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Ref No	MS 3219/3/3/2/5
Finding Number	MS 3219/3/94
Title	Letters from James Watt to James Watt of Greenock
Level	File
Date	1774 - 1775
Extent	4
Format	Items
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
Arrangement	The letters have been listed in chronological order with a conspectus of old and new numbers.
AdminHistory	The letters were not arranged in chronological order but were numbered in red ink.On the outer fold of the earliest is written in red ink 'Letters of Jas. Watt to his Father. 1774 - 1775. No. 1 to 4.' Any summary provided by the cataloguer is in square brackets.
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]

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