| Description | Printed articles, transcripts, notes etc. collected by Averys.
"M. D.'s observations to Mr. Benton on Murdoch's Gasometer" - typescript, 1 Jan. 1925 (3 sheets).
Transcript from Encyclopaedia Britannia, 3rd edition, vol. XVII, entry for Soho - transcript made in May 1925 (2 sheets).
Copy of letter from H. H. Benton to the editor of The Engineer, 9 Jun. 1925, with transcripts from The Star newspaper, 14 Sep. 1811 re trials of Boulton Watt & Co. and Woolf engines (4 sheets).
"Wonderful Willie", by R. Barclay Murdoch, in The Scots Magazine, Aug. 1925 (p. 329-334).
"Wonderful Willie II", by R. Barclay Murdoch, in The Scots Magazine, Sep. 1925 (p. 445-451).
Photograph of R. Barclay Murdoch and envelope used to send the above 2 magazines.
Receipt signed by Matthew Boulton, 26 Oct. 1789, for £15 from Elisha Hutchinson for Boulton's pew and sitting in St. Mary's Chapel, with transcript of letter from H. H. Williams, 18 Feb. 1927, sending the receipt, and envelope.
Letter from R. B. Hodgson, The Whessoe Foundry & Engineering Co. Ltd., Darlington, 7 Dec. 1927, returning 3 photographs of a gasometer.
"William Murdoch", by R. Barclay Murdoch, in The Croydon Co-Partner, Sep. 1929 (p. 5-8).
"The World's Debt to William Murdock", in My Magazine, Nov. 1929 (p. 937-941).
"A Pioneer of Public Gas Lighting", from Engineering, 6 Jun. 1930.
"The Early Days of Gas Lighting", P. G. Cracroft, from The Engineer, 12 Dec. 1930.
"The First Gasometer of All", cutting from the Birmingham Gazette, 15 Sep. 1932.
"Trevithick's London Exhibition Railway of 1808", by Charles R. King, from Engineering, 30 Jun. 1933.
Transcript of extract from The Star, 17 Feb. 1804, re exhibition of Richard Trevithick's engine in London.
Transcript of extract from The Star, 12 Mar. 1804, re sale of cotton factories and 30 horse Boulton & Watt engine formerly belonging to Samuel Marsland.
Manuscript notes on Murdock's life and career including transcript from the Weekly Mercury, 19 Jul. 1890 (7 sheets).
Sheet of manuscript notes on the life and career of Murdock.
Averys gave a large amount of printed material, photographs and notes on Boulton, Watt and Murdock to the Library in May 1936. Some of the printed material and cuttings on Boulton and Watt are now numbered as MS. 131, while the photographs and other illustrations are numbered as MS. 1149.
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