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O.Boissevain to Chas.1895

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Brig Marlin on Chas Boiss

Photos 1920, 1930s-1940s

Olga Boissevain

Hilda+Han de Booij

Eugen Boissevain

Robert Boissevain

Edna St. V. Millay

John E. Milholland

J E Milholland 1890s

J E Milholland 1909 1924

Inez Milholland

Group to Restore Painting

Her Suffragist Heroines

Cemetery Meeting 1908

International Women's Day

Inez Letters 1900-1905

Inez & Guglielmo Marconi

Inez & Mayor LaGuardia

Inez Contacts at Vassar

Vassar History 1905-1913

Script for 1998 Pageant

Hilda van Stockum

Hilda van Stockum Index

Why I Write

HvS Obituaries

de Grummond Library Coll.

May Massee Collection

Marlins - Photos

van Hamels

HvS 08-30

Autobiography 1908-1919

Teau Boissevain de Beauft

HvS Sketches 1914

HvS Sketches 1915

HvS from Grandmother 1913

HvS 1920s

HvS Letters 1926-1930

HvS-ERM 1930s

The Snow Queen Story

Spike Love Letters 31-32

1932 Marriage Hilda-Spike

Olga Marlin born '34

A Day on Skates 1934

HvS in NYTimes 1930s

HvS to BvS 1935

Cottage at Bantry Bay '38

HvS in NYTimes 1938

HvS-ERM 1940s

Kersti & St. Nicholas '40

Dutch Resistance 1940-45

HvS and Spike war 1942-46

HvS from ERM 1942

HvS Reviews 1942

HvS to ERM 1943-44

HvS from ERM 1943-46

HvS in NYTimes 1940s

HvS from World Pub. 1945

The Mitchells 1945

HvS from Coblentz 1945

HvS from Coblentz 1947

HvS from Coblentz 1948

HvS from Coblentz 1949

HvS from John Dowling

HvS from Dudley 1949

Gerard Album 1949

HvS-The Little Prince '49

HvS-ERM 1950s

HvS from Dorothy Day

A Heavenly Fantasy-HvS

HvS from Peggy Wink 1951

Dublin-Paris-Laval 1954

Colm's Day 1956

HvS from MaryClaudia 1956

King Oberon ERoosevelt 58

HvS 1960s

1962 The Winged Watchman

HvS from Dr. Liechti 1967

Art as Investment-HvS1961

HvS 1970s

Growing up in Holland HvS

HvS in NYTimes 1972

HvS from Edith c. 1970s

HvS from S. Orven c.1970s

HvS from May Massie 1975

HvS from R. Marlin 1977

HvS Art 1970s

HvS Poetry 1970s

HvS 80s-90s

HvS Published Letters

Articles and Reviews 1990

Letters from Children 90s

HvS Poems to Spike 90-94

From John Major 1997

HvS Happy Bday 1998

HvS 2000 to 2006

2000 Dublin RHA Exhibit

HvS-Bethlehem Books 2000

HvS from Royal Hib. 2000

HvS from Eoin 2005

Memories and Dreams

Willem Jacob van Stockum

WJ van Stockum - bio

Letters, Toronto 1934-36

Princeton IAS 1938-39

News - summer 1944

Olga Marlin

Photographs 1930s

Photographs 1940s

Photographs 1950s

Photographs 1960s

Photographs 1970s

Photographs 1980s

Photographs 1990s

Trinity Coll Dublin Note

Photographs 2000-09

Photographs 2010s

Brigid Marlin

Randal Marlin

Ottawa Citizen March 2010

Sheila Marlin O'Neill

John Tepper Marlin

2012 Holly and Ivy - Poem

2011 Tom Collins Funeral

2010 Washington DC Spring

2010 High Line, NYC

2010 Feb Washington Snow

2008 Blogs and Interviews

2008 Dodge, Mary Louise

2008 Portsmouth Abbey 50

2008 St. Sauveur, France

2008 Valence, France

Time Travel

Elizabeth Bishop Key West

2011 Paris Ile de la Cite

T Collins Bletchley Park

2008 Triremes, Triemiolia

2008 AncientTech-Statues

WW2-Hans de Beaufort

Boissevain Books

Hilda van Stockum Books

Translations by F vHamel

Hilda van Stockum Marlin, 1908-2006
Photos below. For more photos, and obituaries, see www.hildavanstockum.com


