Murphy, Esther, 1898-1962

found: Cohen, L. All we know, 2012:ECIP galley (Esther Murphy; younger sister of Gerald Murphy, 1888-1964; daughter of Patrick Murphy, public speaker in first decades of 20th century and owner of luxury leather goods company Mark Cross in NYC; integral part of literary New York in 1920s and 30s; Edmund Wilson, Dorothy Parker, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were among her close friends)

found: Yale Univ. Library, Finding aid data base online, Oct. 7, 2011(Esther Murphy (1898-1962); m. John Strachey (1901-1963; divorced 1933); m. Chester A. Arthur III (divorced))

found: Time magazine online, Oct. 7, 2011(Mar. 4, 1929: engaged: John St. Loe Strachey, of London, Laborite candidate for Parliament, son of late editor John St. Loe Strachey of The spectator, cousin of biographer Lytton Strachey; to Miss Esther Murphy, of Manhattan, daughter of Patrick Francis Murphy of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods))

found: Ducharme, D.J. Guide to the Muriel Draper papers, rev. 2010:p. 7 (Arthur, Esther Murphy Strachey)