Correspondence of Joseph Black I

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Joseph Black corresponded with many people on social and professional matters. This series includes correspondence with James Watt (1736-1819), Lord Kames (1696-1782), James Hope Johnstone (1741-1816) and Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell (1744-1816).

1 box of letters and related documents, chronologically arranged with index (1754-1783)

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Letters currently numbered with folio numbers, individual or spans.

Note: Oversised items from this series are indexed here but physically located located within box Gen. 875.

Archivist's Note

Grant Buttars 25 January 2002

Subjects

Professional Interaction

Social Interaction

Personal Names

Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh)

Home, Henry, Lord Kames, 1696-1782 (judge and philosopher)

Johnstone, James Hope-, 1741-1816 (3rd Earl of Hopetoun)

Watt, James, 1736-1819 (engineer)