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32 Lincoln Kirstein interview with John Pearson, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
33 Leo Lerman, op. cit., 175–6 and 395.
34 Jerri Hays Olson, unpublished MS, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
35 Transcript of Mary Merryfield’s Radio Journal, WMAQ – NBC, 28 January 1955, misc. file, ES Collection, HRC.
36 See Pearson, 428–38.
37 SLES, 370.
38 OS to DH, n.d. [c. 1930], OS Collection, HRC.
39 C. H. Ford interview with Geoffrey Elborn, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
40 Geoffrey Gorer interview with Geoffrey Elborn, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
41 SLES, 373.
42 Quoted in Anne and William Charlton, Putting Poetry First, 77.
43 SLES, 380.
44 ES to DH, 2 April 1944, OS Collection, HRC.
45 Mary Campbell to ES, 3 March 1955, ES Collection, HRC.
46 Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (London: Macmillan, 1963), 63; quoted in ODNB.
47 Martin D’Arcy, SJ, to ES, 14 April 1955, ES Collection, HRC.
48 Philip Caraman, SJ, to ES, 1 May 1955, ES Collection, HRC.
49 SLES, 378.
50 Philip Caraman, SJ, to ES, 15 May 1955, ES Collection, HRC.
51 SLES, 376.
52 Ibid., 378–9. See also Martin D’Arcy, SJ, The Nature of Belief, 261.
53 Philip Caraman, SJ, to ES, 5 August 1955, ES Collection, HRC.
54 Alec Guinness to ES, 18 July 1955, ES Collection, HRC. See also his Blessings in Disguise, 151–2.
55 Quentin Stevenson interview with Victoria Glendinning, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
56 Evelyn Waugh, The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory, 447–8 and 450–1.
57 Coutts & Co to ES, 1 and 21 July 1955, ES Collection, HRC.
58 R. R. Nash to ES, 19 September 1955, ES Collection, HRC.
59 Coutts & Co. to ES, 26 March 1956, ES Collection, HRC.
60 SLES, 382.
61 Ibid., 384.
62 Ibid., 385.
63 Quentin Stevenson to Richard Greene, 10 and 26 June 2009.
64 ES to Bryher, 20 October 1956, Bryher Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
65 Edward Weeks to ES, 28 August 1956, ES Collection, HRC.
66 Contract with Little, Brown, 22 May 1956, ES Collection, HRC.
67 John McEwan, obituary, Independent, 4 September 2007.
68 SLES, 392.
69 Lecture on Poetry, Works 73, ES Collection, HRC.
70 Peter Levi, review of The Succession by Quentin Stevenson, The Isis, 30 October 1957, 23.
71 Peter Levi to Quentin Stevenson, 28 January 1999. Mr Stevenson has kindly sent me a photocopy of Levi’s letters on the subject.
72 Quentin Stevenson, The Making of Them (2000).
73 ‘Lady Natasha Spender Remembers Edith Sitwell’, Daily Telegraph, 20 June 2008.
74 Donald Spoto, Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), 376.
75 SL, 206–7.
76 SLES, 390.
77 James Purdy, ‘An Autobiographical Sketch’, James Purdy Society website, http://www.wright.edu/~martin.kich/PurdySoc/Autobio.htm; SL, 207; SLES, 390–2.
78 Val Clark, e-mail to Richard Greene, 21 May 2002.
CHAPTER 24: THE EMPRESS PENGUIN
1 SLES, 392–3. In some accounts of her fall, Sitwell names Andrade rather than Fraser.
2 ES to Lady Aberconway, 10 October 1954, BL.
3 SLES, 384.
4 Lorna Andrade interview with Geoffrey Elborn, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
5 SLES, 389.
6 Ibid., 395–6.
7 Ibid., 396.
8 Lorna Andrade interview with John Pearson, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
9 SLES, 397–8.
10 ES to SS, 14 March 1957, SS Collection, HRC.
11 Itineraries, ES Collection, HRC.
12 Brian Parker, e-mail to Richard Greene, 7 May 2009. Professor Parker is a member of the English Department at the University of Toronto.
