14. Ibid.
15. Quoted in Longford, Pilgrimage of Passion, p. 311.
16. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, 27 February 1895 (Letters, p. 120).
17. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, diary entry, 14/15 January 1895, FM 344-1975.
18. Ibid.
19. Longford, Pilgrimage of Passion, p. 311; Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 27 March 1899, Blunt Papers, FM 492-1975; and 5 May 1906, Blunt Papers, FM 559-1975.
20. Quoted in Longford, Pilgrimage of Passion, p. 313.
21. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 6 April 1899, Blunt Papers, FM 493-1975.
22. Ibid.
23. Quoted in Longford, Pilgrimage of Passion, p. 311.
24. Beauman, Cynthia Asquith, pp. 26, 30, 292–3.
25. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 6 April 1899, Blunt Papers, FM 493-1975.
26. Mary Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci, 13 February 1895, De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/87.
27. Quoted in Longford, Pilgrimage of Passion, p. 312.
28. Ibid., p. 313.
29. Hugo Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci, n.d. [1895], De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/102.
30. Ibid.
31. Longford, Pilgrimage of Passion, p. 313.
32. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 6 April 1899, Blunt Papers, FM 493-1975.
33. Harrison, Autobiographic Memoirs, 2.173–9.
34. Longford, Pilgrimage of Passion, p. 313.
35. Hugo Elcho to Mary Elcho, n.d. [February 1895], Stanway Papers.
36. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 6 April 1899, Blunt Papers, FM 493-1975.
37. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, diary entries, 5 March 1895 to 13 March 1895, Blunt Papers, FM 344-1975.
38. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 6 April 1899, Blunt Papers, FM 493-1975.
39. Hugo Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci, 20 March 1895, De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/102.
40. Telegram from Hugo Elcho to Mary Elcho, 20 March 1895, Stanway Papers. It had been arranged in Hugo’s previous letter to Mary that the two would meet in Rome: Hugo Elcho to Mary Elcho, 14 March 1895, Stanway Papers.
41. Hugo Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci, 20 March 1895, De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/102.
42. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 21 March 1895, Stanway Papers.
43. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, 9 April 1895, Stanway Papers.
44. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, 9 July 1895, Stanway Papers.
45. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Secret Memoirs XVII, diary entry, 13 May 1895 (transcript of a letter from Mary Elcho), Blunt Papers, FM 34-1975; Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, 9 July 1895, Stanway Papers.
46. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Secret Memoirs XVII, diary entry, May 1895.
Chapter 17: The Florentine Drama
1. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 6 April 1895, Adeane Papers.
2. George Wyndham to Percy Wyndham, 7 April 1895, BL Eccles Bequest (unbound), vol. CXIV, Add. MSS. 81732.
3. Ibid.
4. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, 20 March 1895 (Letters, p. 123).
5. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho, 6 May 1895, Stanway Papers.
6. Paget, In my Tower, 25 April 1895, 1.136–9.
7. Blow, Broken Blood, p. 113.
8. Quoted in Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p. 51.
9. E. F. Benson, Dodo – A Detail of the Day (Lightning Source UK, [n.d.]), p. 27.
10. Quoted in Ellenberger., ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p. 64.
11. Pamela Tennant to George Wyndham, 21 August 1895, George Wyndham Papers; Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho, 6 May 1895, Stanway Papers.
12. Edward Tennant to Charlotte, Lady Ribblesdale, 7 May 1895, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. c. 6697 f. 156.
13. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho, 6 May 1895, Stanway Papers.
14. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, quoted in Dakers, Clouds, p. 163.
15. Edward Tennant to Charlotte, Lady Ribblesdale, 7 May 1895, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. c. 6697 f. 156.
16. Wilfrid Blunt, diary entry, 12 May 1895, Blunt Papers, FM 345-1975.
17. George Wyndham to Mary Drew, May 1895, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 1.330–1.
18. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, 18 July 1895, Stanway Papers.
19. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, 16 May 1895, Stanway Papers.
20. Ibid.
21. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, n.d. [spring 1895] (Letters, p. 124).
