Correspondence James Watt Jr. to John Southern from 1789 to 1799

Letters from James Watt Jr. to John Southern from 1789 to 1799. This arrangement of Watt Jr.’s occasional letters and memoranda to John Southern, the head of the Drawing Office at Soho, was created in the 1890s by Henry Hazleton. He may have extracted the letters from the bundles of general correspondence kept by Southern. Hazleton’s original bundle covered the years 1791 to 1800. The Library added two further letters, dating from 1789 and 1790. These are now Nos. 2 and 4. Further stray letters of 1789 and 1790 were added to the bundle; these are now Nos. 1A and 3. However no letters of 1800 were found.

The letters are dated as follows:

Nos. 1A, 2. 1789
Nos. 3-4. 1790
Nos. 5-6. 1791
Nos. 7-9. 1795
Nos. 10-15. 1796
Nos. 16-17. 1798
Nos. 18-19. 1799