INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY

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

from Birmingham Central Library

Part 9: Journals, Notebooks and Diaries of Matthew Boulton

Part 10: Matthew Boulton Correspondence (Incoming Letters A-J)

Detailed Listing - Part 9

REEL 142

MBP 114 Boulton and Fothergill Journal:
Soho, 1 January 1776 - Soho, 1 August 1778
(with clear journal entries regarding accounts, wages and expenses) 564pp.

MBP 115 Boulton and Fothergill Ledger:
Soho, January 1776 - Soho, August 1778
(with A-Z Index in sleeve at front of volume) 326ff.

REEL 143

MBP 116 Boulton and Fothergill Journal:
Soho, 6 August 1778 - Soho, 23 July 1781
(with clear journal entries regarding accounts, wages and expenses) 561pp.

MBP 117 Boulton and Fothergill Day Book:
Soho, 6 October 1779 - Soho, 7 May 1781
(with index at front of volume) 651pp.

REEL 144

MBP 118 One large volume comprising two items:
- Boulton and Fothergill Journal:
Soho, 25 July 1781 - Soho, 22 June 1782, pp1-184
- Matthew Boulton Journal:
Soho, 24 June 1782 - Soho, 31 December 1788, pp185-194
(pages are blank to end of volume after p194).

MBP 175 Matthew Boulton Journal:
Soho, 31 December 1785 - Soho, 31 December 1794
(with clear journal entries regarding stock, cash receipts, wages
and expenses) 274pp.

MBP 176 Matthew Boulton Journal:
Soho, 31 December 1794 - Soho, 31 December 1816
(with clear journal entries regarding stock, cash receipts, wages and expenses; some loose documents at front of volume) 346pp.

REEL 145

MBP 376 Matthew Boulton Notebooks: Nos 1-18

(1) General, 1751-1759
(2) General, 1757
(3) General, 1763-1768
(4) General, 1765
(5) General, 1765-1766
(6) General, 1768-1775
(7) General, 1771
(8) General, 1772
(9) General, 1772-1775
(10) General, 1773
(11) Engines and Mining
(12) General, 1775-1776
(13) Engines and Mining, 1776-1778
(14) General, 1778
(15) Engines and Mining, 1778
(16) Engines and Mining, 1778-1779
(17) Engines and Mining:
Cornish Engines - Monthly Performance, 1778-1782
(18) Holland, 1779

REEL 146

MBP 376 Matthew Boulton Notebooks: Nos 19-25

(19) Engines and Mining, 1779-1780
(20) General: Experiments on Carronades, 1779-1781
(21) General, 1779-1782
(22) General: Thoughts on Carriages, 1780
(23) Engines and Mining, 1780-1786
(24) General, 1780
(25) Engines and Mining, 1780-1781

MBP 377 Matthew Boulton Notebooks: Nos 26-36

(26) Engines and Mining: Cornish Adventurers, 1780-1785
(27) Engines and Mining: Copper, 1780-1790 (28) Engines and Mining, 1782
(29) Engines and Mining: Drawings of Mills
and Rotative Motions, 1782
(30) Manufacture of Copying Ink, 1782
(31) Coinage, 1782, including a "Copy of Mr Garbett's Report on the Mint, 1782" and "Appendix: Emoluments to the Officers of the Mint"
(32) Coinage, 1782, including notes on the "Tower Mint" and another version of the Report of 1782; some pages have clearly been removed from the front and rear of this volume
(33) Engines and Mining: Cornish Engines, 1782-1783
(34) Engines and Mining: Cornish Mines, 1782-1786
(35) General, 1783
(36) General: Iron, 1783

REEL 147

MBP 377 Matthew Boulton Notebooks: Nos 37-50

(37) General: Corn and Meal, 1783
(38) General, 1783
(39) General: Iron, 1783
(40) General: Midsummer 1784
(41) Engines and Mining, January 1784
(42) Assay Bill: List of Names, 1773
(43) Notes and Memoranda: Cornish Mines and Other Subjects
(44) Engines and Mining, 1785-1786 (front cover inscribed "Midsummer 1785")
(45) Engines and Mining, 1785-1786 (front cover inscribed "January 1785")
(46) General, 1786 (front cover inscribed "Memorandums Nov 5 1786")
(47) General, 1786 (front cover inscribed "June 1786")
(48) Paris, 1786-1787
(49) Engines and Mining, 1786-1787
(50) General, July 1787 - April 1789

