Essex
Society for Archaeology and History
Items deposited
on permanent loan at Essex Record Office
ERO A14827
HONORARY TREASURER
1. BALANCE SHEETS AND STATEMENTS OF ACCOUNTS
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S/TRE/1/1
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MS draft with printed version of the
balance sheet for the year ending 31 Dec 1913.
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S/TRE/1/2
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Balance Sheets and. Statements of accounts
for the calendar years 1961-65, 1968-57 and 1959-70.
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2. BANK BOOKS AND STATEMENTS
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S/TRE/2/1
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Bank pass book, pp36, Round Green &
Co., Jan 1876 - Oct 1893.
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S/TRE/2/2
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Bank pass book, pp43, Gurneys, Round,
Green & Co. (later. Barclays), Nov 1893 - Jun 1901.
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S/TRE/2/3
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Bank pass book, pp8 used, Barclays Bank,
referring to Library Fund., Apr 1938 - Nov 1949.
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S/TRE/2/4
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Deposit pass book, pp3 used, Barclays Bank
Colchester, May 1960 - Mar 1962.
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3. ACCOUNT BOOKS
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S/TRE/3/1
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MS cash book, p162 used, used by Josiah
Parrish whilst Collector for the Society Jul 1870-Dec 1892.
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S/TRE/3/2
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MS account book, pp38 used, Jan 1921-Dec
1927.
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S/TRE/3/3
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MS cash book, pp35 used, details of day to
day income and expenditure 1934-40, details for the last year are incomplete.
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S/TRE/3/4
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MS ledger, pp36 used, General Fund account
Jan 1949-Jan 1961.
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S/TRE/3/5
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MS account ledger, pp46, details of
financial transactions Jan 1961-Dec 1965.
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S/TRE/3/6
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MS ledger, pp52, details of financial
transactions Jan 1966- Dec 1969.
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4. SPECIAL FUNDS
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S/TRE/4/1
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MS notebook in the hand of H Lewer
containing:
pp3, list of subscribers to the Chancellor
Memorial Screen Fund, closed 14 Dec 1918.
pp12, list of subscribers for, and details
of expenditure on, 1923 Library Catalogue, with 3 related letters (loose),
Jul 1922-Oct 1923.
pp1 minutes of the Library Catalogue
Committee, Jul 17 and Oct 2 1922.
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S/TRE/4/2
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MS ledger, pp36 used, containing names of
subscribers to:
Church Plate of Essex Oct 1923-May 1925.
General Index to Vols vi-xv of the
Transactions Jan 1926- May 1927
A G Wright Testimonial Fund Jan-Mar 1927
Hollytrees Excavation Fund Nov 1927-Aug
1928
Library Appeal Fund Dec 1929-Mar 1930
Hollytrees Excavation Report Fund Mar-Nov
1931
Library Fund 1937
Colne Cartulary, not dated
Essex Record Society Jul-Sept 1931
Witham Excavation Fund May 1935.
Curling Testimonial, not dated
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S/TRE/4/3
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Part of MS cash book, pp22, Library
Endowment Fund Accounts Jul 1938-Dec 1961; Trust Fund May 1938-Jun 1939.
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S/TRE/4/5
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Correspondence, balance sheets and bank
pass book relating to the finances of the 'Elizabethan Feast' held with the
Friends of Historic Essex, May-Dec 1961
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S/TRE/4/6
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Balance Sheet, correspondence, bank pass
book and other papers relating; to the Benton Memorial Fund, and the erection
of an oak door in the South Chapel of Fingringhoe Church. Mar 1962 - Mar
1969.
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S/TRE/4/7
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Correspondence and papers relating to a
grant to the Archaeological Research Group Colchester towards the cost of the
excavation of the Roman villa at Great Tey. May - Sept 1966.
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5. MEMBERSHIP RECORDS
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S/TRE/5/1
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MS book, pp75 used, lists of members'
names and addresses arranged alphabetically, with details of subscriptions
paid, resignations, deaths etc. 1866-83.
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S/TRE/5/2
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MS book, pp65 used, containing
alphabetically arranged lists of members of the Society, with details of
Subscriptions paid, resignations, deaths etc. 1884-97.
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S/TRE/5/3
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MS notebook, pp36, containing printed
lists of members as on 31 Dec 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1895, with MS and TS
amendments and additions to 1896.
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S/TRE/5/4
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Bound MS ledger, pp95 used, containing
lists of members' names and addresses arranged alphabetically, with dates of
election, subscriptions paid, resignations, deaths etc. 1905-1927.
