The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark (52 page)

Documents:
William Andrews Clark letters to W. S. Bickford, Montana Historical Society.

Books:

Christopher P. Connolly,
The Devil Learns to Vote
, J. J. Little, 1938.

Adam Gopnik,
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology
, Library of America, 2004.

William Daniel Mangam,
The Clarks: An American Phenomenon
, Silver Bow Press, 1941. Includes Katherine Clark Morris’s letter to William Andrews Clark Jr.

David McCullough,
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
, Simon & Schuster, 2011.

Lael Morgan,
Wanton West
, Chicago Review Press, 2011.

Mark Twain,
Mark Twain in Eruption
, Harper & Brothers, 1922.

Interviews:
Christopher Sattler, Neal Sattler.

Depositions:
Geraldine Coffey, Hadassah Peri, Dr. Henry Singman.

Articles:
“A Youthful Genius,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 24, 1904; “Three Amazing Lads,”
Washington Post
, November 6, 1904; “Didn’t Bring Clark Baby,”
New York
Times
, January 12, 1905; “And Clark Laughs,”
Los Angeles Times
, January 12, 1905; “Mrs. Clark Under Knife,”
Anaconda Standard
, February 18, 1905; “Slot Machine Couldn’t Bunko Senator Clark,”
New York Times
, February 20, 1905; “Not Home to Some of Butte’s Grand Dames Who Cut Her When She Was Poor,”
Pawtucket Times
, June 2, 1905; “Social War in Butte,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, June 3, 1905; “New Mrs. Clark a Home Lover,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, July 30, 1905; “In Expectation,”
Anaconda Standard
, April 18, 1906; “Luxury for That Clark Baby,”
San Antonio Gazette
, September 22, 1906; “Clark to Quit Politics,”
Washington Post
, October 25, 1906; “Children’s Party,”
Anaconda Standard
, June 16, 1907; “Paris Spring Salon,”
New York Tribune
, April 30, 1908; “Clark House,”
Colorado Springs Gazette
, November 22, 1909; Vance Thompson, “Palace Not Yet Finished,”
Washington Post
, May 29, 1910; “Mr. Clark and Sensitive Architects,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, December 21, 1910; Christopher Gray, “Huguette Clark’s Worthless Girlhood Home,”
New York Times
, June 2, 2011; “Mistress of Big Mansion,”
Oelwein Daily Register
, November 18, 1910; “Ex-Senator Clark’s Wife Operated On,”
Hartford Courant
, February 21, 1911; “Hunt Two Burglars in Fifth Avenue,”
New York Times
, February 22, 1911; “Burglars on Roof of Senator Clark’s House,”
Hartford Courant
, February 22, 1911; “Tadé Styka Portrait,”
Buffalo Courier News
, March 12, 1911; “With Millions to Spend, She Could Not Buy Happiness,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, April 16, 1911; “Senator Clark’s Son Sued,”
Christian Science Monitor
, May 2, 1911; “Senator Clark and Family Leave for the Coronation,”
Oakland Tribune
, June 4, 1911; “W. A. Clark Has Test of $120,000 Organ,”
New York Times
, June 10, 1911; “Clark for Art, Not Society,”
New York Times
, October 26, 1911; “Would You Let Your Daughter Marry a Man Old Enough to Be Her Father?”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, February 12, 1911; “Mrs. William Clark Ill,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, February 20, 1911; “Clark Plans House Opening,”
New York Times
, September 2, 1911; “Organs in Millionaires’ Homes,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 21, 1911; “Clark to Open Gallery to Gotham Public,”
Atlanta Constitution
, December 11, 1911; “Mrs. Wm. A. Clark Back from Europe,”
New York Tribune
, December 17, 1911; “Dies Suddenly of Acute Pneumonia,”
Anaconda Standard
, January 24, 1912; “Society Not Worthwhile: Says Ex-Senator Clark—His Fifth Avenue Home Open to His Friends,”
New York Times
, February 10, 1912; “Fashion’s Fads and Fancies,”
Washington Post
, March 12, 1912; “They Were Passengers on Board the Ill-Fated Titanic,”
Anaconda Standard
, April 17, 1912; “The Fashionable Revivification of the Harp,”
Town & Country
, April 20, 1912; “Finest Collection of Jewels in the World,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 22, 1912; “Many Notable Persons Return Here from Europe,”
New York Sun
, November 12, 1912; Walter Ed Taylor, “The House Montana Copper Built,” clip in hanging files, Montana Historical Society; “Senator Clark Safe,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, September 6, 1914; “Ex-Senator Clark Home,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 23, 1914; “Senator Clark Returns from War Zone,”
Anaconda Standard
, October 27, 1914; “Grim Poverty in War’s Wake,”
Los Angeles Times
, November 20, 1914.

