Caresse Crosby

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Caresse Crosby (born Mary Phelps Jacob; born April 20, 1891 – January 24, 1970) was the first recipient of a patent for the modern bra, an American artist, printer, and "literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris." Ernest Hemingway, Archibald MacLeish, Henry Miller, Ana's Nin, Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, and Robert Duncan founded the Black Sun Press, which was instrumental in publishing some of the early works of many writers who would later become well-known, including Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Ana's Nin, Edward Dawson, Richard Burton, and Robert Duncan. William Hearn Jacob and Mary (née Phelps) Jacob, both descended from American colonial families—her father from the Van Rensselaer family and her mother from William Phelps.

Mary (nicknamed Polly) married Richard R. Peabody, another blue-blood Bostonian whose family immigrated to New Hampshire in 1635.

They had two children, but Harry Crosby, seven years old at a picnic in 1920, while her husband was away at war.

They had sex within two weeks and their public affairs scandal sparked a proper Boston society.

Richard recovered from his war service in WWI, he went back to drinking; his new pastime was to watch buildings burn.

Polly was granted a divorce two years ago, and Harry and Polly were married.

Early life

She was born in New Rochelle, New York, on April 20, 1891, she was the daughter of Civil War General Walter Phelps' daughter, and she had two brothers, Leonard and Walter "Bud" Phelps Jacob. To distinguish her from her mother, she was branded "Polly" to distinguish her.

Polly's family was not wealthy, but her father was educated, as she put it, "to ride hounds, sail boats, and lead cotillions," and he died young. She was introduced to the King of England at a garden party in 1914. She was also photographed as a child by Charles Dana Gibson, in keeping with the American aristocratic style of the time.

"In a world where only good smells existed," she later said. "I wanted" in her privileged childhood, she said, "usually came to an end." She was a rather uninterested pupil. Polly "lived her life in hopes," author Geoffrey Wolff wrote for the most part.

Her family split its time between estates in Manhattan at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue in Watertown, Connecticut, and New Rochelle, New York, where she loved the benefits of an upper-class lifestyle. She attended formal balls, Ivy League school dances, and a formal horse riding academy. She took dancing lessons at Mr. Dodsworth's Dancing School, Miss Chapin's School in New York City, and then boarded at Rosemary Hall, a prep school in Wallingford, Connecticut, where she appeared in As You Like It to critical acclaim.

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She lived with her mother at their Watertown, Connecticut, home from 1908 to Richard Peabody, her father's daughter. Lenn was boarding at Westminster School, and Bud was a day pupil at Taft School. She danced in "one to three balls every night" on her first night and slept from four to noon every night. "I was called and gathered for the customary debutante luncheon at twelve a.m." 8 She graduated from Rosemary Hall prep school in 1910 at the age of 19.

Marriages and family life

Polly Jacob and Richard ("Dick") Peabody were married by his uncle, Endicott Peabody, in 1915, and whose family was one of the richest in America during the 19th century. A argument could be made that the Peabodies may have replaced the Cabots and Lodges as the region's most distinguished name by the early twentieth century.

Polly discovered Dick's temperament to be very different from her own. "Dick was not the most indulgent of parents, and like his father before him," she said, as they approached their son, "Dick did not discourage the gurgles and cries of infancy; when they did, he staggered, and often walked back unsteadily."

Dick was a well-educated but undirected man and a reluctant father, according to Polly. He was enlisted at the Mexican border and joined the Boston militia that was instrumental in blocking Pancho Villa's cross-border attacks less than a year ago. He enlisted in World War I less than a year since returning home. On August 12, 1917, Dick's second child, Poleen Wheatland ("Polly"), was born, but Dick was still in Officers Training Camp at Plattsburgh, New York, where he had been sent a Second Lieutenant in the Artillery. He was a captain in the 15th Field Artillery of the United States Army's 2nd Division, American Expeditionary Force, as Captain John Lockhart. Polly was largely cared for by his parents, but "My father-in-law was a stickler for polish, both in terms of manners and minerals." "Nun-like dresses and in bed or out wore starched cuffs as piping," her mother-in-law said. Her husband, on the other hand, was having fun as a bachelor.

