Highly detailed accounts of both receipts and expenses (written from opposite ends of the volume) kept by the London merchant Abraham Chitty, brother of Alderman Thomas Chitty. Receipts include records for rents on his properties in London, Westminste...
Description:
Both pastedowns contain notes on birth and death dates for family members.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Economic conditions --18th century and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Chitty, Thomas
Subject (Topic):
Amusements --England, Chitty family, Cost and standard of living --England --18th century, Family --England --Domestic relations, Home economics --Accounting, Luxury, and Middle class --England --London --18th century
Manuscript retained copy of a bill of sale containing a household inventory of the contents of Seaton Delaval Hall, sold by Sir Francis Blake Delaval to his younger brother in return for an annuity. The household inventory is particularly complete and...
Description:
Accompanied by: "Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland," magazine clipping from Country Life, November 6, 2003.
Subject (Geographic):
Northumberland (England)--Historic buildings and Seaton Delaval (England)
Dividend receipt addressed "To Mr. Lockyer accomptant at the South Sea house" and annotated in the lower right by "Rich. Sarum". The body of the document reads: "Pray pay to the bearer Mr. Daniel Gell my share of the midsumer [sic] dividend due on two...
Description:
The South Sea Company was granted a monopoly to supply African slaves to the islands in the South Seas and South America. The stock rose quickly until around 1720 when it collapsed (known as the South Sea Bubble).
Also present in Box 2 is an unrelated printed indenture with manuscript annotations, dated September 2, 1799, transferring 100 acres of land in Ontario County, New York, from Oliver Phelps of Hartford, Connecticut, to Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, Conn...
Alternative Title:
[Receipt for Henry Hartley's work on Sugarloaf Hill &c.] and James Hillhouse pd to Joel Cole for work at the well
Description:
Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934.
Subject (Geographic):
Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Ellsworth, Oliver,--1745-1807, Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company, Hillhouse, James,--1754-1832, Phelps, Oliver,--1749-1809, and Wadsworth, Jeremiah,--1743-1804
Subject (Topic):
Roads--Connecticut, Toll roads--Connecticut, and Transportation--Connecticut
Also present in Box 2 is an unrelated printed indenture with manuscript annotations, dated September 2, 1799, transferring 100 acres of land in Ontario County, New York, from Oliver Phelps of Hartford, Connecticut, to Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, Conn...
Alternative Title:
[Dividend order and receipt for Dwight Foster]
Description:
Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934.
Subject (Geographic):
Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Ellsworth, Oliver,--1745-1807, Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company, Hillhouse, James,--1754-1832, Phelps, Oliver,--1749-1809, and Wadsworth, Jeremiah,--1743-1804
Subject (Topic):
Roads--Connecticut, Toll roads--Connecticut, and Transportation--Connecticut
David Garrick papers from the Thomas Rackett collection, 1741-1776.
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 41
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Letters, manuscript poems, financial papers, and other documents relating to David Garrick and his tenure as manager of the Drury Lane Theatre. Letters include a lengthy 1751 letter from Richard Berenger describing theaters and operas in Paris; transc...
Alternative Title:
Other papers
Description:
David Garrick (1717-1779) was the most celebrated Shakespearean actor of his time and the successful manager of the Drury Lane Theatre for almost three decades.
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David,--1717-1779, Griffin, William, fl. 1758-1776, and Rackett, Thomas,--1757-1841--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Actors--England, Theater--England--18th century, and Theater--Great Britain--18th century
A journal kept by Horace Walpole that documents the opertaion of the Strawberry Hill Press, his private press at his home Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, England). Starting on 25 June 1757 with the erection of the press by William Robinson, the first of ...
Description:
Title from text at head of page 1, in Walpole's hand.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Notes made during a journey thro' part of France, Switzerland, &c, 1822 Jul-Sep
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 2
Image Count:
11
Abstract:
Holograph diary of Vincent's travels in France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium with "Mr. Payne and his son William." Apparently from Leeds, Vincent records his impressions of scenery, the countryside and "romantic views;" roads and bridges; the cond...
Description:
Blanks not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Alps, Swiss (Switzerland)--Description and travel, Alps--Description and travel, Belgium--Description and travel, France--Description and travel, St. Bernard, Great, Alps, Switzerland--description and travel, and Waterloo (Belgium)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Schopenhauer, Arthur,--1788-1860 and Vincent, George
Subject (Topic):
Tourism--France, Tourism--Switzerland, and Travelers' writings, English
