| Ref No | MS 3219/3/3/3/1 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/3/96 |
| Title | Incoming letters to James Watt of Greenock concerning general business, orders and shipping in Europe, North America, Antigua etc. |
| Level | File |
| Date | 1726 - 1729 |
| Description | 19 items. These are arranged in four small bundles by year, some containing only one item. The pepers concern mainly orders and cargoes. The 1726 bundle includes a reply from John Paterson about a complaint that his son [an apprentice?] sleeps too much. The 1727 - 1728 bundle is an inventory of 'household plashing' [furniture] in Watt's house, including the pictures. The 1729 bundle includes an order of paper for school use; directions for a picture frame; and an order by Lady Wallace of Lochryan, Galloway, for a walnut table and chairs. |
| Extent | 4 |
| Format | Bundles |
| 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 |
| Arrangement | These have not been listed in greater detail. |
| 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] |