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Dick returned home in early 1921 and was sent to Columbia, South Carolina. Polly and the children joined him shortly, but Dick discovers himself with nothing but a family's allowance after the war ended. ten He suffered from his war experience and recovered to heavy drinking. Polly found only three genuine interests at Harvard: to play, to drink, and to turn around at any time, so to pursue after fire engines and watch buildings burn. 79 Polly's life was rough during the war years, and when her husband returned home, her life was drastically different, too.

Polly Jacob Peabody's transformation came as a result of her introduction and eventual marriage to Harry Crosby, a wealthy scion of a socially wealthy Boston family and another veteran and survivor of the recent war. Harry attended private schools and before age 19 seemed to be on a smooth ride as a member of the upper middle class. I changed everything about his experience in World War II.

He served in the American Field Service Ambulance Corps alongside Archibald MacLeish and Ernest Hemingway, following the example of other sons of the New England elite. The ambulance he was driving was destroyed by artillery fire on November 22, 1917, but he recovered miraculously unhurt. In the explosion, Harry saved his life, but his best buddy, "Spud" Spaulding, was critically wounded, and his closest friend, "Spud" Spaulding, was critically wounded, but his son was able to recover. Harry's future was shaped by his childhood. He was stationed in Verdun's Second Battle. His regiment (the 29th Infantry Division, which was attached to the 120th French Division) was praised for vainness, and Crosby, 1919, was one of the youngest Americans to be honoured the Croix de Guerre. "Most people die of a creeping common sense and find out that it's too late that the only things one regrets are one's mistakes," Crosby wrote in his journal. He vowed to live life on his own terms.

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Harry met Polly on July 4, 1920, at a World War II reunion and while completing his diploma at Harvard. Richard Polly's husband was in a sanitarium after being drained of yet another alcoholic spell. Sensing Polly of 76, Harry's mother Henrietta Crosby, Henrietta Crosby's mother, had invited Polly and some of his relatives to a party that included dinner and a trip to Nantasket Beach. Polly was 28, married with two small children. Harry was 22, of marginal build, with a pale complexion, a small constitution, and a consuming gaze and a strong aura. Harry never met the girl on his left at dinner, thus ruining decorum. Harry fell in love with the buxom Mrs. Peabody, 18 in about two hours, according to some. In the Tunnel of Love at the amusement park, he confessed to his passion for her. Crosby begged her to see him alone, an unthinkable occurrence among a member of Boston's upper crust. "Harry was completely ruthless, but I was stunned to learn Harry was a tragic experience." "77": They spent the night together and had sex on July 20, and two days later Polly accompanied Harry to New York. He had arranged a trip to France to tour battle sites. They spent the night together at the Belmont Hotel in New York. "I knew myself to be a person for the first time in my life," Polly said of the night.

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Polly was seen by her social circle as someone who had perverted the trust placed in her as a chaperone as a senior woman who had abused a younger man. She was dishonest and uncooperative to the Crosbys. The rumors of blue-blood Boston debating Polly and Harry's scandalous courtship was the source of much of gossip.

Polly's husband Dick Dicken stayed home in the fall. His parents provided a small living allowance and Dick, Polly, and the two children and their parents were escorted to a three-story tenement house. Crosby died with his father in Boston, while Dick Dick continued his Harvard studies. 16 Harry Crosby transplanted crates of flowers from his mother's garden to Polly's apartment, bringing over toys for the children as Dick worked at the bank. They travelled to the shore together. 17 Dick decided to join the fire department and persuaded the fire chief to wire a fire alarm alarm bell to his house so he could get out at any time. Dick was eventually allowed to leave, but Dick retreated to drink again.

