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  Can I speak . . . Box 35

  constantly being jolted . . . ABC, 25.1.83

  concierge of Brigitte Bardot . . .

  ABC, 12.8.87

  beautiful, resilient and resourceful . . . ABC, 25.1.83

  She, as you . . . BC to parents, 12.1.83

  It was absolutely . . . BC to DM, 1.3.83

  The sky is so . . . BC to DR, 23.1.83

  sustained meditation . . . ABC, 12.8.87

  indeed perhaps the reason . . . BC to Elisabeth Sifton, 7.2.83

  ancient and traditional . . . Theodor Strehlow, Australian Aboriginal Songs, 1955

  It is a 20th century . . . BC to Kath Strehlow, 24.8.83

  was a real . . . BC to Anne-Marie Mykyta, 26.11.84

  Sometimes, when . . . BC to KS, August 1983

  Things never seen . . . Box 35

  I sat down . . . BC to CT

  A man set out . . . Epilogue, El Hacedor, 1960

  vastly grander . . . comparison ABC, 11.5.83

  When you confronted . . . BC to CT

  At last! I’ve . . . BC to EC, 28.9.83

  So you’re a . . . SL, 91

  good-looking in . . . SL, 46

  A good deal . . . Box 35

  Whether it happened . . . ABC, 12.8.87

  For myself, I . . . SL, 116

  So what was . . . SL, 112

  Never have I caught . . . BC to Petronella Vaarson-Morel, 8.1.84

  Then she strolled . . . SL, 112

  They were two . . . 316

  XXXI: The Bat Cave

  Tous les anglais . . . Box 34

  hideous food poisoning . . . BC to DR, 18.4.83

  I am terribly sorry . . . BC to PVM, 8.1.84

  flat, dried-out, alienated . . . BC to DR, 18.4.83

  XXXII: An Hour with Bruce Chatwin

  Everyone – especially . . . Box 35

  We walked off and . . . EC to GC, 3.6.83

  He’s having a bad . . . EC to GC, 12.11.84

  I come from . . . Obituary, Radio 4, January 1989

  I made the experiment . . . Box 35

  To understand human . . . ABC, 8.5.84

  A few years ago . . . BC to parents, February 1982

  the point where . . . ABC, 8.5.84

  should be given . . . BC to FW, 19.2.84

  a man of infinite gentleness . . . Box 35

  which appeared . . . Box 35

  Black mood . . . Box 35

  There is a point . . . ABC, 8.5.84

  Australia, I find . . . BC to MB, 20.10.83

  Aboriginal Australia . . . BC to MB, ND

  What do you . . . BC to PVM, 8.1.84

  Thinking of you . . . BC to Lydia Livingstone [January?], 1984

  They wrote to me . . . BC to MB, 20.10.83

  I agree with you . . . BC to MB, 11.12.87

  his sincere disgust . . . TLS, 16.6.89

  There have been . . . BC to MB, 8.2.88

  I’m fed up . . . BC to Anne-Marie Mykyta, ND

  Llosa and I . . . BC to MB, 20.10.83

  I said (realising . . . BC to MB, 20.10.83

  Bruce, Salman Rushdie . . . Geoff Bagshaw to PVM, March 1984

  He left his wife . . . BC to Nin Dutton, 1.11.84

  The spirit of generosity . . . Box 35

  The craziest thing . . . BC to CT

  SR kept audience . . . Box 35

  I still cannot . . . Box 35

  Mrs Houston worked . . . SL, 288

  XXXIII: A Sincere Fumbling

  It is ironic . . . BC to John Pawson, February 1986

  I’m longing . . . Jasper Conran to BC, 24.3.84

  The novel, if such . . . BC to MB, 20.10.83

  I assume it is the . . . TM to BC, 4.2.85

  Should we say . . . BC to TM, 1.3.85

  The book is not . . . BC to ND,

  Soupy pre-Fascist . . . BC to MB, 4.6.83

  Without wanting to . . . BC to MB, 1.3.85

  I’m only capable . . . BC to MB, 11.3.86

  this promenade-deck . . . BC to MB, ND

  This a.m. there . . . EC to GC,

  This peripatetic existence . . . BC to JK, 17.2.86

  and needed clearance . . . EC to GC, December 1984

  the most beautiful . . . BC to DM, 30.1.85

  I’ve put a block . . . BC to MB, 1.3.85

  I have a room . . . BC to MB, 11.1.85

  a really good egg! . . . BC to ND, 1.11.84

  It’s ambitious, Difficult . . . 24.8.84

  I feel I must . . . BC to MB, December [1984?]

