| Description | These are letters from Matthew Boulton's daughter Anne Boulton. The letters were previously found in a box labelled by the Assay Office 'Boulton family and Boulton, Miss Anne'.
They were listed in M.R. Boulton's arrangement of records as part of: 'A. iv.
Family Records, Correspondence, &c.' and in the arrangement at his death in 1842 as:
Special Correspondents Files (Original Series). cB3. [Anne Boulton.]
They have been arranged here in chronological order.
For Biographical information on Anne Boulton see the 'Index to Persons and Firms' in the Archives Searchroom and the book 'The Hardware Man's Daughter: Matthew Boulton and his Dear Girl', by Shena Mason (2005). |