Introduction
1. Rebecca West to EH, June 15, 1960.
2. As cited in the New York Times, February 19, 1997, p. B-7.
3. Times and Places by Emily Hahn (Crowell, 1970), p. 262.
4. Ibid., p. 7.
5. As quoted in Contemporary Authors, NRS Volume 27, p. 209.
Chapter 1
1. Hong Kong Holiday by Emily Hahn (Doubleday, 1946), p. 275.
2. Hahn family history by Isaac Hahn, unpublished, May 18, 1925, p. 1. (Cited hereafter as Isaac Hahn memoir.)
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p. 6.
5. Ibid., p. 7.
6. Ibid.
7. Times and Places, p. 1.
8. Ibid.
9. Author interview with EH, Ringshall End, Little Gaddesden, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, October 22, 1992. (Cited hereafter as EH Ringshall End interview.)
10. Isaac Hahn memoir, p. 8.
11. EH Ringshall End interview.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
Chapter 2
1. EH Ringshall End interview. PP. 47–48.
2. American Heritage, August–September 1982, pp. 47–48.
3. Author interview with Josephine (“Dauphine”) Arthur, from Tucson, Arizona, November 18, 1992. (Cited hereafter as Arthur interview.)
4. EH Ringshall End interview.
5. Times and Places, p. 3.
6. Ibid., pp. 32–33.
7. Ibid., p. 5.
8. EH Ringshall End interview.
9. Times and Places, p. 32.
10. Ibid., p. 28.
11. Kissing Cousins by Emily Hahn (Doubleday, 1958), p. 19.
Chapter 3
1. Ralph Crowley to EH, fall, 1919.
2. Dr. Miner Evans to EH, Dec. 7, 1919.
3. EH Ringshall End interview.
4. Kissing Cousins, p. 19.
5. Ibid.
6. EH Ringshall End interview.
7. Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894–1936 by Nellie Y. McKay (University of North Carolina Press, 1984), p. 180.
8. Cane by Jean Toomer (Boni and Liveright, 1923).
9. Ibid, p. ix.
10. EH Ringshall End interview.
11. Author interview with EH, New York City, January 3, 1997.
12. Ibid.
13. Times and Places, p. 20.
14. Ibid., p. 11.
15. Ibid., p. 14.
16. Kissing Cousins, p. 14.
17. Ibid., p. 22.
18. EH Ringshall End interview.
19. Ibid.
20. Times and Places, p. 38.
21. New Yorker, Aug. 20, 1947.
22. Arthur interview.
Chapter 4
1. Times and Places, p. 46.
2. EH to the author, Nov. 6, 1992.
3. “B.SC.” New Yorker, June 15, 1946, p. 22.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., p. 23.
6. EH to Dorothy Hahn, undated letter, 1925.
7. Times and Places, p. 63.
8. Ibid., p. 68.
9. Wisconsin Literary Magazine, June 1923.
10. Times and Places, p. 70.
11. Author interview with Dorothy Miller (nee Raper), from Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 16, 1992. (Cited hereafter as Miller interview.)
