STEPHENSON ROBERT: (1803-1859) English Civil Engineer and designer of locomotives, the only son of George ...

STEPHENSON ROBERT: (1803-1859) English Civil Engineer and designer of locomotives, the only son of George Stephenson, the 'father of railways'. A.L.S., Rob Stephenson, one page, 8vo, Newcastle, 25th October 1943, to Mr. Martin, a surveyor at Leeds. Stephenson writes, in full, 'I shall be in Leeds on Friday morning by the first train from York. Will you have the goodness to inform Mr. Young of this: by express if he be on the Line'. With blank integral leaf (slight areas of paper loss to the upper edge). Some very light creasing and minor age wear, otherwise VG