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S/TRE/5/5
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MS exercise book, pp7, containing notes on
changes in the membership, diary of Society activities, and copies of letters
written by Rev T H Curling as Honorary Secretary, 1902-15.
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S/TRE/5/6
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MS book, pp56 used, containing lists of
members arranged by year by election, and losses through resignation and
death 1925-54.
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S/TRE/5/7
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Large MS ledger, pp269, labelled 'Essex
Archaeological Society Register of Members'. Contains names and addresses of
members arranged alphabetically with details of subscriptions paid,
resignations, deaths etc. 1927-41.
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S/TRE/5/8
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Bound TS, pp40, list of members revised to
Oct 1932.
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S/TRE/5/9
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MS ledger, labelled 'Essex Archaeological
Society Register of Members', pp410, containing details of members (arranged
alphabetically) - subscriptions paid, resignations, deaths etc. 1941-9, and
including related loose letters.
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S/TRE/5/10
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MS cash book, pp143, listing members in
order of paying subscriptions 1942-52, including notes on amounts paid etc.
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6. TREASURERS’ CORRESPONDENCE
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S/TRE/6/1
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74 MS letters of Nov 1909.-Jan 1917
addressed to W C Waller, Vice Treasurer, by various correspondents on aspects
of the Society's business and its financial implications, The majority are
from Rev T C Curling, Honorary Secretary. Together with copies of 5
out-letters and 1 in-letter, Jan-May 1910, correspondence between R Miller
Christy and Fred Spalding &. Son Photographers, regarding the photographs
of Killegrews for the illustration of a Transactions paper.
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HONORARY LIBRARIAN
1. ACCESSION REGISTERS
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S/LIB/1/1
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‘Stubs’ of official receipts for items
given to the Society Jan 1894 - May 1897, 102 in all. Mainly for the Library,
but other items as well.
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S/LIB/1/2
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'Stubs' of official receipts for items
given to the Society Jun 1897 – Mar 1900, 101 in all. Mainly for the Library,
but other items as well.
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S/LIB/1/3
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Book of 105 'stubs’ of official receipts
for items donated to the Society, mainly to the Library, Mar 1917 - Jan
1921..
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S/LIB/1/4
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‘Stubs’ of 197 official receipts for books
and manuscripts donated to the Society, 6 Feb 1921 - Oct. 1924.
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S/LIB/1/5
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'Stubs' of 196 official receipts for books
and manuscripts donated to the Society, Oct 1924 - Feb 1927.
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S/LIB/1/6
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'Stubs' of 202 official receipts for books
and manuscripts given to the Society, Mar 1927 - Jun 1934.
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S/LIB/1/7
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‘Stubs' of c190 receipts for books and
manuscripts donated to the Society, with notes of further donations on the
last 11 pages, Apr 1934 - Mar 1947.
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S/LIB/1/8
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Bound book of printed forms of
acknowledgement for items presented to the Society, ordered at the Council
Meeting at Thaxted 28 Jul 1864. Extant 30 copies of receipts for items
donated to the Library 8 Apr 1965 - 15 Nov 1971.
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S/LIB/1/9
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MS accession book, pp200, containing
details of exchange periodicals, arranged in alphabetical sections, in use
Oct 1923 - Dec 1940.
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S/LIB/1/10
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MS exercise book, pp16, accession
register, chiefly of exchange publications, Feb 1941 - Jun 1954.
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S/LIB/1/11
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MS exercise book, pp20, Library book
accession register Jul 1954 - Jan 1965.
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S/LIB/1/12
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Index of library acquisitions 1963-1994
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S/LIB/1/13
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Index of library acquisitions (Journals)
1994-2000
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S/LIB/1/14
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Library accessions & cash book
1972-2000
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2. BOOK CATALOGUES
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S/LIB/2/1
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MS book pp58 used containing 'List of
Donations to the Essex Archaeological Society as recorded in Vols. 1 to 5
First Series and Vols. 1 to 9 Second Series of the Transactions (Apr 1853 -
May 1905). Extracted by Henry Laver FSA. December 1st 1908'.
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S/LIB/2/2
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Three MS lists of books compiled from old
accession books, comprising donations to the Society Mar 1855 – Mar 1893, and
books presented to the Corporation Museum, Aug 1846-Feb 1898, compiled by A G
Wright, the latter in Nov 1908.
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S/LIB/2/3
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Printed book accession register, pp5 used,
containing details of books donated to the Society Mar 1853 – Mar 1890,
copied from issues of the Transactions to Vol V New Series by P G Laver,
c-1930. Included loose are stubs of 22 receipts for books and other items
donated to the Society Jun 1865- Aug 1886.
