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Diaries
CA NL0053 2.0 · Series · 1809-1852
Part of Slade fonds

The Slade diaries contain a day to day account of Slade's business at Trinity, as well as general information on the state of the fishery, shipping, weather and comings and goings in the community. Sometimes entitled "Remarks" and at other times "Occurrences", the diaries were kept by William Kelson, the manager for the company at Trinity from 1809-1851. The series includes a complete set of photocopied diaries from 1809-1852, and three original volumes, 1827-1829, 1835-1839, 1839-1843.

Financial records
CA NL0053 1.0 · Series · 1807-1861
Part of Slade fonds

Includes photocopies of an account book, and ledgers, 1807-1808 and 1820; 5 volumes of fish collection books for 1844-1851; cooperage sales for 1854; day books, 1856-1858; account books, 1857-1859 and a cash book, 1861. Some of the volumes were later used by Grieve and Bremner and are bound in with the records of that firm.

Correspondence
CA NL0053 3.0 · Series · 1809-1855
Part of Slade fonds

This series includes photocopies of a letter book, 1809-1810, chiefly containing letters from William Kelson Sr., the Slade agent or manager at Trinity to the proprietor, Robert Slade at Poole, England; a photocopied letterbook containing letters signed Slade and Kelson, which is mainly business correspondence, 1830-1831; a few pieces of original correspondence addressed to Mr. Robert Slade at Trinity, 1835; and an "obligation to pay" Benjamin Bugden to Robert Slade, 1835, (met in 1855).

Slade fonds
Fonds · 1807-1861

The fonds consists of original and photocopied records of this important firm's business at Trinity from 1809-1852. The most complete series are a set of daily diaries, 1809-1852 written by William Kelson, agent for Robert Slade at Trinity. The diaries provide an account of the business as well as providing detail on the social life of the town. The fonds also includes account books, ledgers and fish collection books, which give insight into the various aspects of Slade's mercantile operation, and the independent fishermen with whom he did business. Letterbooks and correspondence, 1809-1855 provide details of the management of the business.

The fonds is arranged in three series. Series 1: Financial records, 1807-1861; Series 2: Diaries, 1809-1852; Series 3: Correspondence, 1809-1855.

Robert Slade & Company