88“Now tell us all about this one”: Louise Hall Tharp, Saint-Gaudens and the Gilded Era (Boston: Little, Brown, 1969), 319.
88Rumors abounded: Susan Hobbs, The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996), 38.
88scathing letter: Harry to Lucia, January 28, 1901, Fairchild-Fuller Papers; Hobbs, Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing, 196; Fuller, Art in the Blood, 210–11.
88“You said that you must marry now”: Lucia to Harry, [undated, probably ca. 1901], Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
89ill and exhausted: Lucia to Harry, June 27–28, 1900, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
89191st commission: Fuller, Art in the Blood, 211.
89Illusions: A Circle of Friends, 87. William T. Evans, a prominent collector of American art, purchased Illusions for an unknown price and later donated the painting to the National Gallery of Art. It is currently displayed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
90Ivanhoe . . . “her salvation”: Meyers and Atkinson, Images of America, 112.
91Dr. Wadsworth: Lucia to Harry, January 16, 1905, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
91“animated, eccentric”: Colby and Atkinson, Footprints of the Past, 172.
91Christian Science: Fuller, Art in the Blood, 214.
91Native American–style baskets: Lucia to Harry, [January 1905] and January 25, 1905, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
91an adventure: Ibid., [January 1905], Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
91She was thrilled: Taylor, “To all Lucia’s Grandchildren,” 3, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
91“I feast my eyes”: Lucia to Harry, April 12, 1905, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
91eyesight was so poor . . . piece of good news: Ibid., April 14, 1905, Fairchild-Fuller Papers. Lucia complained that her work was constrained because she was “seeing so blobbily.”
92“He’s a very cross man”: Ibid., April 28, 1905, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
92her tonsils removed: Ibid., May 8, 1905, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
92three-day stay: Ibid., [May 1905], Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
92“You don’t want” . . . “Clarky [Clara] got on the table”: Ibid., May 11, 1905, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
93Harry had embraced Christian Science: Fuller, Art in the Blood, 214.
93Harry began painting: “A Gift to the Principia College,” [undated], Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
94Ebba Bohm: Fuller, Art in the Blood, 213.
94journalist noted sarcastically: Unidentified newspaper clipping, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
94the work remained popular: Fuller, Art in the Blood, 214–15.
94huge theatrical event: Lucia to Harry, April 16, 1905, Fairchild-Fuller Papers. Henry Duffy, Celebrating Augustus Saint-Gaudens: The Pageants of 1905 & 2005 (Cornish, NH: Saint-Gaudens Memorial, 2009), 26, 30, 32, 34.
95A Masque of “Ours”: Colby and Atkinson, Footprints of the Past, 423.
95Maxfield Parrish created: James B. Atkinson, A Masque of Ours: The Gods & the Golden Bowl, a Centennial Celebration (Windsor, VT: Cornish Colony Museum, 2005), 9. Duffy, Celebrating Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 12.
96“What people are these”: Duffy, Celebrating Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 12, 19, 22, 27.
96“Ah, now I begin to understand”: Ibid., 31.
97“The Gods are not” . . . “new Augustan Age”: Ibid, 47, 49, 51.
97An emotional Saint-Gaudens: Ibid., 18.
97paint was still wet: Atkinson, A Masque of Ours, 10.
97“As the play ended”: Duffy, Celebrating Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 18. Members of the press were awed, as was everyone in attendance—all save Harry’s mother, whose only memory of the event was that she’d left her umbrella behind. Henry Duffy, Museum Curator, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, interview with author, September 2010.
98“plaquettes”: Duffy, Celebrating Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 20. Colby and Atkinson, Footprints of the Past, 208.
98parted amicably: Rawdon thesis, 23.
98“Lucia firmly told us”: Taylor, “To all Lucia’s Grandchildren,” 3, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
99“Whereas the pain”: Fuller, Art in the Blood, 222–23.
99“If you had a husband”: Ibid., 196.
99proposing a dinner: John S. Sargent to Isabella Stewart Gardner, [1894]. Gardner Museum Archives.
99Lily confided: Fuller, Art in the Blood, 220.
100shrewdly married . . . “an allowance”: Ibid., 221–22.
100“my angel sister!”: Blair Fairchild to Lucia, 1899, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
100“its back to the world”: Lily Fairchild, Nelson Fairchild (privately printed 1907), 4.
100most incompetent of all . . . “[I’m] staying alert”: Fuller, Art in the Blood, 219–20.
101Lily collected the letters: Fairchild, Nelson Fairchild.