12. EH to Dorothy Hahn, undated letter, late 1925.
13. Arthur interview.
14. Ibid.
15. Author interview with EH, New York City, July 12, 1993.
16. Ibid.
17. Miller interview.
18. Ibid.
19. Times and Places, p. 73.
Chapter 5
1. Kissing Cousins, p. 74.
2. Author interview with EH, New York City, Dec. 14, 1992.
3. Times and Places, p. 73.
4. Isaac Hahn to EH, June 26, 1924.
5. Times and Places, p. 74.
6. Trip Journal kept by Dorothy Raper.
7. Ibid.
8. Times and Places, p. 81.
9. EH to her parents, July 4, 1924.
10. Times and Places, p. 79.
11. Albuquerque Morning Journal, July 10, 1924.
12. EH to her parents, July 24, 1924.
13. Times and Places, p. 82.
14. EH to the author, Feb. 27, 1995.
15. Arthur interview.
16. Kissing Cousins, p. 24.
17. Isaac Hahn to EH, June 8, 1926.
Chapter 6
1. Helen Hahn to EH, April 25, 1926.
2. Times and Places, p. 86.
3. Ibid., p. 90.
4. Author interview with EH, New York City, December 14, 1992.
5. Ibid.
6. Noel Stearn to EH, undated 1927 letter.
7. Dorothy Raper to EH, April 18, 1927.
8. Author interview with EH, New York City, December 14, 1992.
9. Times and Places, p. 93.
10. Ibid., p. 99.
11. Ibid., p. 101.
12. Santa Fe New Mexican, Saturday, Sept. 8, 1927.
13. Times and Places, p. 101.
14. EH to Hannah Hahn, Nov. 16, 1927.
15. EH to Hannah Hahn, Aug. 2, 1927.
16. Times and Places, p. 103.
17. Ibid., p. 107.
18. Ibid., p. 108.
Chapter 7
1. EH to Hannah Hahn, Feb. 17, 1928.
2. EH to Hannah Hahn, Jan. 31, 1928.
3. EH to Hannah Hahn, March 3, 1928.
4. New Yorker, Aug. 3, 1929, p. 15.
5. EH to Rose and Mitchell Dawson, May 17, 1928.
6. Author interview with EH, New York City, July 12, 1993.
7. The Brownings: A Victorian Idyll (Brentano, 1929).
8. New York Sunday World, June 17, 1928.
9. EH to Hannah Hahn, June 17, 1928.
10. EH to Hannah Hahn, July 1, 1928.
11. Author interview with EH, New York City, May 16, 1995.
12. EH letter to the author, Oct. 4, 1995. Carl Van Doren worked for a time as literary editor of the Nation and then Century Magazine, before becoming editor of the Literary Guild from 1926 to 1934. Over the years he wrote many books of criticism as well as several literary biographies, one of which was a 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Benjamin Franklin.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld by Herbert Asbury (Garden City Publishing, 1933). Asbury dedicated this and several other books “To Helen.”
16. Chicago Daily Times, April (undated), 1930.
17. The book was published as Seductio Ad Absurdum: The Principles and Practices of Seduction—A Beginner’s Handbook by Brewer and Warren Inc. of New York in May 1930. Mickey dedicated the book to Herbert Asbury, “Who told me to write it.”
18. EH to the author, Oct. 24, 1995. Mexican-born Miguel Covarrubias arrived in New York in 1923 as a twentyone-year-old art student on a limited scholarship from the Mexican government. His bold use of color and his strong style caught the eyes of critics, and he quickly established a name for himself as one of New York’s brightest and most versatile young artists. Over the next four years Covarrubias designed three ballets, did scenery and costumes for Broadway plays, did hundreds of caricatures for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, for which he was a regular contributor, illustrated one book and published two of his own. One of them, Negro Drawings (1927), was a collection of drawings of black musicians, artists, blues singers, flappers, and preachers from Harlem. The book was widely praised, and Covarrubias was acknowledged for raising awareness of the culture of black Americans, much as French artist Gauguin had for that of the native people of the South Pacific islands. In his later life, Covarrubias turned to a serious study of ethnology. His extraordinary career was as brief as it was brilliant, for when he died in 1957 he was just fifty-three.
19. EH letter to the author, April 24, 1995.
20. EH to Hannah Hahn, Oct. 11, 1928.
21. EH to Hannah Hahn, Oct. 18, 1928.
22. EH to Hannah Hahn, Nov. 14, 1928.
23. EH to Hannah Hahn, Dec. 1, 1928.
24. EH to Hannah Hahn, Dec. 2, 1928.
25. Rebecca West to EH, Jan. 3, 1959. Fortunately, Emily Hahn did not dispose of all of Rebecca’s letters, and they are available to literary scholars as part of the Hahn papers at the Lilly Library, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana.
26. EH to Hannah Hahn, Dec. 28, 1928.
Chapter 8
1. EH to Isaac Hahn, Feb. 12, 1929.
2. EH to Hannah Hahn, April 24, 1929.
3. EH Ringshall End interview.
4. Fortune, Aug. 1934, p. 92. The text of “The first successful New Yorker advertisement” was reproduced in an anonymous eighteen-page article. That article, the first to probe the secrets of The New Yorker’s astounding success, was full of revealing inside information about the F-R Publishing Corporation, the magazine’s parent company. In reality, the article’s author was former New Yorker managing editor Ralph Ingersoll, who became the editor of Fortune after being fired by Harold Ross. Ingersoll had detailed firsthand knowledge of The New Yorker’s corporate structure, as well as its personalities. (Cited hereafter as Fortune article.)
5. The Years with Ross by James Thurber (Little Brown & Co., 1957), p. 20.
6. Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker by Thomas Kunkel (Random House, 1995), p. 94.
7. Author interview with EH, New York City, May 16, 1995.
8. The Last Days of The New Yorker by Gigi Mahon (McGraw-Hill, 1988), p. 31.
9. Fortune article, p. 73.
10. “Lovely Lady,” New Yorker, May 25, 1929, pp. 79–80.
11. Author interview with EH, New York City, May 16, 1995.
12. “The Stranger,” New Yorker, Aug. 3, 1929, p. 15.
13. The Years with Ross, p. 144.
14. Genius in Disguise, p. 79.
15. Tales of a Wayward Inn by Frank Case (Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1938), p. 227.
16. Fortune article, p. 74.
17. Author interview with EH, New York City, November 16, 1993.
18. Ibid.
Chapter 9
1. EH to the author, March 14, 1995.
2. EH to Hannah Hahn, May 20, 1929.
3. Mitchell Dawson to EH, Nov. 15, 1929.
4. Times and Places, p. 113.
5. Ibid., p. 120.
6. Ibid., p. 123.
7. Author interview with Barbara Ker-Seymer, London, U.K., October 26, 1992.
8. Ashton began choreographing in 1926 with a revue called A Tragedy of Fashion. After a twenty-five-year career as a dancer and choreographer, he was appointed associate director of the Royal Ballet in 1952, and headed the company from 1963 to 1970. Ashton was knighted in 1962. He died on August 18, 1988.
