5 Apr 1969
Financial papers for year ending 5 April 1969, including:
- final expenses sheet, showing money spent on secretaries, repairs, concert expenses, travel, entertaining, piano upkeep, librettists, manager, books, subscriptions, hotels, car expenses, dress, records, publicity, sundries etc.
- fee position summary, showing money from bankings, Peter Pears, and royalties
- Aldeburgh expenditure sheet, showing money spent on food, hardware, furnishings, garden, wages, general upkeep, chemist, insurance, sundries etc.
- entertaining expenditure sheet, showing money spent on wine, restaurants, drinks and food at Aldeburgh
- bank reconciliation of main account, showing available balance and withdrawals
- details of main bank account receipts, showing payments received from royalties, BBC performance, repeat and transcription fees, Aldeburgh cinema directors fees, other fees and sundries
- 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.
- analysis of payments, showing money spent on repairs, garden, doctor's fees, travel, car expenses, general upkeep, subscriptions, donations, books, food, medicine, sundries, tax, insurance, drinks, records, dinners, clothes, wages, donations, linen, music, photographic materials, pictures, piano upkeep, drama lessons for J. Newton, nurse's fee, money to David Matthews and Mrs Goldie Scott etc.
Subscriptions were made to Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Save the Childern Fund, National Council for Civil Liberties, Ipswich Male Voice Choir, Inc. Society of Musicians, Movement for Colonial Freedom, Committee for Peace in Nigeria, British Museum Society, and Help Magazine. Donations were made to Maurice Vinder Presentation Fund, Dorothy Bristow Fund, War Resisters' International, The Gipsy Council, Mansfield House University Settlement, Mrs Blowns The Crown Snape, Ipswich Choral Society, Sadlers Wells Trust, Christian Aid and British Council retirement of F V Wedelstadt.
- wage details, including details for the garden, house, National Insurance and PAYE details, and Cullum's and Strode's wages
- list of work carried out at Red House, including in the house, library and studio.
- bank reconciliation of domestic account
- domestic account details, showing payment for housekeeping, wages, food, drinks, clothes, furnishings, newspapers and books, repairs, chemist, laundry fuel, and sundries.
- list of Cullum's petty cash account, including postage, petrol and travel, food, flying and sundries
- list of visitors to Red House, including Colin Graham, W Plomer, J. Culshaw, S. Pears, N. Singer, P. Hesse , V Tunnard, Rostropovich and wife, Richter and wife, D and K Mitchell, S and H Lange and the Pipers
- diary of travels from April 1968 - April 1969; day by day diary giving details of where Britten travelled to
- income and expenditure account
- analysis of salaries paid and National Insurance details for Whiteland, Drew, Bryson, Hudson, Strode and Cullum
52 pages
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