Additional references for this chapter include:
Germain Bapst, Histoire des Joyaux de la Couronne (Paris: Libraire Hachette et Cie.), 1889.
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone, ed. Anthea Todd (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1982).
Marian Fowler, Hope: Adventures of a Diamond (New York: Ballantine Books, 2002).
Richard Kurin, Hope Diamond: The Legendary History of a Cursed Gem (New York: Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, 2006).
John Mawe, A Treatise on Diamonds and Precious Stones (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Browne, 1813, 1815, 1823).
Bernard Morel, Les Joyaux de la Couronne de France (Antwerp: Fonds Merctor, 1988).
Susanne Steinem Patch, Blue Mystery: The Story of the Hope Diamond (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976); 2nd edition (New York: Harry Abrams, Inc., 1999).
Edwin W. Streeter, Precious Stones and Gems (London: Chapman and Hall, 1877, 1882).
Edwin W. Streeter, The Great Gems of the World (London: George Bell and Sons, 1882).
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Travels in India, trans. Valentine Ball [1889], ed. William Crooke (London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925).
CHAPTER FIVE: My Honey
1. Gates, Hope Diamond, 91.
2. “Miss May Yohe at Rehearsal,” Penny Illustrated Paper, October 27, 1894, 258.
3. “Comic Opera Duchess,” Washington Post, April 1, 1894, 10; “Lyric Theatre,” The Times, January 20, 1893, 6; “Senor Albéniz’s ‘Magic Opal,” The Graphic London, January 28, 1893; “Music and the Drama,” Penny Illustrated Paper, January 28, 1893, 58.
4. On and Off, 44.
5. George Bernard Shaw, Music in London, 1890–94, 249. (New York: Brentano’s, 1906).
6. “May Yohe. Gallery of Players,” ed. Henry Austin, The Illustrated American Magazine, No. 7 (Lorillard Spencer, New York: 1895), 28.
7. On and Off, 44.
8. “Miss May Yohe at Rehearsal,” 258.
9. The Sunday Chronicle (Manchester), March 13, 1893.
10. “Trafalgar-Square Theatre,” The Times, May 8, 1893, 8 Col. A, p. 8.
11. The Theatre, ed. Charles Eglington, Vol. 21, London, June 1, 1893, 335–36.
12. Eva Moore, Exits and Entrances (London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1923), 36–7.
13. “Comic Opera Duchess,” 10.
14. “May Yohe Triumphed,” Brooklyn Eagle, July 7, 1894, 6. Also quoted in “Actors Rush to Law,” Chicago Daily, July 8, 1894, 9.
15. “Marriage of May Yohe is Verified,” Chicago Daily Tribune, January 13, 1895, p. 9.
16. Sir Henry Joseph Wood. My Life of Music (Books for Libraries Press, 1971) 67; “Deepdene Dorking,” Penny Illustrated Paper, October 12, 1895; “The Ghost Walk,” Otago Witness, January 9, 1907, p. 60.
17. “Comic Opera Duchess,” 10.
18. “Oh, Honey, My Honey,” composed by Ivan Caryll, words by George R. Sims and Cecil Raleigh, for Little Christopher Columbus (London: Hopwood & Crew, 1893), 175–84.
19. Gates, Hope Diamond, 91
20. Shaw, Music in London, 67.
21. “May Yohe. Gallery of Players,” 28.
22. “May Yohe. Gallery of Players,” 28.
23. “May Yohe. Gallery of Players,” 28.
24. “May Yohe. Gallery of Players,” 28.
25. “Miss May Yohe at Rehearsal,” 258.
26. “On the London Stage,” Chicago Daily, August 5, 1894, 9.
27. Review from The Times, in Horace Wyndham, Chorus to Coronet (London: British Technical and General Press, 1951).
28. Keble Howard, My Motley Life: A Tale of Struggle (London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1927), 96.
29. “Poem to May Yohe,” Sister Olive, in The Sketch, March, 20, 1895.