1908-1919

1920-29

1930-39


1940-49

1950-59

1960-69

1970-79

1980-89


1990-99


2000-2006

12/28/08 More Letters Transcribed. Dr. David Battista has been typing up early letters. We are also focusing on some World War II letters about the Dutch Resistance.


5/29/08 Many Photos Loaded on the Site. Leslie Wiesman has scanned in many album pages. Note additions especially to Hilda van Stockum decades and to the Olga Marlin decades.


3/6/08 Leslie Wiesman at Work. With the Hilda van Stockum estate wound up (just one or two loose ends remaining), a catalog of her letters and artwork is under way. Leslie Wiesman, an Oklahoma native who has been in Dublin the last few years studying law, is working on Hilda’s early letters, art and writings. We are sorting through and filing each item, inserting the more fragile letters and art in acid-free covers, and separating the Dutch-language from the English-language letters. Files are organized by year or estimated year.


2/9/08. HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY, HILDA (February 9, 1908-November 1, 2006). Sorry you're not with us for it. We are celebrating anyway.


Birthday Party for Hilda
Left to Right: Brigid, Hilda, Sheila
Theo van Gogh, a cousin by marriage of the van Stockums, worked here
van Stockum Bookstore, The Hague
Hilda loved to sit out in the sun
Hilda in Deck Chair, Berkhamsted
See also HvS dedicated web site, which provides links to 50 obituaries and posted appreciations:
Hilda van Stockum
SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Hilda van Stockum
(1908-2006) was the eldest child and only daughter of Capt. Bram van Stockum and Olga Boissevain. She married Ervin Ross Marlin in Dublin in 1932 and followed him to New York City and then Washington, DC, where he joined the FDR Administration based on a competitive exam that took the top 300 people out of about 12,000 people who took the test. (He started at the Farm Credit Administration and moved up to the newly formed Civil Service Administration and then to the Budget Bureau. During World War II he was sent by the OSS under Bill Donovan to Ireland and England.) She wrote and llustrated her first book for children in 1934, "A Day on Skates." It had a foreword by her aunt Edna St. Vincent Millay and won a Newbery runner-up award. During the next four decades she averaged one book per year written, illustrated, translated or some combination. Her first publisher was Harper Brothers. She was then picked up by May Massie of Viking, who remained her faithful editor for 30 years. Other publishers include Constable, the Modern Library and Farrar Straus.
At Brigid's house
Sheila, Liz, Hilda
About 1971
John and Hilda
1980s
Pope John Paul II and Olga
1994 When a Bench Was Also Made for Spike
Hilda on Bench for Her Brother Willem at Trinity College, Dublic
In Berkhamsted
HvS Birthday 1995

  RECENT MESSAGES FROM THE HILDA VAN STOCKUM GUEST BOOK

To access the full Guest Book, click here. The following excerpts have had contact information removed. On the Guest Book itself there is a spam filter, so that spammers can't access the address.

