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<strong>Annual</strong> News&<strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
Winter 2007 Vol. 27
Edith Wharton<br />
Restoration was<br />
founded in 1980 to<br />
preserve <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong><br />
as a living tribute to<br />
its remarkable creator.<br />
Our guiding principles<br />
are preservation,<br />
education, and quality<br />
in all endeavors.<br />
Board of Trustees<br />
Barbara R. de Marneffe, Chairman<br />
Sandra Boss<br />
Gordon Travers<br />
Christopher Tugendhat<br />
Executive Officers<br />
Stephanie Copeland, President<br />
Susan Wissler, Vice-President<br />
Mark Gold, Esq., Legal Counsel<br />
Lombardi, Clairmont & Keegan Auditors<br />
2 Plunkett Street, Box 974<br />
Lenox, MA 01240-0974<br />
Phone: 413-637-1899<br />
Fax: 413-637-0619<br />
Email: info@edithwharton.org<br />
Photos:<br />
Beinecke Library/Yale University<br />
David Dashiell<br />
Francis de Marneffe<br />
Kevin Sprague<br />
Editor: David Dashiell<br />
Printing: Quality Printing<br />
Design: Studio Two, Lenox<br />
Fiscal Year 2006 <strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc.<br />
<strong>Financial</strong> Summary for Fiscal Years 006 and 005<br />
April 1, 005 to April 1, 004 to<br />
March 1, 006 March 1, 005<br />
REVENUES<br />
Gifts, Grants, Fundraising Events $604, 55 $1,1 7,710<br />
Tours, Shop, Café, Programs, Other $69 ,747 $719,10<br />
EXPENSES<br />
Restoration Costs $ 1 ,800 $1 , 66<br />
Operating Expenses $ , 44,9 6 $ ,0 4,4 8<br />
<strong>The</strong> preceding figures have been extracted from the Company’s audited<br />
statements and presented in summary form. Detailed audited statements are<br />
available upon request.<br />
Dear Friends of Edith Wharton and <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong><br />
Dear Friends of Edith Wharton and <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>:<br />
What an exciting year this has been! Getting the news that generous benefactors had made possible the purchase of Edith<br />
Wharton’s library…welcoming it back to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> in January…seeing the books fill the shelves…celebrating their return<br />
in April with the help of First Lady Laura Bush – all this has been the fulfillment of a decades-long dream for us. It is as if<br />
Wharton’s spirit has returned to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>, and one can almost feel her presence among the beautiful books she loved so much.<br />
<strong>The</strong> excitement of the spring carried us into a successful summer, which brought nearly 0,000 visitors to view the books and the<br />
beautiful restoration of the house and gardens. And of course the season was filled with wonderful events – our first garden symposium,<br />
the 14th year of our Monday lecture series, the return of Selected Shorts, a reading by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, and the<br />
thrilling cavalcade of the Berkshire Coaching Weekend. I hope you will enjoy reading about these happenings and more in the following<br />
pages.<br />
As I meet with my fellow Board members and work with our volunteers and donors, I am constantly reminded of the sacrifice and<br />
generosity of our many friends, which have brought us so far in the last quarter century. I am sure you share my delight and wonder<br />
at what has been achieved, and I invite you to continue with us on our quest to see <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> fully restored and preserved for future<br />
generations. And I promise that there are many more exciting years ahead!<br />
With all best wishes for the holiday season,<br />
Barbara R. de Marneffe<br />
Chairman, EWR Board of Trustees
Dear Friends:<br />
Wharton described her books as being “at the core of my life,” and now that<br />
they have returned to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>, they are at the core of our mission. With this<br />
monumental development, we are poised to take a giant step forward and begin an<br />
era focused on education, preservation, and vision.<br />
<strong>The</strong> library is an indispensable aid to scholarship. In addition to containing personal<br />
annotations and inscriptions, the books reveal the astonishing range of subjects<br />
that Wharton studied. She was passionate about history, evolution, philosophy, and<br />
religion, as well as topics with which she is usually associated, such as literature. With<br />
this in mind, we inaugurated <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s first annual conference last May devoted<br />
to studying subjects of interest to Wharton. <strong>The</strong> focus was on landscape gardening,<br />
and happily there is no shortage of Wharton-related subjects to inspire future<br />
symposiums.<br />
<strong>The</strong> books will be meaningful in other ways as well. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> is in the planning<br />
stages of a major fundraising campaign that will have the library at its center. Wharton<br />
raised funds for her World War I causes with a volume entitled <strong>The</strong> Book of the<br />
Homeless. Following her lead, we will raise funds for <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> using her books, all<br />
of which will be available for adoption. Wharton solicited contributions for her “fundraising”<br />
book from an impressive array of artists, including Yeats, Sargent, Conrad,<br />
Stravinsky, and Monet. Her library is equally impressive with works by Henry James,<br />
Joyce, Darwin, Nietzsche, and Proust.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s plans for the next 1 months include restoring the Stable, expanding<br />
programs, and strengthening our financial position. It will take inspired vision rooted<br />
in careful planning to accomplish these ambitious goals. With the addition of three<br />
new exceptional trustees, about whom you will read on the facing page, the process<br />
is already well underway. Also of great help is McKinsey and Company, which is<br />
providing strategic and operating advice to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> on a pro bono basis.<br />
Your continued support ensures that today’s challenges will become tomorrow’s<br />
achievements, and I want to thank you for helping us make <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> the glorious<br />
tribute its highly accomplished creator so well deserves.<br />
With best wishes for the New Year,<br />
Stephanie Copeland<br />
President and CEO<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> welcomes three new trustees<br />
As part of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s evolution, this past September we welcomed three new trustees whose<br />
business acumen will be instrumental in moving <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> forward. We are deeply grateful to<br />
our retiring trustees for their dedication and years of service.<br />
Sandra Boss is a Director (senior partner)<br />
with McKinsey & Company, a worldwide<br />
management consulting firm advising leading<br />
companies on issues of strategy, organization,<br />
technology, and operations. She is the<br />
Managing Partner of McKinsey’s Boston Office<br />
and the co-head of its Global Corporate and<br />
Institutional Banking Practice. She joined<br />
McKinsey in 1994.<br />
Ms. Boss’ consulting practice focuses on<br />
investment banking, corporate banking, sales<br />
and trading, and transactions processing. She<br />
works with clients in the US, Europe, and<br />
Asia on a wide range of strategy, organization,<br />
marketing, and operations topics.<br />
Prior to joining McKinsey, Ms. Boss received<br />
her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and<br />
her B.A. from Stanford University in American<br />
Studies and Economics. She also worked<br />
for Merrill Lynch in Debt Markets and for<br />
Trammell Crow Ventures, a real estate principal<br />
investment group.<br />
Ms. Boss is a Trustee of the Massachusetts<br />
Taxpayers Foundation and a member of the<br />
Boston Economic Club. She has led pro<br />
bono consulting work for the New York City<br />
Partnership following 9/11, the Metropolitan<br />
