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Message:: [QUOTE="Jeremy Lopez, post: 10131461, member: 89807"]I don't have a scan of the letter; it's part of a collection of letters between Baker and the publisher of his first cookbook archived in the Princeton library. It's from August 1939, i.e. a decade after the bar-ette was in stores, and the context is Baker telling his publisher how good he is at marketing luxury items (the cookbook was to be an expensive $15), so it's possible his recall is not perfect and/or that he's bragging a bit, but I think he's probably telling the truth that the bar-ette was a high-end good. The letter also emphasizes Baker's close connection with some Abercrombie & Fitch people. Thinking about this in light of the advice from one of these posts, it seems obvious that looking for a 1928 A&F catalog would be a good idea. A very cursory search over the last 30 minutes suggests that this will be hard to find, and expensive if found. Archive.org doesn't seem to have digitized them.[/QUOTE]