| Description | The Housekeeping Accounts begin at the time of Ann Boulton's removal from Soho House to Thornhill (the first entry in the Cash Book is dated 15 Dec. 1818), and they continue until the end of 1829, the year in which she died. The records comprise Cash Books and related Bills in annual bundles, both of which series are complete. The Cash Books indicate that from time to time sums of money were transferred from the Cash account to the Housekeeping account: this presumably means that on such occasions cash was taken from the main fund and placed in a special tin or box set aside for the purpose of making housekeeping purchases. Each time this stock of cash ran low it would be replenished in the same way.
Each annual bundle of housekeeping bills has been given a separate number.
Wrapper, '1829 House Bills Paid'
Miss Boulton died in November 1829. |