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Title: MS 0846, Clarence Hewes Scrapbook Collection, 1906-1962

Processor: David G. Wood

Processed Date: April 2016 [Finding Aid last updated April 12, 2016]

Clarence Bussey Hewes was born in Jeanerette, Louisiana, on February 1, 1890, to Harry

Bartram and Nellie Bussey Hewes. The family also included Clarence’s two sisters, Amy (later

Mrs. Robert Edmund Floweree) and Florence (later Mrs. Arthur Breese Griswold). Harry

Hewes, a native of Texas, had come to Louisiana in the 1880s and made a fortune developing the

local lumber industry. According to articles found in the scrapbooks, the Hewes were descended

from a North Carolina family that included Joseph Hewes of Edenton, a signer of the Declaration

of Independence who organized the first American naval force.

Hewes attended the Dixon Academy in Covington, Louisiana; the University of Virginia (LL.B.,

1914); and Tulane University (Bachelor of Laws in Civil Law, 1915). He came to Washington,

D.C., in 1916, and in 1917-1918 served as private secretary to the Honorable Charles C.

McChord, one of the commissioners heading the Interstate Commerce Commission. On

February 10, 1919, he began a career at the Department of State, assigned as Third Secretary at

the U.S. Legation in Panama. He then served at the U.S. embassies or legations in the

Netherlands (1920-1922), and Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala (1922-1924), before

being assigned as First Secretary at the embassy in Peking, China. He remained in China until

1930 when he was designated First Secretary at the embassy in Berlin, Germany. In 1932, he

was assigned as First Secretary at the ministry in Riga, Latvia, his last post before resigning from

the State Department in 1933.

In October 1931, Hewes married the widowed Mrs. L.M. Josephthal (the former Edyth G.

Guggenheim, daughter of Isaac Guggenheim of New York and niece of Senator Simon

Guggenheim of Colorado and of Solomon R. Guggenheim.) The couple appear to have led

largely separate lives. After leaving the State Department, Hewes remained in Washington,

living at 2358 Massachusetts Avenue—where a nearby neighbor was friend Alice Roosevelt

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Longworth—while Mrs. Hewes resided on E. 70th Street in New York City. According to one of

Alice Roosevelt’s biographers, “Buzzy Hewes was a curious character, married only in the legal

sense—he lived in Washington, his wife in New York, and they had a pact never to exchange

visits. For years he had served as an extra man at Alice’s dinner parties. … [He served in the

Foreign Service] before retiring in 1933 to a life of attending and giving dinners and issuing

opinions on matters of good taste and manners—for example, one must never answer an

invitation with a ball-point pen and one must never attend a funeral unless one has dined in the

dead person’s house at least twice.”1 When Edyth Hewes died on March 26, 1960, in New York,

a contemporary article in the New York Herald-Tribune reported that she left her estate of more

than three million dollars to relatives, a friend, and charities, and “said in her will that provision

for her husband had been made in an ‘ante-nuptial agreement.’”

According to the scrapbooks, Hewes had two godsons. Munro Magruder was the son of

Brigadier General John Magruder, a military attaché at the U.S. embassy in Peking from 1926 to

1930 (where Hewes was assigned at the time). Munro was born there in March 1927; he later

attended St. Alban’s School in Washington and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in

1949. He was killed in action in Korea in 1950. The other godson, Richard Nye, was the son of

Gerald Prentice Nye, the Senator from North Dakota (from 1925 to 1945) who played a

prominent role in exposing the Teapot Dome scandal.

Hewes was politically active, serving on the Republican State Committee for the District of

Columbia; he was an alternate D.C. delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1948

and 1952 (among his social and political friends was Senator Robert Taft, who unsuccessfully

sought the Republican presidential nomination in those years) and also attended the 1960

Republican Convention. Hewes was also an officer of the Washington chapter of the “America

First Committee,” a group opposing U.S. entry into World War II, and editorials he authored

(included in the scrapbooks) clearly state his opposition to racial integration of public schools.

He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution (his application is included in the

records of the D.C. Chapter of that organization, which are among HSW’s collections--see MS

0799), the American Geographical Society, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity; and was listed

for a number of years in Who’s Who in America. He was also an early member of the National

Trust for Historic Preservation.

Hewes’ background and position in the Foreign Service provided entrée into the world of

Washington society, where he acquired the nickname “Buzzy,” probably a variation of his

middle name (his mother’s family surname). His innumerable friends and acquaintances

included U.S. and foreign diplomats, government officials, military officers, members of

European nobility, and wealthy individuals who did not reside in Washington. In fact, while

Washington was his “permanent” residence after 1933, Hewes traveled extensively; typically, he

was away in January and February—usually Palm Beach followed by New Orleans to attend the

Mardi Gras festivities—and again during the summer months—generally European locales,

except for the World War II and immediate postwar years, when he chose New England or other

American destinations. Accordingly, he was a frequent invitee to dinners, teas, luncheons,

weddings, balls, theater parties, and charity events. He appeared regularly in the society columns

1 Felsenthal, Carol, Alice Roosevelt Longworth (G.P Putnam’s Sons; New York; 1988), page 200. (See E 757.3

.F45)

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of newspapers; many articles attest to his prowess as a desired guest and an excellent host. He

apparently was an avid horseman, as there are numerous pictures of him and others on horseback

in the scrapbooks as well as tickets to the Royal Enclosure at the Ascot Races, a feature of his

annual excursions to Europe; and a cat fancier, as the scrapbooks contain many dated

photographs (apparently taken at Hewes’ Washington home) of named cats.

Clarence Bussey Hewes died April 21, 1962. He is interred at Metairie Cemetery in New

Orleans, Louisiana.

Scope and Content Note: The 14 bound scrapbooks contain hundreds of engraved invitations

and calling cards, personal notes, and pieces of correspondence. There are also newspaper and

magazine clippings; original photographs; and dance cards, menus, performance programs,

passenger lists, tickets, and other ephemera. (Many handwritten menus, most in French, appear

to be from luncheons and dinners that Hewes hosted at his Washington home.) Many

photographs are annotated, apparently by Hewes himself, identifying the people pictured, the

locale, and/or the date; if included in the photograph, Hewes consistently identifies himself as

“CBH." The scrapbooks’ contents are arranged generally in chronological order, with each

volume covering a specified period of time, beginning with volume 1 (1906 to 1920) and ending

with volume 14 (1959 to 1962). However, there is some overlap between volumes, and within

each scrapbook, items do not follow strict chronological order.

Size: 6 cubic ft. (14 volumes, 6 containers)

Access Restrictions: The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions: Some material may be copyrighted or restricted. It is the patron's obligation to

determine and satisfy copyright or other case restrictions when publishing or otherwise

distributing materials found in the collection.

Donor: Mrs. Oliver W. Hammond, 1962; 2015.030

Related Material:

MS 0841 Adelaide Heath Doig scrapbook collection.

Doig, one of Hewes’ Washington, D.C., social acquaintances, also compiled extensive

scrapbooks chronicling some of the same events and persons represented in Hewes’

collection.

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Processor’s Note: Researchers may find useful the following biographical information on Mr.

Hewes’ Washington, D.C. friends, acquaintances, and professional and/or social contacts who

are represented in the scrapbooks' contents, primarily on invitations to various social events

and/or personal correspondence. (This is not an exhaustive list or index of names found in the

scrapbooks).

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• Dr. Ricardo J. Alfaro, diplomat from Panama who was involved in settling numerous disputes arising from the construction of the Panama Canal. From 1922 to 1930, and from

1933 to 1936, Dr. Alfaro was Panamanian "envoy extraordinary and minister

plenipotentiary" to the United States.

• Mr. and Mrs. Larz Anderson. Anderson was a wealthy diplomat who served at U.S. embassies in London and Rome before being named Minister to Belgium (1911-1912) and

Ambassador to Japan (1912-1913). His wife was the former Isabel Weld Perkins. The

Anderson's magnificent Massachusetts Avenue mansion later became home to the Society of

the Cincinnati.

• Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dudley Auchincloss. Hugh Auchincloss was a financier with the firm Auchincloss, Parker, and Redpath, whose offices were at 719 15th Street NW; he resided at

the "Merrywood" estate in McLean, Va. Auchincloss was married to the former Nina Gore,

mother of author Gore Vidal; and after their divorce, to Janet Lee Bouvier, mother of future

First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and of Caroline Lee Bouvier (Lee Radziwill).

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• Mr. and Mrs. Robert Low Bacon. Bacon was a banker who served as congressman from New York from 1923 until his death in 1938. The widowed Mrs. Bacon continued to reside

in Washington.

• Mr. and Mrs. David Sheldon Barry. Barry was a journalist who served as the Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate from 1919 to 1933.

• Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont. Belmont, of the wealthy New York family, was a former Congressman from New York (1881 to 1888) and U.S. Minister to Spain (1899). His wife

was the former Jessie Robbins Sloane, divorced wife of Henry Sloane. The Belmont’s

mansion at 4618 New Hampshire Avenue later became the headquarters of the Order of the

Eastern Star.

• Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Bingham. Hiram Bingham III, Senator from Connecticut from 1924 to 1933, was an academic and explorer who made public the existence of the Inca citadel of

Machu Picchu in 1911. Mrs. Bingham was the former Suzanne Carroll of Carrolton,

Maryland.

