Correspondence: 1858. Miscellaneous topics pertaining to engineering and business matters together with current, general and family affairs. Correspondents and contents include: Accounts Office, General Post Office, Edinburgh (regarding money order); D. Cruickshank, Bedford Place, Southampton (requesting money), Notice of taxes; James Sinclair, Strone, Stirling (announcing birth of his daughter); Andrew Ogilvie (relating to share in Dundee and Arbroath Railway); James Spence, H. M. Dockyard, Portsmouth (include reference to PC ‘calendering patent’) William Ramsay (Asks if PC can do anything for Andrew Crichton, son of Robert Crichton who seeks employment) James Carmichael, À Ailly-sur-Somme, France (include several references to James’ concerns about PC’s health, Robert Baxter, Moulin-Lille (Nord) France,(regrets to learn of PC’s poor health and seeks employment for his nephew David) David Baxter, Hamburg (discusses travel in Germany), Andrew Fullerton, Portsea Island Gas Works (Thanks PC for introduction to his brother-in-law [James Spence?]) (129 items)
NB this bundle includes a letter from Robert Baxter to Peter Carmichael 2 July 1858 stamped with two blue (20c) French Empire stamps and from James Carmichael to PC 20 Oct. 1858 stamped with one Orange (40c) French Empire stamp