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Ann Heatley letters and personal expenditure

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Description: This material includes a Memorandum book, 2 manuscripts, 8 letters and 12 bills and receipts. The Memorandum book, bills & receipts include detailed records of expenditure on specific books, apparel, hairdressing, accomodation, a harpsichord, dancing lessons, food and many other personal items; all of the items provide an overview of the cost of a polite Georgian upbringing for a young woman in the late 1770s and 1780s. The manuscripts include a Valentine Day poem and an Account of Frosts; the letters, written by various male suitors, contain expressions of love and esteem.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1775-1800.
Call number: mssHM 81748-81770
Creator: Heatley, Ann(Opens in new tab)

Account book recording expenditure on the building of Newgate prison in Bristol, 1690-1693

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This manuscript account book records expenditure during the course of the building of the Newgate prison in Bristol. A special levy of sixpence was imposed on Bristol householders to cover the cost of the building works. The monies collected from different parishes are recorded here, together with details of loans from different private citizens. The volume includes a record of individually itemized expenditure on all manner of building materials including lime, timber, marble and nails, as well as lists of artisans and laborers, among them lime burners, masons, plumbers, carvers and others.

mssHM 81171

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Queen Anne letter to Earl of Rochester

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Letter by Queen Anne commanding the Earl of Rochester to attend her coronation. With seal and engraved portrait of Queen Anne.

mssHM 357

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Henry William Herbert letter to Ogden Hoffman

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Herbert introduces his friend and colleague Adam Cridland, who is traveling to California with the hopes of establishing himself among the medical profession there. Should Hoffman find a suitable assignment for Cridland, Herbert would "esteem a great personal favor."

mssHM 19005

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Ann Renaudet Chevalier letter to Charles Willson Peale

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This autograph letter signed is addressed to Mr. Peale at the Museum (Peale retired from the museum in 1810, this letter may be for him or one of his sons who replaced him). Chevalier writes, "Sir, Please to receive in your Museum a little pensionnary that came last night to take refuge in the house where I live: It is a screetch-owl of the smallest and beautiful kind, I had always been told that such birds were ominous creatures; but the contrary I now find in the opportunity this offers me, by presenting you with it, to do something with that perhaps may prove agreeable to you. I am with respect, Anne Renaudet Chevalier."

mssHM 83617

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Elisabeth Broadbent account book

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Elisabeth Broadbent's account book of her expenditure on clothes, shoes and jewelery; including her particularly heavy expenditure in 1771 for wedding clothes. Evidently keen to follow the latest fashions, Elisabeth Broadbent makes do, having her dresses dyed and mended, shoes recovered, etc. Original wallet-style vellum with fold-over flap, brass fastener with leaf engraving, 15 x 11 cm., 60 pages with additional blank pages lined but not used.

mssHM 82609

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Ann S. Ludlum letter to Eliza Jane Brown Anderson

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In this letter, Ann S. Ludlum thanks Eliza Jane Brown Anderson for the gift of "the album with the photographs of your husband and family" and relates the news of the mutual friend, Mrs. Colo. Chambliss. She notes that San Antonio, Texas "is improving rapidly," with "things are beginning to resume the appearance of old times," and people in "the country" being "very anxious to resume their political relations with the government."

mssHM 75842

Ann Heatley letters and personal expenditure

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