• Martha Blair, daughter of prominent Chicago architect Alfred Hoyt Granger. A divorcee, Martha worked as a society columnist for the Washington Times-Herald newspaper (often

including stories featuring Hewes). In 1939, she married Arthur Krock, noted newspaper

writer and manager who headed the Washington bureau of the New York Times from 1932 to

1953.

• Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery Blair, Jr., who resided at 1745 N Street. Blair was the son of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General of the U.S. under President Abraham Lincoln.

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• Robert and Mildred Bliss, owners of the “Dumbarton Oaks” estate in Georgetown. Robert Bliss was a Foreign Service officer and diplomat, eventually serving as Ambassador to

Argentina (1927–33).

• Mr. and Mrs. Sol Bloom. Sol Bloom was a former music impresario who was elected to Congress, serving served fourteen terms in the House of Representatives from the West Side

of Manhattan, from 1922 until his death in 1949.

• Helen Woodrow Bones, first cousin of President Woodrow Wilson. Residing at the White House for 6 years, Helen Bones served as social secretary for the President’s wife and

daughters. She later was a copy editor for various New York publishers; she died in 1951.

• Helen Hamilton Bowdoin, who married Josiah Augustus Spaulding (namesake of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Massachusetts). Helen later served as vice chairman of the board

of trustees of Georgetown University.

• Mr. and Mrs. Edson Bradley, of 1328 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Bradley was president of Kentucky whiskey distiller W.A. Gaines and Company of Frankfort, Kentucky. The

Bradley’s also owned homes in New York and in Newport, R.I.; their daughter was the wife

of Herbert Shipman, Episcopal Bishop of New York.

• Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Owen Brewster. Brewster was a former governor of Maine (1925 to 1929) who served in the House of Representatives from 1935 to 1941 and in the U.S. Senate

from 1941 to 1952.

• Rear Admiral and Mrs. Mark Lambert Bristol. Admiral Bristol became commander of the Asiatic Fleet in 1927. He helped found the American Hospital in İstanbul (its associated

nursing school was posthumously named for him). Retiring to Washington, Bristol served as

chairman of the General Board of the United States Navy from 1930 until 1932.

• Lucy Kyle Burleson, daughter of Albert Sidney Burleson, a former Representative from Texas who served as Postmaster General of the U.S. during the Wilson administration (1913-

1921).

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• Mr. and Mrs. Morris Cafritz. Lithuanian-born Morris Cafritz (1887 - 1964) immigrated to Washington, where he became a developer who built, among other things, much of Petworth;

the Ambassador Hotel at 14th and K Street; the Westchester Apartments; and the Majestic

Apartments. The Cafritz's former home on Foxhall Road is now home to the Field School.

• Arthur Bradley Campbell, former vice president of Riggs National Bank and member of the diplomatic service. Campbell lived primarily elsewhere (Newport, Rhode Island and Palm

Beach, Florida, as well as New York) but was a frequent houseguest of Hewes, who in turn

visited Campbell at his various residences. Campbell's mother was the Marchioness of

Huntly.

• Rosamund Castle, daughter of William Richards Castle, Jr., an American diplomat who rose to become Assistant Secretary of State in the Coolidge administration, Ambassador to Japan

(1930), and Undersecretary of State (1931-1933). Rosamund married Alan Francis Winslow

in 1923 and died in 1933, leaving 3 sons.

• Mr. and Mrs. John Baldwin Cochran. Cochran was the founder and president of Franklin National Bank. Mrs. Cochran was the former Alice Whiting, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Guy

Fairfax Whiting; she and sister Julia were debutantes in Washington ca. 1910. The Cochran's

had a country estate near Middleburg, Virginia.

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• Mr. and Mrs. Edward Francis Colladay. Colladay, a law graduate of The George Washington University, was a senior member of the law firm Colladay, McGarraghy, and

Wallace, and was active in several D.C. professional and civic organizations. For many

years he served as a D.C. representative to the Republican National Committee. (His papers

are archived at HSW; see MS 0052).

• Rebekah Collier, step-daughter of T. DeWitt Talmage, associate pastor of Washington’s First Presbyterian Church (1895-1899) and “one of the most prominent religious leaders in

the United States during the mid- to late-19th century, equaled as a pulpit orator perhaps only

by Henry Ward Beecher.” (Wikipedia).

• Mrs. Harry Newton Cootes, widow of Col. Harry Newton Cootes, military attaché at the U.S. embassy in Vienna after World War I and Commandant of Fort Meyer from 1930 to 1933.

Their daughter, Mary Elizabeth, married Peter Belin, son of the owners of Georgetown’s

“Evermay” estate.

• James Harry Covington, a Congressman from Maryland (1909 to 1914) and chief justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia from 1914 to 1918. He resided at 2400 16th

Street NW and subsequently 2320 Wyoming Avenue N.W. He was a co-founder of the law

firm Covington and Burling, one of the oldest still operating in Washington, D.C.

• Mr. and Mrs. William Smith Culbertson. Culbertson was a diplomat, lawyer, and professor of law who served as vice chairman of the U.S. Tariff Commission, Minister to Romania,

ambassador to Chile, chief of the military intelligence service in the War Department, and

member of the Planning Group of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. He

was also professor at Georgetown University. His papers are archived at the Library of

Congress.

• Brigadier General and Mrs. Edward Peck Curtis. Curtis was a World War I flying ace who afterwards served with the U. S. State Department in Russia. As a civilian, he rose to

become vice president of the Eastman Kodak Company. In World War II he served as a

Major General and Chief of Staff, U. S. Strategic Air Force in Europe, and was instrumental

in the planning for the Federal Aviation Administration.

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• Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies. Davies was the first Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission in 1915. He served as ambassador to the Soviet Union (from 1936 to 1938)

accompanied by his then-wife Marjorie Merriweather Post, and later as ambassador to

Belgium and Luxembourg. (A previous wife was Mary Emlen Knight; she and daughter

Emlen Knight-Davies are also represented in the scrapbooks). Davies resided at the

“Tregaron” estate on Woodley Road in Cleveland Park.

• Mr. and Mrs. William R. Deeble, Jr. Deeble’s father, W.R. Deeble, was a prominent member of the real estate and insurance community in Washington, D.C., and his papers are

among HSW's collections (see MS 066.) William Jr. married Katharine Harding, daughter of

Chester Harding, Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1917 to 1921 (a period that

coincided with Hewes’ assignment to the U.S. embassy in Panama).

• Mr. and Mrs. James Orr Denby. Denby was a diplomat, serving as U.S. Vice Consul to Peking, China, in the late 1920s (coinciding with Hewes’ assignment to the embassy there)

and later in South Africa. His wife was the former Phyllis Cochran of Philadelphia.

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• Brigadier General and Mrs. Daniel Bradford Devore. The Devore’s resided at 2000 24th Street; upon the General’s death in 1956, the mansion (known as the Devore-Chase House)

was offered to the U.S. government as the official residence of the Chief Justice of the

Supreme Court. The Devore’s also purchased and restored “Chatham,” an 18th-century

plantation home near Fredericksburg, Virginia.

• Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bromfield Dewey. Dewey (1892 – 1967) was a Navy lieutenant and World War I veteran. The Dewey’s lived at 2132 P Street in Georgetown.

• Mrs. Augustus Downing, widow of wealthy glass merchant Augustus Downing. Their daughters were Elsie, Vera, Alys, and Helen Downing. Elsie married Donald Alexander and

lived in Philadelphia. Vera married William Finley Jr., son of the president of the Southern

Railroad. Helen married Hugo Wilson Osterhaus, Lt. Commander, U.S. Navy.

• Margaret Draper, who became Princess Boncompagni. She was a half-sister of Edith Draper, who married Montgomery Blair. They were daughters of General William Franklin

Draper, one-time Ambassador to Italy.

• Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gallaudet Draper. Draper was a former Naval officer who wrote a landmark textbook on navigation; he became Assistant Secretary of Commerce and a

member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

• Anne Willing Carter Dulaney, daughter of prominent attorney Henry Rozier Dulaney. Henry Dulaney had an insurance and real estate business with Guy Fairfax Whiting, called

Dulaney and Whiting.

• Mr. and Mrs. James Clement Dunn. Dunn was a career State Department employee who served as the Ambassador of the United States to Italy, France, Spain, and Brazil. In 1946 he

was a member of the delegation at the Paris Peace Conference.

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• Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Henry Ellis, who resided at 2126 Connecticut Avenue. Mr. Ellis’ mother was the former Laura Lawson, whose second husband was Gist Blair. The Ellis’ son,

Franklin Henry Ellis Jr., was the godson of Mrs. Armistead Peter of Georgetown’s “Tudor

Place” estate; he later became a prominent surgeon.

• Mr. and Mrs. Wade Ellis. Ellis was a former Attorney General of Ohio who became Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 1908-1910. In the 1920s, the Ellis’s

purchased and renovated “Rippon Lodge,” the oldest house in Prince William County,

Virginia.

• William Phelps Eno (1858-1945), an internationally recognized pioneer in traffic control and regulation. Dubbed the “Father of Traffic Safety,” Eno developed the first traffic plans for

major cities including New York, London, and Paris, and is credited with helping to invent

and popularize stop signs, taxi stands, pedestrian safety islands, and other traffic features

commonly used throughout the world. The Eno Center for Transportation is currently at

1710 Rhode Island Avenue in Washington.

• Mr. and Mrs. Henry Parsons Erwin. Erwin had been a U.S. Army Colonel. The Erwin's resided at “Arbremont,” a Georgian Revival mansion bordering Rock Creek Park that was

later purchased by Marjorie Meriweather Post, remodeled, and rechristened “Hillwood.”

