Robert Stephenson 1850 signed Engineer’s Card, ex Wellburn
Robert Stephenson 1850 signed Engineer’s Card, ex Wellburn Lot 129 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreRobert Stephenson 1850 signed Engineer’s Card, ex Wellburn Lot 129 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreVictoria, V.I. Nov 1862 P.O. Paid Oval Stampless Cover, ex Wellburn Lot 74 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreC.P.R. Engineer’s Office, New West, B.C. 4 Nov 1881 Smith letter Lot 116 in our auction...
Read MoreNew Westminster, B.C. 28 Nov 1882 3-pg Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 87 in our auction...
Read MoreNew Westminster, B.C. 18 Oct 1881 4-pg Marcus Smith Letter to wife Lot 85 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreNew Westminster 7 Oct 1881 2-pg Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 91 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreNew Westminster, B.C. 27 Sep 1881 4-pg Marcus Smith letter to wife Lot 70 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreCamp at Fort Hope 16 Sep 1881 1pg Marcus Smith Letter to his wife Lot 81 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreNew Westminster 9 Sep 1881 Marcus Smith 2pg letter to his wife Lot 72 in our auction Saturday 18th...
Read MoreNew Westminster, B.C. 28 Aug 1881 3pg Marcus Smith letter to wife Lot 65 in our auction Saturday...
Read More“..I hope he [Tom] now has time to improve himself and instead of reading trashy novels he will get some Harper’s standard publications. They are very cheap – his biographies are only 75 cents each – so that if he only got one or even two a month it would not hurt his pocket much – I suppose Arthur will be going back before you get this – I hope he will do as well this year as last – I suppose all the big girls are away from home and left you and Clarice alone – tell the sprat she must write to Papa –
Read MoreCamp on Fraser 8 Aug 1881 3pg Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 84 in our auction Saturday 27th...
Read MoreNew Westminster B.C. 29 Jul 1881 Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 87 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreJuly 19th,1881
My dear Wife
I have had a very hard month’s work surveying the Harbour of Port Moody and adjacent grounds for the western terminus of the C.P.R. It is surrounded by high hills wooded with trees of enormous size. Many of them fallen and with the rankest growth of underbrush-..
Sold for $605, Port Moody, B.C. 26 June 1881 Marcus Smith 3-page letter to his wife
“The surveys are fairly commenced and I have been forced to do some very hard work- owing to the incompetency of the assistant Ailyn who has had very little experience and is naturally very dull & stupid- Gamsby is very little better. He has hitherto got on by always having good assistants but knows nothing himself- has no brains but for old woman’s gossip- has no instruments, never had any in his life nor does he care about the work- ..”
Shoal Lake N.W. Territories 1880
“My Dear Wife… We have had wretched weather for six weeks past especially the last month. High winds and cold with rain overhead and swamps the men are constantly soaked to the waist almost- Our tents are always dripping and everything is damp some of us are suffering from rheumatism, and my joints are stiff. But I am otherwise well- But my long journeys are over..”
Rapid City, N.W.T. 7 Sep 1880 Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 29 in our auction Saturday 2nd...
Read MoreFort Ellice, NWT 16 Aug 1880 1.5pg Marcus Smith letter to his wife Lot 24 in our auction Saturday...
Read More“..This has been a very difficult work- as the greater portion is densely wooded with swamps interspersed- so that the labour has been severe and the mosquito nuisance almost unbearable What were they made for?..”
Read More“..At the same time comes a telegram from Schreiber asking me to report to him at least once a fortnight and before work is commenced to submit all plans and profiles for the impr approval of the Govt. The Govt. being Mr. Schreiber- The first part is literally impossible and useless. The second implies that I am not to be trusted in designing the work- I shall take no notice of either excepting a simple acknowledgement of his telegram..”
Read MoreWinnipeg 6 June 1880 Marcus Smith 4 page letter to his wife Lot 23 in our auction Saturday 28th...
Read MoreMarcus > “.. I have positively refused to take instructions from Mr. Schreiber or Report to him the result may be that I shall be recalled and return home next week, or if not I shall simply go on with my work and ignore Schreiber altogether”
Read MoreC.P. Hotel Winnipeg 25 May 1880 2pg Marcus Smith Letter to Brophy Lot 41 in our auction Saturday...
Read MoreC.P.R. Manitoba District 8 July 1879 Marcus Smith Letter to his wife Lot 35 in our auction...
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