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S/LIB/2/4
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Printed Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets,
Periodicals, MSS and Scraps Collection in the Library of The Essex
Archaeological Society, compiled by W H Dalton 1895. Colchester:
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S/LIB/2/5
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Bound, indexed book, containing the 1895
Library Catalogue, cut into slips and pasted in on relevant pages, with gaps
for expansion. One or two marginal
pencil notes only.
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S/LIB/2/6
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MS list of ‘Books, papers & c. handed
to Mr G F Beaumont to the Curator of the Society’s Museum’, Apr 1905 (? or
3).
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S/LIB/2/7
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Bound MS notebook, pp29 plus index, pp27,
containing a list of all books and manuscripts given to the Society’s
Library, and recorded in the Transactions, New Series Vol. XIII to XIX,
compiled by C R Smallwood, no date.
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S/LIB/2/8
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Two interleaved copies of the printed Catalogue
of Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, Manuscripts & Scrap Collections in the
Library of the Essex Archaeological Society, 1923, pp32. Also (2) Archives added to EAS collection
after publication of 1923 catalogue: compiled from Transactions lists
(1923-1945), pp4.
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S/LIB/2/9
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MS list, pp6, in P G Laver’s handwriting,
of accessions to the Library - to an unspecified date after the publication
of the 1923 Catalogue. MS list, pp1, of books sent, to the Society by Miss
King, 8 Feb 1894.
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S/LIB/2/12
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Bound MS book, pp11 used, listing the
contents of 112 parcels of books from the Library stored at a house in West
Mersea, and removed to Colchester in Mar 1941, after the death of P G Laver,
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S/LIB/2/13
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MS exercise book, pp40, containing a list
by Rev M Benton of MSS, books, and engravings from the estate of Wykeham
Chancellor, removed to Holly Trees Apr 1946.
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S/LIB/2/15
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Collection of MS and TS slips and lists
representing various catalogues or partial catalogues of the EAS Library and
manuscripts, many (but not all) in the handwriting of P G Laver. 6 bundles
and folders.
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S/LIB/2/16
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MS exercise book, used, containing two
lists of antiquarian books, one the property of the EAS, and the other the
Corporation of Colchester. Not dated; presumably relates to the Library in
the Castle, c1880.
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S/LIB/2/17
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Collection of MS and TS slips, 1980s.
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4. LIBRARY EQUIPMENT; BINDING.
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S/LIB/4/1
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List of Library furniture and related
items, with notes of its source and value to Feb 1963; TS, pp3,
'Specification for internal painting walls and repairs' Jan 1963, with 2
plans of EAS Library and other rooms as existing Feb 1963, with proposed
arrangement of bookshelves on 2nd floor of Hollytrees, and elevations of
bookshelves in Library 1.
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S/LIB/4/2
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Invoice for supply of steel shelving and
cabinet, Sept 1963 and Nov 1964.
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S/LIB/4/3
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Bound MS notebook, pp9 used, containing
details of volumes of exchange periodicals bound 1927-Jul 1935, including
(loose) 10 items of related correspondence, and details of prices charged for
the work.
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S/LIB/4/4
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Duplicate book, pp19 used, record of books
sent for binding Nov 1966-Oct 1970.
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S/LIB/4/12
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Bibliographic extract report 1993
(Computer alphabetical printout)
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5. LIBRARY USERS
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S/LIB/5/1
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Society Visitor's Book, pp1 only used,
containing 10 names, Sept 1929-Sept 1931.
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S/LIB/5/2
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Bound volume of application forms for the
use of books in the Society's Library, 27 used, May 1931-Mar 1934. Both stubs
and submitted slips retained.
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S/LIB/5/3
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MS register, pp25 used, of admissions to
the Library Mar 1965-Dec 1974.
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6. BOOK BORROWING
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S/LIB/6/1
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Bound MS book, pp21 used, containing a
record of books borrowed from the Library Apr 1908 – Apr 1930.
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S/LIB/6/2
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Bound MS book, pp88 used, containing a
record of books borrowed from the Library Oct 1929 - Jun 1956.
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S/LIB/6/3
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MS exercise book, p120, Library Borrowing
Register Apr 1956 - Feb 1961.
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S/LIB/6/4
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MS book, pp46, Library Borrowing Register
Jun 1960 - Jan 1970.
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S/LIB/6/5
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Exercise book; lending list of library
books 1970-1986
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S/LIB/6/6
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Borrowers’ register 1986-2000
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7. LIBRARIAN’S CORRESPONDENCE.
