Description
Family correspondence, financial papers, passport, and photographs (mainly b/w family and cruise snapshots) of Santa Barbara
resident Margaret Frances Case Cook. Also, a journal inscribed to Mrs. E. E. Kellogg, wife of John Harvey Kellogg, from her
adopted daughter Helena, ca. 1901-1902. The journal, written in various hands, mostly relates the antics of three boys staying
with the many Kellogg children at Gull Lake in Michigan. Helena is mentioned as "one of the older girls." Ella Eaton Kellogg
was the superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium School of Cooking, a dietician, magazine editor, and author of the books
Science in the Kitchen (1893) and Studies in Character Building: A Book for Parents (1905).
Background
Margaret Frances Case was born November 2, 1915 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She spent her teenage years in Cooperstown, NY
at the Knox School for Girls, and maintained a regular correspondence with her father, Dr. James T. Case (1882-1960), a staff
physician at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, which was run by the health food pioneer John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943).
Extent
.2 linear feet
(1 half-size box)
Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.