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: John A. White (18 Thoroughfare, Ipswich). Date: 26 Nov 1948. Category of expense: Household. Trimming tweed suit.
2: Eastern Electricity Board (Aldeburgh). Date: 31 Dec 1948. Category of expense: Household. Quarterly electricity bill.
3: Blyth Rural District Council (Rendham Road, Saxmundham). Date: 31 Dec 1948. Category of expense: Rates and taxes. General District rate, Mill House, Snape.
4: Dr. P. M. Acheson (15 Lee Road, Aldeburgh). Date: 31 Dec 1948. Category of expense: Medical. Professional attendance.
5: English Opera Group. Date: Dec 1948. Category of expense: Music. Tickets, notepaper etc., postage and cables to America and Holland.
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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