Gott papers, section 1: business records relating to the firm of Leeds woollen merchants
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Gott papers, section 1: business records relating to the firm of Leeds woollen merchants
Classmark: MS 193
Creator(s): Gott Family()
Date(s): 1770-1931
Language: English
Size and medium: 241 items contained in 5 boxes, 6 bound volumes and 1 loose-leaf binder, manuscript, photostat copies, and printed material.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6701
Collection group(s): Business Archives
Description
Comprises: (1) Papers concerning Richard Thompson, 1770-1771; (2) Miscellaneous records of Wormald, Fountaine and Gott, 1780-1785; (3) Aire and Calder Navigation accounts, 1785-1792; (4) Accounts of co-partnership, 1786-1839; (5) Documents concerning the erection of Park Mill at Bean Ing, 1792-1794; (6) Business letters of Wormald, Fountaine and Gott, 1792-1795; (7) Photostat copies of letters from from the Boulton and Watt manuscripts, Birmingham, 1792-1796; (8) Miscellaneous records of Wormald, Gott and Wormalds, 1795-1800; (9) Letters of John Hopps, book-keeper, Leeds, to Benjamin Gott, 1796-1812; (10) Business letters of Wormald, Gott and Wormalds, 1800-1817; (11) An account of the proceedings of the merchants, manufacturers, and others, concerned in the wool and woollen trade of Great Britain, in their application to Parliament, London, 1800 [Printed]; (12) Cash account at Armley Mill, 1805-1807; (13) Report from the Committee on the Woollen Manufacture of England; etc., 1806
[Printed]; (14) Bean Ing Mill notebook of prices and processes, [ca. 1808-1825]; (15) Miscellaneous records of Wormald, Gott and Wormalds, 1801-1817; (16) William Gott's pattern book, 1815; (17) Business letters of Benjamin Gott and Sons, 1818-1847; (18) Report of the trial of an indictment, preferred against Messrs. B. Gott and Sons, for an alleged public nuisance, 1824 [Printed]; (19) Armley Mills weekly account, 1823-1846; (20) Miscellaneous records of Benjamin Gott and Sons, 1817-1863; (21) Manuscript list of manuscripts owned by Mr Smith Stocks, Harrogate, 1930; (22) R. Offor: 'The papers of Benjamin Gott in the library of the University of Leeds', 1931 [Offprint]; (23) H. Heaton: 'Benjamin Gott and the Anglo-American cloth trade', 1929 [Offprint]; (24) Photostat copies of plans and sections of Park Mill and machinery, from the Boulton and Watt manuscripts, Birmingham, 1792-1806; (25) Original plans and sections of mills and machinery.
Biography or history
The Gotts were a prominent Leeds family, and were partners in firms of woollen merchants and manufacturers from 1780 to 1867
System of arrangement
The MS 193 catalogue is based on an historic inventory, created in 1968. The arrangement of material does not necessarily represent the original order of the archive and it is considered partly processed by an archivist. When making requests to consult, please be aware that there may be discrepancies between description and physical arrangement. The retrievable unit for this collection is item level.
Access and usage
Access
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