Marsham, Hon. Harriet (1721-1796)

  • Marsham, Hon. Harriet, 1721-1796
Date:
mid-18th century
Reference:
MS.3460
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Marsham, Hon. Harriet (1721-1796). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of cookery receipts with a few medical receipts: with additions by several hands.

Publication/Creation

mid-18th century

Physical description

1 volume 23 ll. + 54 pp. + 130 bl. ll. folio. 36 × 24 cm. Original gilt-stamped vellum binding, with pocket. P. 50/51 is missing.

Acquisition note

Purchased at Sotheby's 3/11/1924, Lot 288.

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of the Recipe books project.Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/215.

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).

Ownership note

A note in pencil on a fly-leaf states that this MS. is a 'Book of recipes given me by my Cousin Charlotte Priscilla, Mrs John Adams, widow of Mr Sergeant Adams, daughter of Mr Coker of Bicester House, Oxon., and his wife born the Honble. Charlotte Marsham [1812-1879] daughter of the 2nd Lord Romney. Walter B. Riddell. 1860' (i.e. Sir Walter Buchanan Riddell [1810-1896]). A slip pasted inside the cover, written by another and later hand, reads 'Cookery Book. From Mrs Adams daughter of Honbl. Charlotte Marsham wife of John Coker, Esq., and great niece of Honble. Harriet Marsham to whom this book [is] supposed to have belonged. This lady was born in 1721, died 1796'.

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  • 44559