Ref NoMS 3219/4/1/6/40/14
Finding NumberMS 3219/4/94/14
TitleLetter. Daniel McMillan (St Petersburg) to James Watt (Birmingham; c/o Mr Boulton).
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Date06 July 1784
Description[He sends this via Mr Poggenpoll who goes to London as Secretary to the Russian Ambassador. He has found his year in Russia just as James Watt suggested it would be — out of the frying pan, into the fire. The instrument business. Mr Dollond. A Mr Corsaciff, who is now Governor of the Cream [sic: Crimea], says he knows Watt well].
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