| Description | Letters from Matthew Robinson Boulton to John Southern, head of Boulton & Watt’s Drawing Office, from 1796 to 1803. The letters of 1796 were sent from Manchester, when Matthew Robinson Boulton was there in June pursuing various the accounts of various pirate engines. The only exception is the letter of 12 June, which was written during a brief return to Soho. The letters were all docketed by Southern with Boulton’s name and the date of the letter. The summaries were made during the Archives of Soho Project in 2000. The later letters were found scattered through the bundles of letters from M. R. Boulton to Watt Jr. They were probably originally kept in Southern’s bundles of incoming correspondence. |