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Ref NoMS 3219/4/9/1/6/98
Finding NumberMS 3219/4/245/98
TitleFive copy press letters from James Watt (Heathfield) to various persons
LevelItem
Date15 November 1808 - 09 December 1808
Description10 pieces including covering sheet; the pages are glued together along the top margin.

15 November 1808. To John Cheese: Wanting Siberian trees, Downton [pippins] etc. and offering Scotch & Canada grafts.
20 November 1808. To John Jones (Kinnerton): Fruit trees sent off for him with directions for planting them.
27 November 1808. To John Cheese: Recommend him to get his firs etc. from Beek & Allan, London, in preference to Glasgow. May have grafts from Scotch trees at Wyeside. Description of apples etc.
27 November 1808: To William Cowan & Sons (Glasgow) About carriage of trees hither.
09 December 1808. To Valentine Newton: Have sent him poplars & spruces.
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Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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