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MS 3219 - James Watt and Family Papers - 13th century - 1873
1 - Records of Thomas Watt (1639 or 1642 - 1727) - 1694 - 1727
2 - Records of John Watt senior (1694 - 1736) - 1714 - 1744
3 - Records of James Watt of Greenock - 1724 - 1787
4 - Records of James Watt (1736 - 1819)
5 - Records of John Watt Jr. (1739 - 1762) - 1759 - 1762
6 - Records of James Watt Jr. (1769 - 1848) - 13th cent. - 1848
1 - Correspondence of James Watt jr. - 1784 - 1844
2 - Notebooks of James Watt jr. - 1787 - 1846
3 - Personal papers of James Watt jr. - 1808 - 1848
1 - Papers concerning steam navigation and voyages of the Caledonia steamboat - 1817 - 1847
2 - Papers concerning the death of James Watt on 19 August 1819, the erection of monuments to him and the building of a memorial chapel at Handsworth parish church - 1813 - 1859
3 - Papers concerning publications - 1808 - 1848
1 - General papers concerning various memoirs of James Watt - 1808 - 1848
1 - Letters and copy press letters with William Playfair; John Rennie; Macvey Napier; Dr. Brewster; Longman and Co.; Maria Edgeworth, and printed biographical articles on James Watt - 1819 - 1824
1 - Portfolio of card and marbled paper with a label by James Watt jr. which reads 'Correspondence relative to Biographical Notices of my Father, Memoir of his Life etc. etc. 1819, 1820 ' - nd. [c. 1819]
2 - Correspondence with William Playfair - September 1819 - January 1820
3 - Correspondence with John Rennie - September 1819 - January 1820
4 - Correspondence with Macvey Napier - May 1823 - February 1824
5 - Letters to James Watt jr. from various people - 1819 - 1820
6 - Correspondence with Dr Brewster - August 1819 - October 1820
7 - Correspondence with Longman & Co. - 1819 - 1820
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9 - Printed articles about James Watt - 1819 - 1824
1 - 'Notice sur la vie et les travaux de James Watt'; from the Bulletin de La Societe d'Encouragement, No. CLXXXII., Asocie de L'Institut de France - August 1819
2 - 'Character of the late Mr James Watt'; in The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany; A new series of the Scots Magazine - September 1819
3 - 'Original Memoirs of Eminent Persons. The late James Watt, Esq.: communicated by W[illia]m Playfair'; in the Monthly Magazine - c. 1820
4 - 'Memoir of James Watt'; in The European Magazine - October 1820 - November 1820
5 - 'Memoir of James Watt, the great improver of the steam engine'; in The Mechanics Magazine - 30 August 1823
6 - 'James Watt '; in The Birmingham Spectator - 10 July 1824
2 - Papers concerning the publication of Dominique Francois Jean Arago's Eloge Historique de James Watt (Paris, 1839) and its translation (London and Edinburgh, 1839) - 1833 - 1839
3 - Papers concerning the publications on the steam engine - 1806 - 1839
4 - Various legal papers of James Watt jr. - 1808 - 1848
5 - Various papers of James Watt jr.'s about the firms of Boulton & Watt - 1775 - 1847
6 - Various personal papers belonging to James Watt jr. - 1779 - 1848
7 - Various general papers of James Watt jr.'s - 1791 - 1843
4 - Legal documents - 1637 - 1841
5 - Drawings by James Watt jr. - 1789 - 1846
6 - Papers of the antiquarian, William Hamper, relating to the parish and manor of Aston - 13th cent. - 1839
7 - Miscellaneous printed items which belonged to James Watt jr. - 1799 - 1840
7 - Records of Gregory Watt (1777 - 1804) - 1792 - 1804
8 - Miscellaneous records of the Watt family - c. 1754 - 1873
9 - Later additions to the records - 1672 - 1848
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