Two TLSs, both signed "Julia," each one page and addressed to journalist Richard Scott Mowrer, the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Paul Scott Mowrer. The first letter, 7.25 x 10.5, 103 Irving Street letterhead, July 13, 1987, in part: "We're just back in residence, after a happy winter in Santa Barbara, to find your letter requesting photos of your father. By greatest good fortune, I have located two, taken in New Hampshire way back when, like 1950 or something...The one with two chaps is of your Paul M. and our French friend, Jean Ache, when he came with to visit Paul and Hadley [referring to Hadley Richardson, the first wife of Ernest Hemingway who later married Paul Scott Mowrer]," with Child adding a handwritten postscript along the bottom: "Such nostalgia—addressing you at Quondam Farm. We have most happy memories of that place." The second letter, 5.5 x 8.5, Julia Child's Kitchen letterhead, no date but postmarked June 30, 1994, in full: "How kind of you to sympathize with me on Paul's passing. Although it was not a surprise, it is a sadness. Fortunately, he went peacefully in his sleep. He was 92 and had a good life, so I guess we should not complain. Many thanks for writing. With all good wishes," with Child again adding a handwritten line at the conclusion: "He was so fond of your Paul!" In overall fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope for the 1994 letter, as well as a TLS from biographer and historian Noel Riley Fitch, dated April 30, 1995, thanking Mowrer for a package of letters and photographs of Julia and Paul Child.
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