22. Percy Wyndham to Guy Wyndham, 23 May 1895, Stanway Papers.
23. George Wyndham to Mary Drew, May 1895, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 1.330–1.
24. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, 9 July 1895, Stanway Papers.
25. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 31 August 1895 (Letters, pp. 128–9).
26. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Secret Memoirs XVII, 16 August 1895.
27. Ibid., 11 and 27 April 1895.
28. Ibid., 13 May 1895.
29. Ibid., 28 June 1895.
30. Longford, Pilgrimage of Passion, p. 315.
31. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Secret Memoirs XVII, 14 and 19 July 1895.
32. Order of Service for Pamela and Edward Tennant, kept and decorated by Mary Elcho, Stanway Papers.
33. The Lady, 18 July 1895; and quoted in Blow, Broken Blood, p. 114.
34. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Secret Memoirs XVII, 14 and 19 July 1895.
35. Ibid., 16 August 1895.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid., 9 December 1895.
38. Edward Burne-Jones to Madeline Wyndham, 25 October 1895; unknown correspondent to Madeline Wyndham, 26 October 1895, Stanway Papers.
39. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Secret Memoirs XVII, 9 December 1895.
40. Longford, Pilgrimage of Passion, pp. 318–19.
41. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 29 April 1896, Blunt Papers, FM 281-1975.
42. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 27 March 1899, Blunt Papers, FM 492-175.
43. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 26 September 1901, Blunt Papers, FM 518-1975.
44. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 1 February 1906, Blunt Papers, FM 554-1975.
45. Ibid.
46. A full account of this is given in Longford, Pilgrimage of Passion, chapters 17 to 19.
47. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 6 June 1893 (Letters pp. 135–6).
Chapter 18: Glen
1. Quoted in Blow, Broken Blood, p. 116.
2. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Secret Memoirs XVII, 19 July 1895.
3. Pamela Tennant to George Wyndham, 22 October 1895, George Wyndham Papers.
4. Pamela Tennant to Marie Stopes, 14 July 1918, BL Stopes Papers, vol. CCXXXVIII, Add. MS. 58684.
5. Pamela Tennant to George Wyndham, 21 August 1895, George Wyndham Papers.
6. Pamela Tennant to George Wyndham, 21 August 1895 and 24 August 1898, George Wyndham Papers.
7. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, 23 October 1897, Stanway Papers.
8. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, n.d. [c.1900], Stanway Papers.
9. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, 23 October 1897, Stanway Papers.
10. Edward Tennant to Pamela Tennant, 19 February 1896, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/30 f. 34.
11. See correspondence between Pamela Tennant and Edward Tennant in the course of autumn 1895 and spring 1896, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/26, 30, 31.
12. Edward Tennant to Pamela Tennant, spring 1896, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/30 f. 17.
13. Edward Tennant to Pamela Tennant, 17 January 1896, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/31 f. 20.
14. Edward Tennant to Pamela Tennant, 26 April 1896, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/31 f. 26.
15. Edward Tennant to Pamela Tennant, 10 January 1896, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/30 f. 38.
16. Edward Tennant to Pamela Tennant, n.d. [c.Easter 1896], Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/30 f. 20.
17. Madeline Wyndham to Pamela Tennant, 9 August 1897, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/26 f. 33.
18. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, n.d. [c.November 1920], Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD433/2/2
29/1 f. 19.
19. Blow, Broken Blood, pp. 132–3.
20. Harry Cust to Pamela Tennant, n.d., Tennant Papers, NLS 12143/4.
21. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, 6 January 1886, Stanway Papers.
22. Madeline Wyndham to Pamela Tennant, 9 August 1897, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/26 f. 33.
23. Pamela Tennant to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 11 June 1922, Blunt Papers, FM 286-1976.
24. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, 23 October 1897, Stanway Papers.
25. Madeline Wyndham to Pamela Tennant, 9 August 1897, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/26 f. 33.
26. Brendon, Decline and Fall, pp. 207, 209–10.
27. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, 7 June 1895, Stanway Papers.
