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	The following Note includes details about Trella Toland's autograph book. The signatures within the book give insight into both Trella and Clara's life and relationships. The Autograph book can be found online at the WLH Website.		The following Note includes details about Trella Toland's autograph book. The signatures within the book give insight into both Trella and Clara's life and relationships. The Autograph book can be found online at the WLH Website.

-	~~Elias Shortridge~~ is ~~mentioned~~ on pages 4-6, 12, 15, 19-20, 65, 74, ~~133~~-34, ~~214~~, ~~220~~ of ''Woman Lawyer''.	+	Additional information about "[https://wlh.law.stanford.edu/woman-lawyer/claras-legacy/trella-foltz-toland/ Trella Evelyn Foltz]'' ''is available at the Women's Legal History website, in'' ''[http://wlh-wiki.law.stanford.edu/index.php/Trella_Toland_and_Her_Autograph_Book Chapter 4]'', ''and on pages 6, 27, 40, 80, 86-87, 110, 124-25, 134, 174, 197-98, 211, 257 of'' Woman Lawyer.
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		+	For more on Trella’s career, see on-line note, ''[http://wlh-static.law.stanford.edu/trella/TF-autograph_book.pdf 'Trella Toland and Her Autograph Book']''. She is mentioned in Chapters Two, Four, and Five.

	==The Autograph Book==		==The Autograph Book==

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	The following Note includes details about Trella Toland's autograph book. The signatures within the book give insight into both Trella and Clara's life and relationships. The Autograph book can be found online at the WLH Website.		The following Note includes details about Trella Toland's autograph book. The signatures within the book give insight into both Trella and Clara's life and relationships. The Autograph book can be found online at the WLH Website.
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		+	Elias Shortridge is mentioned on pages 4-6, 12, 15, 19-20, 65, 74, 133-34, 214, 220 of ''Woman Lawyer''.

	==The Autograph Book==		==The Autograph Book==

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	The following Note includes details about Trella Toland's autograph book. The signatures within the book give insight into both Trella and Clara's life and relationships. The Autograph book can be found online at the WLH Website.		The following Note includes details about Trella Toland's autograph book. The signatures within the book give insight into both Trella and Clara's life and relationships. The Autograph book can be found online at the WLH Website.

-	=The Autograph Book=	+	==The Autograph Book==

	Trella Foltz Toland’s autograph book is revealing about her own life, her mother's life, and Bohemian New York in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Over two-thirds of the 83 signatures and messages were entered when Foltz was in New York; many reflect her connections as much or more than Trella’s. Lillie Devereux Blake is here for instance, and so is Elizabeth Cady Stanton signing the book on her birthday in 1896 (“man and woman—a simultaneous creation”). Signatures torn from letters by T.C. Platt, Edward Lauterbach, and Lemuel Quigg, New York politicians in 1897, were probably responses to Foltz’s public defender campaign. See text at Chapter Seven.		Trella Foltz Toland’s autograph book is revealing about her own life, her mother's life, and Bohemian New York in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Over two-thirds of the 83 signatures and messages were entered when Foltz was in New York; many reflect her connections as much or more than Trella’s. Lillie Devereux Blake is here for instance, and so is Elizabeth Cady Stanton signing the book on her birthday in 1896 (“man and woman—a simultaneous creation”). Signatures torn from letters by T.C. Platt, Edward Lauterbach, and Lemuel Quigg, New York politicians in 1897, were probably responses to Foltz’s public defender campaign. See text at Chapter Seven.
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-	==Writers and Journalists==	+	===Writers and Journalists===
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	Well known writers and journalists such as Richard Harding Davis, who would soon be making headlines by his reporting of the Spanish American War, appeared in these pages in 1896. Richard Harding Davis was also a noted journalist, See LARZER ZIFF, THE AMERICAN 1890’S: LIFE AND TIMES OF A LOST GENERATION 177-84 (1966). Lorimer Stoddard, a well-known playwright, signed on the same page as Homer Davenport, a cartoonist for Hearst’s New York Journal. Davenport’s attacks on the trusts actually led to introduction of an anti-cartoon bill in the 1897 New York Legislature; WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICA, 1897-1942 (Homer Davenport entry). ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE, TO THE BEST OF MY MEMORY (1930)wrote about the same time period and many of the journalists and actors that appear in Trella's book.		Well known writers and journalists such as Richard Harding Davis, who would soon be making headlines by his reporting of the Spanish American War, appeared in these pages in 1896. Richard Harding Davis was also a noted journalist, See LARZER ZIFF, THE AMERICAN 1890’S: LIFE AND TIMES OF A LOST GENERATION 177-84 (1966). Lorimer Stoddard, a well-known playwright, signed on the same page as Homer Davenport, a cartoonist for Hearst’s New York Journal. Davenport’s attacks on the trusts actually led to introduction of an anti-cartoon bill in the 1897 New York Legislature; WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICA, 1897-1942 (Homer Davenport entry). ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE, TO THE BEST OF MY MEMORY (1930)wrote about the same time period and many of the journalists and actors that appear in Trella's book.


