Catalogue description Six sheets of drawings of defences at Fort Henry, Kingston. (8) No 1: 'Plan of a...

Six sheets of drawings of defences at Fort Henry, Kingston. (8) No 1: 'Plan of a Martello Tower for 1 Gun proposed to be erected in advance of Fort Henry Kingston U. Canada'. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet. Signed by J Whitmore, Capt RE, 4 December 1840. (9) No 2: 'Plans of a Martello Tower for 1 Gun Proposed to be erected in advance of Fort Henry Kingston U.C.': basement, middle floor and platform. With three overlays, showing each floor as proposed. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet. Copy signed by Hampden Moody, Lt RE, 7 January 1841. (10) No 3: 'Section of a proposed Martello Tower'. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet. (11) No 4: 'Sketch of the Ground near Hamilton Cove in advance of Fort Henry, Kingston, where it is proposed to erect a Martello Tower': plan showing contours, lines of sections. With an overlay showing a corrected plan of the glacis. Scale: 1 inch to 40 feet. (Signed) George Cliff, temporary Foreman of Works, Royal Engineers Office, Kingston, 13 August 1840. Signed by R I Baron, Major RE, 13 August 1840. (12) No 5: Sections through proposed Tower A. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet. Copy signed by Hampden Moody, Lt RE, 26 December 1840. (13) 'Kingston U.C. Points Henry and Frederick 1839. Sketch showing the Relative Positions of Fort Henry, Towers A and B, and Redoubts N ^os. 2 and 3; also, Land belonging to Government, as well as that recently obtained by Major Bonnycastle R.E.'. Scale: 1 inches to 400 feet. Compass indicator. (Signed) R H Bonnycastle, Major RE, 16 July 1839. All originally enclosed in Lt Colonel Oldfield's letter of 26 January 1841. Dimensions of sheets: (8) 36 cm x 42 cm; (9) 43 cm x 41 cm; (10) 32.5 cm x 42.5 cm; (11) 55 cm x 73.5 cm; (12) 31 cm x 54 cm; (13) 44 cm x 55 cm.