They also had an estate, “Menlough,” near Warrenton, Virginia.

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• Mr. and Mrs. Snowden Andrews Fahnestock. Fahnestock, a U.S. Army Colonel, was the grandson of Harris Fahnestock, president of the First National Bank of New York. (His

mother, Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, remained in Washington after her husband’s death in 1917,

residing at 2311 Massachusetts Ave., today the Embassy of Haiti, and also kept a summer

home in Newport, Rhode Island; she was also among Hewes’ social acquaintances). Mrs.

Snowdon Fahnestock was the former Helen Moran, a great-great granddaughter of Mathew

Morgan, founder of Morgan & Sons of New York (now Morgan-Stanley).

• Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Peck Fales. Fales was a diplomat who served in Vienna, London, Paris, Germany, the Netherlands and Indonesia. His wife, the former Rose Hyde, was

president of the Junior League of Washington and the Literary Society of Washington, and

served on the Boards of the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Committee of 100 on the

Federal City.

• Mr. and Mrs. David Finley. David Edward Finley was the son of a former Congressman from South Carolina; his work at the Treasury Department in the 1920s brought him into

contact with Paul Mellon, and Finley later became the first director of the National Gallery of

Art. In 1950, Finley assumed the chair of both the Fine Arts Commission of Washington,

D.C. and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. His wife, Margaret Morton Eustis, was

a granddaughter of Levi Morton (Vice President under President Harrison) and great-

granddaughter of W.W. Corcoran.

• Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Fish. Fish, member of a New York family long active in politics, was a Congressman from New York from 1920 to 1945.

• Mr. and Mrs. William James Flather, Jr. Flather was the son of William J. Flather, vice president of Riggs National Bank, and investment business partner of Charles C. Glover, Jr.

His wife was the former Helen Remington Noyes, daughter of Judge and Mrs. George S.

Noyes of Milwaukee.

• Mr. and Mrs. John Clifford Folger. Folger was and investment banker who served as ambassador to Belgium (1957-1959); his wife was the former Katharine Dulin. Their home

on Woodland Drive NW was designed by noted architect John Russell Pope (designer of the

National Gallery West Building and the Jefferson Memorial).

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• George Angus Garrett, a diplomat and stockbroker, who served as U.S. Minister to Ireland from 1947 until 1951. The Garrets' resided at 1627 New Hampshire Avenue N.W. Their

daughter was the wife of the Second Secretary at the Argentine Embassy, Senor de

Zuberbuhler.

• Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Huntington Gillett. Gillett served in the Massachusetts state government and both houses of Congress between 1879 and 1931, including six years as

Speaker of the House. After his death, his wife—the former Christine Rice Hoar, widow of

Congressman Rockwood Hoar when she married Gillett—remained in Washington. Her two

daughters were Frances Hoar, who married Reginald Candler Foster, member of the U.S.

diplomatic service; and Louisa Hoar, who married Christopher La Farge, an architect who

worked as a designer for the firm of McKim, Mead, and White before becoming a noted

writer and novelist.

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• Augusta Christian Glass, daughter of newspaper publisher, Congressman, and Senator Carter Glass of Virginia.

• Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carroll Glover. Glover was President of Riggs National Bank and played a critical role in the creation of local landmarks such as National Cathedral and

Glover-Archbold Park. Daughter Elizabeth married Mr. Jonkheer R. van Swinderen, the

Minister to the U.S. from the Netherlands and later Dutch ambassador to Great Britain.

• Olyve Graef, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Campbell Graef. Campbell Graef was the Associate Director of Personnel for the American Red Cross. Olyve married James Ballard

Moore.

• Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Graves. Mrs. Graves was the former Olga Roosevelt, daughter of Robert B. Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt’s cousin), and had previously been married to Dr.

J. Breckinridge Bayne. (Their daughter Olga Bayne married and divorced Charles Lyon

Sturtevant; married and divorced James Pendleton McCormick; and finally eloped with John

F. Claggett.) In the post-World War II years, the Graves’ held an annual garden party,

widely attended by “society,” at their home on Foxhall Road.

• Joseph Clark Grew, who served as Under Secretary of State during the Coolidge administration and lived at 3500 Woodley Road NW. Grew also served as U.S. Ambassador

to Denmark (1920-1921), Switzerland (1921-1924), Turkey (1927-1932), and Japan (1932-

1941). As U.S. Ambassador, he was in Tokyo at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

• Mrs. William Morton Grinnell, whose husband was the nephew of Levi P. Morton, Vice President of the U.S. under Benjamin Harrison. Grinnell served as Third Secretary at the

State Department in the 1890s.

• Colonel. and Mrs. Robert Guggenheim. Guggenheim was the son of Daniel Guggenheim and a first cousin to Hewes’ wife Edyth. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, 1953-

1954. The Guggenheim home was “Firenze House,” today the official residence of the

Italian ambassador to the U.S.

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• Mr. and Mrs. Randall Hagner. Hagner established the real estate firm bearing his name in 1904, and reportedly assisted President Woodrow Wilson with his search for a home in

Washington, D.C., after his presidency ended.

• Mr. and Mrs. Leland Harrison. Harrison was a career diplomat who served at a number of U.S. embassies before being named Assistant Secretary of State (1922-24). He later served

as U.S. Minister to, successively, Sweden, Uruguay, Romania, and Switzerland.

• Mr. and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr. Hearst, son of the newspaper tycoon, was publisher of the New York Times. The Hearst’s Washington residence was 2202 Decatur

Place N.W. (in New York, it was 810 Fifth Avenue).

• Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Z. Henle. “Ray” Henle had a long career in print and electronic journalism, having arrived at the Associated Press’ Washington, D.C. bureau in 1926, and

was primarily known for his coverage of the Washington scene. In 1944 he began

broadcasting for ABC. (Henle’s papers are archived at the University of Wisconsin as the

“Raymond Z. Henle Papers, 1883-1973.”)

• John Philip Hill (May 2, 1879 – May 23, 1941) was a U.S. Congressman from the 3rd Congressional district of Maryland, serving three terms from 1921 to 1927.

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• Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hendrix Himes. Himes was a one-term Congressman from Ohio (1921-23) who moved to Frederick, Maryland in 1925 and purchased the “Prospect Hall”

estate. He remained there until 1958, entertaining and hosting dignitaries and U.S. Presidents

en route to Camp David.

• Senator and Mrs. Gilbert Monell Hitchcock, who lived at 2125 Kalorama Road N.W. Hitchcock was a Senator from Nebraska (1911-1923) and founder of the Omaha World-

Herald newspaper. After his death in 1934, his widow remained in Washington and

frequently hosted Hewes’ at dinner.

• Colonel and Mrs. Thomas Holcomb. Holcomb, whose Marine Corps post at the U.S. Legation in Peking coincided with Hewes’ tenure there, became Commandant of the Marine

Corps in 1936 and Minister to South Africa in 1944. Mrs. Holcomb was the former Beatrice

Clover, daughter of Rear Admiral and Mrs. Richardson Clover of Dupont Circle. Beatrice’s

sister, Dora was a World War I nurse and remained to live in Paris for many years; she

returned to Washington prior to World War II and then retired to San Francisco.

• Anne Dorsey Hopkins, daughter of Neville Monroe Hopkins, an assistant professor of chemistry at George Washington University. (A relative was Mrs. F. A. M. Hopkins of

“Edgemoor” in Bethesda, Maryland. Francis A. Hopkins was a Representative from

Kentucky from 1903 to 1907).

• Mr. and Mrs. James Laurence Houghteling. Houghteling was appointed Commissioner of Immigration by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1936. Mrs. Houghteling was the former

Laura Delano, daughter of Frederic Delano and first cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The Houghteling's resided at 2424 Wyoming Avenue N.W.

• Mr. and Mrs. William Houghteling. Houghteling was an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. Mrs. Houghteling, the former Virginia LeSeure, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest

LeSeure of Danville, Illinois, and granddaughter of Joseph Cannon, former Congressman

from Illinois and Speaker of the House for whom the Cannon House Office Building is

named.

• Captain (later Rear Admiral) and Mrs. Herbert Seymour Howard. Mrs. Howard was the former Mary McCauley, daughter of Mr. Edward McCauley and younger sister of Mrs.

Wolcott Tuckerman.

• Miss Mary Howry, daughter of Justice Charles Bowen Howry (former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives and Assistant U.S. attorney general who was appointed

Justice on U.S. Court of Claims). Mary became a singer and studied under the tutelage of

famous soprano Marcella Sembrich.

• Dr. and Mrs. Howard Hume. Hume was a prominent Washington surgeon. His wife, the former Doris Wilson, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Haywood (he the former

Consul-General of Hawaii) and granddaughter of the Hon. Jeremiah Wilson, prominent

attorney and former Representative from Indiana.

• Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Hurley. Hurley, a decorated soldier in World War I, was Secretary of War under President Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) and was named U.S. Ambassador to

China in 1944. His wife was the former Ruth Wilson. The Hurley’s lived at the “Belmont”

estate near Leesburg, Va.

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• Mrs. Hennen Jennings, widow of mining engineer Hennen Jennings (died 1920) who was a consultant to the U.S. Bureau of Mines. Mrs. Jennings resided at 2221 Massachusetts

Avenue.

