Catalogue description Special Collections: Briggs Collection

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Reference: RAIL 1148
Title: Special Collections: Briggs Collection
Description:

Briggs Collection consists of three guard books containing a collection of original and copy letters etc., from George and Robert Stephenson, original letters from I.K. Brunel (1837-1841) and George Hudson (1842-1846), and a collection of original letters from well-known people, including James Allport; Wm. Cubitt; Timothy Hackworth; Jas. Nasmyth; John Peirson; William Shaw; Thomas Tredgold and others.

The collection also contains Isaac Briggs' Diary, items on the Chevet Tunnel, and the Catalogue of the Museum and Archive contents of Briggs' collection.
Date: 1820-1878
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SPC 2.
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 6 volume(s)

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