At back of volume, in a different hand: Mrs. Dillope�s dyeing instructions to her daughter taken from her own mouth. and Ladies Vavasor and Ingram are the writer�s sisters (p.1, 11.2-3); thus the author may have been Miles Stapylton (or Stapleton, 1660-1731).
Subject (Topic):
Death --Religious aspects --Christianity --Prayer-books and devotions --English, Devotional literature, English --18th century, and Women authors
Nell Reeves describes the 1851 trip from Illinois to Oregon of the wagon train commanded by Captain John A. Powell. She uses extracts from accounts by Jane Powell, daughter-in-law of Captain Powell, and S. Hamilton, a member of the train. Both narratives were taken from "The Powell History," privately printed in 1922.
Description:
Nell W. Reeves, of Madison, Connecticut, was the grandniece of Jane Peeler Powell.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Hamilton, S., 1833- and Powell, Jane Peeler, 1830-
Subject (Topic):
Overland journeys to the Pacific and Overland journeys to the Pacific--1851
This manuscript, a contemporary scribal copy of the work, is not included among the fifteen recorded in the Variorum Edition of Spenser's Prose Works. Textually, it stands between D2 (Cambridge University Library) and F (Folger Shakespeare Library), and most probably was the manuscript from which F was copied.
Description:
Belonged to Sir Henry St. George (1581-1644), Garter King of Arms, and was acquired with the St. George Manuscripts in 1852 by Sir Thomas Phillipps. and Dibound copy in hands of six scribes, all with similar cursive scripts.
Highly detailed accounts of both receipts and expenses (written from opposite ends of the volume) kept by the London merchant Abraham Chitty, brother of Alderman Thomas Chitty. Receipts include records for rents on his properties in London, Westminster and Surrey, as well as income from an interest in a brewhouse and insurance records for warehoused goods such as wine. The record of Chitty’s personal expenses is particularly complete and includes 6s. "for Pamila. 2 Vollums;" "about L1.4s.6d to see The Conscious Lovers" at Covent Garden Playhouse in 1739; and 14s. for "Chockolate, Mackoroons, carraways and oysters." Also included are regular payments for housekeeping expenses "For Mrs. Chitty;" purchases at auctions and sales, such as "a barometer;" and frequent carriage repairs.
Description:
Both pastedowns contain notes on birth and death dates for family members., Related material: Abraham Chitty, Letters (Osborn c608)., and Volume contains unnumbered pages, blank pages (not digitized), and text written in both directions; both sections of text paginated separately.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Economic conditions --18th century and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Chitty, Thomas
Subject (Topic):
Amusements --England, Chitty family, Cost and standard of living --England --18th century, Family --England --Domestic relations, Home economics --Accounting, Luxury, and Middle class --England --London --18th century
Manuscript account book, in unidentified handwriting, for Austin & Laurens, in Charleston, South Carolina, recording purchases and sales. Includes accounts relating to the sale of slaves.
Description:
Austin & Laurens, merchants in Charleston, South Carolina, engaged in the slave trade, founded by George Austin and Henry Laurens, later joined by George Appleby., From front: Pages 2-5, 152-155 wanting. From back: Pages [1?]-3 wanting., and Ledger discreetly paginated from front and back.