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Ann Heatley letters and personal expenditure
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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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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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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
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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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William McKinley, Columbus, Ohio, letter to Walter J. Ballard, General Electric Co., Schenectady, New York :
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McKinley writes that he appreciates Ballard's expressions and is grateful to hear what he has to say about their meeting. Includes addressed portion of envelope.
mssHM 13406
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Maria Anne Fitzherbert letter to W. Jutsham concerning Captain John Willett Payne
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This letter to a W. Jutsham of 6 Milson Street, Bath, postmarked July 1795, thanks him for his welcome news of the recovery from illness and restoration to better health of "Captain Payne" (later Rear Admiral John Willett Payne, 1752-1803), the British naval officer responsible for bringing Caroline of Brunswick to England for her disastrous marriage to the Prince of Wales.
mssHM 73721