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MS 3219 - James Watt and Family Papers - 13th century - 1873
4 - Records of James Watt (1736 - 1819)
2 - Outgoing correspondence of James Watt - 1779 - 1819
3 - Unbound outgoing letters - 1767 - 1796
2 - Unbound draft and copy press letters to various people including letters from Dr Lind and Lord Cathcart - 1767 - 1796
Ref No
MS 3219/4/2/3/2/13
Finding Number
MS 3219/4/126/13
Title
Letter. James Watt (Glasgow) to George Clerk Maxwell, ‘one of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs’ (Edinburgh).
Level
Item
Date
24 August 1773
Description
[Docket reads 22 Aug.] [Letter of recommendation for Thomas Hill, for a vacancy for a stamp master at Edinburgh. Watt has been nominated to make a survey of the land between Inverness and Fort William].
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