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Financial records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents pertaining to money matters.

Found in 1516 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook of James Home of Greenlawdean, brother of John Home of Blackadder.

 Item
Identifier: MS.118
Scope and Contents

The notebook consists chiefly of notes of bonds and their repayment.

Dates: 1664-1676.

Notebook of John Wilson ('Christopher North'), containing chiefly verse., 1811.

 Item
Identifier: MS.4886
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains: lists of expenses and financial transactions (folios 2, 7); notes for a poem and an article (folios 24-25, 38); fragments of verse, possibly drafts for various projected poetical works, and unpublished in this form; and completed poems and sonnets. A number of the sonnets form part of a projected sonnet cycle on the Lake District which was apparently never completed.

Dates: 1811.

Notebook of Thomas Ruddiman, containing mainly details of his personal expenditure.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5047
Scope and Contents

The notebook also includes accounts of money disbursed by Thomas Ruddiman as Assistant Librarian of the Advocates' Library.

Dates: 1702-1713.

Notebook of William Anderson, musician.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13983
Content Description

Notebook containing records of William Anderson's income and expenses while travelling and performing as a musician at the theatre of Arbroath, 1791-1792. Places listed are Aberdeen, Arbroath, Banff Montrose, Elgin, Forres, Fort George and Inverness. With some genealogical information and financial accounts of later owners dated up to 1842.

Pp. 69-71, including the interleaved blotting paper, contain lists of operas, possibly performed by Anderson and his colleagues.

Dates: 1791 - 1842

Notebook signed 'John Halkerston', kept, apparently, by Lord Colvill of Ochiltree's factor.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5290
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains notes of financial transactions, 1709-1719, and a separate account of 1768.

Dates: 1709-1719, 1768.

Notebooks of General Henry Fletcher., 1769-1790.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17892-17893
Scope and Contents

There are some entries in hands other than that of General Fletcher. The contents are very miscellaneous - financial and estate matters, medical recipes, draft letters, etc.

Dates: 1769-1790.