Manuscripts
Stephen Buckland account ledger
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William Buckland letter to John Stevens Henslow
Manuscripts
In this four-page handwritten letter, Buckland talks about an excavation in Ely, Cambridgeshire. Henslow was working on it at the time but Buckland also knew the site. Buckland goes into detail about the strata of the "Great Gault Pit," and sketched the pit for Henslow (in pencil, with labels in ink). Buckland also talks about other geology issues as well as a skeleton of a megatherium (an ancient giant sloth) that Henslow found.
mssHM 70385
Robert Bristow plantation ledger, 1660-1707 (bulk 1677-1707)
Manuscripts
An account book and ledger from British merchant Robert Bristow's plantation, house, and stores in Lancaster and Gloucester Counties in Virginia. The ledger was used by Bristow to document inventories of home goods, Bristow's personal library, debts, copies of land patents and other legal documents, and lists of indentured and enslaved laborers; also included in the ledger are lists of his shares in Royal African Company ships. The volume is written in several hands, including Bristow's. The binding is not original but was rebound in full panelled calf from the bindery of restoration bookbinder Bernard Middleton; the volume is signed with Middleton's cypher and has his book label and a brief typed description pasted on the inside front cover.
mssHM 84402
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Stephen Duryea, Account book - Ledger B. Double entry ledger
Manuscripts
A general accounting ledger across a number of volumes. Handle carefully, bound in vellum, binding front board warped and spine broken.
mssDuryea
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Ledger book
Manuscripts
A store ledger used as a general ledger for customer accounts; this volume was kept in association with volume 1 and contains general customer information concerning purchases and amounts owed. The volume is bound in original calf over marbled boards, with scuffed leather covers and worn spine; the interior pages are intact and legible.
mssGauthier
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Ledger book
Manuscripts
Single bound volume of handwritten financial data about cash holdings. Two loose handwritten pages in the front of ledger on where to write data.
mssSinclair papers
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Medical Ledger
Manuscripts
This ledger is an account book of patients and the fees paid for medical treatment. The author is unknown and the accounts seem to belong to several doctors; perhaps in Massachusetts. There is some mention of the treatment performed or reason for visit such as: childbirth, vaccinations, setting fractures, etc. Several pages have been cut-out of the volume. The spine is loose.
mssHM 74829