| Description | Item 1: number not used
Item 2: Personal correspondence: Letter from Bryan Donkin to Thomas Sopwith, inviting him to an early meeting before a meeting of the Institute of Civil Engineers. Includes late 20th Cent explanatory note. 18 Mar, 1839
Item 3: Personal correspondence: copy letter book of Bryan Donkin in Bermondsey. Subjects covered include business appointments, paper mills, schools, machinery. Some annotations explaining content of letters. 1 May to 30 Sep. Use photocopies. (item 4), 1815
Item 4: Photocopies of Item 3
Item 5: Personal correspondence: copy letter book of Bryan Donkin in Bermondsey. Subjects covered include financial matters. Some annotations explaining content of letters. 2 May to 9 May. Use photocopies., 1816
Item 6: Photocopies of Item 5
Item 7: Personal correspondence: copy letter book of Bryan Donkin in Bermondsey. Mainly concerning family business and appointments, but other subjects are covered, including phrenology. Some annotations explaining content of letters. 22 May-21 Sep. Use photocopies (item 8), 1816
Item 8: Photocopies of Item 7
Item 9: Personal correspondence: copy letter book of Bryan Donkin in Bermondsey. Subjects covered include phrenology, engines and dredging machines. Some annotations explaining content of letters. 15 Oct to 25 Dec. Use photocopies (item 10), 1816
Item 10 Photocopies of Item 9
Item 11: Personal correspondence: copy letter book of Bryan Donkin in Bermondsey. Subjects covered include phrenology, printing machines and appointments. Some annotations explaining content of letters. 8 Mar to 24 Apr. Use photocopies (item 12), 1817
Item 12: Photocopies of Item 11
Item 13: Photographs of pages of Bryan Donkin's copy letter book. Subjects covered include dredging machines and mills. 6 Jan to 8 Mar 1817, 20th cent; also contains photocopies of original letters in D5029.
Item 14: Assorted typed and manuscript copy correspondence to and from Bryan Donkin during 1815-1823. Subjects covered including a journey to Inverness and construction of the Caledonian Canal. Also including extract copied from the Bristol Mirror 31 August 1816 re Dr Johann Spurzheim's public demonstrations of brain dissection, and related correspondence, 19th-20th cent
Item 15: Photocopy of item 1, 20th cent
Items 16-17: Plant records: pair of registers of company property, e.g. motor vehicles, furniture, engineering equipment. Gives itemised details of makes/models, dates of purchase (and re-sale, where relevant) and other related information, c1950s-1970s |