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Benotti, Joseph (SP’s uncle ‘Joe’), 3n, 28, 113, 120, 147, 199, 390, 462, 466, 550, 705, 735, 950, 959; SP’s correspondence with, 334, 342, 374, 380–1, 531n, 543–4
Benotti, Nancy (SP’s cousin), 199, 374, 380, 514, 543, 598, 722, 888; SP’s correspondence with, 342, 374
Benotti, Robert J. (SP’s cousin, ‘Bobby’), 199, 374, 380, 514, 543, 598, 722; SP’s correspondence with, 342, 374
Berck-sur-Mer, France, 628n
Bergen-Belsen (concentration camp), 853, 874, 879, 888
Bergman, Ingmar, 582, 777, 785, 940; So Close to Life (Brink of Life), 777n, 785; Through a Glass Darkly, 940n
Bergonzi, Bernard, ‘The Ransom Note’, 568n
Berlin, Germany, 620n, 957
Berlitz, 513, 516–17, 521–2, 524, 528, 540
Bermuda, 235, 253, 783
Berry, Courtice H., 496n
Berry, Grace, 496
Bess Hokin Prize, 191
Best American Short Stories, 1953, 239n
Betjeman, John, 536, 538, 542, 555; John Betjeman as the Book Man, 536n; Summoned by Bells, 555n
Betsy (fictitious character), 683
Better Buying Service, 680
Beuscher, Christopher Grey, 452n
Beuscher, John Franklin, 452n
Beuscher, Robert Conrad, 452n
Beuscher, Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse, 530–1n, 843, 960; SP’s correspondence with, 421–2, 450–2, 537–40, 562–67, 746–9, 790–800, 802–7, 816–18, 827–32, 843–5, 851–3, 876–80, 967–9; SP’s dedications to, 566, 749, 800
Beuscher, Thomas Frederick, 452n
Beuscher, William David, 452n
Beuscher, William F., 452n
Bevan, Edward Vaughan, 180
Bideford, England, 767
Big Ben (Tower clock), 118, 151
Billetdoux, François, 545n, 688; Tchin-Tchin (Chin-Chin), 545, 689; Théâtre, 688n; ‘Va Donc Chez Törpe’, 688
Billings, Montana, 340
Billyeald, Bertha Manly, 780n, 783
Billyeald, Stanhope Mince, 780, 783
Biltmore Hotel (New York), 235, 240
Binkerd, Gordon, 357n
Bires, Mrs, 808n, 810, 814
Birmingham Post, The, 968n
Bishop, Elizabeth, 94, 305, 857n
Bishop, Jess Ivy Brown, 217
Bismarck, North Dakota, 339
Blackburn, Thomas, 536n, 577n; ‘En Route’, 577n
Blacks, 38
Blair, Mary, 302n
Blake, Quentin, 317n
Blake, William, 91, 144
Blanch, Arnold, ‘The Messenger’, 932n, 939n
Bleibtreu, John, 71n, 90n, 97, 108
Bloomsbury Square, 408
Bodden, William Albert, 156, 163
Bodley Head (firm), 414n
Bolton, Frances, 46
Bolton, W. F. (Whitney French), 46, 51
Bolton, Whitney, 46
Bonham Carter, Mark, 905, 913
Bonham Carter, Violet, 913
Bonhams, 40n, 56n, 284n, 361n, 369n, 428n, 533n, 574n, 593n, 598n, 623n, 631n, 658n, 672n, 686n, 773n, 793n, 865n, 907n, 940n
Bonn, Germany, 126, 129
Book Review Digest, 199
Bookseller, The, 571–3, 830
Boonville, New York, 332, 336
Booth, Carol, 303n
Booth, Margaret Tillman, 303; SP’s correspondence with, 595–6; TH’s correspondence with, 595n
Booth, Margot, 303n
Booth, Philip, 58, 229, 274, 303–4; ‘If It Can’, 595n; The Islanders, 595n; ‘Night Notes on an Old Dream’, 595n; ‘The Owl’, 595n; ‘Shag’, 479n; ‘Spit’, 479; ‘The Total Calm’, 595; SP’s correspondence with, 479–80, 553, 595–6; TH’s correspondence with, 553n, 595nn
Booth, Robin, 303n
Booth, Stephen, 217
