Manuscript Notes on the Design of a Canal between Hull and Liverpool; plus Enclosed Agreement between Erasmus Darwin and William Rowley

Date:
c.1760
Reference:
GALTON/1/1/4/1
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Manuscript Notes on the Design of a Canal between Hull and Liverpool; plus Enclosed Agreement between Erasmus Darwin and William Rowley. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Manuscript notes in three parts, annotated "The Lichfield Edition":

  • "Part 1st. A plan of a navigable canal intended for a communication between ye ports of Hull and Liverpool", 9 ff, with enclosed manuscript notes regarding the plan (1 ff).
  • "Part ye second. General advantages of inland navigation", 14 ff. Enclosed at the back of the notebook is an agreement between Erasmus Darwin and William Rowley regarding posts and rails in Burrow-copp and Mordlin's Well, dated May 9 [17]63.
  • "Part the third. Advantages of the designed canal", 19 ff with shield illustration on the cover.

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    c.1760

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    3 bound notebooks plus 2 enclosures

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    An earlier draft is found amongst Erasmus Darwin's correspondence: see GALTON/1/1/9/5/10 and GALTON/1/1/9/5/11

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    A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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