9. Author interview with EH, New York City, December 14, 1992.
10. EH to the author, Oct. 4, 1995.
11. Ker-Seymer interview.
12. EH to Hannah Hahn, Dec. 21, 1929.
13. EH to Hannah Hahn, Jan. 3, 1930.
14. EH to Hannah Hahn, Jan. 8, 1930.
15. Ibid.
16. “Life with Africa’s Little People” by Anne Eisner Putnam, National Geographic, Feb. 1960, p. 279.
17. EH to the author, July 3, 1995.
18. New Yorker, Oct. 22, 1966, p. 208.
19. Times and Places, p. 142.
20. Ibid., p. 138.
21. EH to Hannah Hahn, March 1, 1930.
22. Times and Places, p. 126.
23. EH to Hannah Hahn, Feb. 26, 1930.
24. Ibid.
25. EH to Hannah Hahn, March 28, 1930.
26. EH writing in her diary. Undated entry, early 1930, London, U.K.
27. Mitchell Dawson to Emily Hahn, March 1, 1930.
28. EH to Hannah Hahn, March 21, 1930.
29. Books, June 22, 1930, p. 14.
30. New York World, April 14, 1930, p. 14.
31. Chicago Daily News, April 2, 1930.
32. Author interview with EH, New York City, November 16, 1993.
33. EH to Hannah Hahn, March 21, 1930.
34. New Tork Sunday World, April 27, 1930.
35. Ibid.
36. Chicago Daily Times, undated clipping, May 1930.
37. Chicago Evening Post, May 7, 1930.
38. William Benét to EH, June (undated), 1930.
39. William Benét to EH, June 30, 1930.
40. William Benét to EH, July 12, 1930.
41. New Yorker, Sept. 27, 1930, p. 45.
42. EH to Hannah Hahn, Aug. 6, 1930.
43. EH to Hannah Hahn, Dec. 3, 1930.
44. Harper’s magazine, Oct. 1930, pp. 631–33.
45. EH to Hannah Hahn, Oct. 10, 1930.
46. EH to Hannah Hahn, Sept. 7, 1930.
47. EH to Hannah Hahn, Dec. 7, 1930.
48. EH to Hannah Hahn, Dec. 14, 1930.
49. EH to Hannah Hahn, Dec. 23, 1930.
50. EH to Hannah Hahn, Nov. 4, 1930. Mickey related the substance of the cables in this letter to her mother.
1. Times and Places, pp. 138–39.
2. Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North by Emily Hahn (Bobbs-Merrill, 1933), p. 15.
3. EH to Hannah Hahn, Dec. 30, 1930.
4. Congo Solo, p. 21.
5. EH to Hannah Hahn, Jan. 20, 1931.
6. Ibid.
7. Travels in the Congo by André Gide (Knopf, 1929).
8. EH to Hannah Hahn, Jan. 26, 1931.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Congo Solo, p. 39.
12. Ibid.
13. EH to Hannah Hahn, Feb. 1, 1931.
14. EH to the author, Aug. 2, 1995.
15. Congo Solo, p. 43.
16. Travels in the Congo, p. 14.
17. EH Ringshall End interview.
18. “Forest Trails in the Congo,” Travel, July 1933, pp. 12–15.
19. Congo Solo, p. 48.
Chapter 11
1. Times and Places, p. 148.
2. New Yorker, Feb. 28, 1931.
3. The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies, by Joan Mark (University of Nebraska, 1995), p. 53.
4. Our Camp on the Epulu in the Belgian Congo by Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam and Mary Farlow Linder Putnam, 1933 (privately published).
5. New Yorker, Oct. 22, 1966, p. 214.
6. EH letter to the author, Sept. 7, 1995.
7. Through the Congo Basin by Douglas Fraser (H. Jenkins Limited, London, 1927), p. 23.
8. Times and Places, p. 153.
9. EH letter to the author, Sept. 7, 1995.
10. Beginner’s Luck by Emily Hahn (Brewer, Warren and Putnam, 1931).
11. New York Times, Aug. 30, 1931, p. 6.
12. Saturday Review of Literature, Sept. 12, 1931, p. 8.
13. New Yorker, Oct. 22, 1966, pp. 222–23.
14. Times and Places, p. 160.
Chapter 12
1. New Yorker, April 15, 1967, p. 48.
2. EH letter to the author, Sept. 7, 1995.
3. Travels in the Congo, p. 93.
4. Times and Places, p. 169.
5. Congo Solo, p. 290.
6. Ibid., p. 171.
7. New Yorker, April 15, 1967, p. 52.
8. New Yorker, May 20, 1967, p. 156.
9. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (a.k.a. Karen Blixen) (Random House, 1938).
