| Description | A bundle of eleven letters and papers to Matthew Boulton from Dr. John Roebuck. .
There is a bundle wrapper, on which is written in black ink:
‘ Dr Roebuck's Letters to Mr Boulton. 1769 — 1780’. In red ink has been written,
‘ No. 1 to 9.’
There are 9 letters numbered in red ink and two letters, in addition, which were not numbered.
The letters had been numbered in roughly chronological order, beginning with the most recent, though some are not dated. They have now been arranged in chronological order beginning with the earliest, and a conspectus of old and new numbers is given at the end of the list.
The letters have a docket with the name of the correspondent and the date. There is a summary by Watt on only one letter, given below in italics.
Any summary in square brackets has been given by the cataloguer.
Some of these letters have been partially transcribed for the ‘Extracts from Correspondence’ in James P. Muirhead’s three volume work The Mechanical Inventions of James Watt, (London, 1854). The number of the published letter is given below the description of the letter, as, for example: (Muirhead no.68). |