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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:

Letters and papers relating to the estate of Durris, Kincardineshire.

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Identifier: MS.137
Scope and Contents The chief correspondents are Charles Mordaunt, 4th Earl of Peterborough [‘Peterborrow’], the owner of the estate through the marriage of the 3rd Earl to a daughter of Sir Alexander Fraser; Samuel Mitchelson, Writer to the Signet, his agent in Edinburgh; and Charles Forbes of Shiels and Charles Irvine of Cults, successively factors on the estate. The letters of the Earl contain nothing but claims for remittances; the papers are the accounts of the estate. The letters throw light on the...
Dates: 1741-1755.

Letters, assignments and receipts concerning the sale of papers and copyrights relating to Lord Byron., Undated.

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Identifier: MS.43541
Scope and Contents The papers in this manuscript have been arranged alphabetically by the main correspondent surname or company name.Barry, Matilda and Richard. Letters of Matilda Barry and Richard Barry to Hugh Ferguson and John Murray [III], with one of Ferguson to Murray, regarding the sale of Lord Byron letters, 1849: folios 1-6;Blayney, Mabella. Letter of Lady Mabella Blayney to John Murray [II], 1824: folio 7;Breese, John. Letters of John Breese to John Murray III,...
Dates: Undated.

Letters chiefly to or concerning David Livingstone, and to Joseph Bevan Braithwaite; with other papers concerning Livingstone., 1852-1894, 1922-1971, undated.

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Identifier: MS.20317
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Envelopes, 1857-1875, from some of David Livingstone's and Robert Moffat's letters; letters, 1856-1858, to Livingstone from among others Arthur Tidman and John Smith Moffat; draft indenture, 1857, between Livingstone and his trustees; two accounts for the Zambesi Expedition (one for the Lady Nyassa), 1858, 1861; and papers, 1874, 1891, undated, concerning Livingstone's appointment as Consul, his will and his journals (folio 1); (ii) Letters, 1852-1897,...
Dates: 1852-1894, 1922-1971, undated.

Letters chiefly to the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale from various correspondents., 1658-1710.

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Identifier: MS.14417
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Letter, 1658, of A Campbell, London, to Anna, Countess of Lauderdale (folio 1);(ii) Letters, 1672-1699, of Andrew Hay, son of Sir John Hay, Lord Clerk Register (folio 5);(iii) Letters, 1691-1706, undated, concerning the estate of Achtermuir, Allanton, Lanarkshire (folio 67);(iv) Letters, 1693-1697, to Lady Jean Douglas (later Countess of March) from her London dressmaker, Mary Castlelaw, including accounts (folio...
Dates: 1658-1710.

Letters mainly to Lord Byron from various correspondents, in French, Italian and Greek., 1811-1824, 2001, undated.

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Identifier: MS.43519
Scope and Contents The letters here have been divided into four groups: those in French; those in Italian; those of and to Prince Alexander Mavrocordatos; and letters to or relating to Lord Byron in Greece. In each section, the letters have been arranged alphabetically be correspondent. An additional letter in Italian has been added at the end of the sequence. This was originally housed, before foliation, in Ms.43408 and was moved during the cataloguing process.Letters in French to Lord Byron of...
Dates: 1811-1824, 2001, undated.

Letters of and to Andrew Hutton, and other papers concerning Hutton and the Airth estate., 1819-1895, undated.

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Identifier: MS.10868
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of:

(i) Letters, 1841-1847, undated, (folio 1);

(ii) Accounts and vouchers, 1819-1832 (folio 67);

(iii) Miscellaneous later legal correspondence and accounts, 1859-1895, most of it concerning the dispute between the Strowan and Airth estates over the responsibility for the debts incurred by Thomas Graham Stirling (folio 76).

Dates: 1819-1895, undated.

Letters of George Crabbe (1785-1857) to John Murray, publishers., 1832-1849.

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Identifier: MS.40287
Scope and Contents Letters of George Crabbe to John Murray II and to John Murray III. The letters are arranged chronologically.1832: folios 1-4;1833: folios 5-46;1834: folios 47-54;1835: folios 55-65;1837: folios 66-71;1841: folios 72-73;1844: folios 74-77;1846: folios 78-83;1848: folios 84-94;1849: folios 95-96;undated: folios 97-100.Financial documents concerning...
Dates: 1832-1849.

Letters of James Ballantyne to John Murray II, with related papers., 1806-1808.

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Identifier: MS.40042
Scope and Contents The letters concern the business relations between Murray and Ballantyne and their associates. Some of the letters include details of business accounts. The letters are arranged chronologically :1806April: folios 1-2;November: folios 3-8. 1807January: folios 9-12;February: folios 13-14; May: folios 15-17;June: folios 18-23;July: folios 24-27;August: folios...
Dates: 1806-1808.

