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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 6 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence between John Murray II and Archibald Constable and Co., publishers, with related papers., June-August 1810.

 File
Identifier: MS.40249
Scope and Contents

The correspondence concerns the business relations between John Murray II and Archibald Constable and his partners, and includes receipts, invoices and other business papers. The papers are arranged chronologically.

1810.

June: folios 1-54;

July: folios 55-83;

August: folios 84-107.

Dates: June-August 1810.

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

 File
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 William Blackwood (1776-1834) to John Murray II, with related letters and papers., 1811.

 File
Identifier: MS.40110
Scope and Contents The letters concern the business relations between Blackwood and Murray and their associates. Several of the letters include details of business accounts. Included are letters written on behalf of William Blackwood by an employee, John Macdowall. Also included are miscellaneous business papers concerning Blackwood and Murray.The letters are arranged chronologically. 1811January: folios 1-5;February: folios 6-11;March: folios...
Dates: 1811.

Letters of William Blackwood (1776-1834) to John Murray II, with related letters and papers., 1814-1815.

 File
Identifier: MS.40113
Scope and Contents The letters concern the business relations between Blackwood and Murray and their associates. Several of the letters include details of business accounts. Also included are miscellaneous business papers.The letters are arranged chronologically.1814January: folios 1-7;February: folios 8-13;March: folios 14-18;April: folios 19-25; June: folios 26-29;July: folios 30-37;August: folios...
Dates: 1814-1815.

Papers of and relating to Sir Walter Scott and his literary property.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13422
Scope and Contents

Agreements, memoranda, letters, notes and drafts of Sir Walter Scott with his publishers Archibald Constable and Robert Cadell, and his printers, James Ballantyne, concerning Scott`s literary property. Included are a draft of the deed of 1819 selling the copyright of Scott`s novels and poems to Constable, and a letter of John Gibson Lockhart to Archibald Constable concerning his proposal for a Scott edition of Shakespeare, 1823.

Dates: 1817-1826