Author: Storer, Maria Longworth
Title: In Memoriam Bellamy Storer, with Personal Remembrances of Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt, and John Ireland, Archbishop of St. Paul; with Personal Remembrances of Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt, and John Ireland, Archbishop of St. Paul
Description: Boston, Privately printed by the Merrymount Press, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. square octavo; pp. vii, (v), 120; Frontispiece portrait of Bellamy Storer and one additional portrait of Mrs. Storer; decorated black cloth, gilt. Maria Storer was a Cincinnati Longworth who married Congressman Bellamy Storer. In 1899 Bellamy Storer became the foreign minister to Spain,and the two convinced President McKinley to petition Pope Leo XIII to make Ireland a Cardinal (with the help of New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt. The following year McKinley arranged for a visit with the Pope and authorized the couple to mention John Ireland for consideration. In 1902, when Roosevelt was President, he made Bellamy minister to Austria-Hungary and did not wish to involve himself in advocating for John Ireland. However, Maria continued to press the issue by meeting with members of the Vatican and leaving false impressions with others that Roosevelt backed such sentiments. These events led to the removal of Bellamy as minister, the news of which was rather scandalous at the time. Ironically, Maria's nephew Nicholas Longworth IV came to marry Roosevelt's daughter Alice later, and Storer refused to attend the wedding. Very good .
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Title: In Memoriam Bellamy Storer, with Personal Remembrances of Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt, and John Ireland, Archbishop of St. Paul; with Personal Remembrances of Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt, and John Ireland, Archbishop of St. Paul
Description: Boston, Privately printed by the Merrymount Press, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. square octavo; pp. vii, (v), 120; Frontispiece portrait of Bellamy Storer and one additional portrait of Mrs. Storer; decorated black cloth, gilt. Maria Storer was a Cincinnati Longworth who married Congressman Bellamy Storer. In 1899 Bellamy Storer became the foreign minister to Spain,and the two convinced President McKinley to petition Pope Leo XIII to make Ireland a Cardinal (with the help of New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt. The following year McKinley arranged for a visit with the Pope and authorized the couple to mention John Ireland for consideration. In 1902, when Roosevelt was President, he made Bellamy minister to Austria-Hungary and did not wish to involve himself in advocating for John Ireland. However, Maria continued to press the issue by meeting with members of the Vatican and leaving false impressions with others that Roosevelt backed such sentiments. These events led to the removal of Bellamy as minister, the news of which was rather scandalous at the time. Ironically, Maria's nephew Nicholas Longworth IV came to marry Roosevelt's daughter Alice later, and Storer refused to attend the wedding. Very good .
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Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books
- Book number: 13088
- Book number: 13088
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