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Title: Cunningham family receipt book,
Date (inclusive): 1812
Collection number: MSS 0089
Extent: 0.20 linear feet (1 volume (167 leaves) in clamshell
box.)
Repository:
Mandeville Special Collections Library, Geisel Library, UC, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0175
Shelf Location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Cunningham family receipt book, MSS 0089. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.
Holograph manuscript, bound in vellum, of family culinary recipes and household remedies.
Also, 47 letters, looseleaf recipes and newspaper clippings that were laid in the book
and are now contained in their own folder inside the clamshell box. A number of the
letters are addressed to Revered Francis Cunningham of Bath, England, who was either the
spouse or son of the Mrs. Cunningham named on the front cover of the volume.