Beschreibung:

A good and well-presented archive of Great Western Railway ephemera, mostly circa 1840s-1900, including approximately 20 letters, memoranda and other manuscript items, among these an autograph letter signed from Daniel Gooch on Great Western Railway letterhead, 29 March 1849, beginning 'I think with regard to the piloting at Bristol after next month we should charge the Exeter Co. 1/3 per hour which is the half of the cost of keeping our engines standing, and if she goes out to find or look for their trains we should charge 1/- per mile run... ', 2 pp. with integral blank, 8vo, also a Union Bank of London cheque made out for six hundred pounds, 24 July 1855, and signed by Daniel Gooch, plus 7 items of railway postal services history including covers and stamps, 1860s/1870s, 5 extracted Acts of Parliament relating to railways including 'An Act to Amend and Enlarge the Powers and Provisions of the Acts Relating to the Bristol and Exeter Railway [19th May 1840]', 11 printed pamphlets, timetables and other multi-page items relating to railways including 'A Letter to the Shareholders of the Bristol & Exeter Railway' by W. Gravatt, 1841, plus approximately 65 printed documents, broadsheets, extracts and deeds including some completed in manuscript and some with postage stamps and cancellations, plus approximately 40 photographs, postcards and reproductions of engines, in total approximately 150 items, all neatly corner-mounted on black backing paper and back to back, arranged in poly sleeves in two modern ring binders, 4to, plus one related item, framed and glazed A diverse and thoughtful collection of ephemera relating to the early decades of the Great Western Railway. (3)