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Summarises articles on
Cowper P Coles
(PU1/51/1/7), on a tunnel under the English
Channel (, PU1/51/2/3), on
John Thwaites and
the opening of the
Thames
Embankment (, PU1/51/6/2), on the
Atlantic telegraph cable (, PU1/51/6/5,
, PU1/51/5/8, and
, PU1/51/6/6), on the knighthood conferred upon
John Simon (, PU1/51/8/6), on
William R
Grove and the 1866
British
Association meeting (, PU1/51/9/1,
, PU1/51/10/1) ([vii]). The article on Coles
suggests that these 'Notes' were written long after 1866: the items on Coles
and the Channel tunnel refer to Coles's death in 1870 and to a Channel tunnel
project of 1876. This section also refers to another article on the Atlantic
telegraph cable and mentions the knighthoods conferred on
Richard A
Glass,
Samuel Canning,
and
William
Thomson (, PU1/51/11/1). It also
summarises articles on election bribery (, PU1/51/11/4), on the cost of British armaments (, PU1/51/13/2), the bankruptcy of the
London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway Company (, PU1/51/17/3), a
meteor shower (, PU1/51/22/7),
John Bright's
political address in Dublin (, PU1/51/19/5),
Queen
Victoria's visit to industrial Wolverhampton (, PU1/51/23/13), the trial of a quack (, PU1/51/24/1), and the activities of an 'American Lady
Doctor',
Mary Walker (, PU1/51/25/5). ([viii])
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