Letter signed, probably to Latimer Clark

Bonelli, G. L.s. to an unidentified correspondent, probably Latimer Clark. Turin, January 16, 1851. 2pp. 267 x 208 mm. Provenance: Latimer Clark.

Bonelli, an Italian telegraph engineer, developed a telegraphic system of railroad signaling in the 1850s, and founded his own telegraph company in 1861. In his letter he requests information about the methods developed in England for installing subterranean telegraph cables.