INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY

Series One: The Boulton & Watt Archive and the Matthew Boulton Papers from

Birmingham Central Library

Parts 12 and 13: Boulton & Watt Correspondence and Papers

Contents of Reels - Part 12

REEL 198

MS 3147/3/1-79: Principals’ and Partners’ Correspondence

Typescript listings from Black Binder for MS 3147/3/1-79

MS 3147/3/1-22: Correspondence from Matthew Boulton, 1777-1799

3/1 Letters to James Watt, 1777 (18 items)
3/2 Letters to James Watt, 1778 (18 items)
3/3 Letters to James Watt, 1779 (36 items)

REEL 199

3/4 Letters to James Watt, 1780 (44 items)
3/5 Letters to James Watt, 1781 (62 items)
3/6 Letters to James Watt, 1782 (47 items)
3/7 Letters to James Watt, 1783 (26 items)

REEL 200

3/8 Letters to James Watt, 1784 (36 items)
3/9 Letters to James Watt, 1785 (30 items)
3/10 Letters to James Watt, 1786 (30 items)
3/11 Letters to James Watt, 1787 (18 items)
3/12 Letters to James Watt, 1788 (18 items)
3/13 Letters to James Watt, 1789 (16 items)
3/14 Letters to James Watt, 1790 (15 items)

REEL 201

3/15 Letters to James Watt, 1791 (9 items)
3/16 Letters to James Watt, 1792 (7 items) (no correspondence found for 1793)
3/17 Letters to James Watt, 1794 (17 items)
3/18 Letters to James Watt Junior, 1795 (5 items)
3/19 Letters to James Watt, James Watt Junior, M R Boulton, 1796 (12 items)
3/20 Letters to James Watt, 1797 (5 items) (no correspondence found for 1798)
3/21 Letters to James Watt, James Watt Junior, M R Boulton, 1799 (8 items)
3/22 Miscellaneous Letters and Papers, 1783 to 1790s (11 items)

MS 3147/3/23-32: Correspondence from James Watt, 1777-1816

3/23 Letters to Matthew Boulton, 1777 (17 items)
3/24 Letters to James Watt Junior, 1795 (32 items)
3/25 Letters to James Watt Junior, 1796 (40 items)
3/26 Letters to Matthew Robinson Boulton, 1796 (13 items)

REEL 202

3/27 Letters to James Watt Junior, 1797 (12 items)
3/28 Letters to James Watt Junior, 1798 (10 items)
3/29 Letters to Matthew Robinson Boulton, 1799 (13 items)
3/30 Letters to James Watt Junior, 1800 (5 items)
3/31 Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1776-1816 (15 items)
3/32 Miscellaneous Memoranda and Papers, 1791-1816 (4 items)

MS 3147/3/33-44: Correspondence from Matthew Robinson Boulton, 1795-1809

3/33 Letters to James Watt Junior, 1795 (9 items)
3/34 Letters to James Watt Junior, James Watt, Matthew Boulton, 1796 (49 items)
3/35 Letters to James Watt Junior, 1797 (13 items)
3/36 Letters to James Watt Junior, 1798 (27 items)

REEL 203

3/37 Letters to James Watt, James Watt Junior, Gregory Watt, 1799 (64 items)
3/38 Letters to James Watt Junior, Gregory Watt, 1800 (22 items)
3/39 Letters to James Watt Junior, 1801 (20 items)
3/40 Letters to James Watt Junior, 1802 (17 items)
3/41 Letters to James Watt Junior, Gregory Watt, 1803 (25 items)
3/42 Letters to James Watt Junior, 1804-1807 (31 items)
3/43 Letters to James Watt Junior, 1808-1809 (14 items)
3/44 Miscellaneous Letters to John Southern, 1796-1803 (12 items)

REEL 204

MS 3147/3/45-75: Correspondence from James Watt Junior, 1789-1830

3/45 Letters to James Watt, 1794-1795 (37 items)
3/46 Letters to James Watt, Matthew Robinson Boulton, 1796-1797 (90 items)
3/47 Letters to James Watt, Gregory Watt, M R Boulton, 1798 (57 items)

REEL 205

3/48 Letters to Gregory Watt, M R Boulton, James Watt, 1799 (73 items)
3/49 Letters to M R Boulton, James Watt, Gregory Watt, 1800 (24 items)
3/50 Letters to M R Boulton, Gregory Watt, 1801 (24 items)
3/51 Letters to M R Boulton, Gregory Watt, 1802 (26 items)
3/52 Letters to M R Boulton, Gregory Watt, 1803 (54 items)

REEL 206

3/53 Letters to M R Boulton, 1804 (7 items)
3/54 Letters to M R Boulton, 1805 (9 items)
3/55 Letters to M R Boulton, 1806 (9 items)
3/56 Letters to M R Boulton, 1807 (4 items)
3/57 Letters to M R Boulton, Boulton Watt & Co., 1808 (5 items)
3/58 Letters to M R Boulton, 1809 (3 items)
3/59 Letters to John Southern, 1789-1799 (19 items)
3/60 Letters to John Southern, 1801-1811 (45 items)
3/61 Letters to John Southern, William Creighton, James Miller, 1812-1816 (49 items)