Letters of James Ballantyne to John Murray II, with related papers., 1809-1833.

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Identifier: MS.40043
Scope and Contents The letters concern the business relations between Murray and Ballantyne and their associates. Some of the letters include details of business accounts. The letters are arranged chronologically :1809: folios 1-52;1810: folios 53-54;1813: folios 55-69;1814: folios 70-73;1816: folios 74-81;1819: folios 82-83;1822: folios 84-86;1830: folios 87-96;1831: folios 97-98;1833:...
Dates: 1809-1833.

Letters of James Begbie and Alexander Begbie, accounts of Begbie, Hunter, and Co., and letters of David and James Colvin, India merchants, on Indian trade., 1789-1827, undated.

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Identifier: MS.10873
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: letters, 1811-1814, undated, of James Begbie (folio 1); letters, 1795-1806, of Alexander Begbie (folio 83); accounts, 1805-1811, of Begbie, Hunter, and Co. (folio 133); letters, 1789-1827, of David and James Colvin, India merchants, on Indian trade (folio 150).

Dates: 1789-1827, undated.

Letters of John Ballantyne to John Murray II, with related papers., 1809.

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Identifier: MS.40044
Scope and Contents The letters concern the business relations between Murray and Ballantyne and their associates. Some of the letters include details of business accounts. The letters are arranged chronologically :1809January: folios 1-4;February: folios 5-17;March: folios 18-31;May: folios 32-33;June: folios 34-46;July: folios 47-50;August: folios 51-55; September: folios 56-59;October:...
Dates: 1809.

Letters of John Ballantyne to John Murray II, with related papers., 1810.

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Identifier: MS.40045
Scope and Contents The letters concern the business relations between Murray and Ballantyne and their associates. Some of the letters include details of business accounts. The letters are arranged chronologically :1810January: folios 1-4;February: folios 5-18;March: folios 19-30;April: folios 31-38;May: folios 39-42;July: folios 43-47;August: folios 48-49; September: folios 50-57;October:...
Dates: 1810.

Letters of John Ballantyne to John Murray II, with related papers., 1811-1817.

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Identifier: MS.40046
Scope and Contents

The letters concern the business relations between Murray and Ballantyne and their associates. Some of the letters include details of business accounts. The letters are arranged chronologically :

1811: folios 1-46;

1812: folios 47-89;

1813: folios 90-103;

1815: folios 104-108;

1816: folio 109;

1817: folios 110-111;

date uncertain: folios 112-115.

Dates: 1811-1817.

Letters of John Mackenzie and William Henry to William Graham., 1768-1775.

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Identifier: MS.10859
Scope and Contents

Included are photocopies of correspondence, 1773, with Thomas Pennant regarding the Graham family's portrait of the Admirable Crichton (folio 84).

There are also accounts of John Lumsdaine as factor to William Graham's tutors, 1746-1749 (folio 125), and accounts of John Mackenzie, 1753-1776 (folio 130).

Dates: 1768-1775.

Letters of Lord Byron to Douglas Kinnaird., 1816-1821.

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Identifier: MS.43452
Scope and Contents

The letters have been arranged in chronological order.

1816: folios 1-2;

1819: folios 3-39;

1820: folios 40-66;

1821: folios 67-136.

Included at ff.25-26 are accounts sent to Lord Byron by John Hanson.

Dates: 1816-1821.

Letters of Matthew Urlwin Sears to Messrs A and C Black and Co, with a letter of Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the hand of Charles Beecher, to Messrs A and C Black and Co, inserted into a copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853).

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Identifier: MS.50256
Scope and Contents Estimate, 1852, supplied by R and R Clark, printers, for production costs for a half-crown illustrated edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (folio 1).Copy of a memorandum, 1852, between A and C Black and Co and Matthew Urlwin Sears concerning the production of woodcuts for the illustrated edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (folio 2).Letters, 1852-1853, of Matthew Urlwin Sears to A and C Black and Co concerning the production and supply of woodcuts for the illustrated editon of...
Dates: 1852-1853

Letters of members of the firm of Dundas and Wilson, Writer to the Signet, and accounts of the firm, and their predecessors, with members of Graham family., 1777-1847.

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Identifier: MS.10861
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of: (i) Letters, 1814-1847, of members of the firm of Dundas and Wilson to Thomas Graham Stirling and William Graham (folio 1); (ii) Accounts, 1777-1847, of Dundas and Wilson, and their predecessors, with William Graham, James Graham and Thomas Graham Stirling (folio 202).

Dates: 1777-1847.