101None of the brothers survived middle age: Miller, “John Singer Sargent in the Diaries of Lucia Fairchild,” 4.
102legal attaché: Gordon Fairchild obituary, New York Times, June 8, 1932.
102Lucia visited her parents: Lucia to Harry, August 17, 1909, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
102Lily, in need of money: John S. Sargent to Mrs. Fairchild, May 2, 1910. Boston Athenaeum.
103“Change is relief”: William Dean Howells to Lily Fairchild, January 2, 1911. bMS Am 1784.1 (55). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
103“They are so clean”: Sally Fairchild to Lucia, October 16, [1911], Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
103“fork chooser” . . . “a lot of women and hermaphrodites”: Langdon Warner to Gordon Fairchild, May 20, [1912]. Autograph File, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
103Sally served as Gordon’s hostess: Lucia Taylor Miller, “Comments on the book, Art in the Blood,” 6. Philip Read Memorial Library, Plainfield, NH.
104she helped found: Guide to the Fairchild-Fuller Papers in the Dartmouth College Library, biographical information.
104Clara had been her model: Taylor, “To all Lucia’s Grandchildren,” 4, Fairchild-Fuller Papers. “Madison Artist Doubly Famous,” Wisconsin State Journal, May 15, 1924. “Clippings 1910–1924,” Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
105She couldn’t afford: Fuller, Art in the Blood, 223–55.
105“I am going to beg you”: Lucia to Mrs. Fuller, April 25, 1914. Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
106“put the children to work”: Lucia to Fred [Higginson?], May 6, 1914. Archives of American Art, microfilm #3504. Fairchild-Fuller Papers, “Letters, undated & 1906–1924.”
107Lucia yielded: Taylor, “To all Lucia’s Grandchildren,” 3–4, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
107her mother had died: New York Times, January 18, 1924.
107“Mama looked so beautiful”: Sally to Lucia, January 16, 1924, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
107She also put: Ibid., February 2, 1924, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
108“My whole inner life”: Ibid.
108“I sleep and eat just as usual”: Ibid.
109“This evening I had”: Lucia diary page, June 17 [probably 1920s], Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
109Lucia died: Boston Herald, May 22, 1924. Boston Evening Transcript, May 22, 1924. “Clippings 1910–1924,” Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
109“healing and blessed memories” . . . “adoring children”: Sally to Mary R. Jewett, July 7, 1924, bMS Am 1743 (343). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
110“hysterical gesture”: Taylor, “To all Lucia’s Grandchildren,” 4–5, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
110Gordon, discovered: Fuller, Art in the Blood, 221. They moved to 241 Beacon Street, a house formerly owned by Julia Ward Howe.
110contributions from brother Blair’s wife: Lucia to Mrs. Fuller, April 25, 1914, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
110“his wanting to escape”: Miller, “John Singer Sargent in the Diaries of Lucia Fuller,” 4.
111“Eat, drink, paint”: Lucia to Harry, September 17, 1894, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
111Lucia was grateful: Lucia to Harry, September 28, 1909, August 17, 1909, Fairchild-Fuller Papers. Lucia wrot
e, “Deerfield . . . has a charm, a beauty, a mystery, a divine poetic sense that I never felt so keenly in any other place. I am ever so glad that you are there.”
111He established a studio: Fuller, Art in the Blood, 229–31.
111“Was ever a man more suited”: Ibid., 232.
112Lady Duff Twysden: Ibid., 232, 235.
112the fall of 1925: Ibid., 239–43.
112“It is a life and death matter”: Ibid., 242.
112he met a young blond waitress: Ibid., 246. Harry to Clarky Fairchild Taylor (hereafter Clarky or Clara), her husband, Warner Taylor, and Lucia, December 29, [1933], Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
113Harry got quite ill: Fuller, Art in the Blood, 247.
113beneficiary: Ibid.
113Debts were still following: Harry to Clarky, Warner, and Lucia, December 29, [1933], Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
113“only a shell”: Ibid. Harry to Clara, January 18, 1934, Fairchild-Fuller Papers. He described a custom trailer fifteen feet long and six feet wide.
113a maid: Harry to Clarky, Warner, and Lucia, December 29, [1933], Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
114“Trailering”: Harry to Clara, March 5 and 7, 1934, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
114Dixie Tourist camp: Ibid., March 20, 1934, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
114waiting for inspiration: Ibid., June 10, 1934, Fairchild-Fuller Papers. “It is like what horsemen do when lost, give rein to the animal to find its own way home,” he wrote to Clara.
114As for income: Harry to Clara, March 7, 1934, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
114“make ourselves comfortable”: Ibid.
