Unidad documental simple 51 - Letter from Robert Pemberton Milnes to Thomas Davison Bland

Harrogate. - Agreeable day with the Stephensons at Serlby: the elder [George] talked not of railways but of Biblical creation, he showed little admiration for Sir Robert Peel and had never heard him express any opinion. Robert Stephenson's opinion of Bawtry railway scheme; his foreign projects; opinion of his former pupil Locke; the York-London line. Threat to the Badsworth Hunt; railway dinner at Serlby; crops; Harrogate business depressed by foreign railways; Mrs Thackray's property.