Clark, Josiah Latimer: letter (1891)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0096 AL425
Held at	: Senate House Library, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections ›
Full title	: Clark, Josiah Latimer: letter (1891)
Date(s)	: 1891
Level of description	: fonds
Extent	: 2 leaves
Name of creator(s)	: Clark | Josiah Latimer | 1822-1898 | civil engineer x Clark | Latimer

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Josiah Latimer Clark was born in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire in 1822. He trained as a manufacturing chemist but became a railway surveyor and engineer in 1847 and later worked for the Electric and International Telegraph Company, initially as an assistant to his elder brother Edwin Clark (1814-1894). In the 1860s, Latimer Clark (as he was generally known) worked in partnership with Charles Tilston Bright and others in the laying of long-distance telegraph cables. He maintained a strong interest in pneumatics, hydraulics and other forms of engineering. As well as a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and co-founder of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians (afterwards the Institution of Electrical Engineers), Clark was a fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Geographical Society.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter from Josiah Latimer Clark of Westminster Chambers, 11 Victoria Street, London to Sydney Lupton, 2 Dec 1891. 'Your most delightful book of tables and constants is I presume on every table ...'. Writing in reply to a letter from Lupton, saying that he hopes to correct his own figures before long, since Lupton had referred him to an article by Professor [George Carey] Foster in Watts' Dictionary [of Chemistry]. Autograph, with signature.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

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Finding aids:

Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Palaeography Room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from E Hall, 1966.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
July 2008