9 Ibid., 8 October 1926.
10 Ibid., 4 October 1926.
11 Ibid., 18 October 1926.
12 A Sort of Life, p. 134.
13 Ibid.
14 Letter to Vivien Dayrell-Browning, 3 October 1926.
15 TS, p. 231.
16 Letter to Vivien Dayrell-Browning, 15 October 1926.
17 It’s a Battlefield, Penguin edition, 1981, pp. 194–6.
18 Ibid., p. 197.
19 Letter to Vivien Dayrell-Browning, 13 October 1926.
20 Ibid., 15 October 1926.
21 Ibid., 6 November 1926.
22 Ibid., 7 November 1926.
23 Brighton Rock, Penguin edition, 1975, p. 154.
24 Letter to Vivien Dayrell-Browning, 17 November 1926.
25 Ibid., 18 November 1926.
26 Ibid., 19 November 1926.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid., 24 November 1926.
29 Ibid., 25 November 1926.
30 A Sort of Life, p. 136.
31 Letter to Vivien Dayrell-Browning, 25 November 1926.
32 Ibid., 26 November 1926.
33 Ibid.
34 Ibid.
35 A Sort of Life, p. 136.
36 Ibid.
37 Letter to Vivien Dayrell-Browning, 18 January 1927.
38 Ibid., 19 January 1927.
39 Ibid.
40 Ibid., 25 January 1927.
41 Ibid.
42 A Sort of Life, pp. 137–8.
43 The Living Room, Act I, Scene 2, Viking edition (U.S.A.), 1954, p. 55.
44 Letter to Vivien Dayrell-Browning, 24 January 1927.
45 A Sort of Life, p. 121.
46 The dummy collection has survived and is housed at the Humanities Research Center, Austin, Texas.
47 Letter to Vivien Dayrell-Browning, 15 December 1926.
24 Marriage at Last
1 Letter to Vivien, 10 January 1927.
2 Ibid., 17 February 1927.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid., 21 March 1927.
5 Ibid., 12 April 1927.
6 Ibid., 1 June 1927.
7 Ibid., 13 May 1927.
8 Ibid., 13 March 1927.
9 Ibid., 26 April 1927.
10 Ibid., 1 March 1927.
11 Ibid., 4 March 1927.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid., 19 March 1927.
14 Ibid., 30 March 1927.
15 Ibid., 26 June 1927.
16 Ibid., 18 June 1927.
17 Ibid., 20 June 1927.
18 Ibid., 9 September 1927.
19 Ibid., 17 June 1927.
20 Ibid., 30 May 1927.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid., 9 June 1927.
23 Ibid., 5 January 1927.
24 Ibid., 18 June 1927.
25 Ibid., 11 June 1927.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid., 18 June 1927.
28 Ibid., 11 September 1927.
29 Ibid., 22 September 1927.
30 A Sort of Life, Penguin edition, 1974, p. 21.
31 Letter to Vivien, 18 June 1927.
32 Ibid., 31 August 1927.
33 Ibid., 27 September 1927.
34 Ibid., 30 August 1927.
35 Ibid., 11 September 1927.
36 Ibid., 23 June 1927.
37 Ibid., 24 April 1927.
38 Ibid.
39 Ibid., 21 February 1927.
40 Ibid.
41 Ibid., 1 September 1927.
42 Ibid., 26 September 1927.
43 Ibid., 14 June 1927.
44 Ibid., 27 September 1927.
45 Ibid., 20 September 1927.
46 Ibid., 25 September 1927.
47 Ibid., 27 September 1927.
48 Ibid., 1 June 1927.
49 Ibid., 19 March 1927.
50 Ibid., 10 June 1927.
51 Ibid., 28 May 1927.
52 Ibid., 2 February 1927.
53 Ibid., 22 April 1927.
54 Ibid., 14 June 1927.
55 Morning Post, 17 October 1927.
56 Letter from Elisabeth Dennys, 18 March 1983.
57 Interview with Vivien Greene, 10 August 1983.
58 Letter to his mother, 21 December 1927.
59 Ibid.
60 Ibid.
25 ‘Pussy’ and ‘Tiger’ and The Man Within
1 A Sort of Life, Penguin edition, 1974, p. 138.
2 Interview with Helga Guinness, 19 January 1977.
3 Interview, January 1977.
4 Interview with David Higham, July 1977.
5 Interview with Helga Guinness.
6 Ibid.
7 Letter to his mother, February 1928.
8 Ibid., 18 March 1929.
9 Ibid., 27 September 1928.
10 Ibid., 12 April 1928.
11 Ibid., 14 January 1929.
12 Ibid., 31 May 1928.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid., 23 July 1928.
15 Ibid., 9 May 1928.
16 This appeared in Nineteen Stories, Heinemann, 1947.
17 Letter to Vivien, September 1926.
18 Ibid., October 1926.
19 Ibid., 8 November 1926.
20 Ibid., 13 May 1927.
21 Letter to his mother, 20 February 1927.
