52Quoted in J. William Galbraith, John Buchan: Model Governor-General, Dundurn, Toronto, 2013, p. 172.
53JB, ‘Private notes on Washington Visit’, 8 April 1937, QUA, 2110, box 12.
54Quoted in Buchan, Canadian Occasions, pp. 61–2.
55Harry S. Truman to Bess Truman, 1 April 1937, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, Independence. MO, Family, Business and Personal Affairs Papers, Truman Papers.
56JB to Walter Buchan, 5 April 1937, NLS, Acc. 11627/79.
57JB, private memorandum, ‘Note for the President’, NLS, Acc. 11627/79.
58JB to Stanley Baldwin, 8 April 1937, QUA, 2110, box 8.
59Ibid.
60See Professor Kevin Hutchings, ‘John Buchan and the First Nations of Canada’, in The John Buchan Journal, no. 50, 2017, pp. 55–61.
61Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 220.
62Hutchings, The John Buchan Journal, no. 50, p. 59.
63Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself, Collins, London, 1964, p. 156.
64Shuldham Redfern’s personal diary entry for 28 July 1937, private collection.
65Susie to JB, 2 August 1937, NLS, Acc. 11627/6.
66The Sunday Times, 12 December 1937, p. 18.
67Archibald Fleming, Archibald The Arctic, Appleton Century Crofts, New York, 1956, p. 336.
68Quoted in Beverley Baxter’s ‘London Letter’ in Maclean’s Magazine, 15 March 1940, Toronto.
69JB to Helen Buchan, 28 August 1937, NLS, Acc. 11627/9.
70JB to Alice Fairfax-Lucy, 10 June 1938, private collection.
71JB to Alice Fairfax-Lucy, 2 February 1938, private collection.
72JB to Alice Fairfax-Lucy, 19 April 1938, private collection.
73Quoted in Buchan, Canadian Occasions, pp. 82–3.
74Delivered in Chicago, 5 October 1937.
75JB to Gilbert Murray, 8 October 1937, QUA, 2110, box 8.
76See TNA, PREM 1/229.
77MKD, diary entries for 9 and 20 October 1937, BAC/LAC, MG26-J13, 18397 and 18428.
78John Buchan, Augustus, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1937, pp. 346–7.
79Quoted in Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 432.
80JB to Helen Buchan, 18 October 1937, NLS, Acc. 11627/9.
81Buchan, Augustus, pp. 25–6.
82Ibid., p. 191.
83JB to Helen Buchan, 3 November 1937, NLS, Acc. 11627/9.
84On 5 and 12 December 1937.
85Sir Alexander Hardinge to JB, 20 December 1937, Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GVI/C/048/055.
86JB to Helen Buchan, 19 July 1937, NLS, Acc. 11627/9.
87Quoted in Andrew Lownie, The Presbyterian Cavalier, Constable, London, 1995, pp. 267–8.
10 Canada, 1938–1940
1JB to Alan Lascelles, 1 January 1938, QUA, 2110, box 9.
2Quoted in Francis Williams, A Prime Minister Remembers: The War and Post-War Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Earl Attlee, Heinemann, London, 1961, p. 17.
3See Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm, Cassell, London, 1948, p. 199.
4George Spence, ‘When the Governor-General came to Val Marie’, 11 May 1938, QUA, 2110, box 25.
5Quoted in Janet Adam Smith, John Buchan: A Biography, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1965, p. 449.
6‘Harvard Commencement Address’, The John Buchan Journal, no. 19, autumn 1998, pp. 3–4.
7Lord Tweedsmuir, The John Buchan Journal, no. 1, spring 1980, p. 3.
8Quoted by Professor Keith Neilson, ‘An Excellent Conning-Tower: John Buchan on the fringes of diplomacy’, in On the Fringes of Diplomacy: Influences on British Foreign Policy 1800–1945, ed. John Fisher and Antony Best, Ashgate, Farnham, 2011, p. 262.
9Anna Buchan, Unforgettable, Unforgotten, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1945, pp. 213–14.
