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The Burgess family papers document three generations of an English family involved in overseas commerce. Charles Henry Burgess (1806-1854) was the first British subject to export good directly from England to Persia. The papers contain correspondence, diaries, financial records, art work and other materials documenting the personal life and commercial activities of the family members. The papers provide abundant information on a rich variety of British, Anglo-Persian and Anglo-American topics. less

Three student exercise books kept by Thomas Ottley while he was a student at the Gilling School in Easby, England. One volume contains arithmetic and accounting problems, 1801-1802; another contains geometry problems, 1803; and the other contains bookkeeping and geometry problems, 1803 less