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Title	William and John Maude account and commonplace book, 1800s, volume 1
Creator	Maude, William Maude, John
Date Original	1800/1899
Description	One of two books dating from the early 19th century in England and frontier America. These two volumes concern a remarkably diverse array of subjects. William Maud, evidently of Wetherby, York, England, b. 1787 served as a customs official in Great Britain; he was employed at the excise office in Leeds in 1830. His son, John, migrated to New England where he worked in mills; the son was involved in a "colony" in Iowa, in Delaware County. Both of these books show signs of being used over a long period, for a variety of purposes. In some cases, pages appear to have been used for two or three different purposes at different times. In this first volume the entries include financial sums, annotations concerning the movements of William Maude in the 1810s and 1820s. Most of the entries from this period relate to the customs business, and list volumes of goods, and duties paid. The untidy nature of these pages suggests that this book may have been used for rough calculations, before a fair copy was made. There are some brief entries in cipher. This volume contains a wealth of reference material of use to the customs agent, such as conversions of gallons to barrels, tables for duties on various numbers of barrels of ale and beer, bushels of malt, recipes for strong ale, strong porter, common ale, common porter, from Alexander Morrice's Treatise on Brewing (1802), as well as recipes for inks of various colors. Other items are more miscellaneous; including a short religious allegory involving a bear and some Indians, transcriptions of various architectural and astronomical curiosities, a "Fair and Foul Weather Prognosticator" bookkeeping advice, a specious recipe to cure love: "A handfull of disdain...", poetry transcribed from gravestones, and biblical references, thematically organized.
Topical Subject (LCTGM)	Tariffs Alcoholic beverages
Personal Name Subject	Maude family
Geographic Subject	England United States -- New England
Chronological Subject	1810-1820 1820-1830 1830-1840
Type (DCMIType)	Text
Type (AAT)	Manuscripts (Document genre) Account books Recipes Commonplace books
Type (IMT)	tiff jp2
Digital Collection	Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks
Contributing Institution	University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.
Archival Collection	Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts
Collection Identifier	MSC0533
Collection Guide	http://lib.uiowa.edu/collguides/?MSC0533
Item Number	US11
Series	American
Rights Management	Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. To obtain print copies or a high-resolution version of the image, contact the Special Collections Dept. at the University of Iowa Libraries.
Contact Information	Contact the Special Collections Dept. at the University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/contact/index.html
Height (cm)	23
Width (cm)	19
Digitization Specifications	Scanned with Zeutschel OS12000 overhead scanner at 300 ppi, full color. Archival tiff available
Date Digital	2012-03-13
File Name	index.cpd
Identifier	31858055131118

Title	Front cover
File Name	31858055131118_0001.tif

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