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December 10, 1938

Mr. Kenneth Lewis Roberts, Kennebunk Beach, Maine Dear Mr. Roberts;Maine libraries do not seem to go in very heavily for'Main~ cook-boo~s.

I am beginning to be confirmed in my original

opinion that there were no very early ones printed. I have borrowed from various personal sources half a dozen or so

cook-books, none very old, and, so far as I can te 11 by ·hasty examination of them, not at all unusual.

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However, as they

are from various towns, Thomaston, Rockla'td, Lincolnville Beach, Machias, etc. you mi.ght like to see them.

I am writing to

Warren and to Wiscasset where, I understand, a Democratic Women of Maine Cook-Book may be located.

Bangor Public Library had

nothing to offer, except the Dorcas Cook-Book, which I mentioned in my preceding letter, and which you probably have acquired. not I can borrow it from Bangor. The Federal Writers Project compiled a list of cook-books as part of their project and the Director has promised to send me a copy of it as soon as it can be copied.

I'll write you

again as soon as it arrives . I

will send the books I have assembled the first of the

week unless I hear from you that you think they are not worth your bothering with. Very truly yours, MAINE STATE

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