5 Apr 1968
Financial papers for year ending 5 April 1968, including:
- list of the rooms in Red House and its outhouses
- income and expenditure account
- final expenses sheet, showing money spent on secretaries, repairs, concert expenses, travel, entertaining, librettists and producers, books, subscriptions, hotels, car expenses, dress, records, publicity, sundries etc.
- fee position summary, showing money received from royalties, fees, Boosey and Hawkes, Faber, and from Peter Pears' account
- Aldeburgh expenditure sheet, showing money spent on food, hardware, furnishings, garden, wages, general upkeep, chemist, windows, insurance, sundries etc.
- entertaining expenditure sheet, showing money spent on wine, restaurants, drinks and food at Aldeburgh
- bank reconciliation of domestic account, showing available balance and withdrawals
- bank reconciliation of main account, showing available balance and wtihdrawals
- details of main bank account receipts, showing payments received from royalties, performance, repeat and transcription fees, return of loan to Aldeburgh Festival Snape Building Fund and Aldeburgh Cinema directors fees
- statement of account with Boosey and Hawkes, with a summary of royalty payments; the royalties are divided into sheet music, mechanical, hire and performing, broadcasting, Canadian sheet, USA and German sheet royalties.
- summary of royalties and fees paid from Faber Music Ltd.
- analysis of sundries, including typewriter renewal, repairs, furniture, singing lessons, records, piano upkeep etc.
- analysis of payments, showing money spent on repairs, garden, doctor's fees, travel, car expenses, general upkeep, subscriptions, books, food, medicine, sundries, tax, insurance, drinks, records, dinners, clothes, wages, the library, donations, linen, music, photographic materials, pictures, piano upkeep, loans, legal costs etc.
Subscriptions were paid to Colonial Freedom, National Council Civil Liberties, Norfolk Art Society, London Study of Religion, Ipswich Male Voice Choir, Aldeburgh Yacht Club, Inc. Society of Musicians.
- details of domestic account payments, showing money spent on housekeeping, hardware and repairs, clothes/fabrics, food and drinks, newspapers and books, wages, chemist, laundry, fuel, and sundries
- list of Cullum's petty cash expenses, including postage, petrol and travel, food, flying lessons, Strode expenses and sundries
- analysis of sundries from Aldeburgh bank account, including garden upkeep, flowers, music, car expenses, Red Studio, books, and removals
- diary of events at Aldeburgh from April 1967 - March 1968
- diary of travel and engagements from April 1967 - April 1968; day by day diary giving details of where Britten travelled to and for what purpose. This is in Britten's hand.
51 pages
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