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Crosby went to Polly, and if Polly did not marry him in May 1921, she did not react to his ardor. 2 Polly's husband was in and out of sanitariums several times fighting alcoholism. Polly compelled Polly to alert her husband of their affair and to divorce him. She revealed her adultery to Dick in May and suggested a divorce, but she showed no resistance. Polly's mother insisted that she stop seeing Crosby for six months to avoid complete rejection by her peers, a feature she aspired to when she left Boston for New York. And among Boston Episcopalians, divorce was "unheard of." "88 Peabody's parents were outraged that she would request a divorce and look at her affair with Crosby." Despite his disapproving of Harry's irregular conduct, Dick's father, Stephen Crosby, visited Harry's father on January 4, 1922 to discuss the situation, but Harry's father did not talk to him; despite his disapproving of Harry's irregular conduct, he loved his son. Stephen Crosby attempted to discourage Harry from marrying Polly, and even bought him the Stutz he'd been waiting for, but Harry was unwilling to change his mind. Polly's former colleagues blasted her as an adulteress, leaving Polly stunned by the quick change in their attitude towards her. "He seemed to be more expression and mood than man," Polly wrote later, "yet he was the most vibrant personality I've ever seen."

She officially separated from Dick in June 1921 and then divorced her in December. Polly and Richard Peabody were legally divorced in February 1922. (Dick recovered from his alcoholism and published The Common Sense of Drinking (1933). He was the first to claim that there was no cure for alcoholism. His book became a best-selling book and had a major influence on Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson. (British) Crosby had been working at Shawmut National Bank for eight months. He resigned after six days of binge drinking spree. In May 1922, he moved to Paris to work in a position arranged for him by his family at Morgan, Harjes et Cie, the Morgan family's bank in Paris. Jessie Morgan, the niece of American capitalist J. P. Morgan, Jr., who was also Richard Peabody's and Harry Crosby's godfather, was also named.

Polly had previously visited England to visit her cousins, where Crosby visited her. They lived in Paris from May to July 1922. Polly returned to the United States in July. Crosby introduced Polly via transatlantic cable in September, and the next day, he bribed his way aboard the RMS Aquitania bound for New York.

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On September 9, 1922 Harry aboard the Aquitania in New York. Polly appeared at the customs barrier and they were married in the Municipal Building in New York City that afternoon. Two days later, they re-boarded the Aquitania and moved with her children to Paris, France. Harry's uncle J.P. Morgan's family bank in Paris continued his work at Morgan, Harjes & Co.

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When Polly learned straight after their arrival that Harry was flirting with a girl from Boston, she burst. 22 It was the first of many flirtations and affairs Polly would learn to live with. Polly introduced Harry to her friend Constance Crowninshield Coolidge in early 1923. She was the niece of Frank Crowninshield, editor of Vanity Fair, and she had been married to American diplomat Ray Atherton. Constance was unconcerned about what others thought about her. She loved everything that was risky and was addicted to gambling. She and Harry began a sexual relationship straight away.

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Polly couldn't cope with their affair any longer and left for London in 1923. Harry told Constance that he could not comply with Polly's request that he "loves her more than anyone in the world." "This is absolutely impossible." However, Crosby would not leave Polly nor did Constance ask him to. 67 However, Constance told Harry that Constance would not see him any more after Constance got a letter from Polly, who admitted that Constance's affair with her husband had made her "very sad." Harry was devastated by her decision. "Your letter was by no means the worst thing I have ever received." ... i'm looking forward to the upcoming school year. Under no circumstances, nor as you say, will you ever marry me, I would not leave her. "214–215 "The three friends remained close, and Constance married Count Pierre de Jumilhac on October 1, 1924, but their marriage only lasted five years." Polly began to accept Harry's eccentric conduct in the first place, and she soon had her own courtiers. 6: She was secretly concerned about Harry's ferocious loyalty to her in her journals.

