Edith Sitwell
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51 See Tyler, 308 and passim.
52 ES to Siegfried Sassoon, 16 March 1932, Holland Library, WSU.
53 ES to Siegfried Sassoon, 22 March 1932, Holland Library, WSU.
54 SLES, 134.
55 ES to PT, c. 28 April 1932, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
56 SLES, 277.
57 Allanah Harper interview with Geoffrey Elborn, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
58 ES to PT, c. 4 June 1933, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
59 SLES, 140.
60 ES to PT, 20 July 1932, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
61 ES to PT, n.d., Beinecke Library, Yale University.
62 ES to PT, 16 October 1932, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
63 Draft of review of The Snooty Baronet, Works 231, ES Collection, HRC. Fifoot does not record its publication. In general, the notebooks indicate that Sitwell wrote many more reviews and newspaper articles in the 1920s and 1930s than are recorded in the bibliography.
64 SL, 43.
65 SS interview with Geoffrey Pearson, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
66 ES, Works 141, ES Collection, HRC.
67 James Gregory, ‘Eccentric Biography and the Victorians’, Biography, 342.
68 ES, The English Eccentrics (London: Faber & Faber, 1933), 13.
69 Ibid., 17.
70 ES to Allanah Harper, c. 1 January 1933, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
71 ES, The English Eccentrics, 20–1.
72 Ibid., 55.
73 ES to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 October 1933, Holland Library, WSU.
74 IS to SS, 27 December 1932, SS Collection, HRC.
75 ES to PT, n.d.
76 ES to PT, c. 25 August 1933, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
77 Hugo Southern interview with John Pearson, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
78 Ziegler, 187–90.
79 SLES, 148.
80 Jessica Douglas-Home, Violet, passim; ODNB.
81 SLES, 149.
82 Ibid., 146.
83 Edward James, Swans Reflecting Elephants, 169–71.
84 Charles Henri Ford, ‘Flesh and Marble’, unpublished MS, C. H. Ford Papers, 21:2, HRC.
85 SLES, 145.
86 Clipping included with ES to PT, 21 September 1933, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
87 ES to PT, 10 October 1933, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
88 ES to PT, 14 October 1933, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
89 ES to PT, c. September 1933, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
90 Lincoln Kirstein interview with John Pearson, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
91 Works 33, 227, 228, and 232, ES Collection, HRC.
92 CP, 230.
93 ES to Thomas Balston, c. September 1933, Holland Library, WSU.
94 SLES, 151.
95 Ibid., 153–4.
96 Ibid., 152–3.
97 Ibid., 152.
98 Arthur Raper, The Tragedy of Lynching, 1.
99 SLES, 154.
100 ES to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 October 1933, Holland Library, WSU.
101 ES to PT, 11 July 1944, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
102 SLES, 158.
103 ES to PT, n.d., Beinecke Library, Yale University.
104 ES to PT, n.d., Beinecke Library, Yale University.
105 ES to PT, c. 12 February 1934, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
106 ES to PT, early 1934, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
CHAPTER 15: LET THE DEVILS HAVE IT
1 SLES, 161.
2 F. R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry, 73.
3 See, for example, Claudia L. Johnson, ‘F. R. Leavis: The “Great Tradition” of the English Novel and the Jewish Part’, Nineteenth-Century Literature.
