If you have any questions, please put them into the chat and we will get to them at the end of tour. We hope everyone is enjoying the tour so far!

That is an atelier copy of Pan of Rohallion by Frederick MacMoinnes. The original was commissioned by Stanford White for the Rohallion Estate he designed for Dean Adams in Rumson, NJ. The base of the statue says To Pan of Rohallion 1899. The original statue was at the Met for a while, after being discovered in a restaurant in NYC once the Rohallion estate had to be further broken up in the late 1970s.MacMoinnes’ Pan of Rohallion was immensely popular and he made several copies, some of which he sold and many he gave to friends and people he admired.

If the furnishings are not originally Edith’s, was the Pan statue hers specifically or is it a decoration added as appropriate to the time period?

The Pan statue is original.

Thanks

No problem!

Is there a secret room/passage/compartment?

Whose portrait is over the library fireplace?

This is the collection of poems Anne referred to: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Selected-Poems-of-Edith-Wharton/Edith-Wharton/9781501182839

Did Henry James visit her at The Mount?

Thank you for such a great tour and talk!!!

I have to jump off, but WOW. This was a phenomenal tour. Thank you so much!

Yes, thank you for such an interesting presentation.

Where did she write “The Age of Innocence”?

Interested in the friendship with Ken Clarke - presumably he was very young when he knew her?

Thank you so much fascinating combination of revealing details of her life here, and the society she lived in. Best, David Schuyler Bender

Here is our online exhibit on The Age of Innocence: https://www.edithwharton.org/age-of-innocence-exhibit/

Also, we have scanned most, if not all, of the titles and annotations of the books in the library. It's online here: http://sheilaliming.com/ewl/home.html

wonderful!

Thanks so much - this was fascinating. Hope to get to the Mount one day.