22 Ibid., 27 September 1928.
23 Ibid., middle of November 1928.
24 A Sort of Life, p. 139.
25 Letter from Grace Cranston, Archivist for Heinemann, 27 May 1982.
26 Letter to his mother, 7 January 1929.
27 Ibid., 5 June 1929.
28 Ibid., 24 May 1929.
29 Ibid., 28 June 1929.
30 Ibid., 3 October 1929.
31 Introduction to Margaret Lane’s Edgar Wallace: Biography of a Phenomenon, Hamish Hamilton, 1964.
32 Letter to his mother, 21 October 1929.
33 Ibid., 29 October 1929.
34 Interview with Helga Guinness, 19 January 1977.
35 Outlook and Independence, 25 December 1929.
36 Letters of Aldous Huxley, ed. Grover Smith, Chatto & Windus, 1969, p. 330.
37 David Higham, Literary Gent, Jonathan Cape, 1978, p. 170.
38 A Sort of Life, p. 139.
39 Ibid., p. 140.
40 The Man Within, Penguin edition, 1977, p. 86.
41 Ibid., p. 200.
42 Letter to Vivien, 11 June 1927.
43 Ibid., 9 January 1927.
44 Ibid., 31 January 1927.
45 Ibid., 21 February 1927.
46 The Man Within, p. 84.
47 Ibid., p. 85.
48 Ibid., pp. 200–1.
49 Letter to Vivien, 20 June 1927.
50 The Man Within, p. 167.
51 Interview with Edward Greene, 19 December 1976.
52 The Man Within, p. 121.
26 A False Start
1 Letter to his mother, 14 January 1929.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid., 13 August 1929.
4 Ibid., 3 October 1929.
5 A Sort of Life, Penguin edition, 1974, p. 141.
6 Letter to his mother, 29 October 1929.
7 Letter to The Times, October 1929.
8 Ibid.
9 A Sort of Life, pp. 141–2.
10 Ibid., pp. 128–9.
11 Interview with Vivien Greene, 23 June 1977.
12 Letter from Leslie Smith, 1977.
13 Interview with the Rt Hon. Douglas Jay, 1977.
14 A Sort of Life, p. 142.
15 Letter to his mother, 29 March 1929.
16 ‘Save Me Only from Dullness’, Evening News, 23 January 1930.
17 Letter to his mother, 11 February 1929.
18 Ibid., 13 August 1929.
19 The postcard’s date is indecipherable.
20 Letter to his mother, 2 February 1930.
21 Ibid., 23 March 1930. On the last page of the manuscript of The Name of Action are the following dates: ‘March 1929-July 1930’.
22 ‘Oberammergau’, The Graphic, 17 May 1930, p. 345.
23 A Sort of Life, p. 144.
&nb
sp; 24 Ways of Escape, Penguin edition, 1981, p. 16.
25 Letter to his mother, 18 August 1930.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid., 5 August 1930.
28 On the last page of the manuscript are the following dates: ‘1930 September–1931 April 27’.
29 Letter to his mother, 20 October 1930.
30 Ways of Escape, pp. 15–16.
31 A Sort of Life, p. 144.
32 Undated letter to his mother, probably March 1931.
33 Spectator, 1 June 1934, p. 864. Graham was discussing Dennis Kincaid’s disappointing second novel after his brilliant first but he had his own case very much in mind.
34 Spectator, 5 May 1933, p. 654.
35 Letter to his mother, 2 October 1930.
36 Letter to Hugh Greene, undated.
37 Letter to his mother, 22 January 1931.
27 Down and Out at Chipping Campden
1 Letter to his mother, 2 March 1931.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid., 12 June 1931.
4 Diary, May 1932.
5 Undated letter to Hugh Greene – the date on the envelope is not easy to read but is probably 17 April 1931.
6 Letter to his mother, 28 April 1931.
7 Interview with Vivien Greene, July 1979.
8 Letter to his mother, 2 March 1931.
9 Ibid., 31 May 1931.
10 Letter to Hugh Greene, 15 November 1930.
11 Lord Rochester’s Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Bodley Head, 1974, p. 13.
12 Letter to his mother, 12 June 1931.
13 A Sort of Life, Penguin edition, 1974, p. 151.
14 Lord Rochester’s Monkey, p. 9.
15 ‘John Hayward, 1904–1965: Some Memories’, ed. John Carter, Book Collector, XIV (Winter), 1965, pp. 443–86.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 New Statesman and Nation, 14 November 1931, p. 614.