4 ES to Thomas Balston, c. June 1934, Holland Library, WSU.
5 Geoffrey Grigson interview with John Pearson, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
6 Scrutiny, vol. 2, 201–2; for the context of this review, see Bradford, 239–41.
7 Anthony Powell, To Keep the Ball Rolling, 2, 197–8.
8 ES to Thomas Balston, n.d. [summer 1934], Holland Library, WSU.
9 Anthony Powell, op. cit., 197–8.
10 ES to PT, 10 June 1934.
11 Tyler, 350.
12 See, for example, Lawrence Schehr, Alcibiades at the Door, passim.
13 Alice B. Toklas, What is Remembered, 127–8.
14 Allanah Harper, ‘Memory of Dame Edith Sitwell’, unpublished MS, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
15 Lecture on Poetry, c.1948, Works 97, ES Collection, HRC.
16 SLES, 232–3.
17 ODNB.
18 ES to John Sparrow, draft, Works 234, ES Collection, HRC. The final draft is quoted in John Lowe, The Warden, 77–9.
19 ES to SS, 26 September 1934, ES Collection, HRC.
20 ES to PT, 24 August 1934.
21 ES to PT, 31 August 1934.
22 ES to SS, 26 September 1934, ES Collection, HRC.
23 Roy Foster, W. B. Yeats, 494.
24 I am grateful to Professor Fred Flahiff for this observation.
25 SLES, 168–9.
26 Ian MacKillop, F. R. Leavis, 267–8; cited by Claudia L. Johnson, 198.
27 SLES, 155.
28 ES, Aspects of Modern Poetry (London: Gerald Duckworth, 1934), 228–31.
29 Ibid., 246.
30 ES to PT, 4 January 1935.
31 ES, Aspects of Modern Poetry, 174.
32 SLES, 165–6.
33 ES to PT, 26 November 1934.
34 ES to PT, 25 December 1934.
35 ES to PT, 29 December 1939.
36 ES to PT, 12 January 1935.
37 Stephen Spender interview with John Pearson, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
38 SLES, 173.
39 Draft of letter to Norman Collins, c. spring 1935, Works 224, ES Collection, HRC.
40 ES to PT, 4 January 1936. ES mistakenly dated this letter 1935.
41 SLES, 173–4.
42 ES to PT, 12 April 1935.
43 ES to PT, 18 July 1935.
44 Elizabeth Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement, 126–7. See also Geoffrey Gorer interview with Geoffrey Elborn, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
45 SLES, 179–80.
46 Marie Belloc Lowndes, Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes 1911–1947, ed. Susan Lowndes, 228.
47 ES to PT, c. December 1935.
48 SLES, 176–8.
49 Dylan Thomas, The Collected Letters, ed. Paul Ferris, 206.
50 ES to PT, 10 February 1936.
51 Dylan Thomas, op. cit., 242–4; Constantine Fitzgibbon, The Life of Dylan Thomas, 201.
52 SLES, 184–5.
53 ES to Sassoon.
54 SLES, 190.
55 LHRH 4, 126; SLES, 180.
56 The Times, 1 May 1936.
57 ES to PT, 31 March 1936.
58 ES to PT, 13 April 1936.
59 SLES, 187.
60 ES to PT, 28 September 1942.
61 ES to PT, 20 May 1936.
62 ES to PT, 21 April 1936.
63 ES to PT, 9 June 1936.
64 ES to PT, 3 December 1946. See also draft of TCO, Works 257, ES Collection, HRC.
65 W. H. Auden, ‘Spain’, in Poetry of the Thirties, ed. Robin Skelton (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964), 136.
66 These are commonly accepted figures derived from Antonio Montero Marino, Historia de la persecución religiosa en España, 1936–1939. For comment on them, see Bruce Lincoln, ‘Revolutionary Exhumations in Spain, July 1936’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 241.
67 ES to PT, c. August 1936.
68 ES to Christabel Aberconway, 21 August 1936, British Library.
69 ES to PT, 22 August 1936.
CHAPTER 16: TWO NATIONS
1 John Lowe, Edward James, 113–15 and 133.
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2 ES to PT, c. 27 August 1936.
3 ES to PT, 24 November 1936.
4 R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats, 2, 557.
5 SLES, 351.
6 ES to PT, 17 September 1936.
7 ES to Lord Clonmore, draft letter, Works 214, ES Collection, HRC.
8 Percy G. Haddock to ES, 27 February 1937, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
9 ES to PT, 10 April 1937.
10 SLES, 198.
11 Dylan Thomas, The Collected Letters, ed. Paul Ferris, 297.
12 SLES, 198.
13 ES to PT, 16 August 1939.
14 ES to Christabel Aberconway, c. July 1937, BL.
15 ES to PT, 8 July 1937.
16 ES to PT, 8 July 1937.
17 ES to PT, c. October 1937.
18 ES, I Live Under a Black Sun (London: Victor Gollancz, 1937), 16.
19 SLES, 208.
20 ES, I Live Under a Black Sun, 40–1.
21 ES to DH, 3 October 1937, ES Collection, HRC.
22 Night and Day, 21 October 1937, 208–9.
23 See Glendinning, 211.
24 ES to PT, c. October 1937.
25 Works 236, ES Collection, HRC.
26 Information from Rachel Lawson, BBC Written Archives Centre. The play was published in Twelve Modern Plays, ed. John Hampden (London: Gerald Duckworth, 1938), 287–312.
