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18. Reuss, dispatch of February 9, 1889, in Hollaender, Hantsch and Novotny, 141
19. In “Glimpses,” Royalty Digest 1, no. 1 (July 1991): 20.
20. Prince Philipp of Coburg to Queen Victoria, letter of February 10, 1889, in Hollaender, Hantsch and Novotny, 148.
21. Neue Freie Presse, December 25, 1927.
22. Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 278–79.
23. Ibid.
24. Judtmann, 134; Monts, 105.
25. Judtmann, 134; Monts, 105–6.
26. Paget, Embassies, 2:466–67.
27. Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 281; see also Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 392.
28. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 392.
29. Ibid., 393.
30. Haslip, Emperor and the Actress, 101.
31. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 393.
32. Marie Valerie, diary entry of January 29, 1889, in Schad and Schad, 171.
33. Stephanie, 245–46.
34. Stephanie, diary entry of January 31, 1889, cited in Salvendy, 179–80.
35. Stephanie, 246–47.
36. Sophie von Planker-Klaps, in Neues Wiener Journal, January 27, 1929.
37. Schiel, 214.
38. Bibl, 105.
39. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 394–95; Corti, manuscript copy of Marie Valerie’s diary entry of January 30, 1889, per Ida von Ferenczy, quoted in Hamann, Reluctant Empress, 341; Bibl, 105.
40. Bibl, 104.
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1. Hanslick, 2:248.
2. Le Figaro, January 31, 1889.
3. Wiener Zeitung, January 30, 1889.
4. Cassels, Clash, 202; Marek, 279; Wiener Zeitung, January 31, 1889.
5. Margutti, 84.
6. Le Figaro, January 31, 1889.
7. Larisch, My Past, 335.
8. Der Polizeibericht, 25.
9. Corti and Sokol, 122–23; Der Polizeibericht, 34.
10. Der Polizeibericht, 34–35.
11. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 91–92, in Markus and Unterreiner, 264.
12. Judtmann, 131.
13. Larisch, My Past, 341.
14. Der Polizeibericht, 77; Lónyay, 193.
15. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932; Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 284.
16. Judtmann, 128; Markus, 5.
17. Slatin, Abschrift; Countess Zoë Wassilko-Serecki, Protocol of September 5, 1955, quoted in Judtmann, 344; Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 208.
18. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932; Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 278; Count Corti, manuscript copy of Marie Valerie’s diary entry of January 30, 1889, per Ida von Ferenczy, quoted in Judtmann, 144; Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 391; Slatin, Abschrift; Bibl, 109; Krauss, Protocol on January 31 meeting with Taaffe, in Judtmann, 156; Wiener Zeitung, February 2, 1889.
19. Countess Zoë Wassilko-Serecki, Protocol of September 5, 1955, quoted in Judtmann, 344; Slatin and Auchenthaler, Protocol of January 31, 1889, quoted in Lónyay, 185; Judtmann, 138; Count Corti, manuscript copy of Marie Valerie’s diary entry of January 30, 1889, per Ida von Ferenczy, quoted in Judtmann, 144; Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 391; Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 284; Slatin, Abschrift.
20. Corti, manuscript copy of Marie Valerie’s diary entry of January 30, 1889, per Ida von Ferenczy, quoted in Judtmann, 144; Judtmann, 190.
21. Fugger, 198–99.
22. Judtmann, 360n16.
23. Slatin, Abschrift; Hamann, Der Weg nach Mayerling, 129; Judtmann, 138.
24. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932; Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 277; Wiener Zeitung, February 2, 1889.
25. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932; Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 277; Hoyos, Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 284; see also Countess Zoë Wassilko-Serecki, Protocol of September 5, 1955, quoted in Judtmann, 344.
26. Larisch, My Past, 341; Judtmann, 138; Count Corti, manuscript copy of Marie Valerie’s diary entry of January 30, 1889, per Ida von Ferenczy, quoted in Judtmann, 144.
27. Slatin, Abschrift; Bibl, 190.
28. Slatin, Abschrift.
29. Ibid.
30. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932; Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 277.
31. Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 281.
32. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 397.
33. Hamann, Reluctant Empress, 342–43.
34. Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 93.
35. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 398; Neues Wiener Journal, February 18, 1937; Bibl, 69; Hamann, Reluctant Empress, 342.
36. Marie Valerie, diary entry of March 14, 1889, in Schad and Schad, 196.
37. Paleologue, 164.
38. Judtmann, 143.
39. Polzer, 212.
40. The letter was supposedly found by Chief of Police Baron Ferdinand von Gorup, whose account of events at Mayerling contains several demonstrably false claims; Gorup’s own son later deemed the letter a forgery. See Judtmann, 151, and Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 251.