They soon discovered an open marriage, numerous affairs, and a slew of heroin and drinking. 66 Harry Persuaded Polly to officially change her first name at the end of 1924. They briefly considered Clytoris before deciding on Caresse. Harry says that her new name, "begin with a C," will go with Crosby, and that it will make a cross with mine." At the common "R," "the Crosby cross," the two names were in conflict at right angles. They later named their second whip Clytoris, revealing to Caresse's teenage daughter Poleen that they were named after a Greek goddess.

Harry had sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl he named "Nubile" who he encountered at Étretat in July 1925, with a "baby face and big breasts." 331 in Morocco. On one of their trips to North Africa, Harry and Polly brought a 13-year-old dancing girl named Zora to bed with them. Harry had sex with a child under undetermined age, his first homosexuality.

Harry and Caresse met Russian painter Polia Chentoff in 1927, in the middle of his affair with Constance. Harry asked her to draw Caresse's portrait, and he immediately fell in love with Polia. Polia was "very beautiful and terribly serious about art" when she was thirteen to paint in November, Harry told his mother that she had fled away from home when she was thirteen to paint. Nina de Polignac, his cousin, was also in love with him.

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Harry and Josephine Rotch were in Venice in June 1928 while looking for her wedding trousseau, and they began an affair. Caresse minimized Harry's relationship with Josephine in her autobiography, omitting several references to her. Harry told Polly that Constance and Josephine wanted to marry him.

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The Crosbys ruled the life of wealthy expatriates from their arrival in 1922. They were attracted to Montparnasse's bohemian lifestyle. They settled in an apartment on Île St-Louis's Quai d'Orléans, and Polly donned her red bathing suit and rowed Harry down the river to the Place de la Concorde, where he walked the last few blocks to the bank. Harry wore his black business suit, formal hat, and clutched his umbrella and briefcase. Caresse stayed home alone, and the sound of her generously endowed chest drew whistles, screams, and ruckus from workmen. She later stated that the workout was good for her breasts and that she loved the attention.

Harry loved betting on horse races. They had never tried opium in Africa before, and when Constance knocked on their door late one evening, they jumped at her invitation to join her at Drosso's apartment. Caresse jumped straight into bed and sewed on a dress with no fabric under. A few regulars and occasional visitors were refused admission to Drosso's. The Drosso's apartment had been converted to an opium den, subdivided into narrow rooms packed with low couches and decorations appropriate for an Arabic setting. Harry burst in at Drosso's regularly and often stayed away from home for days at a time after the introduction.

Harry grew dissatisfied with the rigid atmosphere of 1920s America within a year. They were among the 15,000-40,000 Americans living in Paris. Harry wanted to do something with Polly's children as possible, and after the first year, her son Billy was sent off to Cheam School in Hampshire, England.

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The couple both wished little about the future, invested their money in a reckless manner, and never attempted to live on a budget. It was in part because they had promised a joint suicide pact, which they planned on October 31, 1942, when the earth would be nearest to the sun in many decades, to jump out of an airplane together. Cremation and dispersal by another plane was due to follow this.

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Harry bought his silk button-hole gardenia from an exclusive tailor on rue de la Paix, who was spending leisurely. Caresse bought hats from Jean Patou and dresses from Tolstoy's, an exclusive fashion store. On certain occasions, she wore a gold cloth evening suit with a short skirt, made by Vionnet, one of Paris' most coveted fashion houses. Although fashionable by Paris standards, it was ineffective to the cousins and aunts who lived in Faubourg, Paris's upscale neighborhood.

Polly and Harry bought their first race horse in June 1924 and then two more in April 1925. They rented a fashionable apartment in Rue de Lille, France, for 2,200 dollar gold pieces (about $34,786 today) and obtained a 20-year lease on a mill outside of Paris. It's called "Le Moulin du Soleil" ("The Mill of the Sun" by the people).

