| Description | 205 letters arranged in alphabetical order. Where there is more than one letter from a correspondent, the individual's letters are then in chronological order.
There are six paper enclosures. one of fabric.
There are no surviving original bundle wrappers, although the colour of the letter from Claude Labaum, (1), would suggest that it had been the uppermost letter in a bundle of folded letters, as would the letter of 31 Dec. 1811 from James Lawson, (74).
The letters had not been numbered.
The letters were transferred into nine modern folders in the ?1970s, and numbered B&W/ M IV/ Box /Bundle L in 1987.
In 2001 they were transferred into twenty archival folders.
The summaries are copies of the dockets written by James Watt jr. Any additions by the cataloguer are given in square brackets.
No. 143 was previously numbered JWP 3/60.
Nos. 198 and 199 were previously in MIV. Box 18/ Misc. papers. old folder 2. |