10. New Yorker, May 20, 1967, p. 157.
11. Ibid., p. 166.
12. Author interview with EH, New York City, Dec. 14, 1992.
Chapter 13
1. Africa to Me: Person to Person by Emily Hahn (Doubleday, 1964), p. 253.
2. Author interview with EH, New York City, October 3, 1995.
3. Barbara Ker-Seymer interview.
4. EH to the author, Oct. 24, 1995.
5. Author interview with EH, New York City, October 3, 1995.
6. New Republic, May 31, 1933, p. 65.
7. EH to the author, Oct. 24, 1995.
8. Ibid.
9. Books, July 30, 1933, p. 12.
10. New York Times, July 30, 1933, p. 4.
11. Forum, Nov. 1933.
12. Eddie Mayer to EH, May 13, 1933.
13. Eddie Mayer to EH, May 23, 1933.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. EH Ringshall End interview.
17. Kissing Cousins, p. 25.
18. Author interview with EH, New York City, October 3, 1995.
19. EH to author, Oct. 24, 1995.
20. Barbara Ker-Seymer interview.
21. Books, Sept. 30, 1934, p. 3.
22. Boston Transcript, Oct. 3, 1934, p. 3.
23. Author interview with EH, New York City, Dec. 14, 1992.
24. EH to the author, Oct. 24, 1995.
25. Eddie Mayer to EH, March 6, 1935.
26. Eddie and his wife Frances got back together; however, they split again before long and were divorced in 1937. Mayer died in New York in 1960 after a brief illness.
Chapter 14
1. Times and Places, p. 212.
2. Ibid., p. 213.
3. Shanghai by Harriet Sargeant (Jonathan Cape, 1991), p. 2.
4. Ibid., p. 9.
5. Ibid., p. 2.
6. China to Me by Emily Hahn (The Blakiston Company, 1944), p. 14.
7. EH to the author, Dec. 6, 1995.
8. Memoirs of an Aesthete by Harold Acton (Methuen and Co., 1948), p. 287.
9. “Cosmopolitan Shanghai, Key Seaport of China,” by W. Robert Moore, National Geographic, Sept. 1932, p. 326.
10. Shanghai: City for Sale by Ernest Hauser (Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1940), p. 265.
11. China to Me, p. 3.
12. EH to the author, Dec. 6, 1995.
13. The Sassoons by Stanley Jackson (Heinemann, 1968), p. xi.
14. EH Ringshall End interview.
15. Shanghai, p. 133.
16. EH to the author, March 4, 1996.
17. EH to Hannah Hahn, June 12, 1935.
18. Ibid.
19. China to Me, p. 18.
20. Ibid., p. 5.
Chapter 15
1. Steps of the Sun by Emily Hahn (Dial Press, 1940).
2. EH Ringshall End interview.
3. Xiaohong Shao letter to the author, Feb. 12, 1993.
4. “Mother-in-law’s Joke” by Emily Hahn, New Yorker, July 2, 1938, pp. 12–13.
5. China to Me, p. 9.
6. Times and Places, p. 222.
7. North-China Daily News, June 13, 1935, p. 13.
8. Times and Places, p. 225.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., p. 227.
11. EH to Helen Hahn, July 24, 1935.
12. China to Me, p. 8.
13. EH to Hannah Hahn, Feb. 11, 1936.
14. EH to Hannah Hahn, Aug. 26, 1936.
15. New York Times Book Review, May 23, 1942, p. 19.
16. “Revolt in Shanghai,” Harper’s, March 1936, p. 455.
17. EH to Helen Hahn, Aug. 16, 1935.
18. EH to Hannah Hahn, Oct. 1936.
19. China to Me, p. 65.
20. Ibid., p. 12.
21. Shanghai, p. 292.
22. EH to Hannah Hahn, Dec. 27, 1935.
23. “Gibbons and Interactions with Man in Domestic Settings” by Emily Hahn, Gibbon and Siamang, vol. 1, 1972, p. 250.
24. EH to Hannah Hahn, Sept. 10, 1937.
25. Eve and the Apes by Emily Hahn (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988), p. 5.
26. “Gibbons and Interactions,” p. 256.
27. Ibid., p. 103.
28. Ibid., p. 56.
29. Affair by Emily Hahn (Bobbs-Merrill, 1935).
30. New York Post, April 13, 1935, p. 7.
31. New York Times Book Review, April 14, 1935, p. 20.
32. EH to Helen Hahn, July 24, 1935.
33. EH to Helen Hahn, June 12, 1935.
34. Ibid.
35. EH Ringshall End interview.
36. EH to Helen Hahn, Sept. 16, 1935.
Chapter 16
1. EH to Hannah Hahn, Oct. 18, 1936.
2. Times and Places, pp. 261–62.
3. EH to Hannah Hahn, March 6, 1937.
4. EH to the author, Feb. 20, 1996.
5. EH to Hannah Hahn, April 15, 1936.
6. EH to Hannah Hahn, Oct. 18, 1936.
7. China to Me, p. 40.
8. Saturday Review of Literature, March 26, 1955, p. 13.
9. China to Me, p. 73.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., p. 80.
12. Ibid., p. 61.
13. Ibid., p. 51.
14. Times and Places, p. 257.
15. EH to Hannah Hahn, July 10, 1936.
16. EH to Hannah Hahn, Aug. 24, 1937.
17. EH to Helen Hahn, April 20, 1936.
18. Patrick Putnam to EH, Jan. 21, 1938.
19. EH to Helen Hahn, April 1, 1937.
20. Ibid.
21. Author interview with EH, New York City, November 16, 1993.
22. China to Me, p. 70.
Chapter 17
1. New Yorker, Aug. 23, 1947, p. 33.
2. EH to Hannah Hahn, April 11, 1938.
3. Carl Brandt to EH, Aug. 4, 1938.
4. Frances Gunther to Jawaharlal Nehru, April 14, 1938, as quoted in Inside: The Biography of John Gunther by Ken Cuthbertson (Bonus Books, 1992), p.172.
