James Redfern generously lent me all his grandfather’s papers, while David and Sir Simon Boyle made available to me the letters their father, Captain John Boyle, sent home from Canada. Lord Ironside invited me to look through diaries belonging to his father, and Mark Laing enabled me to see private correspondence between JB and Sir Alexander Grant.
I owe an enormous debt to those scholars with an interest in JB. They are a most collegiate group of people, and could not have encouraged me more: in particular, Dr Michael Redley and William Galbraith, for many conversations and for reading parts of the manuscript; Dr Kate Macdonald and Dr Peter Henshaw for sending me academic papers they had written; Dr Roger Clarke for conversations concerning JB’s journalism; the Reverend Dr David Weekes for his work on JB’s religion; and Andrew Lownie and Dr Eileen Stewart for helpful advice. Professor Andrew D. Roberts, the son of Janet Adam Smith, lent me some papers belonging to his mother and alerted me to the rest now deposited in the National Library of Scotland, while Professor David S. Katz pointed me to work he has done on pre-Great War Turkey and Greenmantle.
A book of this nature would be quite impossible without the professional help of archivists and librarians. I should like to thank in particular Olive Geddes and her staff, especially Robbie Mitchell, at the National Library of Scotland; Paul Banfield, Heather Home and Jeremy Heil at the Archives at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario; Dr Alvan Bregman and Jillian Sparks at the W.D. Jordan Library, also at Queen’s; Frank Bowles, Superintendent of the Manuscripts Reading Room, and his staff at Cambridge University Library; Julie Crocker at the Royal Archives; Jill Delaney at Library and Archives, Canada; and Jerry Fielder and Julie Grahame at the Yousuf Karsh Archive.
Also very helpful were the archivists of the Bodleian Library, Oxford; Brasenose College, Oxford; the British Institute, Florence; the John J. Burns Library, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts; the Centre of Research Collections at the University of Edinburgh; the Ede and Ravenscroft Archives, Waterbeach; the Fife Cultural Trust (Kirkcaldy Local Studies); the John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Hutchesons’ Grammar School, Glasgow; the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Massachusetts; the Middle Temple Archives, London; the National Archives, Kew; Oxfordshire History Centre, Oxford; the Parliamentary Archives, London; Queen Mary University of London Archives; the Rauner Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, New York and the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, Independence, Missouri.
I read many of the secondary sources in Cambridge University Library, and would like to express my thanks to the Librarian, Dr Jessica Gardner, and her colleagues.
I acknowledge, with gratitude, the permission to reproduce material from their collections from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Syndics of Cambridge University Library, and the Yousuf Karsh Archive.
I am indebted to the members of the John Buchan Society, which has kept the flame burning brightly since 1979; in particular the Chairman, Kenneth Hillier, Drs William and Andrena Telford, and Peter Thackeray. The Society has given me a platform for airing some of my research in the last few years, which has been of great assistance to me. I thank the Chairman and Council of the Society for permission to quote from several articles in The John Buchan Journal.
The memory of John Buchan is also cherished and promoted at the John Buchan Story Museum in the Chambers Institution in Peebles, and I am grateful to the Trustees and to the Management Committee, especially Ian Buckingham and Dr Peter Worthington. I acknowledge with thanks permission to reproduce a number of the images deposited at the Museum.
Kate and Richard Love, Julia Elcock and Richard Buxton, Amanda Buchan and Rosalind Wild gave me much-needed hospitality on my travels; my researches would have been far less agreeable without their open-hearted generosity and enduring interest in my sometimes rather arcane preoccupations.
There are many other people who have helped me in one way or another – answering specific queries, sending me information, lending books, making domestic life run smoothly, or simply encouraging me to talk about JB. I should like to thank Baroness Bakewell, John Ballantyne, Adam Begley, Liz Boxall, David Brearly, Jane Brown, Isabel Buchanan, Nancy Champion, Dr Jim Cox, Peter and Ray Cox, Alan Crombie, the Reverend Dr Karen Dimock, Taylor Downing, Carl Folker, Sir James Graham, Andy Haswell, Richard and Cressida Inglewood, Charles and Kate Ironside, Louis Jebb, Igor Judge, Lori Knoll, Alex Leith, Alexander McCall Smith, Dr Daniel Maccannell, Dr Christopher McCreery, Christine MacIntyre, Sir William Macpherson of Cluny, Sandy McCracken, Andrew Martin, Simon Milne, Peter Morrell, Cynthia Ogilvie, Reg Paintin, Anna Pavord, Philip Potterton, Alexander Reford, Jean Ann Scott Miller, Anne Simpson, Sandra Smith, Jan Usher and Bob Watson.
I should like to thank my literary agent, Felicity Bryan, as well as Michael Fishwick and his colleagues at Bloomsbury, in particular Sarah Ruddick, Lilidh Kendrick, Holly Ovenden, Francesca Sturiale, Richard Mason and Douglas Matthews. The collaboration has been a very happy one.
