£ s. d.
Balance in Bank, 20th Jan., 1876 527 17 9
Received: Mr. Allen, on Publishing Account 50 0 0
Mr. Ellis, on ditto 7 0 0
Lecture, London Institution 10 10 0
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595 7 9
Jan. 24. Royal Insurance Company (a) 37 10 0
27. F. Crawley (b) 25 0 0
31. Taxes on Armorial Bearings, etc. 7 19 0
Feb. 4. Warren and Jones—Tea for Shop 36 1 0
6. Buying a lad off who had enlisted and
repented 20 0 0
7. Christmas Gifts in Oxford 14 10 0
7. Klein (c) 5 0 0
7. Pocket Money 10 10 0
7. Crawley 5 0 0
8. Miss Rudkin, Clifford Street (d) 14 14 0
11. Dr. Parsons (e) 21 0 0
11. The Bursar of Corpus (f) 27 7 3
13. Professor Westwood (g) 50 0 0
14. Mr. Sly (h), Coniston, Waterhead Inn 33 0 0
19. Downs (i) 25 0 0
20. Subscriptions to Societies, learned
and other (k) 37 11 0
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Balance Feb. 20 £225 5 9
(a) Insurance on £15,000 worth of drawings and books in my rooms at
Oxford.
(b) Particulars of this account to be afterwards given; my Oxford
assistant having just lost his wife, and been subjected to unusual
expenses.
(c) My present valet, a delightful old German, on temporary service.
(d) Present, on my birthday, of a silk frock to one of my pets. It
became her very nicely; but I think there was a little too much silk in
the flounces.
(e) My good doctor at Coniston. Had to drive over from Hawkshead every
other winter day, because I wouldn’t stop drinking too much tea—also my
servants were ill.
(f) About four times this sum will keep me comfortably—all the year
round—here among my Oxford friends—when I have reduced myself to the
utmost allowable limit of a St. George’s Master’s income—366 pounds a
year, (the odd pound for luck).
(g) For copies of the Book of Kells, bought of a poor artist. Very
beautiful, and good for gifts to St. George.
(h) My honest host (happily falsifying his name), for friends when I
haven’t houseroom, etc. This bill chiefly for hire of carriages.
(i) Downs shall give account of himself in next Fors.
(k) £ s.
Athenæum 7 7
Alpine Club 1 1
Early English Text Society 10 10
Horticultural 4 4
Geological 2 2
Architectural 1 1
Historical 1 1
Anthropological 2 2
Consumption Hospital 3 3
Lifeboat 5 0
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£37 11