5. Author interview with EH, Dec. 15, 1986, from New York.
6. New York Times, April 7, 1938, p. 8.
7. EH to Hannah Hahn, June 3, 1939.
8. EH to Hannah Hahn, March 25, 1938.
9. EH to Carl Brandt, Aug. 20, 1938.
10. EH to Hannah Hahn, Aug. 25, 1938.
11. China to Me, p. 86.
12. Ibid., p. 88.
13. EH to Hannah Hahn, June 3, 1939.
14. Times and Places, p. 282.
15. Ibid., p. 279.
16. Ibid., p. 104.
17. Author interview with EH, New York City, November 16, 1993.
18. EH to Hannah Hahn, April 4, 1939.
19. China to Me, p. 104.
20. Times and Places, p. 231.
21. EH to the author, April 17, 1996.
22. Times and Places, p. 238.
Chapter 18
1. China to Me, p. 108.
2. Ibid., p. 106.
3. Ibid., p. 109.
4. EH letter to the author, May 21, 1996.
5. Sinmay Zau to EH, Dec. 23, 1939.
6. Ibid., p. 113.
7. Ibid.
8. The Soong Sisters by Emily Hahn (Doubleday, Doran, 1941), p. 297.
9. Chinese place names from the old Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration system have been changed on modern maps and in reference books. Under the modern Pinyin system, Szechuan Province is now called Sichuan; Chungking is known as Chongqing, and the Yangtze River is the Chang Jiang River.
10. China to Me, p. 118.
11. The Soong Sisters, p. 179.
12. China to Me, p. 122.
13. Ibid., p. 123.
14. The Soong Sisters, p. 300.
15. Author interview with Stephen Endicott, Toronto, Ontario, February 22, 1994.
16. New Yorker, March 15, 1941, p. 23.
17. China to Me, p. 151.
18. Ibid., pp. 151–52.
19. Author interview with Alf Bennett, London, March 6, 1994. (Cited hereafter as Bennett interview.)
20. China to Me, p. 153.
Chapter 19
1. EH to Hannah Hahn, Feb. 22, 1940.
2. China to Me, p. 154.
3. Ibid., p. 156.
4. Ibid., p. 161.
5. Ibid., p. 182.
6. Ibid., p. 191.
7. Ibid. p. 186.
8. Ibid., p. 194.
9. The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies, p. 95.
10. Steps of the Sun.
11. New York Times, Sept. 29, 1940, p. 21.
12. Boston Transcript, Sept. 28, 1940, p. 2.
13. China to Me, p. 197.
Chapter 20
1. China to Me, p. 201.
2. James Cummins to the author, July 9, 1996.
3. Ibid.
4. Clio Smeeton E-mail to the author, March 5, 1997.
5. High Endeavours: The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Miles and Beryl Smeeton by Miles Clark (Grafton Books, 1991), p. 7. (Cited hereafter as High Endeavours.)
6. Charles Boxer to the author, June 23, 1993.
7. Bennett interview.
8. China to Me, p. 153.
9. The Commentaries of Ruy Freyre de Andrade (1929); The Journal of M. H. Tromp, Anno 1639 (1930); and Jan Compagnie in Japan, 1600–1817 (1936).
10. The Times of London, May 23, 1996, p. 23.
11. High Endeavours, p. 189.
12. Patrick Putnam to EH, Oct. 24, 1940.
13. EH to Hannah Hahn, Nov. 27, 1940.
14. “Major Told Me” by Emily Hahn, New Yorker, April 1, 1944, p. 23.
15. China to Me, p. 202.
16. Ibid.
17. Hong Kong: The Colony That Never Was by Alan Birch (Guidebook Company, 1991), p. 62.
18. The Fall of Hong Kong by Tim Carew (Anthony Blond, 1960), p. 29.
19. Bennett interview.
20. Author interview with Bill Wiseman, from St. Albans, Herts., U.K., January 11, 1994. (Cited hereafter as Wiseman interview.)
21. EH to Hannah Hahn, Nov. 27, 1940.
Chapter 21
1. Author interview with EH, from New York, January 25, 1997.
2. Lt. Joseph L. LaCombe to EH, Dec. 23, 1940.
3. Wiseman interview.
4. China to Me, p. 215.
5. New York Times Book Review, April 20, 1941, p. 9.
6. Atlantic Monthly, June 1941.
7. New Yorker, April 9, 1941, p. 88.
8. Nation, April 19, 1941, p. 478.
9. EH to the author, July 10, 1996.
10. “Gibbon vs. Tenant” by Emily Hahn, New Yorker, July 19, 1941, p. 44.
11. Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical by Janice R. MacKinnon and Stephen R. MacKinnon (University of California Press, 1988), p. 230.
