Person:Mary Chivvis (6)

MEC memory: "Grandmother Chivvis would play the piano in our living room. I took lessons, but I don't think anybody else did. I learned one song by heart, but now I don't think I could tell you where middle C is." MEC letter to family 5/18/1943: "Before I get too far away from the Doc, I have something else that I thought was funny. Went down to get checked over the other day, and the first thing he asked was "Say, what religion are you?" I was a little startled, and thought he was about to say sorry but this is the end of our beautiful friendship etc., but said I was an Episcopalian. "What religion is-Gli? "Unitarian", and "What religion are your children?" "Episcopalian"---"Un huh, well my wife is Episcopalian, and I'm a Methodist, and the first thing I knew she was writing down about godmothers and godfathers, and when did I want the baby baptised--- I wasnʾt even consulted about which religion he was going to be, and am apparently not going to be consulted either. " I had to laugh--I'm sure he thinks weʾre just one step better than the Catholi Catholics! Don't know whether Sue had better show this to Tom, he might feel the same way! [handwritten:] But I feel they can always change later if they want too-"

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} Haiti, Spain.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} Curtis, Susan Harker scrap book put together by MEC.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Chivvis, Mary Ellen picture notations Pier Cove, MI.
4. ↑ Chivvis, Leland photo album.
5. ↑ Chivvis, Susan Ross Birth Record Registered No. 3529No. 17488, Health Dist. 23 3/25/1918 for birth on 3/9/1918.
6. ↑ ^{6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13} MEC memory, told to SHC.
7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 Leland Curtis Webster Groves, MO Susan Harker Curtis.
8. ↑ 8 pages by Nancy Chivvis copy in files of SHC.

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9. ↑ Obituaries - 7 on Ada Chaphe Chivvis St. Louis, MO 8/10/1937 and 8/12/1937.
10. ↑ St. Louis City Directories 1877. (David B. Gould).
11. ↑ ^11.0 11.1 Curtis, Mary Ellen (Chivvis) 2278 70th StreetFennville, MI 49408 Chivvis, Susan Harker (Curtis) 1/1999 - files.
12. ↑ Mary Institute Alumnae Directory 1859-1985 125th Anniversary Edition.
13. ↑ ^13.0 13.1 Chivvis, Mary Ellen Chivvis, Leland 6/1937 Wellington, New Zealand MEC files; copy in SHC files 1999.
14. ↑ ^{14.0 14.1 14.2} List of family residences and addresses for Mary Glasgow (Curtis) Kamman's government clearance.
15. ↑ Chivvis, Mary Ellen Chivvis, Nancy 2/25/1937 ship Monteray, South Pacific Ocean MEC files; copy in SHC files 1.
16. ↑ Curtis, Edward Glion Passport number 904 21st October 1935.
17. ↑ Curtis, Edward Glion Jr. Curtis, Thomas Bradford 1939 Wellington, New Zealand MEC files; copy in SHC files 199.
18. ↑ ^18.0 18.1 Home in Haiti Burns, St. Louis Pair Escape St. Louis, MO 1940.
19. ↑ ^19.0 19.1 Curtis EGJr docs, cards, passports....
20. ↑ Chivvis, Mary Ellen Chivvis family 7/28/1940 Port-au-Prince, Haiti MEC files, copy in SHC files 1999.
21. ↑ Mr. and Mrs. Edward Glion Curtis Jr. became the parents yesterday of a son, their second child... St. Louis, M.
22. ↑ Chivvis, Mary Ellen Chivvis, Nancy, Susan and Sarah 12/11/1942 Port-au-Prince, Haiti MEC files; copy in SHC fi.
23. ↑ ^{23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3} Chivvis, Mary Ellen Glasgow, Mary Branch 5/18/1943 Port-au-Prince, Haiti MEC files; copy in SHC files 1999.
24. ↑ Chivvis, Mary Ellen Chivvis, Susan Ross & Thomas Bradford Curtis 9/10/1944 1437 McCausland Ave; St. Louis, MO.
25. ↑ ^{25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4} "Some of the charm and colorful life in Madrid is contained in letters written by mrs. Edward Glion Curtis Jr..
26. ↑ Chivvis, Mary Ellen Wallace, Isabel 1946-6-24 Madrid, Spain MEC files; copy in SHC files 1999.
27. ↑ ^{27.0 27.1 27.2} Chivvis, Mary Ellen Wallace, Isabel 11/14/1946 Madrid, Spain MEC files; copy in SHC files 1999.
28. ↑ Curtis EGIII memory, SHC notes.
29. ↑ Curtis, Edward Glion Jr. Passport number 4132 4/10/1941.
30. ↑ ^{30.0 30.1 30.2} Isabel Wallace Curtis' passport number 349433.
31. ↑ Chivvis, Mary Ellen Chivvis, Leland 1953 Tuedsay Zurich, Switzerland MEC files; copy in SHC files 1999.
32. ↑ ^32.0 32.1 Chivvis, Mary Ellen Glasgow, Mary Branch 8/10/1953 Zurich, Switzerland MEC files; copy in SHC files 1999.
33. ↑ Knoll, Mabel (Whitcomb) Wallace, Isabel 9/8/1954 1009 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley 7, CA TBC files; copy in SHC f.
34. ↑ Lane, George W. and Lindell Gordon, Jr. Curtis, Susan C(hivvis) 10/18/1960 TBC files; copy in SHC files 1999.
35. ↑ Curtis, Thomas Bradford Pier Cove, MI Curtis, Susan Harker abt 1984 notes in SHC files 1999.
36. ↑ Loder, Miriam (Wallace) Wallace, Isabel 238 West Chestnut Street, Lancaster, PA TBC files; copy in SHC files 1.
37. ↑ Georgetown University medical Center Washington 7, DC X-ray Dept. Reference number 83,803 admitted 4/20/1959.
38. ↑ Glasgow, Mary Branch Curtis, Edward G; Quackenbush, Arthur D; Curtis, Thomas B; Willcockson, William H. 5/9/19.
39. ↑ Glasgow, Mary Branch = Mary Glasgow Chivvis Estate No. 146,362.
40. ↑ Saga of Susie scrapbook of SHC by MEC:
    "Susie on the day she was christened Spring - 1951"
41. ↑ picture in MEC leather bound book does not specify baptism, but it
    might be:
    "Redeemer Church St. Louis; 2nd of May 1915
    Leland Chivvis
    Mary Glasgow Chivvis
    Charles J. Miller
    Mary T. Miller
    Wm. R. Chivvis
    Adelaide Le Baume [later Cherbounier]"
    [Adelaide lived in Ferguson and was Mary Glasgow's close friend.]
42. ↑ MEC to SHC 12/1999:
    "The little finger on my left hand got caught in the spokes of my
    father's car. I was spinning the wheel around in the garage while he
    was fixing the car and he told me: 'Mary Ellen - don't do that or your
    finger will get caught. No sooner had he said that than my finger got
    caught and I hid it behind my back so he wouldn't see it and get mad.
    It was dripping blood."
43. ↑ Leland Chivvis pocket diary:
    "Just remembered that I have Grandfather Chivvis' pocket diary from
    1924. (It was found stuck in a crevice in a wall in the basement just
    a few years ago by the family then living at 1437. They called us for
    a last "walk through" before they sold the house.)Chock full of
    meaningless yet interesting arcania. He notes his highlights of
    1924-"learned to skate...skating at Forest Park with Mary Ellen and
    Susan...took first dancing lessons with Mary..built swimming pool and
    bird bath..." He painstakingly records all monies spent on oil &
    gasoline for his cars, lunches, haircuts,travels, and poker losses,
    but
    fails to note Grandmother's pregnancy with Allen other than this
    cryptic
    entry Aug 5- "Mary acting strange"(Allen was born approx 9 months
    later on
    May 10, 1925.)"
