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I. Girlhood and "Spotswood," 1906-1937. Birth, families and servants, schools, Beaver Camp, and L'Ermitage ; Visit to Kippenross ; Flights with Bob ; Coming out ; The Browns' camp ; Building "Spotswood" -- II. Music and religion, 1939-1949. Late start in music ; Romano Romani, Rosa Ponselle, Rosalie Miller ; First recitals and critiques ; Grace Christie ; Ral Parr concerts ; Southern tour and Wahl Quartet tour, 1949 ; Second concert at "Laural" ; Our wedding ; Priscilla at forty-three ; Her religion, her expansion of the Lord's prayer -- III. Vita Nuova, 1950. Jamaica and Boston ; First visit to Hawaii and Japan ; Tokyo entertainment, MacArthur lunch ; San Francisco ; Portland, Spotswood, summer at Bungalow -- IV. First European journey, 1951. London and Oxford ; Dinner at Christ church ; Visit to Stockholm, Oxford Encaenia ; Castiglioncelo ; My illness, Priscilla rushes home ; Late summer at Asticou -- V. Pattern of life, Sicily and good hope, 1952-1955. Naval history ; Social life in Boston and at Newport ; Cruise with the Pineaus ; Rome, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Paris, and London ; Asticou ; Christmas in Boston ; Williamsburg concert ; Move into Good Hope ; First hurricane ; Ticonderoga trip ; St. Botolph Club concert ; First New Year's party at 44 Brimmer -- VI. Portugal, Germany, and England, 1955. First trip for Radio Free Europe ; Kiel and Admiral Godt ; London, opera and 4 July dinner ; Waverley party ; Moores, Mountbattens, and Creasys ; Back at Good Hope, Montague dinner ; Concert at the Edward Tafts' -- VII. Canada, Portugal, Spain, invasion beaches, 1956. Kingston visit ; Send-off on Colombo ; Gibraltar, Granada ; Seville in the Feria ; Lisbon for Raret ; Madrid, the lodges' dinner ; Marseilles, trip in Vigilant ; Drive to Paris, to Caen and along Normandy beaches, trip in Lansquenet ; Paris and London ; South coast and Rimpton Manor ; Visits to Sir Charles Little, the Liddell Harts, and the Roskills, Admirals Creasy and Cunningham ; Summer at Good Hope ; Priscilla's "solo cruise" -- VIII. Lisbon, Scotland, and northern Italy, 1957-1959. Schedule for writing ; 44 Brimmer gassed ; Peabody centennial ; To Lisbon, drive to northern Portugal ; London, with Arthur Bryant on TV ; Strategy lectures and social life at Oxford ; Paul Jones trip to Galloway and Scarborough ; Summer at Good Hope ; Newport in October ; Abroad for last Raret meeting, drive to the Algarve ; Milan, and drive through northern Italy ; Call on Admiral Donitz ; Venice, Florence, and Bernard Berenson ; Summer at Good Hope ; Prescott centennial ; Jamaica trip and Newport ; Joint performance at Northeast Harbor High School, cruise down east ; "Annfield" visit -- IX. The Good Hope gardens, 1954-1969. Priscilla's memo of 1954 ; Joseph Hudak's description, 1974 ; Bedroom garden, lily garden, pool garden, Priscilla's difficulties ; Her 1962 diary ; Hurricane devastation ; The swimming pool ; George Casey's tribute to Priscilla as hostess -- X. Colombian visit, Oxford, northern Italy, 1960. First visit to Colombia ; Chandelier falls ; Farewell to Newport ; Oxford History American People ; Last cruise with Bill Stevens ; Abroad in Flandre ; Oxford dinner ; Paris plays, Milan visit, home in Leonardo da Vinci -- XI. History, hurricanes, mid-western tour, 1961-1962. To Washington for Lincoln, Princeton and Philadelphia ; Good Hope ; Long walks ; Lunch parties for Spruances and Justice Frankfurter ; Man o' war Cay ; One Boy's Boston ; Nobel Prize dinner ; Frost party ; Acadian trip ; The F.D.R. exhibit ; Last cruise in Emily Marshall ; Adlai cocktail party ; Hurricane Daisy ; Ripon lectures, visits to Oberholtzer and Sonderegger ; Reveillon party -- |
