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At an early age, Richard moved to New Orleans, where her mother and aunt worked as domestic servants for Alice and Nugent Vairin at their home on Esplanade Avenue. Richard helped her mother and aunt in the kitchen after school, and upon her graduation, the Vairins hired her, and later sent her to cooking school in New Orleans and at the Fannie Farmer Cooking School in Boston. Richard graduated from the Fannie Farmer School in 1918, and returned to New Orleans.

Many documents such as personal letters & case letters, photographs & family history, are currently preserved at the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library on Tulane University' s campus in the Special Collections department. This collection is a compilation of personal letters, newspaper clippings, and case records regarding the Myra Clark Gaines case.

I am excited to edit articles pertaining to feminism.