Miss Caldwells Book. Manuscript recipe book, 1757 -- 1790. Included is an index with 11 pages of menus or Bills of Fare. This manuscript recipe book is inscribed "Miss Caldwells Book, August the 13 1757," later the property of Catherine Sparks and...
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...
Ethan Canin teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the author of five books of fiction, among them Carry Me Across the Water and Emperor of the Air. The Palace Thief was selected by Linn County libraries to be the focus of Linn Area Reads...
Concerning memoranda from the Timees for Thornton's use; a war correspondent's description of the horrors of the war, evidently the Crimean war; an anecdote from the battle of Fontenoy; suggests that Thornton take a jest by Swift following such...
Concerning his delight over Hunt's friendly controversy with him in the second number of Hunt's A jar of honey from Mount Hybla published in Ainsworth's magazine, i.e. concerning his refutation of Hunt's praise of Allan Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd;...
Fifteen leaves mounted and bound of an extensively revised manuscript, portions of which appear in modified form in the chapter on Shelley in Lord Byron and his Contemporaries (1828). Leaves two and twenty-one are second drafts; the paper is...