ABSTRACT
Mabel returned to New York at the end of December 1939 and stayed until April 1940. On January 1, 1940, she moved into One Fifth Avenue, noted by Time as "that swank Greenwich Village tower", where she planned to host salons in the spirit of her earlier New York gatherings at 23 Fifth Avenue from 1913 to 1917. In the World-Telegram, Mabel announced the schedule for her upcoming evenings, which she planned to host until the spring: on January 12, Thornton Wilder was to discuss James Joyce's new novel, Finnegans Wake. Mabel left New York in April 1940, joining Tony on his trip to Mexico as a delegate to the First Inter-American Conference on Indian Life, organized by John Collier who was still Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Brill next writes to Mabel in quick response to a lost letter of hers that must have recounted the troubling recent visit to Taos of her son, John Evans, and his family.
