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Edward Chetham receipts and commonplace book.
- Title
- Edward Chetham receipts and commonplace book.
- Author
- Chetham-Strode, Edward, 1774-1862.
- Publication
- circa 1810-1830.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Permit needed | Pforz BND-MSS (Chetham, E.) | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Details
- Description
- 1 volume (38 total leaves); 18 cm
- Summary
- Manuscript notebook in ink, apparently in divers hands, containing recipes and literary selections. The first 31 pages contain mostly recipes of various types: medical ("Recipe for a cough," "When any accident happens to the eyes, such as unslaked lime falling into them," "Recipe for a ring worm"); culinary ("To pickle butter," "Parsnip wine," "To make ginger beer"); and household, a few with naval implications ("A fire and water proof cement," "Receipt for white wash for quarter deck, waist, or outside of a ship," "To keep water out of shoes"). The next 44 pages, reverso, starting from the other end of the notebook, contain mostly brief excerpts from literary and history texts, by authors including Laurence Sterne, Henry Fielding, Plutarch, Cervantes, Kotzebue, Elizabeth Hamilton, Pope, Edward Young and others. "[Sir?] Edward Chetham" in ink at the top of the first page of recipes. Earliest dated entry is 22 September 1810; latest dated entry is 28 September 1830. Flexible sheep binding. Within white envelope.
- Genre/Form
- Commonplace books.
- Notebooks.
- Recipes.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Sir Edward Chetham-Strode, officer in the British Navy. Born Edward Chetham, in 1845 he assumed the additional surname and arms of Strode upon inheriting the estate of his maternal uncle.
- Call Number
- Pforz BND-MSS (Chetham, E.)
- OCLC
- 1202266633
- Author
- Chetham-Strode, Edward, 1774-1862.
- Title
- Edward Chetham receipts and commonplace book.
- Production
- circa 1810-1830.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- Sir Edward Chetham-Strode, officer in the British Navy. Born Edward Chetham, in 1845 he assumed the additional surname and arms of Strode upon inheriting the estate of his maternal uncle.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Pforz BND-MSS (Chetham, E.)