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Mount Vernon Estate, Museum and Gardens is showcasing Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis’ Housekeeping Book (71-5-L.2) in an exhibition titled Hoecakes and Hospitality: Cooking with Martha Washington. Organized by the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association and on view through August 11, 2013, the show re-creates the environment enjoyed by guests of the Washington household. Nelly Custis, the granddaughter of Martha Washington, married George Washington’s nephew Lawrence Lewis in 1799; her housekeeping book includes handwritten recipes, home remedies, and clippings illuminating contemporary domestic trends. Interested readers may purchase an annotated edition of the volume, edited by Patricia Brady, available at The Shop at The Collection.
DIANNE WOEST FELLOWSHIP IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
The Historic New Orleans Collection is proud to announce the recipients of the 2012—13 Dianne Woest Fellowship, supporting scholarly research on the history and culture of Louisiana and the Gulf South:
Jay D. Edwards
Professor of Geography and Anthropology Louisiana State University
“A History of the Shotgun House in New Orleans”
Lo Faber
PhD candidate, History Princeton University
“Building the Land of Dreams: The American Transformation of New Orleans, 1795-1820”
David Morrill Schlitt
PhD candidate, History
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Under the Dome: Enclosed Multi-Use Stadiums and the
Metropolitan Landscape, 1965-2005”
Cameron B. Strang
PhD candidate, History University of Texas at Austin
“Entangled Knowledge, Expanding Nation: Science and the United States Empire in the Southeast Borderlands”
The Historic New Collection gratefully acknowledges the generosity ofDianne Audrey Woest (1935—2003), a graduate of Southeastern Louisiana State University, former president of the New Orleans Council for International Visitors, and true friend of the arts.
Through a planned giving arrangement, Woest designated The Collection as the beneficiary of her estate.
IN MEMORIAM
Fred W. Todd (1936-2011)
On November 12, 2011, we lost a friend: Tennessee Williams collector Fred W. Todd died in San Antonio.
I first met Todd ten years ago, when The Collection acquired his Tennessee Williams collection. We were packing up archival items for their shipment to New Orleans. The process took a long time; every item held a story that Todd wanted to share. As I wrapped up an old Signet paperback of Baby Doll, he told me it was the first Williams item he had acquired—purchased at a neighborhood drugstore in Nacogdoches, Texas, in 1956, when Todd was a student at Stephen F. Austin State University. He went on to talk about how important reading Williams was for him during the isolation of his service in the US Army, and he pointed out a few books that were acquired at a bookshop in Alaska, while he was stationed at Ft. Richardson. It was this love of books that led Todd to a career as a librarian, first at Stanford University and later as the director of the Aeromedical Library at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio. Some of the items in Todd’s collection brought back memories of lifelong friendships formed with rare-book and manuscript dealers, who understood and shared his passion for Williams. Other items reminded him of pleasant research visits made by Williams scholars to his home in San Antonio.
Over the past 10 years, Todd played an active role in expanding The Collection’s Williams holdings. In the process, he became a close friend. He will be deeply missed, but the Fred W. Todd Tennessee Williams Collection remains as a wonderful legacy—one that will enable researchers not only to study the life of this classic American playwright, but also to make a connection with Todd himself.
—Mark Cave
The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly 11