Over 85 items, including letters (mostly ALsS, some TLsS), telegrams, cards and other items, mostly condolences to Bertrand Taylor after the death of his sister, Countess Dorothy DiFrasso. Dorothy Taylor had become Countess Dorothy DiFrasso upon marrying Count Carlo DiFrasso. Her first marriage to the famous English aviator, Claude “Whitie” Grahame-White, had ended in divorce. She held lavish parties with European royalty and celebrities, including Gary Cooper and mobster Bugsy Siegel, with whom she had affairs. Material includes signatures from the actors, aristocrats and entertainers that were her friends and confidants, including but not limited to Claude Grahame-White, Cole Porter, Clark Gable, Jack Warner and the Baroness Lillian de Monaco. Most of the material dates from 1954, many are hand-written on personal letterhead, or are signed on flower cards. Mostly near fine, some more worn. Some items (mostly but not exclusively those in 2nd binder) have notation in blank area identifying the signer, in the hand of Bertrand Taylor or another relative. Most placed loose in sleeve protectors in 2 binders. Provenance: From a private collection. A small minority have adhesive to verso. In the list below, numbers relate to location within a binder and do not appear on the items: [Binder 1, 1st] Rhoda T. [Doubleday (ALS, envelope. “Tanner Doubleday” prtd on verso of card. [2nd] Hedda Hopper. TLS. [3rd] TLS by Jack L. Warner (of Warner Bros. fame). [4th] Prince Jean Louis deFacuigny-Lucinge. TLS. [5th] ALS by Lady (Countess) Portarlington. Stationery with “Earlywood, Ascot, Berkshire…” at top. [6th] Marian McFadden. ALS. [7th] Claude Grahame-White (Dorothy DiFrasso’s first husband). ALS, signed “White.” [8th] Mrs. William Paley. ALS signed “Babe.” [9th] ALS signed by “Ethel, Dolph,” probably in Ethel Leichtenstein’s hand. [10th] William Gaxton. ALS, personal stationery, NY address crossed out and replaced with Connecticut address. Signed “Always, Bill.” [11th] Walter F. Wanger. ALS, personal stationery. [12th] Richard Gully. ALS, Warner Bros. stationery. [13th] Richard Gully TLS giving addresses of Mary Pickford, Clark Gable, Bob Hope, Ruth Elwell. [14th] Lillian de Monaco. ALS, personal letterhead. [15th] Harvey Gibson. ALS (Singer Sewing Machine fame). [16th] Mary Dunn. ALS printed card for the US embassy in Madrid. Married to James P. Dunn, probably a diplomat or employee at the embassy. [17th] Charles Baskerville. ALS. [18th] [Count] Orazio Sanjust de Tenlada. ALS. [19th] Fritz Friedricks “S. S. America”. Sympathy card, signed as above, w/ handwritten note to “Miss Reilly” requesting she forward it to Bertrand Taylor. [20th] Viviana Crespi. ALS. Born in Washington, DC in 1923 and lived in Newport, New York, Morocco, Italy, and Grenada, and Switzerland, and married Count Marco Fabio Crespi. [21st] “With our prayers and deepest sympathy/ Bob & Dolores Hope,” small card. [22nd] Elsa Maxwell. “For Dorothy/ Love, Elsa.” [23rd] Hattie Carnegie. [24th] “Woolworth and James Donahue.”[25th] “Deepest sympathy of nancy and Lysard von von Hoyingen-Huene” [from Kitzbuehel, Austria]. [26th-35th] 10 telegrams from Linda and Cole Porter, Serge Obolensky, Herman and Toni Carnegie, Isabelle Dodge Sloane, Nancy and Lyssard von Hoyningen-Huene, George Bulgari, Betsy and Jock Whitney, Edith Mathieu Goudchaux, Olive Baillie, and Louis Vallombrosa. [2nd binder, 1st] Charles Messina. Signed card. [2nd binder, 2nd] “Profound Sympathy - Mr. and Mrs. Anson Flower Robinson. [2nd binder, 3rd] “Most Sincere Sympathy/ Edwin Paddock…” signed card. [4th] “Our love/ Gladdie and LeRoy Nickel.” [5th] “Sympathy/ Dwight, Royall, Harris, Kaegel & Coskey.” [6th] “Mr & Mrs Francis McAdoo.” [7th] “Mr & Mrs Stephen Sanford.” [8th] “Sincere sympathy