| Description | Bundle of 51 letters to Ann Watt from James Watt. 1792.
This may have been an original bundle. There are no surviving bundle labels. The letters had no original numbers. They were numbered in pencil in 1987, 1 to 51.
They had been arranged in chronological order.
This arrangement has been retained. The docket records the correspondent, 'Mr Watt', and date of the letter. At this period Watt was mostly in London or Cornwall.; Ann Watt was in Birmingham and Glasgow.
A brief summary of the letters' contents has been given in square brackets by the cataloguer. |