| Description | Manuscripts used for a Ph.D., then in the writing of 'The Strutts and the Arkwrights' (1958) and The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune (1989); organised according to the eleven chapters of the first book:
Box 1 - Ch. 1 Jedediah Strutt, wheelwright and farmer
Box 2 - Ch. 2 The Hosiery Patent
Box 3 - Ch. 3 The Hosiery Business
Box 4 - Ch. 4 The Partnership with Richard Arkwright & Ch. 5 The Early Cotton Mills
Box 5 - Ch. 6 Jedediah Strutt and his family
Box 6 - Ch. 7 The Second Generation, and also some material relating to other chapters
Box 7 - Ch. 8 & 9 The Mills & Workers and Welfare
Box 8 - Ch. 10 The Raw Material
Box 9 - Ch. 11 Products and Markets, together with material relating to previous chapters
Boxes 10-11 Papers relating to the Arkwright family business
Box 12 -
Box 13 - Research papers, including bound copy of PhD thesis 'WG and J Strutt, 1758-1830: A study in social and industrial organisation', 1953
Collection includes:
- correspondence between Fitton and T.S. Ashton, A. Redford and English Sewing Cotton relating to the loan of the records to University of Manchester (not available for public consultation);
- documents relating to the publication of The Strutts and the Arkwrights, including details of the inclusion of a chapter by A.P. Wadsworth in the volume (not available for public consultation);
- typescript of Negley Harte's history of the Bretby business in Belper |
| Custodial History | These records were donated to Derbyshire Record Office in August 2018. |