44. ↑ Leland Curtis re Leland Chivvis pocket diary:
    "Just remembered that I have Grandfather Chivvis' pocket diary from
    1924. (It was found stuck in a crevice in a wall in the basement just
    a few years ago by the family then living at 1437. They called us for
    a last "walk through" before they sold the house.)Chock full of
    meaningless yet interesting arcania. He notes his highlights of
    1924-"learned to skate...skating at Forest Park with Mary Ellen and
    Susan...took first dancing lessons with Mary..built swimming pool and
    bird bath..." He painstakingly records all monies spent on oil &
    gasoline for his cars, lunches, haircuts,travels, and poker losses,
    but
    fails to note Grandmother's pregnancy with Allen other than this
    cryptic
    entry Aug 5- "Mary acting strange"(Allen was born approx 9 months
    later on
    May 10, 1925.)"
45. ↑ MEC story to SHC 3/21/1999:
    "We went to Douglas when polio was bad. It got bad in the summer. We
    went the first year after Allan drowned in the swimming pool [9/1926],
    so Mother wouldn't have to look at the swimming pool."
    "Adelaide Cherbonnier was my mother's best friend from Wash U. She
    and Uncle Ed and my father were all there at the same time. Auntie
    Adelaide was quite a character. She was a handsome woman; she was
    French with a hooked nose. Not beautiful, but handsome. She was the
    one who "took care of the bills" by putting them under her mattress.
    Uncle Ed had told her that she couldn't go up to Douglas unless she
    took care of the bills first. She and my mother would go up to
    Douglas together. Adelaide took all the bills and put them under her
    mattress. She would have gotten away with it, except they were
    expecting company and the maid cleaned the sheets and was tucking them
    in when she found the bills. Uncle Ed was furious.
    Uncle Ed worked for Ralston Purina and became very wealthy. But
    Auntie Adelaide didn't manage money very well; she used to run out and
    then ask my mother to borrow $50. My mother said she was burnt when
    one time Adelaide borrowed $50 and said to her: "It must be marvelous
    to be rich." Here were my mother and father scraping to get by..."
46. ↑ SHC copied from TBC records:
    "9/29/1927 1:00 PM tornado across length of St. Louis (including
    McCausland Ave) from Southwest to Tower Grove; 300 ft wide 2 1/2 miles
    long. Caused 72 deaths, $10 million - $20 million damage; 2,000
    buildings destroyed in 6 square miles; 1,200 injured, 6,300 families
    suffered loss. Red Cross fund $1 million."
47. ↑ SRC obituary Fennville paper? "...summers in Fennville-Douglas since
    1920..."
    MEC story to SHC 3/21/1999:
    "We went to Douglas when polio was bad. It got bad in the summer. We
    went the first year after Allan drowned in the swimming pool [9/1926],
    so Mother wouldn't have to look at the swimming pool."
48. ↑ St. Louis, MO Directory 1929 NARA MF 434; 040428:
    "Chivvis Ada M. (Mrs. W. R.) Attorney-at-Law Suite 1122 Boatman's Bank
    Bldg 314 N. B'way Tel Chestnut 0867 r1437 McCausland...
    Chivvis, Dan'l S. parkkpr r3607N 11th
    Chivvis, Leland civ eng h 1437 McCausland av"
    newspaper clippings 8/10/1937-8/12/1937 Kate Moody Collection of
    Missouri Historical Society:
    "[P.D. 8-10-1937] Mrs. Ada C. Chivvis, Attorney, Dies in East... She
    resided alternately with her sons, Norman Chivvis, 116 Jefferson road,
    Webster Groves, and Leland Chivvis, 1437 McCausland avenue. She spent
    her summers with her daughter."
    "[Star 8-10-37] Mrs. William Chivvis, Lawyer, Dies in East.... Mrs.
    Chivvis, who lived with her son, Norman Chivvis at 116 Jefferson road,
    Webster Groves, had been visiting her daughter for two months."
    MEC memories:
    "Grandmother Chivvis lived four months with us, four months with Uncle
    Norman and four months with Aunt Ruth in the East. She would talk
    about how well Ruth's children colored; how they stayed within the
    lines. We hated them. And then years later we found out that she had
    bragged about us to them, and they hated us, too. Grandmother Chivvis
    was nice, and seemed very old to me. We used to stay up and play
    Russian Solitaire, a double solitaire game. I haven't played it
    since."
    Nancy Chivvis memories 8 pages
    p. 1:
    "We lived at 1437 McCausland Avenue because my father's job with the
    St. Louis Water Dep't required that he live in the city of St. Louis.
    The house was half a block inside the city limits."
    p. 2:
    "My grandmother used to live with us in those days. She went to a
    different church than we did. For some reason she needed help that
    Sunday getting to church on the street car, so I was detailed to see
    that she made it alright. I could not have been very old, 12?, but I
    walked up to the street car stop, helped her on, paid both our fares,
    saw to it that we got off at the right place (I had to help her with
    the step down) & then walk the block to her church. All I can
    remember of her church service was that they said the Lord's Prayer
    "forgive us our debts." Being an Episcopalian, I said "forgive us our
    trespasses" and was amazed at how the "S" sound carried all over the
    church."
    p. 5:
    "Our maid was Melinda. I don't recollect her last name. She stayed
    in the maid's room off the kitchen. Winter evenings we all sat around
    the grate [sic] fire (a coal fire) in the living room. My
    grandmother, who lived with us, taught Melinda how to knit, Mary-Ellen
    & I embroideried, and my mother would read to us."
    p. 8
    "When we were young, the second floor at the back of 1437 (McCausland
    Ave) was an unheated glassed in sleeping porch with the windows
    running from about two feet above the floor up to the ceiling. (It
    was probably that way when my mother and father bought the house. An
    odd arrangement.) My grandmother and I slept out there. I was always
    cold, in spite of comforters and blankets, so father bought me a hot
    water bottle at an Army-Navy store that sold surplus World War
    equipment. It was a metal one (to be sure it was durable or because
    rubber had not yet been perfected for hot water bottles?) When full
    of boiling hot water it had to be wrapped in a towel so it wouldn't
    burn me, but by the middle of the night it had cooled off and I would
    be waked up cuddling this icy cold piece of metal. I remember feeling
    sorry for the soldiers who couldn't just kick it onto the floor and
    creep in beside a nice warm grandmother."
49. ↑ Mary Glasgow Curtis "Stories about Grandmother and Grandfather
    Chivvis" 8/99:
    "Grandfather Chivvis was a civil engineer and found it very difficult
    to get jobs during the Depression, as nothing much was being built.
    Once he found a $2 bill in a pair of white flannels that he hadn't
    worn in a long time. In those days that was enough to buy a week's
    worth of groceries. Mother thinks they bought eggs, a great treat.
    Grandmother Chivvis' maid offered to work for free during the
    Depression. It was unthinkable for a middle class family in those
    days not to have a maid."
50. ↑ MEC:
    2/27/99 Leland Chivvis' camping trips:
    "I was a counselor at camp when I was 16 or 17 in Green Bay Wisconsin.
    My father came and picked me up and we went canoeing in Canada.
    He used to go camping in the Ozarks. Leleand Curtis might know about
    that.
    When WWII was declared, Sue was visiting us in New Zealand. She got a
    job in Hawaii. I can't remember if she was on her way back, but WWII
    was declared and Father told her to come straight home. He drove west
    to meet her and on their way back they made a camping trip of it and
    visited Yosemite or whatever."
51. ↑ MEC memories told to SHC 1999:
    "I started smoking when I was 16. I thought I was so cool."
52. ↑ Mary Glasgow Curtis "Stories About Grandmother and Grandfather
    Chivvis":
    "Mother attended Washington University for a year and was going to
    major in physical education, but she married my father instead."
53. ↑ Mary Institute Alumnae Directory 1985:
    "Class List - 1933...CHIVVIS, Mary E. (Mrs. E. G. Curtis, Jr.)" [61
    girls in class]
54. ↑ MEC to SHC 3/28/1999:
    "My mother had an Open House at 1437 for the Thanksgiving Day football
    game. For some reason she invited the Curtises. She used to play
    bridge with Isabel in Douglas. I guess they had gotten reacquainted
    or something. Anyway, Tom and Glion came.
