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History of Financial Advice Collection These pocket journals were published annually to assist ladies with “all their transactions of business, as well as Amusement.” The title page lists the various delights on offer, such as, in the 1780 edition, “birth days and years of the Royal Family,” “Country Dances for the Year,” and a “Table of the Roads.” This edition prominently features “An Account of the Days and Hours for buying and transferring Stock” as its third item (of twenty-one). Women were able to buy, sell or transfer shares or bonds and receive dividends and interest payments and this book explains the specific days and dates for these activities—“at the Bank, India House, or South Sea House.” The book does not provide any advice about investment strategies, implying an expectation that women were involved in the financial world and knew how to conduct their activities, and that they required only an aide memoire regarding key dates and business hours.… (mehr)

History of Financial Advice Collection. This edition was published in 1796. However, there are numerous examples from other years with similar titles. They are similar in format to other pocket books and almanacs. As outlined in the title, this book is largely comprised of blank pages of tables for its owner’s own monthly “memorandums, observations, and appointments” (with a final section for “resolutions at the end of the year”). The remainder of the text contains a range of “useful” information, including a section “On Commerce” and various calculation tables—such as “the exact Proportion (per Hundred Pound Stock) the Several Public Funds should bear to each other to yield the same Interest,” “the Value of Annuities upon One Life, at 3, 4, 5, and 6 per cent,” and “Expenses of obtaining Probates of Seamen’s Wills.”… (mehr)