South Sea Company
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- South Sea Company
TitleSouth Sea Company
Reference codeMS394
Date1712-1731
Scope and ContentOrders for payment of dividends or transfer of stocks, 1712-1783, mostly addressed to John Grigsby, accountant of the Company, and his successor, Charles Lockyear.
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Extent34 items
Physical descriptionMS 218 is a manuscript quarto bound in quarter-morocco. MS 89 is a manuscript folio bound in half-morocco. MS 490 is a single sheet.
Finding aidsA calendar of documents in MS 89 and 218 is available in Reginald Arthur Rye Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Autograph letters in the University Library (1921).
University of London MS 493 contains a treatise by Malachy Postlethwayt on the South Sea Company. The British Library, London, holds directors, general and committee minutes, official copies of home letters and memorials, petitions and instructions, 1711-1856 (Ref: Add MSS 25494-584); The House of Lords Record Office, London, holds minutes, accounts, reports, subscriptions books, [1711-1733]; the Guildhall Library holds correspondence and receipts, 1711-1765; London Metropolitan Archives holds a register of clerks, 1720-1853; the British library of Political and Economic Science, London, has balance sheets and accounts, 1744-1753.
Level of descriptionfonds