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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

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

1 - Printed booklet: Theatre Royal Birmingham 1774-1924, by R. Crompton Rhodes - 1924

2 - Printed catalogue of the Centenary Exhibition of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists - 1927

3 - Printed paper entitled ‘The Birmingham Library in the Eighteenth Century’, by G.T. Holden - 1929

4 - Press cutting from The Birmingham Post,with article titled ‘Birmingham’s Library 150 Years Ago’ - 5 July 1929

5 - Printed booklet titled 'Saint Philip’s Church Birmingham, and its Groom-Porter Architect', by Benjamin Walker F.S.A., A.R.I.B.A. - 1931

6 - Printed booklet titled 'Saint Philip’s Church Birmingham, and its Groom-Porter Architect', by Benjamin Walker F.S.A., A.R.I.B.A. - 1935

7 - Printed paper entitled 'The Ravenhurst, Camp Hill, Birmingham' by Benjamin Walker, F.S.A. - 1933

8 - Press cutting from The Birmingham Daily Post - 14 December 1933

9 - Printed paper, titled 'Birmingham Directories', by Benjamin Walker, F.S.A. - 1937

10 - Printed paper, titled 'Some Eighteenth-Century Birmingham Houses, and the Men who Lived in Them', by Benjamin Walker, F.S.A. - 1934

11 - Printed paper, titled 'A Note on some Eighteenth Century Birmingham Chimney-Pieces', by Benjamin Walker, F.S.A. - 1935

12 - Printed paper, titled 'The Eighteenth Century Communion Service of St. Bartholomew’s Church Birmingham', by Benjamin Walker F.S.A. - 1940

13 - Handwritten note headed 'St Bartholomew's Chapel, Birmingham' - nd. 20th cent.

14 - Printed booklet, Birmingham Town Hall Centenary 1834-1934, by William Bennett - 1934

15 - Printed booklet, Birmingham Town Hall Centenary 1834-1934, by William Bennett - 1934

16 - Press cutting, Birmingham Daily Post with article by W. B[ennett], titled 'Botanical Society, First Project in Birmingham' - 2 June 1937

17 - Transcribed extracts from Aris's Birmingham Gazette of September1801 - November 1801 - nd. 20th cent.

18 - Printed booklet, The Birmingham Town Hall 1834 - 1934 - 1934

19 - Printed Catalogue for City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Commemorative Exhibition of the Art Treasures of the Midlands - 1934

20 - Printed booklet, Birmingham Market Hall 1835-1935 - 1935

21 - City of Birmingham Handbook, 1934 - 1934

22 - City of Birmingham Handbook, 1935 - 1935

23 - Birmingham: England’s Second City - nd. c. 1935

24 - Press cuttings from The Birmingham Daily Post with article titled ‘Birmingham’s First Canal’, and subsequent reader's letter - 19 January 1933- 20 January 1933

25 - Press cutting from The Birmingham Post, with article titled 'The Old Square – Visits of Dr. Johnson and Catherine Hutton' - 24 January 1934

26 - Press cutting from the Birmingham Post with article titled 'Long Management – Incidents at the Theatre Royal' - 8 June 1937

27 - Press cutting from the Birmingham Post with article about Louisa Ryland, titled 'Miss Ryland Gifts to Birmingham' - 10 June 1937

28 - Press cutting from the Birmingham Post with article titled ‘Birmingham Organist – Barnabas Gunn's Many Occupations' - 13 April 1939

29 - Handwritten transcript from Matthew Boulton letterbook 1789-1792 - nd. 20th cent.

30 - Envelope containing printed card listing the subscribers (Handsworth ladies) to a fund for supplying musical instruments and uniforms for the band of the First Staffordshire Rifle Volunteers - nd.19th cent.

31 - Envelope containing printed trade cards for John Haselden, engineer and mechanical draughtsman; Edwin Lewis, refiner and metal dealer; and Robert Tommas, maltster, hop merchant, coal and coke dealer - nd.19th cent.

32 - Four printed pages from Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary - nd. c. 1845.

33 - Page from St Mary's Church, Handsworth, Parish Magazine with article on Matthew Boulton’s funeral - nd. [1809]

34 - Printed programme from the City of Birmingham, giving the order of proceedings for the unveiling of the Boulton, Watt and Murdoch statues - 14 September 1956

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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