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Title: Letter from Smiles to Murray, 30 Nov 1859

Author(s): Smiles, Samuel

6 Granville Park Terrace
Blackheath S.E

30 Nov 1859.




My Dear Sir


I have sent the first half
or so of the revised proofs to
Clowes & Coy , & will send the
remainder tomorrow . I will
make few or no alterations ,
in order that there may be
no delay ; and they may go
on printing off by Monday .


I hope the paper in
Frazer will do no harm —
if only by identifying me
in some way with the subject
of the Stephensons . I hear




Nov 30 1859

S. Smiles


of two , if not three Lives of
him as contemplated — one by
Manly of the Civil Engineers ,
another by a Mr W. B. Adams.
Theirs will be engineering mainly ,
& therefore I will [¿] to make
mine popular. Shall I write
Whymper about the requisite cuts?


[Yours] faithfully


S Smiles


P.S. — Will you direct your clerk
to send me a copy of Crokers
large vol Boswell , & to charge






me with it. Last night I
had the inspection of a large
mass of old letters which unravel
the mystery of the correspondence
with Lewis Paul referred to in
the vol.


J. Murray Esq