Sheppard, Hannah

  • Sheppard, Hannah
Date:
1818-1863
Reference:
MS.4520
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Sheppard, Hannah. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of cookery receipts, and a few medical and household receipts: with additional entries by several later hands. The medical receipts are found on the 17 ll. beginning from the other end of the volume. A number of cookery, household and medical receipts by various hands have been inserted loose. Inscribed inside the upper cover of this MS. is 'Mrs. Sheppard. Keyford House': the first receipt is dated 1818.

Publication/Creation

1818-1863

Physical description

1 volume 68 ll. (first and last bl.). 4to. 241/2 × 20 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.

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Acquisition note

Purchased 1931.

Biographical note

William Hulbert Sheppard of Keyford House, Somerset [1791-1878] married Hannah, only daughter of William Pollett of Great Bardfield, Essex, on 24/9/1818 [See Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain 1914, p. 1449].

Location of duplicates

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/217.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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  • 75690