Talbot Hamlin, in the foreword in his book, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, discusses Ferdinand Clairborne Latrobe, Jr., as a person who was a delight to know. He knew where the best hunting was in Maryland, how to cook terrapin, and about early Chesapeake Bay sailing ships. He wrote a book, Iron Men and their Dogs (Baltimore: Dreschler, 1941), commissioned as a history of the Bartlett-Hayward Company and its predecessors in Baltimore. This is the company where the Latrobe Stove, invented by his grandfather, John H. B. Latrobe, had been cast and manufactured until 1910. Among the other books he wrote was The Epitome of the Chesapeake Bay and The Chesapeake Bay Cook Book.
