Cookery and commonplace book, compiled partly by Margaret Walker

Description

At one end of the book is a collection of cookery recipes and notes on family and local events. At the other end, inverted, is a collection of poems and notes on further local events. On end-paper: 'Margaret Walker begun this Collection Feby. ye 27th 1778','Elizabeth Shillito Wheldale May 7 1804'. The latest date recorded in the manuscript is 4 June 1869. Numerous recipes, letters, and bills are inserted (ca.75 individual items). In various hands. Bound in parchment

Metadata

Identifier qpxm699z
IRN 6142
Class Mark MS 54
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/qpxm699z
Collection(s) Cookery Collection
Category Archive
Parent Record Commonplace books
Creator(s) Walker, Margaret
Date 1778-1869
Size and Medium 1 vol. (46 ff.)

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