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XII. Balzan award, Columbus-Caribbean flight, 1963. News of award ; Ceremonies in Rome, Pope John XXIII ; Priscilla's account of Caribbean trip with Obregons ; President Kennedy assassinated ; Life at Good Hope -- XIII. Priscilla's letters and diary of European trip, 1964. Difficulties of entertaining without servants ; Abroad in Vulcania ; Diary for Lisbon, Palma, Madrid, Sotomayor party, Costa Brava, Chateau Mercues ; Paris again ; Rimpton Manor ; Dinner at Christ church ; The new swimming pool at Good Hope ; Medal of Freedom ; Start "Old Bruin" -- XIV. California, Perry in Mexico, 1965. L.B.J.'s inauguration ; Rubenstein dinner ; California: Nimitz, Spruance, and Huntington Library ; Kenneth Tripp ; Symphony ball ; Dinner for Lady Dean ; Knopf dinner ; Mexican trip in November ; Alden party at 44 -- XV. Don Alfonso trip to Spain, 1966. Paul Dudley White ; Gibraltar ; Don Alfonso and the Infanta Beatriz ; Xerez, Seville ; Home on Constitution ; Pulitzer anniversary ; Good Hope blessed -- XVI. Commodore Perry trip to Japan, 1966-1967. To Tokyo with Roger Pineau and Mrs. Bullard ; Hokkaido ; Chichi Jima ; Yokohama, Shimoda, the Kase party, and the pearls ; Ii day at Hikkone ; Hong Kong and J. R. Jones ; In S.S. Oronsay to Singapore, Penang, Bombay, Athens ; Christmas in London -- XVII. The Damocles sword appears, 1967-1968. First Bermuda visit ; Toy symphony ; Cowell College ; Lorry graduates and enters U.S. Navy ; Summer at Good Hope ; Biopsy reveals that Priscilla has cancer ; X-ray and cobalt treatments ; Virginia Hot Springs ; Cosmos Club talk ; At Good Hope ; 1908 reunion at Harvard and Bradley ball ; Start discovery book ; Visit of Obregons ; Lynchburg ; Party for Priscilla's doctors -- XVIII. Horticultural voyage, Bristol and Copenhagen, 1969. Launching of my life of Otis ; Second voyage around the world in Oronsay ; "Little Buttercup" ; Priscilla's letter on death of Peter ; Botanic gardens ; Dakar, Casablanca, London, Paris, Copenhagen, Oxford, Bristol ; Death of Brooks Beck ; The doctors' cruise ; We become citizens of Maine -- XIX. Studying the history of discovery, 1970. Bermuda, Ottawa, V.M.I. abroad on Colombo: Venice, Pesaro, Fermo, and Florence ; Normandy, Brittany, St. Malo, London ; Hatfield House and Dartmouth ; To Good Hope early ; Northern Voyages finished ; Garden day ; Social life in Boston -- XX. Year of pain and anxiety, 1971. C.S.C. dinner ; Santa Maria club ; February in Boston ; Wickenburg ; 44 Brimmer Streets burglarized ; Painful spring in Boston ; European interlude: Rome, Amsterdam ; Prince Bernhard ; Summer at Good Hope -- XXI. Magellan expedition, 1971-1972. Planning ; Priscilla's Garden Club talk ; Tahiti and Guam ; Manila and Indonesia ; Visit to Don Alfonso ; Madrid and Lisbon, voyage in Augustus to Buenos Aires ; Strait of Magellan ; Flight to Cape Horn ; Santiago de Chile and Bogota -- XXII. Fighting for her life, 1972. Painful winter ; April visit to Good Hope ; Visit to Annapolis ; 44 Brimmer breakfasts ; Her Magellan talk ; Her last summer and fall at Good Hope ; Chicago trip ; November at Good Hope ; Spruance celebration ; New Year's Eve dance at 44 Brimmer -- XXIII. "I know that my redeemer liveth," 1973. Letters to Kenneth Tripp and Judy Browne ; Trip to San Juan, P. R. "End of my tether" ; Death at last, 22 February 1973 -- Appendix I. Priscilla's autobiographical letter to Muriel (Spencer) MacGillivray ; II. Sample programs of Priscilla's recitals ; III. Priscilla's ancestry ; IV. Priscilla's account of her cancer. |
