RPS MS 299

Account Book; 1813-67. Income and expenditure accounts for each season, including names of orchestra and soloists, in some years marking numbers of concerts and of rehearsals each attended. For a facsimile of the expenditure page for 1831 (f. 19v), see Ehrlich, p. 49. Entered retrospectively up to 1831 or 1832. Though headings and pages were prepared, no accounts for 1816-19 are included.

ff. 57. 413 x 268mm. Decorative full calf ledger binding with brass clasps.

includes:

• f. 21v-22r, 25v-28r William Sherrington, viola player: Accounts of the Philharmonic Society, audited and signed by: 1833-43.
• ff. 21v-25r Joseph Calkin, violinist, publisher and music seller: Accounts of the Philharmonic Society, audited and signed by: 1833-36.
• f. 22v et seq Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer: Accounts of the Philharmonic Society, audited and signed by: 1834-36, 1838.
• ff. 22v-24r William Watts, Secretary, Philharmonic Society: Accounts of the Philharmonic Society, audited and signed by: 1834-35.
• ff. 25v-29r John Mackintosh, bassoonist: Accounts of the Philharmonic Society, audited and signed by: 1837-1842.
• f. 28v et seq William Wagstaff, violinist: Accounts of the Philharmonic Society, audited and signed by: 1840-42, 1844-52.
• ff. 31v-32r James Howell, double-bass player: Accounts of the Philharmonic Society, audited and signed by: 1843.
• ff. 32v-34r William Henry Kearns, composer: Accounts of the Philharmonic Society, audited and signed by: 1844-46.
• ff. 33v-38r Grattan Cooke, alias Henry Angelo Michael; composer: Accounts of the Philharmonic Society, audited and signed by: 1845-50.
• ff. 36v-38r Henry Gamble Blagrove, violinist: Accounts of the Philharmonic Society, audited and signed by: 1848-50, 1855.
• f. 56 Charles Edward Stephens, composer, pianist and organist: Statement concerning copies of the accounts of the Philharmonic Society, written and signed by: 1881.