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Field name | Value |
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Reference | 262 |
Library/Archive | Schlesinger Library |
Title | Lockwood, Ruth, 1963-1972 |
Date | 1963-1972 |
Collection | Series II. CORRESPONDENCE, 1925-1992 (#45-513, 1377-1382, 1398m) |
Collection Overview | Subseries B, Cookery, 1951-1992 (#119-352, 1382), contains Julia Child's correspondence with culinary friends and colleagues, including Simone Beck, James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Madeleine Kamman, Anne Willan, etc.; and with and about cooking schools. Child has included her own cross-references among the correspondence: some of these notes are written at the top of letters, some are on separate sheets of paper. Most folders include incoming as well as Child's outgoing letters. Many include clippings, menus, etc. Most of Simone Beck's letters to Child are in French. Correspondence with Anne Willan and Mark Cherniavsky is about their establishment of La Varenne, a cooking school in Paris. More correspondence with Avis DeVoto is in her Papers (A-167) and unprocessed additional papers. The arrangement of alphabetical files follows Julia Child's original order. Correspondence with cooking schools and chefs follows a general alphabetical order. |
Sub-collection | Subseries B. Cookery, 1951-1992 (#119-352, 1382) |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Theme | Restaurant Culture and the Professional Chef |
Subjects | media television family regional cuisine cooking hosting Christmas catering cooking equipment utensils travel seafood desserts kitchen appliances ingredient wine commodity: potatoes commodity: eggs commodity: milk commodity: cheese animal products cooking techniques vegetables fruit cooking school |
Cuisine | French cuisine |
Description | Mainly contains personal correspondence including letters in which Julia Child refers to Ruth Lockwood as her 'dearest Ruthie.' Also includes notes about the French Chef television show - which channels it is being shown on, questions about recipes that have come in from viewers who have watched the show and various proposals, locations and studio show information for the French Chef. |
Countries | United States of America; France |
Places | New York N.Y.; Paris France |
Names | Lockwood, Ruth; Child, Julia |
Note | Used with Permission, WGBH Educational Foundation. |
Copyright and Source Archive | Material sourced from the Schlesinger Library |