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A lengthy Autograph Letter Signed, to Lady Hawes [Sophia Macnamara Brunel, daughter of Marc Brunel], about her brother’s [Isambard Kingdom Brunel] Reports on Clifton Bridge, the trigonometrical surveys of the ground, and “to form a sound idea of the merits of these designs they should be compared with Telford’s Menai Bridge, at that time regarded as the perfection of Engineering skill”. 4 pp. 10 x 8 inches, traces of former mounting Dowlaid House, Merthyr Tydvil, 10 October 1859. Colonel George Thomas Clark (1809 – 1898, surgeon and engineer. He was particularly associated with the management of the Dowlais Iron Company. He was also an antiquary and historian of Glamorgan.