Business letters.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Formal and usually succinct letters issued from a business or individual requesting or delivering information, applying for a job, or addressing any other topic excluding personal communication.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Microfilm of eight ledgers of Alasdair Gray, containing work notes for stories, poems, plays, and his last novel, with draft of letters and many diary entries.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2061-2062
Dates:
1945-2008.
Surviving office books of the fishing, fish curing, and shipping enterprise of the Richardson family of Pitfour; with two ledgers of Pitfour estate and some Richardson family papers.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20801-20987
Scope and Contents
The firm of John Richardson and Company, of Perth, was already well established by 1760 with a wide business, chiefly in salmon, both locally and throughout Europe. The books consist of letter books and various account books, and show the whole process from the acquisition of the fish to its sale either raw at home or pickled as far afield as Italy and Spain. The salmon business was precarious, and to offset losses Richardson frequently entered into partnership with local merchants, notably...
Dates:
1760-1820.