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• Frances Parkinson Keyes, wife of Henry Wilder Keyes, former governor of New Hampshire and senator from New Hampshire from 1919 to 1937. Frances Keyes was a noted and

prolific author of books and magazine articles; for several years she resided in nearby

Alexandria, Virginia.

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• Mr. and Mrs. Cary Devall Langhorne. Langhorne was a Naval Commander who received a Medal of Honor for his role in the United States occupation of Veracruz. He graduated from

the Virginia Military Institute in 1894, and from the University of Virginia in 1897.

• Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Laughlin. Laughlin, a former treasurer of Jones & Laughlin Steel Company (founded by his grandfather) was a diplomat, serving at U.S. embassies or

consulates in Japan, China, Siam, Russia, France, and Turkey before being named Minister to

Greece (1924 to 1926) and Ambassador to Spain (1929 to 1933). The Laughlin’s resided at

“Meridian House,” 1630 Crescent Place NW. He died in 1941; Mrs. Laughlin died in 1958.

• Mrs. Charles M. Lea, who resided at 1735 Massachusetts Ave. N.W. Charles M. Lea was a medical publisher from Philadelphia and one of the original trustees of the Adirondack

Cottage Sanitarium.

• Mrs. Sidney Kent Legare. Sidney Kent Legare, the son of A.K. Legare and the former Stella Kent of Chicago, oversaw development of his grandfather Kent’s estate near Suffield,

Connecticut. Mrs. Legare resided in Washington at 2029 Connecticut Avenue.

• Mr. and Mrs. Alexander B. Legare. Alexander Legare, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, was a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service. The Legare's resided at 1737 N street.

• J. Hamilton Lewis, Senator from Illinois who served as the Majority Whip of the Senate in the 1930s.

• Mr. and Mrs. Willmott Lewis, Jr. Lewis’ father was Sir Willmott Lewis, the Washington correspondent for the Times of London; his mother, Ethel Noyes, was the daughter of Frank

B. Noyes, President of the Washington Star and cofounder and president of the Associated

Press.

• Mr. and Mrs. Martin Wiley Littleton. Littleton was an attorney, former president of Brooklyn, and Representative from New York from 1910 to 1913 (his sister, Rachel, was the

first wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.). Their children included Wilson Littleton, who is

pictured in volume 1 of Hewes’ scrapbooks.

• Mr. and Mrs. Breckinridge Long. Long was appointed Third Assistant Secretary of State during the Wilson administration, where he remained until resigning in 1920 to pursue

election to the U.S. Senate from Missouri.

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• Nathaniel Horace Luttrell, widower of Harriet Lothrup, daughter of Woodward and Lothrup Department Stores co-founder Alvin Lothrup. After Harriet’s death in 1919, Luttrell and his

children moved to the Lothrup Mansion at 2001 Connecticut Avenue.

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• Mr. and Mrs. James P. MacCracken, Jr. MacCracken, a World War I aviator and former Assistant Attorney General of Illinois, was tapped by President Coolidge to develop the first

federal commercial aviation regulations. He served as the first Assistant Secretary of

Commerce for Aviation (under then-Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover) from 1926 to

1929.

• Mrs. Alexander Mackay-Smith, widow of the former Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania (d. 1911) and former rector of St. John’s Church, Lafayette Square. The Mackay-Smith’s had

three daughters: Virginia, Gladys (who married Karl Boy-Ed), and Helen.

• Mr. and Mrs. George W. Malone. Malone, a former engineer, served as U.S. Senator from Nevada from 1947 to 1959. He remained in Washington as an engineering consultant until

his death in 1961.

• Mrs. Mary Alice Doyle Marye, widow of George Thomas Marye Jr., who in 1914 had been appointed U. S. Ambassador to Russia by President Wilson. While in Russia, Mary worked

with the Red Cross war relief effort. Mrs. Marye resided at 1785 Massachusetts Avenue (the

McCormick). Her daughter, Helen Martha Marye, married William Daniel Thomas Jr., a

Naval Commander, and became a noted equestrienne; they resided at 3508 Prospect St. in

Georgetown.

• Mr. and Mrs. George Grant Mason, Jr. Mason was a Yale-educated artist who inherited a fortune from his father. Mrs. Mason, the former Jane Kendall and also an artist/illustrator,

inherited millions from her stepfather, railway magnate Lyman B. Kendall. They resided at

1616 19th Street.

• Mr. and Mrs. Charles Caldwell McChord. McChord was an ICC Commissioner from 1910 to 1925. (Hewes served as Secretary to Commissioner McChord in 1918-1919.) Their

daughter, Margaret, married George H. Boyle, a World War I pilot who flew the first air mail

from Washington, D.C. (to Philadelphia).

• Mrs. Robert Rutherford McCormick, widow of the owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper (and first cousin of Eleanor Medill Patterson; see below). Mrs.

McCormick resided at 2211 R Street NW.

• Helen McCumber, daughter of Porter James McCumber, U.S. Senator from North Dakota from 1899 to 1923. Helen married Harrison Brand, Jr.

• Mrs. Edward McLean (aka Evalyn Walsh McLean, owner of the Hope diamond), wife of Edward McLean. The McLeans were a wealthy family whose namesake is McLean,

Virginia; John McLean was an early owner of the Washington Post. His son, Edward “Ned”

McLean, married Evalyn Walsh, whose mining millionaire father built the Massachusetts

Avenue mansion now home to the Indonesian Embassy. The McLeans lived at the

“Friendship” estate on Wisconsin Avenue until Ned McLean was committed, and in 1941 the

property was sold to the government for the erection of war housing (today’s McLean

Gardens). Evalyn Walsh McLean relocated to a Georgetown estate, originally known as

"Mount Hope," which she renamed “Friendship," at 3308 R Street NW. Her son, Ned

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McLean Jr., married Ann Meem; son John R. McLean 2nd married Agnes Pyne; and

daughter, also named Evalyn, married Senator Robert R. Reynolds.

• Mrs. Edwin Thomas Meredith, widow of the founder of Better Homes and Gardens and other publications and Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.

• George Strausser Messersmith, a diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Austria, Cuba, Mexico and Argentina. Messersmith also served as head of the U.S. Consulate in

Germany from 1930 to 1934 (a period that coincided with Hewes’ assignment to Berlin);

from 1937 to 1940 he was in Washington as an Assistant Secretary of State.

• Perle Mesta. The widow and heiress of George Mesta, a Pennsylvania steel magnate, Perle Mesta moved to Washington D.C. in 1940. She was appointed U.S. Ambassador to

Luxemburg (1949-1953) by President Truman. A well-known hostess, she was the

inspiration for Irving Berlin's musical “Call Me Madam.”

• Colonel and Mrs. Sherman Miles. Miles, chief of Army intelligence during WW II, was the son of Major General Nelson Miles and grandson of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Mrs.

Miles was the former Yulee Noble, granddaughter of Senator David Yulee of Florida. The

Miles’ lived at 1734 N Street, which later became the Iron Gate Inn.

• Mr. and Mrs. George Maurice Morris. George Morris was an attorney in Washington, his wife a fertilizer heiress. In 1937, the Morris’s erected “The Lindens,” a 1750s house that

they had had dismantled in Danvers, Massachusetts and shipped to Washington, on Kalorama

Road.

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• Carolyn R. Nash, daughter of Naval Medical Director Francis S. Nash. After living partially in Europe for years, she returned to Washington prior to World War II and was a society

column regular in 1940s and 1950s.

• Mr. and Mrs. Newbold Noyes. Noyes was the son of Frank Noyes, publisher of the Washington Star newspaper. His sister Ethel married Thomas Blagden, Jr. (and later married

Sir Willmott Lewis). Sister Frances married Edwin H. Hart and became a well-known writer

whose short stories were published in Scribner’s, the Saturday Evening Post, and the Ladies’

Home Journal.

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• Mr. and Mrs. A. Chambers Oliphant. Oliphant (1892 – 1982) was an electrical engineer who headed the Oliphant Washington Service, publisher of utilities industry trade news, for

50 years. The Oliphant's resided on Wyoming Avenue.

• Daniel Gillette Olney, a sculptor active in Washington from the 1930s. A New York native, he graduated from Yale, studied at the Beaux Arts Institute, and trained with sculptor Gutzon

Borglum (of Mount Rushmore fame). Among his works are bas-relief panels at the Langston

Terrace Dwellings public housing project and a “lady and unicorn” statue at the "Dumbarton

Oaks" estate.

• Dorothea Owen, daughter of Robert Latham Own, U.S. Senator from Oklahoma (1907-1925). Dorothea married John Cameron Hawkins.

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• Eleanor Medill “Cissy” Patterson, whose Dupont Circle mansion later became home to the Washington Club. Patterson was born in Chicago to a wealthy publishing family (her

grandfather, Joseph Medill, was mayor of Chicago and owned the Chicago Tribune; her

older brother, Joseph Medill Patterson, was the founder of the New York Daily News). After

a failed marriage, she settled in Washington, D.C. in 1913; began writing for her brother's

newspaper; then became the editor and ultimately the owner of the Washington Times and

Washington Herald, which she merged. Her daughter, Leonora Felicia, was the wife of

columnist Drew Pearson. Cissy Patterson died in 1948 and the Times-Herald was sold to her

cousin, Robert R. McCormick.

