Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Access terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Marie Hansen Taylor Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1848-1927
Collection number: Special Collections M0603
Creator:
Taylor, Marie Hansen, 1829-1925
Extent:
4 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights
reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To
obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance
Gift of the great-grandaughter, Natalie Kiliani Shastid, 1992
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] Marie Hansen Taylor Papers, M0603, Dept. of Special
Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biography
Born in Gotha, Germany. Her father was the court astronomer. Married
Bayard Taylor, writer, traveller, and artist, in 1856. She knew
many of the authors and publishers of her time. She collected
recipes with her daughter in anticipation of doing a cookbook. The
plan was to include with the recipes a bit about their history.
Their daughter, Lillian, married Dr. Otto Theobold Kiliani.
Scope and Content
Writings of Marie Taylor, 1848 and 1854 (poetry and prose).
19 journals of Marie Taylor, 1860-1877; 1 of Lillian Taylor
Kiliani, 1919. Correspondence between the family, 1891-1927. There
are also 4 boxes of cookbook material, much handwritten in both
German and English.
Access terms
Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878.
Kiliani, Lillian Bayard Taylor, 1858.
Kiliani, Otto Theobald.
American literature--19th century.
Cookery.
United States--Social life and customs.