13 SLES, 401.
14 Elizabeth Kray (YMHA Poetry Center), report on earnings 1957, ES Collection, HRC.
15 Account of Literary Earnings and Expenses 1956/57, misc. files, ES Collection, HRC.
16 Burke, Covington and Nash to Inspector of Taxes, 25 February 1959, ES Collection, HRC.
17 Coutts & Co. to ES, 30 July 1956 and 15 August 1957, ES Collection, HRC.
18 Lorna Andrade, ‘Jottings’, unpublished MS, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa; see also her interviews with Geoffrey Elborn and John Pearson at the same repository.
19 Peter Alexander, Roy Campbell, 240.
20 SLES, 398.
21 Charles Henri Ford, Water from a Bucket, 224–45.
22 PT to ES, 12 March 1957.
23 Further information on Tchelitchew’s death is drawn from Tyler, 32–52.
24 SLES, 399.
25 James Purdy to ES, 26 July 1957, ES Collection, HRC.
26 ES to Evelyn Waugh, 28 July 1957, BL.
27 Muriel Spark, ‘A Drink with Dame Edith’, Literary Review, 31–2.
28 Charles Henri Ford and Choura Zoussailoff to ES, telegram, 1 August 1957, ES Collection, HRC.
29 SLES, 400.
30 Ibid., 400–1.
31 Ibid., 403–4.
32 Salter, 13–23.
33 SL, 216–17.
34 An original of this questionnaire may be found in ES Collection, HRC. It is transcribed in Salter, 49.
35 C. Day-Lewis to ES, 30 September 1955, ES Collection, HRC.
36 ES to SS, 8 November 1957, SS Collection, HRC.
37 Alec Guinness, Blessings in Disguise, 152–3.
38 ES, ‘His Blood Colours My Cheek’, The Outcasts (London: Macmillan, 1962), 21–2.
39 ES. ‘The Outcasts’, The Outcasts, 15.
40 The Oxford performance and the Beat luncheon are described in Salter, 48–70.
41 Barry Miles, Allen Ginsberg: A Biography (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989), 246–8.
42 Quentin Stevenson interview with Victoria Glendinning, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
43 This presentation copy is now at the HRC. I am grateful to Patrice Fox for transcribing the inscription.
44 Barry Miles, op. cit., 246–8.
45 SL, 223–4.
46 Draft of TCO, Works 273, ES Collection, HRC.
47 SL, 224.
48 ES to Graham Greene, 17 April 1958, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University.
49 A. C. E. Musk to ES, 16 and 21 May 1958, ES Collection, HRC.
50 SL, 174–5.
51 SLES, 409.
52 John Crowe Ransom, ‘Criticism as Pure Speculation’, Critical Theory Since Plato, ed. Hazard Adams (New York: HBJ, 1971), 886
53 Northrop Frye, The Anatomy of Criticism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957), 82.
54 W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley, ‘The Affective Fallacy’, Hazard Adams (ed.), Critical Theory Since Plato, 1030.
55 ES to Graham Greene, 15 November 1958, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University.
56 Tony Gould, Don’t Fence Me In, 20.
57 SLES, 424–5; Salter, 73–5.
58 ES to Salter, 5 September 1959, Holland Library, WSU; Salter, 75.
59 SLES, 409–10.
60 Salter, 104; Evelyn Wiel to ES, 9 May 1959, ES Collection, HRC. Note: de Lacerda is left out of Salter’s version, but mentioned in Wiel’s letter.
61 Evelyn Wiel to ES, 5 September 1959, ES Collection, HRC.
62 Salter, 104.
63 Philip Caraman, SJ, to ES, 20 January 1959, ES Collection, HRC.
64 ES to Elizabeth Salter, 16 February 1959, Holland Library, WSU.
65 ES to Elizabeth Salter, 23 June and 17 August 1959, Holland Library, WSU.
66 E
S to Elizabeth Salter, 26 January and 21 May 1959, Holland Library, WSU.
