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MS 3782 - Matthew Boulton and Family Papers - 1737 - 20th Century

1 - Records of the firm of Boulton & Fothergill - 1757 - 1792

2 - Records of the firm of M. Boulton - 1782 - 1816

3 - Records of Soho Mint - 1791 - 1850

4 - Records of the London Banking Agency - 1802 - 1819

5 - Records of Other Firms - 1802 - 1831

6 - Household Books and Documents - 1752 - 1863

7 - Housekeeper's Books and Accounts (Soho House) - 1787 - 1826

8 - Private Books and Documents - 1799 - 1855

9 - Great Tew Books and Documents - 1815 - 1844

10 - Miscellaneous Cashiers' and Agents' Records - 1805 - 1863

11 - Letters and Papers of Charles James Chubb - 1841 - 1863

12 - Correspondence and Papers of Matthew Boulton - 1760 - 1809

13 - Correspondence and Papers of Matthew Robinson Boulton - c.1770 - 1842

14 - Papers of Ann Boulton [Daughter of Matthew Boulton] - 1793 - 1829

15 - Accounts of Mrs. Mary Anne Boulton [née Wilkinson, wife of Matthew Robinson Boulton, son of Matthew Boulton] - 1814 - 1827

16 - Other Personal Records - 1759 - 1845

17 - Legal Documents - 1790 - 1818

18 - Records of the 1st Battalion, Loyal Birmingham Volunteers - 1794 - 1805

19 - Records of the Committee at Verdun for the Relief of British Prisoners in France - 1808 - 1813

20 - Miscellaneous Documents - 1759 - 1813?

21 - Additions

1 - Portions of a Letter Book of Boulton & Fothergill - 22 March 1773 - 16 October 1773

2 - 9 - Pattern Books, formerly belonging to the firm of Boulton & Fothergill - 1762 - 1844

2 - Pattern Book, formerly belonging to the firm of Boulton & Fothergill and Successor Firms. - 1762 - 1790

3 - Pattern Book, formerly belonging to the firm of Boulton & Fothergill and Successor Firms - 1790 - 1813

4 - Pattern Book, formerly belonging to the firm of Boulton & Fothergill and Successor Firms - 1814 - 1828

5 - Pattern Book, formerly belonging to the firm of Boulton & Fothergill and Successor Firms. - 1799 - 1816

6 - Pattern Book, formerly belonging to the firm of Boulton & Fothergill and Successor Firms. - c. 1803 - 1829

7 - Pattern Book, formerly belonging to the firm of Boulton & Fothergill and Successor Firms. - c. 1804 - 1838

8 - Pattern Book, formerly belonging to the firm of Boulton & Fothergill and Successor Firms. - 1837 - 1844

9 - Pattern Book, formerly belonging to the firm of Boulton & Fothergill and Successor Firms. - 1820 - 1825

10 - Letter Book of the firm of Boulton & Scale - 22 October 1784 - 23 April 1785

10-12 - Records of the firm of Boulton & Scale - 22 October 1784 - 23 April 1785

11 - Pattern Book of the firm of Boulton & Scale.

12 - Miscellaneous papers of the firm of Boulton & Scale. - 1789 - 1792

13 - Royal patent – Surveyor of Works: revocation of the appointment of Richard Arundel and appointment of Henry Fox, 1st Lord Holland - 17 January 1737

14 - Letters of Matthew Boulton to Joseph Banks - 1789-1806

15 - Title deeds of James Alston - 1728 - 1844

16 - Correspondence of John Birt Davis with James Watt Jr. - 1835

17 - Printed patent specifications - 1855 - 1857

18 - Letters Patent to George Piggott for New or Improved Machinery for Punching, Shearing and Rivetting Sheets or Plates of Iron. - 30 October 1862

19 - Papers concerning James Jackson. - 1893-1902

20 - "Illustrative" Material Added by the Assay Office: Bookplates. - 19th cent.