February 27, 2008
I first had to read The Winged Watchman for a 5th grade book report. I loved it! I have since then read 3 of her other books, and they are all as wonderful as The Winged Watchman.
   Chris Mier (New Orleans, LA)

   January 8, 2008
Hello,I live in London,England. I read "Francie on the run" when I was a child of about 9 years old, I am now 58. My mother bought me the book when I was in hospital to cheer me up which it certainly did. I don't know what happened to my book but I have never forgotten the pleasure it gave me. Ms van Stockum was certainly one of the best writers of all time and I am grateful to her for the happy times I had reading the book.
   Claire Johnson (London, England)

   December 7, 2007
Hilda was an awsome writer. She has a way of capturing poem and song in every day words. Everyone I told to read her books is hooked!!! :-)
   Sarah Russek (Delano, MN)

   December 5, 2007
The book Kersti and St. Nicholas has been a tradition to read, in my family, for many years. The book was my mother's. I can still remember my grandmother reading it to us after my mother was grown. I continued this with my children, with memories of my grown son coming to sit at the end of the bed to listen, once again, to this story as I read to my younger ones. This story is now being read to my grandchildren. I had always wished that I could have told the author, Ms. Hilda van Stockum, how much joy this book has brought to my family, but since it was my mother's book, received as a little girl, I assumed the author was no longer living. My mother was born in 1933, and has since passed away. My daughter just found this site. (a year too late). But I want to convey to you the wonderful memories your mother's book has brought to my family.
   Mary White (Baltimore, MD)

   November 3, 2007
Hello, honored to be colleagues of grandson Chris Oakley.
   David & Bonnie Horowitz (New York, NY)

   October 11, 2007
   Jane Van Ostern (Richmond, VA)

   September 30, 2007
Hello, my name is Francis Joseph O'Neil and I knew your mother from Georgetown, Washingtion DC. I ran away and went to the zoo at age three. That was about six miles from my home on M Street. A police man at the zoo asked me where my parents were and when I couldnt tell him he took me to the police station. I remember them setting me up on the desk way up high in the police mans chair and it had two lights, one on each side. The lights had a long slinder post with a globe of white glass mounted on top and i remember then bringing me ice cream. They eventually found my father and took me home. The story of my runway made its way into the washington papers and soon after your mother contacted my parents. Thats is how I came to know your mother. We lived at 3029 M Street and I believed your mother lived up the hill from me about R street. I remember my brother and I went to your mothers house to sit for her illistrations. Years later, I heard from my parents that I might of been inspiration for Francie. I am very sorry to hear of your mothers death and wish i could of found her before she past away. Please let me know any information you have about the origins of francie.

Very Truely Yours
   Francis O'Neil (Opp, AL)

   September 9, 2007
Love from Susan Leffingwel and family. (re: Broek from Utrecht/Van Zwicht-Van Stockum). My grandmother Ruth Heineck Broek knew your mother, and Olga. I remember some of Hilda's beautiful books from my childhood. Much love to your family! A very special lady.
   Susan Leffingwell (oakland, CA)

   May 30, 2007
Being one of the friends who met in Hilda's writing group was a joy and a privilege. Among many interesting characters, over the years, Hilda was the gentle centre. Her strong simple goodness affected us all.
   Judy Vickery (Leighton Buzzard, England)

   May 25, 2007
Dear John and Family, I recently read about Hilda in a Bethlehem Books catalog and felt an instant connection to her and her work. My husband Ron and I have five children and love every minute of it. Yes, even the difficult times. I especially love the encouragement and support your mother gave for large families and family life in general through her writing and art. God Bless You, our sympathies are with you. We are investing in a collection of Hilda's books!
   Angela Bradbury (Keno, OR)
Thanks to Jan Willem, Charles, Willem, Aviva and Iaira Boissevain, and the Dutch Boissevain website (www.boissevain.org) for helpful information. Address for this site: 360 West 22 Street, #17E, New York, NY 10011, USA. +1-212-646-2510. Related websites (some deactivated 2009, reactivated 2011): CityEconomist, CSRNYC, Shopping for a Better World, Hilda van Stockum, Chris Oakley, Oxford-Cambridge NYC Boat Race Dinner. New content © 2008-2013 by John Tepper Marlin, Webmaster, teppermarlin@aol.com and Boissevain Books. Photographs and writings of family members © 2006-2013 by the Estate of Hilda van Stockum and Boissevain Books.

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