Anne Dettner discusses her San Francisco family and 19th century forebears, her education at the University of California and Stanford, the Great Depression and serving as California Director of the National Youth Administration during the New Deal, her career in radiology at Stanford and Berkeley, her life with Bertram Low-Beer and George Dettner, and various public service activities especially the League of Women Voters. Interviews conducted in 1994 and 1995.

Anne Dettner discusses her San Francisco family and 19th century forebears, her education at the University of California and Stanford, the Great Depression and serving as California Director of the National Youth Administration during the New Deal, her career in radiology at Stanford and Berkeley, her life with Bertram Low-Beer and George Dettner, and various public service activities especially the League of Women Voters.

Sixteen letters (23 pages) from Alice B. Toklas to Anne Low-Beer, mainly written from Paris, describing daily life, visits with mutal friends, distress at the publication of Gertrude Stein's biography in 1957, travels, expressing friendship, etc. Typed transcripts available for nine of the 16 original letters.