Editing E. E. Cummings (section)

===Marriages===
[[File:EECummings pd4.jpg|thumb|upright|Sketched self-portrait circa 1920]]
Cummings was married twice: first to Elaine Orr Thayer in 1924, then to Anne Minnerly Barton in 1929. His longest relationship, with Marion Morehouse, began in 1934, and lasted more than three decades.{{sfnp|Sawyer-Lauçanno|2004|loc=Chapter 14: "Marriage and UnMarriage". pp. 237–254}}

In 1917, before his first marriage, Cummings shared several passionate love letters with a Parisian prostitute, Marie Louise Lallemand.<ref name="guard Alberge">{{Cite news|first= Dalya |last=Alberge |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/19/revealed-how-a-parisian-sex-worker-stole-the-heart-of-poet-ee-cummings |title=Revealed: How a Parisian sex worker stole the heart of poet EE Cummings |newspaper=The Guardian |date=July 19, 2020}}</ref> Despite Cummings's efforts, he was unable to find Lallemand upon his return to Paris after serving at the front.<ref name="guard Alberge" />

Cummings's relationship with Elaine Orr began as a love affair in 1918, while she was still married to [[Scofield Thayer]], one of Cummings' friends from Harvard. During this time, he wrote a large portion of his erotic poetry.<ref name="Kennedy">{{cite book |last1=Cummings |first1=E. E. |editor=Richard S. Kennedy |title=Selected poems |date=1994 |publisher=Liveright |location=New York |isbn=978-0-87140-153-3 |page=72 |url=https://archive.org/details/selectedpoems0000cumm/page/72/|others=With introduction and commentary by Richard S. Kennedy}}</ref>{{sfnp|Sawyer-Lauçanno|2004|pp=145–146}} The couple had a daughter while Orr was still married to Thayer. After Orr divorced Thayer, Cummings and Orr married on March 19, 1924. Thayer had been registered on the child's birth certificate as the father, but Cummings legally adopted her after his marriage to Orr. Although his relationship with Orr stretched back several years, the marriage was brief. On a trip to Paris, Orr met and fell in love with the Irish nobleman, future politician, author, journalist, and former banker [[Frank MacDermot]]. The couple separated after two months of marriage and divorced less than nine months later.<ref name="fountn bio"/>{{sfnp|Sawyer-Lauçanno|2004|loc=Chapter 14: "Marriage and UnMarriage". pp. 237–254}}{{sfnp|Sawyer-Lauçanno|2004|p=161}} 

Cummings married his second wife, Anne Minnerly Barton, on May 1, 1929. They separated three years later in 1932. That same year, Minnerly obtained a [[Mexican divorce]]; it was not officially recognized in the United States until August 1934. Anne died in 1970 aged 72.{{sfnp|Sawyer-Lauçanno|2004|loc=Chapter 14: "Marriage and UnMarriage". pp. 237–254}}

<!--NOTE: The 2 "fact-July 2023" tags interposed in this par, like most of the other 38 such "cite needed" tags defacing the article and placed by A. Prof, an IP, were wholly unjustified, as the 2 cites present cover all the material herein. NOTE ENDS-->In 1934, Cummings met Marion Morehouse, a fashion model and photographer. It is not clear whether the two were ever formally married. Morehouse lived with Cummings until his death in 1962. She died on May 18, 1969,<ref>{{cite news |title=Marion Morehouse Cummings, Poet's Widow, Top Model, Dies |via=NYT Archives|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/05/19/archives/marion-morehouse-cummings-poets-widow-top-model-dies.html |work=The New York Times |date= May 19, 1969|page=47 |language=en|url-access=subscription}}</ref><!--NOTE: Similarly the "full" tag was mistaken, cite WAS complete, to extent required by WP policy; expanded anyway, (took 2 mins to find a link using already present info). Aug 2023.--NOTE ENDS--> while living at 4 [[Patchin Place]], [[Greenwich Village]], New York City, where Cummings had resided since September 1924.{{sfnp|Sawyer-Lauçanno|2004|pp=255, 363, 378–380}}