INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Series One: The Boulton & Watt Archive and the Matthew Boulton Papers from Birmingham Central Library

Part 15: Boulton & Watt Correspondence and Papers

Contents of Reels

REEL 275

MS 3147/3/485-538: Special Subjects and Correspondents

Typescript listings from Black Binder for MS 3147/3/485-538

3/485 Aimé Argand, the hydraulic ram, 1785-1787, 1797-1799 (23 items)
3/486 Richard Arkwright, 1777, 1785, 1789-1790 (17 items)
3/487 William Bedford, 1795-1799 (10 items)
3/488 Birmingham Water Works, 1829-1830 (28 items)
3/489 Bombay Mint, India, 1821-1824 (41 items)

REEL 276

3/490 Calcutta Mint, India, 1821-1823 (116 items)
3/491 The Carron Company - papers concerning water, 1776 (7 items)
3/492 Thomas Cobb / Cobb Pain & Judd, Banbury, 1796-1798 (15 items)
3/493 J & G Davies, Tipton, 1846-1848 (33 items)
3/494 The Falmouth Water Company, Jamaica, 1799-1805 (32 items)
3/495 Richard Fothergill, Tredegar and Sirhowy iron works, 1801-1806 (12 items)

REEL 277

3/496 Robert Fulton, C A Dale, 1794, 1803-1805, 1810, 1812, 1817 (20 items)
3/497 Gardner Manser & Co, 1789-1796 (34 items)
3/498 Gilbert Gilpin, Bersham, 1786-1794 (171 items)

REEL 278

3/499 Gregory Mine, 1779-1782, 1791-1793 (49 items)
3/500 Sir Nigel Gresley, 1790-1795, 1801 (30 items)
3/501 Thomas Handley, 1777-1788 (37 items)
3/502 Joseph Hateley, 1792 (8 items)
3/503 James Keir, letters to Matthew Boulton and James Watt, 1778-1780, 1786, 1791, 1796 (18 items)
3/504 James Keir, miscellaneous letters to James Watt, Jr, 1788-1815 (15 items)

REEL 279

3/505 J D H van Liender, 1775-1794 (63 items)
3/506 J D H van Liender, 1797-1801 (47 items)
3/507 J D H van Liender, 1802-1809 (46 items)
3/508 Llanarmon and Plas Mostyn mines, 1802-1804 (18 items)
3/509 Jean Hyacinthe de Magellan, 1777-1785 (37 items)

REEL 280

3/510 Marly, French Patent, 1778-1787 (14 items)
3/511 Gilbert Meason and Wanlockhead Mine, 1778, 1781-1785 (16 items)

3/512

Minera Mine - Papers relative to the Settlement with Minera or Maesyfynnon Wen Adventurers, 1796

(8 items)

3/513 Minera Mine, Accounts, 1794-1799 (25 items)
3/514 Minera Mine, correspondence and papers, 1797-1799 (46 items)
3/515 Minera Mine, correspondence, 1801-1813 (10 items)
3/516 Perier and Motteux, 1777-1786 (38 items)
3/517 Chevalier Alvise Pisani, 1793-1794 (9 items)
3/518 Joseph Poli of Naples, 1786-1788 (11 items)

REEL 281

3/519 Jacques Ratton et Fils, 1793, 1797, 1799 (6 items)
3/520 Royal Mint (British Mint), 1805-1809 (21 items)
3/521 Royal Mint (British Mint), 1816, 1818-1820, 1826 (11 items)
3/522 St Katherine’s Dock, 1826-1829 (47 items)
3/523 John Smeaton, miscellaneous letters, 1776-1784 (8 items)
3/524 Spanish Engines, 1788-1795 (127 items)

REEL 282

3/525 Thomas Telford, miscellaneous letters, 1795-1832 (50 items)
3/526 Titled and Private Gentlemen, 1777-1817 (78 items)
3/527 Matthew Wasbrough, 1778-1779 (7 items)
3/528 Josiah Wedgwood, 1781-1793 (24 items)

REEL 283

3/529 Josiah Wedgwood & Byerley, Josiah Wedgwood, Wedgwood & Sons, 1794-1828 (142 items)
3/530 West India Docks - transcripts and memoranda, 1825-1830 (7 items)
3/531 White Grit Mine and Shelvefield Gravels, 1783-1785 (35 items)
3/532 John Wilkinson, bills for engine parts, etc, 1771-1778 (36 items)

REEL 284

3/533 John Wilkinson, correspondence, 1775-1779 (92 items)
3/534 John Wilkinson, correspondence, 1780-1791 (110 items)

3/535

John Wilkinson, correspondence and papers concerning his dispute with Boulton & Watt, 1775-1796

(49 items)

REEL 285

3/536 John Wilkinson, correspondence, 1796-1797 (25 items)
3/537 William Wilkinson, 1786, 1788, 1794-1799 (84 items)
3/538 William Wilkinson, 1800-1807 (20 items)

Typescript listings from Black Binder for MS 3147/3/539-560

MS 3147/3/539-541: Letters from Schemes
(concerning New Inventions, Improvements to the Steam Engine etc), 1801-1829

3/539 Letters from Schemes, 1801-1810 (73 items)

REEL 286

3/540 Letters from Schemes, 1811-1820 (91 items)
3/541 Letters from Schemes, 1821-1829 (85 items)

REEL 287

MS 3147/3/542: Miscellaneous Letters about the history of the firm, 1865-1894

3/542 Miscellaneous letters, 1865, 1866, 1886-1894 (23 items)

MS 3147/3/543-544: Schemes, Plans & Calculations, Descriptions of new Machines

3/543 Schemes, Plans and Calculations, Descriptions of new Machines etc, 1774-1790 (25 items)
3/544 Schemes, Plans and Calculations, Descriptions of new Machines etc, 1769, 1781-1788 (29 items)

MS 3147/3/545-547: Experiments on Engines

3/545 Experiments on the first engine at Soho, James Watt, 1773-1774 (1 item)
3/546 Experiments on the Forge Engine at Soho Manufactory, John Buchanan, 1783 (23 items)
3/547 Experiments on Timber, Experiment with the Whirling Machine, not dated (1 item)

MS 3147/3/548-552: Other Memoranda and Papers

3/548

“...Reports... ments Relative to... connected therewith”

(Papers about Newcastle and Leeds Engines, Sugar Mills), 1790-1798 (10 items)

3/549

Statements, Calculations & General Information relative to various Objects of Manufacturing & Commercial Speculation, 1785, 1801 (3 items)

3/550

Mr Murdock’s Memorandums respecting Lord Lowther’s Collieries at Whitehaven, 1802 (11 items)

3/551

Miscellaneous memoranda and papers, c1770-1799 (30 items)

3/552

Miscellaneous memoranda and papers, c1800-1809 (14 items)

REEL 288

MS 3147/3/553-560: Steamboat Memoranda

3/553William Creighton’s memoranda and sketches, 1815-1822 (39 items)
3/554 Memoranda about the Caledonia steam boat, 1818-1819 (7 items)
3/555 Miscellaneous memoranda, papers etc, 1816-1830 (55 items)
3/556 Miscellaneous memoranda, papers etc, 1832-1847 (20 items)
3/557 Steam boat newspaper extracts etc, 1821-1842 (22 items)
3/558 Steam boat boilers, 1827-1836 (18 items)
3/559 Miscellaneous memoranda, papers etc, 1849-1863 (26 items)
3/560 Boat plans, c1814-1859 (15 items)

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