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The Weale Manuscripts, by Jeremy Hodgkinson, published 1979 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 16, article, pp.11-14) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558] Download PDF
Abstract:These manuscripts, entitled 'Prospectus of an intended work, in one Volume Quarto to be entitled An Historical Account of the Iron and Steel Manufactures and Trade' (etc.), are in two volumes in the Science Museum Library. They were the work of James Weale, junior, Private Secretary to the Rt. Hon. Lord Sheffield, and consist of a collection of accounts of the state of the iron trade at the beginning of the nineteenth century, together with letters from manufacturers and economists, and many statistics concerning not only the industry in the British Isles but also overseas.