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NOTES
To improve readability, there are no footnotes in the text, but they are provided below with page references. The quotes from Allene’s letters come from the three hundred or so letters that have been preserved and are in the possession of Victoria Theisen in Munich and the Dutch Royal Archives in The Hague. For clarity, only quotes from publicly accessible sources are listed below.
Chapter 1
p. 4 the paradise of Kathleen Crocker and Jane Currie. Jamestown, 17.
p. 9 The first iron horse Jamestown Journal, August 26, 1860.
p. 12 How we celebrated “Old Hundred,” Jamestown Journal, July 7, 1876.
Chapter 2
p. 15 It has been Crocker and Currie, Jamestown, 72.
p. 15 the Wealth and Fashion Leone, Poshka, and Norton Jr., Around Chautauqua Lake, 18.
p. 17 Quick wit and daring Wheeler and Rives, Dome of Many-Coloured Glass, 628.
p. 17 a blue-eyed blonde Gross, 740 Park, 111.
p. 17 charming . . . rakish . . . a gay Gross, 111.
p. 18 They can talk Young, The Toadstool Millionaires, 1.
p. 23 hell with the lid Parton, “Pittsburgh,” Atlantic Monthly, January 1868, 17–35.
p. 24 A great deal Keylon, “Garden Cities at Risk, Chapter Four: Wyvernwood and the ‘Hostetter Tract,’” Baldwin Hills Village and the Village Green (blog) July 14, 2011, http://baldwinhillsvillageandthevillagegreen.blogspot.nl/2011/07/garden-cities-at-riskchapter-four.html?m=1.
p. 25 the glittering paradise Gross, 740 Park, 111.
p. 26 All guests were Buttrick, Images of America: Jamestown, 91.
p. 28 In her tastes Haven, The Pittsburgh and Allegheny Blue Book 1895, 81.
p. 32 a good body MacArthur, “Kobuta,” 2.
p. 32 a first-class MacArthur, 9.
p. 33 Picturesque Raccoon Farm “Picturesque Raccoon Farm—A Country House of Magnificence where Wealth and Good Taste Are Combined to Produce the Happiest Effect,” Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 6 October 1894.
Chapter 3
p. 34 He never sat MacArthur, “Kobuta,” 9.
p. 35 Inherited wealth is King, A Season of Splendor, 54.
p. 35 You may talk “David Johnson Dies after an Operation,” New York Times, June 30, 1911.
p. 36 wealthiest city of King, A Season of Splendor, 13.
p. 36 the nerviest gentleman “Year of Gambling Costs Hostetter a Million Dollars,” Evening World, February 7, 1903.
p. 37 Several steam yachts “On Their Annual Cruise,” New York Times, July 12, 1896.
p. 39 Roulette was his “Theodore Hostetter ‘The Lucky Plunger,’” New York Times, February 8, 1903.
p. 40 many a gay Gross, 740 Park, 111.
p. 41 Theodore Hostetter was “Theodore Hostetter Dies in New York,” Pittsburgh Daily Post (Pittsburgh, PA), August 4, 1902.
p. 41 Society, always fearful Gross, 740 Park, 111.
p. 42 small affair with MacArthur, “Kobuta,” 9.
p. 42 one of the Washington Post, February 8, 1903.
p. 43 Canfield’s was the King, A Season of Splendor, 94.
p. 43 handsome pair of “The News from Narragansett,” New York Times, July 20, 1902.
p. 46 I loved Tod Evening World, February 7, 1903.
p. 46 Famous Plunger Accepts New York Times, June 30, 1911.
Chapter 4
p. 48 ball of sunlight Bryson, Een huis vol: Een kleine geschiedenis van het dagelijks leven, 165.
p. 50 I don’t deal King, A Season of Splendor, 432.
p. 52 Morton Colton Nichols “Echoes from Clubland,” New York Times, July 12, 1904.
p. 60 Her fortune was Washington Post, January 28, 1928.
Chapter 5
p. 62 one might therefore Hutto, Crowning Glory, 13.
p. 62 American women are Hutto, 12.
p. 66 doing the theatres New York Times, November 24, 1912.
p. 67 well known in society “Hitch in wedding of Anson Burchard,” New York Times, November 22, 1912.
p. 67 Widow Is Not “Hitch,” New York Times, November 22, 1912.
p. 68 the late Charles New York Times, April 10, 1912.
p. 69 He was the Anne Walton, personal communication with author, September 12, 2015.
p. 70 the old island Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
p. 70 the wealthy aristocrats Country Life in America, March 1913.
