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

Part 14: Boulton & Watt Correspondence and Papers (MS 3147/3/405-484)

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MS 3147/3/405-423:

Incoming Correspondence and Papers:General Correspondence, 1795-1798

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3/405 General Correspondence, A (22 items)
3/406 General Correspondence, B (153 items)

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3/407 General Correspondence, C (91 items)
3/408 General Correspondence, D (94 items)
3/409 General Correspondence, E (13 items)
3/410 General Correspondence, F (45 items)

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3/411 General Correspondence, G (55 items)
3/412 General Correspondence, H (110 items)
3/413 General Correspondence, I, J (56 items)

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3/414 General Correspondence, K (19 items)
3/415 General Correspondence, L (88 items)
3/416 General Correspondence, M (97 items)

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3/417 General Correspondence, N, O (18 items)
3/418 General Correspondence, P (71 items)
3/419 General Correspondence, R (50 items)
3/420 General Correspondence, S (81 items)

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3/421 General Correspondence, T (45 items)
3/422 General Correspondence, U, V (22 items)
3/423 General Correspondence, W, Y (118 items)

MS 3147/3/424-438:

Incoming Correspondence and Papers: General Correspondence dealt with by John Southern, c1788-1798

3/424 General Correspondence, A, 1788-1797 (26 items)

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3/425 General Correspondence, B, 1786-1799 (215 items)

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3/426 General Correspondence, C, 1787-1798 (200 items)

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3/427 General Correspondence, D, 1788-1798 (104 items)

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3/428 General Correspondence, E, 1791-1797 (6 items)
3/429 General Correspondence, F, 1788-1797 (75 items)

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3/430 General Correspondence, G, 1787-1798 (151 items)

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3/431 General Correspondence, H, 1787-1798 (157 items)
3/432 General Correspondence, I, J, 1787-1798 (67 items)

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3/433 General Correspondence, K, 1790-1798 (37 items)
3/434 General Correspondence, L, 1789-1799 (13 items)
3/435 General Correspondence, M, 1788-1798 (42 items)
3/436 General Correspondence, N, O, P, 1790-1798 (18 items)
3/437 General Correspondence, S, 1790-1798 (19 items)

General Correspondence, R [now missing]

3/438 General Correspondence, T, 1788-1795 (10 items)

General Correspondence, U-Y [now missing]

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MS 3147/3/439-440:

Incoming Correspondence and Papers: Miscellaneous General Correspondence

3/439 Miscellaneous General Correspondence, 1799-1828 (129 items)

3/440 Miscellaneous General Correspondence dealt with in the Drawing Office, 1799-1825 (29 items)

MS 3147/3/441-455:

Incoming Correspondence and Papers: General Correspondence received in the Drawing Office, 1829-1843

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3/441 General Correspondence, A (2 items)

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3/442 General Correspondence, B (132 items)
3/443 General Correspondence, C (5 items)
3/444 General Correspondence, D (57 items)

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3/445 General Correspondence, E (33 items)
3/446 General Correspondence, F (7 items)
3/447 General Correspondence, G (169 items)

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3/448 General Correspondence, H (199 items)
3/449 General Correspondence, J-L (6 items)

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3/450 General Correspondence, M, N (21 items)
3/451 General Correspondence, P, Q (99 items)
3/452 General Correspondence, R (75 items)

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3/453 General Correspondence, S (162 items)
3/454 General Correspondence, T (16 items)

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3/455 General Correspondence, W (97 items)

MS 3147/3/456:

Incoming Correspondence and Papers: Miscellaneous General Correspondence, 1846-1862

3/456 Miscellaneous General Correspondence, 1846-1862 (5 items)

MS 3147/3/457-471:

Incoming Correspondence and Papers: Cornish Mines and Engines, 1775-1807

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Cornish Mines and Engines, 1775-1807

Correspondence and Papers:

3/457 Correspondence, 1775-1799 (165 items)

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3/458 Correspondence and Papers, c1777-1801 (227 items)

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3/459 Correspondence and Papers, 1778-1793 (28 items)

3/460 Papers sent by Thomas Wilson, notes on engines built and premiums due, 1778-1799; calculations for Wheal Chance, Poldice, Dolcoath, 1778-1780 (31 items)
3/461 Accounts of mines, engines, debts etc. sent by Thomas Wilson, 1779-1807 (73 items)

3/462 Correspondence from the Fox family, 1785-1794 (35 items)
3/463 The Cornish Metal Company, 1785-1788, 1792 (19 items)
3/464 Memorandum. On Cornish Engines & Tables. 23 October 1780.(1 item)
3/465 Miscellaneous papers and memoranda, 1779-1805 (19 items)

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Cornish Mines and Engines, 1775-1807

Books and Tables of Engine performance:

3/466 Monthly accounts of Cornish Engines, 1779-1794 (1 volume)
3/467 Performance of Cornish Engines, 1781-1782 (1 volume)
3/468 Performance of Cornish Engines – “Engine Calculation”, 1783-1791 (1 volume)
3/469 Tables of Performance of various engines, January 1781 - July 1782

(7 sheets)

3/470 Tables for boilers of various Cornish Engines, not dated. (1 volume)
3/471 Volume of plans of Consolidated Mines, not dated. (1 volume)

MS 3147/3/472-476:

Incoming Correspondence and Papers: Albion Mill, 1782-1802

3/472 Correspondence and Papers, 1782-1789 (85 items)

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3/473 Correspondence and Papers, 1790-1796 (109 items)
3/474 Correspondence and Papers, 1797-1800 (34 items)
3/475 Calculations and Memoranda, c1783-1790 (18 items)
3/476 Miscellaneous drawings and plans, c1782-1802 (8 items)

MS 3147/3/477:

Incoming Correspondence and Papers: Establishment of a London Banking Concern, 1801-1802

3/477 Correspondence and Papers, 1801-1802 (14 items)

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MS 3147/3/478-481:

Incoming Correspondence and Papers: Gas Lighting, 1805-1816

3/478 Memoranda and sketches for customers, 1805-1815 (55 items)
3/479 Papers and memoranda regarding experiments, apparatus, gazometers etc., 1805-1811 (16 items)

3/480 Correspondence and Papers concerning the Gas Light & Coke Bill, 1809 (36 items)

3/481 Pamphlets about gas lighting and the Gas Light & Coke Bill, Minutes of Evidence before Parliamentary Committee, Speeches and Summing up, and copies of various Parliamentary Bills, 1785-1816 (42 items)

MS 3147/3/482-484:

Incoming Correspondence and Papers: Steam Boats, 1810-1843

3/482 Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1810-1827 (29 items)

3/483 Steamboats, the Forth & Clyde tug, and Canal Passage Boats on the Forth & Clyde Canal, 1828-1831 (26 items)

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3/484 General Correspondence, 1829-1843 (223 items)