The Statesman and the Socialite

Widower Carl Schurz moved to New York to live near his love Fanny Chapman, a wealthy socialite from Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Schurz wrote over 1700 letters to Fanny; many of which contain accounts of the life of the wealthy and famous. The sensitive, artistic and personal life of this public figure is framed against the background of New York’s corrupt Gilded Age