Call Number:

C0557

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 3 boxes
• 1.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Joseph Miller Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1783-1929 (inclusive) and 1820-1860 (bulk)

Creator:

Miller, Joseph, 1797-1860

Form:

Civil engineers -- England., Correspondence., Deeds -- Virginia -- Albemarle County., Maps., and Technical drawings.

Abstract:

Consists mainly of professional and personal correspondence, some documents, and printed matter of Joseph Miller, a nineteenth-century English civil engineer primarily concerned with the construction of steam engines and other machinery for naval vessels.

Joseph Miller was a nineteeth-century English civil engineer employed by the Boulton and Watt Company and later the Butterfly Iron Works and primarily concerned with the construction of steam engines and other machinery for naval vessels.

The collection consists mainly of professional and personal correspondence, some documents, and printed matter of Miller, a civil engineer primarily concerned with the construction of steam engines and other machinery for naval vessels. He was employed by the Boulton and Watt Company and later the Butterfly Iron Works, and spent some time in France and the United States. The collection includes correspondence with fellow engineers, his business partners, George Cowan and John Barnes, iron mongers, friends, and organizers of industrial exhibitions, as well as with his wife, Charlotte Biddulph Miller. The documents include land titles for property in Virginia, a business partnership agreement, a lease, receipts, a 19th-century map of a section of Charlottesville (Va.), an 1854 map of part of Cumberland County (England), and a few engineering drawings. Also included is correspondence (1838-1870) of Miller's niece, Lucilla Wood, of Albemarle County, Virginia.

Series: I. Papers of Joseph Miller--A. Correspondence, B. Documents, C. Maps & Drawings, D. Receipts, E. Misc. Writings, F. Memorabilia, G. Printed Matter; II. Correspondence of Charlotte Miller; III. Correspondence of Lucilla Wood; IV. Correspondence To and From Others.