Letter of Amélie Rives, 1918 May 23.

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Letter of Amélie Rives, 1918 May 23.

Letter written by Rives to Willie Wendt de Kerlor inviting him to dine with her and her husband, Pierre Troubetzkoy.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8073972

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Rives, Amélie 1863-1945

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Amélie Rives was born into an aristocratic Virginia family, and exhibited precocious writing talent. As a young writer, she published The Quick or the Dead?, which became a controversial bestseller; modernists derided the naive plot and theme, while traditional romanticists were scandalized by the sensual content. After a short marriage to Virginia lawyer John Armstrong Chanler ended, she met and married exiled Russian painter Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy and led a privileged life in America and E...

Kerlor, Willie Wendt de, 1883-

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Troubetzkoy, Pierre, 1864-1936

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