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Collapse D356 - Butterley Company of Ripley, colliery owners, iron founders, mechanical engineers and brick manufacturers and other papers - 19th cent

D356 - Butterley Company of Ripley, colliery owners, iron founders, mechanical engineers and brick manufacturers and other papers - 19th cent

1 - Wallet of William Thomas, Butterley Iron Works. Thomas is listed as an agent of the Butterley Company in an 1846 Directory. The wallet contained the following papers:- - 1832

2-7 - Butterley Company promissory notes, signed on behalf of the company by William Thomas - 1837-1842

8 - Note of experiments in melting pig iron at Messrs Gibson and Co.'s foundry at Derby, using Lane End pigs, and Butterley pigs, May - 1841

9 - Account of shares - [c.1845]

10 - Cure for corns and cure for toothache (taken from The Lancet) - 1840

11 - Prescription for colycinth pills, issued by Thomas Cooper, dispensing chemist, Leicester, to Mr Thomas - 1841

13-20 - Miscellaneous medical prescriptions and recipes - [c.1840]

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