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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yourturntoloveit, post: 6742, member: 57&quot;](With apologies to Paul Harvey)&nbsp; And now for the rest of the story . . . .</p><p><br /></p><p>Both were bought about twenty years ago at a local estate sale.&nbsp; I had them reframed and saved the backing off each of the two old frames because it had the following information:&nbsp; an old blue with ivory lettering &quot;Woodward and Lothrop Art Pictures and Picture Frame Dept. Washington, D.C.&quot; label as well as the following cursive handwriting in blue ink:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Southern Pines, N.C.</p><p>From -- Consul to Sweden -- Mr. Ives</p><p>Name -- Buffie (Elizabeth) Stevenson</p><p>(She is Adlai Stevenson&#039;s sister)&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the link to the Elizabeth Stevenson Ives obituary in the Chicago <u>Tribune</u> -- </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-06-29/news/9406290080_1_historic-preservation-campaigner-white-house" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-06-29/news/9406290080_1_historic-preservation-campaigner-white-house" rel="nofollow">http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-06-29/news/9406290080_1_historic-preservation-campaigner-white-house</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I had wondered about the &quot;Southern Pines, NC&quot; notation on the old backing -- but the obituary shows Elizabeth Stevenson Ives also living in Pinehurst (which is a mere hop, skip, and jump from Southern Pines).</p><p><br /></p><p>The obituary in the Chicago <u>Tribune</u> also mentions Mr. Ives&#039; foreign service (diplomatic) postings as including Copenhagen (not exactly a hop, skip, and jump to Sweden, but still in Scandinavia).</p><p><br /></p><p>And now for an aside about &quot;Buffy&quot; Stevenson Ives -- </p><p><br /></p><p>Quoted from Ralph G. Martin&#039;s book <u>The Woman He Loved</u>, Simon &amp; Schuster, 1973,, at Page 154:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson was nevertheless accepted at court. . . .&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Another presentee that day was Adlai Stevenson&#039;s sister, Mrs. Ernest L. &quot;Buffie&quot; Ives.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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