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Memoranda Book
Sept 1847 - March 1849
Daily jottings concerning prices of yarns (naming producer), purchases, and business and social events. Prices of yarns, 1847 and 1848, including Titus Salt’s price list, Aug. 1848
Spinners’ Wages Book
Aug 1828-Jan 1841
Record of weekly wages paid to between 30 and 60 named spinners and spinning families (mostly female). Weekly rate per spinner is given. Totals are periodically carried to Ledger (item 1). Page 51 giv...
VI. WAGE BOOKS. 1820's-1881
c.1820-1881
97. Sorters’ Reckoning Book. Early nineteenth century. ‘Ready Reckoner’ giving amounts of pay for sorting various weights at different rates of pay. 98. Spinners’ Wages Book. Aug. 1828-Jan....
IV. MEMORANDA BOOKS. 1842-1858
1842-1858
60. Memoranda Book (6S. B. Foster’). March 1842-April 1843. Notes about appointments, receipts, orders, and purchases, naming various concerns involved. Quantities, descriptions, and prices of yarns...
V. BANK BOOKS AND CASH BOOKS. 1828-1888
c.1828-1888
71. ‘Day Book’. Jan. 1828 - Aug. 1837. Record of amounts received from or paid to named persons or concerns. Often the goods supplied are indicated, e.g. coal, clay, nails, food, carriage, labou...
XIII. PARTNERSHIP PAPERS. 1868-1884
1868-1884
191. Two issues of The London Gazette. 1868, 1876. 25 Dec. 1868 edition contains notice of dissolution of partnership between John Foster the elder, William Foster, Jonas Foster, Abraham Briggs Foste...
VIII. COST AND PRICE BOOKS. 1838-1873
c.1838-1873
113. ‘Prices of Yarn Cost No. a\ March 1838 - Feb. 1839. Details of wool and yarn purchases from named suppliers. Various types are given with their costs. Lincs., Lancs., Yorks., Staffs., Leiceste...
X. PRIVATE LETTERS. 1846-1902
c.1846-1902
(Most letter-bundles in sections X, XI, and XII contain several hundred letters each) 132. Private Letters i.Jan. 1846-Dec. 1856. Letters and telegrams to Messrs John Foster & Sons with some copies...
XIV. RAILWAYS. 1852-1884
1852-1884
(Some of this material is of special interest as it would have been available only to directors of the railway companies.) Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway (See also section on Halifax & Ovenden J...