-	==Actors==	+	===Actors===
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	The actors were perahps the most impressive signatues she had in her book —some of the greatest figures of the day: Ada Rehan, with a quote from her favorite Shakespearean role, “they call me Kate that do speak of me,” signed. So did Sarah Bernhardt in her native French. Rose Eytinge, an actress admired by Abraham Lincoln now near the end of her career, probably added her name when she and Trella played together in the popular American farce, All the Comforts of Home, produced by one of the giants in the business, Charles Frohman. ''Comforts'' originally starred Maude Adams in the ingénue role Trella Toland assumed in a later production, which also included Eytinge. See [untitled item] THE WAVE, Nov. 14, 1891, at 3, c. 2 (“This talented young lady is with the Frohman Company, playing one of the leading parts in ‘All the Comforts of Home.’ Miss Foltz has received many flattering notices from Eastern critics and her work with Frohman’s troupe of excellent mummers has been highly commended.”).		The actors were perahps the most impressive signatues she had in her book —some of the greatest figures of the day: Ada Rehan, with a quote from her favorite Shakespearean role, “they call me Kate that do speak of me,” signed. So did Sarah Bernhardt in her native French. Rose Eytinge, an actress admired by Abraham Lincoln now near the end of her career, probably added her name when she and Trella played together in the popular American farce, All the Comforts of Home, produced by one of the giants in the business, Charles Frohman. ''Comforts'' originally starred Maude Adams in the ingénue role Trella Toland assumed in a later production, which also included Eytinge. See [untitled item] THE WAVE, Nov. 14, 1891, at 3, c. 2 (“This talented young lady is with the Frohman Company, playing one of the leading parts in ‘All the Comforts of Home.’ Miss Foltz has received many flattering notices from Eastern critics and her work with Frohman’s troupe of excellent mummers has been highly commended.”).


