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Manuscripts
This volume is a British mid-18th century medical and culinary receipts manuscript containing 46 pages of receipts in one hand and 42 pages of manuscript letters (loosely inserted). The letters were exchanged between women, many of whom were Catholic, and contain remedies for a variety of medical issues such as breast cancer, a sore eye, and more. Two of the letters were written by midwife Tryphena Barker and deal with childbirth.
mssHM 84024
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Manuscripts
Volume includes copies of legal documents, court records, recipes, medical information, accounts and receipts, poems, and clippings.
mssHM 448
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Manuscripts
A receipt book for Southern Pacific Railroad shipping of agricultural products from California throughout the United States; the receipt book was used mainly by agent J. P. Onstott at the Yuba City and Marysville, California, stations. The book is made up of 3-part, tri-color, duplicate shipping receipts; only the first portion is completed with shipments from 1900 September to 1908 October. The volume lists shipments of raisins, grapes, and currants to San Francisco and Sacramento, California; Omaha, Nebraska; Denver, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington. The receipt book also provides shipping prices during the time when the Southern Pacific Railroad dictated shipping rates because of its monopoly of railroad shipping in California. The volume has a rough weave, stained, cloth binding, with "So. Pacific R. R. Co." stamped in black on the front cover; the name "J. P. Onstott / Yuba City, Ca." is written in pencil. The spine is damaged with loss at the top and bottom, but the pages are still tightly bound; the inside front cover has the name "A. Simi / Roma winery" written in pencil.
mssHM 84118