27 SLES, 203.
28 ES to Sassoon, n.d. [c.1930], Holland Library, WSU.
29 SLES, 277.
30 Percy G. Haddock to ES, 27 February 1937, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
31 Bank books, ES Collection, HRC.
32 ES to PT, 14 March 1938.
33 SLES, 204.
34 GRS to GS, 24 March 1938, SS Collection, HRC.
35 SLES, 205–6.
36 SL, 120.
37 ES to Hal Lydiard Wilson, 3 October 1962, ES Collection, HRC.
38 The Times, 18 May 1938. This corrects Glendinning, 213, and SLES, 479n.
39 Bank books, ES Collection, HRC.
40 Tyler, 413.
41 ES to DH, 23 September 1938, OS Collection, HRC.
42 Information from Rachel Lawson, BBC Written Archives Centre. The final script has not survived, but drafts may be found in Works 49, 205, 223, 236, 238, and 253, ES Collection, HRC.
43 I am grateful to Neil Ritchie for drawing this review to my attention.
44 ODNB.
45 ES to GS, c. November 1938, ES Collection, HRC.
46 SLES, 209.
47 Ibid., 210.
48 PT to ES, 18 May 1939.
49 Figures from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org.
50 C. H. Ford, Journal, Ford Papers, 20:2, HRC.
51 ES to PT, 27 August 1939.
CHAPTER 17: AND WITH THE APE THOU ART ALONE
1 SLES, 213–15; see also Stephen King-Hall, Total Victory.
2 ES to PT, 29 November 1939.
3 ES to PT, 27 September 1939.
4 Ziegler, 249.
5 Lorna Andrade interview with John Pearson, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
6 ES to Bryher, 11 July 1942, Bryher Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
7 PT to ES, 23 October 1939.
8 PT to ES, 15 January 1940.
9 Ibid.
10 ES to PT, 1 February 1940.
11 ES to PT, 10 November 1939.
12 ES to PT, 2 October 1939.
13 ES to PT, 29 November 1939.
14 ES, ‘Lullaby’, CP, 274–5.
15 Blurb for Street Songs, Works 59, ES Collection, HRC.
16 CP, 62.
17 See drafts in Works 54, ES Collection, HRC.
18 ES to PT, 1 January 1940.
19 ‘Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Evening’, Walt Whitman, Selected Poems, ed. Christopher Moore, 192–3.
20 ES to PT, 29 November 1940.
21 ES to PT, 1 February 1940.
22 ES to PT, 28 February 1940.
23 Ibid.
24 ES to PT, 6 June 1940.
25 ES to PT, 1 August 1940.
26 ES to PT, 12 October 1940.
27 ES to DH, 6 May 1940, ES Collection, HRC.
28 Salter, 33.
29 ES to PT, 10 July 1940.
30 Obituary of Lady Guinness, Telegraph, 23 August 2001.
31 ES to PT, 14 December 1939.
32 See Bradford, 290.
33 ES to PT, 1 August 1940.
34 ES to PT, 20 August 1940.
35 ES to PT, 6 January 1941.
36 ES to PT, 27 September 1940.
37 ES to PT, 12 October 1940.
38 ES to PT, 27 September 1940. See also Paul West, I, Said the Sparrow, 87.
39 SLES, 216–17.
40 OS to DH, 21 August 1940, OS Collection, HRC.
41 OS to DH, 29 August 1940, OS Collection, HRC.
43 OS to DH, 5 November 1940, OS Collection, HRC.
43 CP, 278.
44 See Works 54 and 58, ES Collection, HRC.
45 ES to PT, 23 August 1941.
46 See Works 84, ES Collection, HRC.
47 Law Reports, The Times, 6–11 February 1941.
48 Lorna Andrade interview with John Pearson, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
49 Richard Greene (ed.), Graham Greene, passim.
50 SLES, 224.
51 Geoffrey Green, ‘Bayswater and the New West End Synagogue during World War Two’. www.newwestend.org.uk. I am grateful to Mr Green for answering my e-mailed queries.
52 ES to PT, 14 June 1942.
53 ES to Edward James, draft, Works 238, ES Collection, HRC.
54 PT to ES, 5 March 1941.
55 PT to ES, 26 May 1941.
56 ES to PT, 11 July 1942.
57 Richard Greene (ed.), op. cit., 419.
58 ES to PT, 16 April 1941.
59 ES to PT, 22 May 1941.
60 ES to PT, 9 June 1941.
61 ES to PT, 18 July 1941.
CHAPTER 18: AN ABBESS
1 Information from the late Nigel Nicolson.
2 ES to PT, 29 April 1940.
3 ES to GS, c. November 1938, ES Collection, HRC.
4 SLES, 227–8. See also drafts of letters to Martin in Works 47 and 84, ES Collection, HRC; notes from Amalia’s correspondence are in Works 46.
