| Description | Menu book for dinners and breakfasts for the Prince Regent and George IV, and, occasionally, some guests, at Carlton House. It includes dinners for the Duchess and Duke of Gloucester and a dinner for the Bishop of Chichester [John Buckner].
Some menus do not bear a title, but they almost certainly refer to the King's dinner (established through comparison of foods and order of courses).
It also provides details of dinners served to members of the Prince Regent's Household, most notably Mr Watier [John Baptiste Watier, Clerk Comptroller of the Kitchen] and his family, and Elizabeth Evans [Housekeeper at Carlton House].
There are blocks of blank pages (14v-16r; 78r-81r; 120r-189r; 237r-270v) and chronological gaps (most notably: about 4 months between ff. 87r-88r; about 11 months - or 1 year and 11 months if the year on f. 119v is 1820 rather than 1821 as in previous pages has been mistaken - between 119v-189r).
Marked 'Brighton Ledger 1819'. |