    And that was where I first met Glion. Sue and Nancy had met Tom and
    Ernie that summer. I was away at camp or at Pensacola. I was talking
    about Philip Beal, and Sue and Nancy were talking about Tom and Ernie.
    There was a big rivalry between Washington University and St. Louis
    University. St. Louis University won, as usual. The Eberle's, next
    door, were good Catholics and rooted for St. Louis U. We always used
    to declare that we had the 'moral victory' because they only beat us
    by 20 points and they should have won by a lot more."
55. ↑ MEC picture notes:
    "1934 Pier Cove "MEC in her cherry-picking outfit - why Glion married
    me after seeing me like this, I'll never know."
56. ↑ MEC (2/12/99):
    "I went down with Auntie Ellen and spent a month. It used to be when
    you bought a new car you were supposed to drive the first 100 miles at
    35 mph. Well, Auntie Ellen bought a new car and I went with her to
    help her drive, and we drove all the way down to Pensacola at 35 mph."
57. ↑ Mary Glasgow Curtis "Stories About Grandmother and Grandfather
    Chivvis":
    "During this time Mother, Nancy and Sue had three dresses between
    them. The one that got the first date got first choice of which to
    wear. The loveliest was a periwinkle blue with a beaded top. "They
    looked so glamorous," said Sarah, the baby sister. The same system
    applied to shoes. Once AD wanted to take Nancy dancing. Mother had
    gotten the first date, with Daddy, and she had gotten the best shoes.
    But she was playing bridge at the Curtises. Nan came by the house on
    Gray Avenue and exchanged shoes with Mother, because no one would see
    Mother's shoes under the bridge table."
    MEC memories told to SHC 1999:
    "The three Chivvis girls (Mary Ellen, Nancy and Sue) called the Curtis
    boys (Glion, Tom and Ernie) with 3 offers: do you want to take us to
    movie? If they said "No." We'd suggest that we all go dutch, and if
    they said no to that, we said, "Fine how about if we take you to the
    movie?""
58. ↑ MEC to SHC 1/16/2000:
    "We went to Washington for three months and then went to New Zealand.
    I put on white gloves and went to the White House to drop my card.
    Then you're invited to the next reception. I put on my white gloves
    again and we took a taxi over there, went through the line and shook
    hands with Mrs. Roosevelt and everyone else, had a drink and went
    home. It was the strangest thing. Those were the days - now you
    couldn't get within 100 yards of the President!"
59. ↑ MEC letter 6/1937 to Leland Chivvis:
    "I gave up smoking merely because my conscience hurt me for not giving
    it up for Lent. Stayed off the 40 days and here I am again puffing
    away. By the way, the cheapest cigarettes here that are any good are
    1 shilling a pack, so be thankful that you can get them 2 for $.25!
    (MEC - 1979 - The good old days!) Camels & Chesterfields are 1
    shilling thruppence."
60. ↑ MEC letter 6/1937 to Leland Chivvis:
    "Then see the position of Aurora Terrace - Sayes Court, where we
    boarded, is half-way up it, and weʾre now settled in our new
    apartment, which is all the way up. We're about 350 feet above
    Lambton Quay & it's no gradual slope either, however it gives us a
    marvellous view of the harbor which more than makes up for the
    climb....We've been in seventh heaven in our new apartment. We build
    a fire every night & then just sit and beam at each other. However
    with the fire Gli never gets anything done. He sits & watches it for
    a while., then decides it needs poking, later puts on another piece of
    coal, then dusts off the hearth, looks at it another 5 minutes and
    starts all over again! Well, it's 6:00 & I've got to fix supper..."
    MEC 12/99 conversation with SHC:
    "I remember that fireplace was 1 foot square - I would feed it all day
    long and by evening it was maybe up to 60 degrees in the room."
61. ↑ [newpaper clipping:] Mr. and Mrs. Edward Glion Curtis Jr., who have
    been the guests of Mr. Curtisʾ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Curtis,
    453 Gray avenue, Webster Groves, will leave today for Los Angeles,
    where they will visit relatives before sailing on the Moneray [sic],
    February 10 for New Zealand, where Mr. Curtis has a post in the
    diplomatic service. They will land at Auckland and proceed by rail to
    Wellington where they will make their home for three years. Mr.
    Curtis was vice consul at Budapest prior to his appointment to new
    Zealand. Mrs. Curtis, before her marriage September 20, was Miss Mary
    Ellen Chivvis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leland Chivvis, 1437
    McCausland avenue. [handwritten:] Feb 6, 1937"
    MEC letter 2/25/1937 to Nancy Chivvis:
    "I can't write any more - my poor fingers are about to drop off. We
    get to Auckland tomorrow at 7:00 AM - leave at 3:00 for Wellington -
    the Youngs are going to Wellington with us, which is quite nice.
    Sorry if you had a time reading this - it was mainly a matter of
    speed, not looks. At that, this has taken the greater part of an
    afternoon. Do write soon, and be good. Gli sends his love.
    As ever,
    Mary
    OCEANIC LINE
    Hawaii - South Seas
    New Zealand
    Australia
    America
    [handwritten:] 1937 Thurs. Feb 25th
    EGC Passport #904 21st October 1935
    p. 16 stamp: "[illeg.] [biented.] 26 Feb 1937 AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND."
    Newspaper photo and caption:
    "AMERICAN CONSULS FOR AUCKLAND AND WELLINGOTN. - Mr. J. G. Groeninger
    (right), who is to take the place of Mr. Walter F. Boyle as American
    Consul at Auckland, and Mr. Glion Curtis, who is to be vice-Consul of
    the United States at Wellington. He is accompanied by his wife. They
    arrived in Auckland this morning on the Monterey."
    MEC 12/99 conversation with SHC:
    "I remember that fireplace was 1 foot square - I would feed it all day
    long and by evening it was maybe up to 60 degrees in the room."
    MGC email :
    "We did see the apartment building on Aurora Terrace in Wellington
    [when Curt and I visited there a few years ago.] It's an
    undistinguished three story white rectangle with a spectacular view of
    the bay. But it's in a historic district and can't be torn down. The
    funicular is nearby. Daddy rode it down to get to work."
62. ↑ EGC Jr. letter 1939 to TBC [typewritten transcription 1979 MEC]:
    "The other day at lunch-time, she disappeared for a while as is usual
    when she wants to throw toys downstairs. She returned after a while
    with a present for mother in her hand. It was a smelly bit of brown
    substance which she announced as "Bigs" very proudly. "Bigs",
    incidentally, is short for "Grunty Bigs", which is sometimes known,
    particularly to Bill Curtis, as "shit". Mary was a bit puzzled &
    pleased at the sudden bustle and activity she produced with her
    dramatic entry."
63. ↑ MEC:
    2/27/99 Leland Chivvis' camping trips:
    "When WWII was declared, Sue was visiting us in New Zealand. She got
    a job in Hawaii. I can't remember if she was on her way back, but
    WWII was declared and Father told her to come straight home. He drove
    west to meet her and on their way back they made a camping trip of it
    and visited Yosemite or whatever."
64. ↑ home leave?
    picture of Mary in St. Louis;
    EGCSr. shot himself in attic in the afternoon while EGC & MEC were
    napping at 1437.
    news clipping home burns:
    "HOME IN HAITI BURNS, ST. LOUIS PAIR ESCAPE...
    Curtis, the son of Mrs. Edward G. Curtis of Webster Groves, visited
    here last April with his family after a 10,000-mile journey from
    Wellington, New Zealand, where he had been Vice-Consul for three
    years."
65. ↑ Mary-Ellen Chivvis Curtis letter 7/28/1940 to family:
    "The most important news of the week - our car arrived today, and it
    really is a beauty - we got a black one when Mr. Sparks told us that
    they stood up to the sun better than the lighter colors. Another
    thing I'd overlooked was the fact that the yard-boy is always there to
    keep it clean, which has been my objection to black up to now. It has
    the shift on the steering wheel, a big surprise to me, but G1i says
    it's standard now. Take a look at the 1940 model Fords and picture us
    riding around in one - oh, hydraulic brakes which seem to work if you
    so much as glance at them. Sʾwonderful! Our canned goods should
    arrive Thursday, according to Gli's calculations; and our things from
    St. Louis a week from today, finally. And, believe me, it will really
    be grand to sleep in twin beds again! We're using a double bed now
    that I'm sure isn't even full size, and it's plenty hot. In addition
    to that a mosquito net which cuts off a lot of the air. We'll still
    have the nets with twin beds, but they'll be much more comfortable."