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	Not only actors, but others who supported theater people, were in the book. Theodore Manceau photographer, Niblo, the son of one of the first impresarios, whose Niblo’s Garden was the scene of much early theater, and the pastor of the “little church around the corner” -- all were in Trella’s book. The Anglican Church on East 29th St. had its nickname from an event many years earlier. A Presbyterian minister had refused to bury an actor, but had said the “little church around the corner” did that sort of thing. Publicized by Joseph Jefferson, the leading comic actor of the day (also a signer of Trella’s book), the incident created a lasting bond between the little church and the actors.		Not only actors, but others who supported theater people, were in the book. Theodore Manceau photographer, Niblo, the son of one of the first impresarios, whose Niblo’s Garden was the scene of much early theater, and the pastor of the “little church around the corner” -- all were in Trella’s book. The Anglican Church on East 29th St. had its nickname from an event many years earlier. A Presbyterian minister had refused to bury an actor, but had said the “little church around the corner” did that sort of thing. Publicized by Joseph Jefferson, the leading comic actor of the day (also a signer of Trella’s book), the incident created a lasting bond between the little church and the actors.
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-	==Trella's Family: William Toland, Sam Shortridge, and Virginia Toland==	+	===Trella's Family: William Toland, Sam Shortridge, and Virginia Toland===
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	The autograph book also reflects the suit brought on behalf of Trella’s son, William, challenging the will of his paternal grandmother, which left him only a nominal amount. Will of Mrs. Toland, S.F. CALL, Nov. 30, 1895. Sam Shortridge filed a suit contesting the will on William’s behalf early in 1896, and the papers printed large pictures of the darling boy, so mysteriously short-changed by his formerly doting grandmother. The matter was just heating up in June of 1896 when Uncle Sam wrote in Trella’s book “come back to us—to our home and heart; to those who love, and would serve you.” “Uncle Sam,” autograph book, June 22, 1896 [BB and all: not sure we’ve set up a standard format for signatures in the autograph book. Used this as the default for now]. Trella’s return with William would certainly have helped the case, but she did not go back.		The autograph book also reflects the suit brought on behalf of Trella’s son, William, challenging the will of his paternal grandmother, which left him only a nominal amount. Will of Mrs. Toland, S.F. CALL, Nov. 30, 1895. Sam Shortridge filed a suit contesting the will on William’s behalf early in 1896, and the papers printed large pictures of the darling boy, so mysteriously short-changed by his formerly doting grandmother. The matter was just heating up in June of 1896 when Uncle Sam wrote in Trella’s book “come back to us—to our home and heart; to those who love, and would serve you.” “Uncle Sam,” autograph book, June 22, 1896 [BB and all: not sure we’ve set up a standard format for signatures in the autograph book. Used this as the default for now]. Trella’s return with William would certainly have helped the case, but she did not go back.
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	Nineteenth century autograph books were both keepsakes and journals. Trella Toland twice wrote notes to herself and at some point she went back over the book and filled in dates and places. Famous people kept autographs of their peers, just as the more obscure gathered the signatures of the famous. For example, Nellie Melba, the world-renowned opera singer who signed “Art is the friend that never fails” in French for Trella, told of covering over an emotional moment with a friend, who was a well-known author, by asking him to write in her autograph book. NELLIE MELBA, MELODIES AND MEMORIES 127 (1925). See W.K. McNeil, The Autograph Album Custom: A Tradition and Its Scholarly Treatment, 13 KEYSTORE FOLKLORE Q. 29 (1968).		Nineteenth century autograph books were both keepsakes and journals. Trella Toland twice wrote notes to herself and at some point she went back over the book and filled in dates and places. Famous people kept autographs of their peers, just as the more obscure gathered the signatures of the famous. For example, Nellie Melba, the world-renowned opera singer who signed “Art is the friend that never fails” in French for Trella, told of covering over an emotional moment with a friend, who was a well-known author, by asking him to write in her autograph book. NELLIE MELBA, MELODIES AND MEMORIES 127 (1925). See W.K. McNeil, The Autograph Album Custom: A Tradition and Its Scholarly Treatment, 13 KEYSTORE FOLKLORE Q. 29 (1968).

-	==Isaac Trumbo==	+
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	Though many of the names in Trella’s book are lost to memory today, everyone except “Brother Foltzy” (David) enjoyed some measure of celebrity at the time of signing. Isaac Trumbo was one of the quite famous names that now have small resonance. In the book he wrote: “To one of the company of great women of the world,” a compliment probably directed to Clara Foltz, the suffragist, rather than her daughter, the actress. The date was June 22, 1896.		Though many of the names in Trella’s book are lost to memory today, everyone except “Brother Foltzy” (David) enjoyed some measure of celebrity at the time of signing. Isaac Trumbo was one of the quite famous names that now have small resonance. In the book he wrote: “To one of the company of great women of the world,” a compliment probably directed to Clara Foltz, the suffragist, rather than her daughter, the actress. The date was June 22, 1896.

