January 26th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: Anticipated quiet day and evening so called Edith about lunch.  Had lunch at Charles’— chiffonade salad—and she said they had been to two parties at Studin’s where she met *Edward J. O’Brien whom they didn’t like, said he was a flabby, affected, poseur, celebrity hunting.  […]

January 24th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: Trotsky at his finest: Read Bitter Victory, war novel translated from the French and fair enough, for a while after breakfast, then out to walk down Second Avenue and across Houston Street and up through Washington Square in fine but persistent mizzle.  Home drenched and […]

January 23th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: Ilya Ehrenburg and Gustav Regler with Hemingway, 1937, Spain: To doctor who seems to think it won’t be long now. Very jovial, had just delivered woman who was in labor only two hours.  He said my umbilicus ceasing to pout.  Took handbag into Bonwit Teller […]

January 21th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: Tex O’Reilly: To the O’Reillys’ for dinner and John’s parents there. His mother a prim-looking woman with hair partied in the middle and a sort of daguerreotype dress buttoned up the front said she wanted her whisky straight and complained she wanted a cigarette.  His […]

January 20th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: Robert Breen on motorcycle: Walked and read. Discussed with M. naming child Poise Energy as earlier generations named theirs Prudence, Patience and so on…  Nelson in after dinner and we told him the Talley’s story of the man who was playing charades and unscrewed the […]