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Title: [Commonplace book].
Creator: Bromfield, Ann.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1740-1748]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript.
Scope/Content: Eighteenth century commonplace book originally kept by Ann Bromfield, containing cooking recipes, drafts of personal correspondence and poetry by Lyttelton, John Campbell, Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe and others, as well as some possibly original compositions. The volume was later inherited by Bromfield's grandson, G.W. Newnham, who used it to draw up a calendar of important birthdays, and a coin collection inventory. The book contains inscriptions and bookplates by other members of the Newnham family (possibly G.W's children).
Condition: Bound in full vellum.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Commonplace books
Bookplates (Provenance)
Extent: [304] p., bound ;20 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1vs4x
MS.1968.002
Language: English
eng
Subject: Cooking--England--18th century.
Poetry--18th century.
Place: England--Somerset
Provenance: Cover inscribed "E. Newnham, Dec. 1854, Kingsdon, Bath" ; Bookplate of C.C. Newnham on front paste-down endpaper ; Front free endpaper inscribed "Ann Bromfield" with note by C.C. Newnham: "my gt. gt. grandmother, married W. Moore N. of Ash., C.C.N."
Location: CLUW

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