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Charlotte Guest MS XXXIII
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Coal reports
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- 1851-1853 (Creation)
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xxv, 115 ff. with insertions (paginated 1-230; ff. [i]-[xxv] and pp. 95-154, 179-203, 207-230 blank) ; 245 x 180 mm.
Leather over boards with blind fillets and brass clasp; 'Coal Reports. 1851...1853' (label on spine), 'C. E. G.' (stamped in gold on front cover).
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A volume containing transcripts of reports, 1851-1853, on the Dowlais Collieries, prepared by Thomas E. Wales, Nicholas Wood, [George] Martin, [mine agent], and John Evans, [works manager], addressed to Sir J. J. Guest and later to Lady Charlotte (pp. 1-94, 155-178). Also included are details of the power of engines used at the Dowlais Works (pp. 204-206).
Loose in the volume is a manuscript statement concerning a strike at Dowlais in 1853 (9 ff.).
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- English
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