41. Judtmann, 31; Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 220; Markus and Unterreiner, 78.
42. Österreischische Nationalbibliothek press release, August 2, 2015, Österreischische Nationalbibliothek, http://artdaily.com/news/80422/-Sensational-find—at-the-Austrian-National-Library-reveals-passion-of-one-of-history-s-great-affairs#.Vbzsg3hLrwx.
43. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 145–46, in Markus and Unterreiner, 281. The February 9, 1889, edition of Le Figaro printed a variation: “Dear Mother, I am dying with Rudolf; we love each other too much. Forgive me. Farewell from your unhappy Mary. PS: Bratfisch whistled wonderfully last night.” Fritz Judtmann believed that Helene Vetsera showed the letter to a friend with the intention of having it leaked to the press. See Judtmann, 261n25.
44. Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 285.
45. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 147–48, in Markus and Unterreiner, 281.
46. Judtmann, 151. The book Martyrdom of an Empress, page 229, presented what it claimed was an expanded version of this second letter: “He has told me all. I can never be his now. I knew that something dreadful would happen to prevent our being happy so I brought the poison with me and I am going to drink it. When he returns it will be too late to save me, and I will die in his arms, happy to be with him till the last.”
47. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 158, in Markus and Unterreiner, 281.
48. Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 285; Judtmann, 152.
49. Le Figaro, February 9, 1889.
50. Fugger, 199–200; Judtmann, 152; Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 285. The current Braganza family no longer has the original letter and has no knowledge of its fate.
51. Larisch, My Past, 354.
52. Ibid., 344.
53. Le Matin, February 3, 1889.
54. New York Times, February 1, 1889; Le Matin, February 1, 1889.
55. New York Times, February 1, 1889; Le Matin, February 1, 1889; Le Figaro, February 1, 1889; Le Temps, February 2, 1889.
56. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 396; Judtmann, 137, 380.
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1. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, January 30, 1889
2. New York Times, February 1 and February 2, 1889.
3. Barkeley, 3
; Lónyay, 212; Judtmann, 192–94.
4. Lónyay, 180; Judtmann, 232; Ernst, 190.
5. Bibl, 105–6.
6. Corti, manuscript copy of Marie Valerie’s diary entry of January 30, 1889, per Ida von Ferenczy, quoted in Judtmann, 144. The wording here differs slightly from the version given by Corti in his biography of Elisabeth, 396–97. Problematically none of this alleged conversation actually appears in Marie Valerie’s diary as published in Schad and Schad. It is, of course, possible that Ferenczy learned such details and later repeated them, but the variation between Marie Valerie’s actual diary entries and the content as recorded in both Corti’s unpublished notes and his biography of Empress Elisabeth remains unexplained.
7. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 396–97.
8. Bagger, 492.
9. Haslip, Emperor and the Actress, 107.
10. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 398.
11. Ibid.
12. Giesl von Gieslingen, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, December 8, 1937.
13. Judtmann, 266.
14. Wölfing, 51; Louisa of Tuscany, 239.
15. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 398.
16. Karl Ludwig, diary entry of January 30, 1889, in Praschl-Bichler, 96.
17. Lónyay, vii.
18. Le Figaro, February 1, 1889; Le Temps, February 2, 1889.
19. Morton, Nervous, 260.
20. Judtmann, 250–42.
21. Karl Ludwig, diary entry of January 31, 1889, in Praschl-Bichler, 98.
22. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 398–99; New York Times, February 4, 1889; Judtmann, 281; Recollections of a Royal Governess, 163.
23. Marie Valerie, diary entry of January 29, 1889, in Schad and Schad, 170–71.
24. Loehr, 81.
25. Polzer-Hoditz, 434; Franzel, 61; Judtmann, 126; Fugger, 200.
26. Polzer-Hoditz, 434.
27. Judtmann, 174.
28. Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 285.
29. Judtmann, 40, 73; Markus, 103.
30. Krauss, Protocol of February 3, in Der Polizeibericht, 48.
31. Judtmann, 50; Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 390.
32. Fugger, 194–95; Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 285.
33. Marie Valerie, diary entry of January 29, 1889, in Schad and Schad, 170.
34. Corti, manuscript copy of Marie Valerie’s diary entry of January 30, 1889, per Ida von Ferenczy, quoted in Judtmann, 146.
35. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 397.
36. Stephanie, 248.
37. Ibid., 248–49.
38. Fugger, 188.
39. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 94–95, in Markus and Unterreiner, 265.
