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Accounts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents in which monies or goods received and paid or given out are recorded in order to permit periodic totaling. This term was not used in the published volumes of the 'Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925'. Such records were indexed under the subject terms Housekeeping or Prices.

Found in 3038 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and legal and official papers of Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats., 1611-1612, 1654-1720, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.6488
Scope and Contents

This volume has been divided into the following sections: correspondence (folios 1-26), family legal papers (folios 27-70), official legal papers (folios 71-80), official accounts (folios 81-154). The official papers concern Sir Patrick Murray in his capacity as General Receiver of Crown Rents and Foreign Excise.

Dates: 1611-1612, 1654-1720, undated.

Correspondence and legal papers concerning the Crinan Canal.

 File
Identifier: MS.9500
Scope and Contents

Most of the papers concern the Canal proprietors' negotiations with the local landowners, at first to acquire land to build the Canal, and later in disputes about rights and ownership. There are also records of tolls paid, and accounts for damages to property.

Dates: 1795-1873.

Correspondence and miscellaneous documents concerning the Coltbridge/Roseburn enterprise of Patrick Geddes., 1895-1906.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10610-10611
Scope and Contents

The Coltbridge/Roseburn enterprise was one of Patrick Geddes' schemes for the purchase and rebuilding of property in Edinburgh.

Dates: 1895-1906.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Elizabeth Oliver., 1905-1946, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.24681
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Letters to Elizabeth Oliver, 1920-1945, undated, with a telegram to her husband Major Edward Oliver, 1905 (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous papers including verses, accounts, inventories, invitations, menu cards, and newspaper cuttings, chiefly concerning India, 1918-1946, undated (folio 21); (iii) Newspaper cuttings, 1912-1946, undated (folio 137).

Dates: 1905-1946, undated.

Correspondence and other papers chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1154
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Correspondence, 1660-1822, of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2889);

Correspondence, accounts and other papers, [?1698-?1853], chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2890).

Dates: [1660-1853.]

Correspondence and other papers of Rachel Annand Taylor; with copies of poems in several hands., 1892, 1901-1965, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.20433
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Copies of poems, 1892, undated, by different authors in several hands. (Folio 1.) (ii) Correspondence, 1901-1965, undated, including a few accounts and photographs. Many of the letters, 1962-1965, are written to Mrs Taylor's nephew, Walter Annand, on the possibility of publishing parts of 'Renaissance France'. (Folio 25.)

Dates: 1892, 1901-1965, undated.

Correspondence and papers, 1793-1828, of Deputy Commissary General James Ogilvie, together with a small unrelated quantity of letters and chiefly printed papers, 1787-1835, undated, of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15201-15336
Scope and Contents James Ogilvie served throughout the Peninsular War firstly as Assistant, and from 22 March 1812 Deputy Commissary General, and the greater part of the collection relates to this period. It consists of: letters from, and statistical and other returns, vouchers, accounts and other financial papers submitted by, junior officers and clerks of the Commissariat Department; Ogilvie’s letters to the Commissaries General Sir Robert H Kennedy, Sir Charles Dalrymple and Thomas Dunmore, with their...
Dates: 1787-1835, undated.

Correspondence and papers concerning accounts of John Home and others., 1817-1858, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.16797
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers concerning John Home's accounts, 1819-1836 (folio 1); accounts and vouchers of William Home, 1840, 1849, and of Gibson and Fraser, later J and G Fraser, 1850-1858 (folio 128); and miscellaneous accounts, 1817-1828, undated (folio 195).

Dates: 1817-1858, undated.

Correspondence and papers concerning bridges., 1822, 1831-1834.

 File
Identifier: MS.19969
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Broomielaw, Glasgow, correspondence and accounts, 1833-1834 (folio 1); (ii) Over Bridge, Gloucester, letters, 1832, 1834, and draft reports (folio 73); (iii) Tongland Bridge, Kirkcudbright, letters, 1833 (folio 86); (iv) Printed Act of Parliament relating to the waterworks at London Bridge, 1822, with a letter, 1831, concerning drawings of London Bridges (folio 91).

Dates: 1822, 1831-1834.

Correspondence and papers concerning canals., 1806-1834.

 File
Identifier: MS.19970
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Aire and Calder, letter, 1833. (Folio 1.) (ii) Birmingham and Liverpool Junction, letter and accounts, 1833-1834. (Folio 2.) (iii) Gloucester and Berkeley, report and accounts, 1823-1826. These very detailed accounts are those of Hugh McIntosh the contractor, which were queried by the Canal Company. (Folio 5.) (iv) Macclesfield, share receipts, and printed circulars and reports, 1826-1834. (Folio 41.) (v) Middlewich, draft letter of Thomas Telford to Thomas...
Dates: 1806-1834.