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Ref No	MS 3219/3/3/6/4
Finding Number	MS 3219/3/119
Title	Letters and papers concerning the water supply for the town of Greenock
Level	File
Date	1750 - 1775
Description	The bundle includes: directions by James Watt for building the cistern at Greenock; papers concerning the land for the cistern, the dam, pipes,estimate etc.; printed rules for deepening and cleaning Greenock harbour.
Extent	20
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	These papers have not been listed in greater detail.
AdminHistory	There is an original bundle wrapper with 'Greenock papers' written on it, perhaps by James Watt jr.
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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