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Dear All Peter wrote about Justin Brooke and the Swedish travel diaries > However, I have also benefited from his ability to read archaic >(18th c.) Swedish script, an exchange which will bear fruit in the >near future when he publishes his work on Kahlmeter's Journal >with all that it tells us of the economy of the south-west at that >period. I take it the list knows of the imminent publication by the Science Museum of the translation of Angerstein's great travel diary, of the mid C18, and due out around April? This will include numerous drawings of mining in Cornwall, Mendip etc I expect Justin will mention it in his intro, but there is in Sweden a collection of letters written by Kalmeter in English, describing his travels. The diaries of Bengt Ferrner, an extract of which covering Bath and Bristol I published in the mid 1980's, are available in a modern Swedish edition and could well justify full tranlsation. And what about a proper translation of Jar's great book? There is an enormous amount of material out there covering all aspects of C18 technology which awaits investigation and publication. With modern DTP and the Net, work like this has become much easier than it once was. We owe a duty to later generations of technical historians to get material like this much more readily available than it has been hitherto. Regards Regards Tony Woolrich Museum modelmaker & writer on technical history www.ap-woolrich.co.uk.