| Description | Letters and papers relating to engines for St. Katharine’s Dock, London, from 1826 to 1829. The engines were used for pumping water to the entrance locks.
This bundle mainly consists of letters between James Watt Jr., Matthew Robinson Boulton and William Creighton, with various memoranda and calculations. The bundle was probably assembled by Watt Jr. in London as an aide memoire to what had happened with the dock, as the job was particularly drawn out and complicated. The letters were probably removed from other bundles. They were found scattered through the collection – the letters between Watt Jr. and Boulton had been placed with their other correspondence, Creighton’s letters had been placed with his correspondence, and the memoranda and calculations had been placed with the drawings of the engines.
See Portfolio 5/661 for drawings of the engines. |