257 “cheerful unhygienic mess”: Auden, “Last Words,” Harper’s Bazaar, October 1, 1941, 83.
258 “some very lovely”: In Mitchell, “Origins, Evolution and Metamorphoses,” 132.
“was deeply moved”: Ibid., 147.
“was profoundly touched”: Ibid.
“My few friends”: Colin McPhee to Sidney Cowell, “Wednesday,” [“Aug. 3, 1949” added]. In Oja, Colin McPhee, 183.
Illustration Captions
“Davis was the one”: In Plimpton, Truman Capote, 47.
“I am at the moment”: Auden to Caroline Newton, October 2, 1940, Berg.
“I am mad with happiness”: Auden to Britten, [before June], 1939, Berg.
“diffuse but lusty”: Klaus Mann, Turning Point, 272.
“ever so Bohemian”: MacNeice, Strings Are False, 35.
“Living is quite”: Britten to Antonio and Peggy Brosa, December 20, 1940. Letters, 899.
“The house in Brooklyn”: Davis to Lee, December 26, 1940, BRC.
“He wrote Music”: In Dillon, Little Original Sin, 38.
“the petrifying saliva”: In Prose, Lives of the Muses, 196.
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