| Description Of Item | The book was used to record documents sent to Home as well as his own notes and writings and is not chronological. Includes:
- wages paid to hinds (farm servants) up to December 1809
- minister's stipend
- specifications and diagram for constructing dykes
- measurement of Pringle's Park
- specifications for roads
- dimensions for ditches
- payments in kind made to hinds
- terms of a lease for the farms of Cowdenknows byres and Easter and West Crossrigs, January 1811
- sample articles of a lease, May 1811
- specification for addition to Mr Hewit's house, December 1802
- articles in mill of Galashiels
- measurement of garden at Craigsford, September 1808
- agreement with James Shiell for killing game, July 1814
- list of the models of the cast iron work of Rhymer's mill, October 1803
- rent of garden of T Grieve and account of building his house
- estimate for two cot houses for Mr Spiers, January 1811
- copy of a letter from John Hogg concerning location of a new spinning machine on Home's land, June 1804
- decreet arbital on the division of West Muirs May 1808
- articles for the lease of the farm of Craig, February 1813
- agreement and correspondence between James Home and Archibald Tod on Redpath Wood, 1813-1814 and settlement, 1828
- valuation of farms on the estate of Cowdenknows 1809
- correspondence and agreements on the leasing of Crossrig Farm and Cowdenknows Byres 1810-1811
- valuation of the estate of Gladswood, 1816
- notes on quality of apples
- articles of lease of Cowdenknows Mains and Crossrig, 1821
- articles of the lease of Sorrowlessfield Mains, 1824
- scheme for valuation of Cowdenknows, 1824
- articles of lease of Craigford,1828
- valuation of farms, 1809
- stipend of Earlston as settled by decreet of locality, 1797
- sale of lands and houses in Earlston, 1825
- letter from J S Brown on the construction of a bridge, 1828
- copy tack between Dr Home and William Simpson, 1825
- lease of Craigsford by James Dods, 1825
- tack between Dr Home and James Hewat, 1828
- articles for the farm of Redpath, 1830. |