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From: macrakis@harvard.ARPA (Stavros Macrakis)
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Subject: Schlesinger Library Culinary Collection
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Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 20:57:50 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 16 20:57:50 1985
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I should have mentioned that the Schlesinger Library's Culinary
Collection is one of the great collections on cooking in the country
(> 2300 volumes).  A recent bibliography available from them also
catalogues relevant materials from other Harvard Libraries up to 1920.
The Schlesinger Library is especially generous to serious inquirers;
the Harvard Libraries generally require the usual academic references.

The Schlesinger Library does have a `Friends' program for those who
wish to support its activities: $15 Friend; $25 Sustaining F; $100
Contributing F; $500 Patron (Radcliffe College, 10 Garden St.,
Cambridge, MA 02138) and of course "welcomes contributions in any
amount for the maintenance and development of the Culinary
Collection."  They also accept gifts of cookbooks.  (Naturally, they
select those they need for the collection and return or sell the
others.)

So if you'd like to support serious work in the study of cooking and
food, here's your opportunity!  And you can always stop by the
library, situated in pleasant Radcliffe Yard.

One note: this is not a public library for reading and borrowing
cookbooks, but a research library.  Please don't go to get ideas for
the evening's dinner!

	-s