NO ACCESS - POOR CONDITION - SEE NRM ARCHIVIST - Volume, paper with card covers and leather spine and string gathering; Stephenson Family Recipe Book, 1820s-1840s. Contains hand-written culinary, medicinal and household recipes in various hands, fixed in. Some are signed, initialled or attributed in the title, including 'Mr. Stephenson', Margaret Warren (cook), E. Stephenson (Elizabeth Stephenson), Mrs. Bidder, Miss May, Charlotte Sanderson, Mrs. Gisborn, Mr. Dixon, Robert Stephenson, Ann Porteus etc. A few are dated. There are also a few printed circulars for household medicines fixed in, When first sold in 1906, the book was described as having been "purchased at the Sale of the Effects of the Second Wife of George Stephenson, at Shrewsbury." It seems to have been bought by one John Cheese. The book was probably assembled by the Stephenson family cook or housekeeper in the mid-1840s.