Given that the document held by the library director could very well be the earliest, and possibly the original version amongst the others, Leonard and the others set off for Manchester in the company of Professor Alexander early the next morning.
Manchester is a city with a population of around 500,000. It is the metropolitan city and single management district of Greater Manchester County in the northwest region of England and an important transport hub and a center for business, finance, industry, culture, and international city.
The city is located in the center of the urban cluster in the northwest of England, on the northwest plains of England, close to the Bennings Mountain Range in the east. It is the birthplace of the cotton-spinning industry and the world's first industrial city.