| Ref No | MS 3219/3/3 |
| Title | Correspondence and papers of James Watt of Greenock |
| Level | Series |
| Date | 1726 - 1781 |
| 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 Correspondence and Papers includes:
Letter books (outgoing letters).
Letters from special correspondents.
General business letters (orders and shipping in Europe, N. America, Antigua, etc.).
General business letters and papers (orders and shipping in North Carolina etc.).
Papers and correspondence with trading associates Robert Finlay and David Cation
and Walter Maxwell.
Letters and papers concerning the town of Greenock.
Personal and family letters and papers.
These have not all been listed in any 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] |