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-	==Trella's Family: William Toland, Sam Shortridge, Virginia Toland~~, and David Foltz~~==	+	==Trella's Family: William Toland, Sam Shortridge, and Virginia Toland==

	The autograph book also reflects the suit brought on behalf of Trella’s son, William, challenging the will of his paternal grandmother, which left him only a nominal amount. Will of Mrs. Toland, S.F. CALL, Nov. 30, 1895. Sam Shortridge filed a suit contesting the will on William’s behalf early in 1896, and the papers printed large pictures of the darling boy, so mysteriously short-changed by his formerly doting grandmother. The matter was just heating up in June of 1896 when Uncle Sam wrote in Trella’s book “come back to us—to our home and heart; to those who love, and would serve you.” “Uncle Sam,” autograph book, June 22, 1896 [BB and all: not sure we’ve set up a standard format for signatures in the autograph book. Used this as the default for now]. Trella’s return with William would certainly have helped the case, but she did not go back.		The autograph book also reflects the suit brought on behalf of Trella’s son, William, challenging the will of his paternal grandmother, which left him only a nominal amount. Will of Mrs. Toland, S.F. CALL, Nov. 30, 1895. Sam Shortridge filed a suit contesting the will on William’s behalf early in 1896, and the papers printed large pictures of the darling boy, so mysteriously short-changed by his formerly doting grandmother. The matter was just heating up in June of 1896 when Uncle Sam wrote in Trella’s book “come back to us—to our home and heart; to those who love, and would serve you.” “Uncle Sam,” autograph book, June 22, 1896 [BB and all: not sure we’ve set up a standard format for signatures in the autograph book. Used this as the default for now]. Trella’s return with William would certainly have helped the case, but she did not go back.
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	Nineteenth century autograph books were both keepsakes and journals. Trella Toland twice wrote notes to herself and at some point she went back over the book and filled in dates and places. Famous people kept autographs of their peers, just as the more obscure gathered the signatures of the famous. For example, Nellie Melba, the world-renowned opera singer who signed “Art is the friend that never fails” in French for Trella, told of covering over an emotional moment with a friend, who was a well-known author, by asking him to write in her autograph book. NELLIE MELBA, MELODIES AND MEMORIES 127 (1925). See W.K. McNeil, The Autograph Album Custom: A Tradition and Its Scholarly Treatment, 13 KEYSTORE FOLKLORE Q. 29 (1968).		Nineteenth century autograph books were both keepsakes and journals. Trella Toland twice wrote notes to herself and at some point she went back over the book and filled in dates and places. Famous people kept autographs of their peers, just as the more obscure gathered the signatures of the famous. For example, Nellie Melba, the world-renowned opera singer who signed “Art is the friend that never fails” in French for Trella, told of covering over an emotional moment with a friend, who was a well-known author, by asking him to write in her autograph book. NELLIE MELBA, MELODIES AND MEMORIES 127 (1925). See W.K. McNeil, The Autograph Album Custom: A Tradition and Its Scholarly Treatment, 13 KEYSTORE FOLKLORE Q. 29 (1968).
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	==Isaac Trumbo==		==Isaac Trumbo==

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	The following Note includes details about Trella Toland's autograph book. The signatures within the book give insight into both Trella and Clara's life and relationships. The Autograph book can be found online at the WLH Website.		The following Note includes details about Trella Toland's autograph book. The signatures within the book give insight into both Trella and Clara's life and relationships. The Autograph book can be found online at the WLH Website.