19 The Nation, 3 May 1932, p. 578.
20 Spectator, 26 December 1931, p. 892.
21 Ways of Escape, Penguin edition, 1981, pp. 17–18.
22 A Sort of Life, p. 151.
23 Letter from Frank Swinnerton, 2 January 1977.
24 Diary, 19 July 1932.
25 Letter to Vivien, 11 December 1925.
26 Letter to his mother, 11 October 1930.
27 Interview with Vivien Greene, 10 August 1983.
28 A term used by Groucho Marx.
29 Letter to his mother, 11 September 1931.
30 Letter dated only Monday 1931, but obviously a response to his mother’s dismay at his seeming to agree with the porter.
31 Interview with Vivien Greene, July 1979.
32 Ibid.
33 Ibid., August 1977.
34 Ibid.
35 Diary, 20 September 1932.
36 Ibid., 4 July 1932.
37 Ways of Escape, p. 17.
38 A Sort of Life, p. 145.
28 Stamboul Train/Orient Express
1 Letter to Vivien, 1 January 1926.
2 Letter to his mother, 2 February 1930.
3 Letter to Vivien, 18 March 1927.
4 Ways of Escape, Penguin edition, 1981, p. 23.
5 Undated letter to Vivien.
6 Ways of Escape, p. 22.
7 Stamboul Train, Penguin edition, 1981, p. 169.
8 Ibid., p. 165.
9 A Sort of Life, Penguin edition, 1974, p. 147.
10 Spectator, 20 October 1933, p. 538.
11 Diary, 1 July 1932.
12 Spectator, 17 November 1933.
13 A Sort of Life, pp. 146–50.
14 Stamboul Train, p. 35.
15 A Sort of Life, p. 134.
16 Stamboul Train, p. 168.
17 Ibid., p. 71. See also The Lawless Roads, Heinemann uniform edition, 1955, p. 5.
18 Stamboul Train, p. 48.
19 Ibid., p. 14.
20 Letter to his mother, 31 May 1928.
21 Stamboul Train, pp. 16–17.
22 ‘The Sense of Apprehension’, The Month, July 1951, p. 51.
23 Diary, 6 June 1932.
24 Ways of Escape, p. 25.
25 Letter to his mother, 15 March 1932.
26 Undated letter to Hugh Greene.
27 Diary, 7 June 1932.
28 Ibid., 1 August 1932.
29 Spectator, 26 July 1935.
30 Diary, 3 June 1932.
31 Ibid., 28 February 1933.
32 Ibid., 25 February 1932.
33 Ibid., 8 August 1932.
34 Ibid., 28 June 1932.
35 Ibid., 7 July 1932.
36 Letter to author, 13 March 1986.
37 Diary, 9 July 1932.
38 John Dos Passos, Orient Express, Harper & Row, (U.S.A.), 1927, p. 3.
39 Interview with author, 23 June 1977.
40 Dos Passos, op. cit. pp. 10–12.
41 H. E. Bates, The Blossoming World, Michael Joseph, 1971, p. 123.
42 Diary, 21 July 1932.
43 Ibid., 4 August 1932.
44 Ibid., 13 August 1932.
45 Interview, 23 June 1977.
46 Diary, 14 August 1932.
47 Ibid., 17 August 1932.
29 The Book Society and the J. B. Priestley Affair
1 Letter to his mother, 22 August 1932.
2 Stamboul Train, Penguin edition, 1981, p. 22.
3 Diary, 18 August 1932.
4 Ibid., 19 August 1932.
5 A Sort of Life, Penguin edition, 1974, p. 153.
6 Diary, 1 September 1932.
7 A Sort of Life, p. 153.
8 Diary, 1 September 1932.
9 Ibid., 2 September 1932.
10 A Sort of Life, p. 154.
11 Ibid.
12 Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 20 December 1974.
13 Diary, 12 September 1932.
14 Ways of Escape, Penguin edition, 1981, p. 18.
15 Diary, 10 September 1932.
16 Rupert Hart-Davis, Hugh Walpole: A Biography, Macmillan, 1952, p. 299.
17 ‘Casanova and Others’, Spectator, 9 July 1932.
