ACCOUNT BOOKS AND FINANCIAL RECORDS

Summary: Griffis kept accounts of his ongoing financial affairs in notebooks. Typically an account book contains monthly accounts of income and expenses of various miscellaneous kinds, loosely organized. A single notebook may cover up to a ten-year period in all. In addition, in later years Griffis did considerable work organizing subscriptions for a number of memorial funds. Smaller pocket notebooks were dedicated to these listings. Finally, the series contains a number of loose financial documents, mainly book contracts, receipts, etc. (A significant number of minor financial papers of the latter kind remain amidst the unsorted portion of the collection.)