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4. I Go by Sea, I Go by Land.
5. Ibid.
6. “Letters from Another World,” New English Weekly, January 2, 1941.
7. Ibid.
8. “The Big Family,” Mitchell Library, written approximately 1950.
9. Interview by Melinda Green, 1976, typescript, Mitchell Library.
10. Letter to Staffan Bergsten, February 20, 1978.
11. Letter to Mr. Hamilton.
12. “A Remarkable Conversation About Sorrow,” interview on June 23, 1965 by Janet Graham, Ladies’ Home Journal.
13. Lecture at Radcliffe College, 1965.
14. Farewell evening, Radcliffe Graduate Center, February 1996.
15. Travers “at home,” talking to students at Cambridge, January 15, 1966.
16. Transcript of an “at home,” Radcliffe.
17. The New York Times Book Review, December 19, 1943.
18. Lecture on myth given at the home of the Welches, February 11, 1972.
19. P. L. Travers, “The Bear Under the Bed,” Harper’s Bazaar, June 1943.
20. Notes from a lecture, 1946/47, in ms. form, Mitchell Library.
21. “The Big Family.”
22. Interview by Melinda Green.
23. “The Big Family.”
24. Ibid.
25. Shusha Guppy, Looking Back: A Panoramic View of a Literary Age by the Grandes Dames of European Letters. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993); autobiographical notes at Shawfield Street.
26. Ms. note in Mitchell Library.
27. Letter, August 15, 1943.
28. John Eldridge, Growing Up in Wartime Mayfield, 1939–45 (Books for Dillons Only, 1997).
29. Autobiographical notes in Shawfield Street, Chelsea.
30. Maryborough Chronicle, April 18, 1945.
31. Interviews by Professor Robert Young, University of New Mexico, and Grace Gorman, Ganado, Arizona, January 1997.
32. Autobiographical notes, Mitchell Library.
33. “At home” talk at Radcliffe, 1965.
34. “The Big Family.”
35. Jonathan Cott, Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: The Wisdom of Children’s Literature (New York: Random House, 1983).
36. “At home” talk at Radcliffe, 1965.
37. “Name and No Name,” Parabola, 1982.
38. Interview by Miss Arledge in ms. form, Mitchell Library, Sydney.
39. “Name and No Name.”
40. Lois Palken Rudnick, Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984).
41. Ibid.
42. Patricia Leigh Brown, “Parnassus in Taos,” The New York Times, January 16, 1997.
43. A comment made by photographer Ansel Adams.
44. Harry T. Moore, The Priest of Love: A Life of D. H. Lawrence (London: William Heinemann, 1974).
45. James Moore, Gurdjieff: the Anatomy of a Myth (Shaftesbury, UK: Element, 1991).
46. Notes written by Travers on November 7, 1944.
47. Farewell evening with Travers at Radcliffe College Graduate Center, February 1966.
48. Talk at Radcliffe College, November 9, 1965.
49. “The Big Family.”
50. Ibid.
51. Ibid.
52. New English Weekly, September 27, 1945.
53. I Go by Sea, I Go by Land and Eldridge, Growing Up in Wartime Mayfield.
54. New English Weekly, September 27, 1945.
11. MONSIEUR BON BON SAYS AU REVOIR
1. New English Weekly, September 27, 1945.
2. Typewritten notes, Shawfield Street, Chelsea.
3. Letter dated April 11, 1946 from Joseph Hone to Travers.
4. Letter from Travers to Dushka Howarth, 1981.
5. Diary kept by Travers, 1948.
6. Comments to portrait painter at Westminster Nursing Home in the 1990s.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. J. G. Bennett and Elizabeth Bennett, Idiots in Paris: The Diaries of J. G. Bennett and Elizabeth Bennett, 1949 (York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1991).
10. Ibid.
11. Diary.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Travers’s letter to Louise Welch, 1949.
15. Diary, November 1, 1949.
16. Letter to Louise Welch.
17. Diary and letter to Louise Welch.
18. Diary.
12. SHADOWPLAY
1. Letter to Eugene Reynal, about 1950.
2. Interview by Melinda Green, 1976.
3. “Some Friends of Mary Poppins,” McCall’s, May 1966.
