Letters, 1868 Mrs. Georgia A. Hulse McLeod
Principal
Southern Literacy Inst.
Baltimore
Dear Madam,
I enclose check on the Bk House of Wilson Callaway & Co New York for three hundred dollars on account of advance for tuition Board etc of my daughter and Miss Dabney. – Will you be good enough to have the accounts made separately for each of the girls. – I could separate most of the items but some were not defined. – The only item in the account of which we had not been advised was the full charge for music and use of piano, without deduction for the 7 weeks which had passed at the time the girls entered. – If it is your rule we are quite satisfied. – We feel thankful for the kind and watchful care you have kept over the girls, and the lively interest manifested for their welfare. – On receipt of the separate accounts and acknowledgement of the enclosed check, I will remit the balance due.
With kind regards and great respect
I am
Yr. Obt. Svt.
L. P. Grant
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Feby 18th 8
R. H. Campbell Esq
Treasr Va Mil. Inst.
Lexington Va
Dear Sir
Yours of Feb 1st calling my attention to the balance against L. P. Grant a/c of son, has been recd. On examination of acct. book of details I find the following chgd in full for 10 mos when they should have been for 2 mos –
Tuition fees 100.00 Should have been 20.00
Medical fees 10.00 “ “ “ 2.00
Also board for 2 mos 37.50, before charged at 14.68 per month or 29.00 for two months. –
These deductions will leave the account $99.00 less $76.50 = $2.55 due the Inst.
I find that my payments to the Inst. for one term of 10 months and 2 months of the second term making 12 months in all have been - $ 860.00
Returned to my son in cash $ 91.00
Net amt paid to Institute $ 769.00
I was much surprised on looking over the items in the account book that such extravagance and waste should have been permitted. I enclose $2.55 bal. as per my statement above. Very Respectfully
L. P. Grant
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July 18th 8
Thos. W. H. Moseley Esq
Engr & Co 98 Nassau Street
New York
Dear Sir
I desire to put a Mansard or French roof (are they the same?) on the main two storey portion of my house and my attention has been called to your circulars for corrugated iron roofs. – My main house is 52 x 42 feet – would require in the roof 3 windows each front & rear and two for each end – in all 10 windows. – To give sufficient light for rooms, the eaves should be at least 8 feet in vertical measurement above the attic floor, which with the curvature would require the sheets of iron to be fully 9 ft long. – In the matter of the flat portion of the roof, how much inclination would you require to ensure it against leakage? What would be the cost of such a roof? As there is nothing of the kind in this city a satisfactory result on my house would do much to bring your work into notice. – If your reply should be satisfactory I will send tracings of elevation, etc.
Yrs truly
L. P. Grant
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Sept 3rd
Messrs Alexandre & Mason
Solicitors of Patents
Washington D.C.
Gent:
In making application for a patent as per model and sketch (now in your hands) – permit to state that I am by profession a civil engineer and have served in the various …. (?) of the profession for 31 years. – During this long term I have had much experience of railroads. – I this particular province the subject of joint fastenings has commanded more attention from Engineers than any other and the variety of appliances that have been invented to overcome the defect of joints in the rails will afford you evidence of the importance that has attached to this subject. – In the model submitted I do not claim any new principles, but a new form which combined the principle of suspending the joint between crossties with the greatest economy in the weight of splice for the required vertical and lateral strength. – The use of rivets is theoretically inadmissible in view of the expansion and contraction of rails under changes of temperature. – Practically I have tested this matter for 15 years and find that a slightly elongated hole in the splice-plate admits sufficient movement of the rail (which under our extremes of temperature is 1/16th of an inch each way from the centre) without impairing or loosening the rivet to an appreciable extent.
In your letter of Augt 12th to Mr. Chandler you request him to state the advantage of suspending the joint between crossties. One advantage is economy in the weight of splice, which must otherwise be sufficiently long to rest on 3 crossties, and the vertical rib must be let into the centre crosstie. – The main advantage, however is in removing the joint from a rigid bearing, to that of some elasticity. The joints are seldom so nicely adjusted as not to impart slight shocks to the machinery and rolling stock. – The more rigid the bearings, the more destructive the shocks to passing trains, and to the iron rails. – Experienced Engineers appreciate this advantage highly.
Not being conversant with the usual wording of specifications I will leave that to your more enlarged experience. As this form of splice may suggest to your mind a practical difficulty in making it I will state the mode. – The section through the rib is rolled in any convenient length, say from 25 to 37 feet, by the same process as railway bars, the rib being continuous. The long bars are then cut into the required lengths of splice, say 3 ft, and the rib clipped to the form of model. –
In forming the model, the … [the rest of this para is too feint to decipher].
Please state in the specifications that the six (?) holes in the splice are elongated to admit expansion & contraction of rails.
I enclose $20.00 by mail to-day. Respectfully
L. P. Grant
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Atlanta Dec 1st 1868
As an act of charity I give permission to Mrs. Lizzie Murphy to place a temporary stand for the sale of fruits, etc. on my lot on Marietta Street adjoining the store of N. Seltzer. – The stand to be occupied only by Mrs. Murphy and her Son, and to be vacated at any time after three days notice. –
L. P. Grant
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