28. George Wyndham to Pamela Tennant, 19 January 1898, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 1.323.
29. George Wyndham to Pamela Tennant, 5 March 1898, quoted in ibid., 1.334; 11 February 1898, ibid., 1.333.
30. George Wyndham to Pamela Tennant, 11 February 1898, ibid., 1.333.
31. George Wyndham to Pamela Tennant, 10 January 1898, ibid., 1.320.
32. George Wyndham to Pamela Tennant, 23 April 1899, ibid., 1.352.
33. Cuttings all found in the Garden Book of Pamela Tennant, Stephen Tennant Papers.
34. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, 20 June 1900, Stanway Papers.
35. The Times, 20 November 1928.
36. Pamela Glenconner, Edward Wyndham Tennant: A Memoir (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1919), p. 11.
Chapter 19: The Portrait, War and Death
1. John Singer Sargent to Percy Wyndham, 20 December 1898, quoted in Dakers, Clouds, p. 163.
2. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho, n.d. [c.May 1895], Stanway Papers.
3. Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 1.67, 349–50.
4. Egremont, The Cousins, pp. 196, 198.
5. Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 1.66.
6. Quoted in Egremont, The Cousins, p. 193.
7. Mallet, Life with Queen Victoria, 21 October 1898, p. 141.
8. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, 18 January 1899, Stanway Papers.
9. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, 11 February 1899, Stanway Papers.
10. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, 1 February 1899, Stanway Papers.
11. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, 7 February 1899, Stanway Papers.
12. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, 14 February 1899, Stanway Papers.
13. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 17 March 1899, Adeane Papers.
14. Madeline Adeane to Percy Wyndham, 6 April 1899, Adeane Papers.
15. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, 28 February 1899, Stanway Papers.
16. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 29 March 1899, Adeane Papers.
17. Charles Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 21 April 1899, Adeane Papers.
18. Charles Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 24 March 1899, Adeane Papers.
19. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 16 August 1899, Adeane Papers.
20. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 28 September 1899, Adeane Papers.
21. Quoted in Egremont, The Cousins, p. 201.
22. Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 1.71.
23. Egremont, The Cousins, p. 201.
24. Quoted in ibid., p. 188.
25. Quoted in ibid., p. 201.
26. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 31 October 1899, Adeane Papers.
27. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 2 November 1899, Adeane Papers.
28. Charles Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 3 November 1899, Adeane Papers.
29. Madeline Wyndham to Pamela Tennant, 4 November 1899, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/29 f. 38; 7 November 1899, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/29 f. 22.
30. Madeline Wyndham to Pamela Tennant, 7 November 1899, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/29 f. 22.
31. Ibid.
32. H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli (Duffield, 1910), p. 122.
33. See Chapter 9 onwards of Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War (Smith, Elder, 1900).
34. Brendon, Decline and Fall, pp. 218–19.
35. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho, 16/17 December 1899, Stanway Papers.
Chapter 20: Plucking Triumph from Disaster
1. H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli, p. 122.
2. Brendon, Decline and Fall, p. 219.
3. George Wyndham to Guy Wyndham, 6 January 1900, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 1.386.
4. Margot Asquith to Edward Tennant, 17 January 1900, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD10/1/42 f. 8.
5. George Wyndham to Madeline Wyndham, 3 February 1900, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 1.391.
6. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, 1 February 1900 (Letters, p. 166).
7. Margot Asquith to Edward Tennant, n.d. [5 November 1900], Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/42 f. 12.
8. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho, 5 February 1900, Stanway Papers.
9. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, 16 March 1900 (Letters, p. 167).
10. Newspaper cutting, n.d., among Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/29 f. 7.
11. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 29 March 1900, Adeane Papers.
12. Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 1.72.
13. New York Times, 14 December 1913.
14. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 18 March 1900, Adeane Papers.
15. George Wyndham to Pamela Tennant, 11 September 1900, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 1.405.
16. Charles Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 1 February 1900, Adeane Papers.
17. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 13 August 1900, Adeane Papers.
18. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 20 May 1900, Adeane Papers.
19. Brendon, Decline and Fall, p. 220.
20. Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (London and Boston, Faber 1978), p. 86.
