Eugen Boissevain

ESVM , though very ill, was married at Croton-on-Hudson to Eugen Jan Boissevain , a successful Dutch importer and broker (who, however, turned out less wealthy than was supposed).

ESVM 's husband, Eugen Boissevain , died in hospital in Boston of a cerebral haemorrhage following an operation for lung cancer.

One of her new acquaintances made at Croton was Eugen Jan Boissevain , who was twelve years older than herself. He divided her friends: some liked and some loathed him. He differed from most of...

In late 1928 ESVM began a love-affair with a younger poet, George Dillon . Her letters to him express passionate love yet also frequently mention her love for her husband . This complication, and her...

ESVM 's mother died unexpectedly in early February 1931, after a brief illness. They took the body to Steepletop (using a sleigh for the last stretch, when the snow got too deep for wheels).

Like her, her husband became in time a very heavy drinker, and by late 1943 he was also, like her, taking morphine regularly. From the same period a kind of rivalry about taking care of...

The first poem she wrote and published after her husband 's death was written for Thanksgiving 1950 and appeared in the Saturday Evening Post the month after she died. She had scrapped her first draft...