This manuscript volume was probably compiled by a member of the Willis family. It contains upwards of a hundred interesting culinary, medical, & domestic recipes, plus knitting instructions and other entries including a list of items given to the poor of Braceboro'. There are a few pieces loosely inserted, including instrucctions for a minuet (4 pages 4to.) inscribed "Mrs. Penn's respects to Dr. Willis and hopes the accompanying may be sufficiently clear to be understood. Castle Cottage, Stamford, July 18, 1844."

Recipes include: to make aromatic thieves vinegar-this has been tried with success in all kinds of infectious disorders such as small pox & Plague; a poultice ordered for Dr. Willis, July 1856 when suffering from abscess forming underr his right arm; good plum pudding- old recipe in rhyme; to clean polished furniture- given by a traveller from Grantham wishing to make money to emigrate; knitting instructions include-frilled muffitees in two colours, and braces for a boy of ten or twelve years old