or your great loss.” On printed greeting card of Edward Waterman. [9th] “With Love- Pat and Bobby Willmington.” [10th] With deepest sympathy/ Elizabeth and Herbert Wellington.” [11th] “We Love You Dorothy/ Mabel and Clifton.” [12th] “Ester Siegel & Family.” [2nd binder, 15th] TLS signed “Lydia (di San Faustino) you may know another one.!” [16th] Sandra Soldalenkorva. ALS. [17th]Brian Aherne. ALS. [18th] Handwritten letter with notation “Mr & Mrs Arthur H Vincent” in blank area, probably in Bertrand Taylor’s hand. [21st] Harold H. Naftalin. ALS on his letterhead. [22nd] Gladdie Nickel. ANS. Wife of Leroy Nickel. [23rd] Handwritten letter, Bertrand Taylor’s notation in blank area “Mr & Mrs Gonzales Gordon,” address in Havana, Cuba. [24th-25th] Whitney Watson. ALS (Racquet & Tennis Club letterhead) and telegram. [26th] Elsie Darley. ALS. [27th] Handwritten letter signed “Douglas Fenn. (Late Butler).” Transmitting flowers. [28th] Handwritten letter signed “Kitty,” on Thomas Dickson’s letterhead. [29th] Dick Berthlemas. ALS on Racquet & Tennis Club letterhead. [30th] William M. Chadbourne. Inscribed card. [31st] Mary Roblee. ANS. Ink at lower left in another hand: “c/o Brig. Gen. Sy. Y. Donovan/ Travis Air Force Base/ Fair Field-California.” [32nd] Carroll Portago. ANS. [33rd] Eddie McElveen. ALS. [34th] Janet Polobstoff. ALS, personal letterhead with address in Monaco. [35th] ALS by “Harvey,” Pied-A-Mer” letterhead with Delray Beach, FL address. [36th] Lucius Ordway. ALS. [2] single-sided leaves, personal letterhead. [37th] Luciana Reuri. Autograph signed condolence card. [38th] Kathleen B. Hale. ALS. Wife of Gerard Van Barkaloo Hale. Personal letterhead with Santa Barbara address. [39th] ALS by “Doreen Van der Straeter (Caesar)” (wife of Roger Van der Staeter). [40th] Sonya Lubitsch. ALS. Stationery from Royal Hotel Witner Palace in Merano, Dolomites, Italy. [41st] Nickey Pernckoff (wife of W. A. Pernckoff). ALS. [44th] Filomera Rienzi. ALS on card with Stockholm postmark, Swedish stamps. Paper clipped to the 45th: [2nd binder, 45th] Madeleine Gordon. ALS. [46th] Peter Dahl. TLS. [47th] Condolence card signed by Elsie Sloan Farley. [48th] Card signed by Lillian Whiteman. [49th] Register booklet issued by a funeral home, signed by Grace Richard, Mary E. Leary, M. Bonotto, Joseph F. Obrien, Jeanette Brewster, R. N. Webster, 7 others. [50th] Telegrams from Ann and Charlie Monroe, Mr and Mrs Carl Holmes, Kitty and Gilbert Miller, Ruth and Pau Zuckerman, Tania and Mack [“Mr & Mrs Norbert McKenna” handwritten in margin probably by Bertrand Taylor], Evangeline and Alexis [“Zulesskeys Cloudwall Farm New Milford/ Conn” handwritten in margin by Bertrand Taylor], “Annie and Nino,” Louis Shurr, Dolly [Wife of Jay Obrien of Garden of Eden], Frank Vogel, Brenda [wife of John S Kelly], “Momo and Persh” [“Mr & Mrs FW Peabody” written in margin], Litty and Gilbert Miller, Seidmans, Selma, Bonny Boncompagni, Maurice Newton, Chip Robert, Evie Robert Marjorie Davies, Molly and Jim Hanes, Bod Marjoris, Mike Washinski, Dr Elwell, Bernario Patrizi, Bubles and Carl, “Mummy,” Edith and Max Leslie Boyle, and others. ++ Autographs collected by the niece of Countess Dorothy Taylor DiFrasso (as opposed to Dorothy DiFrasso herself or her brother) include: [1st binder, 36th] ALS by Friedrich Wilhelm Furst von Hohenzollern. 2 4/x6 cards, single sided. [1st binder, 37th] Prince Pierre-Frederick d’Arenberg. Handwritten thank you for a wedding gift, [1997]. [38th] Walter F. Mondale. TLS. 1967. [1st binder, 39th] Art Buchwald. TLS, signed as “Art,” 1995, anti-NRA, some creasing. [1st binder, 40th] Spiro T. Agnew. Signed card. On paper using adhesive patch middle of verso. [1st binder, 41st] Brian Donnelly (Representative, MA - 11th District).