Museum of Art in New York, and the Museum<br />
of Fine Arts in Boston.<br />
Ms. Boss resides with her husband, Clark<br />
Rockefeller, and her five-year-old daughter,<br />
Snooks, in Boston, Massachusetts and in<br />
Cornish, New Hampshire.<br />
Gordon Travers is a Managing Director with<br />
Alvarez & Marsal, LLC, a global professional<br />
services firm specializing in providing<br />
turnaround management, restructuring, and<br />
corporate advisory services across the US,<br />
Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Mr. Travers<br />
has broad experience in the energy sector<br />
and in structuring and financing infrastructure<br />
projects and related contracts.<br />
Since joining A&M in 00 , Mr. Travers<br />
has served in leading roles in bankruptcy,<br />
restructuring, and refinancing cases . More<br />
recently, he coordinated the firm’s post-<br />
Hurricane Katrina efforts. Over the past year,<br />
Mr. Travers has been pursuing public/private<br />
partnership activities in Germany focused on<br />
restructuring the German healthcare delivery<br />
system, as well as the development and<br />
operation of large healthcare infrastructure<br />
projects.<br />
Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Travers was with<br />
Opus Energy, an investment platform and<br />
advisor to leading private equity firms on<br />
power-related investment activities in the<br />
U.S. and abroad, which he co-founded. Before<br />
joining Opus, he practiced finance and<br />
energy law in New York for more than 0<br />
years. He received a bachelor’s degree from<br />
the University of Pennsylvania, and a juris<br />
doctorate, with highest honors, from Tulane<br />
University.<br />
Mr. Travers lives in New York City with his<br />
wife, Elizabeth Beautyman, M.D., and has a<br />
second home in the Berkshires in Ashley Falls.<br />
Christopher Tugendhat is currently Chairman<br />
of Lehman Brothers’ European Advisory<br />
Board, having previously been Chairman,<br />
Europe since February 00 . He has held a<br />
number of other business positions in Great<br />
Britain, including Chairman of Abbey National<br />
plc from 1991 to 00 , Chairman of Blue Circle<br />
Industries plc from 1996 to 001, and Board<br />
member of Rio Tinto plc from 1976 to 004.<br />
He also holds several other non-business<br />
positions, such as Chancellor of the University<br />
of Bath (1998- ), Chairman of the Advisory<br />
Council of <strong>The</strong> European Policy Forum, and<br />
Chairman of the Gonville & Caius College<br />
Development Campaign. He was a Member<br />
of the European Commission from 1977 to<br />
1981, and a Vice-President from 1981 to 1985,<br />
and was a Conservative MP for the City of<br />
London and Westminster South from 1970 to<br />
1976. He was knighted in 1990 and awarded a<br />
peerage in 199 .<br />
Lord Tugendhat lives in London with his<br />
wife, Julia.<br />
Sandra Boss<br />
Gordon Travers<br />
Christopher Tugendhat<br />
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First garden conference a success<br />
While many facets of Edith Wharton’s life and work have been extensively studied<br />
over the years, her achievements as a landscape gardener have received relatively<br />
little attention. That imbalance was addressed in May by <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s first garden<br />
conference, which brought together leading scholars and practitioners to consider<br />
Wharton’s contribution to American landscape design.<br />
Conceived, organized, and hosted by <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s Garden Historian, Betsy<br />
Anderson, the weekend conference began with a Thursday evening kick-off<br />
lecture by British writer Martin Wood, who spoke about the influential British<br />
garden designer Gertrude Jekyll. Friday’s program focused on the restoration<br />
of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s gardens, bringing together many of the professionals who<br />
contributed to its reconstruction. Saturday morning’s speakers explored Wharton’s<br />
relationships with other gardeners and designers, and the afternoon was devoted<br />
to a panel entitled “Edith Wharton: the Garden Writer and the Writer in the<br />
Garden.” <strong>The</strong> conference concluded on Sunday with talks by two special guests<br />
– architect Hugh Hardy and Wharton biographer Hermione Lee. Betsy Anderson is<br />
currently preparing the proceedings of the symposium for publication.<br />
Trellis niche reconstructed for garden<br />
A key element of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s original landscape, an elaborate trelliswork niche,<br />
has been recreated, thanks to last year’s grant for the restoration of the flower<br />
garden from an anonymous Boston foundation. <strong>The</strong> first niche was designed by<br />
Ogden Codman, Jr. for “Land’s End,” the Wharton’s previous house in Newport,<br />
RI, and it is unclear whether that structure was brought to Lenox and altered<br />
slightly, or if a similar one was constructed for the new garden. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s niche<br />
served as a major focal point in the landscape throughout Wharton’s occupancy,<br />
but how long it survived after she left in 1911 is unknown.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new niche, made of old-growth cypress, was fabricated by Gaston and<br />
Wyatt of Charlottesville, VA, under the supervision of Tidewater Preservation of<br />
Fredericksburg, VA, and David Andersen, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s Restoration Manager.<br />
Wharton friend Walter Berry holds one of her dogs aloft inside the original niche.<br />
Garden Historian Robin Karson delivers the conference<br />
keynote speech.<br />
Guest speaker Martin Wood (right) chats with<br />
conference participant Michelle Gillett during tea on<br />
the Terrace.<br />
<strong>The</strong> reconstructed niche amid the garden’s summer<br />
splendor<br />
<strong>Mount</strong> Press publishes collection of<br />
Louis Auchincloss’ favorite passages from<br />
Wharton’s works<br />
Readers may not be aware that <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> has its own book imprint, <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Mount</strong> Press, which recently published its second title, Favorite Passages<br />
from Edith Wharton. <strong>The</strong> collection was compiled by Louis Auchincloss, the<br />
novelist and Wharton biographer who is considered by many to be her literary<br />
heir. He has chosen passages from the range of Wharton’s work that not only<br />
show her at her best, but also provide a fascinating insight into his intellect<br />
and literary taste. Mr. Auchincloss has graciously donated his work for the<br />
benefit of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> book is dedicated to the memory of Scott Marshall, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s Deputy<br />
Director and Historian from 199 until his death in 00 . Its publication was<br />
made possible by the generosity of Scott’s father, Daniel S. Marshall, and<br />
Scott’s partner, Bryce R. Hill. Mr. Marshall, together with his late wife Joan,<br />
also underwrote the restoration of the Lion’s Head Fountain in honor of Scott<br />
in 000, and Mr. Hill planted the American elm tree at the forecourt entrance in<br />
Scott’s memory in 00 .<br />
Bookstore at <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> offers<br />
unique volumes<br />
One of the unexpected pleasures of a visit to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> is discovering our<br />
charming Bookstore, which reflects the warm personality and considerable<br />
expertise of its creator, Kaarin Lemstrom-Sheedy. Besides stocking the<br />
most comprehensive list of Wharton titles available, Kaarin provides a choice<br />
selection of fine books on subjects that interested Wharton, such as gardening,<br />
architecture, and interior design. Kaarin maintains an ever-changing array<br />
of early copies of Wharton works, and currently is offering several volumes<br />
that you won’t find anywhere else – first or early Wharton editions that have<br />
been elegantly rebound by Thornwillow Press, based on instructions given<br />