Documents:
William Andrews Clark letters to W. S. Bickford, Montana Historical Society.

Books:

T. Bentley Mott,
Myron Herrick, Friend of France
, Doubleday, 1929.

Interviews:
Erika Hall, Gordon Lyle Jr., Roberto Socas, Wanda Styka.

Depositions:
Geraldine Coffey.

Articles:
“The Aladdin Palace, Home of W. A. Clark,”
Kansas City Star
, February 28, 1915; “Senator Clark Indignant,”
New York Times
, November 27, 1903; “Photo of Portrait of Andrée Clark,”
New York Times
, January 31, 1915; “What Girls May Do: A Teacher Who Teaches Play,”
Boston Daily Globe
, February 11, 1915; “Mr. Tartoue Limns Society Delicately,”
New York Herald
, 1915; “Will Society Keep Lent?”
New York Times
, February 21, 1915; “An Evening of French Music,”
New York Times
, February 23, 1915; “W. A. Clark’s Palace Used for Charity,”
Anaconda Standard
, March 4, 1915; “Miss Andre and Miss Huguette Clark and Their Six Million Dollar House on Fifth Avenue,”
Evening World
, March 6, 1915; “Society Goes Charity Mad and Finds Its Reward,”
New York Sun
, March 7, 1915; “American Artists’ Committee of 100,”
New York Times
, March 21, 1915; “Clark’s Grandson Dead: Gerald Clark Kling, Victim of Appendicitis,”
New York Tribune
, September 20, 1915; “Some Grand Old Men and What They Do to Stay Well,”
Anaconda Standard
, January 1, 1917; “Mrs. Clark and Daughters Will Tour the Yellowstone,”
Anaconda Standard
, July 6, 1917; “The Clarks in Butte,”
Anaconda Standard
, July 26, 1919; “Miss Clark Dies at Summer Home,”
Anaconda Standard
, August 8, 1919; “Beautiful Girl Called to Heavenly Home,”
Butte Miner
, August 8, 1919; “Funeral Tomorrow at St. Thomas for Andrée Clark, Dead of Meningitis,”
New York Herald
, August 10, 1919; “Montana Pioneers with Sons and Daughters Meet,”
Butte Miner
, August 30, 1919; “Ex-Copper King Emerges,”
Miami District Daily News
, April 4, 1920; “Camp Site to Perpetuate Girl’s Love for Scouts,”
New York Tribune
, November 11, 1920; Photo of Senator Clark and Huguette Clark,
Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger
, November 12, 1920; “Miss Alma Guy, 68, Aide to Blind, Dies,”
New York Times
, September 30, 1938; “Orchestral Society Aims to Foster American Talent,”
New York Tribune
, March 20, 1921.

Documents:
Family letters and telegrams: Huguette Clark, Andrée Clark, William Clark, Anna Clark; Diaries of Huguette Clark and Andrée Clark; With thanks to the Estate of Huguette Clark for access to review, and permission to extensively quote from, her letters. William Andrews Clark letters to W. S. Bickford, Montana Historical Society. Interview with Alma Guy and Andrée Clark’s letters, Girl Scout National Historic Preservation Center.

Books:

Mary Dillon Edmondson,
Profiles in Leadership: A History of the Spence School 1892–1992
, Phoenix Publishing, 1991.

Interviews:
Andrew Alpern, Lindsay Mican Morgan.

Depositions and interviews:
Paul Albert, Karine McCall.

