Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence
- Reference:GB 254 MS 102/12/7
- Dates of Creation:1854
- Physical Description:1 bundle
Scope and Content
Letter to PC from William Henderson, Mitchell & Co office, Riga (serious problems working in Riga and death of his wife following childbirth);
Thomas Greenwood, Wellington Foundry, Leeds (manufacturing, the state of world trade, war with Russia; a move to ordnance work; a dispute regarding the infringement of patents; wire ropes);
James Carmichael, Filature d’Ailly (family and production matters; the Crimean War, its effects on the availability of Russian flax and the consequences for trade; praise for the Bonapartes, description (with sketch of battlefield) of a visit to Waterloo; the ruin of Robert Baxter’s business in Lille and David Cruikshank taking over his mill; political comments; weather, corn and potato harvests, death of PC’s father, ?25 November, 1854);
James Sinclair Stirling (regarding an engine for powering the printing press of the Edinburgh Guardian newspaper and its suitability for use in South America; his development of water pumps and their potential for powering boats);
Scottish Provident Institution (life insurance renewal);
D. Cruickshank, 38 Charles Street, Westminister (family matters and health, teaching and writing);
James Spense, H. M. Dockyard, Portsmouth (family and engineering matters; sail cloth, ropes, coal sacks; the preparation and fitting of ships to take French troops to the Baltic);
Dundee Water Company (the laying of pipes at Springhill Road);
Robert Baxter, Moulins, Lille, France (request for advice on manufacturing matters, details of a new scutching machine);
George Carmichael, Ward Foundry, (concerning letters of introduction to works in England);
D. Small, Dundee, (concerning PC’s enrolment as an elector for the Burgh);
J. Ramsay, Crieff: (the selling of spa water at Crieff, with a sketch of the proposed ‘water palace’; enquiry if ‘our William’ should apply for an advertised post of house surgeon at Dundee Royal Infirmary);
John Smith, Dock Street, (concerning the order of wine);
Samuel Lash, Portsmouth Dockyard, (regarding a present of towels and a sample of white sail cloth);
James Cox, 4 Dudhope Terrace, Dundee (Relates to PC and Mrs Carmichael meeting ‘Dr’ to sign legal document);
James Grandison, Glasgow (concerning the post of flax mill manager in Mexico).
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Description compiled by Kenneth Baxter, April 2011
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