114died of cardiac arrest: Fuller, Art in the Blood, 251.
115daunting, lordly personage: Ibid., 198.
115Bertrand Russell: Russell, Autobiography, 199.
115H. G. Wells: Herbert George Wells, A. L.S. to Sally Fairchild from R. M. S. “Carmania” [undated, probably 1905], Autograph File, W, 1585–1973, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
115“If that young woman”: Fuller, Art in the Blood, 198. Miller, “John Singer Sargent in the Diaries of Lucia Fuller,” 2.
115The man remained devoted: Miller, “Comments,” on Art in the Blood, 5. Philip Read Memorial Library, Plainfield, NH.
116“last laugh”: Taylor, “To all Lucia’s Grandchildren,” 5, Fairchild-Fuller Papers.
116“Lot 149A”: Ormond and Kilmurray, Portraits of the 1890s, 43.
117“Each time I turn a door knob” . . . “he is where he is”: Chris Rollins, e-mail message to author, November 1, 2011.
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118“The bud is so beautiful”: Margaret Chanler Aldrich, Family Vista (New York: The William-Frederick Press, 1958), 41.
118For half the year: John Winthrop Aldrich, e-mail message to author, August 8, 2012.
119“the face of the Madonna”: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=21621.
119Over her shoulder: Ormond and Kilmurray, Portraits of the 1890s, 68. Description of the painting, and that her dress and jewelry were old-fashioned.
119“restless” pillow: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/insight/tours/sargent/index2.html =”restless” pillow.
119She limped just as: Mount, John Singer Sargent, 1957 ed., 13.
120At six years old: Lately Thomas, The Astor Orphans: A Pride of Lions (Albany, NY: Washington Park Press, 1999), 13–14. (There are two editions of this book, one published in 1971, and another in 1999. The text varies, so hereafter the notes will include the date of the edition.)
120The grief-stricken father: John Winthrop Aldrich, e-mail message to author, October 22, 2016. John Winthrop Chanler was never known by his first name. He signed his name J. Winthrop Chanler and was addressed by friends and family as Winthrop or Wint.
120“formidable” . . . “grim in every sense”: Aldrich, Family Vista, 17. Thomas, Astor Orphans, 1999 ed., 24. Thomas describes the intense competitiveness among the children.
120The household featured: Aldrich, Family Vista, 19–20. Lately Thomas, The Astor Orphans: Pride of Lions; the Chanler Chronicle (New York: William Morrow & Company, 1971), 34–35.
121Poor Marshall: Thomas, Astor Orphans, 1999 ed., photograph insert following 16.
121“Dear Boys”: Elizabeth Chanler to John Armstrong “Archie” [J. A.] Chanler and Winthrop Astor “Wintie” Chanler, January 12, 1876, Elizabeth Chanler Chapman and John Jay Chapman Papers, Rokeby. Winthrop Chanler was nicknamed “Wintie” as a child, but as an adult the spelling was frequently “Winty.” To avoid confusion, I’ve used the childhood variant of the spelling throughout the text.
121She wrote dutifully: Ibid., February 3, 1876, March 3 and 31, 1876. Chapman Papers, Rokeby.
122“Nanie and Mary”: Ibid., March 9, 1876.
122“The children at home are very well”: Elizabeth Chanler to John Winthrop [J. W.] Chanler, [undated 1876?], Chapman Papers, Rokeby. Letter was addressed to their Manhattan residence at 192 Madison Avenue.
122“I would have gone to meet you”: Elizabeth Chanler to J. W. Chanler, [undated 1876?], Chapman Papers, Rokeby. This letter was written on mourning stationery.
122But many of the rooms were frigid . . . kerosene lamps: Aldrich, Family Vista, 11, 14.
123“Old Black Jane”: Thomas, Astor Orphans, 1971 ed., 38–39.
123“death cold” . . . a guest experienced: Aldrich, Family Vista, 31.
123Besides Cousin Mary: Ibid., 22. Thomas, Astor Orphans, 1999 ed., 23–24.
123In a letter to her brother . . . announced the arrival: Elizabeth Chanler to J. A. Chanler, [undated 1876?], Chapman Papers, Rokeby.
123“like an empress”: Aldrich, Family Vista, 23. Thomas, Astor Orphans, 1999 ed., 23, and photo insert after 16.
123The majority of the servants were Irish: Thomas, Astor Orphans, 1999 ed., 23–24 and 1971 ed., 41. Aldrich, Family Vista, 23.
124Unsettling spirits hover: Thomas, Astor Orphans, 1999 ed., 23.
