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- 1 2 3 Linda Simon, The Biography of Alice B. Toklas, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991, pp. 168-170
- 1 2 Linda Simon, The Biography of Alice B. Toklas, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991, pp. 117-118
- ↑ «A great many people came to the tea [for Jane's christening] - in honor of the fête we set the old samovar going and served tea in glasses - Gertrude and Alice among the first. Gertrude brought a charming silver mug, and Alice, a bowl of honey. [...] Gertrude and Alice had no marked interest in children, rather an aversion to them, but they very courteously said all they were supposed to say under such circumstances and stayed quite a long while.» B. Imbs, Confessions of another young man, p. 288.
- ↑ Bravig Imbs, 'Poem', in Pagany, Richard Johns (ed.), Kraus Reprint Corp., 1931, p. 92
- ↑ James R. Mellow, Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company, Henry Holt and Co., 2003, p. 323
- ↑ Ulla E. Dydo, Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises - 1923-1934 (Avant-garde and Modernism Studies), Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2003, p. 321
- ↑ Imbs, Bravig (1936). Confessions of Another Young Man. New York: Henkle-Yewdale House.
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- ↑ "Bravig Wilbur Eugene Imbs (1904-1946) - French A Grave Memorial". Find A Grave. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
