BRACKEN FOUNDRY — NIGHT PACKET ROOM REGISTER
Loose quarto leaf, blue pencil ruling, found folded inside the cracked back board of a packet-room daybook. The printed column headed TIME has been struck through by hand and replaced with TICK.
Night of 3 March 1911. Wicket desk. Clerk: A. Pelham.
17 — South yard boy brings furnace slip B-44. No clock entry; bell rope frozen again.
18 — Red envelope from rail shop. Mr. Vale says hold it until the third pull, not before.
19 — Runner asks why the wall clock still shows nine and four. Told him the wall clock is for wages, not packets.
20 — Blue-tempered gauge card returned, oil on lower edge. Same hand as the noon correction.
21 — Third pull called. Mr. Vale at wicket, coat buttoned wrong, asks whether No. 18 has gone out. I said it had not.
22 — Red envelope sent by east passage boy.
23 — Mr. Vale comes back with the foreman and says he was already in the pattern loft at nine and six by the wall clock. I said this book does not know nine and six. It knows twenty-three.
Pencil note at foot, not Pelham's hand:
Do not copy the tick column for the inquest. Put ordinary time where possible. — R.