12. China to Me, p. 229.
13. Ursula managed to escape capture when Singapore fell to the Japanese in February 1942. She made her way to Ceylon and could have returned home with other British expatriates. Instead she chose to stay in the Far East, where she worked for the British military as a cryptographer. After the war, she returned to England, where in 1947 she married I. A. R. Peebles, the renowed English cricketer and Sunday Times journalist. Following Peebles’s death in 1980, Ursula remarried. Her third husband, Montague Churchill-Dawes, died in 1991. Ursula herself passed away on April 26, 1996, at age eighty-six.
14. High Endeavours, p. 191.
15. China to Me, p. 244.
16. Ibid., p. 246.
17. EH to Hannah Hahn, July 28, 1941.
18. The Fall of Hong Kong, p. 27.
19. Ibid.
20. “1940 Paradox in Hong Kong” by Frederick Simpich, National Geographic, April 1940, p. 531.
21. China to Me, p. 217.
22. Author interview with Stephen Endicott, Toronto, Ontario, February 22, 1994.
23. James Endicott to EH, Aug. 21, 1941.
24. Ibid., p. 250.
25. China to Me, p. 250.
Chapter 22
1. EH to Helen Hahn, Nov. 1, 1941.
2. China to Me, p. 251.
3. Ibid., p. 252.
4. Ibid.
5. Hong Kong Holiday, p. 16.
6. Sir Victor Sassoon to EH, autumn 1941.
7. China to Me, p. 257.
8. FDR’s letter to Hirohito is in Memoirs by Cordell Hull (Macmillan, 1948), Volume II, pp. 1094–95.
9. File 106/2400, Public Records Office, London, U.K., as cited in The Lasting Honour: The Fall of Hong Kong, 1941 by Oliver Lindsay (Hamish Hamilton, 1979), p. 25. (Cited hereafter as The Lasting Honour.)
10. China to Me, p. 257.
11. Ibid., p. 258.
12. Long Day’s Journey into War by Stanley Weintraub (Dutton, 1991), p. 165.
13. China to Me, p. 258.
14. Ibid., p. 260.
15. Prisoner of the Japs by Gwen Dew (Knopf, 1943), p. 52.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., pp. 54–55.
18. Ibid., p. 261.
19. Ibid., p. 262.
20. “1940 Paradox in Hong Kong.”
21. China to Me, p. 267.
22. Ibid., p. 271.
Chapter 23
1. China to Me, p. 273.
2. Ibid., p. 274.
3. Ibid.
4. China to Me, p. 278.
5. The Lasting Honour, p. 143.
6. “Horrors of Hong Kong” by Gwen Dew, American Mercury, November 1942, p. 560.
7. The Lasting Honour, p. 149.
8. Desperate Siege, by Ted Ferguson (Doubleday Canada, 1980), p. 215.
9. The Lasting Honour, p. 150.
10. The Times of London, December 24, 1941, p. 4.
11. Bill Wiseman to the author, October 7, 1996.
12. China to Me, p. 285.
13. Wiseman interview.
14. China to Me, p. 285.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid., pp. 287–88.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. “Horrors of Hong Kong,” p. 562.
20. “The Ballad of East and West” by Rudyard Kipling.
21. Wiseman to the author, October 7, 1996.
22. Wiseman interview.
23. China to Me, p. 294.
24. Author interview with EH, New York City, December 14, 1992.
25. “Horrors of Hong Kong,” p. 562.
26. Hong Kong: The Colony That Never Was, p. 66.
27. Ibid., p. 67.
28. China to Me, p. 296.
Chapter 24
1. China to Me, p. 306.
2. Ibid., p. 302.
3. Bill Wiseman memoir. (Cited hereafter as Wiseman memoir.)
4. Ibid.
5. China to Me, p. 312.
6. Ibid., p. 301.
7. Ibid., p. 323.
8. Joseph C. Green, special assistant to the Secretary of State, to Carl Brandt, January 28, 1942.
9. China to Me, p. 328.
10. Author interview with Takio Oda, from Tokyo, August 12, 1993.
11. “City in Prison” by Joseph Alsop, Saturday Evening Post, January 9, 1943, pp. 12–13.
12. Hong Kong Holiday, pp. 158–59.
13. China to Me, p. 334.
14. Wiseman interview.
15. “Horrors of Hong Kong,” p. 563.
16. Where Life and Death Hold Hands by William Allister (Stoddart, 1989), p. 51.
17. Wiseman interview.
18. “Stanley Military Internment Camp: Hong Kong” by Lancelot Foster, Contemporary Review, January 1946, p. 38.
19. Prisoner of the Japs, pp. 236–37.
20. “City in Prison,” p. 422.
