Account book. 1860-1862.

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Account book. 1860-1862.

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Although the caption title of this manuscript is "account book," the volume is actually devoted to recipes for the extraction of herbs as well as being a diary of activities in the New Lebanon, N.Y. Shaker community and elsewhere. The April 20, 1861 entry is instructive: "Emanuel cleaning & painting engine. Blow off the boiler. Receive another load of chestnut coal. Alonzo putting up extracts. Add more alcohol to Mandrake. Had fogs, snows, & spuzzle nearly all this week--rather pleasant today tho cool. These are the beginnings of terrible times. The South in rebellion. The President issued a proclamation on the 15th calling out 75,000 militia & probably by this time the number is double. God only knows what the result will be of the Civil War now being inaugurated. Great & universal excitement."

[96] p.; 25 cm.

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