| Description | The correspondence includes both incoming and outgoing letters.
The incoming correspondence is sometimes addressed to both John and James Watt, merchants, and is mostly about cargoes of timber and herring and a voyage from Norway in 1736. William Watt was commander of the ship 'Thomas'.
The outgoing letters were perhaps placed with the other papers by James Watt of Greenock or one of the later members of the Watt family. The subjects covered are family matters, shipping, business etc. |