| Description | The sole surviving bank book records Boulton Watt & Co.’s account with M. R. Boulton J. Watt & Co., who acted as “cash agents with Bank of England on account of Boulton Watt & Co. This cash agency was the successor to the banking firm, M. & R. Boulton J. & G. Watt & Co. that the partners established in 1802 to give them financial representation in London. A note by William D. Brown dated 22 February 1833 describing the operation of the account is loose in the front of this volume. |