Bromley House Library 1816 to 1916
A Stocktaking notebook
from about 1896

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Index to this page:
Loan slips

Gas accounts
Stocktaking list

In June 2009 a small black-covered notebook (D4(m)) was discovered in the Safe Room at Bromley House.
It measures 4.6 inches by 5.1 inches (11.8 cm x 18.1 cm) and is about 0.4 inches (8 mm) thick.
Its pages are lined and its contents date from 1896 through to 1901.

The front page is headed ‘Stocktaking May 1896’ and the book is primarily a record of that stocktaking.
The Librarian and his assistants will have worked their way through the accessions book and along the shelves noting down missing titles and their catalogue numbers.
These were then matched to known borrowings and the borrower’s name recorded along with a date, presumably the date on which the book had been borrowed.
A second date was added when the book was returned.
This is the first evidence of specific borrowings by named subscribers.

The booklet also contains the Librarian’s Memos for various meetings:

The Librarian has reused a number of Library loan slips.
These are almost identical with those still in use today, carrying the accession number of the book (top right), a number identifying the borrower (top left) and a date (beneath the other items). Slips were reused by inverting them

The information on these issue slips is as follows:
Identity
number		 Accession
number
 Date
373 Dc 3446 13/5
114 Dc 3745 24/12
99
Dc 343 28/11
14 Ca 3287 15/10

Another insert is a Library loan slip on which is written a draft of a notice to subscribers:
Stocktaking
By order of the Committee I am instructed to inform you that a stocktaking is to be made at the library. You are requested to return all books exclusive of London Library books by July 1st subject to a fine of 2/6 per  vol kept beyond that date. Books will be reissued on Monday July 17/99.


Gas accounts
The rear of the notebook contains details of gas accounts.


One page reads:
Mr Sutton


Bottom Office Statement Mar 25/01 17800


--/00 94900



22900


Old meter 1100



24000
Upper office Statement Mar 24/01 98100

Last statement 1900
74400



23700



24000



47000

47000 @ 2/10 per 1000 6
 15
 2
Meter rent
6
 8

7
 1
 10


Another undated left-hand page reads:

Lower office Upper office
Present state 459.00 744.00
Last state 350.00 350.00

109.00 109.00
New meter 71

294.00

474.00




8)47400




5
 17
 6


1


5
 18
 6


6
 8
 Meters

£6
 5
 2

In 1899 the 327 should read 32700 so that the 700 has been charged as 7000 the deduction for this is 15/9

             
6
 5
 2
           


15
 9

£5
 9
 5

This note refers to the entry
on the opposite right-hand page:
1899

Lower office Upper state
Present state 350 450
Last.....do 214
 259

136
 191


191


136

@ 2/6    8) 327


4
 17
 6





4
 17
 6


6
 8

5
 4
 2




should be
 4
 18
 5

It is of interest to note how the conversion from 2s 6d per 1000 cubic feet to pounds is accomplished by division by 8.

Another page reads:
Meter notes 1900
Apl 2nd Mr Sutton had his wet meter replaced by a dry one.
Statement of meter taken away 082
Statement of one brought 949


Mar 21st 1900 757
Dec 20th 538


The entries on the very last page in the notebook are concerned with gas and are summarised below:

May June 20 Sep 19 Dec 15 Mar 24

99
 99
 99
 99
Sutton top office 487
 493
 494
 587
 751
         lower  . . . . .  do 387
 396
 437

Hill 244
 247


Redgate 292
 295
 302
 320
 366
Heazell 086
 088
 127
 297
Barber Mr (no. 99788)



257
 267


                      
The Stocktaking list of 1896
The lists in the notebook were in class and accession number order. Entries have been transcribed and then sorted alphabetically by borrower’s name.
Class
 Number
 Title
 Borrower's
name
 Date
borrowed
 Date
returned
D
 284
 Goethe's Faust Addis, R.W. 13 Jan 1896 8 Jun 1896
Dd 2542 Arnold - Essays in criticism 2nd series Ashwell, H. 30 May 1896

Dd 2576 Borrow - Lavangro Ashwell, H. 30 May 1896

Ca 3020 McCarthy - Hist of our own times Vol VI Berrey, G.N. 2 Apr 1896 17 Jun 1896
Cb 2808 Badderley - English Lakes Lamb, J.W. 29 May 1896 7 Jul 1896
Dd 364 Dufton - Billiards Blakeney 31 Jan 1896 16 Jun 1896
Ca 4077 Carlyle - French revolution Vol I
Browne, H. 10 Jun 1896

Ca 4845 Southey & Scott - English men of letters Burnie 15 Apr 1896 27 May 1896
Dd 642
Nightingale - Notes on nursing Cartwright 18 Jun 1896


