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December 5, ~938

Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts, Kennebunk Beach, Maine. Dear Mr. Roberts;! am sorry that you didn't get the sort of 11st

you wanted.

I though that you might vvant cook-books as well

as "what Maine writers have written about Maine food" (the quotes are not exact) so I have been working also on the cook-books.

Most

of the ones I know a.bout are not really old but probably in every local cook-book there are handed down recipes. number of persons a.bout the cook-books. here at this ·library.

I have written to a We are very lacking in them

I think Bangor may have something; that is one

of the places to which I have written. One of the best known local cook-books is the one issued by Kate Douglas Wiggin 1 s Dorcas Society at Buxton. believe, still in print.

This is , I

I am sure that you can obtain a copy from

the Secretary of the Dorcas Society, Buxton. The most interesting one I have heard about is the one compiled by Miss Ruth Richards and Mr. Robert Hallowell Gardiner from their grandmother's manuscripts.

This may not be in print yet.

Miss Ruth Richards is in Georgia for the winter so probably you would hear from Mr. Gardiner more promptly.

Naturally an inquiry

from you about the cook-book would be much more interesting than one from me.

Mr. GHrdlner's address is Oakla.nds, Gardiner or 110 High

Street, Brookline, Massachusetts. Very truly yours,

MAINE STATE LIBRARY MCF

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