Ethel Latimer Cram (1868-1905)
of 5 East 38th Street, New York & Lenox, Massachusetts; died unmarried
Her miniature seen here was painted by Carl A. Weidner in 1905. She was a close friend and confidante of Edith Wharton. Daniel Berkeley Updike wrote: "To Ethel Cram... Edith listened, and had she lived, perhaps Edith's life in certain respects might have been different... Ethel Cram was perhaps the person who had the most influence with her at that period (her years at The Mount in Lenox), for she had intellectual capacities that Edith respected and had clear and unswerving views which gave her certainty on matters about which Edith was not so sure. Ethel was a woman of the world without being a worldly woman."
