Part of a collection of ca. 225 typed and autograph letters, postcards, and notes from M.F.K. Fisher to David Pleydell-Bouverie. Items in this collection are described in individual records; see MA 4786 for more information.
Discussing "the Tokyo edition of the Tsuji book" [Shizuo Tsuji's Japanese Cooking: a Simple Art]; advising him to look at an article in Fortune called "Who is mass-marketing the great chefs of Europe?"; giving her opinion of family fights in which family members stop speaking to each other; sharing gossip about their shared acquaintances; describing an 18-year-old boy who visited her and how much additional food she had to cook for him; mentioning visitors including Norah [Barr], Julia and Paul Child, and Simca [Simone Beck].