Place of Origin

United States

Date of Composition

recipes 1807-1814

Description

"Manuscript Book" is the title Catherine Greene Hickling (later Prescott) gave to her commonplace book, which contains extracts from essays, poems, and books by Vicesimus Knox, Julia de Ronligne, and John Moore, among others. The volume also includes household accounts, math problems, family notes, and recipes kept by Catherine from 1807-1814. Catherine Greene Hickling Prescott (1767-1852) was the mother of William Hickling Prescott (1802-1854), a well-known historian of the rise and fall of the Spanish Empire.

This book is the sixth of ten volumes included in the library's William Hickling Prescott papers. To access the digital images of the book, scroll down in the collection guide to Series III. Prescott family papers, 1665-1876; B. Volumes, 1775-1871.