They made friends with the 32 students who attended the Académie des Beaux-Arts, which is at the end of their street, in their first year. The students welcomed Harry and Polly to their annual Quartre Arts Ball, an invitation that the couple accepted with a warm embrace. Harry made a necklace of four dead pigeons, wore a red loincloth, and carried a bag of snakes with him. Caresse wore a sheer chemise to her waist, a huge turquoise wig on her head, and nothing else. Both dyed their skin with red ochre. The students applauded Caresse's stardom, and she was carried around by ten students.

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They returned to North Africa in January 1925, where they first smoked opium, a habit to which they will return again and again. They travelled to Lebanon in 1928 to visit the Temple of Baalbek.

Harry inherited over 8,000 mostly rare books from his uncle Walter Berry's vast collection of over 8,000, which he admired but also reduced by giving away hundreds of volumes. He was known to put rare first editions in the bookstalls that lined the Seine. Caresse took on lovers of her own, including Ortiz Manolo, Lord Lymington, Jacques Porel, Cord Meier, and Cord Meier, the nephew of the duke de Doudeauville, President of the Jockey Club. Harry, on the other hand, operated a double standard, arguing inexorably with Caresse about her private life. 66 Sometimes they strayed together, as when they met two other couples and plowed to Boulogne, drew the cars into a circle with their headlights on and re-inscribed the drivers.

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Harry met Henri Cartier-Bresson in Le Bourget, where Cartier-Bresson's air squadron commandant had placed him under house arrest for hunting without a licence in 1929. Crosby advised Cartier-Bresson to be released for a few days. The men discovered an obsession with photography and spent their time together photographing and printing photos at Le Moulin du Soleil's home. "Looked like a young infant, shy and frail, and mild as whey," Cartier-Bresson later said. Cartier-Bresson's friend from Texas encouraged him to explore photography more seriously. Cartier-Bresson and her partner Caresse, celebrating open sexuality, developed a close personal relationship with her. The end of Harry's affair with Caresse in 1931, two years after his suicide, left Cartier-Bresson broken, and the colonial Africa escaped to Ivory Coast.

Later life

In his will, Harry left Caresse US$100,000 (roughly $1,578,000 today), as well as generous bequests to Josephine, Constance, and others. Stephen and Henrietta's will be declared invalid, but they reassured Caresse that they would receive US$2000 (approximately $24,000 today) a year before she was paid by Walter Berry's estate. Poleen was taken from Chamonix by Caresse's colleague Bill Sykes, and she and her family spent some time at the Mill, perhaps because of her visit to Europe. Poleen stayed with her mother for a few months before refusing to return to school. Billy returned to Choam and, in 1931, attended Lenox School in the United States.

After her husband's death, Crosby kept Mary, her birth name, and was dubbed "Mary Caresse Crosby" after his husband's death. She pursued aspirations as an actress since her 20s, and she appeared in two short experimental films directed by Emlen Etting, Poem 8 (1932) and Oramunde (1933). After Harry's death, the Black Sun Press widened its focus. Although it produced few works after 1952, it did print James Joyce's Collected Poems in 1963. It didn't officially close until Caresse's death in 1970.

Caresse devoting herself to the Black Sun Press following Harry Crosby's suicide. She also founded, with Jacques Porel, a paperback book company that did not yet exist but Crosby Continental Editions was created. Ernest Hemingway, a long-time acquaintance, gave her the option of The Torrents of Spring (1926) or The Sun Also Rises (1926) as her first book for her new venture. Caresse regretfully chose the former, which was less well liked than the other volume. She followed Hemingway's books in 1932, including William Faulkner's Sanctuary, Kay Boyle's Year Before Last, Dorothy Parker's Lament for the Living, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Night-Flight, as well as works by Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Alain Fournier, C. G. Jung, and Charles-Louis Philippe. 392 After six months of sales, the books had only grossed around US$1200. Since paperbacks were not widely distributed, Crosby was unable to convince publishers that her book would be published in the United States, she was unable to persuade publishers that her books would be widely distributed, and publishers were not optimistic that readers would purchase them. In 1933, she closed the newspaper.