CHAPTER 25: I PREFER CHANEL NUMBER 5
1 Marianne Moore, ‘Dame Edith Sitwell’, Four Poets on Poetry, ed. Don Cameron Allen, 76.
2 ES to Christopher Logue, drafts, Works 72, 266 and 300, ES Collection, HRC.
3 See Salter, 118–21.
4 SLES, 415–16.
5 Humphrey Carpenter, Benjamin Britten, 581.
6 Philip Caraman, SJ, to ES, 13 July 1958, ES Collection, HRC.
7 Philip Caraman, SJ, to ES, 3 December 1958, ES Collection, HRC.
8 Philip Caraman, SJ, to ES, 6 May 1959, ES Collection, HRC.
9 Philip Caraman, SJ, to ES, 23 September 1959, ES Collection, HRC.
10 ES to Elizabeth Salter, 29 June 1959, Holland Library, WSU.
11 ES to Elizabeth Salter, 5 August 1959, Holland Library, WSU.
12 Evelyn Wiel to ES, 5 September 1959, ES Collection, HRC.
13 ES to Salter, 20 August 1959, Holland Library, WSU; Salter, 93–5; The Times, 10 September 1959.
14 Miss Sutton and Miss Wright interview with John Pearson, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
15 SLES, 421.
16 Michael Stapleton, autobiographical statement, ES Collection, HRC.
17 ES to SS, 18 December 1959, SS Collection, HRC.
18 ES to Elizabeth Salter, 27 January 1960, Holland Library, WSU.
19 J. W. Nicholson to ES, 19 May 1960, ES Collection, HRC.
20 SLES, 422 and 427.
21 Lorna Andrade interview with Geoffrey Elborn, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
22 Lorna Andrade interview with John Pearson, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
23 Lorna Andrade, ‘Jottings’, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
24 DH to GS, n.d. [1960]; quoted by Elborn, 250. I am here following Elborn, 249–52, as he had unique access to SS and GS in his research.
25 Elborn, 251.
26 SLES, 434.
27 Elborn, 252.
28 SLES, 428.
29 See Jeremy Lewis, Penguin Special, 315–33.
30 Gore Vidal, ‘How I Survived the Fifties’, New Yorker, 66. Vidal answered a further query in a letter to me of 25 October 1995.
31 ES to Graham Greene, 9 January 1961, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University.
32 SLES, 430.
33 Salter 130–3; The Times, 3 January 1961.
34 ES, ‘A Girl’s Song in Winter’, The Outcasts (London: Macmillan, 1962) 26; the wording of line four is corrected as indicated by SLES, 438. See Salter, 134–5.
35 Salter, 139–47.
36 SLES, 436–7.
37 Ibid., 433.
38 Ziegler, 361–3.
39 Salter, 137–8.
40 The Times, 13 and 14 December 1961 and 20 June 1962. See also a draft of a press release on the sales of MSs in Works 290, ES Collection, HRC. A copy of the Tchelitchew auction catalogue with Sitwell’s essay on the painter is also in the ES Collection, HRC. The figure of £1200 derives from an unidentified newspaper clipping in the ES Collection, HRC.
