| Description | Menu book for dinners and luncheons for William IV and Queen Adelaide, principally at St. James's, but also at different locations (Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle, Gloucester House, at Lady Farnborough's [Amelia Long], the Opera House).
Most of the dinners also include other members of the royal family: George Augustus FitzClarence, 1st Earl Munster; Sophia Sidney, Baroness de L'Isle and Dudley, Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll; Amelia Cary, Viscountess Falkland, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh
It also includes dinners and lunches for the 1st Earl of Munster and Princess Augusta.
It includes dinners and lunches for: the knights of St Patrick and St Andrew; the Nulli Secundus Club; the Jockey Club; the members of the Trinity House; the Duke of Meiningen [Bernhard II Erich Freund, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen]; the Landgravine [Christiane Amalie of Hesse-Homburg], Prince Philpstall [Ernest Constantine, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal], and the Royal Household. A list of the people attending dinner is often provided.
There are accounts of meat and fish consumed.
There are a few chronological gaps.
Marked 'Ledger 1834 [-37]'. |