Diary

Résumé du livre

"Small quarto, approximately 152 manuscript pages, of which 80 pages comprise a diary, the rest of the volume contains a mix of cooking recipes and verse, with some prose, bound in 1/4 cloth, boards detached, back-strip lacking, shaken, several pages loose, signatures unstitched, some wear to edges, entries and recipes written in ink, in legible hands. The diary entries are dated 1 January 1856 to 15 March 1858, and were written by Mrs. Sarah J. Fancher. However, after the diary entries the volume consists of various cooking recipes, which are then followed by a gathering of verse and some prose (in the form of advice). While the diary is signed "Mrs. Sarah J. Fancher, Waterloo, N.Y., December 26th 1855" and some of the recipes and verse date from the 1850s, there is also some verse and cooking recipes which appear to date slightly later, they are dated from the 1870s to 1901, and were written at Oregon City, Oregon. These are the work of Sarah J. Fancher's daughter-in-law, Sarah Jane Youry, who married William H. Fancher and moved to Oregon in 1873. Some of the verse is signed by Sarah Jane, with additional verse signed by Emily A. Fancher, Sarah Jane's daughter. Accompanied by: 1 Ambrotype Photograph, measuring 3" x 3 1/2", dated circa 1850s, of a woman seated, hands on lap, dressed nicely, presumably a photo of our diarist's daughter-in-law Sarah Youry Fancher, wife of the diarist's son William H. Fancher. Sarah Fancher lived with her son and daughter-in-law."--Seller's web page