Overview
Manuscript cookbook kept by Helen Simpson Truex, who lived in Freehold, New Jersey.
Dates
- Creation: 1893
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Helen Simpson Truex as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
1 folderCollection consists of a manuscript cookbook kept by Helen Simpson Truex. Cookbook contains handwritten recipes and recipe clippings from newspapers and magazines. Recipes include many desserts, puddings, salad dressings, jellies, breads, and muffins, as well as recipes for a prune souffle, meat pie, tomato fritters, and welsh rarebit. Also includes recipes such as Chicago pudding and sunshine cake.
BIOGRAPHY
Helen Simpson Truex was born in Freehold, New Jersey in 1870 to Charles Truex (1831-1916), a businessman and the commissioner of Freehold (1877-1892) and Matilda Simpson Truex (died 1915). Helen Truex had two brothers, Dr. William E. Truex and A.S. Truex, and two sisters, Katherine Truex and Mrs. Gertrude T. Buck. Helen Truex was a homemaker who lived in Freehold and married William H. DuBois (ca.1855-1937) in December 1917. She died in 1951.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 90-M187
The Cookbook of Helen Simpson Truex was given to the Schlesinger Library by Emilie Turano in November 1990.
Processing Information
Processed: November 1990
Updated and additional description added: March 2021
By: Laura Peimer
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by Radcliffe Class of 1956 and the Mary Mitchell Wood Manuscript Processing Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch01793
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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