Finally, I was enormously helped by a grant from the Society of Authors’ Foundation, which enabled me to undertake research abroad. It would have been difficult to complete the task without it.
Index
NOTE: Works by John Buchan (JB) appear directly under title; works by others under author’s name; Ranks and titles are generally the highest mentioned in the text.
Abdication Crisis (1936), here, here
Achensee, Tirol, here
Achnacloich, Argyll, here
Adam Smith, Janet, here, here, here, here
Adams, Henry, here
Adams, Katharine, here
‘A.E.B.’ (JB; poem), here
African Colony, The: Studies in the Reconstruction (JB), here, here, here, here
Ainger, Canon Alfred, here
Alan Breck (horse), here
Albany, Charlotte, Duchess of, here
Alcock, Lilian see Killick, Lilian
Alice, Princess, Countess of Athlone, here
All Souls College, Oxford
JB fails to gain Fellowship, here, here, here
Allam, Jack, here
Alpine Club, here
Amery, Leo, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall (JB), here
‘Angling in Still Waters’ (JB; essay), here
Arbuthnot, Sandy (fictional character), here, here
Ardtornish, Argyll, here
Ardwall, Andrew Jameson, Lord, here
Ardwall, Galloway, here
Armistice (1918), here
Armour, Norman and Myra, here
Arnold, Matthew, here, here, here
Ashridge College of Citizenship, Hertfordshire, here
Askwith family, here
Asquith, Herbert Henry, here, here, here, here
Asquith, Raymond
at Balliol, Oxford, here, here, here
friendship with JB, here
JB dedicates The Half-Hearted to, here
appears unwell, here
enlists for war, here
JB memorialises, here
leisured manner, here
letter-writing, here
portrayed in Memory Hold-the-Door, here
Asquith, Violet, here
Astor, Nancy, Viscountess, here
Astor, Waldorf, 2nd Viscount here
Athlone, Alexander, Earl of, here
‘At the Article of Death’ (JB; story), here
‘Atta’s Song’ (JB; poem), here, here
Atteridge, A. Hilliard, here, here
Attlee, Clement, here, here
Augustus Caesar
JB writes biography, here, here, here, here
Augustus (JB), here
‘Avignon, 1759’ (JB; poem), here
Azores, here
Bacon, Sir Francis
JB edits essays, here, here
Baden-Powell, Sir Robert, here
Bagnold, Enid (Lad
y Jones), here, here
Baker, Harold, here, here, here, here, here
Baker, Sir Herbert, here
Baldwin, Stanley
describes JB, here
defends JB’s propaganda work, here
and JB’s nomination and appointment as Governor-General of Canada, here, here, here, here
JB admires, here
and JB’s maiden speech, here
JB writes to on behalf of T.E. Lawrence, here
friendship with JB, here, here
JB defends against accusations of disloyalty, here
helps Ramsay MacDonald, here
JB dedicates Sir Walter Scott to, here
in Abdication Crisis, here, here
JB reports to on Washington visit, here
succeeded as PM by Chamberlain, here
and JB’s view of Mussolini, here
and JB’s frustrated ambitions, here
attends JB’s memorial service, here
Baldwinism, here
Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl of
takes interest in JB, here
as guest of Lord Cowper, here
JB’s friendship with, here
visits Western Front, here
and wartime propaganda, here
and JB’s petition for honour, here
and establishment of National Library of Scotland, here
complains of misprint in JB’s The Moon Endureth, here
Balfour Declaration, here
‘Ballad of Grey Weather, A’ (JB; poem), here
Bank House, Peebles, here, here, here
Baring, Maurice, here
Barrie, James Matthew, here
Barth, Karl, here, here
‘Basilissa, The’ (JB; story), here, here
Battle of the Somme, The (film), here
Battle of the Somme, The (JB), here
Baxter, Beverley, here, here, here
Beardsley, Aubrey, here
Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron
as Minister of Information in Great War, here, here
unwell, here
and JB’s honour, here, here
and United Empire Party, here
supports Edward VIII, here
Beerbohm, Max
Zuleika Dobson, here
Bell, Vanessa, here, here
Belloc, Hilaire, here, here
A General Sketch of the European War, First Phase, here
Bennett, Alan, here
Bennett, Arnold, here, here, here
Bennett, Charles, here
Bennett, Richard Bedford (R.B.), 1st Viscount, here, here
Bentley, E.C., here
Berengaria, RMS, here
Berlin, Isaiah, here
Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of, here, here, here, here
Betjeman, John: ‘The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel’ (poem), here
Bickersteth, Burgon, here
Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of, here, here, here
Birrell, Augustine, here, here
Black and White (magazine), here
Blackwell, Benjamin Henry, here
Blackwood, Lord Basil, here, here, here
Blackwood, William, here
Blackwood’s Magazine, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Blackwood’s (publishers), here, here
Blanc, Pierre, here
Blanket of the Dark, The (JB), here, here, here
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, here
Bodley Head, The (publishing house), here, here
Boer War (1899–1902), here, here
Boers
post-war settlement, here
Bone, Sir Muirhead, here
Bonn, Moritz, here, here, here, here, here