21. Downes, John S. Sargent, pp. 54, 188–9.
22. Dakers, Clouds, p. 97.
23. Quoted in ibid., p. 165.
24. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 1 August 1900, Stanway Papers.
25. Quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 1.72–3.
Chapter 21: The 1900 Election
1. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 1 August 1900, Stanway Papers.
2. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 13 September 1900, Stanway Papers.
3. Quoted in Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p. 91; Dakers, Clouds, p. 158.
4. Abdy and Gere, The Souls, p. 106.
5. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, 16 July 1895, Stanway Papers.
6. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Secret Memoirs XVII, 16 July 1895.
7. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, n.d. [c.1898], Stanway Papers.
8. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 13 September 1900, Stanway Papers.
9. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, 25 September 1900, Stanway Papers.
10. Ellenberger, ‘The Souls and London “Society”’, p. 154. The equivalent in RPI is £7,389,000; in ESV £43,050,000; and in EPV £66,680,000.
11. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 30 August 1899 (Letters, pp. 158–9).
12. Abdy and Gere, The Souls, p. 105.
13. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, n.d. [September 1896] (Letters, p. 146).
14. Mary Elcho to Percy Wyndham, 28 September 1899, Stanway Papers.
15. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 30 August 1899 (Letters, pp. 158–9).
16. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 20 September 1904 (Letters, pp. 216–17).
17. Margot Asquith to Edward Tennant, 10 October 1900, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/42 f. 9.
18. Margot Asquith to Edward Tennant, 31 July 1900, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/42 f. 11.
19. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, n.d. [1900], Stanway Papers.
20. Quoted in Marquand, Britain since 1918, p. 56.
21. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, n.d. [1900], Stanway Papers.
22. Ibid.
23. Jalland, Women, Marriage and Politics, pp. 206ff.
24. Ibid., quoted at pp. 209–10.<
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25. Ibid., pp. 209–14.
26. See, for example, Edward Tennant to Pamela Tennant, 27 May 1896, teasingly suggesting that Pamela should show a prominent suffragist guest at Clouds, Lady Grove (a niece of the Wyndhams’ friend Rosalind Howard), a letter in The Times presumably opposing women’s suffrage, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/30 f. 32.2; and Clare Tennant to Edward Tennant, 15 November 1912, responding to her father’s having sent her a printed copy of a recent speech he had made opposing women’s suffrage: ‘I’m sure the meeting will retard the “vote” & when I read your speech I couldn’t think what the suffragets [sic] could find to contradict reasonably the things you said …’, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/41 f. 21.
27. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 21 and 1 September 1900, Adeane Papers.
28. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 28 September 1900, Adeane Papers.
29. Quoted in Marr, History of Modern Britain, p. 27.
30. James, Rise and Fall, p. 321.
31. Margot Asquith to Edward Tennant, 31 July 1900, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/42 f. 11.
32. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 5 October 1900, Adeane Papers.
33. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, n.d. (1900), Stanway Papers.
34. Margot Asquith to Edward Tennant, 5 November 1900, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD510/1/42 f. 12.
35. Antony MacDonnell to George Wyndham, 22 September 1902, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham, Life and Letters, 2.760–1.
Chapter 22: Growing Families
1. Asquith, Remember and Be Glad, p. 192.
2. Ibid.
3. Mary Elcho to Ettie Desborough, 23 June 1915, Desborough Papers, HALS DE/Rv/C479/1.
4. Margot Asquith to Mary Elcho, c.1900, quoted in Blow, Broken Blood, p. 142.
5. Mary Elcho to Ettie Desborough, n.d. [c.1918/19], Desborough Papers, HALS DE/Rv/C477/66.
6. Madeline Adeane to Percy Wyndham, 12 February 1901, Adeane Papers.
7. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 30 January 1901, Adeane Papers.
8. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, n.d. [July 1902], Stanway Papers.
9. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, 2 January 1903 (Letters, pp. 193–4).
10. Francis Oke Buckland, Health Springs of Germany and Austria (W. H. Allen, 1890), p. 71.
11. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, 11 September 1900, Adeane Papers.
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