Autograph letter signed to Charles Tilston Bright

Adley, Charles Coles. A.L.s. to Charles Tilston Bright (1832-88). Upper Norwood, March 17, 1862. 2pp. 202 x 126 mm. Small hole punched in upper margin, insignificant spotting. Provenance: Latimer Clark.

Adley worked on the Indian telegraph and wrote a history of the electric telegraph. His letter to Charles Tilston Bright, a founding member of Cyrus Field's Atlantic Telegraph Company, contains a request for space at the forthcoming Great Exhibition "as I wish to exhibit an invention or two." Origins of Cyberspace 109.