Allan Stein

In her will GS instructed her executors, Alice Toklas and Allan Stein , to pay Carl Van Vechten whatever he needed to have all her manuscripts published. Donald Gallup , curator of the Collection of American Literature

She made Alice Toklas and her American nephew Allan Stein her joint-executors, and authorized them for the rest of Alice's life to make payments to [Alice Toklas] from the principal of [GS 's] Estate...