-	==The Autograph Book==	+	=The Autograph Book=

	Trella Foltz Toland’s autograph book is revealing about her own life, her mother's life, and Bohemian New York in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Over two-thirds of the 83 signatures and messages were entered when Foltz was in New York; many reflect her connections as much or more than Trella’s. Lillie Devereux Blake is here for instance, and so is Elizabeth Cady Stanton signing the book on her birthday in 1896 (“man and woman—a simultaneous creation”). Signatures torn from letters by T.C. Platt, Edward Lauterbach, and Lemuel Quigg, New York politicians in 1897, were probably responses to Foltz’s public defender campaign. See text at Chapter Seven.		Trella Foltz Toland’s autograph book is revealing about her own life, her mother's life, and Bohemian New York in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Over two-thirds of the 83 signatures and messages were entered when Foltz was in New York; many reflect her connections as much or more than Trella’s. Lillie Devereux Blake is here for instance, and so is Elizabeth Cady Stanton signing the book on her birthday in 1896 (“man and woman—a simultaneous creation”). Signatures torn from letters by T.C. Platt, Edward Lauterbach, and Lemuel Quigg, New York politicians in 1897, were probably responses to Foltz’s public defender campaign. See text at Chapter Seven.
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	Odd coincidences connected some of the people in the book. Clark Bell, a well-known lawyer, had for instance defended the sanity of George Francis Train—another signatory. Clark Bell, Speech before Chief Justice C.P. Daly in Sanity Inquiry of George Francis Train (1873). Train was one of the most divisive and fascinating characters in suffrage history; an early backer of Anthony and Stanton, his racist views impeded their progress as much as his wealth advanced it. He had been the original model for Jules Verne’s popular novel, AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. When he signed Trella’s book, Train had become an urban eccentric, residing in an apartment hotel for poor working men and still in the papers often. WILLIS THORNTON, THE NINE LIVES OF CITIZEN TRAIN (1948); PATRICIA G. HOLLAND, GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN AND THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT, 1867-70; From Books at Iowa [BB: Is this a book? Magazine?] 46 (1987). Bell authored a piece on the Maybrick case, noted in the same issue of the American Law Review where Foltz’s public defender piece appeared. Clark Bell, The Legal Aspect of the Maybrick Case, 31 AM. L. REV. 436 (1897) (published in Medico-legal journal).		Odd coincidences connected some of the people in the book. Clark Bell, a well-known lawyer, had for instance defended the sanity of George Francis Train—another signatory. Clark Bell, Speech before Chief Justice C.P. Daly in Sanity Inquiry of George Francis Train (1873). Train was one of the most divisive and fascinating characters in suffrage history; an early backer of Anthony and Stanton, his racist views impeded their progress as much as his wealth advanced it. He had been the original model for Jules Verne’s popular novel, AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. When he signed Trella’s book, Train had become an urban eccentric, residing in an apartment hotel for poor working men and still in the papers often. WILLIS THORNTON, THE NINE LIVES OF CITIZEN TRAIN (1948); PATRICIA G. HOLLAND, GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN AND THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT, 1867-70; From Books at Iowa [BB: Is this a book? Magazine?] 46 (1987). Bell authored a piece on the Maybrick case, noted in the same issue of the American Law Review where Foltz’s public defender piece appeared. Clark Bell, The Legal Aspect of the Maybrick Case, 31 AM. L. REV. 436 (1897) (published in Medico-legal journal).
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	==Writers and Journalists==		==Writers and Journalists==

	Well known writers and journalists such as Richard Harding Davis, who would soon be making headlines by his reporting of the Spanish American War, appeared in these pages in 1896. Richard Harding Davis was also a noted journalist, See LARZER ZIFF, THE AMERICAN 1890’S: LIFE AND TIMES OF A LOST GENERATION 177-84 (1966). Lorimer Stoddard, a well-known playwright, signed on the same page as Homer Davenport, a cartoonist for Hearst’s New York Journal. Davenport’s attacks on the trusts actually led to introduction of an anti-cartoon bill in the 1897 New York Legislature; WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICA, 1897-1942 (Homer Davenport entry). ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE, TO THE BEST OF MY MEMORY (1930)wrote about the same time period and many of the journalists and actors that appear in Trella's book.		Well known writers and journalists such as Richard Harding Davis, who would soon be making headlines by his reporting of the Spanish American War, appeared in these pages in 1896. Richard Harding Davis was also a noted journalist, See LARZER ZIFF, THE AMERICAN 1890’S: LIFE AND TIMES OF A LOST GENERATION 177-84 (1966). Lorimer Stoddard, a well-known playwright, signed on the same page as Homer Davenport, a cartoonist for Hearst’s New York Journal. Davenport’s attacks on the trusts actually led to introduction of an anti-cartoon bill in the 1897 New York Legislature; WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICA, 1897-1942 (Homer Davenport entry). ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE, TO THE BEST OF MY MEMORY (1930)wrote about the same time period and many of the journalists and actors that appear in Trella's book.
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	==Actors==		==Actors==