Despite the threat of miscegenation, she began a love affair with actor Canada Lee in 1934. They dined lunch at Harlem's then-new restaurant Franks, where they could keep their private friendship intact. Lee was a Broadway actor and appeared in the national run of the play Native Son in the 1940s. However, the only restaurant in Washington, D.C., where they could dine together was the Bugazi, an African restaurant. Lee didn't ask for money even though his nightclub The Chicken Coop had a rough time. Caresse was offended and had no contact with Walter over the next ten years as Crosby's brother Walter expressed surprise at their marriage during a dinner in the early 1940s. Crosby and Lee's close friendship well into the mid-1940s and contributed to her global view. The Cage, Crosby's never-published play, was based on their personal friendship.

Caresse carried her daughter Polly to Hollywood, where she aspired to be an actor, Selbert "Bert" Saffold Young (1910-1971), an unemployed teenage actress and former footballer 18 years her junior, who was aspired to be a professional footballer. 313 When she saw him staring at him in a restaurant, he rushed over and invited her to dance. She described him as "handsome as Hermes" and "as a scheming as Mars." Bert was "untamed" and "fully ruled by intuition," according to Constance Crowninshield Coolidge.

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Caresse was convinced he wanted to own a farm without having a job, and the pair decided to search for land on the East Coast. They travelled into Virginia in search of an old plantation house smothered in roses. On a 486-acre (197 ha) farm in Bowling Green, Virginia, she mistakenly discovered Hampton Manor, a Hereford cattle farm with a dilapidated brick mansion. John Hampton DeJarnette had derived it from Thomas Jefferson's plans in 1838. John Hampton was the brother of Virginia Legislator Daniel Coleman DeJarnette, Sr., who was killed in the shooting.

On September 30, 1936, she wrote to the New York Trust Company, asking that they deliver 433 shares of stock that she used to purchase the house, which was in need of repair. Polly and Bert were married in Virginia on March 24, 1937. 334 He yelled for money, he crashed her car, he ran up the telephone bill, and he used all her credit at the local liquor store, and she was never asking for money. Bert finished one bout of booze on a solo trip to Florida and did not return to Virginia until next year.

Caresse had met Henry Miller in 1933 in Paris. When he returned to the United States in 1940, he admitted to Caresse that he had no success in getting his work published. Tropic of Cancer, Miller's autobiographical book, was outlawed in the United States as pornographic, and no other work has been published. She invited him to live in her spacious New York apartment on East 54th Street, where she seldom lived, but she did not have money to give him.

Miller was desperate for cash on commission for an Oklahoma oil baron at a dollar per page, but he could do no more after two hundred-page reports that earned him US$200. Now he wants to tour the United States by bike and write about it. He owed him a US$750 advance and asked the oil man's agent to advance him another $200. He was planning to leave on the trip but didn't have the time promised. He was thinking of Caresse at the time. She was already pitching in articles and pieces of writing to Ana's Nin's New York City smut club for fun, not money. "Harvey Breit, Robert Duncan, George Barker, Caresse Crosby, all of us concentrating our talents in a tour de force," Nin wrote, "the old man had such a abundance of perverse felicities that he begged for more." Caresse was simple and smart, wrote quickly and quickly, with no effort.

Henry's plan was accepted by Caresse. She began right in, writing at the top of the title bestowed to her by Henry Miller, Opus Pistorum (later republished as Henry's Under the Roofs of Paris). Henry left for his auto tour of America. Caresse had an out 200 pages to go, but the collector's agent wanted more. According to his New York agent, Caresse's smut was just what the oil man wanted. No literary aspirations, just plain sex. Nin wrote, "Less poetry," the voice over the phone said in her journal. "Be specific." The agent had discovered Henry Miller, the basic pornographic agent in Caresse.