Chapter 25
1. Mr. Pan by Emily Hahn (Doubleday, Doran, 1942).
2. Books, May 24, 1942, p. 4.
3. New York Times, May 24, 1942, p. 7.
4. EH to her family, August 8, 1942.
5. Times and Places, p. 294.
6. China to Me, p. 342.
7. Ibid., p. 345.
8. Hong Kong Holiday, p. 162.
9. China to Me, p. 350.
10. Author interview with Frances Zainoeddin, July 19, 1993, New York City.
11. Ibid.
12. Exchange Ship by Max Hill (Farrar and Rinehart, 1942), p. 19.
13. China to Me, p. 368.
14. Ibid., p. 386.
15. Ibid., p. 375.
16. Ibid., p. 397.
17. Ibid., p. 407.
18. Ibid., p. 423.
19. Ibid., p. 424.
Chapter 26
1. The Hongkong News, September 25, 1943.
2. Exchange Ship, pp. 19–20.
3. Hong Kong Holiday, p. 282.
4. Ibid., p. 292.
5. New York Times, December 2, 1943, P. 18:1.
6. New Yorker, December 11, 1943, p. 24.
7. Hong Kong Holiday, p. 305.
8. Author interview with EH, New York City, January 3, 1997.
9. Times and Places, p. 287.
10. Saturday Review of Literature, January 15, 1944.
11. Ibid., January 22, 1944.
12. Author interview with EH, New York City, January 3, 1997.
13. Bennett interview.
14. New York Times, March 15, 1945.
15. Ibid.
16. Author interview with Hilary Schlessiger, New York City, November 16, 1993.
17. Author interview with Greg Dawson, New York City, November 16, 1993.
18. China to Me, p. 199.
19. Ibid., p. 200.
20. Agnes Smedley, p. 291.
21. Nation, January 27, 1945, p. 108.
22. Commonweal, December 29, 1944, p. 281.
23. New York Times Book Review, December 10, 1944, p. 5.
24. Library Journal, November 15, 1944, p. 998.
25. EH to Sir Victor Sassoon, February 3, 1945.
26. Ibid.
27. Times and Places, p. 293.
28. Ibid., pp. 292–93.
29. Author interview with Charless Hahn, Winnetka, Ill., June 1, 1993.
Chapter 27
1. EH to Sir Victor Sassoon, February 3, 1945.
2. EH to Katharine White, January 31, 1945.
3. EH to Bernice Baumgarten, January 30, 1945.
4. Dick Smith to EH, April 2, 1945.
5. Lorraine Murray to EH, May 1, 1945.
6. David McDougall to EH, April 14, 1945.
7. Captain Robert B. Ekvall to EH, April 1945.
8. Sinmay Zau to EH, August 1, 1945.
9. EH to Sinmay Zau, January 26, 1946.
10. New York World Telegram, November 20, 1944.
11. EH to Randall Gould, May 1, 1945.
12. EH to Patrick Putnam’s cousin Lillian, June 29, 1945.
13. Charles Boxer to EH, September 11, 1945.
14. High Endeavours, p. 248.
15. Ibid.
16. Wiseman interview.
17. Author interview with EH, New York City, December 14, 1992.
18. “DC” (an otherwise unidentified British journalist) to EH, September 12, 1945.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Wiseman interview.
22. Charles Boxer to EH, September 15, 1945.
23. Charles Boxer to EH, September 27, 1945.
24. Clio Smeeton E-mail to the author, March 6, 1997.
25. New York Times, November 23, 1945, p. A-25.
Chapter 28
1. Life, December 3, 1945, p. 40.
2. Author interview with EH, New York City, December 14, 1992.
3. Ibid.
4. EH to Bill Wiseman, December 31, 1945.
5. EH to Bernice Baumgarten, February 6, 1946.
6. Hong Kong Holiday.
7. New York Times Book Review, June 23, 1946, p. 5.
8. Commonweal, August 16, 1946, p. 438.
9. EH to Gus Lobrano, February 11, 1946.
10. EH to Harold Ross, February 16, 1946.
11. Harold Ross to EH, February 19, 1946.
12. England to Me by Emily Hahn (Doubleday, 1949), p. 2.
13. Ibid., p. 23.
14. Ibid.
15. High Endeavours, p. 19.
16. New Yorker, April 15, 1950, p. 82.
17. England to Me, p. 23.
18. Kissing Cousins, p. 66.
19. Ibid., p. 21.
20. Ibid., pp. 32–33.
21. Ibid., p. 26.
22. Ibid., p. 35.
23. Barbara Ker-Seymer interview.
24. Ibid., p. 124.
25. Raffles of Singapore by Emily Hahn (Doubleday, 1946).
26. New Yorker, November 30, 1946, p. 143.
27. Herald Tribune, November 30, 1947, p. 19.
28. Saturday Review of Literature, December 6, 1947, p. 40.
29. Author interview with Carola Vecchio, New York City, December 15, 1992. (Cited hereafter as Carola Vecchio interview.)
30. Ibid.
31. Aphra Behn by Emily Hahn (Jonathan Cape, 1950), p. 31. Also published as Purple Passage: A Novel About a Lady Both Famous and Fantastic (Doubleday, 1950).
32. EH to Patrick Perry, March 21, 1946.
33. EH to Dorothy Larson, January 21, 1949.
34. Author interview with Amanda Boxer, from London, April 13, 1997.
35. EH to Muriel Hanson, November 21, 1948.
36. EH to Muriel Hanson, December 12, 1948.
37. Author interview with Amanda Boxer, from London, U.K., April 13, 1997.
38. EH to Dorothy Larson, November 24, 1949.
39. Author interview with EH, New York City, November 16, 1993.
40. Saturday Review of Literature, January 15, 1949, p. 28.
41. Sydney Horler to Doubleday and Company, February 1, 1949.
42. EH to Dorothy Larson, October 17, 1949.
43. “Ms Ulysses,” New Yorker, March 10, 1997, p. 52.
