Reproduction of letter signed Jas. B. Eads, New York, to my dear Flad. Eads states that a new company has been formed to build a bridge across the East River at Blackwells Island, and that he has recommended Flad’s appointment as chief engineer of the project [courtesy of Engineers Club, St. Louis, November 12, 1953]., 1875 Aug 10

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9

Staff Only

Photostat copy of letter signed Jas. B. Eads [James B. Eads] to Flad [Henry Flad], August 10, 1875

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates in the Tunnel Railroad of St. Louis and the St. Louis Bridge Company; invitations to the opening of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge; promissory notes; Eads' scrapbook of newspaper clippings (1881) relating to his plan to build a ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; and papers relating to the genealogy of the McHenry family.