Additional references for this chapter include:
Cranstoun Metcalfe, Peeresses of the Stage (London: Andrew Melrose, 1913).
Ernest Henry Short and Arthur Compton-Rickett, Ring Up the Curtain (London: Herbert Jenkins, Ltd., 1970).
The Mascot, June 27, 1896.
The Theatre, June 1, 1893.
Playbills:
Little Christopher Columbus, Lyric Theatre, London.
Mam’zelle Nitouche, Trafalgar Square Theatre, London.
CHAPTER SIX: Aristocratic Artist
1. “What’s A Poor Girl To Do?” music by Mary Watson, words by Joseph Watson, for The Lady Slavey: A New Musical Comedy in Two Acts, words by George Dance, music by John Crook (London: Hopwood & Crew, 1896), 17–20.
2. “Comic Opera Duchess,” 10.
3. “May Yohe’s Capture Denied,” Chicago Daily Tribune, August 26, 1893, 5.
4. “May Yohe’s Capture Denied,” 5.
5. “May Yohe’s Capture Denied,” 5.
6. “Some Ignoble Types: Blots on the Escutcheon of Britain’s Aristocracy,” Chicago Daily Tribune, October 20, 1893, 13.
7. “Comic Opera Duchess,” 10.
8. “May Yohe’s Capture Denied,” 5.
9. “May Yohe’s Capture Denied,” 5.
10. “Comic Opera Duchess,” 10.
11. “Some Ignoble Types,” 13.
12. “Comic Opera Duchess,” 10.
13. “Comic Opera Duchess,” 10; “Anti-English Cabinet,” New York Times, June 3, 1894, 17.
14. Gates, Hope Diamond, 92.
15. Gates, Hope Diamond, 92.
16. Gates, Hope Diamond, 93.
17. Gates, Hope Diamond, 93.
18. “What’s A Poor Girl To Do?” 17–20.
19. “She Captures a Coronet,” Washington Times, January 13, 1895, 5.
20. Gates, Hope Diamond, 94–98.
Additional references for this chapter include:
Madeline Bingham, Earls and Girls (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980)
“May Yohe’s Husband’s Debts.” New York Times, December 20, 1895, 5.
“May Yohe Married to a Lord,” Chicago Daily Tribune, March 31, 1894, 5.
R. Caton Woodville, Random Recollections. (London: Evelyn Nash, 1914).
Playbills:
Mam’zelle Nitouche, Royal Court Theatre, London.
Dandy Dick Whittington, Avenue Theatre, London.
CHAPTER SEVEN: Destitute Duchess
1. Gates, Hope Diamond, 208.
2. “May Yohe’s Catch,” Los Angeles Times, January 20, 1895, 2.
3. “Lady Francis Hope (Miss May Yohe) and Lord Francis Hope.” Chicago Daily Tribune, January 11, 1897, 3; Washington Post, February 1, 1897; cf. Armond Fields and Marc Fields, From the Bowery to Broadway: Lew Fields and the roots of American Popular Theatre (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 130.
4. “Anti-English Cabinet,” 17.
5. William Archer, The Theatrical World of 1894 (London: Walter Scott, Ltd., 1895), 287.
6. Gates, Hope Diamond, 98–99.
7. Gates, Hope Diamond, 100.
8. “Y-O-H-E Without an Accent,” 41.
9. “Y-O-H-E Without an Accent,” 41.
10. “Y-O-H-E Without an Accent,” 41.
11. “Avenue Theatre,” The Times, March 4, 1895, 3.
12. “Taken from Truth,” Chicago Daily Tribune, March 27, 1895, 6.
13. “Drama Over the Water,” Chicago Daily Tribune, July 7, 1895, 38; “About the Theaters,” Los Angeles Times, July 14, 1895, 23.
14. “Work for Lady Hope,” Washington, November 3, 1895, 22; Gates, Hope Diamond, 100.
15. “Work for Lady Hope,” 22.
16. “Work for Lady Hope,” 22.
