Details

Subjects:

Agricultural wages -- Pennsylvania -- Berks County -- 19th century.
Cooking, American.
Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Veterinary prescriptions.
Wages -- Textile workers -- Pennsylvania -- Berks County -- 19th century.
Wages -- Textile workers.
Agricultural wages.
Pennsylvania -- Berks County.

Local subjects:

Clymer, William H. (search)
Clymer, Edward M. (search)
Clymer, Daniel R. (search)
Clymer, Mary. (search)

Form/Genre:

Account books.
Cookbooks.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, American.

Summary:

Begins as receipt book of Daniel Clymer (probably Daniel Cunyngham Clymer) lawyer in Berks County, Pa. with receipts dated 1788-1798 and bearing the signatures of Jacob Harvey, Anna Gibson, John Jennings, John Pierce, John D. Coxe, Morris Shipley, Mary Head, John Hart, Sarah Moore, and Daniel Rafe, among others. Volume continues in other hands, predominantly that of M. Clymer with entries dated ca. 1823-1846. Many of these entries are accounts of wages paid to workers for spinning wool and flax, also for farm labor, e.g. butchering, and accounts for farm commodities including grain, butter, eggs, candles, etc. Also includes culinary recipes in the hand of M. Clymer for beer, cakes, lemon cream, lemon syrup, icing, ice cream, quince cordial, and to cure shad and herring; plus medicinal recipes for dropsy, cough, tetter, and for deafness from a cold; and a number of veterinary recipes. Additional culinary recipes are in other hands, one dated 1854. Also includes notes about family members written by M. Clymer around 1841 describing activities of Daniel R. Clymer, William H. Clymer, Edward M. Clymer, and Mary Clymer from around 1831 (the year their father died) to 1841 and mentioning cousin Isaac Hiester and aunts and uncles in the Eckert family.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Nine leaves are laid in including one signed by D. Clymer in Reading, Pa., July 17, 1787; others are receipts and culinary recipes in other hands.
Foliation: Paper, 97; [1-97]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Moderate oxidation of ink in some places; a number of leaves are cut or torn out.
Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands.
Binding: Contemporary suede.
Origin: Written in Berks County, Pa.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by The Reynolds, 2001.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 387

Contributor:

Clymer, Daniel Cunyngham, 1748-1810.

OCLC:

155918998