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Receipts. Financial records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written acknowledgment of the receiving or taking of goods or money delivered or paid.

Found in 938 Collections and/or Records:

Business papers of Messrs William Wilson and Son, tartan manufacturers in Bannockburn.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.6660-7000
Scope and Contents

This is the business archive of the firm, comprising incoming letters, orders, and receipts, from all parts of Britain and elsewhere, and drafts of a few of the firm's replies.

Dates: 1778-1841.

Clothing bills, and various personal and horse bills., 1721-1764.

 File
Identifier: MS.14663
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Bills for cloth goods from Edinburgh and Haddington merchants, 1722-1761 (folio);(ii) Bills for clothing: Haddington and Gifford weavers, 1752-1762 (folio 62); Robert Carmichael, 1726-1739, and John Bartleman, 1754-1757, tailors, Edinburgh (folio 78); Edinburgh and Haddington shoemakers, 1726-1761 (folio 98); Edinburgh hatters, 1734-1760 (folio 108); Edinburgh glovers, 1729-1739 (folio 112); Edinburgh skinners, 1727-1761 (folio 116);...
Dates: 1721-1764.

Copies of letters, on paper watermarked 1840, of William Carstares to the Earl of Melville, written partly in cipher, dated from London and from various places on the Continent whither Carstares accompanied King William III., 1694-1700.

 File
Identifier: MS.3471
Scope and Contents

The letters give political and military news, and refer to some scheme for the Earl of Melville's advancement. At the beginning of the volume is a synopsis of the contents of the letters, and on folio ii is a receipt signed by George Hill.

Dates: 1694-1700.

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.