| Ref No | MS 3219/3/3/5/13 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/3/115 |
| Title | Correspondence and papers of James Watt of Greenock with trading associates Robert Finlay, David Cation and Walter Maxwell |
| Level | File |
| Date | 1762 - 1764 |
| Description | The original bundle label is as follows: 'Robert Donaldson's Affairs'. 'Finlay & Cation's papers: Rob[er]t Donaldson's Affairs 1762-1764 Ex[amine]d Feb[ruar]y 1820'. 60 items plus original wrapper). One of the documents has as a docket: 'Cation & Donaldson perplexed the accounts in 1748 & 1749 & 1750 by which James Watt Losses Great Sumes' |
| 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 papers have not been listed in greater detail. |
| CreatorName | James Watt of Greenock |
| 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] |