Chapter 6
p. 72 Teddy was an De Wolfe Howe, Memoirs of the Harvard Dead, 350.
p. 74 He was embarking Gibbons, Wye Island, 2007.
p. 74 a liar Gibbons.
p. 75 a Chrysanthemum Wedding “Diplomat’s Bride Is Miss Hostetter,” New York Times, October 22, 1914.
p. 76 Heir to Austria’s “Heir to Austria’s Throne is Slain with His Wife by a Bosnian Youth to Avenge Seizure of His Country,” New York Times, June 29, 1914.
p. 78 cut with a knife Wheeler and Rives, Dome of Many-Coloured Glass, 478.
p. 80 The RFC attracted Lewis, Sagittarius Rising, 1936.
p. 80 It’s a great Allen Parr to his family, February 6, 1918, Harrison Griswold Dwight Papers, Amherst College Archives & Special Collections, Amherst, MA.
p. 84 Lieutenant Hostetter was De Wolfe Howe, Memoirs of the Harvard Dead, 352.
p. 86 We flew together Kinney, I Flew a Camel, 65.
Chapter 7
p. 88 Harvard graduate fails Star Press (Muncie IN), October 23, 1918.
p. 88 sad but proud “Editorials,” The Pontefract, November 16, 1918.
p. 88 Death card made Dossier T. R. Hostetter, Harvard University Library.
p. 89 New York had Fitzgerald, My Lost City, 12.
p. 90 It affords me Letter with passport application, February 18, 1919, Ancestry.com.
p. 92 This is without Gibbons, Wye Island, 2007.
p. 95 If America has New Republic, 1927.
p. 95 genius in financial Bramsen, Open Doors, 141.
p. 95 extremely wealthy Bramsen, 324.
p. 97 the richest and Gross, 740 Park, 113.
Chapter 8
p. 106 einem tief einschneidenden Henry Reuss XXXIII, personal communication to N. N., August 21, 1928.
p. 106 I have got engaged He
nry Reuss XXXIII, August 21, 1928.
p. 107 My fiancée is Henry Reuss XXXIII, August 21, 1928.
p. 107 I told the children Henry Reuss XXXIII, August 21, 1928.
p. 109 one of the Radziwill, France from Behind the Veil, 346.
p. 111 intelligent, good-looking and Cleverens, De Oranje-erfopvolging rond de eeuwwisseling, 102.
p. 113 from next year onwards Henry Reuss XXXIII, August 21, 1928.
p. 113 these affairs are Henry Reuss XXXIII, August 21, 1928.
p. 113 During her engagement Wheeler and Rives, Dome of Many-Coloured Glass, 628.
p. 114 Mrs. Burchard . . . is May Birkhead, “Moultons Restore Chateau in France,” New York Times, October 28, 1928.
p. 114 a floating palace New York Times, January 13, 1929.
p. 114–15 Prince is to Washington Post, January 26, 1929.
p. 115 Prince Henry was Time Magazine, May 1929.
p. 116 not at all welcome Conversation between Bearn Bilker and Angelika Steiner-Bilker with Princess Woizlawa Feodora Reuss, Duchess of Mecklenburg, August 14, 2014.
p. 118 For Sale, Cheap Benstock, No Gifts from Chance, 118.
p. 122 painfully wrought “33rd Henry,” Time Magazine, April 20, 1931.
Chapter 9
p. 123 Rache, Rache, und Kotlarek, Krajobrazy Lubuskie, 119–129
p. 125 The SS liaison Kotlarek, 119–129
p. 126 Henry had been Gross, 740 Park, 114.
p. 130 new War Minister Paley, Princess Olga Valerianovna. Memories of Russia.
p. 130 which he enjoys “Ex-Czar, Guarded, Has Fits of Crying,” New York Times, March 27, 1917.
p. 130 boyish interest New York Times, March 27, 1917.
p. 130 her real malady New York Times, March 27, 1917.
p. 130 youthful and urbane New York Times, March 27, 1917.
p. 131 Here lies Rasputin New York Times, March 27, 1917.
p. 131 although the body Kotzebue, History and Genealogy of the Kotzebue Family, 264.
p. 133 There is something Gross, 740 Park, 111.
p. 133 Greatest example of “A Women’s New York,” Washington Post, June 7, 1938.
p. 133 The Princess with “De prinses met het huwelijksrecord,” Het Vaderland, March 28, 1936.
p. 134 never too late Het Vaderland, March 28, 1936.
p. 134 Paul was kindness Kotzebue, History and Genealogy of the Kotzebue Family, 268.