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S/LIB/7/1
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Folder of correspondence, list, and notes
handed over by John Sims on relinquishing the Honorary Librarianship in 1974.
Includes (1) Library Permits List 1965 – 71; (2) Boyd’s Marriage Index; (3)
Correspondence relating to Oxoniensia; (4) Correspondence relating to
Archdeaconry transcripts; (5) Exchange Publications; (6) Letters regarding
deposit to material at ERO, 1973/74 (removed and filed under S/ARC/3/1); (7)
Brass Rubbings on loan from Essex Archaeological Society, 10.4.1967; (8)
Inventory of Stock Room.
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S/LIB/7/2A-G
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7 folders of correspondence and notes, of
Peter Boyden as Honorary Librarian May 1974 - Jun 1980, c250 items.
Accessions to ERO removed. Folder
A. May to Dec 1974. Includes a letter
from the Museum, 29.8.74, acknowledging receipt to the Girling collection;
letters from Stephen Freeth regarding the EAS collection of brass
rubbings. Folder B. 1975. Includes letter from K Newton, County
Archivist, 12.2.1975, “The Ellis Armorial (temp acc. 959) … I should … be
happy to retain it on a more permanent basis.
It would seem sensible that the Chancellor papers should come here …
The Laver papers would seem an appropriate deposit in our Colchester
branch.” Letter K Newton, 16.7.1975,
“microfilming ERO [parish register] transcripts.” Numerous strongly worded
letters from Mr Whitehead objecting to making copies of same, and
responses. Folder C. 1976. Includes
letter from Stephen Freeth, 24.1.1976, re exhibition of EAS brasses at Harlow
Museum. Folder D. 1977. Includes letters re Bocking United Charities
– Holmes & Hill, 21.3.1977, “to ascertain whereabouts of old deeds”. Folder E. 1978. Includes TS sheet on EAS
Library contents by PBB, 21.8.1978.
“Manuscripts. Most of the Society’s collection is on loan at ERO. …
Brass Rubbings. … Photographs. “A collection of prints, lantern slides and
negatives covering churches, historic buildings, artefacts, and excavations
chiefly in Essex”. Folder F.
1979. Includes letter from Chelmsford
Excavation Committee, undated, re Morant Club Papers on “castle bailey ditch,
on the site of the War Memorial in Colchester” in 1922. Letter from Stan Newens, House of Commons,
21.9.1979, acknowledging receipt of Vol. 8 of Transactions. Programme for ‘Seminar on the life and work
of John Horace Round (1854-1928). Saturday 29 September 1979’. Folder G. Jan
to May 1980.
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S/LIB/7/3
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Buff folder. Librarian’s correspondence –
Andrew Phillips. Accessions to ERO
removed. Comprises (1) valuation of library stock for insurance 1995; (2)
photocopy NL April 1990 p10-11; (3) letters regarding exchange publications –
several; (4) Millatt Gift; (5) Annual Report for 1995; (6) Exchange
Publications addresses 1985; (7) and 1.1.04; (8) and 31.12.04; (9) Colchester
BC re. Hereford Mappa Mundi, 29.1.2000; (10) Oxford University Archives re
Botanic Garden plan c1834, 14.3.03; (11) Periodicals in the Colchester and
Essex Museum Roman History Library; (12) Chester Archaeological Society,
7.12.01; (13) Letter to Mrs Brittain re books donated, 18.12.02; (14) Essex
Field Club re illustrations in Field Systems, 31.8.05; (15) Notes for
explorers of family trees, especially C18 and later, compiled by John
Bensusan-Butt; (16) photocopy of ‘A Catalogue of Books on Archaeology and
Natural History presented to the Colchester Museum, by the Rev Henry Jenkins,
B.D., F.G.S., Rector of Stanway, A.D. 1870’; (17) Note on Probert MSS;
(18) correspondence with Castle
Bookshop, 8.1.86; (19) correspondence re the sale of antiquarian books by the
public library, 10.7.84; (20) leak in Hollytrees Museum roof; (21) Report on
co-operation between the Libraries of the Colchester Museum and ESAH, Dr Paul
R Sealey, 16.6.94; (22) Sale of transactions and EAH, 31.7.99 – now
superseded; (23) Essex Union List of Serials (EULOS): holdings for ESAH,
10.2.05; (24) yellow card; (25) Letter from Ken Neale re Milbournes; (26)
label: G Ryder & Co Ltd; (27) Letter regarding Appleby MSS (28) list of
maps etc; (29) papers relating to ‘EAS Library Water Damage’, 1985; (30)
Library Fund, 1998; (31) EULOS January 1995, with print out; (32) black
plastic folder relating to A.B.D. Doncaster valuation of Library; (33)
envelope re. King and Pitsea Church; (34) two ESAH car stickers. (B) Spiral
bound book. EULOS Essex Union List of Serials. No 34 Autumn 1988. Essex
Libraries.
