The price of the home was reported in modern press accounts to be $11 million, of which $7 million was spent on 500,000 cubic feet of marble. Upon its completion, Mr. Vanderbilt gave the house to his spouse as a thirty ninth birthday present. Mr. Vanderbilt was the grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who established the Household’s fortune in steamships and the New York Central Railroad. Alva Vanderbilt was a leading hostess in Newport society, and envisioned Marble House as her “temple to the humanities” in America.
The volume had been given to him the previous Christmas by Wilson, who included the message “Greg, made me consider you.” Before acknowledging that he gave the book to House, Wilson tells two of the staff members that its source was a patient, Irene Adler. Season 7 episode three features a younger grownup boyhood detective e-book series written by the affected person, …
