"I have your favour of the 14th instant, and hope to find you as forward on your job on our arrival at Bridgenorth as you state. I expect all the boiler and smith work will be shipped for London early in October; we shall then leave Cornwall for your works, at which time you will be very much annoyed with our company, unless we find your assertions grounded on facts. Enclosed I send you Mr. Uville's draft for 150l. Your receipt for the draft enclosed in my letter of the 16th instant has not yet arrived.
"I hope you will also have all the apparatus ready to try the new engine; Mr. Uville is very anxious to take the first of these new engines with him. When you send a receipt for the enclosed, please to say what state of forwardness the whole of our work is in, and do not neglect a moment to get the whole executed with all possible dispatch.
"Nothing short of a want of cast iron will confine our friend in England one day after the end of this month.
"I am, Gentlemen,
"Your very humble servant,
"Richard. Trevithick.
"Messrs. Hazeldine, Rastrick, and Co."
It seems probable that in 1813 a railway locomotive, with apparatus for rock boring, and steam-crane, was made for South America as the forerunner of the 'Sanspareil' of 1829.
[Rough draft.]
"Camborne, October 1st, 1813.
"Gentlemen,