• Mr. and Mrs. Armistead Peter 3rd, who resided at "Tudor Place" in Georgetown. Peter was descended from Robert Peter, an early mayor of Georgetown. Mrs. Peter was the former

Caroline Ogden-Jones, daughter of Mahlon Ogden Jones. After Caroline’s parents divorced,

her mother married sculptor Paul Wayland Bartlett. Caroline inherited the work of Paul W.

Bartlett upon her mother’s death in 1954 and later distributed his work to various museums

and institutions across the country; her papers are among the collections of Tudor Place,

which became a public museum upon the Peters’ deaths.

• Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of Gifford Pinchot, first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905 – 1910) and Governor of Pennsylvania (1923 to 1927 and 1931 to 1935). The

Pinchot's resided at 1615 Rhode Island Avenue.

• Brigadier General and Mrs. David D. Porter. Porter, a Medal of Honor recipient, was a United States Marine Corps officer who served in World War I. He was the grandson of

Admiral David Dixon Porter (1813–1891), and great-grandson of Commodore David Porter

(1780–1843). The Porters resided at 1819 19th Street N.W.

• Marjorie Merriweather Post. Heiress of the Post cereal fortune, Marjorie Post was married to Joseph E. Davies (see above) apparently at the time that she became acquainted with Hewes.

After divorcing Davies in the mid-1950s, she resided at the “Hillwood” estate. In the late

1950’s, she became Mrs. Herbert Arthur May.

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• Charles Mason Remey, son of Rear Admiral George Collier Remey. Mason Remey, who lived from 1874 to 1974, resided in Washington during the 1930s and 1940s. Trained as an

architect, he was a prominent and controversial American exponent of the Bahá’í faith.

• Mr. and Mrs. William McClellan Ritter, who resided at 2107 Massachusetts Avenue. Ritter was a lumber baron from Pennsylvania who also owned mines and railroads; during World

War I, he moved to Washington where he served on the War Industries Board as an adviser

to Chairman Bernard Baruch.

• Mr. and Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins. Robbins was a cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and a career diplomat. After serving in various overseas posts, in 1931 he was assigned as

Chief of Protocol of the United States and in 1933, Chief of Mission to Canada, where he

served until his death in 1935. His widow remained in Washington.

• Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Wood Robert. Robert was president of Robert & Co., an Atlanta architectural firm. He was Assistant Treasurer of the United States from 1933 to 1936 and

was in charge of the Works Progress Administration. He later served as secretary of the

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Democratic National Committee and in the Conference of Southeastern Governors. Mrs.

Robert (Evie) was a columnist. The Roberts resided at 1127 Connecticut Ave. N.W.

• Elizabeth Reid Rogers, daughter of Richard Reid Rogers, head of Panama Canal Commission; she married Prince Christian of Hesse.

• Mrs. Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, widow of Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, a distant cousin of FDR and a former Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

• Roberta Brooke Russell, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. John Henry Russell. Colonel Russell later became a major general and ultimately Commandant of the Marine Corps (1934-1936).

Brooke’s third marriage was to Vincent Astor, and she gained fame as Brooke Astor,

philanthropist, in the second half of the twentieth century.

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• Josephine Shields, daughter of John Knight Shields, U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1913 to 1925. Josephine’s step-sister was Jeannette Cowan (daughter of Mrs. John Knight Shields

from a previous marriage).

• Mr. and Mrs. Jouett Shouse. Shouse was a publisher who was elected to Congress and served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Woodrow Wilson. His second

wife was Catherine Filene Dodd, daughter of the founder of Filene’s department stores. A

portion of their Virginia estate was donated to become Wolf Trap Farm Park for the

Performing Arts, where a principal venue is the Filene Center.

• Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Reinhold Solger. Mrs. Solger was the former Lillie Finley, daughter of William Wilson Finley, president of the Southern Railroad. The Finleys resided at 2221 R

Street NW, and also had an estate, “Sunny Hill Farm” near Warrenton, Virginia. The

Solger's resided at 2027 Q Street.

• Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Stettinius. Stettinius was from Illinois, his wife from Virginia colonial aristocracy. Their son, Edward Stettinius Jr., later served as Secretary of State under

Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

• Elizabeth Stevenson, daughter of Lewis Green Stevenson and brother of Adlai Ewing Stevenson II, who was Governor of Illinois, Democratic candidate for President in 1952 and

1956, and the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

• Justice and Mrs. Harlan Stone. Harlan Fiske Stone joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 1925. He became chief justice in 1941, a position held until his death in 1946.

• Mrs. Edward Townsend Stotesbury, widow of the financier (and J.P. Morgan partner). Mrs. Stotesbury’s first husband was Oliver Cromwell; their daughter, Louise Cromwell, married

and divorced Army officer Douglas MacArthur and actor Lionel Atwill, then married Army

Air Force officer Alf Heiberg. A son, James H. Cromwell, served as U.S. Minister to

Canada.

• Mr. and Mrs. George T. Summerlin. Summerlin, like Hewes, was a diplomat from Louisiana; after serving in Japan, China, Mexico and Italy, he was appointed Minister to

Honduras in 1924. In 1929, he was transferred to Venezuela, and in 1934 to Panama. From

1937 to 1946, he was the State Department Chief of Protocol.

• Mr. and Mrs. Howard Sutherland. Sutherland served as both Congressman and Senator from West Virginia between 1914 and 1923. He remained in Washington, D.C. after his

retirement.

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• Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney. Thomas Sweeney was a manager of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and a director of the DuPont National Bank of

Washington. During World War I, he was Campaign Chairman of the D. C. Chapter of the

Red Cross, and was also active on the Board of Children’s Hospital of the District of

Columbia. The Sweeney’s resided at 1520 New Hampshire Avenue.

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• Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taft. Taft, the son of former President William Howard Taft, served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and several times unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential

nomination. (The Taft Memorial, on Capitol Hill, was erected in his honor following his

death in 1953.) Mrs. Taft was the former Martha Bowers; their son, William Howard Taft,

was U.S. Ambassador to Ireland during the Eisenhower administration.

• Garvin and Ruth Tankersley. Ruth "Bazy" Tankersley (1921 – 2013) was the daughter of Senator Joseph Medill McCormick and Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick (and

granddaughter of Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio). She became publisher of the Washington

Times-Herald, owned by her uncle, Robert McCormick; when it was absorbed by the

Washington Post, she became a full-time horse breeder. The Tankersley’s Al-Marah estate

near Potomac, Maryland, was once the largest Arabian horse-breeding farm in the U.S.

• Mrs. James Pryor Tarvin, widow of Judge Tarvin of Kentucky (a descendant of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall). Mrs. Tarvin lived at 1882 Columbia Road.

• Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Huston Thompson, Jr. Thompson, a former football coach (at the University of Texas at Austin) was assistant U.S. attorney general under President Woodrow

Wilson from 1913 to 1918 and served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission from

1919 to 1927. The Thompson’s daughter, Caroline, married John Farr Simmons, a career

diplomat who later served as Ambassador to El Salvador, Ambassador to Ecuador, and State

Department Chief of Protocol.

• Mrs. Mary Scott Townsend, widow of Richard H. Townsend (d. 1902), former President of the Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad. The Townsends built a mansion at 2121 Massachusetts

Avenue, today the home of the Cosmos Club.

• Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Townsend. Townsend was a career diplomat who served as First Secretary of the U.S. Legation in Vienna, U.S. Minister to Portugal, and U.S. Minister to

Belgium. In 1905 he moved to the Dupont Circle area and joined the Washington Gas Light

Company as its treasurer, later becoming secretary.

• Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rupert Tuckerman. Tuckerman was an attorney who founded the Bank of Bethesda (Maryland). He also oversaw development of a former dairy farm

(purchased in 1912) into Bethesda’s Edgemoor neighborhood, which included his own large

estate often used for entertaining government officials. Tuckerman served on the Board of

Trustees of the George Washington University, the Church Orphanage Association of St.

John's, and the American Red Cross's Bethesda Chapter.

• Mr. and Mrs. Millard Tydings. Tydings, after serving in the Maryland state house and senate, was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1922 and subsequently to the U.S. Senate, where

he served from 1927 to 1951. Mrs. Tydings was the former Eleanor Davies, daughter of

Joseph E. Davies.

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• Mrs. Arthur Hendrick Vandenburg, wife of the Senator from Michigan. Senator Brandenburg served in the Senate from 1928 until his death in 1951 and was at onetime

President Pro Temp of the Senate.

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• Mr. and Mrs. Frank Campbell Waldrop. Waldrop, a journalist, arrived in Washington in 1933 to work for the Washington Herald; he eventually became editor-in-chief of the Times-

Herald, a position he held from the late 1940s until 1953, when he became a consultant to the

State Department.

• Melville Weston Fuller Wallace, grandson of Melville Weston Fuller, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1888 to 1910. Wallace’s father was Hugh Campbell Wallace,

appointed U.S. Ambassador to France (1919-1921) by President Wilson.

• Mrs. McCeney Werlich, the former Gladys Hinckley. McCeny Werlich was a diplomat who was serving as “second secretary” at the U.S. Embassy in Paris when he died at age 43 in

1936. Mrs. Werlich, along with son Robert, returned to her native Washington, D.C., and

resided at 1923 16th Street.

• Mr. and Mrs. Henry Blakiston Wilkins, who resided at 1701 22nd Street N.W. Wilkins was a curator with the Library of Congress; he donated his own collection of early stringed musical

instruments to the Library.

