[Cookery and menus in the Marion S. Carson Collection]
Contributors: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1864
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Cookery -- Miscellanea.; Menus -- Specimens.
Description: 4 book dealers' catalogs, correspondence and newspaper articles relating to collecting and selling cookbooks, and 8 menus. Includes the Thanksgiving dinner menu at the U.S. Army hospital in Philadelphia, Nov. 24th, 1864, accompanied by the correspondence between Mrs. Carson and the Grolier Club concerning its exhibition and conservation.