| Description | 1. Receipted bills from Samuel Harding for books including Machiavel's works, Isaac Newton's chronology, Voltaire's essay, Gulliver's Travels, and stationery (2).
2. Note by Mary Hallifax of accounts with her brother and for stockings.
3. Receipted account from Francis Knight for timber.
4. Receipted bill from Isaac Garnier for medicines including quieting draughts, purging potions and laudanum.
5. List of vegetable seeds.
6. Receipted bill from John Franklin for malt and bread.
7. Receipted bill from William Shakespear for beer.
8. Bills from Thomas Stiles for stockings (2).
9. Receipted bill from Mary Bradbury for clothes and accessories.
10. Receipted bill and a letter from Christopher Gray, nurseryman.
11. Receipted bill from Nicholas Valiant, frame maker.
12. Receipted bill from Joseph Austin for food.
13. Bills, one receipted, from Abraham Gascoigne for making clothes (2).
14. Receipted promissory note to pay Abraham Gascoigne.
15. Receipt from Thomas Biggs.
16. Receipted bills (2) and a separate receipt from Leonard Phillips for jewellery.
17. Receipt from William Granger for payment for wigs.
18. Receipted bill from Catherine Brown for mending clothes.
19. Receipted bill from David Williams, silversmith.
20. Bill from Gabriel Smyth and Morley for tea and rhubarb.
21. Bills, one receipted, from Mr Nunes for commission for the sale of rough diamonds (2).
22. Receipted promissory note to pay Thomas Wilkinson, stonemason.
23. Account from James Colebrooke of stocks and shares.
24. Account of old stocks and shares.
25. Undated letter from James Colebrooke to Henry Davenport telling him the sale of diamonds went better than expected and he wants to consult him about his children's money.
26. 15 Feb 1729 Letter from James Horne to Henry Davenport asking to be paid for designing and drawing two sorts of plans and elevations for 2 large houses and offices. On reverse is a receipted bill.
27. 15 Feb 1729 Letter from Mary Elizabeth Davenport to Henry Davenport concerning Mrs Ivory wanting to know the price of a glass with a walnut frame; reminding him to buy her a dressing with a japan frame, listing expenses and asking for an advance of her allowance.
28. 3 Feb 1728 Letter from John Hobbs to Henry Davenport asking to be paid after completing his order for a parcel of mahogany. |