| Ref No | MS 3219/3/3/2/5/4 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/3/94/4 |
| Title | Letter. James Watt (Birmingham) to James Watt of Greenock (Greenock) |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 08 May 1775 |
| Description | [Date corrected from April]. Docket by James Watt jr.: Has obtained an Act of Parliament to extend the Patent for 25 Years. Carried by dint of friends at great expence, against much opposition. Is going in a few days to Birm[ingha]m to set about the Manufacture of Engines that are ordered. Proposes then visiting Scotland to see his father & Children. Affectionate wishes for his father. |
| 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] |