Cash books

17 vols

Series of ledgers recording routine expenditure; primarily salaries, fees and charitablle donations. It is possible that this eries came into being with the accounting reforms of 1796/7, but the earliest surviving example dates from 1799, as a rather basic record of salaries and fees. Coinciding with the Academy's move to Trafalagar Square in 1837 the series settles into a basic accounting ledger format measuring 9" by 7", which runs uninterrupted until 1881 (RAA-TRE/3-3-9).

An unfortunate arrangement decision has brought other cash book types into this series. Four contain details of payments in the Life School and incidental expenditure (RAA/TRE/3/10-13). These are a critical source for information relating to the identity of Life Models in the period 1826-1881 (women are first named in 1831). RAA/TRE/3/14-15 detail other basic types of incidental expenditure for the period 1828-1851. Lastly RAA/TRE/3/16-17 are summary accounts of petty cash expenditure.

All of the above terminate in 1881, a year in which many of the financial processes of the Academy were reformed. The Cash Books are reformulated as a record in a larger format (13½" by 10½"), treating with payments to casual staff and incidental expenses from 1881 until the final ledger, dated 1969 (RAA/TRE/3/18-40).