Booth, Susan O’Neill-Roe (‘Sue’), 864n, 865, 870–4, 881–4, 887, 889–92, 895–6, 904–5, 910, 912–14, 918, 922–4, 927, 930–1, 935–6, 939, 941–2, 944, 950, 958, 960–1
Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards, 105, 137, 167, 242, 302; Best Poems of 1955, 105n, 137, 302n; Best Poems of 1957, 242n; Best Poems of 1960, 501n
Boris Mirski Gallery, 284; see also Mirski, Boris
Borneo, 115
Borroff, Marie, 196, 198, 206, 306n
Boston, Mass., 37, 46n, 47, 54, 56n, 108, 111, 131n, 187, 191–3, 199, 201, 203, 208, 213, 218, 221, 229, 238, 243–4, 249–52, 255, 257–8, 264–7, 269, 271–7, 281, 283n, 284, 287, 290, 293, 295–8, 302n, 309, 312–15, 317–19, 324–7, 355, 357–8, 360, 363–4, 411, 415–16, 437, 468n, 499, 508, 519, 534, 538, 596, 614, 656, 684, 709, 715n, 718, 903, 917; SP and TH’s apartment (9 Willow Street), 248, 250, 252–3, 257, 262, 264–5, 269, 271, 273, 275–7, 281, 284, 287, 290–1, 295–8, 302, 309, 312, 314, 317–20, 324, 326–7, 329, 356, 402; restaurants: Blue Ship Tea Room, 299; Felicia’s, 229, 231; theatres: Colonial Theatre, 302n; Wilbur Theatre, 303
Boston Arts Festival, 237n, 312
Boston Common, 271, 286, 953
Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, 349–50, 359–60, 387, 393, 395, 415, 418, 465, 470, 482, 493, 505, 508, 511, 513, 515, 526, 528, 545, 583, 593, 608, 635, 664, 671, 687, 704, 739, 769, 837, 850, 919
Boston Globe, The, 228n
Boston Herald, The, 313n
Boston Lying-In Hospital, 451, 519, 872
Boston Park Plaza Hotel, 271
Boston Public Library, 243, 275, 291–2
Boston Repertory, 303
Boston University (‘B.U.’, ‘BU’), 3n, 22, 62, 106, 141n, 192n, 207, 219, 265, 310n, 408, 433, 464, 491, 499, 507–9, 512, 526, 561, 621, 830, 832, 844, 921, 949–50; courses: English 306 (writing of poetry), 193n, 303
Boston University Theater, 361n
Boston University Women’s Guild, 361n
Botteghe Oscure, 305, 316, 520
Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, 628n
Bowers, Edgar, 627n, 712n; ‘The Stoic: For Laura vonn Courten’, 627n
Bowman’s Furniture Store, 394n
Boxing Day, 941, 943, 946, 949
Boyars’ Plot, The, see Ivan the Terrible, Part 2, 418n
Bradbrook, Muriel, 178
Bradburne, E. S., see Lawrence, Elizabeth
Bramwell, James Guy, 196; The Unfinished Man, 196n
Bramwell, Joan Maxwell, 181, 196
Brandeis University, 47, 51–2, 54, 56, 58, 141n
Braque, Georges, 20, 28, 31
Brecht, Bertolt, 486–7, 496; The Life of Galileo, 486–7, 496
Bredon, K. J., 31–2
Bremerhaven, Germany, 373
Brer Rabbit, 772–3
Brimley, Michigan, 334, 336, 338
Brimley State Park, 334
British Broadcasting Corporation (‘BBC’, ‘B.B.C.’), 3, 8, 14, 17, 36, 39, 115, 117, 440, 461, 466–7, 475, 480, 482, 493–5, 498, 505, 507, 513, 515–16, 518, 521–2, 527–8, 531–2, 536, 538, 542, 544–6, 548–9, 564, 569, 571, 573, 581, 592, 599, 609–10, 622–3, 629, 640, 652, 657, 663, 677, 686n, 690, 714, 719, 732, 743–4, 751, 754, 756–9, 767, 775, 777, 779–80, 783–7, 789, 808n, 809, 812, 836, 865, 867, 870, 876, 883, 885–6, 890, 893–4, 898, 904, 909, 928, 930, 932–3, 936, 938, 942, 948, 949n, 951, 953–4, 957, 959–60, 962–3, 968; Caribbean Services, 