General John Newton to Mayor Seth Low, February 23, 1883, copy; Mayor [William] R. Grace to General John Newton and Thomas Lincoln Casey, December 27, 1882, copy: Image #1

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P.O. Box 93, Station A.

U.S. ENGINEER OFFICE,

Room 31 Army Building, cor. Houston and Greene Street,

New York, February 23d 1883

Hon. Seth Low,

Of Committee of Investigation appointed by Board of Trustees of New York and Brooklyn Bridge Co.

Sir:

In the interview which I had the pleasure to have with you on the 17th instant, I promised to furnish in writing the principal points discussed.

The examining engineers of the Bridge Colonel Casey and myself understand the duty we are to perform to be purely professional, and to be concerned only with as accurate a determination of the strength of the structure as modern methods of calculation will permit, and secondly as close a calculation of the quantities of materials, stone, brick, sand, lumber, cement, iron and steel in the bridge as measurements of accessible parts of the structure, the study of