Recommended Reading

Essential Reading

The Law Reports:  Chancery Appeal Cases

SHARPE v. SAN PAULO RAILWAY COMPANY, 1873

Vol. VIII, 1872-73, pp597-613

Gives a detailed overview of transactions between Sharpe & Sons, San Paulo Railway Company and James Brunlees the engineer.   Manchester University Library.  Copy SJT.

Railroad To Ruin

Article by Leslie Blake about the Sharpe v. SPR case.  This article doesn't contain any additional information to the law report, but it's much more concise and easy to read.

pp39-44, Chapter 6, The Best of Mainly for Students, Vol.2

Select Committee on Railway Labourers, 1846

The evidence of Mr. John Sharp of Durham, pp182-189.

Report from the Select Committee on Railway Labourers; together with the minutes of the evidence and index.  pp. xiv. 202. 54.  Irish University Press: Shannon, [1968.] fol. B.S. Ref: 18/12.  The British Library.  Copy SJT.

A Gateway to Brazil 

Article on Michael J. Irlam's web site which does not directly mention the Sharpe's, but gives a great overview of the building of the San Paulo Railway.  Click here to open in a new window.

San Paulo Report, James Brunlees, 1858

Title:  Report upon the Proposed Line of Railway from Santos to Juniahy, in the Province of San Paulo in the Empire of Brazil, by James Brunlees

Publication details:  pp. 16. W. H. Cox: London, 1858. 8o., Shelfmark:  8235.aaa.56.(1.) The British Library.  Copy SJT.

Other documents of interest:

  1. Memorandum of Agreement between Robert Sharpe & Sons and George Clopper Ketchum, engineer on the San Paulo Railway, 1862.  Original at University of New Brunswick. Copy SJT.

 

Researched by Stephen Tonge & Roy Gargan - 2003