| Description | This file does not appear in the Inventory compiled by Cheshire at the time of his departure from Soho on 15 Feb. 1812, perhaps because it had been passed to William D. Brown to be kept at hand for reference. Under M. R. Boulton’s later arrangement the file was put into Box D.iii (“Household Vouchers, Correspondence, and Special Subjects, 1804 to 1809”), and it was probably in the same place when it arrived at the Assay Office in 1921.
The contents of this file were formerly in a bundle labelled “Letters and Copies, 1809,” within which they were divided into several packets, the documents being grouped alphabetically by the first letter of the correspondent’s name. This arrangement is preserved in the following list. Within the several groups the documents are arranged in chronological order. There are letters and copies for the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, O & P, R, S, T, U, and W, but it is possible that some packets are missing.
The copies are all press-copies. |