Thurber Tonight: Part 3 of "Lavender with a Difference" -- Tea at the Algonquin

This portrait of Mary Fisher Thurber, her son wrote in the caption in The Thurber Album, was "painted only a few months ago, at the age of 85." (She lived another four years.)


"Two or three professional candy men tried to catch her secret [for making "the best chocolate creams in the world"], watching her at work like a child watching a magician, and with just about as little profit. She made her last twenty pounds of chocolates when she was eighty, and then turned to writing a cookbook of her own recipes, which she still works at, dropping it now and then to tinker with her play, whose plot and personae and provenance are another one of her secrets."

-- Thurber, in our Part 3 of "Lavender with a Difference"

After Thurber's portrait of his father, "Gentleman from indiana" (part 1, part 2), and the first two of our three parts of the portrait of his mother (part 1, part 2), we come finally to the conclusion of "Lavender with a Difference." -- Ken


TO READ PART 3 OF "LAVENDER WITH
A DIFFERENCE," CLICK HERE


THURBER TONIGHT (including BENCHLEY TONIGHT,
WILL CUPPY TONIGHT, and WOLCOTT GIBBS TONIGHT):
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