17. “Work for Lady Hope,” 22.
18. Archer, Theatrical World of 1896, 282.
19. “May Yohe in Mam’zelle Nitouche,” Chicago Daily Tribune, June 2, 1896, 1.
20. George Bernard Shaw, Dramatic Opinions and Essays, Vol. II (New York: Brentano’s, 1906), 23–26.
21. “May Yohe’s Success on the Metropolitan Stage,” News of the London Theaters, Chicago Daily Tribune, July 26, 1896, 13.
22. Curtis Brown, “Home of a Duchess in Lo
ndon Slums,” Los Angeles Times, February 22, 1903, D7.
23. Los Angeles Times, July 3, 1898, 2.
24. R. Caton Woodville, Random Recollections (London: Evelyn Nash, 1914), 143.
25. “Langtry and Husband Part,” Chicago Daily Tribune, October 31, 1899, 1.
26. Gates, Hope Diamond, 101.
27. Gates, Hope Diamond, 101.
28. Gates, Hope Diamond, 102.
Additional references for this chapter include:
“In Re Hope,” The Times, November 1, 1895, 8.
“Hope Diamond A White Elephant,” Boston Daily Globe, May 17, 1899, 1.
“In Re Hope; De Cetto v. Hope,” The Law Reports, Supreme Court of Judicature, Chancery Division, London: Council of Law Reporting, 1899, v. 2, 679–95.
“Marquis de Fontenoy Letter,” Chicago Daily Tribune, April 4, 1900, 10.
“May Yohe’s English Lord Deserted Her,” Denver Evening Post, September 21, 1899.
“The Affairs of Lord Francis Hope,” The Times, July 16, 1894, 13.
“The Story of Lord Francis Hope and May Yohe,” Denver Evening Post, November 13, 1898, 12.
“Will The Iron Molder’s Child Be a Duchess,” Denver Evening Post, September 24, 1899, 3.
CHAPTER EIGHT: New York’s Finest Lover
1. Gates, Hope Diamond, 210.
2. Gates, Hope Diamond, 211.
3. Gates, Hope Diamond, 211.
4. Gates, Hope Diamond, 212.
5. Gates, Hope Diamond, 212.
6. Gates, Hope Diamond, 212.
7. Gates, Hope Diamond, 213.
8. Gates, Hope Diamond, 213.
9. Gates, Hope Diamond, 213–214.
10. Gates, Hope Diamond, 214.
11. Gates, Hope Diamond, 215–216.
12. Gates, Hope Diamond, 216.
13. Gates, Hope Diamond, 217.
14. Gates, Hope Diamond, 218.
15. “May Yohe Finally Recognized,” Chicago Daily Tribune (Special Cable to the New York World and Chicago Daily Tribune), November 14, 1900, 3.
16. “May Yohe Finally Recognized.”
17. “Duke of New Castle Here,” New York Times, December 18, 1900, 8.
18. T. Allston Brown, A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 (New York: Dodd Mead and Co., 1903), 606.
19. “May Yohe Here Again,” New York Times, December 25, 1900, 7.
20. “Theaters in Manhattan: The New York,” Brooklyn Eagle, December 26, 1900, 15.
21. “Drama and Music: The Greatest Thing in the World,” Boston Daily Globe, March 19, 1901, 8.
22. Gates, Hope Diamond, 219–220.
23. “Lord Francis Hope’s Mistake,” Auckland Star, May 3, 1902, 5.
24. “Lord Leaves His Lady,” Los Angeles Times, March 30, 1901, 2.
25. “Lord Leaves His Lady,” 2.
26. Chicago Daily Tribune, April 22, 1901.
27. “Yohe Faints on Stage,” Chicago Daily Tribune, April 23, 1901, 1.
28. “Yohe Faints on Stage.”
29. “Yohe Faints on Stage.”
30. “Yohe Faints on Stage.”
Additional references for this chapter include:
“Lady Francis Hope Sued,” New York Times, October 11, 1900, 5.
