BIB_ID
450855
Accession number
MA 14561
Creator
Toklas, Alice B., author.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1958
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (88 pages) ; 27 x 21 cm
Notes
Early or first typed draft of Alice B. Toklas's cookbook, Aromas and flavors of past and present (New York : Harper & Brothers, ©1958).
Added in pencil on manuscript page of contents: pp. 1-88 / Aromas & Flavors / by Alice B. Toklas / 5 rue Christine / Paris VI.
Letter from Alice B. Toklas to Poppy Cannon cataloged separately (MA 14561A).
Added in pencil on manuscript page of contents: pp. 1-88 / Aromas & Flavors / by Alice B. Toklas / 5 rue Christine / Paris VI.
Letter from Alice B. Toklas to Poppy Cannon cataloged separately (MA 14561A).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Typescript in 88 numbered pages, with manuscript table of contents written in ink comprising page 1; assembled into chapters and extensively edited in the hand of the author, with questions and suggestions in the margins throughout in the hand of the editor, Poppy Cannon, and subsequently struck out by Toklas in ink; individual chapters are signed at head with the author's initials, "ABT".
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