Mon 26 Dec 1831
From John R Denyer
To J S Salt
London
I trust present frost soon cause Rivers Thames and Severn to be navigable.
Importation of coals from Forest of Dean much reduced in last week due to number of vessels usually employed in supplying Gloucester, Cheltenham, etc with coals from Staffordshire & Shropshire, prevented by floods and great scarcity of coals from their regular trade, having gone to Bullo & Lydney to load. As Colliers have in part, though not fully, returned to work no doubt soon be ample supply for which present great demand.
A person just come from Gloucester stating floods have abated sufficiently for vessels to navigate the Severn.
