60 page 'letter' sent to Wailes' wife, Enid. The letter is in the form of a diary recording Wailes' trip to the Leipzig Trade Fair. It records Wailes' impressions of his train trip through Germany, his fellow travellers and a visit to the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

The last ten pages record Wailes' trip north of Leipzig 'on the main Berlin road & as soon as we got out of the suburbs, there was a mill to every village we saw. Nearly all were post mills, & nearly all were the same. Patent sails, no round house tailpole with a winch on the end, straight pitched roof, vertical weatherboarding all tarred.' He comments that those mills near the main road had advertisments on their sides.

Wailes records a visit to a mill near Delitzsch where he meets the miller, Kurt Schumann, and 'took many photos, both inside and out'. There was also a visit to an unidentified tower mill, built in 1886, which Schumann described as a 'Hollandsche műhle,' which was brick-built with a fan-tail and octagonal cap. Wailes is particularly struck by the fact that it, 'had a lift instead of a chain for the sack hoist!!'.

A 'poltrok' mill at Rődgen is also visited (converted from a post mill in 1924, the original dating from 1614). Wailes comments, 'the mill is chock full of new machinery and new methods of drive, sufficient of the old being left to make it intensely interesting'.

Wailes concludes the letter, 'Must stop now. Dresden tomorrow'.

Copy prints made by Stephen Buckland in 1989 and 1990 of negatives, slides, postcards and photographs in "The Abbott Collection of Photographs, Slides and Postcardsof Windmills in Britain and Europe" at the Science Museum, London (http://archives.sciencemuseumgroup.ac.uk/Details/archivescience/110000006). Stephen Buckland wrote an article on Geoffrey Abbott's collection in "The Newcomen Bulletin", no. 141, August 1988, p.18, a copy of which is available in the Mills Archive Library.
Additional postcards and photographs of windmills in Lot, France by Chris Boyle.

Handwritten notes relating to the German milling industry, taken from various German publications.

Handwritten notes relating to "Verhandlungen des Vereins zur Beförderung des Gewerbfleißes in Preußen" by Professor Reuleaux, 1871.

Boat mills in Dunafoldvar, Adony and Batya, Hungary, and a VW Beetle with a composite mill in the background.

Album of 20th century postcards of windmills in Belgium, Germany, France, England, Sweden, and Netherlands. Stephen purchased these postcards at SPAB on 21 November 1998.

Emergency local currency notes from Germany and Denmark, featuring images of windmills. PDF list.

Photocopies of published works, in German, on German mill design.

Photocopies of published works, in German, relating to Martin Peltier's wind-powered dredger in Bremen, as well as typed noted on the subject. Additionally photocopies and typed research notes on early colonial-Australian windmills.

Photocopies of Dutch and Hungarian published works relating to windmills. Includes papers by Dr. Pongrácz Pál, and material on Sanssouci Mill.

Photocopies of published works in English and German, and research notes relating to German windmills and watermills.

Scrapbook of etchings of mills in England and Europe from encyclopedias and books, including pages from "The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art". Two photographs by the Folkestone Herald and Gazette of Horn Street Mill being demolished. Stephen Buckland's scrapbook number 55.