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Miss Stein gets up every morning about ten and drinks some coffee, against her will. She’s always been nervous about becoming nervous and she thought coffee would make her nervous, but her doctor prescribed it. Miss Toklas, her companion, gets up at six and starts dusting and fussing around… . Every morning Miss Toklas bathes and combs their French poodle, Basket, and brushes its teeth. It has its own toothbrush.
The daily routines of Gertrude Stein and other literary greats.

Miss Stein gets up every morning about ten and drinks some coffee, against her will. She’s always been nervous about becoming nervous and she thought coffee would make her nervous, but her doctor prescribed it. Miss Toklas, her companion, gets up at six and starts dusting and fussing around… . Every morning Miss Toklas bathes and combs their French poodle, Basket, and brushes its teeth. It has its own toothbrush.

The daily routines of Gertrude Stein and other literary greats.

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Gertrude Stein’s objects, illustrated

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A FEATHER.
A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

Lisa Congdon illustrates Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein’s avant-garde 1914 verses about everyday objects.

A FEATHER.

A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

Lisa Congdon illustrates Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein’s avant-garde 1914 verses about everyday objects.

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Gertrude Stein’s ancient Model T Ford, affectionately named after her Aunt Pauline, a rare illustrated edition of The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook.

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Gertrude Stein reads from The Making of Americans, 1934-1935.

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Look here. Being intelligible is not what it seems. You mean by understanding that you can talk about it in the way that you have a habit of talking, putting it in other words. But I mean by understanding enjoyment. If you enjoy it, you understand it.

On understanding and joy – Gertrude Stein scolds an interviewer in this rare 1934 audio interview

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“Gertrude Stein and me are just like brothers.”

A letter from yet-unpublished Ernest Hemingway to his mentor, Sherwood Anderson, March 9, 1922, from a new exhibition at Chicago’s Newberry Research Library.

Also see young Hemingway’s collected letters.

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The story of Gertrude Stein’s little-known children’s book