Priscilla Hiss

She had two older brothers Dean Fansler (a teacher of English at Columbia University and acquaintance of Mortimer J. Adler, a classmate of Whittaker Chambers[4]) and Henry Fansler (who as the Hiss Case began had moved recently to Preston, Maryland, and whom the FBI reported was a "something of a drunkard"[5]).

[1][2][6] After her husband, Alger, was convicted and imprisoned in the early 1950s, she worked in a bookstore and then as a book editor for publishing houses.

In 1966, her alumni details show her working as copy editor for Harcourt, Brace & World.

In 1972, she was a senior editor for the Golden Press children's imprint of the Western Publishing Company.

[8] On March 17, 1978, The New York Times published a letter from her: Miscarriage of JusticeTo the Editor: For more than a quarter of a century, I have kept silence amid the clamor concerning the conviction of Alger Hiss.

Recently, statements have appeared in print to the effect that I have made remarks indicating that Alger Hiss was guilty.

PRISCILLA HISS New York, March 10, 1978[9] (The letter preceded by just a few days the publication of Allen Weinstein's definitive book Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case.

[12] On December 13, 1929, Priscilla Fansler Hobson married Alger Hiss in Washington, DC.

[6] William L. Marbury Jr. wrote of Priscilla Hiss: I carried away an impression of a rather self-assertive woman, who had no intention of letting Alger "steal the show"...

Mrs. Charles Hiss was a rather masterful character in her own right, and Priscilla was not exactly the type of a submissive daughter-in-law.

(Buttenweiser's uncle, New York Governor Herbert H. Lehman, served on the same "Committee for the Marshall Plan" as Alger Hiss during 1948.

Bernard's family, the Wertheims, included Henry Morgenthau Jr., boss of Harry Dexter White, and Maurice Wertheim and his daughter Barbara W. Tuchman, whose daughter Jessica Matthews later headed the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace half a century after Alger Hiss had.