44. Barbara Ker-Seymer interview.
45. Author interview with Amanda Boxer, London, U.K., October 25, 1992.
46. Carola Vecchio interview.
Chapter 29
1. “The New Yorker,” Fortune, August 1934, p. 73.
2. Ibid., p. 74.
3. Genius in Disguise, p. 241.
4. Magazines in the Twentieth Century by Theodore Peterson (University of Illinois Press, 1956), p. 237.
5. Here at The New Yorker by Brendan Gill (Random House, 1975), p. 5.
6. Author interview with Sheila McGrath, from New York City, April 10, 1997.
7. “Ms Ulysses.”
8. Valerie Feldner to Roger Angell, February 20, 1997.
9. Chicago Tribune, December 1, 1967.
10. Author interview with James Cummins, London, June 17, 1996.
11. Ibid.
12. Brendan Gill to the author, March 17, 1994.
13. “Ms Ulysses,” p. 52.
14. The Years with Ross.
15. Author interview with EH, New York City, November 16, 1993.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Curious World by Philip Hamburger (North Point Press, 1987), p. xi.
19. Publishers Weekly, March 18, 1988, p. 63.
20. For a more detailed account, see The Last Days of The New Yorker, pp. 109–11.
21. About The New Yorker & Me: A Sentimental Journey by E. J. Kahn, Jr. (Penguin, 1979), p. 399.
22. Author interview with EH, New York City, November 16, 1993.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Author interview with Sheila McGrath, New York City, May 9, 1997.
26. Author interview with EH, New York City, November 16, 1993.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
Chapter 30
1. Around the World with Nellie Bly by Emily Hahn, with illustrations by B. Holmes (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959).
2. EH to Pearl S. Buck, June 23, 1951.
3. Charless Hahn interview.
4. Xiaohong Shao to the author, March 3, 1997.
5. “The Old Boys,” New Yorker, November 7, 1953, p. 125.
6. Chiang Kai-shek: An Unauthorized Biography by Emily Hahn (Doubleday, 1955), p. 365.
7. New York Times Book Review, March 27, 1955, p. 3.
8. Library Journal, March 1, 1955, p. 558.
9. EH to unnamed recipient, July 5, 1955.
10. “Ms Ulysses.”
11. Author interview with Hilary Schlessiger, New York City, November 16, 1993.
12. Author interview with Greg Dawson, New York City, May 10, 1997.
13. Kissing Cousins, p. 132.
14. EH to Muriel Hanson, September 3, 1954.
15. Author interview with James Cummins, London, May 27, 1993.
16. Author interview with Amanda Boxer, London, May 18, 1997.
17. Author interview with James Cummins, London, May 27, 1993.
18. Wiseman interview.
19. Barbara Ker-Seymer interview.
20. Rebecca West to EH, winter 1957.
21. Rebecca West to EH, June 15, 1960.
22. Author interview with EH, New York City, July 12, 1993.
23. Ibid.
24. Africa to Me.
25. Carola Vecchio interview.
Chapter 31
1. Bestsellers, December 15, 1970, p. 393.
2. Library Journal, December 15, 1970, p. 4252.
3. EH to Muriel Hanson, March 29, 1954.
4. The Barrytown Explorer, March 1971, p.2.
5. Publishers Weekly, March 18, 1988, p. 62.
6. Author interview with EH, New York City, July 12, 1993.
7. Once Upon a Pedestal by Emily Hahn (Crowell, 1974).
8. Ibid., p. 4.
9. Ibid., p. 263.
10. New York Times Book Review, September 29, 1974, p. 20.
11. Publishers Weekly, May 27, 1974, p. 63.
12. Author interview with Valerie Feldner, New York City, November 15, 1993.
13. Author interview with Muriel Hanson, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, January 21, 1993.
14. Barbara Ker-Seymer interview.
15. Moving Beyond Words by Gloria Steinem (Simon and Schuster, 1994), p. 14.
16. Look Who’s Talking by Emily Hahn (Crowell, 1978), p. 2.
17. Publishers Weekly, March 18, 1988, p. 62.
18. New Yorker, September 2, 1967, p. 38.
19. New York Times Book Review, November 19, 1967, p. 18.
20. Look Who’s Talking, p. 8.
21. Library Journal, May 1, 1978, p. 985.
22. Time, June 26, 1978, p. 75.
23. Ibid., p. 6.
24. American Heritage, August/September 1982, p. 53.
25. Ibid.
26. Author interview with EH, New York City, January 7, 1997.
27. New York Times, July 1, 1992, p. C-20.
28. EH Ringshall End interview.
29. EH to the author, June 29, 1992.
30. Author interview with Hyacinth Wilkie, New York City, April 2, 1997.
31. Valerie Feldner interview.
32. New Yorker, July 31, 1995, p. 35.
33. Author interview with EH, New York City, January 7, 1997.
Afterword
1. Author interview with James Cummins, London, February 23, 1997.
2. Author interview with Gregory Dawson, New York City, November 16, 1993.