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Sources Guide: Domestic medicine and receipt books - 19th century

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

Frances Springatt and others, Collection of cookery and medical receipts, 1686-1823 MS.4683

Elizabeth Browne/ Penelope Humphreys/ Sarah Studman/ Mary Dawes, 'Book of Receipts', collection of cookery and medical recipes, c.1697-C19th MS.7851

Sarah Nott and others, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical receipts, 1701-c. 1820 MS.3696

Elizabeth Fuller and others, Collection of cookery and medical receipts, 1712-1822 MS.2450

Anon females, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical remedies, c. 1725-c. 1825 MS.1821

Esther Hanmer and others, Receipt book, c. 1750-1825 MS.2767

Mrs Jones and others, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical receipts, c. 1775-c. 1835 MS.3088

Lucy Culley and others, 'Lucy Culley's Receipt Book', c. 1775-1858 MS.1974

Eliza Anna Smith and others, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few household, medical and veterinary receipts, 1782-1850 MS.4632

Miss Myddleton and others, 'Receipts copied from Miss Myddleton's Book...', 1785-1818 MS.3656

Ann Evans, née Ward, Collection of medical and cookery receipts and memoranda, c. 1788-1831 MS.7732

Anne White and others, 'Cookery book. Procuring diseases', 1789-1845 MSS.4992-3

Mary Anne Fawcett, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical receipts, 1795-1832 MS.2339

Mary Ann Anstey and Diana Matilda Fenwick, Cookery book, with some medical and household receipts, 1798-1828 MS.960

Anon Coventry housewife, Medical receipt book, late C18th-early C19th MS.7366

Recipes, mainly culinary (found loose inside MS.7747) C18th-19th MS.7748

M Mascall, 'Book of Recipes', Collection of medical, veterinary and household recipes, late C18th-early C19th MS.7875

'Grandmother Withers', Collection of cookery, household and medical recipes in a single hand, early C19th MS.7821

Anon, Collection of cookery, household and medical recipes, early C19th MS.7834

Arabella Philippa Maule, Album containing cookery, medical and domestic receipts, 1800-28 MS.3499

Elizabeth Pease and others, Collection of cookery, medical and household receipts, 1802-71 MS.3824

Collection of medical, cookery and household receipts in various hands, c. 1805-47 MS.7784

Bridget Tulip, Collection of receipts, with a few medical and household receipts, 1806-34 MS.4864

Eliza Lomas, Collection of cookery, and some medical, receipts, 1807 MS.7726

Mrs Ann Palmer, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical receipts, c. 1810 MS.3739

Collection of cookery, household and medical receipts in various hands, c. 1813-59 MS.7785

Colles family, two receipt books mostly culinary but some medical, household and veterinary, c. 1816-90s MSS.8012-3

Hannah Sheppard, Collection of cookery receipts, and a few medical and household receipts, 1818-62 MS.4520

Ann Bulmer, Collection of cookery, medical and domestic receipts, 1820 MS.1418

Mrs M H Turnbull, Collection of culinary, household and medicinal remedies, c. 1820-78 MS.5853

?Mrs Hill, Collection of cookery, household and medical receipts in various hands, c. 1820-76 MS.7733

Mrs Whitworth, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few household and medical receipts, 1822-6 MS.4998

Mary Anne Croft (later Durnell), Collection of medical recipes, c. 1824-46, MS.7832

Anon, Collection of cookery, household and medical recipes, c. 1824-32 MS.7854

Charlotte Hobhouse (?), Medical recipe book, 1824-67 MS.6826

Lady Julia Lockwood and others, Collection of medical, cookery and household receipts and prescriptions, c. 1825-75 MS.3318

Catherine Ashley, Cookery book, with a few medical receipts, 1829-33 MS.995

Horatia Ann Crawfurd, Receipt book, mostly culinary with a few medical items, 1834-1850 MS.8206

Jane Freestone, Receipt book, culinary, medical, household and cosmetic (also knitting patterns) 1843-1857 MS.8207

Mrs L N White and others, Collection of medical, cookery and other receipts, 1848-65 MS.4995

Mary Susan Selby Lowndes, Medical receipt book, mid-C19th MS.3339

Anon, Collection of medical, cookery and other recipes, mid C19th MS.7835

Emma S Rickards, Collection of cookery recipes, with a few household and medical receipts, partly in French Mid-C19th MS.7883

Standon Rectory, Staffordshire: book of medical and household recipes, c.1850-c.1852 MS.8717

Jane Margaret Lloyd, Rhagatt (Rhagad), Denbighshire, Homeopathic Prescriptions 1852, includes some allopathic and veterinary receipts, 1852-[1901] MS.8459

Sarah Alice Ede, Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical and household receipts, c. 1855 MS.2280

Albright family, Notebook containing pharmaceutical, medical and household recipes, C19th MS.7792

?Guest, Collection of medical, household and cookery recipes, C19th MS.7876

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