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Crawford Villa On The Calabrian Coast And His Many Roles
The article profiles F Marion Crawford at Sant Agnello near Naples describing his villa perched above the sea and its Italian labor, his sailings aboard his two masted schooner Alda, his family Eleanor Pietro Claire Harold and Bertram, and his retreat towers. It notes his literary career including To Leeward and Saracinesca, his dramatist work for Sarah Bernhardt, and his planned history of Rome in the Middle Ages. It mentions a letter from Robert Louis Stevenson dated Sydney praising Crawford and previews The Diva's Ruby to be serialized in Sunday Magazine with characters Margaret Logothetis and Van Torp in a tale of oriental beauty and Tartar ruby mine adventures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sant’ Agnello
Cocumetla
Leeward
Saracinesca
Eleanor
Nower
Pietro Rocca
Claire
Harold
Harvard University
Bertram
Oxford
Crawford
Ezra Nye
New York Harbor
New York Yacht Club
Caliibrian
Charles V
Pitthave
New York
Francesca da Kimini
Sarah Bernhardt
Char
Marcel Schwab
Sarah
Maron Crawford
Paris
Rome
Mot Kelly
Tie Bookmane
Lyrie
Robert Lous Stevenson
Sydney
New South Wales
Ruby
Tus
America
Sandy Hook
Margaret
Tashkent
Heroinme
van Torp
Logothetis the Reek Finance
Mediterranean
Beyreuth