Ca 1249 Gardiner - Charles I (2 vols) Clark, W. 31 Dec 1895 28 May 1896
Ca 4047 Blunt - Reformation in England Cleaver 21 May 1896 5 Jun 1896
Cb 1450 Stanley - Central Africa Crewdson 23 Apr 1896 28 Sep 1896
Dd 2324 Strickland - Old friend Dobson, Miss 20 Apr 1896 13 Jun 1896
Cb 2028 Baker - Rifle and hound in Ceylon Dowson 13 Apr 1896
Returned
Dd 2527 Lubbcock - Pleasures of life Eking 5 Feb 1896 22 Jun 1896
Cb 2029 Baedeker's Switzerland Elder 19 May 1896 26 Jun 1896
Cb 2807 Badderley - N. Highlands of Scotland Elder 19 May 1896 6 Jun 1986
Cb 2800 Baedeker's - Belgium & Holland Elder 28 May 1896 6 Jun 1896
A 1312 Mace - Christianity and morality Evans 11 May 1896
Returned
Ca
3035 Maurice - Life of F Denison Evans 2 May 1896

Dd 2095 Lamb's Letters Evans 1 Jun 1896 27 Jun 1896
Dd 2095a Lamb's Letters Evans 1 Jun 1896 27 Jun 1896
Dd 1769 Carlyle - Heros and hero worship Goldschmidt 19 Mar 1896 1 Jul 1896
Ca 5659 North - Revolutions of a happy life (2 vols) Guilford 9 May 1896 28 May 1896
F
652 Lecky - Democracy and Liberty Henry 6 Jun 1896

Ca 2750 Vaughan - Life of Wycliffe (2 Vols) Herbert W.F. 24 Apr 1896

Dd 2240 Ramsey - Scottish Life and character Hill, H. 29 May 1896 22 Jun 1896
Ca 2962 Lowe - Royal Sherwood Foresters Huskinson 6 Apr 1895
Returned
Dd 2563 Lubbock - Beauties of nature Hutchinson, R. 29 May 1896 18 Jun 1896
Ba 146 Dialogues of Plato (Jowett) Johnson, S.W.


Returned
Ca 4761 Cicero Jones 19 May 1896

Ca 4763 Cicero Jones 19 May 1896

Ba
221 Laing - Modern Zoroastrianism Jones

Returned
Ca 1953 Milman - Latin Christianity Lamb J.W. 19 Oct 1895 30 May 1896
Cb 2820 Badderley - N. Highlands Lamb J.W. 29 May 1896 1 Jul 1896
Ca 2238 Rawlinson - Heroditus Lamb, J.W. 27 Dec 1895 30 May 1896
Cb 2801 Badderley - Highlands of Scotland Lamb, J.W. 29 May 1896 7 Jul 1896
Cb 2815 Appleton - United States Lewis, J.W. 6 May 1896 8 Jul 1896
Ca 1322 Green - Short history Lockwood 7 Jan 1896 29 May 1896
Dd 2494 Emerson - Essays Lockwood 20 May 1896

Cb 2060 Normandy Musters 7 Apr 1896 6 Jul 1896
Ca 4223
 Freer - Elizabeth of Valoise
Oliver  2 Mar 1896

Dd
1867 Eckerman - Conversation with Goethe Ransom, Dr
6 Jun 1896
Returned
Dd 2309 State of man (2 vols) Riley, Mrs 18 Apr 1896

Ba 209 Grote - Plato Vol II Russell, J


Dd 2577 Bagehot - Literary studies (2 vols) Sanday 9 Jun 1896

 Dd
2491 Arnold - Irish essays Sands 9 Jun 1896 22 Jun 1896
Cb 2061 Norway Seely 13 Feb 1896 13 Feb 1896
Cb 2484a Norway Seely 13 Feb 1896 8 Jul 1896

Ba 219 Kidd - Social evolution Snook, H.B.


Ca 4956 Countess of Albany (Prominent Women Series) Thickett 23 May 1896 1 Jun 1896
Ca
1273 Gibbon - Roman Empire Vol IV Thompson 1 Feb 1896 15 Jun 1896
Cb 2253 Hare - Walks in Rome Townroe 16 May 1896 9 Jun 1896
D 1292 Browning - Ring and the Book Wadsworth, W. 18 May 1896 6 Jun 1896
Dd 2590 Badminton - Cycling Walker, Josh 6 Jun 1896 13 Jun 1896
A 1270 Onkelos - Targums on the Pentateuch Weinberg 17 Apr 1896
Returned
D 871 Browning R Works Vol I White, C. Haydon 15 May 1896
Returned
A 1253 Keith - Truth of Christian religion Wood. T. 20 Apr 1896 19 Jun 1896
Ca  
4953 Goethe and Mendelssohn 
Wright J.K. 30 Sep 1895 2 Jun 1896


 








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