21 - "Illustrative" Material Added by the Assay Office: Engravings, Etchings - 18th cent.

22 - "Illustrative" Material Added by the Assay Office: Newspaper Cuttings - 1799 - 1965

1 - Cutting from Aris's Birmingham Gazette. Article headed, 'An Ambassador in Birmingham.' - 5 August 1799

2 - Cutting from Aris's Birmingham Gazette. Article headed, 'Gilt and Plated Buttons' - 5 August 1799

3 - Cutting from The Birmingham Gazette reporting the death of William Withering - 14 October 1799

4 - The Birmingham Daily Gazette, including an article entitled, 'New Assay Offices in Birmingham. Laying the Memorial Stone.' - 16 July 1877

5 - Newspaper cutting - 12 June 1897

6 - Newspaper cuttings from the Birmingham Post - 7 January 1898

7 - Cuttings from a newspaper with article entitled, 'Vanishing Birmingham: Changes in Temple Row. Interesting Reminiscences of Dr. Ash and his Friends.' - January 1898

8 - Cutting from Aris's Birmingham Gazette with article headed, 'A Hundred Years Ago,' concerning the invention of an hydraulic engine by Aimé Argand and Montelfier in 1798 - c. 7 April 1898

9 - Cutting from a newspaper with Local Notes and Queries article No. 4430, by Este, concerning John Ash. - c. 1898

10 - Cutting from a newspaper with Local Notes and Queries article No. 4431, by Este, concerning William Hutton - c. 1898

11 - Cutting from The Birmingham Weekly Post with Midland Notes and Queries article No. CXI, by Eds, entitled, 'Francis Eginton, Engraver.' - 4 November 1899

12 - Cutting from The Birmingham Weekly Post. with Notes and Queries article No. 483, by J. Hill, titled, 'Gregory Watt' - May 1901

13 - Cutting from The Birmingham Weekly Post with article concerning Sir Francis Galton, recently knighted - 16 July 1909

14 - Cutting from The Birmingham Daily Mail with article titled, 'A Link with By-gone Birmingham,' concerning the death of Thomas Francis, a Birmingham manufacturer - 20 November 1915

15 - Cutting, probably from The Birmingham Weekly Post, with Midland Notes and Queries article No. 354, by Berm, titled, 'Miss Linwood’s Needlework,' with an additional note by A. L. - c. 1920

16 - Cutting from The Times with article entitled, 'Hot Bottles,' celebrating the invention of the hot-water bottle - 9 November 1926

17 - Cutting from The Birmingham Post of a photograph of a notice concerning the execution of Philip Matsell on 21 August 1806, sent in by a reader - 31 August 1927

18 - Cutting from a newspaper showing a photograph of Gainsborough’s portrait of Sir Harbord Harbord, 1st Baron Suffield - October 1927

19 - Cutting from The Times showing a photograph of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s portrait of John Hunter, the surgeon, the bicentenary of whose birth fell in this week - 13 February 1928

20 - Cuttings from The Birmingham Daily Post with article by an anonymous correspondent titled, 'Romance of a great ironworks. Birmingham's association with the enterprise. Mr. Samuel Garbett and the Carron Foundry.' - 26 March 1928

21 - Cuttings from The Birmingham Daily Post with article by F. B. A. entitled, 'Old Watches and their Makers. Some Birmingham Men of the Trade.' - 9 April 1928

22 - Cutting from The Times Literary Supplement with article entitled, 'The Stratford Jubillee. - 2 May 1929

23a-b - a. Cuttings from The Birmingham Post with article entitled, 'Baskerville in a New Light. His Letter to Horace Walpole. 'Heartily Tired of his Printing Business.', and b. Cuttings from The Birmingham Post with a letter from Thomas Johnsson to the editor on the same subject - 21 June 1929 - c. 27 June 1929

24 - Cuttings from The Birmingham Daily Post of article entitled, "The Dentist’s Debt to Dr. Beddoes. The Men Who Made ‘Painless Extractions’ Possible. James Watt's Interest in the Experiments.' - 22 July 1929

