Cutting from diary page, probably by Marc Brunel during Thames Tunnel work, no date
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Object number2014.03181
TitleCutting from diary page, probably by Marc Brunel during Thames Tunnel work, no date
Creator Marc Isambard Brunel (author)
DescriptionCutting from a page of a diary, probably Sir Marc Brunel's handwriting. No clear date - the entries are dated Saturday 3rd and Wednesday 7th, and there is a pencilled note 'July', but this may be in a different hand.
There are notes which seem to relate to river tides, which suggests it is most probably from the Thames Tunnel era, along with other similarities to other diary pages dating from that time. The entries are incomplete due to the section having been cut from a larger page; in the entry for Saturday 3rd, he remarks that he has been 'up every night by 2 o'c[lock] for two hours'. He writes of culverts and a pipe, presumably in relation to the Tunnel. For the Wednesday 7th entry, 'I have not missed being up upwards of two hours every night tho' not noticed before', and says that on this day in 1799, he 'left Havre for America viz New York.'
Transcript available.
Production date 1825 - 1843
Object namediary sheet
Object categorypersonal record
Materialpaper
Techniquehand written
Dimensions
- height: 45 mm
width: 120 mm
Credit line“Accepted under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government from Clive Richards OBE DL and allocated to the ss Great Britain Trust, 2017”