TLS, two pages, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, July 14, 1926. Swanson writes to Mr. Carr. In part: “Arriving a short time ago from Atlantic City where I had been to recuperate from a little breakdown occasioned by overwork, my dear friend, Lois Wilson, told me of an unpleasant rumor which seems to have quite taken root among people I know on the Coast. I wouldn’t pay any attention to it if she hadn’t told me that you had been one of its sponsors…. It seems that I am supposed to have cabled to some lawyer on the Coast to investigate my husband’s title at the time the preposterous rumor of his being an imposter came out in some newspapers of the United States…. Naturally, I didn’t like the idea of my husband being called a liar and an imposter by my own people…. Besides, if I were going to investigate something about someone who came over on the ‘Mayflower,’ I wouldn’t have a French attorney, would you? and why won’t people just accept the idea that I might be in love with him and happy, really happy…. I only attach importance to rumors when I know that friends I esteem give credit to them. Didn’t it ever occur to you that whoever started this rumor might have done so with the idea of getting publicity for themselves? And now, a thousand thanks to you for the kind and real things you have said about me. I know this last line should be the first—but that’s human nature.” Swanson married sometime actor and director Henri le Bailly, the Marquis de La Coudraye de la Falaise, on January 28, 1925; they divorced in November 1931. Light wrinkling, otherwise fine condition. R&R COA.
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