66. ↑ news clipping home burns:
    "HOME IN HAITI BURNS, ST. LOUIS PAIR ESCAPE
    Mrs. Edward G. Curtis Jr. Hurt --- Husband, Vice-ConsuI, and Baby
    Uninjured.
    Mr. and Mrs. Edward Glion Curtis Jr. and their 2-year-old daughter,
    formerly of Webster Groves, were forced to flee from their burning
    house at Port au Prince, Haiti, early last Sunday, losing all their
    possessions. Curtis is Unites States Vice-Consul there.
    Mrs. Curtis, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. leland Chivvis, 1437
    McCausland avenue, suffered a broken rib and burns about the arms when
    she fell as she was going down a concrete post from the second floor.
    Curtis had preceded her with their daughter.
    The fire, relatives here were informed, broke out on the first floor
    and spread up the stairway, cutting off their escape.
    Curtis, the son of Mrs. Edward G. Curtis of Webster Groves, visited
    here last April with his family after a 10,000-mile journey from
    Wellington, New Zealand, where he had been Vice-Consul for three
    years."
    news clipping birth announcement:
    "...Mrs. Curtis Jr., the former Miss Mary Ellen Chivvis, has been here
    with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leland Chivvis, 1437 McCausland avenue,
    since the burning of the Curtis home in Haiti a few months ago. She
    and the baby will be here until January."
67. ↑ MEC story to SHC:
    "I went up to St. Louis to have Tig and Isabel went to stay with Glion
    and Mary. I stayed a few months at 1437 [McCausland Ave.] I went
    back to Haiti after I had Tig. That was when my father told me to
    switch babies because the Zirvogel baby was looked like a better one.
    Zirvogel went to Catholic School and was a good athlete, and father
    used to send me clippings whenever he had done something grand and say
    "See? I told you so!" He was such a character."
68. ↑ MEC letter 12/11/1942 to sisters:
    "We've moved into the most divine house you ever set eyes on -- really
    it's a shame you can't all come and visit us just to see it! Sue
    knows where it is-- on Mont Joli, in town, (and don't think we didn't
    have to do a lot of explaining, there being great rivalry between the
    Petionvilleites and Port-au-Princians),-but just as cool as we were in
    Petionville, because we wore on the hot side of Petionville and in a
    one story house; now we have a "pink house with stairs", as -Mary
    describes it, lots of closet space, and a big yard, and Iʾm xx
    revelling in the change. Mary announced when I told her about the
    second floor that she was going to stay upstairs all the time, and
    never come down, but has fallen down somewhat on her resolution. The
    main advantages as far as- I'm concerned are the view, big yard, the
    quietness (It makes me feel that I'm out in the country with all the
    noise in the distance), Gli can come home for lunch which he wasn't
    doing in Pville since gasoline rationing started, and itʾs near all
    the tennis clubs. And now for news of the family-- if ~I donʾt stop
    talking about the house soon I won't have any reading public, huh?"
69. ↑ MEC letter to family 5/18/1943:
    "Of course when you have three children to take care of that limits
    your outside activities quite a bit, even with x all the servants in
    the world. But outside the home my interests are (1) Colony Club once
    a week, and at the same time we see all the other members of the
    Petionville Club, in other words all the Americans, so we find out
    what goes on. (2) An occasional game of bridge with Gli, but I haven't
    played for so long (for the last three months before Frank arrived I
    couldn't sit still that long, and so didn't play at all) that I don't
    enjoy it yet. (3) Sewing-- Bobbie Roosevelt, Dorothy Elliott, Lillian
    Chapin, Mrs Berlin, and I have been getting together once a week to
    sew, talk, and have fun. (4) Parties. And that is all. Not a very
    exciting list, oh I could do Red Cross work if it weren't for the baby
    having to be bathed in the middle of the morning. But I think that
    even Marshall [which Nancy wrote about] has us beat, don't you? And
    yet I don't feel that we are beyond hope. We get Time, Readers
    Digest, and are about to subscribe to the New Yorker feeling that we
    have lived too long without it. We listen to the war news and hear
    quite a few of the big programs over short wave. And the most
    wonderful thing, although I think that should be classified as
    interests of the home because it is so close--- The Madsens
    [handwritten: *next door neighbors] have a grand pool their back yard,
    about twice the size of our pool at home, and have said that we can
    use it any time we want to, even if they aren't at home and now that I
    can get into my bathing suit again Iʾm really going to take them up on
    it. I'm going over one of these mornings with Mary and Ti Gli, and
    they can play with Patrick in the pool-- it ought to be lots of fun.
    So that is how we occupy ourselves in the tropics, and I, for one,
    love it--- I may be slowly rotting away-- I'm sure my brain is from
    lack of use, but what the heck."
    MEC to SHC 1/16/2000:
    "I don't remember when we started to get the New Yorker. I don't
    think my mother got it - they were more midwestern, and we didn't have
    that kind of money until Aunt Sarah died. I didn't even know it
    existed until I met other people outside St. Louis. Maybe in the
    diplomatic circles..."
70. ↑ MEC letter to family 5/18/1943:
    "Mary has had a boil which opened and drained once, and then got
    worse--- we were afraid it would be another one of the kind that had
    to be lanced, but fortunately it cleared up. So our worries are
    small-"
71. ↑ MEC letter to family 5/18/1943:
    "Ti Gli's finger has a nail on it-- it's going to be just like mine
    that was caught in the car door, and isn't quite like the other one,
    but not noticeable unless called to your attention."
    MEC to SHC 12/1999:
    "The little finger on my left hand got caught in the spokes of my
    father's car. I was spinning the wheel around in the garage while he
    was fixing the car and he told me: 'Mary Ellen - don't do that or your
    finger will get caught. No sooner had he said that than my finger got
    caught and I hid it behind my back so he wouldn't see it and get mad.
    It was dripping blood."
72. ↑ MEC letter to family 5/18/1943:
    "Sue will be interested to hear that we killed a real tarantula the
    other night -- he was right at the door waiting to greet us as we came
    home, and I thought it was a good thing that she wasn't with us after
    seeing the fuss she made over a little old house spider when she was
    here."
73. ↑ MEC letter 9/10/1944 to Sue & Tom:
    "Weʾve been here about 10 days, the children are eating well and
    settling down nicely. The eating pleases Father no end as he thought
    Mary G and Frank looked thin and sort of washed out, as though they
    had been in the tropics too long. I thought they looked all right
    till I saw some of the specimens down at Bettendorfʾs one morning, and
    then I began to see Fatherʾs point. However, itʾs nothing that a
    couple of months wonʾt cure. The most wonderful thing as far as Mary
    is concerned is the milk, and Iʾm inclined to agree with her.
    Maryʾs reaction to the States was, "Iʾve never seen so many cars, so
    many buses, so many trees, so many peepul!" She was goggle-eyed
    trying to keep up with it all. She started to school down at Roe last
    week, which she loves, but when we ask her what she does the answer is
    always, "We sang and colored." And she has that Curtis voice! What
    the teacher must suffer!
    Gli is still down in Haiti, but I hope to get him up here in a couple
    of minths. Heʾs staying with Caleb Elliott who is also a temporary
    bachelor, so the two of them are company for each other, but I know
    Gli must miss the children. And boy, is it mutual! Father and Mother
    miss your two so much, and are all the time saying that they wish all
    the Curtis grandchildren could get together to see what the reaction
    to each other would be. They say that Frank and Leland would be ideal
    for each other, and they wonder how Mary and Liz would match up, who
    would win. Me, Iʾd put my money on Liz from what Iʾve heard of her,
    but it would be interesting to watch, huh?