Articles:
“Mrs. Kling Gets Divorce,”
Oregonian
, May 6, 1922; “Hawaiian Youth, Protege of Copper King’s Wife, Sees End of College Dream Here,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, September 21, 1921; “Clark Protege May Return to Hawaii,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, September 25, 1921; “Sail for Europe Today,”
New York Times
, May 30, 1922; “Look Who’s Here: Sen. William Clark of Montana,”
New York Tribune
, September 17, 1922; “Social Notes,”
New York Times
, October 8, 1922; “That Disappointed Admirer of Pola Negri,”
Ogden, Utah
, February 23, 1923; “Artist Styka’s Heart Heals Slowly,”
Los Angeles Times
, February 26, 1923; “Millicent’s Diary,”
Washington Post
, March 20, 1923; “Social Notes,”
New York Times
, May 4, 1923; “Miss Clara B. Spence,”
New York Times
, August 10, 1923; “Her Beauty Fires Styka’s Genius,”
Los Angeles Times
, August 19, 1923; “Bye-the-Bye in Wall Street,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 9, 1924; “Wine Cellar in Doll House for Queen Is Protested,”
Washington Post
, April 14, 1924; “Queen Mary’s Million Dollar Dollhouse,”
Washington Post
, May 18, 1924; “Queen’s Dolls Have Priceless Library,”
New York Times
, August 24, 1924; Byron Cooney, “Personal Reminiscences and Side Lights about Senator W. A. Clark,”
Montana American
, undated clip, Montana Historical Society; “New York Society,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, June 6, 1924; “On Art and Artists,”
Los Angeles Times
, November 16, 1924; “Mrs. Mary Clark Kling a Bride,”
New York Times
, March 2, 1925; “Pneumonia Proves Fatal to Picturesque Montanan at Fifth Avenue Home,”
New York Times
, March 25, 1925, “Senator Clark’s Vivid Life,”
New York Times
, March 8, 1925; “Senator Clark Dies in Gotham,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 8, 1925; “Clark Rites Amid His Art Treasures,”
New York Times
, March 7, 1925; “Will of W. A. Clark Disposes of Vast Fortune,”
Anaconda Standard
, April 7, 1925; “The Clark Gift,”
New York Herald Tribune
, April 8, 1925; “Art Lovers Hope Museum Takes Clark Paintings,”
New York Herald Tribune
, April 9, 1925; “Museum Refuses $3,000,000 Clark Collection,”
New York World
, April 21, 1925; “Masterpieces in the Clark Collection,”
New York Times
, March 15, 1925; “How Not to Become Immortal,”
Chicago Tribune
, April 22, 1925; “Clark Family Hurt by Metropolitan’s Refusal of His Art,”
New York Tribune
, April 25, 1925; “W. A. Clark’s Widow Resigns as Executrix,”
Washington Post
, June 11, 1925; “Corcoran Gallery Takes Clark Art,”
New York Times
, August 2, 1925; “Fifth Avenue Losing Fight,”
Los Angeles Times
, August 9, 1925; “Divorces Charles W. Clark,”
New York Times
, August 17, 1925; “Social Notes,”
New York Times
, September 30, 1925; “Clark’s $7,000,000 Palace Is Going Begging,”
Boston Globe
, October 1, 1925; “Storrs Give a Dinner,”
New York Times
, March 4, 1925; “Part of Senator Clark’s Art to Be Auctioned; Heirs Also to Part with Fifth Avenue Home,”
New York Times
, November 22, 1925; “Clarks Give $700,000 and 210 Art Pieces for Corcoran Wing,”
Washington Post
, November 29, 1925; “Druggist Was Father of 3 Clark Claimants,”
Washington Post
, February 7, 1926; “Sure Senator Clark Was Former Druggist,”
New York Times
, February 7, 1926; “Crowd Gathers for Selection of Jury to Try Clark Case,”
Butte Miner
, July 1, 1926; “Charles W. Clark Tells of Life in Deer Lodge Town,”
Anaconda Standard
, July 7, 1926; “Anderson Clark Called Father of Missouri Women,”
Anaconda Standard
, July 8, 1926; “History of Days of Covered Wagon Trains Is Written in Court Record of Clark Case,”
Butte Miner
, July 11, 1926; “Women Lose Claim to Clark’s Wealth,”
Washington Post
, July 16, 1926; “Takes 45 Minutes for Jury to Rule on Clark Contest,”
Butte Daily Post
, July 16, 1926; “Death Bed Confession of William Anderson Clark Factor in Settling Battle over Late W. A. Clark’s Fortune,”
Three Forks News
, undated, tentative October 12, 1931, Montana Historical Society; “Poor Little Rich Clark Girl—Everybody’s after Her $333 a Day,” syndicated feature, 1926; “View Clark Home, Due to Be Wrecked,”
New York Times
, February 23, 1927; “Clark’s Folly Stripped,”
New York Times
, March 29, 1927; “Quai D’Orsay Ball Draws Paris Elite,”
New York Times
, June 5, 1927; “Clark Estate Wins Against Tax Here,”
New York Times
, September 23, 1927; Hilton Kramer, “When Money, Not Taste, Builds a Collection,”
New York Times
, June 4, 1978.

Documents:
Family letters and telegrams: Huguette Clark, William Andrews Clark, Anna Clark, Charles Clark; Katherine Morris, William Andrews Clark Jr.; courtesy of Estate of Huguette M. Clark. William Andrews Clark’s letters to W. S. Bickford, Montana Historical Society. William Andrews Clark’s will, Montana Historical Society; Silver-Bow Archives.

Books:

Marshall Bond Jr.,
Adventures with Peons, Princes, and Tycoons
, Star Rover House, 1974.

William Daniel Mangam,
The Clarks: An American Phenomenon
, Silver Bow Press. 1941.

David F. Myrick,
Montecito and Santa Barbara, Volume II, The Days of the Great Estates
, Montecito Publishing, 1991.