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''(Frontis portrait of Rose Elizabeth Cleveland from George Eliot's Poetry and Other Studies by Rose Elizabeth Cleveland; New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885)''

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'''Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Whipple'''

In 1885-86 Rose Cleveland served as “acting First Lady” for her then-unmarried brother, President Grover Cleveland. Later, she met Evangeline Whipple. 

Their letters pop with passion. Evangeline to Rose: “Oh, darling, come to me this night—my Clevy, my Viking, my Everything—Come!”; Rose to Evangeline: “Ah, Eve, Eve, surely you cannot realize what you are to me...you are mine by everything in earth and heaven.”<ref>Lillian Faderman, ''Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America'' (New York: Penguin, 1991), 32.</ref>

One note sizzles with woman-on-woman erotic role-play timeless as the Nile: "Ah, my Cleopatra [Evangeline] is a very dangerous Queen, but I will…crush those Anthony-seeking lips...because I [Rose] am her Captain…How much kissing can Cleopatra stand?”<ref>Faderman, 33.</ref>

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==[[Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipple: 1889-1918]]==