“Plays and Players: News of the Drama in the Great Metropolis,” Los Angeles Times, April 2, 1901, C3.
“Says May Yohe That Was,” Brooklyn Eagle, April 1, 1901, 8.
Playbill:
The Giddy Throng, New York Theatre, New York, December 31, 1900.
CHAPTER NINE: Exotic Romance
1. Wyndham, Chorus to Coronet.
2. “Escaped Tale that Shocks Two Cities,” Los Angeles Times, July 13, 1901, 2.
3. “Romance in New York,” Los Angeles Times, July 13, 1901, 2.
4. “Romance in New York,” 2.
5. “War Department inclines to be Lenient with Strong,” San Francisco Call, July 14, 1901.
6. “Officer in a Scrape,” Washington Post, July 14, 1901, 2.
7. “A Tangled Web Growing More Complicated,” The Atlanta Constitution, July 25, 1901, 6.
8. Wyndham, Chorus to Coronet. Also, variations such as “At first there was Hope. After that there was a Strong chance of misery.” El Paso Herald, January 5, 1912.
9. Gates, Hope Diamond, 223.
10. “Putnam Bradlee Strong’s Denial,” New York Times, December 4, 1901, 2; “Hope-Strong Alliance,” Los Angeles Times, December 4, 1901, 10.
11. Gates, Hope Diamond, 224.
12. Gates, Hope Diamond, 224.
13. Gates, Hope Diamond, 225.
14. Gates, Hope Diamond, 226.
15. Gates, Hope Diamond, 219–27.
16. “May Yohe in New York,” Boston Daily Globe, April 29, 1902, 4.
17. Gates, Hope Diamond, 227.
18. The Evening World, Night Edition, July 19, 1902, 3.
19. “Tales of the Town. Cut by his Old Friends: Putnam Bradlee Strong Had a Bad Day at the Races,” Washington Post, July 27, 1902, 15.
Additional references for this chapter include:
‘Hope v. Hope and Strong,” Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division, The Times, March 22, 1902, 6.
“May Yohe Divorced,” Boston Daily Globe, March 22, 1902, 14.
CHAPTER TEN: Betrayed, Again
1. Gates, Hope Diamond, 230.
2. “Major Strong Is Missing,” New York Times, July 20, 1902, 1; “May Yohe Now Mourning For Jewels and Strong,” Atlanta Constitution, July 20, 1902, 3; “May Yohe’s Lover Breaks Away from Her,” Los Angeles Times, July 20, 1902, 5.
3. Yohe, “Hope Diamond Mystery,” chap. 10.
4. “Major Strong is Missing.”
5. “Strong Missing: Yohe Deserted,” Chicago Daily Tribune, July 20, 1902, 5.
6. “May Yohe on His Trail,” Washington Post, July 22, 1902, 3.
7. “Major Strong is Missing,” 1.
8. “Miss Yohe Threatens Arrest of Major Strong,” New York Times, July 21, 1902, 1.
9. “Strong Missing: Yohe Deserted,” 1.
10. “Major Strong Accused of Grand Larceny,” New York Times, July 22, 1902, 2.
11. “Miss Yohe Threatens Arrest,” 1.
12. “May Yohe Relates Strong Tale of Woe,” Atlanta Constitution, July 24, 1902, 6.
13. “Major Strong Accused,” 2.
14. “Miss Yohe Threatens Arrest,” 1; “Can’t Find Him,” Boston Daily Globe, July 21, 1902, 7.
15. “Strong Missing; Yohe Deserted.”
16. “May Yohe Jealous,” Los Angeles Times, July 21, 1902, 3.
17. “May Yohe Relates Strong Tale of Woe,” 6.
18. “Yohe May Cause Strong’s Arrest,” Chicago Daily Tribune, July 21, 1902, 4.
19. “May Yohe Orders Strong’s Arrest,” 1.
20. “Unhappy May,” Boston Daily Globe, July 22, 1902, 2.
21. List published in “Major Strong Accused,” 2.
22. “May Yohe Relates Strong Tale of Woe,” 6.
