APPRAISER (chuckling): You've# brought a-a number of Georgia## O'Keeffe items signed.

What's your connection?

GUEST: Well, when I was young and crazy, I# was invited to work for her for a while as## a cook.

But she rapidly discovered that I was# a terrible cook, so she fired me.

This little## Indian pudding recipe is a result of that short# time that I was cooking for her.

After a while,## she called me up and said, "Well, you can't# cook.

You don't clean very well, but can you## type letters?” And I said, "Yeah, I can type# letters."

She hired me to stay up in Abiquiú,## and type letters for her, read to her.

She was# just losing her eyesight at that time.

We had a## very nice time together.

I stayed up there for a# couple of years.

One evening, we were sitting in## her studio.

The ceiling was painted white, the# walls were painted white.

She said, "You know,## I wish I had a white floor."

And I said, "Well,# why don't you get a white rug?"

She said, "Well,## I can't get a white rug.

If I get a white rug,# it'll get dirty."

And I said, "Oh, Georgia,## you're richer than God.

Get a white rug, and when# it gets dirty, tear it out and put a new one in."

GUEST: So she kind of laughed at that.

But# she said, "It would be wonderful because## if I had a white rug, and we were sitting# here, it would be like sitting inside one## of my cloud paintings."

I stopped working# for her after a certain amount of time,## and she got the white rug.

She mentions it in# the book and she mentions it here.

She says,## "The white carpet is getting dirty# now, but not too bad yet, though."

APPRAISER: Did she talk about her artwork at all?

GUEST: She did not.

And she# never talked about her past.

APPRAISER: The book itself shows up# everywhere.

It's-it's not a rare book,## but of course, if you open it up and have a nice,## long inscription in it from 1978.

And would she# just keep in touch or send you things or...?

GUEST: Yes, she did for a while.

When I left,# she said, "Well, who's going to help me now## with my secretarial stuff?"

I said, "Well, my# mom lives in Santa Fe, she can help you."

My## mom came up and they got along really well.# And it was when my mom was working for her## that this book was created.

They put this book# together, and my mom did the essential editing.

APPRAISER: In the letter nearest you... APPRAISER: ...she actually mentions# Stieglitz.

She mentions Henry Miller.## Not necessarily all that favorably, but uh...

GUEST (laughing) APPRAISER: ...but-but it is there.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: Which is if you have a letter by#.. mentioning people who have known,# prominent and so on is important.## One of the things, though, that I liked very much# is to have a recipe of hers.

I think if anything,## in this grouping, individually, people# would get almost more excited about that.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: It continues on the back, and you# could make her Ind.. O'Keeffe book, I would say, would be about $750# because of the inscription.

The two letters,## one letter is better content wise, because# it says more, but it's typed.

One letter## is handwritten, which is better.

Each# of those, probably about $500 each.

GUEST: Good heavens.

APPRAISER: The recipe-- people love cooking.

GUEST: (laughing) APPRAISER: And just the idea of having a recipe of Georgia O'Keeffe that she wrote# out, easily $750, maybe more.

GUEST: (chuckles) APPRAISER: And this is all on a retail level.

APPRAISER: And I think the thing that# would really be the attraction that if## things were going to go higher,# is the, the short little recipe.

GUEST: Oh, absolutely, I'm going to# try to make it someday.

(both laugh) APPRAISER: Or maybe you could have someone make it# for you so you'd know what it would ta-taste like.

GUEST: (laughing) That's a, that's# a better idea.

A much better idea--## maybe my husband can, he's a good cook.