- Social Security Death Index about Anne M. Bullitt
Name: Anne M. Bullitt
Born: 24 Feb 1924
Died: 18 Aug 2007
State (Year) SSN issued:
District of Columbia (1967)
Obituaries
Anne Moen Bullitt
A daughter of political aristocracy, she had class and culture secondto none.
Sunday August 26 2007
ANNE Moen Bullitt, who died in Dublin last week, was the survivingdaughter of the first United States Ambassador to Russia, a man whowas played by Warren Beatty in the Hollywood film, Reds.
Mrs Bullitt (who was married four times and whose favourite husbandwas a Mr Biddle) lived at Palmerstown House near Kill, Co Dublin.
She was a famous beauty who had what Jane McDonald of The Glassmagazine described as, "an amazing collection" of vintage clothes fromall the famous Parisian designers from the golden era of hautecouture''.
But probably her greatest legacy was that she collected and cataloguedthe papers of her more famous parents, which contained unknown poemsby Eugene O'Neill and manuscripts by Sigmund Freud. They are now amongthe prized possession of Yale University in the USA.
Her father, William Bullitt Jnr, worked for Woodrow Wilson and wassent as a special envoy to Russia to try to establish diplomaticrelations with the Bolshevik regime. But he resigned when he failed toget support from Wilson. A journalist and novelist, he was laterappointed the first US Ambassador to Moscow by Franklin D Roosevelt.
Bullitt was psychoanalysed by Sigmund Freud in Vienna in the late1920s and became a friend of the inventor of psychiatry. So close werethey that they collaborated on a book called Thomas Woodrow Wilson --A Psychological Study, which was published in Europe in the 1930s butdid not appear in the United States until 1967. This controversialwork was called ''a disgrace'' by the historian AJP Taylor, and foryears there were doubts about the contribution of Freud to the work.
However, from papers unearthed by his daughter Anne and kept for atime at Palmerstown House it was clear that Freud was a majorcontributor to the enterprise.
Her mother, Louise Bryant, was a renowned American journalist andradical (played by Diane Keating in the 1981 film Reds) and theirdaughter Anne was born in Paris in 1924. Louise, who was a friend ofEugene O'Neill, Scott Fitzgerald and the Parisian ex-pat set in the1920s, became a chronic alcoholic and William Bullitt got custody ofAnne. Louise Bryant almost never saw her daughter again and spent herlast sad years seeking news of her.
In 2004, Anne Bullitt and her representatives chose to send the papersof both her parents to Yale university and she provided vitalinformation about her parents and their complex histories during theturbulent years at the beginning of the century.
Anne Bullitt, who was independently wealthy, presented the papers toYale in 2005/2006 after she sold Palmerstown House to the developer,Jim Mansfield. She also funded asymposium on the lives of her parentsat the university. She had "truck loads" of vintage clothes andremained interested in fashion until she died.
Anne Bullitt died in a home in Dalkey, Co Dublin, on August 18 at theage of 83. A service of rememberance was held at Rathmichael ParishChurch last Thursday and her remains have been taken to Philadelphiafor burial in accordance with her wishes.
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1924 - 2007 (83 years)
