Private accounts, receipts, etc. of Josiah Messer I, a partner in the firm
- Date:
- 1789-1826
- Reference:
- MS.5457
- Part of:
- Corbyn & Co., chemists and druggists, London
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Josiah Messer I (1753-1830), a partner in the firm. Miscellaneous private accounts, receipts and papers, 1789-1826 and n.d.
1/1-18 Bills and accounts, mainly for legal work by Richard Phillips, and for the education of Messer's son by John Hodgkin (1766-1815), Quaker grammarian and writing-master
2/1-62 Miscellaneous receipts, 1789-1826 and n.d. (including a receipt relating to brandy purchased by Messer in 1798 from John Lister, grandfather of Lord Lister).
3/1-4 Letters and papers, including a printed list of subscribers to the Lancaster Canal, 1792. 1792-1807
Publication/Creation
1789-1826
Physical description
84 items Partly printed.
Finding aids
Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores