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Private letter book originally started in 1863, and used until 1865, then started again in 1876. The letters refer to cable laying in India, and the West Indies and Brazil; resistance testing to find faults on cables in a long letter to Fleeming Jenkin; and a large number of letters relating to several mining companies with which Bright was involved. He also writes about the Steam Engine Improvement Company and the Railway Lubricating Company. The volume contains many blank pages and some pages have been cut out. Some letters are illegible because of the very faint copy, and there appears to be a double impression on some pages suggesting that a second letter may have been copied onto the same page.