LETTERS.
letter-press and steel engravings,—will, in all future time, render it, no doubt, a valuable book of reference to whomsoever maybe engaged or interested in similar scientific and mechanical undertakings.
With grateful thanks for your kindness, I beg to unite the distinguished respect and regard of
Your obedient servant,
CHARLES STEWART.
From the Chief Naval Constructor of the If. S. Navy.
Washington, June 5, 1852.
Sir,—
I have had the pleasure of receiving your letter,*together with your work on the “ Naval Dry Docks,” which exceeds inbeauty and execution any thing of the kind I have seen
In the examination of it I have been much gratified, and, judging from the subject of the Floating Docks, upon which 1 havehad an opportunity of acquiring some information, the work must be of very great value to engineers.
The scientific information, the minute detail, and the clearness of the explanations given in relation to tnose structures, arefully equal to, and such as their importance demanded.
With the highest respect, sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN LENTHALL.
From Commodore Joseph Smith , Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Bureau of Yards and Docks, May 14, 1852.
My dear Sir,—
I thank you for the elegant volume of your work on the “ Naval Dry Docks of the United States,” received with yourfriendly note of yesterday’s date.
The book speaks for the author and the executors of the design, as well as for the parties connected with the constructionof the Docks therein described, and needs no commendation from me.
These important structures were wholly confided to the engineers in charge to direct, and to the mechanics employed toexecute, and to them the credit belongs; they show with what fidelity their several duties have been discharged.
The skill and industry you have displayed in preparing this useful book on Dry Docks will, I trust, meet with a favorableresponse from a discriminating public; and you have my best wishes that your future labors may be crowned with success.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient and humble servant JOSEPH SMITH.
From Commodore W. B. Shubrick, Chief of the Bureau of Construction , Equipment, and Repair.
Washington, \2,th May, 1852.
Dear Sir,—
Accept my thanks for the copy of your very beautiful book on the “ Naval Dry Docks of the United States.” The sub-ject is treated in the book in a manner suitable to its importance, and the book is got up in a style worthy of the subject; thefirst is creditable to the literature, and the last to the mechanic arts, of the country.
I am, very respectfully, yours, Ac.,
W. B. SHUBRICK.
Gen. Charles B. Stuart, Engineer-in-Chief U. S. Navy .
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