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Creator
Watt, Gregory, 1777-1804
Call number
Pforz MS
Physical description
1 item
Preferred Citation
Gregory Watt manuscript material : 1 item, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
Repository
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
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Gregory Watt, son of James Watt, the Scots-born engineer and scientist. To Davies Giddy (later Davies Gilbert), scientific administrator and applied mathematician : 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Mar 1799 : (MISC 4144) : from Soho : begins, "I sit down with pleasure to reply to your last obligng letter of which I communicated the contents to my father in town who desires me to return you his best thanks for your obliging offer of medication with the Adventures in Wheal Crenver." Written on p. [2-3] of folded lettersheet, on p. [1] of which is printed a price list for "patent copying machines manufactured by James Watt & Co. ..."; docketed on p. 4, probably in Giddy's hand.

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319

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