Cherry

by Sara Wheeler

At the same time . . . I have neither their ibid.

  And now God go Sassoon, Memoirs, p. 333.

  How amazing. How could KS, Diary, 21 October 1917, Kennet Papers.

  a slight waning in ibid., 9 January 1918.

  If you have a Denis Lillie to ACG, 28 May 1918.

  visiting is contra-indicated . . . frequently relapsing Bethlem Royal Hospital to ACG, 3 August 1918.

  it was an incurable FD to Angela Mathias, [n.d.] September 1959, family collection.

  I think it is KS, Diary, 30 June 1918, Kennet Papers.

  I think you may EA to ACG, 17 November 1918.

  disobeyed orders ibid., and elsewhere.

  My mind groped in Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth , 1933, pp. 470–1.

  Chapter 10: The Most Wonderful Story in the World

  Though the old forms McKenna, p. 12.

  waking from dreams Rudyard Kipling, A Book of Words , 1928, p. 217.

  The country cannot tax ACG to AF, 22 May 1917, Hertford.

  grey hollowed (or hallowed) Paul Nash to Mercia Oakley, 23 September 1911, Tate Gallery Archive.

  part of the early forest Paul Nash, Outline, An Autobiography & Other Writings, 1949, p. 122.

  approaches completion ACG to H. G. Lyons, [n.d.] January 1919.

  as a completed work ACG to H. G. Lyons, 25 September 1919.

  The refusal of my ACG to H. G. Lyons, 13 November 1919.

  Am I to understand H. G. Lyons to ACG, 17 November 1919.

  My dear Lyons ACG to H. G. Lyons, 22 November 1919.

  I want it read ACG to H. G. Lyons, 2 December 1919.

  Teddy Evans is probably . . . He comes out of ACG to EA, [n.d.] April 1919.

  the right-hand man Sir Eric Geddes, The Times, 6 December 1919.

  in the hope of . . . without in any way . . . unfortunately The Times, 11 December 1919.

  Bill used to say Oriana Wilson to ACG, 26 December 1919.

  I don’t like the E. R. G. R. Evans to ACG, 12 January 1922.

  You are now utterly KS to ACG, 24 November 1919.

  Unfortunately I could not . . . any catharsis of the WJ, pp. lii–liii.

  In a most ruthless Draft material, WJ.

  Good literary criticism has ACG to EA, [n.d.] April 1919.

  What is pack WJ, p. 59.

  Charlotte told him he GBS to Lord Kennet, 21 February 1948, Kennet Papers.

  I said to Cherry GBS to KS, 23 March 1923, in BSCL III, p. 816.

  It would be fatal GBS to ACG, 26 April 1922, in ibid. , p. 768.

  Some centuries ago, it . . . Now I know why . . . Darkness is coming on Nation, 13 December 1919.

  make the atrocities of . . . The penguin has won The Times, 4 April 1919.

  Otherwise the penguins will Spectator, 26 April 1919.

  There are some Huns The Times, 29 December 1919.

  Wells Two letters from the Cherry-Garrard–Wells correspondence have survived and can be seen at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.

  considerable success . . . Fetch one of these The Times, 10 October 1919.

  Is it Really Christ Graphic, 14 February 1920.

  All the Christs in ibid., 20 March 1920.

  My natural kindness of ACG to KS (draft), 3 February 1919.

  two unforgettable days Fridtjof Nansen, inscribed in a copy of Farthest North presented to ACG, family collection.

  Ortobiogriffie Thomas Griffith Taylor to ACG, 17 November 1917.

  a true glimpse into WJ, p. 1.

  If you think your ibid., pp. l–li.

  Why do men who . . . the bondage of possessions . . . the Polar Party stands . . . mystical and invisible something . . . Have you ever starved Draft material, WJ. 216 we are in guess . . . We shall visit the ibid.

  Even now, the Antarctic WJ, p. vii.

  It is hard that ibid., p. 252.

  Yet time will slowly Draft material, WJ.

  People talk of the WJ, p. 567.

  And I tell you ibid., pp. 597–8.

  Naturally so peevish, highly ibid., p. 206.

  We must admire them ibid., p. 584.

  So much of the ibid., p. 232.

