A half-page typed letter addressed "Dear Robert" and signed "Wilbert Awdry" discussing Awdry's research in the archives of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway ("B'ham & Glos. Rly"). "The Birmingham (Working) Committee Minutes are fascinating, full of almost day to day incidents in the running of the railway, and plenty about.....

First Edition. An interesting glimpse at postal history for coast-to-coast mail in the US before the transcontinental railroad was completed. This report by the Committee on Public Expenditures describes a dispute over the mail contract between the railroad terminus at Cheyenne (now Wyoming, but then part of the Dakota Territory).....