Margaret Hayden Rector correspondence with August Belmont IV, 1992 – 1993

MS.097.02.002
Scope and Content
Letters within this file discuss family relationships, Belmont and Vanderbilt family history and burials, horse racing and financial burdens. Highlights include a letter written on October 26, 1992 by August explaining that he never met Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, and the fact that she left him $100,000, Belcourt and some Bailey’s Beach bath houses after her death in 1933 was very much a surprise to him. The letter reveals that he was in no position to inherit Belcourt as “the depression was on and the market for such a place did not readily appear.” His uncle, Perry Belmont, bid at the foreclosure sale and sent August $500 taking the title to the property. A large majority of the letters within this folder discuss August’s horses being trained at Taylor Mill in Western Maryland then being sent to Camden, South Carolina. There is also a letter regarding the 1993 Kentucky Derby.
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