On Apr 21, 6:11*pm, wrote:
* Looking further, I see Landsberger devotes a half-page to a Hedwig
Steinitz, daughter of Wilhelm's half-brother Bernard, who lived in
Prague and apparently never came to the USA. Landsberger writes:

* "In a letter of August 9, 1893, Steinitz wrote that the two oldest
children of Bernard, a boy and a girl, had arrived at his house [the
boy was named Josef -- TK] ... At one time Hedwig told a reporter that
she was not only Steinitz's niece but his adopted daughter; the
reporter quoted her as calling him 'Papa.'"

* So I wonder if the two children mentioned in the obituary were
Hedwig and Josef? Seems possible, though at the time of Steinitz's
death Josef would have been about 25 and Hedwig 22, a bit old to be
dependent children still.- Hide quoted text -

The mystery continues. I will scour my collection of American Chess
Bulletin volumes and see if there is any further information on this.

Thanks for all of your help on this Taylor.


Morphy
www.rookhouse.com

RookHouse wrote:
As reported by the New York Times on August 14, 1900:
http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=177

Do you have any information at all about who wrote the stuff?

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Anders Thulin anders*thulin.name http://www.anders.thulin.name/

On Apr 22, 9:59*am, Anders Thulin
wrote:
RookHouse wrote:
As reported by the New York Times on August 14, 1900:
http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=177

* *Do you have any information at all about who wrote the stuff?

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Anders Thulin * * anders*thulin.name * *http://www.anders.thulin.name/

I cannot find the name of the author of this article. The NY Times
archives only list the date of each article.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...nitz+dead&st=p

RookHouse wrote:

I cannot find the name of the author of this article. The NY Times
archives only list the date of each article.

Thanks for the link.

A pity -- that means that the information may be as confused as some
of the more well-known descriptions of his mental health: some parts OK,
some parts not so OK.

The regular chess reporting in NYT didn't start until 1901 (Whyld), so
there's no knowing who it might have been, either.

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Anders Thulin anders*thulin.name http://www.anders.thulin.name/

On Apr 22, 3:20*pm, Anders Thulin
wrote:

* *A pity -- that means that the information may be as confused as some
of the more well-known descriptions of his mental health: some parts OK,
some parts not so OK.

I know I already posted the NYT link here, but here is the second part
of the obituary (along w/ a couple of Steinitz pics).

http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=182

Did you guys know that some American newspapers had pronounced him
dead in 1897, while he was in the Moscow sanitarium? They posted
retractions 3-4 days later. Pretty BIG mistake, wouldn't you say?