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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:

Letter book ‘Black Regiment’ [tête-bêche] ‘Subsistence’, of Major-General Sir Paulus Irving, as Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies containing copies of letters and administrative records., 1795.

 Item
Identifier: MS.50279
Scope and Contents Stubbs (folios 1-3).Contents page and copies of warrants, 1795, concerning the payment of soldiers (folios 4-9).Copy of orders and court martial records, 1795 (folios 10-26).Copy of promotions, 1795, made by Paulus Irving (folios 27-29v).Monthly returns, with additional blank tables, 1795, concerning British troop numbers in the Caribbean (folios 30-36).Contents page, copies of warrants and statements of accounts, 1795, concerning...
Dates: 1795.

Letter-book of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, with lists, memoranda, and accounts., 1743-1764.

 Item
Identifier: MS.16752
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Letter-book of Lord Milton, 1743-1744, 1760 (folio 1);

(ii) Lists by Lord Milton of his account-books and of the contents of cabinets, and indexes, circa 1760 (folio 25 and lower pastedown);

(iii) Memoranda and accounts of Lord Milton, 1758, 1763-1764 (folio 1 inverted).

Dates: 1743-1764.

Letter-book of Field-Marshal George Wade, when "Commander in Chief of all his Majesty's Forces, Castles, Forts and Barracks in North Britain".

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Identifier: MS.7187
Scope and Contents The first half of the volume contains Field-Marshal George Wade's orders to various officers concerning troop movements from his arrival in Edinburgh in June 1725 to September 1726, first in connection with the Malt Tax riots, then with movements into summer and winter quarters. This portion also includes records of two courts-martial for desertion, and of a reprimand of an absent officer. This is followed (folio 81) by thirteen letters from Wade to Henry Pelham, Secretary at War, and Lord...
Dates: 1725-1732.

Letter-book of Richard Coren, Lieutenant-Governor of Edinburgh Castle.

 File
Identifier: MS.8027
Scope and Contents The letter-book, 1751-1762, includes correspondence of Richard Coren and General Humphrey Bland, Governor of the Castle and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in Scotland, the Board of Ordnance, and various army agents in London. The letters concern the financial affairs of the garrison, the repair and improvement of the structure of the Castle (including the construction of the Esplanade), and relationships between the garrison and the town. At the end, inverted, is a series of...
Dates: 1751-late 18th century.

Letterbook of Dugald Bremner's Trust compiled by Dr Bruce Allan Bremner as Trustee to his dead brother., 1863-1880.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19232
Scope and Contents

A copy of the text of Dugald Bremner's marriage settlement with Miss Maria Louisa Redd of the Breach, Bombay, appears on folios 7-10 and accounts of the Trust on folios 22-29. Much of the correspondence is with legal and financial advisors, but there are some letters to and from Maria Louisa Bremner and her son Bruce G L Bremner in Ceylon.

Dates: 1863-1880.

Letters, accounts and other papers of, to, or concerning, Thomas and J A Carlyle., 1833-1880, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.20752
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Two letters, 1868, to Thomas Carlyle concerning Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, one with a note by Thomas on the back, and eight letters, 1869-1871, undated, of Dr John Brown to J A Carlyle (folio 1); (ii) The end-paper of a book with Thomas Carlyle's signature, dated 1865, and bookplate (folio 29); (iii) Letters and accounts, 1859-1868, concerning the farm of Craigenputtoch, and receipts, 1878-1880, for taxes and other expenses for it (folio 30); (iv) Financial...
Dates: 1833-1880, undated.

Letters, accounts, and papers of John Murray Staff Pension Scheme., 1965-1975

 File
Identifier: Acc.13328/1536
Scope and Contents

Original and copy material is present. Correspondence with John Murray, publishers, consists primarily of letters and accounts from the Clerical, Medical & General Life Assurance Society, London.

Dates: 1965-1975

Letters, accounts, and papers of John Murray Staff Pension Scheme., 1974-1979

 File
Identifier: Acc.13328/1537
Scope and Contents

Original and copy material is present. Correspondence with John Murray, publishers, consists primarily of letters and accounts from the Clerical, Medical & General Life Assurance Society, London.

Dates: 1974-1979

Letters and accounts from the Atlantic Monthly Press to Ruthven Todd., 1958-1972, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26819
Scope and Contents

Most of the correspondence is with Seymour Lawrence, the director, who left the firm in 1964. It concerns Ruthven Todd's projected books on Dylan Thomas, his book of poems, ‘Garland for the winter solstice’, and his books for children.

Dates: 1958-1972, undated.

Letters and accounts of David Higham Associates, the literary agents in London who handled Ruthven Todd's work., 1960-1973.

 File
Identifier: MS.26821
Scope and Contents

The papers concern both Ruthven Todd's published books, articles and poems, and also his projected work on Blake, Dylan Thomas, and his autobiographical 'Dead and other friends and places'.

Dates: 1960-1973.