by Wharton to her bookbinder. While the physical shop inside <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> is<br />
closed for the winter, you can peruse our virtual bookstore anytime by visiting<br />
www.EdithWharton.org.<br />
Early Wharton books that have been rebound by Thornwillow Press<br />
Cover of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> Press’s latest offering, which was<br />
designed by Elizabeth DiPalma of Chatam, NY.<br />
<strong>The</strong> National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2007<br />
Gift Calendar, which can be purchased from the<br />
Bookstore, includes this photograph of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong><br />
taken by David Dashiell.<br />
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Kathleen Chalfant reads from <strong>The</strong> House of<br />
Mirth for Boston Committee supporters.<br />
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, host of public<br />
radio’s <strong>The</strong> Book Show, speaks on Frances<br />
Hodgson Burnett and <strong>The</strong> Secret Garden.<br />
Boston Committee hosts Broadway star at<br />
spring fundraiser<br />
From left: Lillie<br />
Johnson, Mariann<br />
Appley, and<br />
Judy Bracken<br />
chat before the<br />
reading.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Boston Committee, under the effective leadership of Barbara de Marneffe, continues<br />
to be a major fundraising force for <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s restoration. In late March, the Committee<br />
once again presented its spring Edith Wharton evening, featuring the noted Broadway and<br />
movie actress Kathleen Chalfant. Ms. Chalfant graciously participated in last year’s serial<br />
reading of <strong>The</strong> House of Mirth in New York, and she reprised her interpretation of one of the<br />
most dramatic passages in the novel for the sold-out Boston event. <strong>The</strong> reading and dinner<br />
brought in nearly $40,000 for the restoration. <strong>The</strong> Committee is made up of 40 Boston-area<br />
women who have consistently been among <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s most generous donors, and we<br />
extend our deepest thanks for their hard work and dedication.<br />
Alice Quinn, Poetry<br />
Editor of <strong>The</strong> New<br />
Yorker, discusses<br />
the uncollected<br />
poetry of Elizabeth<br />
Bishop, which she<br />
recently published.<br />
Monday Lecture Series celebrates 14th season<br />
For fourteen years <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s Monday Lecture Series has provided stimulating and<br />
provocative food for thought for Berkshire summer residents and visitors. This year was no<br />
exception, with ten talks in July and August on a fascinating roster of significant women,<br />
including such diverse subjects as Billie Holiday, Florence Nightingale, Consuelo Vanderbilt,<br />
and the Peabody sisters. Among the highlights were Marion Meade’s introduction to the<br />
life and legend of Dorothy Parker, which drew so many people that extra seating was added<br />
in the Carriage Wash Café; Susanne Marrs’ warm recollections of her friend, Eudora Welty;<br />
and Mitchell Owens’ amusing look at the flamboyant decorator and bonne vivante, Elsie de<br />
Wolfe. <strong>The</strong> schedule for the fifteenth season will be announced in the late spring.<br />
Amy Clampitt Poetry<br />
Series brings former Poet<br />
Laureate Robert Pinsky to<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong><br />
Robert Pinsky drew an overflow crowd for his<br />
appearance as this year’s featured poet in the<br />
Amy Clampitt Poetry Series. Reading with<br />
warmth and humor from his own work, he<br />
charmed the large and appreciative audience.<br />
Pinsky is the author of six books of poetry<br />
and has published four books of criticism,<br />
two books of translation, and a computerized<br />
novel. In 1999 he co-edited Americans’ Favorite<br />
Poems: <strong>The</strong> Favorite Poem Project Anthology.<br />
Pinsky teaches in the graduate writing program<br />
at Boston University, and in 1997 was named<br />
the United States Poet Laureate.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Amy Clampitt Poetry Series, which is in<br />
its third year, is named in honor of the poet<br />
Amy Clampitt, who wrote prolifically from<br />
her Stockbridge, MA cottage until her death<br />
in 1994. <strong>The</strong> series is underwritten by the<br />
Amy Clampitt Fund, established in 001 by<br />
Clampitt’s late husband Harold Korn to benefit<br />
poetry and the literary arts, and managed by<br />
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.<br />
Return of Selected Shorts<br />
delights lovers of the<br />
spoken word<br />
Isaiah Sheffer brought his troupe of talented<br />
readers back to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> in early August<br />
for what has become a <strong>Mount</strong> tradition and<br />
a highlight of the Berkshire summer season.<br />
Before live audiences in the Stable Auditorium,<br />
Sheffer and six distinguished actors recorded<br />
a weekend of programs for Selected Shorts,<br />
which is heard nationwide on public radio. This<br />
year’s theme was “It Happened at the Library”<br />
in honor of the return of Edith Wharton’s book<br />
collection to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>. Sheffer served his<br />
accustomed roles of host and reader, and was<br />
joined by Charles Keating, James Naughton,<br />
Rochelle Oliver, Tony Roberts, Fritz Weaver,<br />
and Brenda Wehle. <strong>The</strong> authors of the bookthemed<br />
selections included Ray Bradbury, Italo<br />
Calvino, John Cheever, Henry James, and,<br />
as always, Edith Wharton. Selected Shorts is<br />
produced by New York’s Symphony Space.<br />
Its Berkshire appearances are a collaboration<br />
among <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>, Symphony Space, and <strong>The</strong><br />
Library of America.<br />
Young admirers have their book signed by Robert Pinsky.<br />
Isaiah Sheffer (right) coaches Tony Roberts before his Selected Shorts reading.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Books Come Home<br />
Edith Wharton’s Library: A Short History<br />
When you see Edith Wharton’s books arrayed on her shelves<br />
at <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>, you are first struck by the “expanse of<br />
warm lustrous color” created by the bindings, an effect<br />
she recommended in <strong>The</strong> Decoration of Houses. But as you study<br />
the titles, and delve into the books themselves, you realize that this<br />
is far more than a decorative assemblage of beautiful volumes. It<br />
is, in fact, a history of Wharton’s intellectual and emotional life – her<br />
autobiography in books.<br />
<strong>The</strong> chronological history of the collection begins well before<br />
Wharton’s birth, in the gentleman’s library compiled by her father,<br />
George Frederic Jones, beginning in the mid-19th century. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
among her father’s books of philosophy, poetry and the classics,<br />
young Edith gave herself the education that, because she was a girl,<br />
she was not allowed to receive formally. She cherished his books to<br />
the end of her life and they come to us as a testimony to her native<br />
intelligence and her fierce desire for knowledge.<br />
Wharton began to amass her own library as a young girl, and she<br />
mentions many of these formative books in her memoir, A Backward<br />
Glance. On one memorable birthday, she received an especially<br />
meaningful gift:<br />
…I woke to find beside my bed Buxton Forman’s great<br />
editions of Keats and Shelley! <strong>The</strong>n the gates of the realms<br />
of gold swung wide, and from that day to this I don’t believe I<br />
was ever again, in my inmost self, wholly lonely or unhappy.<br />
In the collection we find books from every period of Wharton’s life,<br />
written in the languages she learned as a child and spoke fluently—<br />
English, French, German, and Italian. <strong>The</strong>re is even a volume of<br />
Anglo-Saxon, which she taught herself at age 14 to impress the<br />
minister of her church, on whom she had a secret crush. Still<br />
