Incoming Correspondence, 1847-49

London Office. Letters to James Brown and Henry Wollaston Blake, from 1847 to 1849. The letters are addressed to 18 London Street unless otherwise noted. In 1848 James Watt Jr. died, and the surviving partners Henry Wollaston Blake, James Brown and Gilbert Hamilton re-named the firm James Watt & Co. Very few letters from these three years survive. Those that do appear to have been “cherry-picked” from their original bundles because of their famous authors, for example Isambard Kingdom Brunel, or their subject matter, for example the death of James Watt Jr. in 1848 or notice in 1849 of the intended Great Exhibition.