Letters and Papers of Charles James Chubb

The documents listed under this head arrived at the Birmingham Assay Office in three boxes, each labelled as follows:

This box contains the papers & Books which were in the possession of Mr. Chubb. They were given into the custody of E. Price, September 23 1863, by E. Chubb on his leaving Soho Foundry.

It is not clear that all the documents fall under the title adopted above, as only a portion of them have as yet been examined.

Unfortunately, while the papers were in the custody of the Assay Office, the contents of these boxes were disturbed, the various files of letters and vouchers were untied and the contents left to spill out and become intermingled; it has therefore been extremely difficult to discern any traces of their original arrangement.

The Letters are now arranged in one simple sequence of annual files, though it is evident they were once divided under a number of heads, since a few of the original wrappers and labels survive.

The Copies have likewise been arranged in annual files. A number of these copy-letters are patently incomplete, and there is a large residue of unidentified and unlisted sheets.

The remaining unlisted material is in three boxes.

LIST
Letters.
1. Letters and memoranda. 1835. (1 file)
2. Letters. 1836. (1 file)
3. Letters. 1837. (1 file)
Letters. 1838-1840. [Not found]
4. Letters. 1841. (1 file)
5. Letters. 1842. (1 file)
6. Letters. 1843. (1 file)
7. Letters. 1844. (1 file)
8. Letters. 1845. (1 file)
9. Letters. 1846. (1 file)
10. Letters. 1847. (1 file)
11. Letters. 1848. (1 file)
12. Letters. 1849. (1 file)
13. Letters. 1850. (1 file)
14. Letters. 1851. (1 file)
15. Letters. 1852. (1 file)
16. Letters. 1853. (1 file)
17. Letters. 1854. (1 file)

Copies.
18. Copies. 1842. (1 file)
19. Copies. 1843. (1 file)
20. Copies. 1844. (1 file)
21. Copies. 1845. (1 file)
22. Copies. 1846. (1 file)
23. Copies. 1847. (1 file)
24. Copies. 1848. (1 file)
25. Copies. 1849. (1 file)
26. Copies. 1850. (1 file)
27. Copies. 1851. (1 file)
28. Copies. 1852. (1 file)
29. Unlisted Copies. (1 file)

Orders to draw drafts.
30. M. R. B. & J. W. cash agency, Mint and Rolling Mill. 1834-1835. (1 file)

Memoranda, Accounts etc.
31. Agreements, memoranda etc. relating to land around Soho, rents of part of the Manufactory, Soho Christmas Dole. 1831—1863. (1 file)

32. M. Boulton & Plate Co. – accounts, memoranda etc. c. 1833-1837. (1 file)

33. Abstracts of profit and loss, income and expenditure accounts etc. 1835-1836. (1 file)

34. Miscellaneous accounts, letters and memoranda. c. 1829-c. 1837. (1 file)

35. Miscellaneous accounts. c. 1832-1835. (1 file)

Petty Cash Vouchers.

36. Vouchers 1844.

37. Vouchers 1845.

Miscellaneous Unlisted Material. (3 boxes)

Miscellaneous Unlisted Material. (1 box.)

Papers ex box ‘Robinson, Westley, Chubb’ not catalogued. 1826-1852 and undated.