preserved in the book is her hand-written translation from one of the<br />
Saxon chronicles.<br />
Included in the library are a significant number of Wharton’s own<br />
works, many with corrections penciled in. In her first edition of<br />
<strong>The</strong> House of Mirth, for example, she crossed out the name of the<br />
illustrator and removed all of the plates, apparently because she<br />
disliked them (future printings of the book continued to include the<br />
illustrations, however). <strong>The</strong>re are also quite a few books written<br />
by her friends, many containing personal inscriptions. Perhaps<br />
the most interesting (and valuable) is a first edition of <strong>The</strong> Golden<br />
Bowl, with the cryptic hand-written dedication, “To Edith Wharton / in<br />
sympathy / Henry James / November 1904.” <strong>The</strong> date coincides with<br />
James’ first visit to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>, and biographers have speculated<br />
that his expression of sympathy relates to the mounting difficulties<br />
of her marriage to Edward “Teddy” Wharton, whose behavior was<br />
becoming increasingly erratic.<br />
<strong>The</strong> range of subjects represented is remarkable, demonstrating<br />
Wharton’s wide-ranging curiosity. In addition to areas with which<br />
she was associated, such as literature, gardening, and travel, there<br />
are numerous volumes of history, philosophy, religion, and science.<br />
Several books on astronomy attest to her love of stargazing, which<br />
she would enjoy from the terrace of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>, and studies of<br />
evolution show her interest in the great scientific and philosophical<br />
debates of her day.<br />
Even more revealing is the fact that Wharton often annotated<br />
her books – gently marking in pencil using ticks, check marks,<br />
Volumes from the library of George Frederic Jones, Edith’s father<br />
Edith Wharton’s Library at <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> circa 1910<br />
Henry James’ inscription in <strong>The</strong> Golden Bowl, among other books<br />
from Wharton’s collection.<br />
underlining, and, very occasionally, words. In some books that are<br />
heavily marked, it seems almost as if one is following Wharton’s<br />
thoughts as she reads. <strong>The</strong>se markings will provide a fascinating<br />
resource for scholars, and <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> hopes to eventually make them<br />
all available on the internet.<br />
Wharton died in 19 7 at the age of 75, and her will divided the library<br />
between William Royall Tyler and Colin Clark, the sons of two close<br />
friends. To Tyler, who was in his twenties and had known Wharton all<br />
his life, she left most of the books dealing with art, archaeology, and<br />
art history. <strong>The</strong>se volumes, perhaps 1400 in number, were tragically<br />
destroyed during the London Blitz in 1940. <strong>The</strong> rest of the collection—<br />
the portion now at <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> comprising some 700 books—was<br />
left to art historian Kenneth Clark in trust for his six-year-old son (and<br />
Wharton’s godson), Colin. <strong>The</strong> elder Clark integrated them into his<br />
own extensive library, where, divided among several residences, they<br />
remained for over 40 years. After Kenneth Clark’s death in 198 , Colin<br />
sold the books to the London booksellers, Maggs Brothers, who in turn<br />
sold them to George Ramsden, a book dealer in York, England.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sale to Ramsden could not have been<br />
more fortuitous, for in him the library found<br />
a champion and protector. Studying his<br />
purchase, Ramsden quickly realized that<br />
the real value of the collection lay in its<br />
intactness, despite the fact that he could<br />
have made a quick profit selling off valuable<br />
individual volumes. He also suspected<br />
that he had not gotten all the Wharton<br />
books that the Clarks owned, and over<br />
the next few years was able to work with<br />
the three Clark children, Colin, Colette,<br />
and Alan, to retrieve another 600 volumes<br />
that were scattered among their libraries.<br />
Ramsden then began to meticulously<br />
catalog the collection, in the process<br />
transforming himself into a Wharton<br />
scholar. He published the catalog in 1999,<br />
and continued to hold onto the books until<br />
a buyer appeared who would agree to keep<br />
the collection intact after the sale.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> was in communication with<br />
Ramsden about the library for many years,<br />
but was never able to meet his asking price<br />
until the fall of 005, when, with the help<br />
of Lord Christopher Tugendhat, benefactors<br />
were found who would advance the money<br />
for the purchase. (See pp. 14-15). Robert<br />
and Elisabeth Wilmers were already good<br />
friends of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>, and saw in the library<br />
acquisition an opportunity to generate<br />
significant donations for the restoration by<br />
using the books as a fundraising tool. With<br />
their generous commitment, things moved<br />
quickly, and the transaction was completed<br />
on December 1 , with the books arriving<br />
in Lenox in early January of this year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> books were carefully unpacked and<br />
cleaned, and Ramsden arrived in time to<br />
arrange them on the shelves for the grand<br />
celebration on April 4 with <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s<br />
honored guest, First Lady Laura Bush.<br />
Stephanie Copeland and George Ramsden sign the contract that transfers<br />
ownership of the books to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> on December 12, 2005.<br />
Wharton’s godson Colin Clark Colin’s father, Art Historian<br />
Kenneth Clark<br />
George Ramsden among Wharton’s<br />
books in his Yorkshire library<br />
Cadogan Tate, a British fine arts moving firm, delivers the books on a<br />
frigid day in January.<br />
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Garrison Keillor speaks on<br />
behalf of the library<br />
It all started plausibly, as Garrison Keillor’s<br />
stories usually do. In an alleged account from<br />
Wharton’s diary, she told of leaving a stultifying<br />
dinner party for a walk in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s garden<br />
with Henry James. By the end of the very<br />
shaggy tale, Edith and Henry were in the<br />
fountain with no clothes on and the audience<br />
was helplessly convulsed with laughter.<br />
Keillor generously shared his comedic gifts at<br />
a January luncheon in New York celebrating<br />
the return of Edith Wharton’s library. He is a<br />
long-time admirer of Wharton and has often<br />
mentioned her and <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> during the<br />
annual Tanglewood broadcast of his radio<br />
program, A Prairie Home Companion.<br />
Garrison Keillor describes a previously<br />
unknown encounter between Wharton<br />
and Henry James in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s<br />
flower garden fountain.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Celebration<br />
On April 4th, the books were finally<br />
arranged on the library shelves and ready<br />
to be unveiled. Though the sky threatened<br />
rain, it held off for the arrival in the afternoon<br />
of the First Lady, Laura Bush, who had<br />
accepted <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s invitation to join the<br />
celebration of the library’s return. Mrs. Bush<br />
had expressed a desire to visit the home of<br />
one of her favorite authors when she and<br />
the President presented <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> with<br />
a Preserve America award at the White<br />
House the previous May. She was taken<br />
on a tour of the mansion by Stephanie<br />
Copeland and viewed the books in Wharton’s<br />
Library, where she met George Ramsden<br />
and Christopher Tugendhat. She was also<br />
introduced to Robert and Elisabeth Wilmers,<br />
the benefactors whose generosity made the<br />
