| Ref No | MS 3219/3/3/2/4/20 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/3/93/20 |
| Title | Letter. James Watt (London) to James Watt of Greenock (Greenock) |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 29 November 1755 |
| Description | Two notes added to outside of letter by James Watt of Greenock about letters written to Watt on 11 and 25 December, sending a receipt and an order for compasses etc.
Docket by James Watt jr.: Has paid Mr Morgan £3 more. Is busy getting up some azimuth Compasses.
[items he could not obtain]. |
| Extent | 1 |
| Format | Item |
| Related Material | A single receipt from 1744 was discovered at Doldowlod in 2002 and donated to the City Archives. It is listed in the ‘Later additions to the papers of James Watt and Family’ part of the MS 3219 catalogue.
The Watt and Muirhead papers were microfilmed by Adam Matthew Publications as part of Industrial Revolution: A Documentary History. ‘Muirhead I’ was published in Series One: part 2 in 1993; ‘Muirhead II-IV’ in Series One: parts 6 and 8, in 1997; and the ‘James Watt Papers’ in Series Three, in 1999. All the microfilms are available in Birmingham City Archives. |
| Physical Description | Papers and correspondence |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Three Generations of Watts. Extracts from the Doldowlod Papers, by Julian Gibson-Watt (1995), has a section on the trading correspondence of James Watt of Greenock and on the Finlay & Cation papers. [B&W Pamphlets G/7] |