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Size: 1 Volume, (32 p. on partial microfilm reel)
Summary: Account book recording Brown's commissions, sales of work, and expenses, while in Rome, and including transactions with a banking company, and a record of money given to his wife, Louise, for her expenses. Some entries are in French. Miscellaneous notes are written on the inside of the front cover, including several about the activities of "Madame Brossard" and a note about a commission for a tableau. Two calling cards are also attached. The first page is inscribed "George L. Brown, Rome 1851," and contains handwritten notations and a paragraph, dated May 12, 1854, about the "modus operandi" of M. Pendleton's picture of the aquaducts.