Collection consists of six account books dating from the 1830s to the 1860s, including ledgers and daybooks, used and kept primarily by Enoch Curtis for his leather tanning business. There are also some loose accounts and notes on small sheets of paper. The ledgers use a single-entry bookkeeping method in £sd. They are organized by individual merchant account, with records of debits (purchases or expenditures made) and credits (payments or goods received). Parallel underlining and Xs indicate when an account has balanced. The collection also includes some records related to Stella Curtis from the 1890s, including one letter and two sheets of math problems marked Clarenceville Model School.
File consists of manuscript accounting notes, receipts, requests for payment, and other loose notes previously laid in between pages 168 and 169 of Ledger, 1840s (file 3).
Consists of a manuscript ledger in limp, hand-cut and sewn leather binding. The records provide evidence as to Curtis's business expenditures (for example, purchase of animal skins presumably for tanning, such as sheepskin and calfskin) and household expenditures. Many entries provide evidence of barter culture. «
Consists of a manuscript ledger for years including 1841 to 1847 in half leather binding. Index of individual accounts in found written on front pastedown.
Consists primarily of financial ledger in half leather binding with marbled paper boards. The first 211 numbered pages from the beginning contain business accounts using single-entry bookkeeping method. Volume also includes daybook for the years 1846-1852, found on pages [1]-[10] (volume was flipped for additional use as a daybook; pages numbers are as counted from end of volume). Pages [21-23] from end of volume contain two leaves of lists of money received and money paid out, dated September 21, 1859.
Consists of paperbound manuscript ledger book with only 10 pages of entries for the years 1897-1898. Also includes two loose sheets of math problems with the name of Stella Curtis, Clarenceville Model School, laid in at the front. Financial transactions recorded under individual accounts with no additional details.
File consists of one manuscript letter from H. Curtis (possibly Herman Curtis) to Stella Curtis, dated 19 September 1898, accompanied by envelope postmarked with the same date from Hartford, Connecticut. The letter writer discusses picking peaches, asks about Erle Curtis and other family members, asks about Stella's school and musical activities, requests her father's address.
Consists of manuscript notebook in limp, hand-cut and sewn leather binding (front cover only). Records in chronological order primarily business expenditures (hides and skins for tanning) covering the years 1852-1856. One entry (in pencil) is dated 1881.