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Hoping that this covers your inquiry to your complete satisfaction, I am, Sir,
Yours sincerely, Edgar Harvey
Blowne House 25th May
Ref: - 58/196-Features Reporter Coalville Recorder 11 Leatham St Coalville,
Leics.
My dear Mr Plant,
Having all my life been interested in seismological phenomena, I was
profoundly interested in your article in the issue of the Recorder for 18th
May. I know your coverage was as complete as any man-in-the-street could
possibly wish, but wonder if perhaps you could help me in my own rather more
specialized inquiry? Tremors of the type you described so well are
particularly interesting to me, but there are further details for which, if it
is at all possible you can supply them, I would be extremely grateful.
Calculations I have made suggest (however
inaccurately) that the Coalville shocks were of a linear rather than a general
nature; that is, that they occurred on a line almost directly south to north
and in that chronological order - the most southerly occurring first. This, at
least, is my guess, and I would be grateful if you could corroborate, or (as
no doubt the case will be) deny my suspicion; to which end I enclose a
stamped, addressed envelope.
Sincerely and appreciatively
Yrs, I am, sir,
Titus Crow
Blowne House 25th May
Ref: - 57/196-Raymond Bentham, Esq. 3 Easton Crescent Alston, Cumberland
My dear sir,
Having read a cutting from a copy of the Northern Daily Mail for 18th May, I
would like to say how vastly interested I was in that article which contained
certain parts of your report on the condition of the west sections of Harden
Mine's old workings, and feel it a great pity that Sir David Betteridge,
scientific adviser to the Northeast Coal-Board, has chosen to look at your
report in so unenlightened and frivolous a manner.
To me, while admittedly knowing little of yourself or your job, it would seem
rather irresponsible on the part of so large and well-founded an industrial
board to employ for twenty years an Inspector of Mines without, during that
time, discovering that his 'faculties are not all that they should be!'
Now, I am not a young man myself, indeed at sixty-three years of age I am far
and away your senior, but I have complete faith in my faculties - and, since
reading certain of the things in your report which I can (in a rather peculiar
way) corroborate, I am also sure that you were quite correct in the
observations you made in the complex of the discontinued Harden workings. Just
how I can be so sure must, unfortunately, remain my secret - like most men I
am averse to derision, a point I am sure you will appreciate - but I hope to
offer you at least some proof of my sincerity in writing this letter.
Thus, to reassure you beyond any doubt that I am not simply 'pulling your
leg', or in any way trying to add my own sarcastic comment to what has already
been made of your report, I return your attention to the following:
Other than mentioning briefly certain outlines which you say you found etched
in the walls of those new and inexplicable tunnels which you discovered down
there cut (or rather 'burned', as you had it) through the rock a mile below