4. Interview with Joseph Hone, 1977.
5. Letter to Mary Shepard, September 18, 1958.
6. Interview with Joseph Hone.
13. THE AMERICANIZATION OF MARY
1. Marc Elliott, Walt Disney: Hollywood’s Dark Prince (Secaucus, NJ: Carol, 1993).
2. New York Herald Tribune magazine, September 20, 1964.
3. Letter to Mrs. Reitsma-Bakker dated December 10, 1965.
4. New York Herald Tribune, July 7, 1963.
5. Steven Watts, The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997).
6. Ibid.
7. Wisdom magazine, 1959.
8. Watts, The Magic Kingdom.
9. Interview by Virginia Peterson, Boston TV station, 1965.
10. “Some Friends of Mary Poppins,” McCall’s, May 1966.
11. Ibid.
12. Letter to Dr. Dennison Morey dated January 1965.
13. Letter from Travers to “John,” 1989.
14. Letter dated April 14, 1961.
15. Telegram from Disney to Travers at Sheraton East dated April 14, 1961.
16. Interview by Jenny Koralek, May 1996.
17. Letter, month not given, 1961.
18. Letter dated June 6, 1961.
19. Letter dated June 10, 1961.
20. Letter dated August 26, 1961.
21. Letter dated March 2, 1962.
22. Letter dated March 9, 1962.
23. Interview by Janet Graham, Ladies’ Home Journal, June 1965.
24. The New Yorker, October 20, 1962.
25. Julie Andrews, Back on Broadway, a WNET/Thirteen production for BBC Worldwide.
26. Robert Windeler, Julie Andrews: A Biography (London: W. H. Allen, 1982); Julie Andrews, Back on Broadway.
27. New York Herald Tribune, July 7, 1963 and letter to Mary Shepard dated March 22, 1966.
28. Windeler, Julie Andrews.
29. Ibid.
30. Interview by Virginia Peterson, Boston TV station, 1965.
31. Letter dated November, 21, 1962.
32. New York Herald Tribune, September 20, 1964.
33. Nora E. Taylor, “If I Had to Lose . . .” Christian Science Monitor, November 3, 1964.
34. Shusha Guppy, Looking Back: A Panoramic View of a Literary Age by the Grandes Dames of European Letters. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993)
35. Interview by Janet Graham, 1965.
36. Interview by Melinda Green, 1976.
37. Parabola, 1987.
38. Letter dated February 11, 1964.
39. Letter to the UK publisher Collins dated August 18, 1964.
40. Ibid.
41. Letter dated August 12, 1964.
42. Letter to Collins, August 18, 1964.
43. Letter to Collins dated September 1, 1964.
44. Ibid.
45. Letter dated August 31.
46. Letter dated September 1, 1964.
47. Letter dated September 2, 1964.
48. Interview by Janet Graham, 1965.
49. Letter to M. Bryden from Travers at Whitman Hall, Radcliffe, 1965.
50. Ibid.
51. Richard Schikel, Walt Disney (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968).
52. Letter to Joyce Madden, October 1964.
53. Letter to Dorothy Bart dated February 13, 1965.
54. Interview on June 23, 1965.
55. Letter to Mr. Fadima
n, 1968.
56. Interview by Melinda Green, 1976.
57. Trade News, December 12, 1964.
58. Letter dated January 21, 1965.
59. Letter to Dr. Morey dated January 28, 1965.
60. Saturday Review, November 7, 1964.
61. Chicago’s American, November 5, 1964.
62. The interview took place on June 23, 1965. Dozens of pages of transcript were sent to Ladies’ Home Journal, which eventually published a short version of the interview in 1967.
PROLOGUE TO PART 3
1. Boston radio station interview, 1965.
14. A CRONE AMONG THE SLEEPING BEAUTIES
1. The New York Times, December 25, 1966 and Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blond: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (London: Chatto & Windus, 1994).
2. Letter dated February 11, 1965.
3. Letter dated August 29, 1965.
4. Interview with Anthony Oettinger, January 1997.
5. Issue dated December 5, 1965.
6. “At home” recordings in January 1966, part of which appeared in the Radcliffe journal The Island, March 1966.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Interview by Paula Budlong Cronin, Radcliffe Quarterly, February 1966.
10. “Only Connect,” speech to the Library of Congress, October 31, 1966.
11. Ibid.
12. Boston Globe, October 10, 1965.
13. Interview with Paula Cronin, January 1997.
14. Christian Science Monitor, November 16, 1965.
15. Boston Forum, WNAC, January 4, 1966.
16. Homes and Gardens (UK), January 1966.
17. Boston radio station interview, 1965.
18. Interview in January 1997 with Francis Murphy, formerly associate professor of the English faculty of Smith College, who said that Travers wrote to the office of the president, Thomas C. Mendenhall, seeking residency and that he then asked the English department if they would have her.
