徽商会馆公所类征信录是有关徽商会馆公所、义园善堂兴建过程、经费收支、运行机制、管理体制及相关徽商活动的原始档案材料汇编。它不仅可以帮助我们从整体上系统了解徽商商业慈善组织或机构的具体建立、运营过程,徽商的商业经营状况、商业网络,徽州绅商在建设、经营这些会馆公所过程中与官府和当地民众的互动关系,同时还可以帮助我们去认识具体、生动、富有生活气息的徽商。因此,这批文献对商业史、社会史、慈善史、政治史、教育史等的研究都具有重要价值,甚至为重写徽商史乃至商帮史提供了可能。
The Huizhou merchants guilds and office collection is a compilation of the original archives of Huizhou merchant Guildhall, potter's field town hall, its source of funds, operation mechanism, management system and related activities. It can not only help us to understand the Huizhou commercial charity organization or organization's specific establishment, operation process, Huizhou commercial business condition, commercial network, Huizhou gentry and businessmen in the process of construction and operation of these halls, and the official and local relationship between the people, but also can help us to understand the specific, vivid, full of life Huizhou merchant image. Therefore, these documents on the history of business, social history, history of charity, political history, history of education and other research has important value, and make it possible to rewrite Huizhou merchants history and even the history of business.