5 Works 305, ES Collection, HRC; see also Works 48, 65, 71, 138, 214, 238, 262, 289.
6 See Works 262 and 289, ES Collection, HRC.
7 Works 305, ES Collection, HRC.
8 ES to PT, 5 January 1942.
9 ES to PT, 11 September 1941.
10 CP, 261–3.
11 Marianne Moore to Bryher, 1 March [1942?], recip. file, ES Collection, HRC.
12 Craggs, x.
13 ES, note, Façade 2: Facsimile (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), unpag.; Craggs, xi.
14 The Times, 23 May 1942.
15 ES to PT, 9 June 1942.
16 OS to DH, 11 December 1941, OS Collection, HRC.
17 OS to DH, 19 December 1941, OS Collection, HRC.
18 OS to DH, 18 February 1942, OS Collection, HRC.
19 OS to DH, early 1942 and 13 March 1942, OS Collection, HRC; Jessica Douglas-Home, Violet, 264–5.
20 Letter from Coutts Bank, 9 March 1950, recip. file, ES Collection, HRC.
21 Evelyn Waugh, The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory, 163.
22 Ibid., 207–8.
23 LHRH 4, 269–70.
24 Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (London: Chapman and Hall, 1945), 63. I am grateful to Selina Hastings and Robert Murray Davis for advice on the connection of GRS and Edward Ryder.
25 ES to PT, 3 April 1941.
26 OS to DH, 5 April 1942, OS Collection, HRC.
27 SLES, 236.
28 The Times, 3 February 1941; ES to PT, 24 July 1944.
29 OS to DH, 30 September 1942 and 20 November 1942, OS Collection, HRC.
30 ES to PT, 16 February 1942.
31 ES to PT, 21 June 1942.
32 ES to PT, 27 July 1942.
33 SL, 84.
34 Ibid., 90.
35 Denton Welch, The Journals of Denton Welch, ed. Michael De-La-Noy, 9.
36 ES to PT, 9 December 1942.
37 ES to PT, 14 December 1942.
38 ES to PT, 16 March 1943.
39 ES to PT, 20 January 1943 and 7 April 1943.
40 ES to PT, 14 April 1943.
41 The Times, 15 April 1943; Victoria Glendinning, Vita, 323.
42 SLES, 238–9.
43 Denton Welch, A Lunch Appointment; see also The Journals of Denton Welch, 67–76.
44 Information from Nicholas Shakespeare.
45 SLES, 241.
46 Ibid., 254.
47 CP, 266.
48 ES to PT, 10 January 1942.
49 ES to GS, January 1942, private collection of Neil Ritchie.
50 ES to PT, 25 June 1945.
51 Quoted in ES to PT, 6 July 1943.
52 ES to PT, 4 February 1944; OS to DH, 24 July 1943, OS Collection, HRC.
53 OS to DH, 13 July 1943, OS Collection, HRC.
54 ES to PT, 19 July 1943.
55 OS to DH, 28 July 1943 and 31 July 1943, OS Collection, HRC.
56 ES to PT, 28 July 1943.
57 SLES, 249.
58 ES to PT, 28 July 1943.
59 OS to DH, 2 May 1943, OS Collection, HRC.
60 ES to PT, 28 July 1943.
61 OS to DH, 15 July 1943, OS Collection, HRC.
62 OS to DH, n.d. [1943], OS Collection, HRC.
63 OS to Lorna Andrade, n.d. [1944], OS Collection, HRC.
64 SLES, 256.
65 ES to DH, c. 27 February 1944, ES Collection, HRC.
66 OS to Lorna Andrade, 13 March 1944, 18 March 1944, and n.d. 1944, OS Collection, HRC.
67 The Times, 26 August 1944; ES to PT, 7 October 1945.
68 Hugo Southern to OS, 15 April 1965 and 1 July 1965, OS Collection, HRC.
69 Reresby Sitwell interview with John Pearson, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
70 Hugo Southern interview with John Pearson, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
71 Lorna Andrade interview with John Pearson, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
72 SLES, 250.
73 Ibid., 251–2.
CHAPTER 19: THE DANCING MADNESS
1 ES to PT, 21 March 1944.
2 SL, 115.
3 ES to PT, 14 August 1944.
4 ES to PT, 14 December 1943.
5 ES to PT, 30 April 1946.
6 ES to PT, 4 February 1944.
7 For information on Coleridge’s reading and annotation of Oken’s works, I am grateful to Professor Heather Jackson.
8 ES to PT, 8 February 1945; CP, 370 and 433.
9 ES to PT, 10 August 1943.
10 SL, 132.
11 Adrian Wright, John Lehmann, passim; ODNB.