| Ref No | MS 3219/3/3/3/2 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/3/97 |
| Title | Incoming letters to James Watt of Greenock concerning general business, orders and shipping in Europe, North America, Antigua etc. |
| Level | File |
| Date | 1730 - 1739 |
| Description | 53 items. There are 9 small bundles of letters and papers arranged by year, some containing only 1 item. The letters mostly concern orders.
The 1730 bundle includes a letter from John Craig which mentions the death of James Watt of Greenock's son John, and another letter concerning the repair of the Royal Close in Glasgow.
The 1733 bundle includes information on the wine trade in the West Indies, and the recovery of the ship Unity, wrecked at Deerness, Orkney.
The 1738 bundle includes mention of a new coal supply in Scotland.
The 1739 bundle includes news of the ship Drummond, wrecked off the Orkney Islands. |
| Extent | 1 |
| Format | File |
| 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 | These have not been listed in greater detail. |
| 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] |