Chapter 10
p. 138 He was allowed Zijl, Bernhard, 230.
p. 139 The former Allene “Gossip in the Palace,” Battle Creek Enquirer, October 12, 1956.
p. 142 very good impression Fasseur, Wilhelmina, 138.
p. 142 beggars can’t be Zijl, Bernhard, 236.
p. 143 Juliana, Bernhard and Hatch, Prins Bernhard, 72.
p. 145 a plump, placid Zijl, Bernhard, 276.
p. 145 Like all good Hatch, Prins Bernhard, 82.
p. 146 one of the New York Times, January 26, 1938.
p. 147 may be sooner Paul Kotzebue, personal correspondence to Jacques Seligmann, Box 54, Folder 13 (April 1939), in Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, 1904–1978, bulk 1913–1974. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, www.aaa.si.edu/collections/jacques-seligmann-co-records-9936/more.
Chapter 11
p. 157 The farther I have Benstock, No Gifts from Chance, 235.
p. 158 very vibrant “Contest Will of Countess in Newport,” Chicago Daily Tribune, July 31, 1955.
p. 159 a very social Kotzebue, History and Genealogy of the Kotzebue Family, 268.
p. 160 friend of other years Wheeler and Rives, Dome of Many-Coloured Glass, 629.
Chapter 12
p. 167 a live court “Contest Will of Countess in Newport,” Chicago Daily Tribune, July 31, 1955.
p. 168 Took Burchard name New York Times, June 30, 1928.
p. 168 Heirs at Law Case no. 9400, Probate Court City of Newport, RI.
p. 169 a retinue of Gross, 740 Park, 186.
p. 172 the endlessly changing Benstock, No Gifts from Chance, 133.
p. 173 a visit to Leidsch Dagblad, April 10, 1952.
p. 173 to mediate “Gossip in the Palace,” Detroit Free Press, October 12, 1956.
p. 178 The driver is New York Times, December 10, 1955.
p. 178 Now I am really Kotzebue, History and Genealogy of the Kotzebue Family, 268.
p. 179 I have secrets Kotzebue, 268.
p. 181 I found her Anne Walton, personal communication with author, September 12, 2015.
INDEX
Note: Members of the aristocracy are listed only by their first names.
Ackermann, Dr. 176
Alexei N. Czarevich (Crown Prince) of Russia (1904–1918) 129, 130
Alexandra Feodorovna Czarina of Russia (1872–1918) 128, 129
Archer (married name Stewart), Cecile ‘Jacqueline’ (1888–1964) 92
Arenberg, Valerie Marie Dutchess of’ (1900–1953) 160
Armgard Princess zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (1883–1971) 127, 137, 139, 143
Aschwin Prince zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (1914–1988) 161, 171
Astor, Caroline (Caroline W. Schermerhorn, 1830–1908) 20, 25, 27, 30, 53, 58, 149, 150, 171
Astor, John Jacob IV (‘Jack’) (1864–1912) 58, 64, 149
Astor, William Waldorf (1848–1919) 39
Austin, Warren R. (1877–1962) 159
Bateman, Marion zie Graham
Beatrix (‘Trix’) Princess of the Netherlands (1938) 145, 146, 173
Bernhard Prince zur Lippe (1872–1934) 137
Bernhard Prince zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (Prince of the Netherlands) (1911–2004) 137–45, 150, 151, 161, 171, 173, 184
Billings, C. K. G. (1861–1937) 50, 59
Bismarck, Otto E. L. Prince (1815–1898) 76
Blunt, Cecil C. Count Pecci-Blunt (1885–1965) 141, 147
Blunt-Pecci, Anna zie Pecci (-Blunt)
Borwick, George 2nd Baron (1880–1941) 63
Borwick, Mrs. Mary see Hasell
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine Count of (1729–1811) 117
Bouvier (married name Kennedy), Jacqueline (1929–1994) 172
Brandon, Ruth (1943) 62
Brown, Alice 127, 162, 170, 174, 179
Bruce, David K. E. (1898–1977) 159
Bryan, William Jennings (1860–1925) 38