MBP 378 Matthew Boulton Notebooks: Nos 51-52

(51) Coinage, 1787-1788
(52) General, 1788

REEL 148

MBP 378 Matthew Boulton Notebooks: Nos 53-70

(53) Coining Money, 29 December 1787 - April 1788
(54) Mint, 1789
(55) General, 1789-1793 (front cover inscribed "Copper, 1791-1792 & 1793")
(56) Gilt Buttons, 1790
(57) Hard White Metal Buttons, 1790
(58) Coinage, 1790-1795
(59) Missing from the original
(60) General, 1791-1802
(61) General, 1792
(62) Engines and Mining, 1792 (front cover inscribed "Smirno, September 1792")
(63) Coinage, 1792 (front cover inscribed "A Collection of facts relative to Exchanges & Coins and to Mint Establishments 1792")
(64) Coinage, 1792 (front cover inscribed "Common-Place Book No.VI. 1792")
(65) Coinage, 1792 (front cover inscribed "Index to Common-Place Books relative to Coinage")
(66) Buckles, 1793
(67) General: Canals, 1793
(68) General, 1793-1799 (front cover inscribed "Agriculture, 1793")
(69) Mint Book: Soho Mint, 1793-1819 (front cover inscribed "Rough Medal Ledger")
(70) General: Garden - Soho, 1795

REEL 149

MBP 378 Matthew Boulton Notebooks: Nos 71-79

(71) Coinage, 1795
(72) General, 1796
(73) General, 1797 (front cover inscribed "Towns & No. of Inhabitants 1797")
(74) General, 1797-1798
(75) General, 1797-1801 (front cover inscribed "November. Garden. 1797")
(76) Coinage, 1797-1805 (front cover inscribed "Russia Coin & Dollars, July 1797 - December 1804")
(77) Coinage, 1797 (front cover inscribed "No.2 of May 1, 1797")
(78) Coinage, 1797 (inscribed "Coinage, April 1st 1797, No.1")
(79) Coinage, 1797-1798 (inscribed "Mint, May 1797")

MBP 379 Matthew Boulton Notebooks: Nos 80-96

(80) Coinage, 1798 (front cover inscribed "Coinage. August 1st 1798")
(81) Coinage, 1798-1803 (front cover inscribed "Feb 17th 1798 - R. Mint, Bullion")
(82) Button Gilding, 1799 (front cover inscribed "December 16, 1799 -")
(83) General, 1799 (front cover inscribed "January 1799")
(84) General, 1799-1800 (inscribed "Oct 14 1799 & 1800")
(85) General, 1800 (front cover inscribed "Sept 1800")
(86) General, 1800
(87) Coinage, 1800 (front cover inscribed "Tract relative to Coins and Exchanges")
(88) General, 1801 (front cover inscribed "January 1801")
(89) Notes and Observations on Steam Engines, 1801
(90) General, 1801-1803 (inscribed "Occonomical 1801")
(91) Engines and Mining, 1801
(92) General, 1801-1803 (front cover inscribed "Garden 1801")
(93) Mint, 1804
(94) Coinage, undated (front cover inscribed "Memorandum Book containing the Weights of Coin")
(95) Lathes and Turning
(96) Metal and Rolling Trade

REEL 150

MBP 381 Matthew Boulton Diaries, 1766-1808
(1 folder with general details about the diaries)
Matthew Boulton Diaries, 1766-1771 (6 volumes)

Diary for 1766: openings for Weeks 48 and 51 are blank and have not been filmed.
Diary for 1767: openings for Weeks 3, 7, 9, 28, 38, 43-44 and 46 are blank and have not been filmed.
Diary for 1768: openings for Weeks 2, 10, 18 and 29 are blank and have not been filmed.
Diary for 1769: openings for Weeks 1-3, 30, 36, 39 and 51 are blank and have not been filmed.
Diary for 1771: openings for Weeks 22 and 43-52 are blank and have not been filmed.

