Manuscripts

Reader correspondence

Description: Approx. 90 items: letters, handwritten and typed and postcards addressed to Marian Manners or the Home Economics Department of LAT. An attached note (probably written by Fleeta Hoke) describes the folder material as "a collection of letters selected during 1957 and 1958 from the many thousands we received and answered by personal letter..."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1957 - 1958
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Reader correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 90 items: letters, handwritten and typed and postcards addressed to Marian Manners or the Home Economics Department of LAT. An attached note (probably written by Fleeta Hoke) describes the folder material as "a collection of letters selected during 1957 and 1958 from the many thousands we received and answered by personal letter..."

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Internal Correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: memos, photos and other materials - "Marian Manners" / Fleeta Hoke mementos.

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Judging

Manuscripts

8 items: selection of photos of Fleeta Hoke ("Marian Manners") with contestants of the "Mrs. America" contest (some may be "Mrs. California" preliminaries) ; letter, 7/23/1957, to "Marian Manners" from Pillsbury Mills, Inc., in which that company invites Miss Manners to be a judge of the Pillsbury Bake-Off in Los Angeles, 10/12 - 10/15/1957 ; the decorative Pillsbury "Judge" ribbon used by Manners at that competition.

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History

Manuscripts

6 items: 5-pp. handwritten inventory of materials relating to "Marian Manners," the Times College of Cookery, etc. ; two copies of article copied from Among Ourselves, 12/1978, "In Times Past," giving a brief history of Fleeta Hoke (aka "Marian Manners"), director of the Times Home Economics Department and the "star" of the Times College of Cookery ; other materials related to the Los Angeles Times Cooking School.

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Miscellaneous Personal Materials

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: clippings, letters, two KLM (airline) menu booklets, and related material. Notable item: booklet, approx. 35 pages., staple bound, "College of Wartime Cookery - Recipe Collection..." presented by "Marian Manners." (Marian Manners was a pseudonym for Fleeta Hoke, LAT Food Editor.)

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Activities and Events

Manuscripts

Approx. 50 items: photographs, letters, flyers and other material related to "outside activities and events" in which Fleeta Hoke ("Marian Manners") participated in as an LAT representative.

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