  A disaster with . . . BC to Penelope Tree, 2.7.84

  Although Bruce’s mind . . . From “A Nomad Collector”

  It would be terrific . . . BC to MB, 1.3.85

  The whole Taygetus . . . BC to EC, 30.8.70

  weathered and faded . . . A Time of Gifts (John Murray, 1977), 23

  Abstruse art-forms . . . Spectator, 18.2.89

  Up behind Kardamyli . . . BC to DM, 30.1.85

  crackpot theory . . . BBC2, The Book Programme, 26.9.79

  is not simply . . . WAIDH, 139

  To saunter . . . David Plante, “The Restlessness of Bruce Chatwin”

  a hollow-chested figure . . . OTBH, 17

  Nothing can be more . . . Box 12

  Compression is what’s . . . BC to PLF, August 1985

  XXXIV: There is a God

  And I will be . . . Robert Byron, The Station, Duckworth, 1928, 143

  ‘Golden Boy’ . . . Anecdotage, 85

  To anyone who . . . The Station, 148

  his entrenched aesthetic . . . Fourteen Friends

  No, Bruce, I said . . . James Lees-Milne, 1.8.80

  Athos is obviously . . . BC to MB, April 1985

  My whole life . . . WAIDH, 282

  Some form of religion . . . Box 34

  The search for . . . Box 35

  religion is a technique . . . Box 31

  in the Greek . . . Box 35

  Paddy says . . . Box 34

  a sweet freckle-faced novice . . . Box 34

  There must be a God . . . Box 34

  XXXV: India

  Catarrh started in . . . BC to DR, 27.7.85

  I went wind-surfing . . . BC to PLF, August 1985

  The house we were . . . BC to parents, 1.2.86

  My biggest worry . . . EC to GC, 8.12.85

  The house, it turned out . . . BC to parents, 1.2.86

  The palace in Jodhpur . . . BC to parents, 1.2.86

  The first stab . . . BC to JK, 27.1.86

  Murray was a . . . BC to JK, 27.1.86

  the maharanee choked . . . BC to parents, 1.2.86

  almost to the day . . . BC to MB, 9.2.86

  He is the ‘identical twin’ . . . BC to DM, 15.2.86

  I did my usual babble . . . BC to parents, 1.2.86

  One is so well . . . BC to SS, 5.3.86

  A cool blue study . . . BC to JK, 27.1.86

  I’ve not seen her . . . BC to DM, 15.2.86

  I adore it here . . . BC to JK, 17.2.86

  Well, I have to . . . BC to the Bails, 9.2.86

  I’ve had a terrible . . . BC to Roberto Calasso, 18.2.86

  I’ve decided the . . . BC to PLF, ND

  Old English tea . . . BC to JK, ND

  On the mountain above . . . BC to EC, 27.3.86

  What was this? . . . Box 31

  Felt dazed . . . Box 31

  XXXVI: An A1 Medical Curiosity

  On the way back . . . EC to GC, 4.8.86

  allergy to dust . . . EC to GC, February 1986

  He can only go . . . EC to GC, 4.8.86

  I put this into . . . The Times, 20.1.89

  which to all the publishers . . . BC to MB, 3.11.86

  I’m going to . . . BC to CT

  thinking that a . . . BC to MB, 3.11.86

  He was in . . . Medical records

  The fact is I . . . BC to MB, 30.11.86

  definite glimpse of . . . Matthew Spender, Within Tuscany (Viking, 1992), 159

  I saw green-capped . . . BC
to NS

  the occasional inappropriate . . . Medical records, 12.9.86

  the self is all . . . BC to MB, 3.11.86

  One point cannot . . . Letter to LRB, summer 1988

  has previously only . . . 27.2.87

  an extremely rare . . . BC to ND, 17.10.86

  an Al medical curiosity . . . BC to MB, 3.11.86

  In the summer . . . BC to CW, 12.12.86

  My illness was . . . 12.12.86

  XXXVII: The Harlequin

  Where in your . . . Granta 21, 1987

  self-styled great lover . . . BC to EC, June 1967

  I had thought . . . BC to CW, 22.2.88

  You know that . . . Dr Rudolf Just to KF, 9.2.67

  Under the heading . . . Utz, 32

  Rudolf’s treasures . . . Utz, 13

  The shelves were . . . Utz, 49

  the arch improvisor . . . Utz, 114

  No idea of . . . BC to TM, March 1988

  Ja! Ja! . . . Utz, 46

  a man’s relation . . . Box 35

  on the bourgeoisie . . . Georges Borchardt to DR, 12.3.79

  I’m riveted by . . . BC to A-MM, 26.11.84

  Hoffinann-like tale . . . BC to CW, 12.12.86

  My legs are . . . BC to ND, 19.1.87

  it was a city . . . Utz, 119

  Smells of dustbins . . . Box 35

  Cellini, Montezuma, Noah . . . C. Holdefer, “The Spoils of Utz” in Bruce Chatwin, Claudine Verley, ed., Les Cahiers Forell 4 (Poitiers, 1994), 68

  names that meant . . . Utz, 92

  Wry, evocative, sensitive . . . Private Eye, October 1988

  By April . . . Utz, 88–9

  there was never . . . Utz, 138

  Plagues and wars do . . . Andrew Sullivan, Love Undetectable (Chatto, 1998)

