Autograph letter signed (“Rob Stephenson”), to Mr Leader, written from Cairo, thanking him for his kindness “in giving me the opportunity of presenting a few curious relics of this singular country to some of my friends on my return to England”, one page, 4to, partly laid down, Cairo, 3 January 1859 Both Stephenson and Brunel, his great friend and rival, spent that winter in Egypt for their health, dining together in Cairo on Christmas Day. Both were to die during the course of 1859.
Autograph letter signed (“Rob Stephenson”), to Mr Leader, written from Cairo, thanking him for his kindness “in giving me the opportunity of presenting a few curious relics of this singular country to some of my friends on my return to England”, one page, 4to, partly laid down, Cairo, 3 January 1859 Both Stephenson and Brunel, his great friend and rival, spent that winter in Egypt for their health, dining together in Cairo on Christmas Day. Both were to die during the course of 1859.
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