| Description | Letters from William Murdock from 1779 to 1814. William Murdock was Boulton & Watt’s most famous employee. He intially worked in Cornwall, before moving to Soho Foundry. He travelled around the country working on various engines, and he is most remembered for his pioneering of gas lighting.
The letters in this bundle are extremely miscellaneous in nature, and were probably removed from other bundles. When this bundle was brought together is not recorded, but many of the letters show evidence of having previously been displayed in cases and scrap books. This is certainly not the complete extent of Murdock’s correspondence with Boulton and Watt, but what happened to other letters by him is not recorded.
The letters are dated as follows:
No. 1. 1779
No. 2. 1782
Nos. 3-6. 1795
Nos. 7-8. 1797
No. 9. 1798
Nos. 10-12. 1800
Nos. 13-15. 1802
Nos. 16-17. 1805
Nos. 18-21. 1806
Nos. 22-23. 1807
Nos. 24-25. 1808
No. 26. 1814
Nos. 27-28. Sketches - not dated. |