10JB to Susie, 17 August 1938, NLS, Acc. 6975/15.
11JB to Susie, 14 August 1938, NLS, Acc. 6975/15.
12JB to Susie, 29 August 1938, NLS, Acc. 6975/15.
13Ibid.
14JB to Susie, 15 September 1938, NLS, Acc. 6975/15.
15JB to Alice Fairfax-Lucy, 6 April 1939, private collection.
16Susie to JB, 9 September 1938, NLS, Acc. 11627/6.
17Susie to JB, 15 September 1938, NLS, Acc. 11627/6.
18JB to Susie, 24/25 September 1938, NLS, Acc. 6975/15.
19Ibid.
20Franklin D. Roosevelt to JB, 3 November 1938, QUA, 2110, box 10.
21Shuldham Redfern to Alan Lascelles, 13 March 1939, private collection.
22Col. H. Willis-O’Connor and M. Macbeth, Inside Government House, Ryerson, Toronto, 1954, p. 82.
23JB to Walter Buchan, 26 January 1939, NLS, Acc. 11627/83.
24JB’s personal diary for 1939, NLS, Acc. 6975/11.
25JB to Walter Buchan, 26 January 1939, NLS, Acc. 11627/83.
26JB to Violet Markham, 3 February 1939, QUA, 2110, box 10.
27Alice Fairfax-Lucy, ‘Canada and the Royal Visit’, The Sunday Times, early May 1939 (date from internal evidence).
28Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King (MKD), 17 May 1939, BAC/LAC, MG26-J13, 20278.
29Susan Tweedsmuir, ‘Memories of Royal Visit’, dated 22 May 1939, unpublished, NLS, Acc. 11627/65.
30Quoted in Buchan, Unforgettable, Unforgotten, p. 218.
31Quoted in Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 456.
32Susan Tweedsmuir, ‘Memories of the Royal Visit’, NLS, Acc. 11627/65.
33Ibid.
34John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI: His Life and Reign, Macmillan, London, 1958, p. 390.
35JB to Charles Dick, 20 June 1939, QUA, 2110, box 13.
36Quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, p. 380.
37Burgon Bickersteth to Susie, 24 July 1939, NLS, Acc. 6975/22.
38Violet Markham to JB, 17 January 1939, QUA, 2110, box 10.
39Quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, p. 393.
40Ibid., p. 394.
41Ibid., p. 392.
42Violet Markham, Friendship’s Harvest, Reinhardt, London, 1956, p. 129.
43Alastair never got to the University of Virginia, because war intervened, but he inherited his father’s interest in the United States, serving as the Washington correspondent of The Observer for some years after the Second World War. Later, he became the first head of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, then the head of the Royal College of Defence Studies, and his counsel on the politics of the Cold War was widely sought by Western statesmen. In 1973 he delivered the Reith Lectures (‘Change without War’) and ended his career as Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. He had as incisive a mind as his father, as well as his capacity for hard work. He died in 1976, the year before his mother.
44JB to Violet Carruthers [Markham], 5 September 1939, QUA, 2110, box 11.
45JB, diary entry for 2 September 1939, NLS, Acc. 6975/11.
46JB to Sandy Gillon, 1 December 1939, QUA, 2110, box 11.
47JB to King George VI, 19 September 1939, Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GVI/C/048/095.
48Sir Gerald Campbell, Of True Experience, Hutchinson, London, 1949, p. 86.
49JB to Anna Buchan, 13 November 1939, NLS, Acc. 11627/25.
50JB to Walter Buchan, 14 September 1939, NLS, Acc. 11627/84.
51Ibid.
52JB to King George VI, 19 September 1939, Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GVI/C/048/95.
53JB to Lord (Hugh) Macmillan, 11 September 1939, QUA, 2110, box 11.
54JB to Walter Buchan, 19 October 1939, NLS, Acc. 11627/84.
55Moritz J. Bonn, Wandering Scholar, Cohen and West, London, 1949, p. 369.
