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Title Book-keeping Manuscript [1801].

Publication Info. [1801]

Call No.Louis A. Leslie HF5635 .A114 1801 Ask Librarian for access.
LocationMoore Special Collections

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Special Collections  HF5635 .A114 1801    Available  ---
Description 70 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
Note Handwritten on plain paper leafs sewed together. No cover.
Summary Handwritten 1801 manuscript on the "art of keeping Books of Accounts." It discusses various topics such as the day-book, ledgers, Balancing, memorandum and expense books. More than half of the manuscript consists of examples of each topic with 1801 entries. It is not known whether the manuscript was an instruction book used in a specific country store or whether the entries are for real transactions.
Local Note Library's copy came with a Feb. 14, 1952 donor letter from F.L. Hunt to Gladys Lober stating that the manuscript was the property of Cephas Akinson (1790-1860). Letter has brief biographical information on Hunt and Akinson.
Provenance Library's copy in Riderana is a gift of Louis A. Leslie.
Subject Bookkeeping -- Early works to 1900.
Bookkeeping.
Chronological Term Early works to 1900
Genre/Form Account books.
Account books.
Subject General stores -- Pennsylvania -- York.
General stores.
Pennsylvania -- York.
Added Author Hunt, F. L.
Lober, Gladys.
Akinson, Cephas, 1790-1860.