Description | Comprising: (1) Folder of business letters, notes, accounts (c125) from agents and customers to Messrs Strutt, 1806-1814, 1826, 1831, 1844-1858 and 1906-1907, including correspondence relating to Rio de Janeiro account (8 accounts) 1809-1811, and Charleston and New York accounts (13 items), 1807-1809. (2) Envelope of 4 cheques from overseas clients in Basle, Switzerland, 1845, Burgdorf, Switzerland, 1848, Munich and Bonn, Germany, 1849. (3) Folder of local government records, comprising: (i) Letter from Vestry Clerk of St Werburgh's, Derby dealing with parish administration. 1808-1856, (ii) Rules and Regulations for the government of the Workhouse in the parish of St Werburgh's, Derby, including diet sheet. Nov 1823 (See http://www.genuki.org.uk:8080/big/eng/DBY/Derby/StWerburgh/WorkhouseCorrespondence.html for a transcription), (iii) Abstract of accounts of the Township of Belper 1830-1831 giving details of receipts and payments. Nov 1823, (iv) Letter addressed to the Rector of Southwell from the overseer of the poor, Stoke-on -Trent, outlining administration in the parish with proposed improvements having visited Liverpool, Chester, Sheffield, Manchester, and Southwell, Nottinghamshire. Mar 1830-Mar 1831 (see http://www.genuki.org.uk:8080/big/eng/DBY/Derby/StWerburgh/WorkhouseRules.html for a transcription). (4) Folder of papers and notices on the dissolution of partnerships (12 items), June 1844-March 1890. (5) Folder of papers on debtors and creditors (9 items), 1845-1853. |