acquisition possible.<br />
Mrs. Bush addressed a gathering of guests<br />
in a tent erected in the garden. “As a librarian<br />
and a lover of literature,” she noted,<br />
“I believe it’s important for Americans to<br />
be able to visit the homes of our most<br />
renowned and beloved authors.”<br />
George Ramsden and<br />
Curator Erica Donnis<br />
arrange books on the<br />
library shelves before the<br />
celebration.<br />
Top left: George Ramsden (right) shows Wharton’s books to Mrs. Bush,<br />
Christopher Tugendhat (center), Elisabeth Wilmers, and Robert Wilmers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Wilmers made the Library Campaign possible by providing <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong><br />
the funds to purchase Wharton’s book collection.<br />
Top right: Mrs. Bush walks with EWR President Stephanie Copeland<br />
Bottom left: EWR Chairman Barbara de Marneffe introduces the First Lady.<br />
Bottom right: Mrs. Laura Bush.<br />
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Christopher Tugendhat discusses Wharton’s books in<br />
the Ramsden library.<br />
Christopher Tugendhat recounts his pivotal<br />
role in the library acquisition<br />
Christopher Tugendhat played an essential, behind-the-scenes role in bringing<br />
Wharton’s library back to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>. Stephanie Copeland asked Lord<br />
Tugendhat to write an account of his part in the story so that it would not be<br />
lost to history, and he has graciously given us permission to print it here.<br />
In the summer of 004 my wife, Julia, and I paid a visit to our old friends<br />
Robert and Elisabeth Wilmers at Stockbridge that changed my life and<br />
that of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>. Unbeknown to them I had for many years been a great<br />
admirer of Edith Wharton and collected first editions of her works. “Would<br />
it be possible to visit <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>?” I asked. “Better than that,” they replied.<br />
“We know the President of Edith Wharton Restoration, Stephanie Copeland.<br />
We will introduce you.” She and I immediately took to each other and the<br />
following day Stephanie gave Julia and me a personal tour of the house and<br />
garden. I was hugely impressed with all that I saw, by the way in which Edith<br />
Wharton’s spirit was being reincarnated in a modern idiom, and by the plans<br />
Stephanie and her team had for the future. “Is there anything I can do to<br />
help?” I asked.<br />
She then told me the story of Edith Wharton’s library. How on her death in<br />
France in 19 7, Wharton had bequeathed the architecture and garden books<br />
to her young friend William Royall Tyler and the literary ones to her godson<br />
Colin Clark; how both the beneficiaries had moved their books to England<br />
and that while Tyler’s were destroyed during the War in the London Blitz,<br />
Clark’s had survived and been sold many years later to George Ramsden, a<br />
bookseller in Yorkshire. Stephanie greatly admired George for the scholarly<br />
bibliography of Wharton’s works that he had produced (a copy of which I<br />
already possessed), for the way he was maintaining the books, and for his<br />
unceasing efforts to find volumes that had gone astray. <strong>The</strong> problem was<br />
that while she would love to acquire his collection for <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>, where they<br />
could become the centrepiece of Wharton’s old home as they had been of her<br />
life, she and George had been unable to come to terms.<br />
Numerous contacts had, I was told, taken place, but to no avail. Price was<br />
an issue, but by no means the only one. George knew that he had in his<br />
possession a unique literary archive and wanted to see it go to its spiritual<br />
home at <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>. But over the years he had invested a vast amount of<br />
time as well as huge commitment. He had also become deeply devoted<br />
to the memory of Edith Wharton and drew inspiration from the presence<br />
of her books in his house. Besides which he had costs accumulated over<br />
many years to cover and capital tied up in the collection. Naturally he wasn’t<br />
prepared to let the books, and all that he had put into them and that they<br />
meant to him, go for too little. He had perhaps been strengthened in this<br />
resolve by the manner of various well-known booksellers who had from<br />
time to time come forward to value the collection. Instead of appreciating<br />
its unique literary value as a totality, they had tended to see it as simply an<br />
agglomeration of individual items to be priced accordingly. Whether <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Mount</strong> was to buy it or anybody else, George wanted it to go to and be valued<br />
by a buyer willing to put a financial price on its literary value.<br />
Stephanie Copeland and her committee at EWR understood all this very<br />
well. Nobody knew better than they that the collection was unique, that its<br />
value derived from its completeness, and that bringing it to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> would<br />
be like putting the coping stone onto an edifice. But they were stymied.<br />
Whatever the collection’s value to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> as the centrepiece of its<br />
restoration and as a fundraising tool might be, potential donors had not been<br />
forthcoming. An impasse had been reached. I therefore volunteered to use<br />
my best efforts to find a way round.<br />
Although I possessed his bibliography and therefore knew of him by repute,<br />
I had never met George. However, once I started making enquiries it turned<br />
out that we had many friends in common, including the well known London<br />
bookseller, John Saumarez Smith whose customer I have been since the<br />
1960s and for whom he had once worked. I also learned that he was<br />
the son of Sir James Ramsden with whom I had been a colleague<br />
some 0 years previously when we were both Members of the British<br />
House of Commons. So it was with hope as well as trepidation that<br />
one cold February day in 005 I took the train from London to York.<br />
George met me at the station and drove me to his old stone rectory in<br />
the village of Settrington near Malton. Except that we were in England<br />
rather than New England, the weather was such that at any moment<br />
I might have expected to see Ethan Frome come looming out of the<br />
snow-covered countryside.<br />
When we arrived George showed me to the upstairs room given<br />
over to the Wharton books and left me alone with them. It was a<br />
most astonishing experience. <strong>The</strong> completeness of the collection and<br />
the way he had arranged it provided a window into her mind as well<br />
as an understanding of the influences that had formed her. It was<br />
almost as if she had been brought to life. And not just her. Through<br />
the inscriptions in the books they had exchanged, her friends and<br />
contemporaries, such as Henry James, Henry Adams, and <strong>The</strong>odore<br />
Roosevelt, were also in the room, as well as her rather nefarious<br />
lover, Morton Fullerton, thanks to the book he had written and<br />
dedicated to her.<br />
When after communing for some time with these ghosts I was called<br />
to the delicious lunch prepared by Jane Ramsden, the three of us<br />
had plenty to talk about. Mostly we discussed the books and Edith<br />
Wharton. But in due course George and I turned to money and terms,<br />
with me making clear that I was not an emissary of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> so<br />
much as a facilitator trying to bring the two sides back into contact<br />
with each other. In that I was successful, but a gap remained. It was<br />
as if George on the one side and Stephanie and her board on the<br />
other were reaching out to each other across it with arms extended<br />
but still unable to touch hands.<br />
It was a few months after this that Robert Wilmers re-entered the<br />
scene with a crucial intervention. He had kept in touch with what was<br />
going on and decided that decisive action was required. Would a deal<br />