• Captain and Mrs. Theodore Stark Wilkinson. Wilkinson, son of prominent attorney Ernest Wilkinson, had a career as Navy officer—naval attaché at U.S. embassy in Paris, active duty

in World War I and II. After his 1946 death in an auto accident, a Navy destroyer was

named for him. His wife, the former Catherine Dorsey Harlow, was a member of the Board

of Washington Home for Incurables and active in the Red Cross.

• Dr. and Mrs. William Holland Wilmer, professor of ophthalmology at Georgetown University, surgeon at the Episcopal Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital in Washington, and

founder of the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Their

daughter, Rebekah, married Thomas Scott Thropp of Washington, then Naval Lt. Russell

Ellis Sard.

• Edith Bolling Wilson, First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 (as the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson). A native of Virginia, Edith Bolling was visiting her sister in

Washington, D.C. when she met and subsequently married Norman Galt (1864-1908), a

prominent jeweler. She remained in Washington, helping to manage the jewelry business

after Galt’s death, where she met Wilson.

• Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Hale Woods. Woods was an educator, journalist, and military officer. A former New York City Police Commissioner, in Washington he worked with the

Division of Military Aeronautics and was involved in government committees on

unemployment in the administrations of Presidents Warren Harding and Herbert Hoover.

• Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Woodward, of 2812 N Street NW. Woodward (1899 – 1992) was the White House Chief of Protocol under Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ambassador to Canada

under Harry S. Truman. He was a favorite social companion of FDR.

• Nathan Corwin Wyeth, a Washington architect best known for designing the West Wing of the White House, creating the first Oval Office. He also designed the Francis Scott Key

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Bridge; many structures that comprise Judiciary Square; and numerous private homes, many

of which now serve as embassies. He co-designed the Cannon, Russell, and Longworth

Congressional office buildings.

Container List

Contents Container 1 .................................................................................................................................................. 19

Volume 1: 1906 to August 1920............................................................................................................. 19

Volume 2: July 1919 to December 1921. ............................................................................................... 20

Volume 3: January 1922 to January 1929. ............................................................................................. 21

Container 2 .................................................................................................................................................. 23

Volume 4: August 1928 to February 1935. ............................................................................................ 23

Volume 5: March 1935 to November 1936. .......................................................................................... 25

Volume 6: December 1936 to April 1939............................................................................................... 27

Container 3 .................................................................................................................................................. 30

Volume 7: April 1939 to July 1941. ........................................................................................................ 30

Volume 8: August 1941 to December 1945. .......................................................................................... 32

Container 4 .................................................................................................................................................. 36

Volume 9: December 1945 to December 1949. .................................................................................... 36

Volume 10: November 1949 to June 1952. ........................................................................................... 40

Container 5 .................................................................................................................................................. 42

Volume 11: June 1952 to December 1954. ............................................................................................ 42

Volume 12: December 1954 to January 1957. ....................................................................................... 45

Container 6 .................................................................................................................................................. 47

Volume 13: March 1957 to October 1959. ............................................................................................ 47

Volume 14: October 1959 to April 1962. ............................................................................................... 50

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Processor’s Note: The scrapbooks were compiled generally by pasting items to the pages,

although a few items were found simply inserted between pages. Loose items, including some

that were pasted but have since detached, have been left in place unless otherwise noted.

The container list below provides a sampling of the contents of each volume, but is not a

comprehensive table of contents. The scrapbooks contain literally hundreds of calling cards and

invitations bearing notable names. (The volumes chronicling Hewes’ life in Washington after

his departure from the Foreign Service are particularly abundant with invitations from embassies

of many nations). Names highlighted in bold represent public figures or people notable in

Washington, D.C. history with whom Hewes appears to have had direct contact.

Container 1

Volume 1: 1906 to August 1920. Includes: • portrait photograph of Hewes dated October 1908; pamphlet (with photographs) for Dixon

Academy and original photographs of Hewes as a student there in 1906;

• dance cards and other ephemera from events at the University of Virginia, 1911-1914; • passenger list and ship diagram of the Lusitania, on which Hewes sailed from New York on

June 23rd, 1914, for Liverpool;

• passenger list for the Campania, on which Hewes sailed August 15, 1914 for return to New York;

• dance cards, calling cards, invitations, and other ephemera from social seasons in Washington, D.C. (and New Orleans, La.) between 1915 and 1919, including:

o invitation from Adelaide Bell Heath for Sunday, November 5th, 1916; o invitation on Marine Corps stationary to “at home” of Mrs. [George] Barnett, wife of

the Commandant of the Marine Corps, for January 18, 1917;

o invitation on White House stationary from The President and Mrs. Wilson to a reception, Feb. 6, 1917;

o invitation from Vice President and Mrs. Marshall to a dance at the New Willard (Hotel) on February 21, 1917;

o invitation from Secretary of State and Mrs. Lansing to a garden party at the Pan-American Union in honor of visiting Belgian delegation, June 23, 1917;

o invitation to wedding of Roberta Brooke Russell (later known as Brooke Astor) to first husband John Dryden Kuser, April 26, 1919;

o note on White House stationary from Helen Woodrow Bones inviting Hewes to an “informal dance” at the White House on January 18, 1917 (subsequently postponed

for a week “due to the death of Admiral Dewey”);

o invitation to an “at home” from “The British Officers stationed at Washington,” November 23, 1918;

o invitation from Mrs. Edward McLean [aka Evalyn Walsh McLean] to “at home,” December 31, 1918;

o invitation from Mrs. Larz Anderson to “at home,” April 30, 1918; o photograph of Margaret McChord-George Boyd wedding party, which includes

Hewes as well as Adelaide Heath; and

o photograph of Hewes with Virginia LeSeure.

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• photographs of President Coolidge with Hewes’ father, Harry Bertram Hewes, annotated “at the White House, November 21, 1924;"

• obituary of Hewes’ mother, who died October 1938, and small portraits of various Hewes’ family members, annotated by Hewes.

Processor’s Note: The last 6 pages of volume 1, following a series of empty pages, contain

biographical material about Clarence Hewes’ family members, primarily obituaries and

photographs. This material is dated from 1906 to 1938.

Removals Note: Mounted photograph of Hewes uncle, John Bussey, removed to folder housed

in the same container as the volume.

Volume 2: July 1919 to December 1921. Includes:

Materials from Hewes’ period as Secretary to the American Legation in Panama:

• autographed photographic portrait of President of Panama; • unlabeled photographs, apparently of sites in Panama; • invitations to various receptions and other events held by Panamanian officials, including an

invitation from the President and Senora Porres to a banquet on December 7, 1919 (with

menu printed on silk);

• materials chronicling a visit to the Panama Canal Zone by the United Kingdom’s Prince Edward (later King Edward VIII and the Duke of Windsor), March-April, 1920, including

newspaper articles, a menu from luncheon on the Prince’s ship H.M.S. Renown, invitations

from the British Minister to meet the Prince during an “at home” and dinner on March 30,

1920, and numerous photographs;

• invitation to a reception “to meet General Pershing” on April 30, 1920, and personal calling card of General John J. Pershing;

• group photograph, with figures identified by Hewes that include George C. Marshall, General [John J.] Pershing, Panamanian President (Ernesto) Lefevre, and Hewes himself

(“CBH”);

• program from funeral of Major-General William Gorgas, July 9, 1920; • materials chronicling a visit of Hewes’ mother and sister to the Canal Zone, July-August,

1920;

• newspaper account of dinner given by the Prince of Wales on his ship, the H.M.S. Renown (on his return journey through the Panama Canal en route to England) on September 13,

1920, at which Hewes was a guest.

• invitation to the wedding of Adelaide Bell Heath [in Washington], October 15, 1919; • invitation to wedding of Isabel Stettinius, sister of future Secretary of State Edward

Stettinius, Jr., November 19, 1919;

• invitation to wedding of Katharine Harding (daughter of the Canal Zone Governor Chester Harding) to W.R. Deeble, April 14, 1920;

• invitation to the wedding of Rachel Littleton to Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., April 29, 1920. Materials from Hewes’ period of assignment to the American Legation in The Hague:

• newspaper accounts of Hewes’ appointment, and travels, to The Hague, September 1920; • passenger list and photo of the R.M.S. Aquitania, on which Hewes sailed from New York,

November 2, 1920;

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• invitation to wedding of Augusta Christian Glass, December 16, 1920; • numerous calling cards, invitations, and ephemera pertaining to Hewes’ diplomatic and

social position at the Legation;

• photographs of Hewes’ apartment in The Hague; • photographs of Hewes’ sister Florence, dated July 26, 1921; • calling card of John Bassett Moore, the first American judge to serve on the Permanent Court

of International Justice (the “World Court”) in The Hague;

• invitation to the wedding of Louise Delano, daughter of Frederic A. Delano, September 10, 1921 [in Washington].

