Am doing a book about Mary Louise Booth, a little known but astonishing woman of the 19th century. She translated more than 50 books, was much praised by Lincoln, was founding editor of Harper's Bazaar, and worked with the leading literary and artistic lights of the day--Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Winslow Homer. Her literary salons each week in her double-townhouse in Manhattan were popular with all the best minds of the day. She also was in the forefront of the women's rights movement, numbering such as Susan b Anthony among her friends. She earned a large fortune by her labors, which, as she never married, was inherited by her family, including her nephew Herbert Booth King, who was given her 5000 volume library, her correspondence, and other precious things. He, however, though a publisher, printer and advertising man, soon came to grief, accused of debts and fraud--and disappears; when last traced, he was in orange, nJ.
WE are anxious to trace books, anecdotes, and Herbert! Can anyone tell us the restof the story? Thank you.