be possible, he asked, if the financial means were forthcoming, or<br />
were there other factors in the way? I told Stephanie I was sure a deal<br />
was attainable since I believed we had won George’s confidence on<br />
all the non-financial issues. With the backing of Robert and Elisabeth a<br />
revised proposition was then produced, designed to enable the hands<br />
not just to touch but to shake. So again I took the train to York, again<br />
I was let loose among the books and again Jane prepared a delicious<br />
lunch. This time though the denouement was very different. When I<br />
told George what <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> had in mind, he immediately indicated<br />
that so long as the lawyers and accountants were happy a deal would<br />
be forthcoming. And so it was.<br />
Thus it was that in December 005, shortly before Christmas, I<br />
made my third trip to Settrington. This time I was accompanied by<br />
Stephanie and the London correspondent for <strong>The</strong> New York Times,<br />
Alan Cowell. People from <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> were already at George’s house<br />
to help with the packing up of the books, the deal was ceremoniously<br />
signed and cameras and videos recorded the event. Another delicious<br />
lunch was eaten and champagne was drunk. Shortly afterwards the<br />
Edith Wharton library crossed the Atlantic followed in due course by<br />
George to see the books into their new home and to arrange them to<br />
the best effect.<br />
Finally on a showery spring day in April 006, less than two<br />
years after Robert and Elisabeth had hosted that fateful lunch at<br />
Stockbridge, the last act in this literary drama was played out. <strong>The</strong><br />
First Lady of the United States came to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> to welcome back<br />
to her own country the library of the First Lady of American Letters.<br />
Jane Ramsden (2nd from left) offers a toast to the absent<br />
benefactors after the signing.<br />
George Ramsden (right) explains <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>’s library layout to<br />
Robert Wilmers (center), Elisabeth Wilmers, and Lord Tugendhat.<br />
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Scenes from the Season<br />
Facing page (bottom right): Winners and judges at the Edith Wharton Writing<br />
Competition award ceremony in June. From left: Lesley Beck, Assistant<br />
Managing Editor of <strong>The</strong> Berkshire Eagle; fiction judge Karen Shepard; fiction<br />
winner Katharine Hopkins; essay judge Cassandra Cleghorn; essay winner<br />
Jessica Yarmosky; poetry judge Peter Filkins; poetry winner Liana Katz.<br />
Facing page (bottom left): Visitors discover the gardens during the Lenox<br />
Garden Club’s <strong>Annual</strong> House and Garden Tour in early July.<br />
This page (above): Berkshire Coaching Weekend comes to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> in<br />
early October.<br />
This page (bottom right): High school students from Landmark Volunteers<br />
help clear the drive of invasive species.<br />
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Edith Wharton Restoration extends grateful appreciation to all donors who have contributed to <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>.<br />
Listed below are those donors who gave during the period of April 1, 2005 to October 31, 2006<br />
New tax law encourages<br />
IRA holders to donate<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2006 Pension Protection Act, recently<br />
signed into law, allows individuals who are<br />
70 ½ and older to transfer up to $100,000<br />
from an Individual Retirement Account (IRA)<br />
directly to a qualifying charity without paying<br />
income tax on the amount transferred this<br />
year and next. In previous years, donors were<br />
required to withdraw the amount from the<br />
IRA, and that money would be counted as<br />
taxable income. To receive an article which<br />
explains the requirements and restrictions of<br />
the new policy, please call David Dashiell at<br />
(413) 637-1899 extension 115.<br />
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Alice and Alan Model<br />
Anne M. Morgan<br />
Mrs. G. M. Moriarty<br />
Kate and Hans Morris<br />
Susan P. McWhinney-Morse and<br />
David H. Morse<br />
Doris J. Mottarella<br />
Mary S. Newman<br />
Rev. Dr. Barbara Nielsen<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Norton<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Frank O’Brien, Jr.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard O’Rourke<br />
Elizabeth and Robert I. Owens<br />
Mrs. Sylvia M. Page<br />
Mary Hart Parker<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Oglesby Paul<br />
Isabel C. Perkins<br />
Mrs. Hollis W. Plimpton, Jr.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Matthias Plum, Jr.<br />
Susan M. Poduska<br />
William J. and Lia G. Poorvu<br />
Charles W. Popper, M.D.<br />
Mrs. William Pounds<br />
Sandra and Caroline Préfontaine<br />
Mildred Quain<br />
Robert A. Radloff<br />
Margaret Rathbone<br />
Thomas Reilly and Betsy Palmer<br />
Lynne and Mark Rickabaugh<br />
Mrs. A. L. Rickenbacker<br />
Christopher Ricks<br />
Joanna D. Rosenberg<br />
Pat and Sandy Ross<br />
Mrs. Beatrice Roy<br />
Jane Roy<br />
Sue Schenck<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Schmalensee<br />
Anne and Ernest Schnesel<br />
Martha and Richard Scholz<br />
Charles Schulze<br />
Virginia H. Schwartz<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Scully<br />
Wendy S. Shattuck and Samuel<br />
Plimpton<br />
Laura H. Shucart<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Barry P. Simmons<br />
Lowerre H. Simsarian<br />
Hugh Gerechter and Ellen P. Sisco<br />
Susan P Sloan<br />
Al and Betty Smith<br />
Deborah Detwiller Smith<br />
Richard Solar<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Spiro<br />
Julie Sprague<br />
Liz Stell<br />
Mary Stokes-Waller and Harvey<br />
Waller<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David Stone<br />
Patricia Straus<br />
Deborah L. Streiff<br />
Lise Lange Striar<br />
Ann W. Sullivan<br />
Katherine Martien Sullivan, M.D.<br />
Jane and Hooker Talcott<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Thaler<br />
Mrs. W. Nicholas Thorndike<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Barclay Tittman<br />
Mrs. Gerard B. Townsend<br />
Prof. and Mrs. Detlev F. Vagts<br />
Marilyn S. Valeri<br />
Lorraine Van Tis<br />
David B. Walek and Elizabeth R.<br />
Gibson<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Monte J. Wallace<br />
Harvey Waller<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Webb III<br />
Louise Eastman Weed<br />
Robert and Claudia Wells<br />
Kate Wharton<br />
Mrs. John W. White<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Whitman, Jr.<br />
Erika Whitmore and Thomas Aretz<br />
Elaine Wilde<br />
Priscilla Hutt Williams<br />
Kristina Wilson<br />
Susan A. Wismer<br />
Judy and Stephen Wolfberg<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John Wylde<br />
Nancy Young and Allison Byer<br />
Cynthia Zaitzevsky<br />
Gerald and Linda Zukowski<br />
Allice and Albrecht Zumbrunn<br />
MICHIGAN<br />
Barbara A. Robinson<br />
MINNESOTA<br />
Ann G. Bagnoli<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bigot<br />
Mary Lee Dayton<br />
Garrison Keillor<br />
MISSISSIPPI<br />
Suzanne Marrs<br />
MISSOURI<br />
Donald H. Bergmann<br />
MONTANA<br />
Ossie Abrams and David Orser<br />
NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Mark W. Blodgett<br />
Don and Diane Brown<br />
Alison A. Coady<br />
Mr. Abram T. Collier<br />
Nancy B. Emery<br />
Joslin Kimball Frank<br />
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina<br />
Robert P. Hubbard<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Keough<br />
Elizabeth Nordgren<br />
Martha E. Pinello<br />
Sylvia Pope<br />
David Richardson<br />
Mr. and Mrs. George Rublee<br />
Jane S. Young<br />
NEW JERSEY<br />
Marilee Bleetstein, M.A.<br />
Anita De Carlo<br />
Christine I. Edwards<br />
Mrs. Judith S. Gibson<br />
Ms. Ann M. Gold<br />
Dr. June E. Grutzmacher and Dr.<br />
Eugene S. Eskow<br />
Elinor Hirsch<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Isaacson<br />