	The actors were perahps the most impressive signatues she had in her book —some of the greatest figures of the day: Ada Rehan, with a quote from her favorite Shakespearean role, “they call me Kate that do speak of me,” signed. So did Sarah Bernhardt in her native French. Rose Eytinge, an actress admired by Abraham Lincoln now near the end of her career, probably added her name when she and Trella played together in the popular American farce, All the Comforts of Home, produced by one of the giants in the business, Charles Frohman. ''Comforts'' originally starred Maude Adams in the ingénue role Trella Toland assumed in a later production, which also included Eytinge. See [untitled item] THE WAVE, Nov. 14, 1891, at 3, c. 2 (“This talented young lady is with the Frohman Company, playing one of the leading parts in ‘All the Comforts of Home.’ Miss Foltz has received many flattering notices from Eastern critics and her work with Frohman’s troupe of excellent mummers has been highly commended.”).		The actors were perahps the most impressive signatues she had in her book —some of the greatest figures of the day: Ada Rehan, with a quote from her favorite Shakespearean role, “they call me Kate that do speak of me,” signed. So did Sarah Bernhardt in her native French. Rose Eytinge, an actress admired by Abraham Lincoln now near the end of her career, probably added her name when she and Trella played together in the popular American farce, All the Comforts of Home, produced by one of the giants in the business, Charles Frohman. ''Comforts'' originally starred Maude Adams in the ingénue role Trella Toland assumed in a later production, which also included Eytinge. See [untitled item] THE WAVE, Nov. 14, 1891, at 3, c. 2 (“This talented young lady is with the Frohman Company, playing one of the leading parts in ‘All the Comforts of Home.’ Miss Foltz has received many flattering notices from Eastern critics and her work with Frohman’s troupe of excellent mummers has been highly commended.”).
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	==Theater People==		==Theater People==
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	At any rate, her writings and autograph collection show that Trella was leading a glamorous and successful life in the mid-nineties. Her address was on 23 Street, right in the theater, restaurant and shopping district—and near the newly electrified section of Broadway known as the great white way. Many actors, artists, and literary types lived in the area, and the streets were alive with well-dressed, good-looking people, who worked there or came to shop or dine. EDWIN G. BURROWS & MIKE WALLACE, GOTHAM: A HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY TO 1898, 1066 (1999) (on neighborhood and great white way).		At any rate, her writings and autograph collection show that Trella was leading a glamorous and successful life in the mid-nineties. Her address was on 23 Street, right in the theater, restaurant and shopping district—and near the newly electrified section of Broadway known as the great white way. Many actors, artists, and literary types lived in the area, and the streets were alive with well-dressed, good-looking people, who worked there or came to shop or dine. EDWIN G. BURROWS & MIKE WALLACE, GOTHAM: A HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY TO 1898, 1066 (1999) (on neighborhood and great white way).
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	==Trella's Family: William Toland, Sam Shortridge, Virginia Toland, and David Foltz==		==Trella's Family: William Toland, Sam Shortridge, Virginia Toland, and David Foltz==
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	Nineteenth century autograph books were both keepsakes and journals. Trella Toland twice wrote notes to herself and at some point she went back over the book and filled in dates and places. Famous people kept autographs of their peers, just as the more obscure gathered the signatures of the famous. For example, Nellie Melba, the world-renowned opera singer who signed “Art is the friend that never fails” in French for Trella, told of covering over an emotional moment with a friend, who was a well-known author, by asking him to write in her autograph book. NELLIE MELBA, MELODIES AND MEMORIES 127 (1925). See W.K. McNeil, The Autograph Album Custom: A Tradition and Its Scholarly Treatment, 13 KEYSTORE FOLKLORE Q. 29 (1968).		Nineteenth century autograph books were both keepsakes and journals. Trella Toland twice wrote notes to herself and at some point she went back over the book and filled in dates and places. Famous people kept autographs of their peers, just as the more obscure gathered the signatures of the famous. For example, Nellie Melba, the world-renowned opera singer who signed “Art is the friend that never fails” in French for Trella, told of covering over an emotional moment with a friend, who was a well-known author, by asking him to write in her autograph book. NELLIE MELBA, MELODIES AND MEMORIES 127 (1925). See W.K. McNeil, The Autograph Album Custom: A Tradition and Its Scholarly Treatment, 13 KEYSTORE FOLKLORE Q. 29 (1968).
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	==Isaac Trumbo==		==Isaac Trumbo==