  And from that hour . . . Utz, 152

  Elizabeth is being marvellous . . . BC, to ND, 17.10.86

  Have been giving . . . EC to GC, 25.2.87

  Elizabeth and I . . . BC to EC, 6.5.88

  XXXVIII: A Cosmic Book

  Are you a traveller . . . ABC, 14.3.84

  the Cyclades Islands . . . ABC, 11.5.83

  Look at the greatest . . . ABC, 11.5.83

  The journey it describes . . . 8.2.88

  Not many authors . . . TM to Gillon Aitken, 5.2.88

  Reading your Songlines . . . SH to BC, 23.11.88

  If there is one . . . Stewart Harris, The Myth of Primitivism (Routledge, Keegan & Paul, 1991)

  One wonders where . . . Patrick White to TM, ND

  It’s a low, rather . . . BC to NS, June 1987

  Because to pass off . . . “Gentleman of the Road”, El Pais, 26.9.93

  the burden he’s been carrying . . . Observer, 19.11.89

  There are masses . . . BC to ND, 19.1.87

  in semi-hallucination . . . BC to CW, 22.2.88

  All in all The Songlines . . . BC to Charles & Brenda Tomlinson, 14.7.87

  You called what . . . TM to BC, 13.10.86

  XXXIX: My Inexplicable Fever

  I apologize that . . . Medical records, 7.7.87

  He has no side . . . ND [July?] 1987

  ‘remarkable’ improvement . . . 7.7.87

  Jasper thought it . . . BC to Shirley Conran, ND

  would appear to . . . Box 35

  Je vais vous . . . BC to RC, 20.2.87

  This poses problems . . . Medical records, 17.3.87

  A wheelchair will . . . WAIDH, 141

  He’s really awfully . . . EC to GC, 18.5.87

  Then to Prague . . . EC to GC, 30.5.87

  I am sorry . . . BC to George Ortiz, 7.8.87

  Then . . . ? Madrid? . . . BC to MB, ND

  There’s something about . . . BC to GG, 20.9.87

  febrile illness . . . Medical records, February 1988

  I fear that all . . . 24.11.87

  We went first . . . BC to MB, 8.2.88

  highly suspicious . . . Medical records, 25.2.88

  Suppose that I . . . Gillian Rose, Love’s Work (Vintage, 1997), 70

  I’ve been on . . . BC to NS, June 1987

  AIDS and the prowling . . . Guardian, “When sex becomes sin”, 1.12.89

  With AIDS came also . . . NDBW, 497

  his impenetrable aura . . . 417

  There was a kind . . . 416

  The first news is . . . BC to ND, 29.2.88

  Still convinced that . . . Medical records, 13.6.88

  Last night Sister Patterson . . . Box 34

  That’s it . . . Box 34

  Perhaps this will be . . . TM to BC

  The heart is there . . . NDBW, 414

  I can honestly say . . . Rosy Hall to GC, 23.1.89

  Can I take a . . . BC to BB, ND

  sapphire-blue visionary’s . . . Anecdotage, 33

  manic depression . . . GC to EC

  Ma, I have very . . . JC to GC, ND

  Profound loss of walking . . . Medical records, 10.6.88

  I am entirely paralysed . . . Charles Nicholl, Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880–91 (Jonathan Cape, 1997)

  makes himself a seer . . . Kay Redfield Jamison, Touched with Fire (Macmillan, 1993), 110.

  incoherent prophecies . . . VOO, 119

  a kind of Middle . . . BC to MB, 11.12.87

  He spread out . . . Box 30

  What I’ve kept . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984

  But he knew that . . . Box 30

  I have been buying . . . BC to GC, 26.6.88

  I would like . . . 25.7.88

  Any ‘new’ species . . . Box 34

  Mr Chatwin is, of course . . . Medical records, 10.8.88

  Let me put it in . . . TM to BC, 17.7.87

  I’ve said it before . . . TM to BC, 11.2.88

  XL: Fallen Angel

  possession by the Beast . . . Box 34

  thereby completely screwing . . . BC to ND, 28.8.88

  The promise of a . . . NDBW, 498

  The only group . . . Michael Elmore-Meegan to NS, 1.10.96

  He seems better . . . EC to KS, 18.10.88

  It will be just . . . EC to GC, 14.11.88

  incorrigibly stylish . . . Independent, 19.1.89

  XLI: The Chatwin Effect

  Heroic saga . . . Box 34

  I was delighted . . . CW to EC, 23.1.89

  J’apprends avec tristesse . . . Jack Lang to EC, 20.1.89

  Despite the large . . . Richard Bull to EC, 22.1.89

  I can’t write this letter, I’m afraid . . . PL to EC, ND

  The stars know . . . Box 35

  a sexuagenarian adolescent . . . WAIDH, 143

  Charley the Pioneer . . . IP, 162

  at about the time . . . With Chatwin, ix

  Malraux’s breathless career . . . WAIDH, 119

  He was an inspiration to me . . . Paul Theroux to EC, 26.1.89

 

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