These documents are mostly in the form of a statement or invoice detailing the items or services to be paid for with a receipt for the money paid attached.
1: Caretaker (?) (Mill House, Snape). Date: 19 July 1942. Category of expense: Household. Monthly account for caretaking services.
2: Great White Horse Hotel (Ipswich). Date: 12 Sept 1942. Category of expense: Hotel, restaurant & travel. One night stay. Mr Britten.
3: East Suffolk Electricity Distribution Company Limited (Electricity House, Woodbridge). Date: 30 Sept 1942. Category of expense: Household. Electricity bill. Bill posted to 'Miss Britten' in Chelsea, but inside addressed to A. Welford at The Old Mill, Snape, then redirected, in pen, to A. Welford in Hertfordshire.
4: J. Davey, Coal and Coke Merchant (Hill Farm, Snape). Date: 30 Sept 1942. Category of expense: Household. Coke.
5: Smith & Wesby (Saxmundham). Date: Sept 1942. Category of expense: Garage. Collect and return car to Snape and repairs.
6: Army & Navy Stores Limited (105 Victoria Street, London SW1). Date: 26 Nov 1942. Category of expense: Household. Unspecified goods.
7: Sir John Weir (47B Welbeck Street, London W1). Date: 30 Nov 1942. Category of expense: Medical. Professional services.
8: Hand-Made Gramophones Limited (11 Grape Street, London WC2). Date: 15 Dec 1942. Category of expense: Household. Unspecified goods. Addressed to Peter Pears at Cheyne Walk.
9: Dr. G. Olsson (2 MalvernCourt, London SW7). Date: 31 Dec 1942. Category of expense: Medical. Professional attendance.
10: Mr C. W. Roberts and Mr H. H. Wydell (60 Harley Street, Lndon W1). Date: Dec 1942. Category of expense: Medical. Professional attendance.
11: I. & J. Ashford Limited (Saxmundham). Date: 2 March 1943. Category of expense: Household. Collecting and packing china from Mill House and carriage by rail, items listed. Addressed to Britten and Pears at 45a St Johns Wood High Street, NW8, so presumably this was the destination of the goods.
12: A. Nelson & Company Limited (73 Duke Street, London W1). Date: 2 June 1943. Category of expense: Medical. Homoeopathic medicine, ordered by Sir John Weir.
13: L. Smith, Removals and Storage (26 Callow Street, London SW3). Date: 1943. Category of expense: Household. Van hire from Chelsea to St Johns Wood. Date unreadable.
Receipts and invoices from a particular calendar year are held together. Within each year material is in chronological order. The papers have been arranged by the date of the invoice itself rather than of the transaction documented or of the receipt that is sometimes attached. Where no date is given for the invoice but a dated receipt is held, the paper has been filed according to that date; where absolutely no precise date is given - a common scenario for those firms for which Britten held an account, and which would submit a bill every month - the item has been filed at the end of the material from the month to which it relates. In a few cases there is no indication of the date of a document other than the year: in those cases, the material has been filed at the end of the relevant year, after December's papers.
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