Manuscript Location

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library

Place of Origin

United States

Date of Composition

1855-1895

Description

This recipe book is part of the library's collection of the papers of Samuel Henry Lockett. While Manuscript Cookbooks Survey has attributed the book to Lockett, it may have been written by Lockett's wife Cornelia or by some other individual. The book contains a mix of culinary, medical, and practical household recipes, some handwritten and others clipped from newspapers and pasted in.

Samuel Henry Lockett (1837-1891) was an engineer and topographer and the inventor of the odograph, a surveying instrument. During an extraordinarily peripatetic career, Lockett served as an engineering officer in the United States, Confederate, and Egyptian armies, and was a professor at Louisiana State University and University of Tennessee at Knoxville. In addition, he was involved in construction work on the Statue of Liberty, New York City (1883-1884), waterworks projects in Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, and Kansas (1883-1889), and in various engineering projects in Chile and Colombia (1883-1891). He died in Bogota, Columbia, in 1891. 

Samuel Locket married Cornelia C. Clark (1842-1912) in 1859. The couple had six children. Cornelia Clark Lockett kept a journal in Egypt and another journal while she was in Colombia in 1890. 

The book is located in Series 1, folder 122a-122b of the Samuel Henry Lockett papers.