Publications
Report, or essay, to illustrate the advantages of direct inland communication through Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Hants, to connect the Metropolis with the ports of Shoreham, (Brighton) Rochester, (Chatham) and Portsmouth, by a line of engine rail-road, and to render the Grand Surrey Canal, Wandsworth and Merstram rail-road, Shoreham harbour, and Waterloo Bridge shares, productive property: with suggestions for diminishing poors-rates, and relieving agriculture, by William James, published 1823 (31 pp., London: published for the Author, No.3, Thavies Inn, Holborn, by J. and A. Arch, Cornhill) accessible at: British Library
Plan of the proposed line of engine rail-road to connect the ports of London, Shoreham, Rochester and Portsmouth, as designed by W. James.