| Description | With label attached marked “All these letters are from James Watt Senr. to Matthew Robinson Boulton son of Matthew Boulton, 1799.” With a postscript by James Watt Jr. Docketed “Sentiments upon Wilson’s situation and conditions of Boulton & Watt’s consent to the proposed mortgage upon the brewery.” Summarised “Watt’s remarks upon Wilson applying our money for his own purpose, proposes advancing him £600. Gives accounts of his debts and proposes a mortgage on the brewery. Murdock sets out for Cornwall.” |