Mary F. Judge<br />
Jennie Kassanoff<br />
Thomas and Anne Koester<br />
William S. and Eleanor E. Kover<br />
Fern D. Letnes<br />
Mary V. Masker<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James P. Noyes<br />
Bobbi Pope Phillips<br />
Dr. Carole Shaffer-Koros<br />
Sharon and Jeffrey P. Sudac<br />
NEW YORK<br />
Lynne Allen<br />
Alyce Micolino Almy<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Ames<br />
Amy Aspland<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald R. Atkins<br />
Eleanor J. Auchincloss<br />
Judith Haskell Auchincloss<br />
Louis Auchincloss<br />
Ms. Lindsay Baker<br />
Richard J. Bartholomew<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James Benenson, Jr.<br />
Lee and CeCe Black<br />
Geoffrey Bradfield<br />
A. Christian Burke<br />
Libby Cameron<br />
Dorothy M. Carpenter<br />
Steven Jay Levy and Teresa S.<br />
Carpenter<br />
Cathy and Andrew Carron<br />
Mary and Robert Carswell<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Cavanagh<br />
Lucylee Chiles<br />
Glenn S. Clarke<br />
Jennifer L. Cole<br />
Liz Cook<br />
Bonnie Dalzell Cooper<br />
Nancy Crystal<br />
Jennifer Danner<br />
Margaret Flanders Darby<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar de la Renta<br />
Marie de Lucia and Lee Solot<br />
Carol G. Deren<br />
Mrs. Alaric Bray Doolittle<br />
George and Eleanor Dwight<br />
Gary Dycus<br />
Linda Elkman<br />
Jody Falco and Jeffrey Steinman<br />
Ruth Pachman and Donald Fallati<br />
Barberi Paull Feit<br />
Elizabeth Felton<br />
Mariana Fitzpatrick<br />
Jane Fortenberry<br />
Dr. Margaret Fraser<br />
Barbara Friedman<br />
M. Jane Gaillard<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald P. Gehman<br />
Alice Hildreth Goldman<br />
George and Joan Gould<br />
Bradford and Mary Greene<br />
Hugh Hardy<br />
Conrad and Marsha Harper<br />
Nan Hawk<br />
Inge Heckel<br />
John and Diana Herzog<br />
Ms. Ann W. Hilliard<br />
Anne Holm<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James Houghton<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Sven E. Hsia<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hughes<br />
Gwyneth D. Hunting<br />
Mary Anne Hunting<br />
Mrs. Robert Hutchings<br />
Daniel L. Hutchinson<br />
Ms. Amanda Jacobs<br />
Gail Jacobs<br />
Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson II<br />
Thomas Jayne<br />
Louise Kaminow<br />
Jon Katz<br />
Edith B. Kelly<br />
Diana Niles King<br />
Anthony D. Knerr<br />
Wendy W. Larsen<br />
J. Harrison Lassiter<br />
Lauren Lawrence<br />
Lois Keating Learned<br />
Annette M. LeClair<br />
Mrs. Marjorie Lewis<br />
Marilyn Linehan<br />
Mrs. May Louise Lockwood<br />
Rev. Dr. Robert K. Loesch<br />
Clara and David Londoner<br />
Nick Ludington<br />
Scott Manning<br />
Judith Blanchard Marks<br />
Helen Marx<br />
Barbara McNenney<br />
Marion Meade<br />
Knight Meem<br />
Mr. and Mrs. S. Christopher Meigher III<br />
Melanie B. Melius<br />
Pauline C. Metcalf<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Miller<br />
Susan and J. Gregory Milmoe<br />
Lucia Mitchell<br />
Vicki Moran<br />
Charlotte Moss<br />
Mary Ann Mullarkey<br />
Claire and Ron Nagle<br />
Elizabeth Neary<br />
Richard and Constance Neel<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Nolen<br />
Julie Olin-Ammentorp<br />
William C. G. Ortel<br />
Sandra Ourusoff<br />
Mitchell Owens<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Chips C. Page<br />
Heena Pai<br />
Susan Hand Patterson<br />
Peter Pennoyer<br />
Julie Perlin<br />
Rose R. Petersons<br />
Jean Phifer<br />
Mary Jane Pool<br />
William and Barbara Pulsifer<br />
Julie Quain<br />
Catha Grace Rambusch<br />
Christina Reik<br />
Bart D. Reiss<br />
Rosemary Ripley<br />
Guy N. Robinson and Elizabeth F.<br />
Stribling<br />
David Rockefeller<br />
Eva E. Rohrmann<br />
Joan T. Rosasco<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Elihu Rose<br />
John Rosselli<br />
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Ellen Fitzpatrick Runge<br />
Wendy Sachs<br />
Anne Sanford<br />
Julie Schwartz<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley DeForest Scott<br />
Eleanor Shearing and David<br />
Pengilly<br />
Frances La Gatta Shelton<br />
Georgia Shreve<br />
Linda Simpson<br />
Mary Jo Smith<br />
Victoria Steinberg<br />
Ann Swyer<br />
Ms. Judith Symonds<br />
Debra Tanger<br />
Jennifer Tasker<br />
Francine Thomas<br />
Gladys R. Thomas<br />
Genevieve Tom<br />
Sheila S. Traub<br />
Gordon Travers<br />
Maria Tucci<br />
Sharon Vaino<br />
Edith and Loet Velmans<br />
Jeanette and Paul Wagner<br />
Anne Walker<br />
Hugo Walter<br />
Nancy E. Weidner<br />
Judith M. White<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. Wickham<br />
Bunny Williams<br />
Mrs. Samuel D. Williams<br />
Elisabeth and Robert G. Wilmers<br />
Gertrude de G. Wilmers<br />
Lucia M. Wing<br />
Joanne Wisor<br />
Susan Wissler<br />
NORTH CAROLINA<br />
Leslie S. Hicks<br />
Daniel S. Marshall<br />
Judith Scott<br />
OHIO<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Blum<br />
Margaret A. Bretschneider<br />
Vanessa Catanzaro<br />
Charles and Linda Turner<br />
OREGON<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Dibbins<br />
Glenna M. Giesick<br />
PENNSYLVANIA<br />
Dodi Fordham<br />
Linda Thornton Galiffa<br />
John and Chara Haas<br />
Harry E. and Anne E. Hassan<br />
Francis A. Hayman, Jr.<br />
Augusta Leininger<br />
Richard and Deborah Mauro<br />
Lisa Moroz<br />
Witold Rybczynski<br />
Diane G. Steinbrink<br />
Joan Vail Thorne<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David J. Vilcek<br />
Donald and Julie Wademan<br />
RHODE ISLAND<br />
James Michael Abbott<br />
Phyllis Dutwin<br />
Felicia Fund, Inc.<br />
Richard Andrew Nelson and James C.<br />
Michael<br />
SOUTH CAROLINA<br />
Mrs. Kathryn Hedgepath<br />
Peter Herman and Jerri Chaplin<br />
TENNESSEE<br />
Karen and Bryan Foreman<br />
TEXAS<br />
Anonymous<br />
Kay Cattarulla<br />
Colin Kennedy<br />
Peter Flagg Maxson and John C. R.<br />
Taylor III<br />
Katherine T. Otte<br />
Susan and C. J. Peters<br />
Vsevolod L. Popov and Natalia N.<br />
Shimanskaya<br />
Merrily Sartain<br />
Willard Spiegelman<br />
VERMONT<br />
Anonymous<br />
Ellen and Roy Berkeley<br />
Peter Kurth<br />
Nancy Mitchell<br />
Marguerite T. Myers<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Thompson<br />
VIRGINIA<br />
Sarah Baldwin<br />
Sally and John Burns<br />
Barbara M. Collins<br />
Pamela Constable<br />
Ms. Brenda S. O’Neil<br />
Jane Chewning Prugh<br />
Mary S. Schriber<br />
Sandra Stencel<br />
Philip C. Wehle, Jr.<br />
Terence and Laurie Wehle<br />
Richard Guy Wilson<br />
Viola H. Winner<br />
WASHINGTON<br />
Andrew Bates<br />
Richard Lee Francis<br />
Michael and Alison Harris<br />
WEST VIRGINIA<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Henry W. Overbeck<br />
WISCONSIN<br />
Barbara Kernan<br />
UNKNOWN STATE<br />
Elizabeth Manheim<br />
AUSTRALIA<br />
Dawn McCracken<br />
Frank Moorhouse<br />
Royall Tyler<br />
ENGLAND<br />
David Bainbridge<br />
Julia Blackburn<br />
Hermione Lee<br />
Marion Mako<br />
Miriam Margolyes<br />
Lucasta Miller<br />
George Ramsden<br />
<strong>The</strong> Right Hon. and Mrs. James E.<br />
Ramsden<br />
Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill /<br />
Woodstock Designs<br />
Amanda Mackenzie Stuart<br />
Christopher Tugendhat<br />
Martin Wood<br />
FRANCE<br />
Judy and Bernard J. Boullet<br />
FOXHOLLOW ALUMNAE<br />
Alyce Micolino Almy (‘57)<br />
Dorothy M. Carpenter (‘68)<br />
Mary Wilde Carswell (‘44)<br />
Manon-Lu Christ (‘46)<br />
Christine Maciver Clyde (‘57)<br />
Barbara Murray Collins (‘52)<br />
Bonnie Dalzell Cooper (‘56)<br />
Elizabeth Baptiste Cooper (‘62)<br />
Celestine Goldsmith Cronin<br />
Jone Aboitiz Daher (‘74)<br />
Cynthia Hoyt Dibbins (‘54)<br />
Alaric Bray Doolittle (‘55)<br />
Joan Wheeler du Pont (‘54)<br />
Helene Rousseau Epifano (‘71)<br />
Elizabeth Felton (‘47)<br />
Dodi Myers Fordham (‘69)<br />
Sarah Mein Fuller (‘66)<br />
Gwyneth DePuy Hunting (‘50)<br />
Christine Hagen Hutchings (‘52)<br />
Mary F. Judge (‘74)<br />
Anne Clark Koester (‘63)<br />
Lois Keating Learned (‘50)<br />
Augusta Ulmer Leininger (‘53)<br />
Anne R. Litchfield (‘65)<br />
May Kieckhefer Lockwood (‘43)<br />
