Correspondence of Joseph Black I

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-16/I
• Dates of Creation:1754-1783
• Name of Creator:
  Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh)
• Language of Material:English mostly
• Physical Description:
  1 box

• Scope and Content

  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)

• Arrangement

  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)