The Jay Family of La Rochelle and New York - Province and State A Chronicle of Family Tradition

New York: Colonial Lords of Manor. Very Good+. 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Autograph; 64 pages; Inscribed and Signed at top of title page -- "Susan Mary / Our common background / From / Laura Jay Wells" Family coat of arms on titlepage. "Edition is limited to eleven hundred copies." Contents clean and secure in original stiff card wrappers with printed title label mounted to front wrapper. Laid in is a news clipping describing the gift of a portrait of Chief Justice John Jay to Columbia Univeristy. Mild toning to first and last page. OCLC 1298769469 From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected). ; Signed by Author .