Ellen Swallow Richards to Edward Atkinson Transcribed by SSS Transcribed on Primary Source Cooperative 2022

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Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Ellen Swallow Richards Digital Archive TR; SSS 24 May 1894 richards-ellen atkinson-edward Ellen Swallow Richards to Edward Atkinson Massachusetts Historical Society. Edward Atkinson Papers. Ellen Richards Correspondence, 1890–1901.

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Boston, May 24 1894 My dear Mr. Atkinson,

You have very much improved my part. It is all in knowing how to put it.

Your part is what you have already said and in the main the only fault is what I always say that you repel the housewife by saying a little too much. It is not always well to say the whole truth and peoples standards of what is good do so differ.

I do not find people quite as intelligent as you make them nor that it is as easy to get heat & good working out of kerosene lamps.

Then I think it is far wiser 2 to make the cost a little higher at the bottom of page 6. At least you must not say "dietary" you can say calories if you like. No single family can buy food on which they will live for 70 cents a week. They can buy it, I grant, but they will not eat the food. I am satisfied that your $1.00 a week will give a good & fair dietary if enough brains are put on to it but I do not believe that working people have knowledge & time enough to do it for that, often. So on page 7, I do think the figures should be a little higher - for the best thing which was said of Miss Davis' working man's 3 home at the fair 1 was that it took a $5000 dollar wife to keep the working man's family on 500 a year.

You know better than I your man & your audience, as to page 10, It is really advertising & I should not think they would take it & pay for the article beside but they may be public spirited enough to do it.

Please have it copied I can not spare my typewriter now. I am not so sure about its taking but it will do no harm to try.4

Miss Daniell is coming back next week. She has been at Hull House all the month & I expect she will have some interesting points to tell us.

Have you any apparatus which you want tested? Miss Day of my Laboratory here says she will with her sisters do some work at the shore this summer. I left one of the Chicago ovens with a young College woman just married to one of my boys for some work for the summer.

I have considerable hope of your new salamander.

Very truly Ellen H. Richards

Massachusetts Historical Society.

Edward Atkinson Papers. Ellen Richards Correspondence, 1890–1901.

This refers to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, the Chicago World's Fair, where Richards had an exhibit called the Rumford Kitchen, a model kitchen on how to best cook and eat nutritious foods.
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