    Well, all hell is breaking loose downstairs, the baby has just fallen
    down the back porch steps, so Iʾll have to rush down to see what I can
    do."
    Life in Madrid news clipping (aft 4/12/1945):
    "Their plane was winging its way to St. Louis on the last trip from
    Haiti when it hit an air pocket. Luncheon trays had just been placed
    in front of each passenger, including the three young Curtises � Mary,
    aged six; Glion III, three, and Frank, then 18 months old. Frank sent
    his food and milk sailing down the aisle, the others followed suit,
    and no one could do anything about it but the stewardess. The
    passengers, including Mrs. Curtis, were strapped in their seats."
    MEC to SHC 3/21/1999:
    "For home leave we only stayed at 1437 once. That was between Haiti
    and Spain. I went back to Haiti after I had Tig. It was winter and
    the kids didnʾt have any clothes, coming from the tropics. They had
    never seen snow. We were all cooped up in the house and it was cold
    and dismal outside. I think Frank and Tig were terrified of my
    father. I had grown up with him, so I knew how to take his fuming,
    but he was so tall compared to little kids, that he had them totally
    buffaloed.
    After that trip my mother offered to pay for all the groceries and
    everything if we would just take all the kids and stay with Sue at 462
    Florence!"
74. ↑ Life in Madrid news clipping (aft 4/12/1945):
    "On her arrival in Madrid Mrs. Curtis found that her husband had not
    only found a house, which was in order, but had engaged two native
    maids who were loud in their lamentations when the independent, much
    traveled Curtis children are permitted to walk unescorted to the
    nearest corner. The exterior of the house Mrs. Curtis describes as
    resembling one unit of a continuous housing project here, but with a
    fine view of snow-capped mountains and close to the other 20 °embassy
    families.ʾ The interior she is more enthusiastic about. The living
    room, which connects by sliding door to a study; pantries and dining
    room comprised the first floor, five bedrooms the second and a sun
    deck and tiled playroom the third. The kitchen is below stairs.
    °Food is plentiful in Madrid, writes Mrs. Curtis and the most
    delicious fruits and wines are to be had.ʾ Parties begin late and end
    in the small hours - family dinners start from 8:30 to 9, formal
    dinners at 10 and theaters at 11."
75. ↑ Life in Madrid news clipping (aft 4/12/1945):
    "Travel to widely separated parts of the globe is not new to the
    Curtises, who lived for three years in Wellington, New Zealand and for
    the past five years in Port-au-Prince, Haiti....By comparison the
    jaunt to Spain, by boat, was uneventful."
    MEC to SHC 1/16/2000:
    "I always say that I walked across the Atlantic. I had three children
    and the decks just had poles to keep people from falling over and kids
    could easily crawl through and be lost forever in the cold dark water.
    I would bundle them all up in coats and take them up on the deck to
    play, and then one of them would say 'I have to go po-po.' so I'd lead
    all three of them back down and take their coats off to go to the
    bathroom."
    Cidacos 4
    Mary Glasgow Curtis Memories:
    "My father seems to have gone to Madrid first. In any event, Mother
    and we three kids, with perhaps one of my mother's sisters along to
    help (Sue?) went (by train?) to a port (Baltimore?) to catch a ship.
    We stayed in a hotel crowded with soldiers and sailors. One of them,
    quite drunk, shared an elevator with us and was so taken by
    dark-haired Frank in his red snowsuit that he gave Mother $10 for him,
    an immense sum in those days.
    The North Atlantic was gray and stormy. I don't recall that we
    worried about German submarines. Mother kept a sharp eye on Frank,
    she says, because the railings on one of the outside decks were so far
    apart that he could have easily slipped through and be lost forever in
    those cold, dark seas.
    I do remember the sun, the light and the warmth of Portugal (Lisbon?)
    Daddy was supposed to have been there to meet us, but for whatever
    reason he couldn't come. We stayed in a sunny, spacious room in a
    hotel. Mother says that the hotel managers wanted to add a man with a
    name similar to Curtis to our room. Was this because of a simple
    error, or because of wartime shortage of hotel space or because a
    woman traveling alone with three kids was outlandish? She enjoyed
    telling this story.
    I don't recall how we got from Portugal to Madrid or whether Daddy
    came to fetch us. He had found a house for us. At our first meal we
    kids were served watered red wine. Mother was horrified."e
76. ↑ Life in Madrid news clipping (aft 4/12/1945):
    "In a lighter vein Mrs. Curtis describes her difficulties with the
    Spanish language, which she studies assiduously with the aid of a
    grammar presented by her family. Left to her own devices after being
    introduced to a Spanish general at a party one night she said she
    conversed in a combination of French, Spanish and the sign language."
77. ↑ Life in Madrid news clipping (aft 4/12/1945):
    "The oriental splendor of the parade on the occasion of United States
    Ambassador Norman Armourʾs presentation of his credentials to Gen.
    Franco provided Mrs. Curtis with her most interesting letter topic
    last month. Invited to view the parade from an automobile, she was
    driven first to the Ambassadorʾs residence where 100 Moorish guards
    stood at attention. Mounted on horses with hooves painted either gold
    or silver, the riders wore white turbans topped with silver spikes,
    full white trousers, blouses and boots, and blue cummerbunds and
    flowing blue and white capes. Even the horses, their heads swathed in
    long fringe and tassels, were colorful. Saddle blankets were red and
    orange. Standing guards held spears tipped with red and orange
    pennants.
    Ranking Embassy officials were ushered into automobiles, each with a
    protocol officer, and paraded down the Castellana ("like Lindell
    boulevard") behind a motorcycle escort, the guard following to
    Francoʾs palace. There several thousands of khaki-garbed soldiers
    stood guard, marched around the courtyard and ushered in the
    diplomatic group including Baron Torres, chief of protocol. Interior
    palace guards, each more than six feet tall, wore magenta accessories
    to their white turbans and uniforms - magenta blouses with green
    cuffs, magenta cummerbunds, cape linings and pennants on their
    silver-tipped lances. They presented an imposing picture as they
    lined the grand stairway leading to Francoʾs second floor sanctum.
    That night the Curtises attended a dinner given for Ambassador and
    Mrs. Armour by the naval attache."
78. ↑ Life in Madrid news clipping (aft 4/12/1945):
    "In a recent letter Mrs. Curtis told of the sorrow expressed by all
    classes of Spanish people on learning of President Rooseveltʾs death.
    [died April 12, 1945] From officials to taxi drivers and street car
    conductors they signed the register at the embassy, where 3800 calling
    cards and a personal note from Franco were left."
79. ↑ MEC letter 6/24/1946 to Isabel Wallace:
    "Did I ever tell you about the time, it must have been a year ago,
    that I took Mary downtown to buy some shoes (rope-soled for summer)?
    I didnʾt want the man to wrap them up because I was in a hurry and had
    the car right outside anyway, so I said in my best Spanish "Estoy de
    prisa", and was just thinking how well I had done when Mary nudged me
    and whispered, "Mummy you should say °tengo de prisaʾ" Think of how
    humiliated she must have been! Iʾve never taken her shopping since
    that day, and Iʾm sure we both feel better about the whole thing. Iʾm
    know I do, as now I can make my xxx mistakes in my own "original" way
    without having the children squirming with embarassment at every word
    that I utter! What a life I lead."
80. ↑ ^80.0 80.1 Mary Glasgow Curtis Memories:
    "We did take two beach vacations. One was to Santander. The other
    was to San Sebastian. Both are on the Bay of Biscay, in the Basque
    country."
81. ↑ Mary Glasgow Curtis Memories:
    "I also remember the pleasure we took in adding food coloring to our
    cream of wheat. I believe the kitchen was in the basement. We spent
    a lot of time down there. Eating dry crusts of bread was another
    treat. Marte was the cook. Later she came with us to Holland with
    her young sister. Mother always suspected that the child was really
    her daughter.
    The storage place for coal was also in the basement, a rather
    terrifying place with all that black coal. Was it used to heat the
    stove for cooking or was there a furnace?
