Chapter twenty-nine: autobiography doesn’t stop

“The fact that stuff gets printed”: ST to AB, April 29, 1964, SSF.

“rediscovering Cubism”: For representative examples of drawings that came to fruition in the early 1970s, see WMAA, pp. 224–26.

She tried to joke that the patch: HS to ST, April 3, 1964, YCAL, microfilm letters and Box 17; C. Bueno, accountant, to HS, March 19, 1964, noting that ST paid HS $300 per month. He was also transferring money into her account to pay the real estate taxes on her house, and he paid all their joint income taxes.

Throughout the affairs: Richard Fadem, interview, March 2, 2010.

“needed a lot of hand-holding”: Wendy Weil, interview, March 22, 2010.

“vulnerable to the stupidity”: ST to AB, April 9, 1965, SSF.

“amorous delights and suffering”: ST to AB, April 6, 1964. SSF.

he kept a dream journal: ST, dream sequences, 9/17, 12/15, 12/16, in 1964 datebook, YCAL, Box 3.

He transposed his next dream: American Council of Learned Societies, Newsletter, February 1964.

“at a crossroads”: ST to AB, July 16, 1964, SSF.

One of his honors came: Paul Rand to ST, January 28, 1964; Howard S. Weaver, acting secretary of Yale University, wrote to say that the Council of Residential College Masters had voted to offer a five-year appointment; YCAL, Box 17.

He was flattered: James Laughlin to ST, January 2, 1964. YCAL, Box 17.

Steinberg was invited to join: He contributed money, drawings, and the use of his name and was rewarded with an invitation to the 1965 inaugural activities; YCAL, Box 17.

Jean Stein and William vanden Heuvel: The invitation is in YCAL, Box 17; Robert Kennedy to ST, February 2, 1965, YCAL, Box 15.

He did all these things alone: ST used to joke that he could set up a mirror to be like a periscope and use it to look into Mimi Gross’s bedroom, on the fourth floor front of her parents’ house (now a museum); Mimi Gross, interview, March 9, 2010.

“the Nivola family spectacle”: ST to AB, April 8, 1964, SSF.

Ruth Nivola was one of a number of mothers: Ruth Nivola, interview, September 22, 2007; Dore Ashton, interview, February 24, 2010; letter from an unidentified woman in YCAL, Box 75, who objected to ST’s invitation to her fifteen-year-old daughter for a private lunch in Springs.

He even had calling cards printed: These objects remain in the personal collection of Claire Nivola.

“She is fifteen”: Dore Ashton, interviews, January 20, 2009, and February 24, 2010.

“put such temptation”: Mary Carr to ST, on Mademoiselle stationery, December 1, 1966, YCAL, Box 16.

He did, however, frighten Anna: Ricardo Aragno was the literature and culture correspondent for La Stampa. Information that follows is from an interview with Dr. Anna Aragno, December 19, 2007.

The next day he drew her portrait: Because of the limitation on the number of images of ST’s art SSF permitted, I may not reproduce the “Portrait of Anna” here. In the December 19, 2007, interview, she said she was entirely unaware of ST’s relationship with SS until I told her of it. She also said, “There was something inappropriate about him. His behavior was a sort of façade, a mask. You never really touched him; it was all surface.”

“smokey [Bear] hat”: ST, datebook, August 4, 1964, YCAL, Box 3. All information about the trip comes from this datebook, SS’s diary in Box 110, and ST to AB, August 27, 1964.

Several decades later, when she stopped: Information that follows is from SS, “My Life and Travels in Post Cards, Part II, by Sigrid Savage,” YCAL, Box 112. Although this is a continuation of “My Life in Postcards,” she gave it a slightly different title in this continuation of her life with ST.

“Tired now”: ST to AB, August 27, 1964, SSF.

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