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Letter Bundle
1854-60
Letters from Overend Gurney & Company, and details of Fosters account with them, 1854-9. Miscellaneous letters, i860, mostly referring either to investments in British railway companies and other conc...
Men’s Wages No. 1
Aug 1845 - Jan 1852
Weekly wages paid to named workers, about 60 in 1845 increasing to 180 by 1852. Rate per week is given plus notes on overtime or weekly hours worked. No indication of occupation. Weekly totals. At the...
Overend Gurney letters
1859-1866
Letters from Overend Gurney with whom Fosters had an account. Most refer to changes in the rate of interest allowed by them on money at call and on deposit, and to stocks and shares, with regular deta...
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....
XI. INCOMING LETTERS: SPECIFIC SUBJECTS 1849-1880
c.1849-1880
(Most are extracted from Private Letter files) 166. Miscellaneous Banking. 1849-62. There are three main types of letters. Correspondence from banks about banking services and accounts, e.g. Allian...
XII. MISCELLANEOUS INCOMING LETTERS. 1833-c. 1950
c.1833-1950
(Mainly extracted from Private Letter files) 179. Bundle. 1833-1910. Includes 1833 list of the values of materials of many types and in stated places (materials involved in the various stages of w...