18 Diary, 19 June 1932.
19 Ibid., 24 September 1932.
20 Letter to Hugh Greene, 22 October 1932.
21 Interview with Vivien Greene, 1987.
22 Diary, 10 October 1932.
23 Ibid., 3 November 1932.
24 Ibid., 28 November 1932.
25 A Sort of Life, p. 155.
26 Undated letter.
27 A Sort of Life, p. 155.
28 Ways of Escape, p. 24.
29 Rupert Hart-Davis, op. cit., p. 316.
30 Diary, 2 December 1932.
31 Undated letter to his mother.
32 The Times, 3 December 1932.
33 Diary, 4 January 1933.
34 Spectator, 29 December 1933.
35 ‘A Typewriter in the Desert’, London Mercury, April 1937, p. 635.
36 Graham Greene, Footnotes to the Film, ed. Charles Davey, Lovat Dickson (U.S.A.), 1938, p. 58.
37 Brighton Rock, Penguin edition, 1975, p. 140.
38 Spectator, 10 November 1939, p. 662.
39 ‘A Lost Leader’, Spectator, 13 December 1940, p. 646.
40 Ways of Escape, p. 24.
41 Diary, 12 December 1932.
42 Ibid., 17 December 1932.
43 Stamboul Train, p. 24.
44 Ibid., p. 31.
45 Ibid., p. 32.
46 Ibid., p. 47.
47 Ibid., pp. 215–16.
48 Diary, 13 December 1932.
49 Diary, 19 July 1932.
50 Ways of Escape, p. 27.
30 1933
1 Diary, 30 January 1933.
2 Sunday Telegraph, 30 September 1979.
3 Diary, 14 February 1933.
4 Letter, 3 March 1933. The contract was not in fact forthcoming.
5 Diary, 1 March 1933.
6 Ibid., 19 January 1933.
7 H. E. Bates, The Blossoming World, Michael Joseph, 1971, pp. 174–5.
8 ‘
I’m an angry old man, you see’, Spectator, 14 June 1986, p. 9.
9 Letter to his mother, 25 October 1932.
10 Diary, 24 October 1932.
11 Ibid., 20 January 1933.
12 Ibid., 21 January 1933.
13 Ibid., 21 March 1933.
14 Ibid., 22 March 1933.
15 Ibid., 29 April 1933.
16 Diary, 5 January 1933.
17 Ibid., 25 July 1932.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid., 6 July 1932.
20 ‘Fiction’, Spectator, 7 April 1933, p. 508.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid., 22 September 1933.
23 Ibid., 21 April 1933.
24 Ibid., 3 November 1933.
25 Ibid., 22 September 1933.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid., 19 May 1933.
30 Ibid., 28 July 1933.
31 Ibid., 21 April 1933.
32 Ibid., 5 May 1933.
33 Ibid., 10 February 1933.
31 It’s a Battlefield
1 Letter to Mary Pritchett, 25 February 1933.
2 Introduction to the Heinemann and Bodley Head collected edition, It’s a Battlefield, 1970, p. viii, also Ways of Escape, Penguin edition, 1981, pp. 27–8.
3 Introduction to collected edition, p. viii, also Ways of Escape, p. 27.
4 Diary, 23 June 1932.
5 Ways of Escape, p. 28.
6 It’s a Battlefield, Penguin edition, 1981, p. 59.
7 Ibid., p. 180.
8 Letter, 7 July 1926.
9 Ibid., 13 May 1926.
10 It’s a Battlefield, pp. 62–3.
11 The Times, October 1932.
12 Marie-Françoise Allain, The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene, trans. Guido Waldman, Bodley Head, 1983, p. 55.
13 Diary, 10 November 1932.
14 Ibid., pp. 27–8.
15 Ibid., p. 29.
16 Interview, 2 March 1977.
17 Interview, 19 December 1976.
18 Sandra Jobson Darroch, Ottoline, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975, p. 251n.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid., p. 274.
21 Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey, Holt, Rinehart and Winston (U.S.A.), 1980, p. 448.
22 Interview, 23 June 1983.
23 It’s a Battlefield, p. 188.
24 Ibid., p. 192.
25 Ibid., p. 87.
26 Jeffrey Meyers, Katherine Mansfield, A New Directions Book, 1980, pp. 145–6.
27 It’s a Battlefield, p. 34.
28 Katherine Mansfield’s diary entry, 8 February 1922.
29 Meyers, op. cit., p. 75.
30 Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point, Penguin edition, 1974, p. 170.
31 It’s a Battlefield, p. 58.
32 Ibid., pp. 106–8.
33 Diary, 10 April 1933.
34 Spectator, 21 April 1933, p. 579.
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