569; Children’s Hour, 728, 751, 765, 785; Comment, 542, 544; The Critics, 542n, 544, 963; Features, 933, 938; Home Service, 466n, 493, 551n, 569n, 571n, 657n, 743–4n, 778–9n, 783n, 788n, 909n; The Impostors, 788n; ‘Italian for Beginners’, 528n, 546; Keep Up Your French, 732n; Keep Up Your German, 732n; Light Programme, 686n; Listening and Writing, 569n, 657n, 744n, 783n; The Living Poet, 622–3, 629; London Echo, 599; New Comment, 949, 953; New Poetry, 493n, 498, 549n; Overseas Service, 690n; The Poet’s Voice, 4n, 115, 117, 527n, 786n, 808n, 865n, 867; Recent Verse, 4n; Talks Department, 117, 527, 542n, 581, 754, 787, 959, 962; Television Service, 606, 614; Third Programme, 36, 115, 461n, 475n, 493, 498n, 513n, 522, 528n, 545n, 549n, 607n, 622n, 653, 714n, 719, 720n, 732, 744n, 758n, 775, 777, 778n, 783, 786n, 808n, 865n, 949n, 955; Wednesday Magazine, 60
6, 609, 614; The Weird Ones, 786n, 808n; Woman’s Hour, 652, 686n; The World of Books, 571n, 778, 784–5; A World of Sound, 743n, 759; Writers on Themselves, 909n; SP’s correspondence with, see Carne-Ross, D. S.; Cleverdon, Douglas, Cohn; Leonie, Leeming, Owen; Walford, R. G.
British Council, 507, 887n, 907
British Guiana, 780, 783
British Library, 62n, 626n
British Museum, 515, 635
Brittany, France, 629
Broadway (New York), 46, 544
Brontë, Emily, 574, 857n; see also Withens, Top
Brontë family, 153, 857
Brook, Terry, 137n
Brooke-Rose, Christine, 432
Brookline, Mass., 46n, 367
Brookline Country Club, 28
Brooklyn (New York), 237, 239
Brower, Reuben A. (Reuben Arthur), 240
Brown, Archibald L., 952
Brown, Carol Taylor, 37
Brown, Jess Ivy, see Bishop, Jess Ivy Brown
Brown, Marcia, see Stern, Marcia B.
Brown University, 300
Browning, Robert, 531
Brownjohn, Alan, 403n, 413, 445, 476, 484, 486; ‘William Empson at Aldermaston’, 403n
Brownlee, Robert Emery, 267, 389, 415, 429
Bryson, Artemesia, 185n; ‘Poetry Marked by Power, Sensibility’ (quotation from), 185
Bucha, Meima, 686; see also Fainlight, Ruth
Bucher, Irving H., 185n; ‘Praise For A New Poet’ (quotation from), 185
Buckingham, Browne & Nichols, 54
Buckingham Palace, 435
Buckland Brewer, England, 581n
Budapest, Hungary, 7, 38, 292
Burch, Susan Weller, 45–6, 51
Burrill, T. E., 700n
Burroway, Janet, 231n, 464, 521; Descend Again, 464n; SP’s correspondence with, 467
Burton, K. M. P. (Kathleen Marguerite Passmore), 10n, 61, 177–8, 274, 277
Butlin’s Holiday Camp, 808
Byrne, Laurence, 539n
Byrom, James, see Bramwell, James Guy
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 923
Byron, Lady (Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron), 918, 919n, 923, 925, 936, 941
Cadbury, 767n
Caetani, Marguerite, 305n, 316
Caldwell, Erskine, 414, 422
California, 150, 306, 320–1, 326–7, 337, 342, 347, 363, 366, 373, 429, 462, 480n
Cam, River (England), 9
Cambridge, England, 3–4, 6–9, 16, 18, 26, 29–30, 35, 37–9, 40n, 46, 51, 56, 64–5, 77, 85, 100, 102, 121, 127–9, 133–6, 147, 151, 153–4, 159, 161, 169, 177, 179–80, 207, 217, 220, 230, 274, 278, 282, 287, 308, 314, 428, 492, 569, 585–6, 621, 763, 877; SP’s & TH’s apartment (55 Eltisley Avenue), 7–10, 12–16, 18–19, 28, 30–3, 34–5, 43, 56, 65, 82, 108, 116, 121, 123, 127n, 128, 130, 139–40, 146, 180n; restaurants: Miller’s, 20, 25; theatres: ADC Theatre, 180n
