Letter from William and Lewis Cubitt to Works and Buildings Dept

Letter from William and Lewis Cubitt to Works and Buildings Dept.

[Work Dept Ref No. In Red Ink : With 5995]

Gray's Inn Road

30th November 1831

Gentn.

We are willing to Erect and Finish the New Buildings for Mr. Babbage's Calculating Engine in East Street Manchester Square Agreeably to the Drawings and Specification for the Sum of Eighteen Hundred and ninety Pounds.

We are Gentn

Your obedient Servants

William and Lewis Cubitt

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£1890-0-0

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Accepted (signed) B.C. Stephenson

Letter from Decimus Burton to Works Dept

[Works Department Ref. No. In red Ink: In 6099]

6 Spring Garden

February [del: 2nd] 6th 1832

I hereby certify that Messrs Cubitt, having completed two thirds of their Contract for the Building now erecting to contain Mr. Babbage's Calculating Engine, workshops, Dwelling rooms, &c. in East Street, Manchester Square, are entitled to receive the first Instalment on the same amounting to one thousand pounds.

[Signed] Decimus Burton

£1000------

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Letter from Decimus Burton to Sir B.C. Stephenson, 6th February 1832

[Works Dept Ref No. In red ink: No. 6099]

6 Spring Garden

6th February 1832

Sir,

I beg leave to acquaint you, that Messrs Cubitt, having performed two thirds of the works under their Contract dated 30th November last, for erecting Buildings for the reception of Mr. Babbage's Calculating Engine, &c., and by which they become entitled to receive the Sum of One thousand pounds (£1000) on account -request me to forward to you my certificate to that effect. I beg leave accordingly to transmit the same herewith, and to add, that in consequence of the urgent representations which were made by Mr. Babbage &c. of the importance of having the works completed with all possible dispatch, I therefore directed

Messrs Cubitt to use every exertion in forwarding the Buildings, and which they have now covered in.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient and humble servant

Decimus Burton

To Genl Sir B. Stephenson

Surveyor General

[In file at this point is a slip of paper bearing these words:

Plan/6

Decimus Burton's plans for the buildings have gone missing since those days.]