19. The New Yorker, October 20, 1962.
20. November 17, 1965.
21. Letter dated September 30, 1966.
22. Letter dated June 5, 1966.
23. “A Letter from Smith College,” December 1971.
24. The New York Times, December 25, 1966.
25. Interview with Elizabeth von Klemperer, January 1997.
26. Article by Patricia Foster, Smith College Quarterly, February 1967.
27. The Sophian, October 6, 1966.
28. Ibid.
29. Smith College Quarterly.
30. Amherst’s Four College radio interview November 8, 1966 and Amherst Record, November 15, 1966.
31. Amherst Record, November 10, 1966.
32. Interview with Pamela Russell Haigh, now Pamela Jessup, January 1997.
33. Interview with Francis Murphy, January 1997.
34. Look, December 13, 1966.
35. Smith College Quarterly, February 1967.
36. The New York Times, December 25, 1966.
37. Patricia Demers, P. L. Travers (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991).
38. Memo dated December 13, 1967.
15. LOOKING FOR PAMELA TRAVERS
1. Letter to Margaret McElderry dated March 31, 1967.
2. P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins ab A to Z, trans. into Latin by G. M. Lyne (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1968); book was dedicated to Arnold Abraham Goodman; translator is an Englishman, Maxwell Lyne, not the American professor from Amherst.
3. Shusha Guppy, Looking Back: A Panoramic View of a Literary Age by the Grandes Dames of European Letters. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993) and letters to Staffan Bergsten, January and March, 1976.
4. The New York Times, January 14, 1977; letters to Staffan Bergsten, January and September, 1976.
5. Pupul Jayakar, Krishnamurti: A Biography (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1986).
6. Radha Rajagopal Sloss, Lives in the Shadow with J. Krishnamurti (London: Bloomsbury, 1991).
7. Bettina Hürlimann, Seven Houses: My Life with Books, trans. Anthea Bell (London: The Bodley Head, 1976).
8. Letters from Travers to Marjorie Downing, April 1, 1970 and from the rose grower Dr. Dennison Morey to Scripps College, February 12, 1970.
9. The New York Times, November 7, 1971.
10. Letter to Staffan Bergsten dated February 14, 1975.
11. Letter from William Heseltine dated September 15, 1972.
12. The New York Times, May 7, 1972.
13. Interview with Jenny Koralek, May 1996.
14. Patricia Demers, P. L. Travers (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991).
15. Ibid.
16. The Times Literary Supplement, December 2, 1977.
17. Letters dated March 8, April 21 and May 14, 1976.
18. Jonathan Cott, Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: The Wisdom of Children’s Literature (New York: Random House, 1983), and letters to Bergsten, various dates.
19. Parabola essays, 1976 to 1979.
20. Letter dated December 27, 1976.
21. The New York Times, January 3, 1977.
22. Letter dated March 20, 1977.
23. Staffan Bergsten, Mary Poppins and Myth (Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell International, 1978).
24. Letter dated February 20, 1978.
25. Barbara Moriarty died on January 11, 1979.
16. FEAR NO MORE THE HEAT OF THE SUN
1. “The Pooh Poppins Connection,” Hampstead and Highgate Express, May 21, 1982.
2. Letter to U.S. publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich dated February 21, 1981.
3. Letter to Barbara Lucas at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich dated February 25, 1981.
4. Letter to Jules Fisher dated August 17, 1982.
5. Letter from Jules Fisher dated April 27, 1984.
6. Letter to Staffan Bergsten dated December 9, 1987.
7. Letter from Staffan Bergsten dated December, 21, 1987.
8. Letter to Staffan Bergsten, May 1989.
9. Articles in Good Weekend, January 25, 1986, and Publishers Weekly, March 21, 1986.
10. Letter from Martin Kaplan dated March 8, 1988.
11. Interview with Jules Fisher, September 1998, and letter from Jules Fisher dated December 28, 1988. Graciela Daniele went on to choreograph the Woody Allen movies Mighty Aphrodite and Everyone Says I Love You.
12. Interview in The Observer, March 1995.
13. Jonathan Cott, Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: The Wisdom of Children’s Literature (New York: Random House, 1983).
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