Letters of Pauline Palmer 1908-1926: A Great Lady of Chicago's First Family
edited by Eleanor Dwight

Three generations of the Potter Palmer family of Chicago emerge from the letters of Pauline, as the young bride of Potter Palmer II writes to her mother Mabel Blake Kohlsaat, wife of newspaper owner, Herman H. Kohlsaat. In a lively and intimate style, they tell of family life, European travel, art collecting and Chicago history in the first decades of the 20th century.

The Gilded Age milieu is recreated in references to Pauline's mother-in-law, Bertha Honoré Palmer, legendary for her lavish entertaining and leadership at the World's Columbian Exposition. We see the family in their enormous lake front "castle" during sojourns at their Florida plantation and excursions to London and Paris and come away with personal history and a sense of these interesting times. The art collections of both generations of Palmers, key in establishing the Art Institute of Chicago, are discussed and illustrated.

ZH4979    Letters of Pauline Palmer 1908-1926: A Great Lady     $35.00

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