REEL 207

3/62 Letters to William Creighton, James Brown, 1817 (45 items)
3/63 Letters to William Creighton, William Bennett, January-July 1818 (44 items)
3/64 Letters to William Creighton, July-December 1818 (37 items)
3/65 Letters to William Creighton, 1819 (34 items)

REEL 208

3/66 Letters to William Creighton, James Brown, 1820 (67 items)
3/67 Letters to William Creighton, January-July 1821 (60 items)
3/68 Letters to William Creighton, July-December 1821 (63 items)

REEL 209

3/69 Letters to William Creighton, 1822 (67 items)
3/70 Letters to William Creighton, 1823-1824 (70 items)
3/71 Letters to William Creighton, 1825 (29 items)

REEL 210

3/72 Letters to Boulton Watt & Co., William Creighton, 1826 (59 items)
3/73 Letters to Boulton Watt & Co., William Creighton, 1827 (31 items)
3/74 Letters to Boulton Watt & Co., William Creighton, 1828-1829 (50 items)
3/75 Letters to William Creighton, William Bennett, 1830 (7 items)

MS 3147/3/76-79: Correspondence from Gregory Watt, 1797-1803

3/76 Letters to James Watt Junior, James Watt, M R Boulton, 1797-1799 (33 items)

REEL 211

3/77 Letters to James Watt Junior, M R Boulton, 1800 (13 items)
3/78 Letters to James Watt Junior, 1801-1802 (14 items)
3/79 Letters to James Watt Junior, M R Boulton, 1803 (17 items)

MS 3147/3/245-299: Incoming Correspondence and Papers:

Letters from Agents, Engine Erectors and Employees at Soho

Typescript listings from Black Binder for MS 3147/3/245-299

3/245 Thomas Barnes, 1794-1798 (61 items)
3/246 John Buchanan, 1780-1785 (20 items)

REEL 212

3/247 Henry Creighton, 1804-1809 (80 items)
3/248 William Creighton, 1796, 1800-1805 (100 items)

REEL 213

3/249 Peter Ewart, 1790-1833 (153 items)
3/250 William Forman, 1791-1796, 1799, 1800 (25 items)

REEL 214

3/251 John Hall, 1778-1783 (25 items)
3/252 Joseph Harrison, 1779, 1786, 1787 (4 items)
3/253 Logan Henderson, 1776 (10 items)
3/254 Logan Henderson, 1777 (19 items)
3/255 Logan Henderson, 1778 (37 items)
3/256 Logan Henderson, 1779 (34 items)
3/257 Logan Henderson, 1780 (69 items)

REEL 215

3/258 Logan Henderson, 1781 (50 items)
3/259 Logan Henderson, 1782-1785, 1788-1790 (32 items)
3/260 Logan Henderson – letters to him from Matthew Boulton and James Watt, 1777, 1781 (14 items)
3/261 Jabez Carter Hornblower, 1778-1779 (24 items)
3/262 Samuel Hurt, Abraham Storey, Simon Vivian, 1800-1811 (35 items)
3/263 Eidingtoun Smeaton Hutton, 1804-1805 (29 items)

REEL 216

3/264 Eidingtoun Smeaton Hutton, 1806 (47 items)
3/265 Eidingtoun Smeaton Hutton, 1807 (39 items)
3/266 Eidingtoun Smeaton Hutton, 1808 (22 items)
3/267 Eidingtoun Smeaton Hutton, 1809 (29 items)
3/268 James Law, 1781-1792 (15 items)
3/269 James Lawson, 1781-1783, 1786-1787 (25 items)

REEL 217

3/270 James Lawson, 1793-1795 (46 items)
3/271 James Lawson, 1796 (52 items)
3/272 James Lawson, 1797 (50 items)

3/273 James Lawson, 1798 (53 items)

REEL 218

3/274 James Lawson, 1799 (57 items)
3/275 James Lawson, 1800 (36 items)
3/276 James Lawson, 1802 (50 items)
3/277 James Lawson, two miscellaneous letters, 1806 (2 items)
3/278 James Lawson, letters to him, 1793 (39 items)

REEL 219

3/279 James Lawson, letters to him, 1794 (41 items)
3/280 James Lawson, letters to him, 1795 (73 items)
3/281 James Lawson, letters to him, 1796 (93 items)

REEL 220

3/282 James Lawson, letters to him, 1797 (67 items)
3/283 James Lawson, letters to him, 1798 (66 items)
3/284 James Lawson, letters to him, 1799 (70 items)
3/285 James Lawson, miscellaneous letters to him, 1800, 1804, not dated (3 items)

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