40. Der Polizeibericht, 26–27.
41. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 95–96, in Markus and Unterreiner, 265.
42. Ibid., 98, in Markus and Unterreiner, 266.
43. Ibid., 100–102, in Markus and Unterreiner, 267.
44. Ibid., 100–101, in Markus and Unterreiner, 267.
45. Barkeley, 262; Judtmann, 170.
46. Der Polizeibericht, 27.
47. Slatin, Abschrift; Lónyay, 190–91.
48. Gorup, in Wiener Montagspost, September 12, 1927.
49. Der Polizeibericht, 28.
50. Slatin, Abschrift; Lónyay, 186–87; Bibl, 112.
51. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 106, in Markus and Unterreiner, 268–69; Countess Zoë Wassilko-Serecki, Protocol of September 5, 1955, quoted in Judtmann, 344.
52. Slatin, Abschrift.
53. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 107–9, in Markus and Unterreiner, 269.
54. Der Polizeibericht, 33–34; Lónyay, 185.
55. Lónyay, 193.
56. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 110–11, in Markus and Unterreiner, 270; Slatin, Abschrift; Larisch, My Past, 349–50; Markus, 13; Barkeley, 260; Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 208.
57. Lónyay, 185; Slatin, Abschrift.
58. Slatin, Abschrift.
59. Ibid.; Lónyay, 185; Loehr, 54–55; Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 111, in Markus and Unterreiner, 270.
60. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 113–14, in Markus and Unterreiner, 270–71.
61. Larisch, My Past, 349–40, 351.
62. Lónyay, 186.
63. Larisch, My Past, 351–52.
64. Lónyay, 191; Larisch, My Past, 351; Slatin, Abschrift.
65. Lónyay, 191.
66. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 114, in Markus and Unterreiner, 271; Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 209; Barkeley, 261; Lónyay, 191; Larisch, My Past, 352.
67. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 118, in Markus and Unterreiner, 272
68. Judtmann, 169–70; Lónyay, 192; Larisch, My Past, 352.
69. Le Temps, February 7, 1889; Le Temps, February 14, 1889; de Weindel, 196; Judtmann, 199.
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1. Marie Valerie, diary entry of January 29, 1889, in Schad and Schad, 171.
2. Wiener Zeitung, February 2, 1889; Judtmann, 185; Unterreiner, Crown Prince Rudolf, 25.
3. Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 277.
4. Wiener Zeitung, February 2, 1889.
5. Barta, 48; Judtmann, 262.
6. Neue Freie Presse, December 25, 1927; Empress Friedrich to Queen Victoria, letter of April 20, 1889, in Ponsonby, 371.
7. Püchel, Reichspost, January 31, 1926.
8. Judtmann, 181.
9. Ibid., 260; Countess Zoë Wassilko-Serecki, Protocol of September 5, 1955, quoted in Judtmann, 344.
10. Monts, 105.
11. Robert, Baron Doblhoff, statement of 1951, quoted in Friedrich, Der Kriminfall Mayerling, 272; Judtmann, 267; Monts, 105.
12. Le Gaulois, February 4, 1889.
13. Ibid., 98.
14. Margutti, 74.
15. Marie Valerie, diary entry of January 29, 1889, in Schad and Schad, 170.
16. Ibid., diary entry of February 5, 1889, in Schad and Schad, 173–75.
17. Mitis, 166.
18. Le Temps, February 3, 1889.
19. Wiener Zeitung, February 1, 1889.
20. Le Matin, February 2, 1889.
21. Wiener Tagblatt, February 1, 1889.
22. Le Figaro, February 2, 1889.
23. Lónyay, 180; Ernst, 190–91; Judtmann, 233.
24. Mitis, 154.
25. Judtmann, 234; Listowel, 236–37.
26. Cantacuzène, 88.
27. Reuss, dispatch of February 5, 1889, in Hollaender, in Hantsch and Novotny, 140–41.
28. Judtmann, 283; Mitis, 153.
29. Morton, Nervous, 256–57; Judtmann, 281–82; Le Figaro, February 3, 1889; Le Matin, February 5 and February 6, 1889; Le Temps, February 5, 1889.
30. Le Gaulois, February 5, 1889; Le Temps, February 6, 1889.
31. Morton, Nervous, 258; Markus, 131.
32. Marie Valerie, diary entry of January 29, 1889, in Schad and Schad, 169–70.
33. Ibid., diary entry of February 4, 1889, in Schad and Schad, 173.
34. Ibid., diary entry of January 29, 1889, in Schad and Schad, 171.
35. Revue Artistique Littéraire et Industrielle,1, December 1, 1896.