Burchard, Anson Wood (1865–1927) 65–71, 74–75, 78–79, 83–85, 87, 89–98, 109–10, 117, 119, 122, 126, 133, 168, 178–79, 183, 185, 195–96
Burchard, Seth see Rosewater
Burnet, John Sanford 171–72, 174
Caffery, Jefferson (1886–1974) 159
Candela, Rosario (1890–1952) 120
Canfield, Richard (1855–1914) 43–44, 46
Carnegie, Andrew (1835–1919) 19, 45
Chrysler, Walter, Jr. (1909–1988) 178
Churchill, Lord Randolph H. Spencer (1849–1895) 62
Churchill, Sir Winston L. Spencer (1874–1965) 62, 159, 165, 172
Cito-Filomarino di Bitetto, Emily de see Taylor
Clemenceau, George (1841–1929) 20
Cocteau, Jean (1889–1963) 141
Coffin, Charles Albert (1844–1926) 66, 70–71
Cohu, Henry Wallace (‘Wally’) (1897–1983) 94, 164, 169, 171, 178
Cohu, Kitty see Kimball
Coolidge, J. Calvin (1872–1933) 118
Crowell, Benedict 79
Dadiani, G. N. (‘George(s)’) (1912–1985) 148, 168
Dadiani, Lucy see Tew
Dadiani, N. Prince (1879–1939) 148
Dalí, Salvador (1904–1989) 141
Davison, Henry Pomeroy (1867–1922) 95
Dietz (married name Nichols), Ethel S. (1888–1985) 59
Dior, Christian (1905–1957) 58
Dulles, John Foster (1888–1959) 159
Edison, Thomas (1847–1931) 15, 48, 66
Edward VIII, Crown Prince (King) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1894–1972) 160
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (‘Ike’) (1890–196
9) 159, 173
Fish, Mamie (M. G. ‘Mamie’ Anthon, 1853–1915) 31
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896–1940) 70–71, 89, 119
Ferdinand, Franz Archduke (1863–1914) 76
Frick, Henry Clay (1849–1919) 41
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727–1788) 96
Garfield, James A. (1831–1881) 15
Gates, John W. (1855–1911) 41
George V King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Emperor of India (1865–1936) 63
Ghislaine Princess of Monaco (1900–1991) 159
Gilbert, Charles ‘Cass’ (1859–1934) 55, 68, 195
Goodrich, Benjamin F. (1841–1888) 10
Göring, Hermann (1893–1946) 151
Grace (1st marriage Kerr, 2nd Baroness Greville), Lady Olive A. (1876–1959) 62, 68, 108–9, 114, 159
Graham (married name Hanbury Baroness Bateman of Shobdon), Marion A. 160, 164
Grant, Cary (1904–1986) 183
Grant, Ulysses S. (1822–1885) 52
Greim, Robert (1892–1945) 90–91, 151
Greville, Lady Olive see Grace
Greville, Lord Charles Beresford Fulke Greville, 3rd Baron (1871–1952) 62, 68, 109, 114
Guggenheim, Benjamin (1865–1912) 64
Hasell (married name Baroness Borwick), Mary M. 63, 68
Hearst, William Randolph (1863–1951) 31
Heinrich II (‘Heiner’) Prince Reuss zu Kostritz (1916–1993) 106, 108, 111, 126, 141, 153–58, 161, 163–64, 167–71, 173–76, 178, 180–81, 183, 185
Heinrich XXXII (‘Heino’) Prince Reuss zu Kostritz (1878–1935) 111
Heinrich XXXIII (‘Henry’) Prince Reuss zu Kostritz (1879–1942) 110–17, 120–27, 132–33, 136–37, 141, 153, 159
Heinrich (‘Henrico’ of Ico) Prince Reuss zu Kostritz 111
Henry Reuss see Heinrich XXXIII (‘Henry’)
Herreshoff, Nathanael (1848–1938) 26, 31
Himmler, Heinrich (1900–1945) 124
Hitchcock, Alfred (1899–1980) 183
Hitler, Adolf (1889–1945) 124–25, 139, 147, 151
Hofmans, Greet (1894–1968) 173
Hostetter, David (1819–1888) 17–19, 25
Hostetter, David ‘Herbert,’ Jr. (1859–1924) 23–24, 42, 44, 51, 61, 73
Hostetter, Greta (1891–1918) 42, 47, 51, 53, 56–57, 59–61, 63–64, 66, 75, 83, 85, 87–88, 93–94, 135, 149, 184
Hostetter, Dr. J. (1791–1859) 18
Hostetter, Rosetta (Rosetta Cobb Rickey, 1829–1904) 21, 24, 29, 51
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