Volume 3: January 1922 to January 1929. Includes: Materials from Hewes’ period of assignment to the American Legation in The Hague:

• photographs, newspaper articles, and ephemera from travels in Europe, 1921-1922; • newspaper announcement of Hewes’ posting to Second Secretary at the American Legation

in San Jose, Costa Rica;

• passenger list from R.M.S. Olympic, on which Hewes sailed from Southampton on March 22, 1922;

• newspaper accounts of Hewes’ visits to Washington, D.C. and New Orleans en route to his new post;

• photographs of Hewes, his mother, and sister aboard ship. Materials from Hewes’ period of assignment to the American Legations in Costa Rica and El

Salvador:

• photographs and postcards of various sites in Costa Rica; • invitation to wedding of Catherine Hughes, daughter of Secretary of State Charles Evan

Hughes, June 10, 1922;

• personal calling card of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt; • photograph of Hewes with American Minister Montgomery Schuyler and President Jorge

Melendez of El Salvador, with handwritten date 28 August, 1922;

• numerous photographs of Hewes and others in various sites in Costa Rica; • newspaper announcement, and photographs, chronicling Hewes’ luncheon for former

Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, November 1922;

• autographed photographic portraits of El Salvador presidents Jorge Melendez and Quinnaz Molina, 1923;

• invitation to the wedding of Lilian Post, daughter of noted architect William Stone Post, June 16, 1923;

• invitation to wedding of Louisa Ruth Hoar, step-daughter of Speaker of the House Frederick Huntington Gillette, June 18, 1922;

• announcement of the wedding of Consuelo Morgan to Benjamin Thaw, Jr., May 25, 1923.2

2 Consuelo was the daughter of Harry Hays Morgan, an American diplomat who served in Buenos Aires and

Brussels. Consuelo’s two sisters were (1) Gloria, who married Reginald Vanderbilt; their daughter was noted

designer Gloria Vanderbilt, mother of journalist Anderson Cooper; and (2) Thelma, who married British nobleman

Viscount Furness and preceded Wallis Simpson as mistress of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII. Their

brother, Harry Hays Morgan Jr., was a minor Hollywood actor in such films as Abie's Irish Rose (1946), Joan of Arc (1948), and others. Consuelo later divorced Thaw and married Alfons Landa.

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Materials from Hewes’ period of assignment to the American Legation in Guatemala:

• announcement and program of memorial service for (deceased) President Warren G. Harding at the Legation, August 10, 1923;

• invitations to functions from President Jose Maria Orellana and other Guatemalan officials; • invitation to wedding of Rosamund Castle, daughter of State Department official William

Richards Castle, Jr., October 20, 1923;

• printed card of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson expressing appreciation for Hewes’ sympathy upon death of former President Wilson, March 1924.

Materials from Hewes’ period of assignment to the American Legation in China:

• Photographs (appear to be postcards) of sites around Peking; • numerous calling cards of diplomats, government officials, and visitors; • invitation from American Minister and Mrs. Jacob Gould Schurman to dinner for Christmas,

December 25, 19243;

• invitation from “The British Bachelor Members of the Peking Club” to a dance on January 21, 1925;

• numerous group photographs of diplomats from China, Japan, Great Britain, the U.S., and other countries, apparently stationed in Peking;

• photographs of Hewes’ house in Peking; • photograph of Hewes at Great Wall of China, May 17, 1925; • invitation from American Minister and Mrs. MacMurray to dinner, October 20, 1925; • invitation to wedding of Charlotte Stone MacDougall, daughter of Rear Admiral William

Dugald MacDougall, November 18, 1926;

• announcement of marriage of Elizabeth Stevenson, sister of Adlai Stevenson, February 4, 1927;

• invitation to wedding of Katherine Stuart Strawn, daughter of Silas Hardy Strawn, January 15, 1927;4

• invitation to wedding of Rebecca Smith, daughter of noted artist Joseph Lindon Smith, May 6, 1927;

• announcement of wedding of Lilla Cabot Grew, daughter of Under Secretary of State Joseph Clark Grew;

• postcards and magazine photographs of sites in India, illustrating Hewes’ visit there in July-August, 1927;

• numerous photographs of the First Secretary’s house (including interiors), American legation, Peking, and one of Hewes, dated January 14, 1928;

• photographs of various sites in China, some with people (identified and unidentified); • invitation to an “at home” of General and Mrs. Chiang Kai-Shek, July 21, 1928.

Removals Note: Two-page newspaper article about U.S. Minister to China John Van A.

MacMurray, and the Peking legation (at the time, the largest U.S. diplomatic mission); and two

3 In 1925, Schurman was assigned as American Envoy to Germany. 4 Silas Hardy Strawn was a prominent Chicago attorney who became president of the United States Chamber of Commerce during the early years of the Great Depression. He was named by President Coolidge as one of two

American delegates to the Special Conference on American Relations with China, held in Beijing on October 26,

1925—a conference which would also have been attended by Hewes.

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pages apparently from list of legation staff, found loose in scrapbook, removed to folder located

in the same container as the volume.

Container 2

Volume 4: August 1928 to February 1935. Includes: Materials from Hewes’ period of assignment to the American Legation in China:

• materials chronicling the visit of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson to Peking, August – September, 1929, including an August 29 newspaper article, a handwritten note to Hewes from Mrs.

Wilson (on stationary of the Grand Hotel of Peking) dated September 1, 1929, a photograph

taken at formal dinner in her honor;

• Christmas card signed “Edith Bolling Wilson;” • letter to Hewes dated January 8, 1930 from newly-appointed Secretary of War Patrick

Hurley;

• formal announcement, in English and Chinese, of death of Madam Hsu, wife of former Chinese president Hsu Shih-oh’ang, April 14, 1930;

• invitation to the wedding of Ann Covington, daughter of James Harry Covington, March 22, 1930;

• newspaper articles chronicling the farewell of Hewes from Peking; • handwritten dinner invitation from Edith Bolling Wilson to dinner at her house at 2340 S

Street N.W., dated July 14, 1930, as Hewes passed through Washington en route to new post

in Berlin.

Materials from Hewes’ period of assignment to the American Embassy in Berlin and Legation in

Riga, Latvia:

• December 12, 1930 newspaper article about the purchase of the Blucher Palace mansion as the new U.S. embassy in Berlin;

• numerous calling cards and invitations to various social functions welcoming Hewes to Berlin;

• postcards and magazine pictures of various sites in Germany, including Nuremburg, Munster, and Baden-Baden;

• program from the American Club of Berlin’s July 4 celebration, 1931; • photographs of residential interiors, unlabeled [perhaps Hewes’ own apartment in Berlin?]; • telegram to Hewes from Sir Adrian Baillie, announcing Baillie’s engagement to Mrs.

Wilson-Filmer, granddaughter of W.C. Whitney (former Secretary of the Navy) and cousin

of Jock Whitney, and invitation to the wedding;

• reviews of a performance by American dancer Ted Shawn in Berlin, 1931; • newspaper articles announcing Hewes’ marriage to Edyth Guggenheim, on October 27,

1931;

• January 1932 publication listing the names of the diplomatic community in Berlin (from all nations), including Hewes and “Frau Hewes;”

• invitation from U.S. Ambassador Frederic Moseley Sackett to dinner on November 11, 1931;

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• photograph of George Kennan,5 his wife Annelise, and Edyth Hewes, taken in Riga (undated, but apparently in 1931);

• photograph of Hewes and wife with “the Castlemans” taken in Rome, March 30, 1932; • postcards and photographs of various European locales, including Biarritz, Salamanca, the

Rhine River in Germany;

• photographs and other materials from Hewes’ visit to New Orleans, San Francisco, the Grand Canyon, and New York in September 1932;

• materials chronicling the Hewes’ stay in London, 1933, including: o published “table plan” for luncheon in honor of U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull;

and

o invitation from “Their Majesties” [King George V and Queen Mary] to an afternoon garden party at Buckingham Palace, July 20, 1933.

• photographs of Como, Italy, Venice, Cannes, and Monte Carlo; • announcement of the marriage of Elizabeth Sturgis Grew, daughter of Joseph Clark Grew,

October 7, 1933;

• invitation to the wedding of Rachel Virginia Davies, daughter of Joseph E. Davies, on November 25, 1933.

Materials from Hewes’ residency in Washington, D.C., beginning in 1933:

• ephemera chronicling the Hewes’ trip aboard the R.M.S. Mauretania to the West Indies, 1933;

• invitation on Presidential stationary from President and Mrs. Roosevelt to a reception at the White House on December 7, 1933;

• invitation on Presidential stationary from Mrs. Roosevelt to reception on January 29 [1934]; • invitation from Mrs. Sumner Welles, wife of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles,

for March 10 [1934];

• invitation to the Sumner Welles’ for dinner on February 17 [1934]; • Christmas card with portrait sketch from Washington architect Jules H. de Sibour; • photograph of 2358 Massachusetts Avenue, Hewes’ home in Washington; • invitation to “at home” from Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Stimson (Secretary of War under

President Taft), May 11, [1934];

• invitation to “at home” from Mrs. Armistead Peter 3rd; • photograph of Paul Howro [Hewes’ chauffeur?] and automobile; • materials chronicling Hewes’ visit to Europe in 1934, including:

o ticket to the Royal Enclosure at the Ascot Races; and o postcards from Leningrad and Moscow, Salzburg, and Italy.

• announcement of marriage of Geraldine Rockefeller McAlpin, daughter of Mrs. David Hunter McAlpin of New York;

• newspaper article noting the death of Mrs. Alice Hargreaves (born Alice Liddell and inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland), November 1934;

• Washington Post article of December 11, 1934, about the Hewes’ “eggnog party;” • invitation on Presidential stationary to White House reception on January 3, 1935;

5 George Kennan was an American diplomat, political scientist, and historian, perhaps best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He served briefly as U.S. Ambassador to the

Soviet Union in 1952.

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• invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Newbold Noyes for February 17 [1935]; • postcards and photographs from trip to Florida (undated, but apparently in early 1935).

