Manuscripts

William F. Fraser commonplace book and scrapbook

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Description: Volume includes copies of legal documents, court records, recipes, medical information, accounts and receipts, poems, and clippings.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1819-1856.
Call number: mssHM 448
Creator: Fraser, William F(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1994.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Booke of receipts: manuscript, 1695, November

Manuscripts

Volume contains medical and culinary recipes. Note on first page: "Magdalen Coward Her Booke of Receipts Made November, 1695."

mssHM 88

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R. Mathews commonplace book

Manuscripts

Contains accounts of America and the war, observations on the history of England and on current events, lists of English ships, recipes, and other miscellaneous material. Written in London.

mssHM 694

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A manuscript commonplace book, with text written in several different hands. The volume is written mostly in English but also contains French and German; though no country of origin is identified, it appears to be mainly British in subject. The text includes seven pages of index in the beginning of the volume; there are also rough drawings in pencil and pen, as well more finely executed pen and ink illustrations. The text covers an extraordinary range of subjects, including technical inventions and developments, animal husbandry, recipes, political comment, sports, current events, travel, medicinal cures, economics, wine, and many other topics. The volume is bound in late 18th century three-quarter calf gilt, red edges, with some wear to the binding.

mssHM 83388

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Lottie Gertrude Priest's commonplace book and cookbook : manuscript

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Commonplace book containing a tabulated name index; an accounts ledger, 7 pages of newspaper clippings with poetry, advice, remedies, and maxims; 7 pages of handwritten poetry; a 2 page register of births and marriages; 10 pages of newspaper clippings with household recipes and culinary recipes; 12 pages of handwritten poetry, a 5 page register of marriages, deaths, and births; 46 pages of culinary recipes; and 2 pages of handwritten poetry. Additional newspaper clippings laid in (removed to PF).

642099

Commonplace book

Manuscripts

Commonplace book containing two quotations from Shakespeare's Othello, along with passages and translations from classical texts, notes on classical and mythological figures, remedies, household hints and practical notes, theological notes and arguments, poems, epigrams and sententiae, legal forms, rentals for land around Kirby Knowle [North Yorkshire], and copies of letters and documents.

mssHM 60413

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Brock Collection : Commonplace book of Linneus Bolling, (1794-1799)

Manuscripts

Commonplace containing miscellaneous accounts, notes, recipes, poems, memoranda, etc. The manuscript contains two notebooks, with facing pagination. Most records were entered between 1794 and 1799, with few entries dated 1792 and 1806.

mssBR 752

William F. Fraser commonplace book and scrapbook

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