    Our house was very new, far out at the edge of the city and at the end
    of a tramline. There were no flowers in the garden, just some
    scraggly bushes. It suited Mother just fine because we could play in
    it to our hearts content. I hung doll swings from the bushes. My
    brothers built roads for their toy cars and canals for their boats in
    the dirt where there might have been grass. Sometimes we played in
    the scrub behind the house. That's where we found treasures like bits
    of broken, colored glass, nails, other interesting pieces of metal."
    "I was enrolled in the first grade at the British Institute. We wore
    gray, pleated shirts, white blouses and red cardigans. We had to have
    three pairs of shoes: one for outdoors, one for indoors and one for
    gym. The school still exists and the uniforms are still the same. In
    the third grade I won a prize for geography, a book about Prince
    Prigo, which I still have. The pen and ink illustrations are by
    Robert Lawson, the same one who illustrated my child's version of
    "Pilgrim's Progress."
    When Tig was old enough, he too went to the British Institute. On his
    first day the roll was called and no one answered to the name
    "Edward." When all the kids except one had been identified, the
    remaining one was asked his name. "Tigli Curtis," said my brother,
    who was known as Tigli at the time. My mother says she never tried to
    use "Edward" for him again."
    "Our good friends were the Blankenships who lived on the next street
    over. Foreign Service salaries were low. They had four kids, so
    they made do with orange crates as furniture for the kids.
    A friend who did live on our street was Carlos. When we left he gave
    me a china rose, which I still have after all those years. I also
    have a tiny pair of castanets, which I now use as decoration on our
    small artificial Christmas tree.
    On the weekends we used to go for picnics by a rocky stream in the
    hills outside Madrid. The water was shallow and flowed in lazy
    curves. We kids loved wading and building harbors for stick boats.
    My brothers spent hours throwing rocks into the water.
    We did take two beach vacations. One was to Santander. The other was
    to San Sebastian. Both are on the Bay of Biscay, in the Basque
    country.
    Once Daddy took us to see a military parade and fireworks. I was most
    impressed, and wondered at the lack of enthusiasm shown by the adults.
    I guess they decided not to tell me at that time that General Franco
    was a military dictator and had done some very nasty things."
    "In Spain sometimes we ate tortillas made with eggs, potatoes and
    garnishes. Years later when I met Curt I found that Mexican tortillas
    are quite another thing. I thought that I must have gotten the name
    of the Spanish egg and potato dish wrong. After all, memory is tricky
    and what does a kid know, anyway. It wasn't until sometime later
    that I discovered that there is one word, "tortilla," for two very
    different things.
    The other unusual dish we had quite frequently was "calamares en su
    tinta," or squid and rice black with the ink from the squid."
82. ↑ Mary Glasgow Curtis Memories:
    "I do not remember Mother's illness with hepatitis. She describes
    lying in bed and thinking she really should tell Daddy that when she
    was gone he should marry again so we three would have a mother. But
    she couldn't summon the strength. She also says a friend asked how
    she could stand the noise of us three playing in the room. She
    replied that she couldn't hear us. When she was well enough to get up
    and go out, she felt she was thin and beautiful. Only when she saw
    the horrified faces of her friends did she realize she had lost too
    much weight."
83. ↑ Mary Ellen Chivvis Curtis letter 11/14/1946 to Isabel Wallace Curtis:
    "Youʾve been sadly neglected of late, but what with Mother and
    Fatherʾs arrival and the consular conference, weʾve been so busy that
    Iʾve hardly had time to do the accounts and keep the house running.
    Tuesday, Wednesday, and tonight (for the last time, I hope) weʾve had
    cocktails and dinners afterward to attend; and Iʾm feeling very dopey
    and goggle-eyed at present. In addition to this, Father has just
    discovered that they have movies every Friday night at one Casa, so is
    rarinʾ to go tomorrow. I canʾt think why I didnʾt tell him about them
    the first Friday we were here, maybe we had something else to do, but
    heʾs now muttering about being kept in the dark about all these
    interesting things, the poor brow-beaten wretch!!! He usually spends
    his mornings prowling around town on his own, and I hope will soon
    know enough Spanish to be able to get on a train and see some Roman
    ruins on the East coast. Gli and I will be able to get them to
    Escorail and Segovia; but for the longer trips Iʾm afraid weʾll be no
    help at all. It doesnʾt look as though Gli will be able to take the
    rest of his vacation for this year, things at the office being pretty
    hectic�.. Am I glad that I heckled him so much about a week in
    Sanjenjo that he finally gave up and said heʾd come."
    Mary Glasgow Curtis Memories:
    "Grandmother and Grandfather Chivvis came to visit. One of my
    brothers, impressed by Grandmother's white hair, asked her, "Are you
    going to die soon, Grandmother?" While they were visiting, we all
    went to the Prado Museum. When asked what he had liked the most,
    Frank replied, "The red things in the corners." After some
    puzzlement, the adults realized that he was talking about the fire
    extinguishers."
84. ↑ Mary Ellen Chivvis Curtis letter 11/14/1946 to Isabel Wallace Curtis:
    "The shirts for Gli arrived the other day, mail from the States was
    delayed for a period of about 4 weeks. They came just about the time
    he was talking about having more made, so you saved us a few pesetas.
    Thanks so much."
85. ↑ Mary Ellen Chivvis Curtis letter 11/14/1946 to Isabel Wallace Curtis:
    "Ti Gli was in bed for his birthday, slight temperature and a cold; so
    weʾre putting the party off for another week to let him get back to
    normal. He had a very nice day, got an ambulance and a dump truck
    from Gli and me, top and another small toy from his brother and
    sister, a wallet from Father, 10 pesetas from Mother (she had sent a
    book over for his present and I made a mistake and gave it to him when
    it arrived instead of keeping it for the day), and the best of a 100
    pesetas from his Grandmother Curtis. He can hardly wait to get
    downtown and buy something with it, maybe a train. Youʾd love to see
    him take out his wallet and count his money; he always says he has the
    pesetas, looking at the three bills it all seems very simple to him;
    and Iʾve been trying to convince him heʾs a lot richer than he
    dreams."
86. ↑ MEC memories told to SHC:
    "I remember going to buy a dress for the Mariquita doll with Mary and
    she was wincing at my terrible pronunciation of Spanish as I tried to
    explain to the saleslady what I wanted. She was mortified, but she
    really wanted the dress."
87. ↑ Mary Glasgow Curtis Memories:
    "On leaving Spain we flew in on TWA, on a propeller airplane. During
    the night you could see the exhaust of the engines glowing red. I
    thought the plane might be on fire, but decided the grownups or the
    pilots would do something about it if it were. The sunrise behind us
    in the east was gorgeous as it like up the western sky with all shades
    of red, orange and gold.
    I believe we landed in New York. I was startled when the man running
    the elevator spoke to me in English, rather than Spanish. Did Daddy
    just tease us about staying in the Waldorf-Astoria or did we really
    stay there? Vaguely I remember a luxurious room and a lobby so big a
    kid could get lost in it.
    I think we traveled to St Louis by train. I had studied the map of
    the US and wondered why we the train went all the way to Washington
    State before leaving us in St. Louis. I guess I overheard the adults
    talking about the train passing through Washington, DC.
    We spent home leave with Sue, Tom and their kids on Florence Avenue in
    Webster Groves."
88. ↑ Edward Glion Curtis III (Tig) memory told to Susan Harker Curtis 1999:
    "When we first came to Holland we stayed at Wassenhauer Hotel on the
    seacoast. It was very luxurious - enough to impress an 8 year old!"
