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Date:29th of December 1824
Description:Following Robert Bradshaw’s letter of the 25th December 1824, it is significant that James Loch wrote the letter featured above to Mr. Fenton on 29th December 1824. The letter instructs Fenton to issue a notice in the ‘Stafford Pottery & Wolverhampton papers’ as ‘quietly’ as possible. The purpose of the notice was to contradict the statements which Bradshaw had reported seeing in the press concerning the Marquis of Stafford investing in the railways.
The notice which Loch was asking Fenton to submit to the local press stated that these rumours were ‘without foundation’.
It is apparent from his correspondence with Fenton and Bradshaw that James Loch was interested in developments concerning the railways, but that the Leveson-Gower family were reluctant to associate publicly with railway schemes at this point.