Concerning his "thanks for the delights you promise me through the [Monthly] repository"; acts as the magazine's "town crier"; requests answer to "What is friendship?" Death of his son; their new picture gallery; sends manuscript which is based on...
Chapman, M.; Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859; Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901;
Concerning his thanks for Hunt's kind words in "notices to correspondents"; his old-fashioned taste in music; his sense that the Queen is "a puppet in the hands of a party".
This book was compiled in several hands, mostly by Benjamin Butterworth in Petersburg, Virginia, 1828-1867. Petersburg is located 22 miles south of Richmond. The city was founded in 1646 as a military post (Fort Henry) on the site of an indian...
Handwritten book of recipes, 97 hand-numbered pages with two laid-in sheets. Gift of Ann Ziegert. Recipes include Mrs. Goldsby's Receipt Italian Cream, Rice Wafles, Pot au Feu, Sago Pudding, A Good Custard, Connecticut Bannock, Potato Cakes, Fresh...
The name Frances Collins is written in the front cover. 1825. The boards are covered with paper. There are 74 pages all of which are written. Some recipes are dated as early as 1825. Many of the recipes have the name of the person who gave the...
Receipts 1834. Compiled by Margaret Dyson Holland, Heighington, [England] July 15, 1834. This book is bound in paper-covered board with calf spine and gold gilt. There are 146 pages of which 96 are written. With recipes for Sloe Gin and Barley...
Compiled by Harriet Dawbarne, January 1834. Liverpool. The book has 98 pages of which 78 are written. Written into the book is: "Harriet Dawbarne January 1st, 1834. Liverpool 18 Byrom Street." Added later in another hand is "My father and mother...
The manuscript is written in several hands and bound in its original vellum. There are 148 pages all of which are written including both cooking and medical recipes. Given to G. Stephens from her mother J. Bethune 1898, the book was started in...
Written on 70 pages, plus about 100 blank (watermarked 1825). This 4 to. book is bound in calf 1833-1861. It has 202 pages of which 72 are written with a watermark of 1825. This manuscript volume was probably compiled by a member of the Willis...
The recipes include "to colour a room green," cures for whooping cough, toothache, typhus, warts, corns, consumption, a strengthening potion, antibilious pills, and a remedy for rheumatism. There are occasional drink-related resipcies including...
In the back of this New England cookbook are references to the Springfield, Massachusetts Republican newspaper. Springfield is 5 miles north of the Connecticut state line and 80 miles SSW of Boston. This port of entry was first settled in 1636 by...
This cookbook manuscript is comprised of one manscript sewn inside another. The first, dated 1824, is in a very neat hand. The second, in a different hand, includes the dates 1851 and 1855. Both sections of the book contain many recipes for cakes,...
Folio. 195 pages. Nineteenth century cloth and boards, leather title label on spine. Holograph recipe book begun by Mary Carnegie in 1804 and picked up by Susan Gillespie in 1840 and continued by a few other Gillespies until 1905. All but the last...
Concerning his thanks for a book by Browning, probably Paracelsus; his request for a visit from Browning with hope that Forster will join them; his hope that Browning is writing; the importance of the second work of an author.