"Elsie de Wolfe (1865-1950), famous as an actress, writer and interior designer, married Sir Charles Mendl in 1926. She was only 61. The marriage was front page news in New York. Society (and perhaps even Cole Porter) was a trifle surprised, as she had lived in the home of another brilliant woman, Bessie Marbury, for 34 years – the pair were known as 'The Bachelors'."

"By now he had developed a reluctance to publish until he had rechecked every source in case it might provide extra ideas. And even when his amended article was written out and ready to go and he could have been looking ahead to its early publication, still he hesitated, hoping instead for further useful correspondence."

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