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S/LIB/7/4
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Correspondence between Librarian and Tony
Doncaster (Castle bookshop), 1980s. Includes ‘Valuation by the late Tony
Doncaster, March 1985. Books and sundry comments’
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S/LIB/7/5
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Sale catalogue Bloomsbury book auction
1995 + invoice + correspondence; ? relates to T Doncaster not ESAH
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S/LIB/7/6
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Blue folder. Librarian’s correspondence –
Andrew Phillips. Accessions to ERO
removed. Comprises (1) Computer print
out of Exchange Publications, 21.9.99; (2) Association of Industrial
Archaeologists, price list; (3) Note: Jane Wilson, bookbinder; (4) Items
placed in storeroom by “Ray”, 23.1.96; (5) East of London Family History
Society: permission to transcribe Frogleys manuscript, 28.2.99; (6) Letter
Paul Buxton about Castle House, Ongar, 6.2.94; (7) Victoria County History:
permission to use photographs, 26.8.93; (8) Harsnett Brass Rubbing:
confirmation from ERO that it holds copy loaned by Society, 21.10.92; (9)
Books offered to Library, 28.2.91; (10)
also, 24.7.90; (11) regarding photograph taken at Castle in 1907,
5.2.89; (12) Braintree DC re Britannia vol 15, 18.8.87; (13) VCH loan of
material, 1.8.88; (14) Abberton and Langenhoe Parish Council on unknown
whereabouts of Vestry Minutes to 1893 for the parish, 25.8.87; (15) Landesamt
fur Archaologie, re exchange publications, undated; (16) Contents lists from
Transactions; (17) Colchester Archaeological Reports: scheme of publication
as envisaged in early 1985; (18) Sale of surplus publications.
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S/LIB/7/7
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Buff folder. Librarian’s correspondence –
Andrew Phillips. Includes: (1) list of books pp8 for sale; (2) sale of old
stock, EAS Newsletter April 1990; (3) correspondence with kindred
organisations, particularly exchange publications; (4) Millatt Gift; (5)
Hereford Mappa Mundi photograph, 26.1.2000; (6) photocopy: “A Catalogue of
Books on Archaeology and Natural History’ presented to the Colchester Museum
by the Rev. Henry Jenkins, B.D., F.G.S., Rector of Stanway, A.D. 1870; (7)
Report on cooperation between the Libraries of the Colchester Museum and the
ESAH; (8) EULOS 10.2.2005; (9) List of maps etc.
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S/LIB/7/8
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Orange folder. Items curated by Boyden. Accessions to ERO removed. Comprises: (1) Preliminary checklists of
material not on open shelves, 1986 – now obsolete; (2) Publicity for the
Society through Essex Libraries; (3)
Issue of the latest volume of Transactions to Newly Joined Members;
(4) Essex Archaeological and Historical Congress; (5) Library and Records
Committee responsibilities, September 1984; (6) List of early books removed
to the stock room with temporary shelf numbers – now obsolete; (7) EAS
Library Notes for users; (8) EAS Student Members 1984, and Members Interests;
(9) Important list of Deposits at Stanwell House, as reported to Council,
26.10.85; (10) As S/ARC/1/2; (11) Exchange Memberships, August 1985; (12)
Photocopying of archaeological material for research and educational
purposes, CBA; (13) brown envelope: stock of EAS transactions and sale of
same, Sellers; (14) brown envelope: List finalises cataloguing of Colchester
Gas Books – now at Essex Record Office; (15) Parish Register transcripts and
allied material; (16) EAS Catalogue of Acts of Parliament and Bills (17)
Boyden Lists Nos 2, 3, 4., as S/ARC/1/1.
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8. LIBRARY POLICY
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S/LIB/8/1
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MS report, pp5, with covering letter, on
the Society's Library by Vincent B Redstone, compiled Nov 1918.
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S/LIB/8/2
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MS notice advising of the opening of
Library 2 on 8 Mar 1965, with brief notes on the arrangement and
accessibility of the collection.
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S/LIB/8/3
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Photocopies TS list, pp9, of books
considered for disposal from the Library, Spring 1974.
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S/LIB/8/4
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Binder.
MS. Disposals List. Books
considered for disposal c1994
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