Talk:Edward James

message: This page looks like it has been copied from another document about Edward James and Las Pozas, isn't sufficiently wikified, and doesn't state its sources. Sfgreenwood 14:49, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Initial comments 

message: the link in the above article to Monkton house is incorrect.The Monkton house owned by James was built by Lutyens and refurbished by James and Dali in the Surrealist style. The house is located on the South Downs to the West of West Dean near Chillgrove in West Sussex  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.215.253 (talk) 15:38, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected, rather belatedly, Monkton House, West Dean. KJP1 (talk) 11:21, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edward James entry 

message: I removed the following unsourced text; I have some doubts about its accuracy given that a New York Times article has a different date:
: James moved to Xilitla in 1947,where he was proud to be considered a 'brujo' (Spanish for 'wizard'), mainly to grow orchids. After the orchids were destroyed by a freak snowstorm in 1962, he decided to switch to experiments in architecture, copying the plants in vast coloured concrete structures that could never die.
If someone can provide a source for this, by all means put it back into the article (and quote the source, of course). -- John Broughton   (♫♫) 19:11, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
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message: Interesting that Edward is not mentioned in the peerage  as son of William Dodge James and Evelyn Elisabeth Forbes; four daughters are mentioned. It would be good if the article could reconcile its assertions. This mysterious page does mention Edward as 'Edward Frank Willis James', which doesn't jive with the full name presently listed in this article. The often-repeated claim that WDJ (father Daniel James) was a 'railroad magnate' from America never mentions a position or a railroad name or a city; the few sources I've found say no more than 'businessman'. What was the source of WDJ's fortune? Twang (talk) 02:17, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: James senior owned copper mines - useful for all those telegraph systems. As for Edward, he is also in Swans Reflecting Elephants, which he owned and commissioned, in the white shirt on the left.86.42.193.113 (talk) 23:40, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Mysteries

message: Las Pozas is a true work of art and deserves an article of its own. I stayed there as Edward's guest in the 1970s; when he was in Europe Edward often stayed with us in Ireland. On his ancestry, I've checked Burke's Peerage (2007- vol 1, p.1458 col2) which adds nothing to the above comments.PatrickGuinness (talk) 10:59, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Las Pozas 

message: The gravestone describes him as a poet, but this aspect of his life is buried away as essentially a footnote; there's just a list of (privately-published) books. Can we assume that he wasn't a very good poet? -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 12:45, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poet 

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