| Ref No | MS 3219/4/9/1/3 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/4/242 |
| Title | Bundle of letters and papers with James Crummer, James Davies and others about legal matters, estate management, tree planting. |
| Level | File |
| Date | 1803 - 1805 |
| Description | Bundle of 42 letters, mostly from James Davies and James Crummer to James Watt, 1803-1806, and copy press letters from Watt to Crummer and others, and other papers relevant to the Welsh and Wyeside estates.
These were originally enclosed in a portfolio of card and marbled paper, which had no label.
The letters were arranged in chronological order and this has been retained.
Most letters have a docket by James Watt giving the correspondent and date and sometimes a summary of the subject of the letter, which is given below in italics. On some of the letters, James Watt jr. has expanded the information given by his father on the docket.
Any notes given in square brackets are by the cataloguer.
Watt consistently spelled Tycwtta as Trecwtta. This spelling has been corrected in the list that follows. |
| Extent | 42 |
| Format | Items |
| Related Material | Outgoing correspondence of James Watt in MS 3219/4/118-121; Notebook of James Watt jr. MS 3219/6/42; 1833 maps of East and West Radnorshire MS 3219/6/215.
Julian Gibson Watt: James Watt and the Doldowlod estate: extracts from the correspondence and notes of James Watt and James Watt jr., 1994. (In Wolfson Centre) |
| Access Status | Open |