CHAPTER 10
1. Hanslick, 2:248.
2. Le Figaro, January 31, 1889.
3. Wiener Zeitung, January 30, 1889.
4. Cassels, Clash, 202; Marek, 279; Wiener Zeitung, January 31, 1889.
5. Margutti, 84.
6. Le Figaro, January 31, 1889.
7. Larisch, My Past, 335.
8. Der Polizeibericht, 25.
9. Corti and Sokol, 122–23; Der Polizeibericht, 34.
10. Der Polizeibericht, 34–35.
11. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 91–92, in Markus and Unterreiner, 264.
12. Judtmann, 131.
13. Larisch, My Past, 341.
14. Der Polizeibericht, 77; Lónyay, 193.
15. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932; Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 284.
16. Judtmann, 128; Markus, 5.
17. Slatin, Abschrift; Countess Zoë Wassilko-Serecki, Protocol of September 5, 1955, quoted in Judtmann, 344; Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 208.
18. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932; Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 278; Count Corti, manuscript copy of Marie Valerie’s diary entry of January 30, 1889, per Ida von Ferenczy, quoted in Judtmann, 144; Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 391; Slatin, Abschrift; Bibl, 109; Krauss, Protocol on January 31 meeting with Taaffe, in Judtmann, 156; Wiener Zeitung, February 2, 1889.
19. Countess Zoë Wassilko-Serecki, Protocol of September 5, 1955, quoted in Judtmann, 344; Slatin and Auchenthaler, Protocol of January 31, 1889, quoted in Lónyay, 185; Judtmann, 138; Count Corti, manuscript copy of Marie Valerie’s diary entry of January 30, 1889, per Ida von Ferenczy, quoted in Judtmann, 144; Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 391; Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 284; Slatin, Abschrift.
20. Corti, manuscript copy of Marie Valerie’s diary entry of January 30, 1889, per Ida von Ferenczy, quoted in Judtmann, 144; Judtmann, 190.
21. Fugger, 198–99.
22. Judtmann, 360n16.
23. Slatin, Abschrift; Hamann, Der Weg nach Mayerling, 129; Judtmann, 138.
24. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932; Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 277; Wiener Zeitung, February 2, 1889.
25. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932; Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 277; Hoyos, Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 284; see also Countess Zoë Wassilko-Serecki, Protocol of September 5, 1955, quoted in Judtmann, 344.
26. Larisch, My Past, 341; Judtmann, 138; Count Corti, manuscript copy of Marie Valerie’s diary entry of January 30, 1889, per Ida von Ferenczy, quoted in Judtmann, 144.
27. Slatin, Abschrift; Bibl, 190.
28. Slatin, Abschrift.
29. Ibid.
30. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932; Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 277.
31. Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 281.
32. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 397.
33. Hamann, Reluctant Empress, 342–43.
34. Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 93.
35. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 398; Neues Wiener Journal, February 18, 1937; Bibl, 69; Hamann, Reluctant Empress, 342.
36. Marie Valerie, diary entry of March 14, 1889, in Schad and Schad, 196.
37. Paleologue, 164.
38. Judtmann, 143.
39. Polzer, 212.
40. The letter was supposedly found by Chief of Police Baron Ferdinand von Gorup, whose account of events at Mayerling contains several demonstrably false claims; Gorup’s own son later deemed the letter a forgery. See Judtmann, 151, and Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 251.
41. Judtmann, 31; Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 220; Markus and Unterreiner, 78.
42. Österreischische Nationalbibliothek press release, August 2, 2015, Österreischische Nationalbibliothek, http://artdaily.com/news/80422/-Sensational-find—at-the-Austrian-National-Library-reveals-passion-of-one-of-history-s-great-affairs#.Vbzsg3hLrwx.
43. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 145–46, in Markus and Unterreiner, 281. The February 9, 1889, edition of Le Figaro printed a variation: “Dear Mother, I am dying with Rudolf; we love each other too much. Forgive me. Farewell from your unhappy Mary. PS: Bratfisch whistled wonderfully last night.” Fritz Judtmann believed that Helene Vetsera showed the letter to a friend with the intention of having it leaked to the press. See Judtmann, 261n25.
44. Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 285.
45. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 147–48, in Markus and Unterreiner, 281.
46. Judtmann, 151. The book Martyrdom of an Empress, page 229, presented what it claimed was an expanded version of this second letter: “He has told me all. I can never be his now. I knew that something dreadful would happen to prevent our being happy so I brought the poison with me and I am going to drink it. When he returns it will be too late to save me, and I will die in his arms, happy to be with him till the last.”
47. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 158, in Markus and Unterreiner, 281.
48. Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 285; Judtmann, 152.
49. Le Figaro, February 9, 1889.
50. Fugger, 199–200; Judtmann, 152; Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 285. The current Braganza family no longer has the original letter and has no knowledge of its fate.
51. Larisch, My Past, 354.
52. Ibid., 344.
53. Le Matin, February 3, 1889.
54. New York Times, February 1, 1889; Le Matin, February 1, 1889.
55. New York Times, February 1, 1889; Le Matin, February 1, 1889; Le Figaro, February 1, 1889; Le Temps, February 2, 1889.
56. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 396; Judtmann, 137, 380.