| Title | Lists of the contents of The Watt Room: List of drawings in cases, boats engines, steam boat draughts, and “Miscellaneous early prints, drawings and other information”; List of approximate number of portfolios, articles, letters in cases etc. |
| Description | The curator of The Watt Room, Henry Hazleton, drew up various guides, lists and notes describing some of the items under his care, and these will be found under this heading. He also assembled various scrapbooks of historic items. Transcripts of some of the lists of contents of The Watt Room are also available on request.
These two lists describe the drawings, letters and papers in The Watt Room. They were drawn up by Henry Hazleton in January and February 1895, when James Watt & Co. were going into receivership and the Foundry manager, W. Henry Darlington, was in negotiations with Samuel Timmins, George Tangye, The Science Museum in London and others about the fate of the contents of The Watt Room.
The first list, made in January, describes the drawings displayed in the eight glass cases that were mounted around the walls of the room. Almost all these drawings can be identified among the portfolios listed as the Main Series of Drawings (MS 3147/5). It also lists steam boats for which drawings existed in The Watt Room, the steam boat draught drawings in the “Steam Boat Box” (now MS 3147/5/1477), and “Miscellaneous Early Prints, Drawings and other information,” most of which can be identified in the collection.
The second list, made in February, records the approximate numbers of portfolios of drawings of different types of engine, packets of letters, and framed pictures and drawings. This list has been transcribed as part of the Appendix to this list. |