This interestinig manuscript book is a receipt book in both senses of the word. It starts out with a definition of "receipt" in the accounting sense, executed in a very neat and studied hand, followed by examples of receipts. After ten pages the hand changes to that of Mrs. Rowland who has signed and dated the book February 15, 1815 on the front wrapper.

Content includes household and medical recipes such as "Charcoal," "Blacking," "Scalds and Burns," "Sore Eyes." "Carrot Poultice," "To Clean a Carpet," "To Wash Black Silk," "Weakness in the Spine of the Back and Chest," "Warts," "Dropsy," "Sore Nipples," and "To Receive the Electric Schol from a Cat."

Many of the recipes are atributed, some to popular periodicals like The Family Herald; others are attirbuted to individuals. The final page contains 32 lines in pencil, with an account of a double suicide. Octave, 44 pages in printed blue wrappers, stapled