| Description | Letters and papers relating to the Calcutta Mint, from 1821 to 1823. The mint was established by the East India Company, and was occasionally referred to as the “Bengal Mint.” Boulton Watt & Co. supplied the steam engines, and they also made some of the mint machinery under their name for Matthew Robinson Boulton. Much of the bundle concerns estimates put in by Maudslay Sons & Field and their competition with Boulton Watt & Co. There are also memoranda and papers concerning the men who went out to build and run the mint.
This large bundle was badly disrupted. At some point some of the estimates were removed and placed in a separate bundle (old reference B&W Box 13/7), and the correspondence and remaining papers were re-arranged into alphabetical order and numbered as B&W Box 13/6. The two bundles have been re-combined and placed in chronological order, which is almost certainly the way Boulton Watt & Co. kept them. |