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Kemp and Potter family papers, circa 1740-1860

Creator:
Kemp (Family)
Call Number:
OSB MSS 284
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
205
Abstract:
Collection of business papers and correspondence relating to Kemp and Potter family members. Contains a marriage settlement between Amy Elizabeth Kemp and Henry Higham; a manuscript notebook containing notes on business matters, possibly belonging to Anthony Facer Kemp; an article of apprenticeship between Isaac Kemp and Anthony Facer Kemp; Anthony Kemp's engraved business card; correspondence and receipts from Anthony Facer Kemp relating to tobacco sales; and a partnership agreement between Anthony Facer Kemp and William Potter
Description:
Isaac Kemp (-1775?) and his son Anthony Facer Kemp (1730-1815) were London tobacco and liquor merchants. Anthony Facer Kemp's daughter, Amy Elizabeth Kemp (1769-1809) married Henry Higham (1769?-) in 1790, and in 1803 remarried William Potter (-1830?), also a tobacco and liquor merchant. Anthony Facer Kemp (1730-1815) and William Potter (-1830?) entered into a business partnership in 1812., In English., and Box 1: Receipts, correspondence, and legal documents. Box 2: Partnership agreement between Anthony Facer Kemp and William Potter.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Higham, Henry, 1769?-, Kemp, Amy Elizabeth, 1769-1809., Kemp, Anthony Facer, 1730-1815., Kemp, Isaac, -1775?, Kemp family., Potter family., and Potter, William, -1830?
Subject (Topic):
Apprentices, Merchants, Selling, Liquors, Tobacco, and Tobacco industry
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Kemp and Potter family papers, circa 1740-1860

2.
Merchant's commonplace book

Published / Created:
[between 1350 and 1400]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 327
Image Count:
148
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper. Includes notes on arithmetic and accounting for merchandise; a romance of Tristan; list of spices; astronomical and astrological information; charms and prayers; recipes; extracts in Venetian; and poems
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Fruit 7372-76, Briquet Cheval 3564, and Briquet Fruit 7341., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat notarial hand, through f. 67v. Notes added by various hands of 14th-15th centuries., Drawings of ships, towers and merchants in ink, with added yellow, brown, green, red and blue; many diagrams. Crude 2- and 1-line initials in red, with guide-letters for rubricator showing beneath; headings in red., Repair of f. 1 with later paper; some loss of text. Repairs at outer edges on this and other folios do not affect text., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum case with paste paper back endleaf and pastedowns. Central fold of each bifolium has been reinforced with a strip of parchment.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Accounting, Arithmetic, Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Formulas, recipes, etc, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Merchants, Prayers, Tristan (Legendary character), and Economic conditions
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Merchant's commonplace book