| Description | The documents in these files relate to the intended construction of a new Mint in St Petersburg, Russia, particularly correspondence with the workmen James Duncan, James Harley, James Walker, William Speedyman, and George Sheriff; correspondence with Zaccheus Walker Jr.; correspondence concerning the shipment of goods; and miscellanies. Much of the correspondence is written with the Russian Old Style dates, which are translated in pencil by an unknown author into New Style dates used in Great Britain, marked N.S. accordingly.
Correspondents include: Matthew Boulton; James Harley; George Sheriff; James Duncan; James Walker; William Speedyman; Zaccheus Walker Jr.; Zaccheus Walker; Matthew Robinson Boulton; Edward C Bayley [sometimes spelt Bailey]; Charles Baird; James Fuch; George Simcox; Thomas Dixon; James Lodge; B Deasman & Truman; William D Brown; Count S C Woronzow; Reverend James Smirnove; William Cheshire; Henshall & Co. Boats; Richard Southern, sometimes Southern & Pearson & Co.; William Brightmore; Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury; J Hurst; J G Ames; John Onions; W Benbow; and John Smith & Son. |