Cambridge, Mass., 25, 37, 52, 54, 101, 113–14, 119, 153, 193, 226, 228n, 243, 260n, 277, 308, 315, 482, 512, 523, 894
Cambridge Daily News, 127n
‘Cambridge Opinions’, 146n
Cambridge Review, 154, 285n
Cambridge University, see University of Cambridge
Camden (London), 394n, 478n, 499, 587
Campbell, Michael, 429n, 440
Campbell, Roy, 122
Camus, Albert, 437
Canada, 258, 332–3, 335, 346, 681
Canadian Jewish Review, The, 686n
Canby, Margaret, 302n
Canor Brothers, 704n
Canterbury, England, 481
Cantor, Joan see Barnes, Joan Cantor
Cantor, Katherine (‘Kathy’), 4n, 654
Cantor, M. Michael, 4n
Cantor, Margaret Kiefer (‘Peg’), 4, 18–19, 103, 151, 168–9, 229, 531, 566, 652; SP’s correspondence with, 654–5
Cantor, Susana, 4n
Cantor, William Michael, 4n
Cantor family, 24, 57, 80, 113
Cape Cod, Mass., 15, 23, 27, 29, 70, 74–5, 82–3, 92–3, 95, 97, 100, 103, 107, 109, 113, 117, 120, 123–4, 127, 129, 131–2, 148–9, 155, 157, 162, 172, 238, 245, 268–70, 505, 511–12, 720, 849, 862; see also individual towns
Cape Town, South Africa, 468
Carey, Michael, 928, 944; ‘May Morning’, 916; Michael of the Six Dreams (pseudonym), 916; ‘The Shetlands’ (quotation from), 916; SP’s correspondence with, 886, 916–18, 926, 939, 966–7
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, 352–3
Carne-Ross, D. S., SP’s correspondence with, 117
Carol Cards, 201n
Caron, Leslie, 600, 628
Carroll, Paul, ‘Song in the Studio of Paul Klee’, 639
Carson, Rachel, 259, 265; The Sea Around Us, 259, 265; Under the Sea Wind, 259
Carter’s, 384, 478, 506, 516
Cartwright, Sheena, 824–5, 829, 833, 835, 870
Cass, Joan E., The Cat Show, 771n; The Cat Thief, 676n
Cathay Arts, 608n
Catholic Church, 668, 694, 846–8, 860
Cecil, David, 592
Centre culturel américain (Paris), 620n
Ceylon, 293
Chagford, England, 884
Chalcot Square Gardens, 401, 421
Chalk Farm (London), 467
Charing Cross (London), 420, 422, 520
Charles River, 193, 213, 271, 273, 275–6, 281, 285–6, 297–8, 309, 312
Charles River Esplanade (Boston), 271n
Charrier, Nicolas-Jacques, 389
Charters, Janet, The General, 676n
Chase, Mary Ellen, 8, 14, 25, 56–8, 61–2, 70, 72, 84, 87, 92–3, 173, 566; The Edge of Darkness, 61; The White Gate, 61;
Chater, A. O., 398n
Chatham, Mass., 80, 270, 655
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 17, 57, 107, 145, 178, 186; The Canterbury Tales, 107
Chayefsky, Paddy, 33; Television Plays, 33n
Chelsea (London), 412, 419
Chelsea Review, 423; SP’s work in, 423n, 425, 660
Cheltenham Festival of Art and Literature, 638, 801, 829, 846, 940
‘Cheltenham Festival of Literature’, 902n
Chequer, SP’s work in, 117, 146n
Cherry-Garrard, Apsley, The Worst Journey in the World, 653n
Chessman, Caryl, 480
Chicago, Illinois, 329, 512, 614, 662, 665, 750, 860
Childbirth, 383, 412, 422, 519
Childs Memorial Park (Northampton, Mass.), 229, 233, 243, 248, 251, 253, 256, 258
