![]() ![]() ![]() In another story, Huguette waved her magic wand to find the illustrator Felix Lourioux, who illustrated fairy tales in the French weekly, “La Semaine de Suzette,” a favorite in her youth, and commissioned several works by him. This check is for thirty thousand dollars!” “She included a ‘little gift,’ “a check for three hundred dollars.” Her daughter said, “You’d better sit down, Mother, and let me read this letter over to you. After his death, Huguette wrote her a lovely note, “a proper note” thanking her for his care. Jenkins helped take care of Irving Gordon, a Madison Avenue stockbroker who helped handle Huguette’s investments and died of cancer. I loved the story of Gwendolyn Jenkins, an immigrant from Jamaica who became a nurse’s aide. Clark’s wife Anna and Huguette and Andree, daughters of that marriage, lived there until his death in 1925. Interestingly enough, the cover of the book does not show the mansions and apartments that Huguette abandoned, but the lavish nine-story home that her father, William Andrews Clark built on Millionaire’s Row in Manhattan. ![]()
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