Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Subject: Accounting and Finance - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP782/1/8/4
Title:: Secretary of State Despatches 30 Jan 1832-30 Dec 1832
Scope & Content:: This volume contains letters from the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies to the Governor Sierra Leone between 30 January and 30 December 1832. The correspondence concerns a range of administrative issues, including colonial revenues and taxes. The volume is tightly bound in blue cloth b...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 Jan 1832-30 Dec 1832
Extent:: 492 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP782/1/8/5
Title:: Secretary of State Despatches 14 Jan 1833-14 Dec 1833
Scope & Content:: This volume contains letters received by the Governor of Sierra Leone from the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 14 January and 24 December 1833. It includes an index of eleven pages that lists the date of the letter, the sender, the subject, how it was disposed of, and remarks...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14 Jan 1833-14 Dec 1833
Extent:: 421 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP790/12/104
Title:: Money Lending Record
Scope & Content:: This record is in Sanskrit and Devanagari script. The paper folios are in good condition. It is a Buddhist manuscript. 1748 CE Extent: Folios: 10
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 7 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1
Title:: Lanten Manuscripts from Northern Laos
Scope & Content:: This collection of manuscripts constitutes a resource of unique cultural value in Lanten society. Lanten (also known as Lao Huay and Yao Mun) are classified as one of the 39 ‘ethnic minorities’ of northern Laos that are officially acknowledged by the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos. Writte...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1650-21st century
Extent:: 34245 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/10
Title:: Anonymous Collector 10
Scope & Content:: This collection contains 24 manuscripts. The catalogue references of the individual manuscripts range from: EAP791/1/10/1 to EAP791/1/10/24. Custodial history: The original manuscripts are part of a private collection owned by an anonymous collector in Northern Laos.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1807-1983
Extent:: 1293 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP791/1/10/20
Title:: 一本求財秘語
Scope & Content:: This manuscript has no cover title. The given title is for the first text within the manuscript. Title of the first text: 一本求財秘語 [Yiben qiucai miyu]. Instructions about the magic, especially for fortune in monetary matters. Custodial history: Private collection. Extent and format of original...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: 1889
Extent:: 15 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP794/1
Title:: Eastern Caribbean Court House records
Scope & Content:: The vault of the Eastern Caribbean Court House, Nevis, holds numerous historic manuscript documents connected with the legal and colonial administration of the island. The earliest records date from 1705, with records continuing through to the 20th century. Some recent court documents are also h...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1705-1974
Extent:: 10 series comprised of 155 files containing 53149 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP794/1/1
Title:: Common Record Deed Books 1707-1956
Scope & Content:: The Common Deed Record Books run in an almost continuous series from 1707 to 1922. There are 52 Common Record books in total to 1922, plus one Entry Book of deeds, 1884-1956, with others continuing into the twenty-first century. They are large bound volumes and, because of the continuity and con...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1707-1956
Extent:: 48 files containing 25993 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP794/1/4
Title:: Other Courts
Scope & Content:: This series includes the records of those courts which could not sensibly be included in other series. It includes one volume of a Court of Complaints. This was essentially a court for the recovery of small debts and was established as a result of discussions in the local Nevis legislature in, o...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1815-1943
Extent:: 8 files containing 2915 TIFF images

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