Nancy Kretzer Mitchell (‘57)<br />
Marjorie Pile <strong>Mount</strong>ain (‘68)<br />
Susan Tenney Noble (‘62)<br />
Sheila Barlow O’Brien (‘48)<br />
Coral Bartholomew O’Hara (‘46)<br />
Mary Hart Parker (‘49)<br />
Frances Marburg Peck (‘44)<br />
Bobbi Pope Phillips (‘62)<br />
Catha Grace Rambusch (‘54)<br />
Barbara Allen Robinson (‘46)<br />
Lowerre Harding Simsarian (‘47)<br />
Martha Perry Snyder (‘45)<br />
Lucille Harvey Taff (‘55)<br />
Annette Thayer West (‘64)<br />
Eleanor P. West (‘65)<br />
Susan Welch Williams (‘58)<br />
THE BOSTON COMMITTEE<br />
Mrs. Francis de Marneffe, Chairman<br />
Mrs. Charles D. Atkinson IV<br />
Mrs. Thomas Bracken<br />
Mrs. Lewis P. Cabot<br />
Mrs. William Cottingham<br />
Mrs. Louis P. Crosier<br />
Mrs. Robert W. Doran<br />
Mrs. William J. Ducas<br />
Mrs. William R. Engstrom<br />
Mrs. Jeffrey Garner<br />
Mrs. Shelagh Hadley<br />
Mrs. Martin Hale<br />
Mrs. John Hsia<br />
Mrs. Edward C. Johnson, 3d<br />
Ms. Sarah B. Jolliffe<br />
Mrs. Gordon Kingsley<br />
Mrs. Nicholas W. Lazares<br />
Mrs. Robert Linderman<br />
Mrs. Eli Manchester<br />
Ms. Mollie Miller<br />
Mrs. Robert I. Owens<br />
Ms. Isabel C. Perkins<br />
Mrs. Hollis W. Plimpton, Jr.<br />
Mrs. Matthias Plum, Jr.<br />
Mrs. Nicholas Rhinelander<br />
Mrs. Mark Rickabaugh<br />
Mrs. Jane Roy<br />
Mrs. Garret Schenck<br />
Mrs. Lionel Spiro<br />
Dr. Katherine Martien Sullivan<br />
Mrs. John Sullivan<br />
Ms. Kate Wharton<br />
IN HONOR OF ANN FITZPATRICK<br />
BROWN (GARDEN ENDOWMENT/<br />
PET CEMETERY)<br />
Amy Aspland<br />
Debra Blair<br />
Liz Cook<br />
Nancy Crystal<br />
Jennifer Danner<br />
Linda Elkman<br />
Jane Fortenberry<br />
Nan Hawk<br />
Anne Holm<br />
Gail Jacobs<br />
Knight Meem<br />
Vicki Moran<br />
Heena Pai<br />
Julie Perlin<br />
Jean Phifer<br />
Rosemary Ripley<br />
Wendy Sachs<br />
Linda Simpson<br />
Debra Tanger<br />
Genevieve Tom<br />
Sharon Vaino<br />
Nancy E. Weidner<br />
IN HONOR OF<br />
Barbara de Marneffe by Mr. and Mrs.<br />
Preston H. Haskell<br />
Jonas Dovydenas by Barbara S.<br />
Longfellow<br />
Mr. John Mashek, Jr. by Karen and<br />
Bryan Foreman<br />
Pauline Metcalf by Wendy W. Larsen<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Chips C. Page by the<br />
Robert H. and Monica M. Cole<br />
Foundation<br />
Shelley Swofford by Joanne Wisor<br />
IN MEMORY OF MISS AILEEN M.<br />
FARRELL<br />
Catha Grace Rambusch<br />
Lowerre H. Simsarian<br />
IN MEMORY OF SCOTT<br />
MARSHALL<br />
Stephanie W. Copeland<br />
Bryce R. Hill<br />
Myron and Katharine Jaffe<br />
Daniel S. Marshall<br />
Eleanor P. West<br />
<strong>The</strong> Edith Wharton Society<br />
IN MEMORY OF LIDA C.<br />
SPOFFORD<br />
Stephanie W. Copeland<br />
Mrs. Judith S. Gibson<br />
Ms. Brenda S. O’Neill<br />
IN MEMORY OF<br />
Paul David Burgess, Jr. by Richard<br />
Andrew Nelson and James C.<br />
Michael<br />
MATCHING GIFT COMPANIES<br />
American Express Foundation<br />
Bank of America<br />
GE Fund<br />
J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation<br />
Newsweek<br />
Norfolk Southern Foundation<br />
Patrons Mutual Insurance Company of<br />
Connecticut<br />
Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts<br />
Program<br />
Philip Morris Companies<br />
CORPORATIONS &<br />
ORGANIZATIONS<br />
A. Schneller & Sons, Inc.<br />
Abbott’s Limousine & Livery<br />
Service, Inc.<br />
Anita De Carlo Inc.<br />
Anthony Knerr & Associates<br />
Anthony Lawrence - Belfair<br />
Ashley Manor<br />
Astrid, LTD<br />
<strong>The</strong> Bank of New York<br />
Benjamin Moore & Co.<br />
Berkshire Bank<br />
Berkshire Books<br />
Berkshire Home & Antiques<br />
Berkshire Life Insurance Co.<br />
Blantyre<br />
Blumenthal Fabrics<br />
Bridgewater Fine Arts<br />
Brunschwig & Fils<br />
Bunny Williams Inc.<br />
Charlotte Moss Interior Design<br />
Christopher Norman, Inc.<br />
Chuck Hettinger<br />
Claremont Fabrics<br />
Clarence House Fabrics Ltd.<br />
Classical Tents and Party Goods<br />
Devonfield Inn<br />
Doris Leslie Blau<br />
E. Wharton & Co.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Edith Wharton Society<br />
F. Schumacher & Co.<br />
Fatto a Mano<br />
Florian Papp Antiques<br />
Flowering Gardens<br />
Fredrick P. Victoria & Son - Chez Soi<br />
Geoffrey Bradfield, Inc.<br />
George N. Antiques<br />
Greg Gurfein Woodworking<br />
Greystone Gardens, Antique Clothiers<br />
Hinson & Company<br />
Homsi Leather<br />
Hyde Park Mouldings<br />
Interiors by Royale<br />
J. Pocker & Son Inc.<br />
John Rosselli International<br />
Jonas Upholstery<br />
Joseph Biunno Ltd.<br />
Julia Gray<br />
Landmark Volunteers, 2006<br />
participants in <strong>The</strong> Berkshires<br />
program<br />
Lee Bank<br />
Lee Jofa Inc.<br />
Legacy Banks Foundation<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lenox National Bank<br />
Libby Cameron, LLC<br />
Louis J. Solomon<br />
Malmaison Antiques<br />
Manhattan Shade & Glass<br />
Mark Giglio Decorative Painting<br />
McKinsey & Company<br />
Mecox Gardens<br />
Michael Trapp, Inc.<br />
Milillo Interiors<br />
Millennium Music DJ Service<br />
Minic<br />
Morgik Metal Designs<br />
Mrs. MacDougall, Inc.<br />
Museum of the City of New York<br />
Niermann Weeks<br />
Paterae Inc.<br />
Race <strong>Mount</strong>ain Tree Services, Inc.<br />
Robert Altman<br />
Save Blithewold, Inc.<br />
Scully and Scully<br />
Seven Hills Inn<br />
2006 Smith College Botanic Garden<br />
Internship Program<br />
Stark Carpet<br />
Steelcase, Inc.<br />
Stroheim & Roman<br />
Sue Connell<br />
Thomas Jayne Studio, Inc.<br />
Thomas Pizzillo & Son<br />
Treillage Ltd.<br />
Two World Arts<br />
Vaughan Designs Inc.<br />
Vincent J. Fernandez Oriental Rugs<br />
Wheatleigh<br />
Williams & Sons Country Store<br />
Yankee Septic<br />
FOUNDATIONS<br />
Anonymous<br />
<strong>The</strong> Amy Clampitt Fund<br />
<strong>The</strong> Aquidneck Foundation<br />
<strong>The</strong> Berkshire Taconic Community<br />
Foundation<br />
Cabot Family Charitable Trust<br />
Foxhollow School Foundation, Inc.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Gertrude B. Nielsen Charitable<br />
Fund<br />
Massachusetts Foundation for the<br />
Humanities<br />
Maurer Family Foundation<br />
Mimi and Peter Haas Fund<br />
National Trust for Historic<br />
Preservation’s Mildred Jones Keefe<br />
Preservation Services Fund for<br />
Massachusetts<br />
<strong>The</strong> Richard C. von Hess Foundation<br />
Robert H. and Monica M. Cole<br />
Foundation<br />
Roy A. Hunt Foundation<br />
<strong>The</strong> Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust<br />
Youth Foundation, Inc.<br />
We have tried to make this list as accurate<br />
as possible. If you are listed incorrectly or<br />
believe your name has been omitted, please<br />
notify <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong> at 413-637-1899 and<br />
accept our sincere apologies.<br />
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Two Rare Opportunities to Travel in Wharton’s Footsteps<br />
Edith Wharton’s Mediterranean<br />
June 22 - July 3, 2007<br />
Come aboard a luxurious 114-guest yacht to retrace Wharton’s<br />
1888 journey through this ancient sea. Using her journal of<br />
the trip as a guide, the cruise will visit Sicily and the Aegean,<br />
including stops in Palermo, Syracuse, Santorini, and Rhodes,<br />
among others. On the all-suite Corinthian II you will travel in<br />
elegant style worthy of the Gilded Age. Co-sponsored by the<br />
Alumnae Associations of Bryn Mawr College, Smith College,<br />
Vassar College, and Wellesley College.<br />
Edith Wharton Restoration<br />
PO Box 974<br />
Lenox MA 01240-0974<br />
Edith Wharton’s Morocco<br />
October 13 - 25, 2007<br />
Experience the Morocco that mesmerized Edith Wharton<br />
during her visit in 1917. <strong>The</strong> tour will draw on her<br />
groundbreaking travel book In Morocco and scores of personal<br />
letters from her trip to North Africa. Enjoy sumptuous lodging<br />
and fine dining as you visit private homes, gardens and palaces<br />
in the red and white cities of Rabat and Salé, medieval Fes,<br />
the Roman ruins of Volubilis, Marrakech and much more.<br />
Sponsored by <strong>The</strong> <strong>Mount</strong>.<br />
For information call 413-637-1899 or visit www.EdithWharton.org