Volume containing surveying instructions and a business ledger, compiled at Yarrow.
Scope and Contents
The author is unknown, but the name E L Brown is stamped on the front cover.
The contents are as follows.
(i) Instructions for surveying, illustrated with examples taken from the Duke of Buccleuch's estates along Yarrow Water. (Folio 2.)
(ii) Business ledger of a merchant with trading interests in La Rochelle, Leghorn and Jamaica. The commodities include wool, wine, sugar, wheat and cotton (folios 1 verso, 59). It is followed by incomplete notes on balancing accounts (folio 120 verso).
A letter, 1828, of John Walker Ord has been inserted (folio i).
Dates
- Creation: 1812.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
122 Leaves ; Folio and quarto.
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Arrangement
ii + 120 folios.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, Sotheby’s 30 April 1968, lot 440.
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
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