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Account books.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books in which financial accounts are kept.

Found in 1294 Collections and/or Records:

Account book concerning the legal and publishing business of George Combe., 1810-1835.

 File
Identifier: MS.7509
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The bulk of these papers comprise household accounts, which fall into two divisions: loose receipts and accounts (MSS.7475-7492), and bound volumes of general expenses (MSS.7493-7508). MSS.7509-7512 are concerned with legal and publishing finances.

Dates: 1810-1835.

Account book concerning the legal and publishing business of George Combe., 1836-1839.

 File
Identifier: MS.7510
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The bulk of these papers comprise household accounts, which fall into two divisions: loose receipts and accounts (MSS.7475-7492), and bound volumes of general expenses (MSS.7493-7508). MSS.7509-7512 are concerned with legal and publishing finances.

Dates: 1836-1839.

Account book concerning the legal and publishing business of George Combe., 1840-1843.

 File
Identifier: MS.7511
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The bulk of these papers comprise household accounts, which fall into two divisions: loose receipts and accounts (MSS.7475-7492), and bound volumes of general expenses (MSS.7493-7508). MSS.7509-7512 are concerned with legal and publishing finances.

Dates: 1840-1843.

Account book concerning the legal and publishing business of George Combe., 1844-1860.

 File
Identifier: MS.7512
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The bulk of these papers comprise household accounts, which fall into two divisions: loose receipts and accounts (MSS.7475-7492), and bound volumes of general expenses (MSS.7493-7508). MSS.7509-7512 are concerned with legal and publishing finances.

Dates: 1844-1860.

Account book containing accounts of travelling expenses in Ireland and Scotland., 1827, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15446
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates: 1827, undated.

Account-book containing agricultural accounts giving details of crops sown, corn sold and wages paid on the estate of Pittrichie, Aberdeenshire.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17953
Scope and Contents

Also included is a library catalogue circa 1800, possibly of the library of the Robb family of Pittrichie.

Dates: 1668-1689, [circa 1800.]

Account-book containing balances of receipts and expenditure connected with the personal estate of William Elliot., 1818.

 Item
Identifier: MS.11936
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: 1818.

Account book containing building, estate, household and personal accounts., 1811.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15445
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates: 1811.

Account-book containing details of income and personal expenditure, apparently of Alexander Anderson, merchant and burgess of Edinburgh, son of James Anderson of Newbigging, advocate.

 File
Identifier: MS.8891
Scope and Contents

Although the volume does not contain the owner's name, it seems clear that it belonged to Alexander Anderson (folio 3).

Loose leaves containing supplementary calculations have been inserted in their correct chronological location, as far as possible.

Dates: 1771-1796.

Account book containing household, medical and clothing accounts, 1777-1806, of Patrick Chalmers (died 1824); reversed, similar accounts, 1795-1796, and later mercantile, business and some estate rent accounts, 1809-1819, of Patrick Chalmers (died 1826)., 1777-1806.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15444
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates: 1777-1806.

Account-book, containing particulars of the expenditure of Prince Charles (afterwards Charles I), the Duke of Buckingham, and Sir Francis Cottington, on their visit to Spain, April-September 1623., 1623.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1879
Scope and Contents

The keeper of the accounts refers to 'my brother Richard Wyche'.

At the end of the volume are specimens of various kinds of warrant and passport.

A typed transcript has been placed with the manuscript.

Dates: 1623.

Account book containing saddlery expenses., 1829.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15447
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates: 1829.

Account-book containing statements of accounts between Andrew Stuart and James, 7th Duke of Hamilton, and Elizabeth, Duchess of Hamilton, including some items concerning the Douglas Cause., 1761-1769.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5364
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers contain the lawsuit in which the tutors of James George, 7th Duke of Hamilton, contested on his behalf the claim of Archibald James Edward Douglas, son of Lady Jane Douglas Stuart, to the lands of the Douglas family. Andrew Stuart acted as agent for the Hamilton claimant, and played an active part both in France and in Britain in the preparation and presentation of the Hamilton Case.

Dates: 1761-1769.