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	He moved back to San Francisco for a long slide into financial oblivion and political obscurity. In July, 1897 Clara Foltz sued him there, claiming a total of $8600 for legal fees and for indebtedness on a note he had given her a year earlier, shortly after signing the autograph book. Clara Foltz Sues Colonel Trumbo, S. F. CALL, July 3, 1897. She came in from New York for the trial in early February, 1898. Her old friend Grove Johnson was representing Foltz, but she took over and settled the case herself in a whispered exchange with Trumbo as they waited in court. Johnson seemed surprised but made no comment. The details of the settlement were not reported, though one paper indicated that they were “juicy.” Clara Foltz Compromises: Her Suit Against Isaac Trumbo Will Not Come to Trial, S. F. CALL, Feb. 6, 1898.		He moved back to San Francisco for a long slide into financial oblivion and political obscurity. In July, 1897 Clara Foltz sued him there, claiming a total of $8600 for legal fees and for indebtedness on a note he had given her a year earlier, shortly after signing the autograph book. Clara Foltz Sues Colonel Trumbo, S. F. CALL, July 3, 1897. She came in from New York for the trial in early February, 1898. Her old friend Grove Johnson was representing Foltz, but she took over and settled the case herself in a whispered exchange with Trumbo as they waited in court. Johnson seemed surprised but made no comment. The details of the settlement were not reported, though one paper indicated that they were “juicy.” Clara Foltz Compromises: Her Suit Against Isaac Trumbo Will Not Come to Trial, S. F. CALL, Feb. 6, 1898.
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	What did Foltz do for Trumbo in the year before she sued him? Nothing in the press coverage of the suit mentions anything specific except to say that part of the claim was on a note of indebtedness. The timing of the suit and Foltz’s actions afterwards suggest that the lawsuit was connected to the Clara Foltz Gold-mining company, started in the late 1890s. Indeed, she stopped in Idaho, the location of the gold mine, on her way back to New York after the aborted trial in Foltz v. Trumbo. Foltz went directly to Boisie where a gold mine she had earlier incorporated as the Idaho-Klondike Mining company, was located. Foltz told the local papers she had an interest in the property and shortly afterwards it was re-named the Clara Foltz Gold Mining Company. Eminent New York Attorney Now in Boisie; A Woman of Affairs; has Been Prominent in the Cause of Equal Suffrage for a Great Many Years, Idaho Daily Statesman, Feb. 21, 1898.		What did Foltz do for Trumbo in the year before she sued him? Nothing in the press coverage of the suit mentions anything specific except to say that part of the claim was on a note of indebtedness. The timing of the suit and Foltz’s actions afterwards suggest that the lawsuit was connected to the Clara Foltz Gold-mining company, started in the late 1890s. Indeed, she stopped in Idaho, the location of the gold mine, on her way back to New York after the aborted trial in Foltz v. Trumbo. Foltz went directly to Boisie where a gold mine she had earlier incorporated as the Idaho-Klondike Mining company, was located. Foltz told the local papers she had an interest in the property and shortly afterwards it was re-named the Clara Foltz Gold Mining Company. Eminent New York Attorney Now in Boisie; A Woman of Affairs; has Been Prominent in the Cause of Equal Suffrage for a Great Many Years, Idaho Daily Statesman, Feb. 21, 1898.

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