[1] Her paternal grandfather Greely S. Curtis was a Union Army brigadier general during the American Civil War.

[2] Her birth was mentioned in a personal letter from Henry James to her aunt, his sister-in-law, Louisa Hooper.

[12] In 1930, she and Polly Paltrey lost in the second round of doubles at the annual Essex County women's invitational tennis tournament.

[19] While living in Cleveland, she co-chaired a 1959 LWV study on post-secondary education, and was a trustee of Cuyahoga Community College from 1962 to 1972.

[18] Curtis married physician and medical researcher Thomas Hale Ham in 1936; Polly Palfrey was one of her attendants at the wedding.