25 - Cutting from The Birmingham Daily Post with letter to the editor from M. Williams headed 'The Leasowes.' - 16 August 1929

26 - Cutting from The Birmingham Post with article entitled 'An early spinning machine – invention of a Birmingham man. Forgotten pioneer work of John Wyatt.' - 16 October 1929

27 - Cutting from The Times with letter to the editor from Henry G. L. King headed 'Sir Walter Scott in London.' - 23 October 1929

28 - Cutting from The Times Literary Supplement with letter [to the editor] from Constance A. Lubbock requesting information about her grandfather, Sir William Herschel. - 14 November 1929

29 - Cuttings from The Birmingham Post with article by J. E. J. titled, 'The Disappearance of Galton House. Interesting Associations Recalled. History Traced Back for Two Centuries.' - 18 November 1929

30 - Cuttings from The Birmingham Daily Post with article titled, 'Birmingham’s First Blue Coat School. Edward Grubb's Carved Figures.' - 25 November 1929

31 - Cuttings from The Birmingham Post with article entitled, 'Glimpses of Bygone Birmingham. Ashted a 'Delightful Suburban Retreat.' Barracks Sequel to 1791 Riots.' - 18 December 1929

32 - Cutting from The Birmingham Post with article by J. E. J. titled, 'Miss Florry of Birmingham. A Business Woman of the Eighteenth Century.' - 24 March 1930

33 - Cutting from The Birmingham Post with article by J. H. titled, 'Eighteenth-Century Birmingham. Steam-Engines and Theatres. Letters to the Earl of Dartmouth.' - 5 May 1930

34 - Cuttings from The Birmingham Post concerning Francis Eginton with article by an anonymous correspondent entitled, 'Art in Glass and Stone. Monumental Work of Midland Men. A Noted Builder of Bridges.' - 9 October 1930

35 - Cutting from The Birmingham Post concerning James Bowment Alston-Roberts-West of Hillingdon - 26 February 1931

36 - Cutting from The Birmingham Post - 1 September 1931

37 - Cuttings from The Birmingham Post - 27 August 1931 -7 September 1931

38 - Cutting from The Birmingham Post - 20 October 1931

39 - Cutting from The Times Literary Supplement - 10 December 1931

40 - Cutting from The Times - 31 December 1931

41 - Cuttings from The Birmingham Post - 25 April 1932 - 27 April 1932

42 - Cuttings from The Birmingham Post and the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Journal - 13 May 1932 - 15 June 1932

43 - Cuttings from The Birmingham Post - 13 July 1932

44 - Cuttings from John O'London's Weekly (Outline Supplement) - 19 November 1932

45 - Cuttings from John O'London's Weekly (Outline Supplement) - 26 November 1932

46 - Cuttings from John O'London's Weekly - 31 December 1932

47 - Cuttings from The Birmingham Post - 20 January 1933

48 - Cuttings from The Chronicle - 15 March 1933

49 - Cuttings from The Birmingham Mail - 17 March 1933

50 - Cuttings from The Birmingham Post - 17 March 1933

23 - "Illustrative" Material Added by the Assay Office: Pamphlets - 1915-1935

24 - "Illustrative" Material Added by the Assay Office: Photographs - 1863 - 1972

25 - "Illustrative" Material Added by the Assay Office: Printed material, transcripts etc. relating to Birmingham - 1924 - 1940

26 - "Illustrative" Material Added by the Assay Office: Sales Catalogues and cuttings from Sales Catalogues - 1910 - 1987

27 - Soho House Library Loan Book - 1814 - 1845

28 - "Illustrative" Material Added by the Assay Office. - 20th cent.

29 - "Illustrative" Material Added by the Assay Office. - 20th cent.

30 - Miscellaneous - 1864 - 1934

31 - Original Boulton & Fothergill Pattern Book. - c.1788

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