Letter from Edgar Swan to Lewin Swan, London, 5 Jan 1855.
He writes that he has arranged with Edward Betts the staffing of the railway construction company for the Crimea. He himself will be paid £550.
From collection of 18 letters mostly exchanged between the brothers Edgar and Lewin Swan, Eastern Counties Railway Engineers, 1854-1855.
Edgar went to the Crimea as one of three assistant engineers with the consortium of Peto, Brassey and Betts to construct the Balaklava railway.
Lewin at the same time was working in Paris.
With transcripts.
Associated with the Crimean War (1854-1856)