George Aust papers concerning the Secret Service, 1794-1800
Container / Volume:
Folder 2
Image Count:
19
Abstract:
This collection, with its painstaking accounts and administrative receipts, shows the daily complexities of managing a secret service.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --History --George III, 1760-1820
Subject (Name):
Aust, George, 1749-1829, Great Britain. Foreign Office --Officials and employees, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Thomas Coutts & Co, and Wickham, William, 1761-1840
Subject (Topic):
Ciphers, Cryptography --Great Britain, and Intelligence service --Great Britain
Manuscript notebook containing "Ane Paistry Book 1718," which consists of 76 recipes for pastries, meat dishes, soups, pies, pickled vegetables and roots, and flavored wines, followed by a detailed index; and "Some Receipts for dying Colours of all Sorts, Dundonald, August 4, 1719," which contains 24 pages of dyeing instructions for various colors and fabrics.
Description:
Binding: stitched paper wrapper., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Laid in: 6 recipes in several later hands., Last page inscribed: "William Fairlie of that Ilk, 1719.", and Manuscript title page: "Mrs. Cathrine Brisbane her paistrie Book. Fairlie Jully 7th, 1719./ My Lady Fairlie Her Paistry Book Fairlie Iwly 7th 1719."
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland--Social life and customs--18th century
Subject (Name):
Fairlie family and Fairlie, William
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, Scottish, Dyes and dyeing, Recipes, Women--Great Britain , and Women--Scotland