56Peter Henshaw, ‘John Buchan and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan: The Under-Rated Role of the “Man on the Spot” ’, Defence Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, Summer 2001, p. 130.
57Mackenzie King to JB, 12 December 1939, QUA, 2110, box 11.
58MKD, 16 December 1939, BAC/LAC, MG26-J13, 21052.
59JB, diary entry, 16 December 1939, NLS, Acc. 6975/11.
60MKD, 16 December 1939, BAC/LAC, MG26-J13, 21059.
&n
bsp; 61Quoted by Henshaw, ‘John Buchan and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan’, p. 133.
62Ottawa Citizen, 18 December 1939.
63Neilson, ‘An Excellent Conning-Tower’, p. 267.
64Ibid., p. 269.
65Franklin D. Roosevelt to JB, 5 October 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, President’s Personal File, PPF 3396.
66See J. William Galbraith, John Buchan: Model Governor General, Dundurn, Toronto, 2013, chapter 10.
67David Walker, Lean, Wind, Lean, Collins, London, 1984, p. 99.
68Joan Pape, diary of the Royal Visit, unpublished, John Buchan Museum, Peebles.
69Quoted in Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 461.
70Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, p. 13.
71JB to Walter Buchan, 23 November 1939, NLS, Acc. 11627/84.
72JB to Walter Buchan, 2 November 1939, NLS, Acc. 11627/84.
73JB’s diary entry for 31 December 1939, NLS, Acc. 6975/11.
74JB to Anna Buchan, 1 January 1940, NLS, Acc. 11164/25.
75JB to Anna Buchan, 15 January 1940, NLS, Acc. 11164/25.
76JB to Sandy Gillon, 19 January 1940, QUA, 2110, box 11.
77John Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1940, p. 7.
78Ibid., pp. 284–7.
79Ibid., p. 169.
80JB to Walter Buchan, 25 January 1940, NLS, Acc. 11627/84.
81JB to Walter Buchan, 1 February 1940, NLS, Acc. 11627/84.
82See Galbraith, Model Governor General, chapter 17.
83JB to Anna Buchan, 5 February 1940, NLS, Acc. 6542/14.
84JB to Walter Buchan, 1 February 1940, NLS, Acc. 11627/84.
85JB to Anna Buchan, 5 February 1940, NLS, Acc. 6542/14.
86Reported in the Daily Mail, 15 February 1940.
87Telegram from Susie to Anna and Walter Buchan, 11 February 1940, NLS, Acc. 11164/25.
88Susie to Alice Fairfax-Lucy, 12 February 1940, private collection.
89Memorial booklet, Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GVI/PS/DOM/04518/52.
90Ferris Greenslet, Under the Bridge, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1943, pp. 207–8.
91The Reverend Alexander Ferguson, 14 February 1940, CBC Broadcast.
92Memorial Meeting for the Governor-General, Montreal Neurological Institute, 14 February 1940, QUA, 2110, box 12.
93J. P. Parry, ‘Reflections on the thought of John Buchan’, in Michael Bentley, ed., Public and Private Doctrine: Essays in British History Presented to Maurice Cowling, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993, p. 235.
94Sir Shuldham Redfern to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 16 February 1940, private collection.
95A. L. Rowse, The English Past, Macmillan, London, 1957, p. 184.
96Ibid., p. 194.
97George M. Trevelyan to Susie, 19 February 1940, QUA, 2110, box 23.
98Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, p. 12.
99J. W. Dafoe to Viscount Greenwood, 29 March 1940, NLS, Acc. 11164/10.
100The New York Tribune, 12 February 1940.
101Arthur Murray, At Close Quarters, John Murray, London, 1946, pp. 97–8.
102Quoted in Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 463.
103M. R. Ridley, Second Thoughts: More Studies in Literature, J. M. Dent, London, 1965, pp. 25–6.
104John Buchan, Scholar Gipsies, The Bodley Head, London, 1896, pp. 205–6.
Afterword
1Alec Maitland to Susie, 12 February 1940, QUA, 2110, box 23.
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