Caresse spent some of her time while her partner, Bert Young, crashed into a binge of alcohol every night, churning out another 200 pages of pornography. Nin wrote in her diary that anyone who wrote pornography with her wrote from an identity that was different from his or her name but also the same as his or her desire. Caresse grew up in the New York suburbs of New York, despite the social constraints imposed on her upper-class family. With Harry Crosby, she had a doomed and troublesome romantic relationship. During the 1920s, she was part of a decade or two of intellectual lovers in Paris.

Although Bert was often inebriated and rarely home, Caresse did not have a vacancy for company. During which he wrote a substantial amount of his autobiography, she extended her invitation to Salvador Dali and his wife, who had been long-time guests. Dale and his wife Galacida attended a masquerade party in New York that was hosted by Crosby in 1934. Max Ernst, Buckminster Fuller, Stuart Kaiser, Henry Miller, Ana's Nin, Ezra Pound, and other Paris acquaintances were among her visitors. 313 She had a brief flirtation with Fuller at the time. Caresse moved from Washington, D.C., full-time, where she owned a house on Twentieth Street, near Dupont Circle, between 1937 and 1950.

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She wrote to Henry Miller in December, 1943, asking if he had heard about her gallery and wondered if he would be interested in exhibiting some of her works there. 136 She spent some time with him at his Big Sur home in 1944 and then opened her first one-man art exhibit at her gallery.

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Polly, a girl who had been living in London for the entire time, wanted to visit her daughter Polly, who had left Europe in 1936. After the war, civilian travel was still restricted, and Caresse reached out to her friend Archibald Macleish, now Assistant Secretary of State, who assisted her in making travel arrangements and obtaining a visa. She traveled aboard a military Overseas Airways Corporation flying boat, the sole civilian passenger, hand-carrying her Elsa Schiaparelli hat box with Pietro Lazzari's drawings of horses and Romare Bearden's Passion of Christ watercolor series.

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After the war, she learned that Nazi troops had base in her house "Le Moulin du Soleil" (the French Mill). Caresse was furious when she learned that German troops had painted over a wall that had doubled as her guest book. They also painted over Eva Braun's signature when she visited Harry and Caresse, along with an Austrian big game hunter she was dating, rather than painting over the signature of Spanish painter Salvador Dal's (he intertwined his name with that of a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer), D. H. Lawrence (who drew a phoenix).

Caresse became politically active once more and founded Women Against War and Citizens of the World, which embraced the idea of a "global community" that other activists, including Buckminster Fuller, welcomed. Caresse continued her attempts to establish a world citizen's center in Delphi, Greece, where she purchased a small house overlooking the Grove of Apollo in 1942. She tried to visit her home in October 1952, but she was confronted by armed guards at Corfu as she got off the ferry from Brindisi. The police in Corfu Palace Hotel placed her under house arrest, and after three days they told her she was not welcome in Greece and told her she had to leave, they told her she was not welcome in Greece. The American consul told her that the Greek government was still "considered risk to Greece's economy and politics. "185": Fuller's plan fell short, she wanted to create the "World Man Center" in Cyprus, which would include a geodesic dome designed by Fuller. This attempt, as well as others, came to a halt, and she continued to look for a center for her world citizen project.

Caresse wrote and published The Passionate Years in 1953. She wrote it mainly based on her personal experience rather than a particular set of sources. It contained "many amusing and intense anecdotes, but no information about his behavior [Harry] was revealed."

Billy Peabody, Caresse's uncle, was in charge of the Paris office for American Overseas Airlines from 1954 to 1955. On rue du Bac, he and his wife Josette cooked with a fireplace and a grill. Billy died in his sleep of carbon monoxide poisoning, while Josette was discovered unconscious and revived on January 25, 1955. Caresse died in Paris for his funeral, 174 between appearances at colleges where she talked about her life and the Black Sun Press.

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