REEL 151

MBP 381 Matthew Boulton Diaries, 1772-1773 (2 volumes)
Matthew Boulton Diary, 1775 (1 volume)
Matthew Boulton Diary, 1779-1780 (1 volume)
Matthew Boulton Diaries, 1781-1782 (2 volumes)
Matthew Boulton Diary, 1786 (missing from the original)
Matthew Boulton Diaries, 1787-1792 (6 volumes)

Diary for 1772: opening for Week 44 is blank and has not been filmed.

Diary for 1773: openings for Weeks 28-31, 33 and 35-52 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1775: openings for Weeks 2-7, 12-14, 16, 18-38 and 40-52 are blank and have not been filmed; pages 51-52 at rear of volume appear to be missing from the original.

Diary for 1781: openings for Weeks 1-11, 17-32, 36, 39 and 44-46 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1782: openings for Weeks 2-6, 9, 12, 14, 18-27, 29-30, 35 and 46-50 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1787: openings for Weeks 6-7, 12, 15-21, 23-30, 32-35 and 46-47 are blank and have not been filmed; pages 6-7 at rear of volume are also missing from the original.

Diary for 1788: openings for Weeks 1, 8-10, 13-21, 23, 27-31, 34, 37-39, 41-48 and 50-52 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1789: openings for Weeks 1, 7-13, 15-23, 27, 29, 31-32, 40-46 and 48-52 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1790: openings for Weeks 8, 10, 12-15, 17-19, 27, 29, 36, 39 and 41-43 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1791: openings for Weeks 4-6, 10-14, 23-36, 38-44 and 49-52 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1792: openings for Weeks 7-8, 10-11, 16-20, 22, 24-29, 33-34 and 42-52 have not been filmed.

REEL 152

MBP 381 Matthew Boulton Diaries, 1794-1796 (3 volumes)
Matthew Boulton Diaries, 1798-1803 (6 volumes)

Diary for 1794: openings for Weeks 1, 4-6, 11-12, 14-18, 24, 27-29, 31, 33-34, 36-39, 42 and 44-52 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1795: openings for Weeks 3, 6, 9-17, 20, 26-41 and 43-52 are blank andhave not been filmed.

Diary for 1796: openings for March, May, August and October-December are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1798: openings for Weeks 6, 8-10, 12-13, 19, 22-27, 30, 35-36, 38, 42-43, 48-49 and 51 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1799: openings for Weeks 1-2, 4, 7, 17-18, 20, 22-24, 29-30, 32, 34, 38-39, 42 and 50-52 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1800: openings for Weeks 1-17, 24, 28, 32-34, 40-41, 44 and 47-48 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1801: openings for Weeks 6, 12, 24, 26-29, 33-35, 41, 44-45, 47-49 and 51-52 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1802: openings for Weeks 3-4, 10, 12, 14, 17, 19-20, 22, 25-26, 28-31, 33, 35, 49 and 51-52 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1803: openings for Weeks 3-4, 6-11, 18-20, 22-24, 28 and 31-52 are blank and have not been filmed.

REEL 153

MBP 381 Matthew Boulton Diaries, 1804-1808 (5 volumes)

Diary for 1804: openings for Weeks 1-3, 5-6, 8, 10-12, 14-18, 20, 22-23, 25, 28-39, 42, 46-47, 49 and
52-53 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1805: openings for Weeks 1-4, 6, 12, 14-15, 17-20, 23-30, 32-40 and 42-52 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1806: openings for Weeks 6, 9, 11, 15-20, 22, 24-26, 28-31, 33-35, 37-38, 41-44, 46-47 and
49-50 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1807: openings for Weeks 2-12, 14-26, 28-29, 31-47 and 49-52 are blank and have not been filmed.

Diary for 1808: openings for Weeks 2, 4-7, 9-13, 17-18 and 21-52 are blank and have not been filmed.

MBP 387 James Watt documents, 1778; in particular: a letter of 24 August 1778 from James Watt to Matthew Boulton with enclosures including "Directions for erecting an engine"; also instructions regarding "Drainage of the Moeres", with drawings and typescript transcripts. (1 box)

MBP 394 Soho estates: various plans (1 box of drawings and plans)

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