Manuscript Location

University of Delaware, Morris Library

Place of Origin

Ireland
United States ➔ New York ➔ New York
United States ➔ New York ➔ Harrison

Date of Composition

assumed between ca. 1800-ca. 1848

Description

This recipe book is one of nine bound volumes that comprise the library's collection of Joseph Hoare Beale Journals. In 1796 Beale served as secretary to Thomas Pitt, 2nd Lord Camelford, in Ceylon, where he witnessed the takeover of Colombo, Ceylon (later Sri Lanka), by British forces . In one of his journals he describes the inhabitants, flora, and fauna of the island and also documents his trip from Ceylon to England. 

From 1799 to his death in 1848, Beale compiled a series of diaries in which he recorded observations of the weather in the various places he lived: Cork, Ireland, beginning  in 1799; Limerick, Ireland, from 1811 to 1816; New York City, from 1816-1830; and Harrison, New York, where he lived from 1835 until his death in 1848. It has not been ascertained precisely where or when he compiled his recipe book, but presumably it was in Ireland and/or in New York, sometime between 1800 and 1848.