41 John Lehmann, A Nest of Tigers, 270.
42 ES to Kenneth Clark, 21 January 1961, Morgan Library and Museum, New York.
43 Lady Aberconway interview with John Pearson, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
44 William Sitwell, obituary of Francis Sitwell, Independent, 12 February 2004.
45 SLES, 440–2.
46 P. I. H. Doyle to ES, 25 April 1956, ES Collection, HRC.
47 William Sitwell, obituary of Francis Sitwell, Independent, 12 February 2004.
48 Noël Coward, The Letters of Noël Coward, ed. Barry Day, 83–7; Salter, 155–60.
49 SLES, 440.
50 SL, 245.
51 Noël Coward, The Noël Coward Diaries, ed. Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley, 518.
52 SLES, 448–9.
53 For example, Los Angeles Times, 9 October 1962.
54 TCO, 180.
55 SL, 346.
56 John Lehmann, op. cit., 272–4; Salter, 171–6.
57 The Times, 10 October 1962.
58 SLES, 451.
59 Ibid., 449.
60 See Salter, 167–8.
61 Ibid., 169.
62 SLES, 450.
63 The Times, 1 January 1963.
64 SLES, 169–70.
65 ES to Jane Clark, 2 March 1963, Morgan Library and Museum, New York.
66 SL, 250.
67 Salter, 171–9. I rely heavily on this source for my account of the voyage.
68 Sydney Morning Herald, 4 April 1963.
69 Sydney Morning Herald, 20 April 1963.
70 Sydney Morning Herald, 17 April 1963.
71 Salter, 91.
72 Sydney Morning Herald, 20 April 1963.
73 The Times, 26 June 1963.
74 The Times, 25 May 1963. Further information from Judy Burg, University Archivist, University of Hull.
75 SLES, 454.
76 Salter, 187–9.
77 New York Times, 22 March 1964.
78 ES to Evelyn Waugh, September 1964, BL.
79 Francis Sitwell interview with Victoria Glendinning, Sitwell Collection, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.
80 Sun, 10 December 1964.
81 Marianne Moore to OS, 13 September 1964, OS Collection, HRC.
82 Freeman is quoted in Tom Driberg, ‘Edith Sitwell at Home’, Encounter, XXVI:5 (May 1966), 55.
83 Salter, 201.
84 Elborn, 275–6.
85 The Times, 15 December 1964.
86 GS to Evelyn Waugh, 20 January 1965, BL.
87 Elizabeth Salter, Edith Sitwell, 101.
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—————, More Memoirs of an Aesthete (London: Methuen, 1970).
Alexander, Peter, Roy Campbell: A Critical Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982).
—————, William Plomer: A Biography (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Barney, Natalie Clifford, A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney, ed. and trans. Anna Livia (Norwich, VT: New Victoria Publishers, 1992).
Bowen, Stella, Drawn from Life (1940; 2nd edn, Maidstone: George Mann, 1974).
Bowra, C. M., Edith Sitwell (Monaco: Lyrebird, 1947).
Bradford, Sarah, Splendours and Miseries: A Life of Sacheverell Sitwell (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993).
Brinnin, John Malcolm, Dylan Thomas in America (Boston: Little, Brown, 1955).
Brophy, James, Edith Sitwell: The Symbolist Order (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968).
Blavatsky, Helena, Isis Unveiled, 2 vols (1877; Theosophical University Press Online Edition).
Carpenter, Humphrey, Benjamin Britten: A Biography (London: Faber & Faber, 1992).
Cevasco, G. A., The Sitwells: Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell (Boston: Twayne, 1987).
Charlton, Anne, and William Charlton, Putting Poetry First: A Life of Robert Nichols 1893–1944 (Norwich: Michael Russell, 2003).
Charteris, Evan, The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (London: Heinemann, 1931).
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Coward, Noël, The Letters of Noël Coward, ed. Barry Day (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007).
—————, The Noël Coward Diaries, ed. Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley (London: Macmillan, 1983).
—————, A Withered Nosegay (London: Methuen, 1984).
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—————, review of Tarr by Wyndham Lewis and The People’s Palace by Sacheverell Sitwell, Egoist, 6 (June/ July 1918), 84–5.
Ellmann, Richard, James Joyce (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).
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Fifoot, Richard, A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell (1963; 2nd edn, revised, London: Archon Books, 1971).
Fitch, Noel Riley, Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties (New York: W. W. Norton, 1983).
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Ford, Charles Henri, Water from a Bucket: A Diary 1948–1957 (New York: Turtle Point Press, 2001).
—————, The Young and Evil (Paris: Obelisk Press, 1933).
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Glendinning, Victoria, Edith Sitwell: A Lion among Unicorns (London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981).
—————, Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West (London, 1983).