1870 The Ocean Telegraph to India A Narrative and a Diary

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Source, Scarce, With Letter

The first edition of the work. Scarce.

With a colour frontispiece, six further monochrome plates, a folding map, and two folding charts. Collated complete.

With a letter from the Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company to the author reading:

"My Dear Mr Parkinson,

I have much pleasure on behalf of the Directors of this company to acknowledge the receipt of your interesting and valuable record of the British Indian Submarine Telegraph Expedition of 1869-70, and to thank you most heartily for the able manner in which you carried out the important and delicate work entrusted to your hands- and believe me, dear Mr Parkinson, yours, very truly, 

Richard Glass 
Captain Ref.
Managing Director"

Signed by the secretary on Richard Atwood Glass' behalf. He was a founding member of the company Glass, Elliot and Company, which was the first to adapt wire rope technology to submarine telegraph cables. He also served as a Conservative politician between 1868 and 1869. 

Joseph Charles Parkinson gives a first-hand account of the laying of the submarine telegraph cable between Bombay and Suez.