Invoice with receipt, from John Greeves

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Manuscript invoice on engraved billhead, recording in considerable detail the fitting out of a town house in Kings Lynn in Norfolk in 1807 by John Greeves for George Edwards Esq. The invoice totals £88 6 s. 1 1/2 d. and includes information about the furniture purchased and details about the curtains, upholstery, and carpeting. Receipt signed and dated 30 April 1807.

  • TitleInvoice with receipt, from John Greeves : Kings Lynn, 1807 April 30-1807 May.

Catalog Record

LWL Mss File 130

Acquired July 2015

4 logger heads, or B-e triumphant

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Receipt for White’s “Sketches of Characters … illustrative of the counties of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Middlesex”, showing three figures carrying a fourth on their backs, lettered below with ‘4 Logger heads or / B – e Triumphant’.

  • Printmaker: White, William Johnstone, printmaker.
  • Title: 4 logger heads, or B-e triumphant [graphic] / W. Hogarth delt. ; W.J. White sct.
  • Published: [London?] : Pubd. by W.J. White, April 1, 1818.

Catalog Record & Digital Collection

818.04.01.02

Acquired April 2013

Collection of bills and receipts relating to the Gordon family, 1769-1796.

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A collection of eleven bills and receipts for items purchased by members of the Gordon family of Scotland signed and dated over a period of 17 years. Included are lists of goods purchased by Thomas Gordon brought from Madeira by Captain Smith on the Britannia; several receipts for goods purchased by Miss Annie Gordon including gloves, cottons, meals, corn, and from a variety of tradesmen as well as drugs from a chemist; and a receipt for feathers purchased by James Gordon. Also included are receipts for goods purchased by Alexander Gordon who founded Gordon’s London Dry Gin in the Southwark area of London in 1769.

  • Author: Gordon family.
  • Title: Collection of bills and receipts relating to the Gordon family, 1769-1796.

Catalog Record

LWL Mss File 108

Acquired January 2013

Houses and tenements in Bristol

Cover: Houses and tenements in BristolHouses and tenements in Bristol.

LWL Mss Vol. 185

A stationer’s blank book recording the receipts of rental income for property in Bristol between 1769 and 1777, with lists of renters’ names, location of property, and amount paid during this period. In addition, they record expenses for window tax, the scavenger and poor taxes, repairs, etc. Binding, full contemporary vellum.

Selected page: Houses and tenements in Bristol,Subjects (Library of Congress): Rental housing–Great Britain; Bristol (England).

Lewis Walpole Library new acquisition: September, 2010

John Rogers’ book of receipts anno dom., [ca. 1730]

Cover: John Rogers’ book of receipts anno dom., [ca. 1730]John Rogers’ book of receipts anno dom., [ca. 1730]

LWL Mss Vol. 184

A stationer’s blank book recording the receipts of rental income for lands in Cumbria, in multiple hands. The book has an engraved advertisement by the seller — James Smith Stationer in Newgate Street, London — printed on the recto of the first leaf and dated 1723, on the verso an engraved image of an angel with a dove. On the back cover is the title “John Rogers. His book of receipts anno dom. […]”

Selected page: John Rogers’ book of receipts anno dom., [ca. 1730]

Subjects (Library of Congress): Smith, James, Stationer; Rental housing–Great Britain; Cumbria (England).

Lewis Walpole Library new acquisition: September, 2010