (regarding bleaching and dyeing); Yates, Brown & Howatt, 2 Springfield Court, 69 Queen Street, Glasgow: (an order for fine linen yarn from a third party); John Behrens, King Street Office (accountancy matters with Mechanics books balanced to 9th February); George Carmichael, Ward Foundry, Dundee (regarding a meeting.); James Sinclair, Strone, Stirling (answering PC’s queries on the suitability of his water engine as a water meter); John Corlass (an invitation from Mr Baird for PC to visit the works of Messrs J & N. T. Scott & co., John Street Works, Glasgow); Fred Smith, New Bond Street, Halifax, Yorks (recommends a cure for PC’s leg; request for advice on the terms of a business partnership); Thomas Greenwood, Leeds (regarding dispute between Mr Batty and himself and Mr Fairburn, previously partners); Notice of tax payable for 1854. (Approximately 112 items)

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• Archivist's Note

  Description compiled by Kenneth Baxter, April 2011

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