Edith Kane Baker papers

Correspondence of Edith Kane Baker, kept and conveyed by her personal secretary Miss McArdle, between 1925 and 1938. The correspondence includes two boxes of letters, bills, and receipts which are organized alphabetically. The majority of the correspondence is transactional in nature with Baker purchasing clothing, jewelry, furniture and home furnishings, silver, china, and dinnerware, food, and spirits. Also included in the transactional correspondence are letters indicating the purchase of paintings, artwork, and photography. There is correspondence and photographs of the interior of the Baker's New York City home showing renovations or remodeling.

The bulk of the correspondence dates from the early 1930s to 1937 and illustrates the daily management of an affluent household. Also included in the collection is correspondence related to Edith Baker's trip to France in 1933, inquiring about their luggage, apartment rental, chaperonage and automobile payments.