| Description | 101 letters arranged in alphabetical order. Where there is more than one letter from a correspondent, the individual's letters are then in chronological order.
There are 7 paper enclosures, and one lock of hair.
There is no surviving original bundle wrapper.
The letters had not previously been numbered.
The letters were transferred into four modern folders in the ?1970s, and numbered as B&W/ M IV/ Box /Bundle R in 1987.
Letter no.100 from the Royal Institution of Great Briatin was found with miscellaneous papers in MIV/ [box 18] old folder 2, and has been re-located here.
In 2001 they were transferred into ten archival folders.
The summaries are copies of the dockets written by James Watt jr. Any additions by the cataloguer are given in square brackets. |