"The Lotos Club New York Member's Blue Silk Tie"

Description: Sz: 55" x 3" *BB pink OCBD shirt sold separately* The Lotos Club is a private social club in New York City. Founded primarily by a young group of writers and critics in 1870 as a gentlemen's club, it has since begun accepting women as members. Mark Twain, an early member, called it the "Ace of Clubs". The Club took its name from the poem "The Lotos-Eaters" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which was then very popular. Lotos was thought to convey an idea of rest and harmony. Two lines from the poem were selected for the Club motto: In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon The Lotos Club has always had a literary and artistic bent, with the result that it has accumulated a noted collection of American paintings. Its "State Dinners" (1893 menu at right below) are legendary fetes for scholars, artists and sculptors, collectors and connoisseurs, writers and journalists, and politicians and diplomats. Elaborate souvenir menus are produced for these dinners. Notable members: Brooke AstorMikhail BaryshnikovKathleen BattleAndrew CarnegieWalter P. ChryslerMary Higgins ClarkWilliam A. Clark, whose portrait hangs in the clubSamuel ClemensGeorge M. CohanHume CronynMario CuomoDavid DinkinsDwight D. EisenhowerRenee FlemingGilbert and SullivanAlan GilbertSolomon R. GuggenheimWilliam Randolph HearstDavid M. HeymanMarilyn HorneLeslie HowardAlleyne IrelandSir Henry IrvingJoseph KochAngela LansburyLeonard LieblingWynton MarsalisMargaret MeadBurgess MeredithPeter O'TooleWilliam S. PaleyChristopher PlummerJulian RixCharles M. SchwabCyrus Ingerson ScofieldBobby ShortBeverly SillsStephen SondheimIsaac SternElaine StritchSusan StromanMoses J. StroockArthur Hays SulzbergerJessica TandyJ. Walter ThompsonOrson WellesP. G. WodehouseTom WolfeJames WolfensohnFrank Winfield WoolworthAndrew WyethYo-Yo MaJames D. Watson

Price: 250 USD

Location: Bristol, Connecticut

End Time: 2025-01-13T17:30:27.000Z

Shipping Cost: 10 USD