Receipt book kept by Eliza L. Pinckney includes formulas for making medicines to treat croup, fever, dropsy, and other conditions; recipes for cheese cake, puddings, currant wine, orange marmalade, jelly, oyster soup, and other foods; instructions for preparing meats and rice, and preserving and pickling foods; and a formula "To make the hair grow."
An account of the "Sales of twenty-five whole and seven half tierces of rice imported in the brig Hawke...on account and risque of Mr. Anthony Clarkson of Charles Town South Carolina."
Letter signed by Governor Benjamin Guerard from his home in Charleston (S.C.) is addressed to Mr. Charles K. Chitty and announces that any plantation owner who has not contributed one third of his rice crop as forage for the Army must contribute an equal amount of corn instead.
Volume (gathering of ten sheets) entitled "Observations on the Culture of Rice" is a copy of writings by "Mr. Butler of Santee in the year 1786" attributed to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Loose sheets bearing the same title give instructions and advice concerning the planting and growing of rice crops in South Carolina.
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