Bonn, Theresa, here
Book of Common Prayer, here
Book of Escapes, A (JB), here
Bookman, The (magazine), here
Boothby, Robert, here
Boswell, James, here
Botha, Louis, here, here
Bottomley, Horatio, here
Boulter, ‘Taffy’, here, here, here, here
Bourke-White, Margaret, here
Bowen, Elizabeth, here, here
Boy Scouts, here
Boyle, Captain John, here, here
Bradley, A.C., here
Bradley, F.H., here
Brailsford, H.N., here
Brand, Robert, here, here, here
Brasenose College, Oxford
JB attends, here, here, here
JB writes history, here
initial impression, here
Willie Buchan attends, here, here, here
Britain Prepared (film), here
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), here
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), here
British Film Institute, here
British Institute of Adult Education, here
British Weekly, The, here, here, here
Briton, RMS, here
Broadstairs, Kent, here
Brooke, Rupert, here
Brooke-Popham, Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert, here
Broughton, Peebleshire, here, here
Brown, George, here, here, here, here, here, here
Brown, George Douglas
The House with the Green Shutters, here
Brown, Ted, here
Bruce, Stanley, here
Bryanston Street, London, house in here
Buchan family
Susie on, here
Buchan, Alastair Ebenezer (JB’s brother; ‘Mhor’)
birth, here
nickname, here
visits South Africa with parents, here
studies at Glasgow University, here
enlists in war, here
war service and death in France, here, here, here, here
returns to Western Front, here
Orpen portrait, here
JB’s Poems Scots and English dedicated to, here
JB founds poetry prize in memory of, here
Buchan, Alastair Francis (JB/Susie’s son)
at Christ Church, Oxford, here
birth, here
on JB’s spiritual restraint, here
riding, here
education, here, here
walking trip in Wales with JB, here
travels to Canada with JB, here
joins JB on trip to western Canada, here
enlists in Canadian army, here, here
stands guard at JB’s lying in state, here
at JB’s death, here
Buchan, Alexander (JB’s uncle), here
Buchan, Alice (JB/Susie’s daughter) see Fairfax-Lucy, Alice Caroline Helen
Buchan, Anna (JB’s sister; ‘O. Douglas’)
birth, here
Scots identity, here
on Calvinism, here
JB buys bicycle for, here
JB’s relations with, here, here
novel-writing, here
interest in theatre, here
visits JB in Oxford, here
and JB’s law training, here
JB expects to support, here
JB gives fur coat to, here
and JB’s departure for South Africa, here
and brother Willie’s posting to India, here
and JB’s declining editorship of The Transvaal Leader, here
JB writes of good health, here
climbing with JB, here, here
JB makes annual allowance to, here
moves to Peebles to be with brother Walter, here
and JB’s engagement to Susie, here, here, here
meets and befriends Susie, here, here, here
and mother’s illness, here
visits Willie in India, here
literary success, here, here
cares for parents in retirement, here
appearance, here
fondness for JB’s children, here
on tour of Azores with
JB, here
on Alastair playing with children in war, here
and brother Alastair’s death in France, here
writing at Elsfield Manor, here
visits Elsfield, here, here
portrayal of women, here
visits JB in Canada, here, here
on JB after installation as Chancellor of Edinburgh University, here
with JB on visit from Canada, here
and JB’s signing Canada’s declaration of war, here
final letter from JB, here
death, here
Ann and her Mother, here
Olivia in India (by ‘O. Douglas’), here, here
Penny Plain, here
Pink Sugar, here
The Setons, here
W.H.B. (ed.), here
Buchan, Helen (née Masterton; JB’s mother)
marriage and children, here, here
household management, here
relations wth JB, here, here, here, here
visits JB in Oxford, here
doubts over JB’s post in South Africa, here
in South Africa, here
letters from JB in South Africa, here
and son Willie’s posting to India, here
on worrying to JB about brother Willie, here
JB tells of Susie declining proposal of marriage, here
reaction to JB’s engagement to Susie, here, here
meets Susie, here
health decline, here, here, here, here, here
Susie praises, here
lack of acceptance of Susie, here, here
at JB’s wedding, here
JB and Willie support financially, here, here
receives copy of Anna’s Penny Plain, here
and death of son Willie, here
on tour of Azores with JB, here
protests at Commons attack on JB, here
and JB’s prospective honour, here
churchgoing, here
relations with JB’s family, here
attends Church of Scotland General Assembly ceremonies, here
pleased at JB’s appointment to Canada, here
on JB’s departure for Canada, here
visits JB in Canada, here
death, here, here, here
Buchan, (James) Walter (JB’s brother)
birth, here
deprecates cover of The Watcher by the Threshold, here
climbing with JB, here, here
and Susie’s visit to Peebles, here
writes on Wellington’s campaigns, here
supports uncle Tom, here
visits Elsfield, here
JB dedicates Witch Wood to, here
and JB’s departure for Canada, here
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