Cookery--Athawes, Samuel.

together with exemplars of simple legal documents, legal and official notes and formulae (such as the wording of the 1783 Sugar Act), copy letters (including a letter of recommendation by Edmund Burke, 26 July 1780), estate accounts, an Ode by Sir William Jones (beginning "What constitutes a state"), and other notes including a "List of Coaches that pass Henley", in a single hand, alphabetically arranged with a thumb index, c.40 pages, plus blanks, folio, some entries dated 1780s-1810s, contemporary vellum, covers stained, weak at joints, some wear and tear at edges

This volume was evidently compiled by the Buckinghamshire merchant Samuel Athawes or someone closely connected to him. Athawes is described in the letter by Edmund Burke copied in this manuscript as having been "the first Person in the American Trade". Athawes was a tobacco merchant with radical sympathies who corresponded with George Washington and acted as agent to the 5th Lord Fairfax, a major landowner in Virginia. A "Miss Fairfax" is recorded as the source of several recipes in the manuscript. 

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