| Ref No | MS 3219/3/3/2/4/4 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/3/93/4 |
| Title | Letter. John Marr and James Watt (London) to James Watt of Greenock (Greenock) |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 24 June 1755 |
| Description | [Marr: 'This day your Son began to divert himself in cutting Letters and Figures etc in the Shop of Mr Neale, Watchmaker....he is to take the trouble of introducing James to some Gentlemen of the Instrument Way in Westminster who will be more easily dealt with than those in Town every one of which insists on his binding an Apprentice..'].
Note added to the outer page by James Watt of Greenock : 'wrote to him july 11th not to agree as prentice but reather gow to some Common work man or stay 6 months to Improve in Generall'. |
| Extent | 1 |
| Format | Item |
| Related Material | A single receipt from 1744 was discovered at Doldowlod in 2002 and donated to the City Archives. It is listed in the ‘Later additions to the papers of James Watt and Family’ part of the MS 3219 catalogue.
The Watt and Muirhead papers were microfilmed by Adam Matthew Publications as part of Industrial Revolution: A Documentary History. ‘Muirhead I’ was published in Series One: part 2 in 1993; ‘Muirhead II-IV’ in Series One: parts 6 and 8, in 1997; and the ‘James Watt Papers’ in Series Three, in 1999. All the microfilms are available in Birmingham City Archives. |
| Physical Description | Papers and correspondence |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Three Generations of Watts. Extracts from the Doldowlod Papers, by Julian Gibson-Watt (1995), has a section on the trading correspondence of James Watt of Greenock and on the Finlay & Cation papers. [B&W Pamphlets G/7] |