89. ↑ EGC Jr. Passport #4132 4/10/1941:
    p. 34: "[Buscio?] de [?] de BARAJAS Sector Interior-S.P.F.P.A. 1-Dic
    1947 SALIDA Num. [Roja?] 182 Vise.
    Comisaria Gral. de Bastecimientos Delegacion Provincial de Madrid,
    Aeropuerto de Barajas 1 Dec. 1947 Salida o Documentos recogidos
    Tarj. Abast. o Serie M/ No. 403241; C. de Cup.: Serie No; Cartilla
    Provisional: No. [on side] 09404]"
    p. 4 stamp: "U.S. DEPT OF JUSTICE IMMG. & NATZ. SERVICE ADMITTED DEC 2
    1947 NEW YORK, N.Y."
    p. 37:
    "DEPARTMENT OF STATE Washington Dec. 5, 1947 Glion Curtis Jr. Consul
    and a Secretary in the Diplomatic Service of the United States of
    America, is assigned to The Hague, Netherlands. - R.B. SHIPLEY, Chief,
    Passport Division by A. B. Haverman."
    Nieuwe Plarklaan 73
    Scheveningen
    Edward Glion Curtis III (Tig) memory told to Susan Harker Curtis 1999:
    "When we first came to Holland we stayed at Wassenhauer Hotel on the
    seacoast. It was very luxurious - enough to impress an 8 year old!"
90. ↑ EGC Passport #4132 4/10/1941
    p. 12 stamp: "Kom Marechaussee Roosendaal- station uit[?] 15 Sep.
    1950"
    p. 18 stamp: "Kom Marechaussee Roosendaal- station in[?] 16 Sep. 1950"
    p. 15 stamp: "Kom Marechaussee Roosendaal- station in[?] 28 Sep. 1950"
    p. 18 stamp: "Kom Marechaussee Roosendaal- station uit[?] 3 Oct. 1950"
    p. 8 stamp: "Kom Marechaussee Roosendaal- station in[?] 4 Oct. 1950"
    EGC Jr. Swiss Driver's License:
    "...Wohnort Domicile Domicilio Kusnacht, Zch. [crossed out:]
    Buckwiesstr. 10...Frufungsdatum Date de l'examen Data dell'exame
    17.1.51 Expertenbericht Nr. Rapport de l'exert, no. Rapporto del
    perito, n. 397041... Zurich, den le li 17,Januar 1951...Neuer Wohnort
    Nouveau domicile Nuovo domicilio Kusnacht, Todistr. 11..."
    1st house on hill between small grocery store & road to lake
    2nd house Tödistrasse 11
    MEC to SHC 1/16/2000:
    "Glion was called to Zurich by Mr. Kukendahl. He said he needed him
    there right away and we assumed it was for important business. In
    fact, he needed him there to be a fourth for bridge, but we didn't
    know that. So Glion went ahead, and I travelled down later with three
    children and a new baby."
    EGCIII to SHC 12/22/00 email:
    "In any event, I do remember going directly from Holland to
    Switzerland and mother and father deciding to postpone our home
    leave and move directly to Switzerland and then take home leave to
    catch the "other season". I remember going directly into the Küsnacht
    public schools when we arrived, then spending a school year with Sue
    and Tom, when Liz lived with you, and then coming back for a school
    year at the boarding school, "Institute auf dem Rosenberg" in St
    Gallen, CH, with Frank. (I'm sure there is a story from mother
    regarding why they decided to send us there and how they managed to
    afford it. If you get it from her let me know. Again, the story, as
    I recall, is that they were dismayed that Frank & I were going
    irretrievably native and they wanted to arrest that. The
    expense must have been frightful when money was tight for them.
    Therefore, I don't think that's the whole story.)"
91. ↑ MEC to SHC 1/16/2000:
    "Glion was called to Zurich by Mr. Kukendahl. He said he needed him
    there right away and we assumed it was for important business. In
    fact, he needed him there to be a fourth for bridge, but we didn't
    know that. So Glion went ahead, and I traveled down later with three
    children and a new baby. People thought that babies needed warm milk
    in their bottles, so when the train stopped I would leave the kids on
    the train and get off to find some way to warm up a bottle of milk! I
    must have been out of my mind."
92. ↑ Isabel Wallace Passport #349433 9/20/1950
    p. 11 stamp: "RIVIERPOLITIE ROTTERDAM 7 Dec. 1950 in"
    p. 11 stamp: "SCHWEIZ E-9 DEZ 50 ZURICH - Flugplatz"
    p. 11 stamp: "BELGIE 16 APR 1951 ANTWERP [?]"
    p. 11 stamp: "Surete National R. G. St. Louis 16 Avr 1951Entree Gare"
    p. 9 stamp: "RIVIERPOLITIE ROTTERDAM 17 APR. 1951 UIT"
93. ↑ home leave
    pictures at 1437 McCausland
    Saga of Susie scrapbook postcard:
    "S. S. America Length 723 feet Gross tonnage, 33,532 This great
    luxury liner of the United States Lines operates in regular
    transatlantic service to and from Cobh, Ireland; Havre, France;
    Southampton, England; and Bremerhaven, Germany."
    EGCIII to SHC 12/22/00 email:
    "In any event, I do remember going directly from Holland to
    Switzerland and mother and father deciding to postpone our home leave
    and move directly to Switzerland and then take home leave to catch the
    "other season". I remember going directly into the Küsnacht public
    schools when we arrived, then spending a school year with Sue and Tom,
    when Liz lived with you, and then coming back for a school year at the
    boarding school, "Institute auf dem Rosenberg" in St Gallen, CH, with
    Frank. (I'm sure there is a story from mother regarding why they
    decided to send us there and how they managed to afford it. If you
    get it from her let me know. Again, the story, as I recall, is that
    they were dismayed that Frank & I were going irretrievably native and
    they wanted to arrest that. The expense must have been frightful when
    money was tight for them. Therefore, I don't think that's the whole
    story.)"
94. ↑ Saga of Susie scrapbook of SHC by MEC:
    pictures on beach with TBC's and on farmhouse lawn
95. ↑ Saga of Susie scrapbook of SHC by MEC:
    "Aug 11, 1951" pictures on steps of 1437 McCausland
96. ↑ MEC letter 1953 Tuesday to Leland Chivvis:
    "Tig is playing Little Rock Getaway on the victrola, lying on the
    floor in a day dream, and has just said "This record reminds me of
    Grandfather, standing over there drinking his cognac saying 'I like
    this music'. I still have that picture of him in my head." - deep
    sigh - then "oh those lovely days!" Thought you would be highly
    flattered."
97. ↑ MEC letter 8/10/1953 to Mary Branch Glasgow (Chivvis):
    "We had such a nice week-end; went out in the Goetze's boat with Tig &
    Frank on Saturday afternoon. [August 8] The weather was good, for a
    change, and we all had a wonderful time, especially the boys, I
    thought they'd fall overboard with excitement. Rode down & had tea on
    the big island at the Rapperswil end of the lake, swam on the way
    back. Susi & Emma went swimming at the Kusnacht beach that afternoon.
    Gli stayed home & slept - Mary still "tenting tonight". So everybody
    had a grand time. Carly & Sven (Goetze) come over later for a quiet
    dinner and bridge So much for Saturday."
98. ↑ MEC letter 8/10/1953 to Mary Branch Glasgow (Chivvis):
    "Sunday [August 9] we went to the circus, and believe me I thought of
    my mother all the time. There was nothing as thrilling as the water
    act of last year, but it wasn't bad in a quiet (ha! ha!) way. I
    especially liked one little number: a beautiful girl rides in on a
    hippopotamus, he climbs into what looks like a glorified bird cage,
    garlanded with greenery and red & white roses; this all gets hoisted
    up in the middle of the tent where it twirls gently around - girl
    (still astride the animal) waving and smiling. In the meantime all
    the horses and zebras in the show rush in and gallop around the ring.
    There must have been 4 circles, some going clockwise, some counter
    clockwise; the outer ring was small ponies running around on top of
    the outer edge. Picture it if you can - I was speechless with
    admiration! Then the animals rushed off, the cage was lowered and the
    old hippo galloped off (I didn't know he could move that fast) as much
    as to say, "Well, I'm glad that's over". There were also the usual
    clowns; the people who ride around on bicycles taking them apart as
    they ride, the midgets. The kids ate it up. Susi sat there with her
    eyes as big as saucers. As you can see, the whole week-end was a
    success. Oh, Sunday off & on we worked on a new jig saw puzzle
    (that's why I never got around to a letter -hence must quickly finish
    this and mail it when I do my errands in Kusnacht."
