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Belle da Costa Greene was born in Washington, D.C. as Belle Marion Greener. Although her birth date is sometimes noted as December 13, 1883, her biographer Heidi Ardizzone gives Greene's birth date as November 26, 1879.
Though they never divorced, Fleet and her daughters changed their name to "Greene" to disassociate themselves from him so that no one would know that they were African American. One of his daughters, Belle da Costa Greene, became the personal librarian to J. P. Morgan and passed for white. [19]
Ida Platt's cousin Richard Theodore Greener was the first African-American graduate of Harvard College, dean of Howard University's School of Law, and a diplomat in Siberia; his daughter Belle da Costa Greene was a prominent librarian. [10] Platt married in 1923, at age 61, and moved to England. She died there on December 10th, 1939, aged 76 years.
Bernard Berenson was also involved in a long relationship with Belle da Costa Greene. Samuels (1987) mentions Mary's "reluctant acceptance (at times)" of this relationship. Cole Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, Bernard Berenson, and Howard Sturges in a gondola, 1923
Belle da Costa Greene, Morgan's personal librarian, became the first director and continued the aggressive acquisition and expansion of the collections of illuminated manuscripts, authors' original manuscripts, incunabula, prints, and drawings, early printed Bibles, and many examples of fine bookbinding. Today the library is a complex of ...
Zere Scholz, whose 8-year-old daughter skates at the rink, said that while Everly and Alydia had very different personalities, they were both hard-working. She described Alydia as "a little ...
Bella's license is suspended for a year, and she is also on probation for six months. She was also required to conduct 25 hours of community service and 20 hours of AA meetings.
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