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(With permission of the Morris Library, Southern Illinois University)
August, 1927, at Brest, aboard Aphrodesiac with Gretchen Powel (in cockpit between Caresse and Harry) and Pete (in stern). The boat leaked, and was hospitable to fleas. (With permission of the Morris Library, Southern Illinois University)
Henrietta Crosby, her son and Caresse at the Temple of Baalbek, winter of 1928.
Caresse, in Paris, spring of 1928.
Portrait of Harry Crosby, by Polia Chentoff, December, 1927: “One must be born and die in the same picture . . .” —Miss Chentoff, quoted by her subject. After Harry’s death, Caresse burned this portrait, so deeply did it disturb her peace.
Caresse, drawn by a friend, Angeles Ortiz, 1928. (With permission of the Morris Library, Southern Illinois University)
Josephine Rotch Bigelow (“the Fire Princess”).
“Jacqueline,” Harry’s mystery mistress, to whom he left a bequest from his estate. His deepest love. Harry bought the etching, “Valkulla,” by Anders Zorn, from James Connell and Sons, Ltd., Old Bond Street, London, for £ 125. He had searched years for it till he tracked it down early in 1929, and gave it to Harvard upon his death. (With permission of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University) # M5047
Harry (note black flower) with Caresse, Narcisse Noir and sister Kitsa, on beach at Deauville when Kitsa announced her divorce from Robert Choate. (With permission of the Morris Library, Southern Illinois University)
Harry (in Walter Berry’s coat) with Caresse and Clytoris, a mate for Narcisse Noir, at Le Bourget, 1928, following a cross-Channel flight. At the wheel of the Crosby’s Voisin is the last of their many chauffeurs, Auguste, like the others a heavy drinker, but unlike the others, amusing to Harry. (With permission of the Morris Library, Southern Illinois University)
Harry with Stephen V. R. Crosby, and a skull stolen from the Catacombs: Paris, 1928. (With permission of Sylvia Choate Whitman)
Le Moulin du Soleil from an etching of the eighteenth century, when Jean Jacques Rousseau was in residence. (With permission of the Morris Library, Southern Illinois University)
Harry at the Mill, with a raft of royalty and Caresse (on donkey at left) and Mai de Geetere (also on donkey).
Harry at the Mill with Kay Boyle, 1929. (With permission of the Morris Library, Southern Illinois University)
Harry, moments after his first solo flight, Armistice Day, 1929, Villacoublay. (With permission of Stuart Kaiser)
The head of Harry Crosby, sculpted by Caresse. From the frontispiece by Caresse. From the frontispiece of her book Poems for Harry Crossby, published shortly after his death.
Geoffrey Wolff, Black Sun
