[Suez Canal.] Autograph Letter Signed from Sir Emerson Tennent to Charles Manby, Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers, ?Asking for McClean?s Presidential Address & any other information about Suez Canal?.

See the three men?s entries in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with tape from mount adhering to reverse of second leaf, which is docketted by Manby. Signed ?J Emerson Tennent?. Folded once. He explains that a friend of his, ?who is much interested about the Suez Canal, is going to Egypt next week?, and that he has that day promised, if he can, ?to obtain for him, a copy of an Address which you once gave me, (but which I have put away so carefully that I cannot find it now) delivered by J. M. McClean, to the Institution, in which he stated the cost already incurred and the large balance, still required to complete the canal?. This is, he believes, ?an un-satisfactory inference as to the power of raising so great a sum, or [rending it re-production?]?. In addition to the address, he would like ?any later documents shewing the state & prospects of the enterprise?. The Suez Canal took from 1859 to 1869 to build.