| Description | Account for books sold by George Cowie, 31, Poultry, London, to George Barclay, including medical volumes such as Murray's Materia Medica and Baillie's Morbid Anatomy, classical works, Byron's poetry, a case of scalpels, and cash paid out (Cowie evidently worked as a kind of informal bank to the Barclay family); attached letter explaining which books he has not been able to find, describing how he is to send the scalpels, and announcing the loss of his young son to spina bifida, 14 July 1814 |