99. ↑ Saga of Susie scrapbook of SHC by MEC:
    "Christmas party; Tig, Frank, Susie"
100. ↑ Saga of Susie scrapbook of SHC by MEC:
     "Emma, friend, Susie; Klosters Feb - 1954"
     newspaper article:
     "4D Wed., Jan. 27, 195[4]
     Social Activities...
     Mr. and Mrs. Edward Glion Curtis Jr., who live in Zurich, Switzerland,
     where he is United States consul, are preparing for a March skiing
     holiday at Klosters, an Alpine resort an hour and a half train ride
     from their home. They will be accompanied by their two and a
     half-year-old daughter, Suzi, a novice on the baby slope last year,
     who probably will be stepped up a grade this season in line with the
     Swiss theory that children must ski as soon as they can walk.
     The Curtises' sons, Edward Glion III and Frank Glasgow Curtis attend
     the famous St. Gall School northeast of Zurich, where lessons are
     given in English. Their daughter, Mary, is in high school in Zurich.
     Mrs. Curtis's father, Leland Chivvis, 1437 McCausland avenue, plans to
     visit the family during a proposed trip to Europe. He will sail
     aboard the Queen Elizabeth March 20 and will be in Switzerland a month
     later, when his grandsons will be home on spring vacation. At the
     conclusion of his visit Mr. and Mrs. Curtis will accompany him to
     Rome, Naples and Sicily."
101. ↑ Saga of Susie scrapbook of SHC by MEC:
     "Susie Frank Swimming - 1437 Susie left center 1954"
     pictures of family on train "1954 Schlafwagen"
102. ↑ Mabel Curtis Knoll (Whitcomb) letter 9/8/1954 to Isabel Wallace:
     "I do hope we can have a little visit with you on your way to
     Panama.... Let me know when you will be coming to San Francisco."
     Isabel passport:
     12/18/54 [visa stamp or entry stamp?] for Panama
     MEC to SHC:
     "I don't remember Isabel visiting us in Panama, but I don't know any
     other reason for her to visit Panama."
103. ↑ George W. Lane letter 10/18/1960:
     "A partial distribution is being made of principal of Trust #2 created
     under the Trust Agreement dated March 4, 1957, made by Charles J.
     Miller. The distribution to you consisted of the following:
     Cash distribution of $525.00
     Less - Missouri inheritance taxes paid by the Trustees $39.43
     Check dated October 13, 1960 enclosed $485.57
     The remaining capital assets of this trust consist of cash of
     $3,543.73. The Internal Revenue Service has not yet audited our
     Federal tax returns. The retained assets are being held to cover any
     additional taxes and other final expenses.
     Yours very truly
     GEORGE W. LANE and LINDELL GORDON, JR., Trustees"
104. ↑ Georgetown University Medical Center X-Ray Department Ref # 83,803:
     "4/20/59 Isable [sic] Curtis Rm 515 Dr. C. Ryland - Examination of the
     chest shows a markedly emphysematous lung structure with fibrosis.
     There is some honey-combing on the right suggestive of broniectasis.
     The heart is small. The aorta is calcified. The bone structure is
     osteoporotic. There appear to be several artefacts on the right.
     Impression: Pulmonary emphysema with fibrosis. Bronchiectasis cannot
     be ruled out. - H.L. Twigg, M.D.
     Admitted 4/20/59 4/22/59 to Discharge...Histoplasmosis- positive [sic]
     ECG- Sinus tachycardia- Right axis deviation. EkG - compatible with
     chronic pulmonary disease."
     Georgetown University Medical Center X-Ray Department Ref # 83,803:
     "4/21/59 Isabel Curtis 171378 Rm. 515 b Dr. Ryland Re-examination of
     the chest shows the previously described extensive pulmonary emphysema
     with fibrosis. The density in the right upper lobe, on the previous
     examination, is no longer present, and is thought to have been an
     artefact. There is no evidence of parenchymal consolidation. - H.L.
     Twigg M.D.;
     4/23/59 FBS 134 BUN 9 Sputum Gm cocci Some hemo Staph aureus Sensitive
     - Chloromycetin, Erythromycin, Furadantin, Albamycin, Matromycin,
     Kantrax, Bacitrocin; Slightly Sensitive- Tetracycline; Resistant -
     Penicillin, Streptomycin."
     Miriam Loder to Isabel Wallace Curtis:
     "Dear Isabel: I'm so glad to hear that you are coming to visit
     Glion.... Will you stay until after Jim comes? I would so like to see
     you all and could perhaps plan to drive down to Washington. I could
     stay, I think, with a former pupil, if not, at a hotel. My spring
     schedule is getting full in view of the fact that I have to space
     things with rest periods between. I have to go to N.Y. over April
     18th week end probably stopping at Bethlehem going & coming to see a
     patient so won't get back until Tues. or Wed. of the following week.
     I have to go again in May but I don't know the date yet.... Would you
     like to come here on the way back to see where I live and have a
     visit? Lancaster is on the direct route to St. Louis & the express
     trains from N.Y. to St. Louis stop here so you would get home easily
     from here. With a great deal of love & looking forward to the
     possibility of seeing you all, Lovingly, Miriam."
     SHC notes from TBC files:
     "April 20, 1959 Isabel admitted Georgetown University Medical Center
     histoplasmosis positive; aorta is calcified; bones osteoporatic;
     extensive pulmonary emphysema with fibrosis; heart small."
     "April 21, 1959 Isabel had EKG taken when she had bronchopneumonia:
     sinus tachycardia, right axis deviation, EKG compatible with chronic
     pulmonary disease."
     MEC story to SCH:
     "Isabel was supposed to come to DC, and she got the flu. But she was
     determined; you couldn't change her mind for anything. She went to
     bed in that bedroom over the garage with her travelling suit on and
     stayed in bed. I had to call the doctor to come and fix her up. I
     was so mad, and your father was mad too. I don't remember her going
     to the hospital - I think I would remember that if it happened."
105. ↑ George R. Wolf of Biggs, Hensley, Curtis and Biggs 5/9/1962:
     "Yesterday, May 8th, 1962, your mother and I met with Mr. Platt at
     A.G. Edwards & Sons, and arranged to transfer to each daughter,
     son-in-law, and each grandchild [25 people in all] 40 shares of
     Florida Power & Light Common stock. [1,000 shares in all] It will no
     doubt be several weeks before you actually receive these certificates,
     but I want you to have the following figures for your permanent
     records in connection with the shares which you will soon receive.
     The certificates and the shares represented thereby arise out of the
     purchase in March of 1954 of 400 shares of Florida Power at a cost of
     $42.55 each. As a result of two successive two-for-one splits, the
     cost of this stock was reduced to $10.64 per share. In the event of
     sale of any of this stock, that amount will be your base cost and not
     the market value on the date of transfer which will be something over
     $70.00. [net value about $2,400 per person, or $60,000 total] In
     other words, your cost is the donor's cost for the purpose of
     computing any capital gains. However, your mother has asked that I
     remind you of her earlier suggestion that should you desire to sell
     any Florida Power & Light stock it would be best for you to sell those
     shares which you received from your father's estate because of the
     much higher base and consequently lower capital gain as to those
     shares compared with the ones now being transferred to you."
106. ↑ Mary Branch Glasgow Chivvis Will p. 2:
     "TWELFTH: All the rest, residue and remainder of the property which I
     may own at the time of my death, both real and personal, and of every
     kind and description, wherever the same may be situated, I give,
     bequeath and devise to my four daughters, MARY ELLEN CHIVVIS CURTIS,
     NANCY CHIVVIS QUACKENBUSH, SUSAN CHIVVIS CURTIS and SARAH CHIVVIS
     WILLCOCKSON, in equal shares, the share of any daughter who may then
     be deceased shall go to her then living descendants, per stirpes, and
     if no such descendant is then living, the same shall go in equal parts
     to the others of my daughters, or to their respective descendants then
     living, per stirpes, if any of them is then dead."