23. “May Yohe Orders Strong’s Arrest,” 1.
24. “Major Strong Accused of Grand Larceny,” 2.
25. “May Yohe’s Claim Paid,” Chicago Daily Tribune, July 23, 1902, 3. Also quoted in “May Yohe to Sail for Japan,” Brooklyn Eagle, July 23, 1902, 6. Also quoted in “Out of Pawn,” Boston Daily Globe, July 23, 1902, 3.
26. “Strong and Miss Yohe en Route to Japan,” New York Times, July 23, 1902, 1.
27. “New York’s Latest,” Atlanta Constitution, July 24, 1902, 6.
28. “Strong Arrives in London,” Chicago Daily Tribune, July 25, 1902, 3; “Strong Denies Robbing May,” Atlanta Constitution, July 25, 1902, 2.
29. “May Yohe Sails Also,” Boston Daily Globe, July 25, 1902, 7.
30. “Says Strong Tells Lies,” Los Angeles Times, August, 1, 1902, 3; “Batch of Lies,” Boston Daily Globe, August 1, 1902, 2.
31. “Says Strong Tells Lies,” 3; “Batch of Lies,” Boston Daily Globe, 2; “Article 1-No Title,” New York Tim
es, August 1, 1902, 5; “Talks of Forgiving Him,” Los Angeles Times, August 1, 1902, 3; “May Yohe Blames Strong,” Washington Post, August 1, 1902, 1.
32. “Says Strong Tells Lies,” 3; “Batch of Lies,” 2; “May Yohe in England,” New York Times, August 1, 1902, 5; “May Yohe Lets Drive at Her Flitting Lover,” Atlanta Constitution, August 1, 1902, 3; “May Yohe Blames Strong,” 1.
33. “May and Puttee to Get Together,” Atlanta Constitution, August 2, 1902, 1; “May Yohe Forgives All; Asks Strong to Come Back,” Chicago Daily Tribune, August 2, 1902, 1.
34. “Hysterical May Yohe Wants her Bradlee,” Los Angeles Times, August 2, 1902, 2; “Yohe Sighs for Strong,” Washington Post, August 2, 1902, 1; “Miss Yohe and Strong Likely to Be Reconciled,” New York Times, August 2, 1902, 3; “Yohe in London,” Boston Daily Globe, August 2, 1902, 3; “May Yohe Forgives All; Asks Strong to Come Back,” 1.
35. “May and Puttee To Get Together,” 1.
36. “Yohe Flies to Lisbon to Join Her Bradlee.” Atlanta Constitution, August 14, 1902, 1; “Strong and May Yohe are Together Again,” New York Times, August 14, 1902, 1.
37. “Yohe Flies to Lisbon to Join Her Bradlee,” 1.
38. “Yohe Flies to Lisbon to Join Her Bradlee,” 1.
39. Yohe, “Hope Diamond Mystery”, chap. 11.
40. Gates, Hope Diamond, 235–236.
41. Gates, Hope Diamond, 237.
42. “May and Putty Wedded at Last,” Atlanta Constitution, October 5, 1902, A11; “Points of Interest,” Washington Post, October 5, 1902, 11; “Strong and May Yohe Married,” Boston Daily Globe, October 5, 1902, 28.
43. “Letter of Marquise de Fontenoy,” Chicago Daily Tribune, October 6, 1902, 12.
44. “May Yohe in England,” New York Times, August 1, 1902, 5; “May Yohe Lets Drive at her Flitting Lover,” 3; “May Yohe Blames Strong,” 1.
45. “May Yohe Back to the ‘Halls’,” Washington Post, April 24, 1904, B2.
46. “Quips and Cues,” Los Angeles Times, October 9, 1904, E1.
47. “The Drama—Players, Playhouses, Music and Musicians,” Los Angeles Times, December 25, 1904, D1.
48. “Down in the Subway,” words by William Jerome, music by Jean Schwartz, 1904.
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