Chinese, 336
Chopin, Frédéric, 299
Chou, Wen-Chung, 357n, 361, 441, 496, 536
Christian Science Monitor, 12–13, 270, 307, 308n, 317n, 320–2, 350, 359, 364–5; SP’s work in, 12n, 270n, 307, 308n, 320n, 350n, 364–5
Christie, Agatha, 584, 808n, 809; The Mousetrap, 808n, 809
Christie, Jonathan, 41, 69, 179
Christie, Margaret Wendy (‘Wendie’), 41, 69, 95, 103, 106, 147, 179, 181, 282; ‘Remembering Sylvia’, 285n; SP’s correspondence with, 285–6
Christie, Sarah, see Bellwood, Sarah Christie
Christie, Stuart Murray Heys, 41, 69, 179
Christie’s International PLC, 530n
Christmas (‘Xmas’), 14, 18, 26–33, 38–43, 45–9, 54, 81–2, 88, 141, 173, 181, 192–3, 195, 197–9, 201–2, 214, 244, 285–6, 289, 312, 327, 364–5, 373–6, 378–80, 383–4, 387–8, 396–7, 414, 421, 480, 483, 505, 533, 538, 543, 545, 549–54, 559, 561–5, 567–8, 574, 580, 585, 594, 652, 654, 665, 687–8, 690–1, 693, 696–8, 702–10, 716, 721, 724–5, 733, 752, 755, 767, 814, 840, 859, 863–4, 875, 899, 907n, 910, 921, 924, 926, 933–5, 939–43, 946–50, 952–4, 960
Churchill, Helen M. (Saunders), 502, 545
Churchill, Wilmer Holton, 502
Ciardi, John, 75, 112; ‘A Close Look at the Unicorn’, 75n; ‘The Reviewer’s Duty to Damn: A Letter to An Avalanche’, 75n; ‘Verse to Remember’, 75n; ‘What Every Writer Must Learn’, 75n
Cinderella (legendary character), 209
Cit
izen Kane (motion picture), 204
Civil rights, 750
Civil rights demonstrations, 750
Civil War, 233, 461
Clare (County), Ireland, 829n
Claridge’s Hotel (London), 6
Clark, David R., 218n, 221
Clark, Steve, see Clarke, Stevens H.
Clark University (Worcester, Mass.), 579
Clarke, Austin, ‘Forget Me Not’, 577n
Clarke, Mary Stetson, SP’s correspondence with, 309–10
Clarke, Stevens H., 22–4
Clarke, Susan E., 310
Claytor, Gertrude Boatwright, 105
Cleggan, Ireland, 801n, 821n, 825n, 846
Cleverdon, Douglas, 714, 777, 785, 904n, 928n, 942; SP’s correspondence with, 906–7, 933, 936, 938
Cleverdon, Francis, 907n
Cleverdon, Nest, 907, 933
Clive Hall Hotel (London), 619–20
Coast Guard Beach (Eastham, Mass.), 161
Cohen, Ruth L. (Ruth Louisa), 10n
Cohn, Leonie, SP’s correspondence with, 909, 959, 962
Colburn, Joanne, see Norton, Joanne Colburn
Colden, England, 506n
Colditz, Germany, 503
Cole, Hubert, 734n; Josephine, 734
Coleman, Nancy, 46
Coleridge Secondary Modern School, 18, 32, 35, 39, 97, 207, 569
Colf, Dorrit Licht, 113
Collacott, May, see Targett, May Collacott College Taxi Company, 634
Collier’s, 80
Colsons, 704n
Columbia Pictures, 108
Columbia University, 22n, 137n, 235, 236n, 241, 306, 472, 521, 685
Communism, 38, 510, 515
Compagnie Marie-Bell, 433n, 435
Compton, David, 581n, 767n, 796, 814, 820, 839; Too Many Murderers, 820n
Compton, Elizabeth, see Sigmund, Elizabeth
Compton, Hester, 581n
Compton, James, 581n, 820
Compton, Margaret, 581n
Concord, Mass., 300n, 544
Coney Island (New York), 239
Congregational Church, 340
Congress of Racial Equality, 750n
Connaught Hotel, 808n, 809, 828, 842
Connecticut, 58, 70, 98
Connecticut River, 212, 253, 255, 257
Connemara, Ireland, 826, 829, 831, 833, 924