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Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

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by Clifton Fadiman


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  INDEX OF NAMES

  This index lists the names of every person appearing in the book (except for those mentioned in the anecdotes set in small type). Boldface type indicates those persons who have anecdotes of their own. These persons may also be mentioned in other persons’ anecdotes, and this is indicated by an indented name. Those persons whose names are set in lightface type appear only in other persons’ anecdotes. Numbers refer to anecdotes, not pages. Thus:

  Lamb, Charles

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 3, 7

  Elliston, Robert W., 1

  Wordsworth, William, 2

  means that Charles Lamb has anecdotes under his own name, and he is mentioned in anecdotes 3 and 7 for Samuel Taylor Coleridge, anecdote 1 for Robert W. Elliston, and anecdote 2 for William Wordsworth.

  Aaron, Henry “Hank”

  Abbey, Edwin A.

  Sargent, John Singer, 1

  Abdul Hamid III

  John, Augustus, 1

  Aberconway, Lady

  Walton, Sir William, 2

  Abernethy, John

  Acheson, Dean

  Acton, Harold

  Waugh, Evelyn, 1

  Adam, William

  Fox, Charles James, 2

  Adams, Abigail

  John Adams, 3

  Adams, Alexander

  Adams, Ansel

  Adams, Franklin P.

  Ross, Harold, 7

  Adams, Henry

  Adams, John

  Jefferson, Thomas, 13

  Adams, John Quincy

  Addams, Jane

  Addison, Joseph

  Ade, George

  Adee, Alvey A.

  Adenauer, Konrad

  Adler, Hermann

  Adler, Mortimer

  Stein, Gertrude, 7

  Adler, Stella

  Clurman, Harold, 1, 2

  Adolf of Sweden

  Baker, Josephine, 1

  Aeschylus

  Agassiz, Jean Louis

  Agate, James

  Braithwaite, Dame Lilian, 2

  Agesilaus

  Henri IV, 5

  Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius

  Julia, 1

  Agrippina

  Nero, 1

  Aidan, St.

  Albemarle, William

  Albert, Prince

  Victoria, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17

  Albert, Eugène d’

  Albertus Magnus Aquinas, St. Thomas, 1

  Alcibiades

  Alcott, Bronson

  Eddy, Mary Baker, 1

  Alcott, Louisa May

  Alcott, May

  Alcott, Bronson, 1

  Alderberry, Stanley of

  Churchill, Randolph, 2

  Alembert, Jean d’

  Hume, David, 4

  Voltaire, 13

  Alençon, Sophie-Charlotte d’

  Alexander I

  Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, 8

  Alexander III

  Maria Federovna, 1

  Alexander III (the Great)

  Anaximenes, 1

  Apelles, 1

  Diogenes, 1, 3, 6

  Alexander VI

  Alexander, Sir George

  Alexander, Grover Cleveland

  Alexander, Harold

  Alexander, Samuel

  Alexandra, Queen

  Alfano, Franco

  Toscanini, Arturo, 4

  Alfonso X

  Alfonso XIII

  Alfred the Great

  Algren, Nelson

  Ali, Muhammad

  Allais, Alphonse

  Allen, Dick

  Allen, Ethan

  Allen, Fred

  Allen, Gracie

  Burns, George, 1

  Allen, Woody

  Allingham, Margery

  Al-Malik al-Kamil

  Francis of Assisi, 1

  Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence

  Altenberg, Peter

  Altman, Robert

  Alvanley, William

  Ambrose, St.

  Ammonius

  Amory, Cleveland

  Hepburn, Katharine, 1

  ‘Amr Ibn Al-as

  ‘Omar, 1

  Anaxagoras

  Anaximenes

  Anders, William

  Andersen, Hans Christian

  Hugo, Victor, 3

  Anderson, Margaret

  Heap, Jane, 1

  Anderson, Sherwood

  Anderson, Sparky

  Rose, Pete, 1, 2

  Andre, Major John

  Andrew, Agnellus

  Angelsey, Marquess of

  Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 7

  Anglin, Margaret

  Fiske, Minnie Maddern, 1

  Anne, Princess

  Anne of Cleves

  Henry VIII, 2

  Antheil, George

  Anthony, Marc

  Anthony, Susan B.

  Antisthenes

  Apelles

  Aquinas, St. Thomas

  Arbuthnot, John

  Swift, Jonathan, 1

  Archelaus

  Archer, George

  Archer, William

  Archimedes

  Arditi, Luigi

  Aretino, Pietro

  Tintoretto, 1

  Titian, 1

  Argyll, Duke of

  Tennyson, Alfred, 1

  Aristides

  Aristippus

  Diogenes, 4

  Arlen, Michael

  Armour, Philip


  Armour, Mrs. Philip

  Lillie, Beatrice, 2

  Armstrong, Louis

  Armstrong, Neil

  Arne, Thomas

  Arnim, Harry von

  Arno, Peter

  Arnold, Matthew

  Arnould, Sophie

  Galiani, Ferdinando, 1

  Arria

  Arundell, Isabel

  Burton, Sir Richard, 1, 2

  Asche, Oscar

  Ashcroft, Peggy

  Gielgud, John, 1

  Asoka

  Asquith, Herbert

  Asquith, Cynthia

  Elizabeth II, 1

  Asquith, Margot

  Balfour, Arthur James, 1

  Asquith, Violet

  Churchill, Winston, 5

  Astaire, Fred

  Astaire, Phyllis

  Astaire, Fred, 3

  Astor, John Jacob

  Astor, Lady

  Stalin, Joseph, 1

  Astor, Mary

  Kaufman, George S., 12

  Astor, Nancy

  Churchill, Winston, 7

  Astruc, Gabriel

  Stravinsky, Igor, 1

  Atkinson, Christopher

  Atlas, Charles

  Attlee, Clement

  Churchill, Winston, 29

  Atwater, Edith

  Hart, Moss, 1

  Atwater, Lee

  Quayle, J. Danforth, 1

  Auber, Daniel

  Aubernon, Euphrasie

  Aubigné, Henri d’

  Auchinleck, Claude

  Wavell, Archibald Percival, 1

  Auden, W. H.

  Eliot, T. S., 5

  McCullers, Carson, 3

  Auerbach, “Red”

  Augustine, St.

  Augustus, Gaius

  Anthony, Marc, 1

  Julia, 2, 3, 4

  Aumale, Henry d’

  Ferdinand I, 1

  Austin, Alfred

  Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 1

  Austin, Warren

  Avempace

  Avery, Oswald

  Aymé, Marcel

  Azeglio, Massimo d’

  Babbage, Charles

  Bacall, Lauren

  Baccaloni, Salvatore

  Bing, Rudolf, 1

  Bach, C. P. E.

  Bach, Johann Sebastian

  Landowska, Wanda, 1

  Bacon, Baron Francis

  Bader, Sir Douglas

  Baeyer, Johann von

  Bahr, Hermann

  Baignières, Mme.

  Aubernon, Euphrasie, 1

  Bailly, Jean Sylvain

  Baker, Josephine

  Baker, Newton D.

  Ross, Harold, 1

  Baker, Russell

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 2

  Bakst, Léon

  Balanchine, George

  Stravinsky, Igor, 10

  Baldwin, Stanley

  Churchill, Winston, 11

  Balfour, Arthur James

  Clemenceau, Georges, 7

 

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