References
- Milligan Public Record Office, Chancery Masters Exhibits, v. MAdkins, C110/109, CI 10/110, C110/111, C110/112, C110/113, C118/129. I am indebted to Dr Susan Fairlie for drawing my attention to this collection of documents. Full references for the Long papers used in this article will be found in S. R. Palmer, The Character and Organisation of the Shipping Industry of the Port of London, 1815–1849 (Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, London 1979)
- Knight , R. J. B. 1980 . Guide to the Manuscripts in the National Maritime Museum Vol. 2 , 40 – 42 . London See (pp.; Simon Ville, ‘The Deployment of English Merchant Shipping; Michael and Joseph Henley of Wapping, shipowners, 1775–1830’, Journal of Transport History, Third Series, vol. 5 (1984) pp. 16–33
- Vincent , William . 1888 . The Records of Woolwich District 20 London See (pp.66,395,429 for mention of Long's activities in the locality
- Post Office London Directory lists them as shopbreakers in 1820 and as shipowners from 1821–1828. The Triennial Directory 1817–1819 refers to Blight and Co., as Shipbreakers but also mentions Blight, Long and Co., at the same address, Greenland Dock, as Shipwrights and Sailmakers
- 1806 . The Times See April 5th, 7th
- 1830 . Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the State of the Coal Trade 69 See, p. p. (VIII), p
- A Statement showing the Cost of Building and Outfit of Merchant Vessels 1826 – 7 . See p. p. (XVIII), p. 243
- Davis , Ralph . 1962 . The Rise of the British Shipping Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 174 Newton Abbott (p
- A deposition made at the time of the Chancery Masters Examination stated that Long had been deranged in the latter months of his life and that his papers were disordered in consequence. The most apparently complete sets of records relate to voyages some years before his death and a number of papers concerning more recent voyages seem to have been destroyed—perhaps not by Long himself but by his beneficiaries, to protect the estate against the claims of creditors.
- There are in all about 400 such letters among Long's papers.
- Davis . 368 op.cit., p
- 376 ibid., p
- Report from the Select Committee on Manufactures, Commerce and Shipping 1833 – 19 . See, p. p. (VI), Q.5677, 5686—5695; Report from the Select Committee on British Shipping, 1844 (VIII); Q 10
- Craig , R. C. 1971 . “ ‘Capital Formation in Shipping’ in J. P. P. Higgins and Sidney Pollard, eds ” . In Aspects of Capital Investment in Great Britain 1750- 1850 143 London See (pp.—144