Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of Illustrations
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Legal, Financial and Cultural Environment
- 2 Maritime Communities
- 3 Five Investor Ports
- 4 Shipowning Wives, Widows and Spinsters
- 5 Active and Passive Female Shipowners
- 6 Managing Owners
- 7 Port Businesswomen
- 8 Warship Builders
- 9 Merchant Shipbuilders
- 10 Conclusion: ‘A Respectable and Desirable Thing’
- Appendices
- I Relevant Statutes
- II Maritime Occupations from Trade Directories
- III Statistics on Businesswomen across England
- IV Registered Shipping in England and Wales, 1871
- V The Investor Database
- VI Managing Owners with Multiple Vessels in 1865
- VII Port Businesswomen
- VIII Rose Downs Thompson Correspondence
- IX Selected Correspondence, Mrs Taylor
- X Penney Agreement
- Bibliography
IX - Selected Correspondence, Mrs Taylor
from Appendices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of Illustrations
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Legal, Financial and Cultural Environment
- 2 Maritime Communities
- 3 Five Investor Ports
- 4 Shipowning Wives, Widows and Spinsters
- 5 Active and Passive Female Shipowners
- 6 Managing Owners
- 7 Port Businesswomen
- 8 Warship Builders
- 9 Merchant Shipbuilders
- 10 Conclusion: ‘A Respectable and Desirable Thing’
- Appendices
- I Relevant Statutes
- II Maritime Occupations from Trade Directories
- III Statistics on Businesswomen across England
- IV Registered Shipping in England and Wales, 1871
- V The Investor Database
- VI Managing Owners with Multiple Vessels in 1865
- VII Port Businesswomen
- VIII Rose Downs Thompson Correspondence
- IX Selected Correspondence, Mrs Taylor
- X Penney Agreement
- Bibliography
Summary
27 June 1837
Mrs Taylor
Captain Beaufort presents his compliments to Mrs Taylor and is really much rejoiced to learn that the improving health of her children has enabled her to resume her usual industrious pursuits and he will be glad to see the result of her labours – and the more so because he would be glad to learn in conversation which is a much briefer method than by writing what her views are on this office with respect to her present work.
Source: United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, Taunton (UKHO) T 186 Captain Beaufort to Mrs Taylor.
Feb 14 1848
Mrs Taylor
Madam
A bill of yours to Capt Rawlinson of the Tribune (dated Nov 7th 1846) has been submitted to the Board of the Admiralty and is now before me, which is headed ‘Under the patronage of the Admiralty’ and in which you style yourself ‘Agent for the sale of Admiralty Charts’ By the same bill however you appear to have sold to Capt Rawlinson a Chart of the English Channel (Nories I believe) for 13 shillings when the Admiralty Chart of the Channel might have been supplied to him for two or three shillings. This inconsistency has naturally excited some surprise here and Admiral Beaufort would therefore thank you for some explanation on the subject.
Source: UKHO 1848 Letter book no 15 page 128 Captain Miles to Mrs Taylor.
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- Enterprising Women and Shipping in the Nineteenth Century , pp. 246 - 247Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009