Volume 5: March 1935 to November 1936. Includes: • invitation to birthday celebration of “His Imperial Majesty Riza Shah Pahlavi” (Shah of Iran)

from the Persian Minister for March 15, [1935];

• numerous newspaper clippings from “society” columns noting Hewes’ entertaining and attendance at social events, including his own dinner parties for the Minister of China and the

Minister of Panama;

• invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Stimson to “at home,” May 9, [1935]; • invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Larz Anderson “to meet Hon[orable] and Mrs. Charles Francis

Adams” on May 12, [1935];

• invitation for cocktails at Tudor Place from Mr. and Mrs. Armistead Peter 3rd on May 13, [1935];

• newspaper photographs of Hewes, Mrs. Patrick J. Hurley, and Mr. and Mrs. Armistead Peter at the Loudon Hunt Annual Horse Show [1935];

• numerous photographs of the exterior and interior of Hewes’ home at 2358 Massachusetts Avenue;

• Materials chronicling Hewes’ (annual) trip to Europe, summer of 1935, including: o Washington Post article noting Hewes’ sailing on the return maiden voyage of the

Normandie, as well as certificate, passenger list, menu cover, and menu from the

voyage (Hewes sailed from New York on June 7, 1935 to Plymouth, England); o invitation to dinner from Mr. & Mrs. Glasgow on June 18, 1935, “To have the honor

of meeting H.H. Princess Helena Victoria & H.H. Princess Marie Louise;”6

o official program of the Ascot Races of 1935; o miscellaneous invitations, calling cards, and photographs from Hewes’ stay in

England, June-July 1935; and

o photograph of Carolyn Nash. • invitation to the wedding of Daniel Gillette Olney, August 7, 1935; • invitation to “at home” from Mr. and Mrs. Randall Hagner, November 11, 1935; • invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rupert Tuckerman “to meet the Hon. Mrs. Thomas

Riggs” November 24, 1935;

• invitation from Doctor and Mrs. [William Holland] Wilmer to dinner at the Sulgrave Club, December 11, 1935;

• invitation on Presidential stationary from President and Mrs. Roosevelt to a reception at the White House on December 17, 1935;

• invitation from Mrs. Lawrence Townsend to luncheon “In honor of the world’s greatest Wagnerian artist Mme. Kirsten Flagstad and of Mr. Roman Totenberg, violinist,” at

Mayflower Hotel, December 18, 19357;

• invitation, in silver print, marked “1910-1935” [silver wedding anniversary?], from Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rupert Tuckerman, December 28, 1935;

• invitation on Presidential stationary from Mrs. Roosevelt to a reception at the White House on January 3, [1936];

6 The two princesses were granddaughters of Queen Victoria. 7 Roman Totenberg was the father of Washington’s Nina Totenberg, correspondent for National Public Radio.

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• invitation to “at home” from Mrs. Sumner Welles for New Year’s Day [1936]; • invitation for cocktails from Mr. and Mrs. Armistead Peter 3rd, January 4, [1936]; • materials chronicling Hewes’ trip to Palm Beach and Miami, Florida, Mexico, and New

Orleans, January-February 1936;

• invitation to a “leap year dance” from Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dudley Auchincloss of McLean, Virginia, for February 29, 1936;

• invitation from Mrs. Eleanor Medill [“Cissy”] Patterson to small dance at her home, 15 Dupont Circle, February 6, 1936;

• invitation from Mr. & Mrs. J. Hamilton Lewis for dinner at the Mayflower, April 2, 1936; • program from the funeral service for Dr. William Holland Wilmer, held at Washington

Cathedral, April 3, 1936;

• invitation to the wedding of Marianna Dunn, daughter of James Clement Dunn, April 30, 1936;

• invitation from Mr. & Mrs. Henry L. Stimson to a garden party at their Woodley estate, May 7, [1936];

• invitation to tea from Mr. and Mrs. William Phelps Eno, May 5, 1936; • invitation to wedding of Yulee Miles, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Sherman Miles, June 6,

1936;

• invitation to the wedding of Jean Raymond de Sibour, son of architect Jules Henri de Sibour, June 1, 1936;

• materials chronicling Hewes’ trip to England and Germany, summer 1936, including: o a handwritten personal letter from Wallis Simpson dated “Sunday, the seventh” [of

June, 1936];

o photograph of Hewes with Carolyn Nash at Sefton Park, Stoke Poges, June 27, 1936, o photographs of Hewes at the Highland Games, Scotland; and o passenger list from the R.M.S. Queen Mary, aboard which Hewes sailed to the U.S.,

departing Southampton on September 30, 1936.

• invitation to wedding of Suzanne Carroll Hill, daughter of Congressman John Philip Hill of Maryland;

• invitation to wedding reception of Caroline Huston Thompson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Huston Thompson, November 11, 1936;

• invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney, November 28, 1936; • invitation to a dance in honor of Margot Garrett, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. George Angus

Garrett, November 28, 1936;

• handwritten note, on Carlton Hotel stationary, signed by playwright Noel Coward (undated, but in hand-addressed envelope postmarked November 21, 1936);

• invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman to dinner at “Tuxeden,” December 5, 1936;

• invitation from Brig. Gen. & Mrs. David D. Porter, November 20, 1936; • invitation to the wedding of Amelia Alfaro, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo J. Alfaro,

September 23, [1936];

• invitation to “small dance” from Mr. & Mrs. Breckinridge Long, December 18, [1936]; • newspaper articles concerning visit to Hewes by Honorable Edward and Lady Katherine

Bigham of England in November 1936.

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Volume 6: December 1936 to April 1939. Includes: • invitation to lunch aboard the Firenze, from Lt. Colonel and Mrs. Robert Guggenheim,

December 20, 1936;

• invitation from British Ambassador and Lady Lindsay to dinner at the British Embassy, December 22, 1936 (days after the abdication of King Edward VIII, chronicled extensively

through newspaper clippings in the scrapbook);

• invitation from “Mrs. McLean” [Evalyn Walsh McLean] for dinner on December 31, 1936, plus printed menu and extensive newspaper account of the party at the McLean’s

“Friendship” estate;

• invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Meyer for “small dance,” December 26, 1936;8 • invitation to “Eastern Shore Supper” from Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Wood Robert, Jr.,

December 27, 1936;

• calling card announcing visiting hours from Mrs. Gifford Pinchot; • invitation from Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock to dinner on January 23, 1937; • invitation to “at home” from Mrs. Henry Blakiston Wilkins, Saturdays in January through

March, 1937;

• invitation from Mrs. Emlen Davies for dinner at 2941 Massachusetts Ave. on January 21, 1937;

• invitation on Presidential stationary from President and Mrs. Roosevelt to a reception at the White House on January 2, 1937;

• invitation from the Netherlands Minister to a reception “To celebrate the occasion of the marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Juliana of the Netherlands” on January 7, [1937];

• invitation on Presidential stationary from Mrs. Roosevelt to a reception at the White House on January 11, [1937];

• invitation from Mrs. Charles M. Lea for dinner on February 11, 1937, “To meet Mr. Justice Butler and Mrs. Butler”9;

• numerous invitations to social events at various embassies, including those of Egypt, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Denmark, China, Finland, South Africa, and Germany;

• 2 tickets to the reviewing stand for the 1937 inaugural of President Franklin Roosevelt, January 20, 1937;

• materials chronicling Hewes’ trip to New Orleans (where he was hospitalized with influenza) and subsequently Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Greece, the Riviera, and London, February to June

1937, including:

o signed handwritten note, on Chateau de Cande stationary, from Wallis Simpson (undated, but envelope appears to be postmarked March 1937), and several

photographs of Simpson and others at the Chateau, dated April 25, 1937;

o booklet from the Coronation Service for King George VI, May 12, 1937; o signed handwritten note from Wallis Simpson, on Cande Monts stationary, dated May

20, 1937;

8 Eugene Meyer was the owner of the Washington Post newspaper and the father of subsequent owner/publisher

Katherine Graham. 9 Pierce Butler was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1923 until his death in

1939. He was notable for being the first Justice from Minnesota, and for being a Democrat appointed by a

Republican president, Warren G. Harding

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o numerous photographs, many labeled, of English country houses and various titled individuals; and

o handwritten note, on Schloss Wasserleonburg stationary, from Wallis Simpson, dated July 1, (1937), expressing distress that wedding gifts from Hewes had not arrived,

followed by a July 9 telegram from “Wallis and Edward” reporting the gifts’ arrival,

and a typed note, dated July 12, 1937, thanking Hewes for the gifts, hand-signed

“Edward” [presumably Edward, Duke of Windsor].

• invitation to ceremony celebrating the 150th anniversary of the U.S. constitution, September 17, 1937;

• materials chronicling Hewes’ automobile travels to New England, North Carolina, New Orleans, and California, August to October 1937;

• invitation from Charles Mason Remey for dinner on October 22, 1937; • invitation from Colonel and Mrs. Sherman Miles, October 29, [1937]; • article from New York Herald Tribune, November 9, 1937, noting death of Mrs. Gibson

Fahnestock;

• invitation from the British Ambassador to dinner at the British Embassy, November 4, (1937), with printed menu and newspaper article about the dinner;

• invitation from Mrs. Gilbert Monell Hitchcock (widow of Senator Gilbert Hitchcock of Nebraska) for dinner, December 13, [1937];

• invitation from “Mrs. McLean” [Evalyn Walsh McLean] for dinn