| Description Of Item | From the collection of Richard Poole. Includes blank certificate for confinement of lunatics, 1830s; photocopy of the regulations of the Edinburgh Charity Workhouse (original lent to Glasgow Museums and may not have been returned); general report of the Lunatic Department of the Charity Work-House of the City of Edinburgh for the year 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831-1832; abstract of receipt and expenditure of the Canongate Charity Workhouse, 1833-34, 1835-36; abstract of the receipt and expenditure of the Edinburgh Charity Workhouse 1833-1834, 1834-1835; defences of John Learmonth and others against the Royal Bank, 1834; letter from J O Mack on the action by the Royal Bank against the managers of the Edinburgh Charity Workhouse; and view of the prospective income and expenditure of the Edinburgh Charity Workhouse for the current year 1843-44 compared with actual receipt and outlay 1842-43. |