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Title |
Emma Phelps Foster's Recipe Book |
Scope & Content |
Emma Phelps Foster's Recipe Book, a handwritten collection of Foster family recipes. This item belongs within Series 3: Family which includes: Correspondence, notebooks, schoolwork, diaries, and other documents relating to the Foster family and their relatives, ca. 1860 to 1980. This series is broken into 6 subseries: Emma Louise Foster; Charles Grant Foster; Caroline Rose Foster; Genealogy; Siblings, which includes Emma Phelps Foster, Alice Foster, Julia Ward Foster, George B. Foster, Ralph Foster, John Seeley Ward, Harriet Foster Ward, Maude Thompson, Mr. & Mrs. James Phelps Foster, William "Uncle Bill" Thompson, Frederick Rose Foster, Caroline "Aunt Carrie" Thompson, Kate Thompson, and others; and General. |
Object Name |
Cookbook |
Catalog Number |
2020.007.0008 |
Collection |
Fosterfields Collection |
Physical characteristics |
1 bound handwritten book. |
Creator |
Foster, Emma Phelps |
Other Creators |
Foster, Caroline |
Biographical History |
Emma Phelps Foster (1851-1942) was the youngest sister of Charles Grant Foster (1842-1927). She resided with her sister Alice (1848-1938) in Hartford, CT and had a deep connection to Caroline who would often visit her aunts and maintained diligent correspondence with them. Emma and Alice left their property to Hartford Parks, but much of their household contents were bequethed to Caroline and can be seen in The Willows. Emma was an Antiquarian, concerned with the preservation of history and the decorative arts, a passion that she passed to her neice. Caroline Rose "Cara" Foster (1877-1979) was born in Brooklyn, NY and came to Fosterfields as an infant with her parents while her mother was ill. Emma's sister, Caroline (known as Aunt Carrie) and mother, Phoebe, both lived at the Willows to help raise young Caroline after her mother's death. She attended Miss Dana's School from 1886 to 1896 where she made friends with a number of local socialites. Charles Foster "Charlie" Thompson, the son of Emma's younger brother William "Uncle Bill" Thompson and his wife Maude, came to live at Fosterfields for a time in the 1890s and early 1900s and later served in WWI. |
System of arrangement |
The Foster Family Papers are organized into 4 series relating to various aspects of Foster Family. Series 1: Business/Financial Series 2: Oral Histories Series 3: Family Series 4: Farm |
Subjects |
Cookery Food Food preparation |
Copyrights |
Records may be copied for use in individual scholarly or personal research; however, as with all materials in the Morris County Park Commission, researchers are responsible for obtaining copyright permission to use material from the collection. |
Level of description |
Item |