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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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
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Ledger, Bidwell's Bar, California
Manuscripts
This volume was originally a ledger used to record purchased goods in Bidwell Bar from 1860-1862. It seems to have fallen into the possession of Mary Totman Rogers, after which it became a scrapbook. As a scrapbook, the volume contains numerous newspaper clippings regarding the history and activities of Oroville, California, including the obituary of Mary, as well as printed prayers and poems. Also with three envelopes containing loose items found in the volume.
mssHM 79058
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Samuel Hipple quartermaster account ledgers
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Five account ledgers kept by Samuel Hipple, recording the civilians employed at the Union military installations at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The ledgers contain accounts of formerly enslaved persons known as contrabands, Irish and German immigrants, refugees, destitute soldiers' families, civilian scouts, and Secret Service agents. The ledgers also contain accounting-related information including matters of logistics, supply chains, and transportation. Volumes 2 and 5 contain lists of civilians employed at Fort Girardeau's headquarters, stables, hospital, bakery, store, and trading posts in various positions, including clerks, agents, bakers, cooks, nurses, carpenters, wheelwrights, blacksmiths, wagon masters, teamsters, laborers, and contractors. Volume 3 was used to record incoming communications received by Hipple, and includes requests for transportation for troops, provisions for troops, prisoners of war and their guards, and others. Also listed are women and children and other families, refugees, and destitute soldiers' widows. The ledger also included records of purchases of supplies for wagon trains and lists of horses received by Hipple from July 25 to September 22, 1864.
mssHipple