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John Eliot financial accounts and letterbooks : manuscript
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Title
John Eliot financial accounts and letterbooks : manuscript.
Production
England, approximately 1780-1788
Physical Description
2 volumes (140, 230 pages) ; XX x XX cm
Language
English
Notes
Title devised by cataloger, based on dealer's description.
First volume: Contents page and approximately 140 text pages (numbered to page 96), followed by 16 blank leaves. Bound in green vellum, initialled "J E III" in manuscript to front board. Written in the same neat, clear copper plate hand, on paper with watermark: Fleur-de-lis above GR; countermark: C Taylor.
Second volume: Letterbook of approximately 170 text pages, and approximately 60 pages of accounts (together 230 pages, excluding a few blanks). Some pages excised at each end. Bound in green vellum, one clasp intact. Ruled in red for accounts. Probably a stationer's book. Text and accounts written in the same neat, clear italic hand, on paper with watermark: Pro Patria above GR. Manuscript inscription stuck in to paste-down: "Gulielma Briggins her book March 1734".
In English.
Provenance
Purchased from Dean Cooke, November 2023.
Access and use
This material is available for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
John Eliot was the son of John (1707-1735) and Mariabella Eliot (née Farmborough Briggins) (1708-1747). He married Mary Weston (1743-1812), and they had four children: Mary, Mariabella, Ann, and John 2. He was a Quaker minister, an underwriter at Lloyds of London, a landowner, and a merchant.
Summary
Two manuscript volumes compiled by John Eliot, comprising financial accounts and letterbooks. The first, a folio volume written approximately 1780, contains John Eliot's manuscript fair copies of letters and accounts of journeys sent by friends to his uncle, Philip Eliot, between 1750 and 1779. The second, a quarto volume, contains copies of over a hundred letters to and from John Eliot (correspondents are mainly Quakers, including Thomas Shipley, Ann Arch, John Trehawke, John Chamberlain, James Upjohn) between 1784 and 1789, together with his financial accounts for the years 1784 to 1788.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
April 10, 2024
References
John Eliot Financial Accounts and Letterbooks. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
John Eliot Financial Accounts and Letterbooks. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Genre/Form
Correspondence.
Account books.
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