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DR. P. RANsoME:—WALL.1s

TELEPHONE No. THE CORNER HOUSE.
HERNE BAY M62. HERNE BAY,
KENT.

24th Becember 197%.

J. J. williamson, Esq.,
Beechmeunt,

Conyngham Lane,

Bridge,

near Canterbury.

Dear Mr} Williamson,

Thank you for your letter of 15th“
flecember. As I firmly indicated, I hope, at the
commencement of my talk to the Archaeological Society,
I am in no sense of the word an historian, railway
or otherwise, and my knowledge and interest in
railways is almost entirely mechanical and operational.
I therefore feel I cannot help you in any way with
the matters you raise, as to do so would involve a
considerable amount of research, and for this I am
afrai& at the present I have no time.

I think that if you were to contact
Mr. Arthur G. Wells, 64 fiartyrs Fielé Road, Canterbury,
he would be able to assist you very greatly. He is a
well-known railway historian ana his knowledge of the
railways of Kent is encyclopaedic.

Yours sincerely,