124In 1968, Life magazine featured: “America’s ‘Grandes Dames’,” Life, January 26, 1968.
125“Lead from a king”: Aldrich, Family Vista, 24. Learned French, music, and drawing from governesses, 2.
125“Books, books, books” . . . “persuaded to stop looking”: Aldrich, Family Vista, 28.
126“family home” . . . “aunts”: Mrs. Hugh Fraser, A Diplomatists’s Wife in Many Lands, vol. 1 (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1911), 223.
126“prison sofa”: Ibid., 222.
126Chanler seemed to have second thoughts: J. W. Chanler to Mrs. Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, April 22, 1877, Margaret Chanler Aldrich Papers, Rokeby.
126Elizabeth was still playing with dolls: Elizabeth Chanler to J. W. Chanler, August 7, 1877, Chapman Papers, Rokeby.
126Elizabeth’s mother had expressed an interest . . . “a perfect haven of rest”: Mary Rutherfurd Stuyvesant to Elizabeth Chanler, November 12, 1877, Chapman Papers, Rokeby. Mary Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, a member of the guardians who oversaw the children, wrote to Elizabeth, “You are just where your dear mother wished you to be.”
126Chanler made the necessary arrangements: Emily Hawtrey to J. W. Chanler, June 29, 1877, Chanler Aldrich Papers, Rokeby. Hawtry was writing from Nursling Rectory near Southampton, England, to J. W. Chanler in London. Elizabeth was staying at the rectory under the care of Hawtry until proper arrangements could be made at Miss Sewell’s School.
127“What horses have you taken” . . . “Please come soon”: Elizabeth Chanler to J. W. Chanler, August 7, 1877, Chapman Papers, Rokeby. The Chanler summer home in Newport, Cliff Lawn, is currently a deluxe hotel called The Chanler at Cliff Walk.
127a telegram arrived at Ashcliff: Thomas, Astor Orphans, 1971 ed., 28. Mary Rutherfurd Stuyvesant to Elizabeth Chanler, November 12, 1877, Chapman Papers, Rokeby.
127“My dear sweet little Bessie”: Bettina White to Elizabeth Chanler, October 27, 1877, Chapman Papers, Rokeby.
127“Mother Bess” . . . “learn all you can”: Mary Rutherfurd Stuyvesant to Elizabeth Chanler, Novem
ber 12, 1877, Chapman Papers, Rokeby.
128“heaven itself”: Graham Bennett, comp., Pages from the Past: A Look into Old Ventnor Guide Books (Ventnor, UK: Ventnor and District Local Historical Society, 2005), 2. Further descriptions of Bonchurch, the Downs, and the Undercliff found in the following sources. Richard J. Hutchings, Dickens on an Island (Isle of Wight, UK: Hunnyhill, 2012), 14, 24. Michael Freeman, A Winter Sanatorium: Ventnor as a Health Resort in the Victorian Era (Ventnor, UK: Ventnor and District Local Historical Society, 2009), 1–7.
128The queen herself came: Fraser, A Diplomatist’s Wife, vol. 1, 230.
128The miraculous Undercliff boasted: Freeman, A Winter Sanatorium, 10. Bennett, Pages from the Past, 1. John Goodwin, comp., “Flora and Fauna,” in Bonchurch from A to Z (Bonchurch, UK: Bonchurch Trading, 1992), unpaginated.
129“While I breathe I hope”: Michael Freeman, Ventnor, Isle of Wight: The English Mediterranean (Ventnor, UK: Ventnor and District Local History Society, 2010), 26, 33, 35. Freeman, A Winter Sanatorium, 2, 11. http://www.ventnortowncouncil.org.uk/about-famous.php notes the death of Karl Marx.
129“perpetual shower-bath”: Frederic G. Kitton, The Dickens Country (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905), 108.
129He exulted in the sea air . . . theatricals: Hutchings, Dickens on an Island, 47. Goodwin, “Dickens,” in Bonchurch from A to Z , unpaginated.
129his boisterous and rather blunt manner: Hutchings, Dickens on an Island, 48, 28–29.
129“did not go into society”: Eleanor L. Sewell, ed., The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907), 46, 94.
129“irreligious society” . . . “entirely out of their thoughts”: Ibid., 52.
130“I am quite convinced”: Frederic G. Kitton, Charles Dickens: His Life, Writings, and Personality (London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1902), 178. Hutchings, Dickens on an Island, 35. Discussion of Dickens growing increasingly depressed.
130“congestion of the brain”: Hutchings, Dickens on an Island, 42–44.
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