  You know, this is ibid., p. 311.

  A favourite pastime was ibid., p. 168.

  But they also had ibid., p. xlvii.

  A Glorious Narrative Daily News, 4 December 1922.

  the man of taste Nation, 2 December 1922.

  I should call the Evening Standard, 6 December 1922.

  The real value of Nature, 24 March 1923.

  It would be more Bookman, 19 July 1923.

  I’m having the time ACG to Otto Kyllmann, 8 December 1922, Temple.

  Galsworthy has gone cracked ACG to Otto Kyllmann, 2 January 1923, Temple.

  1 slipshod thinking Manchester Guardian, 11 December 1922.

  1 if the personal element The Times, 5 December 1922.

  1 He has criticised Con KS, Diary, 7 December 1922, Kennet Papers.

  1 with very grateful thanks . . . Rots Private collection.

  1 Keep this for a . . . always a case of GBS to KS, 23 March 1923, in BSCL III, p. 815.

  1 I have never admired Young, p. 214.

  The other day Cherry GBS to KS, 6 April 1923, in BSCL III, p. 816.

  weak . . . peevish WJ, p. 206.

  This ain’t an egg ibid., p. 305.

  We did not forget ibid., p. 302.

  the story seems devoid Daily News, 5 December 1922.

  the manners of the ibid., 6 December 1922.

  has exceeded all expectations GBS to KS, 23 March 1923, in BSCL III, p. 815.

  The book does seem ACG to Emery Walker, 10 April 1923, Texas.

  This post-war business . . . an age of geological . . . At an advanced age WJ, Preface [omitted from 1994 edition].

  Chapter 11: The Chaos which Threatens

  I suppose many of . . . exactly the opposite to Stephen Roskill to AM, [n.d.] 1970, family collection.

  rivals our politicians in WJ, p. 223.

  the spirit of divest Nancy Mitford, ‘The English Aristocracy’, Encounter, September 1955.

  Do not think I AF to ACG, 20 March 1924, Hertford.

  I have always admired ACG to AF, 23 March 1924, Hertford.

  The country estate in ACG to AF, 3 July 1924, Hertford.

  My mother and I ACG to AF, 23 August 1924, Hertford.

  My bowels refused to GBS to ACG, 8 October 1923, Texas.

  We must compare damages GBS to ACG, 26 September 1923, Texas.

  My famous neighbour Mr Allan Chappelow, ed., Shaw the Villager and Human Being, 1961, p. 177.

  I was ulcerating somewhere GBS to ACG, 1 May 1926, Texas.

  going strong for the Colonel E. F. Norton, despatch sent from Everest, 11 June 1924, published in The Times, 26 June 1924.

  the ascent by which The Rt Rev. Henry Luke Paget, A.D., Lord Bishop of Chester, The Alpine Journal XXXVI, 229 (November 1924), p. 275.

  The real value is The Times, 12 February 1913.

  In a way he . . . Mallory was burning with Introduction to Seaver, Wilson, p. xvii.

  When an airship can et seq. Daily News, 26 June 1926.

  Legally I believe I ACG to George Seabrook, 12 May 1923, Hertford.

  slight patches . . . severe patches . . . very severe patches Farrer & Co. legal papers, March 1925, Hertford.

  No man is greater Draft material, WJ.

  Was it hurt pride WJ, p. lxxvi.

  backed out of the race . . . a half and half T. E. Lawrence to CS, 17 June 1926, in The Letters of T. E. Lawrence, ed. Malcolm Brown, Oxford, 1991, p. 303.

  one of the great T. E. Lawrence to ACG, 4 April 1927, private collection.

  It has an astonishing T. E. Lawrence to ACG, 11 April 1929, private collection; copy in BL.

  A. C-G. from T. E. Shaw 1 December 1926, private collection.

  Do tell me that T. E. Lawrence to ACG, 4 April 1927, private collection.

  If our sexes had ibid.

  He’s such a liar AM, conversation with author.


  Experiences such as Lawrence . . . To go through a . . . some . . . Having been knocked about . . . In the long run A. W. Lawrence, ed., T. E. Lawrence by his Friends, 1936, pp. 191–2.

  It was perhaps the WJ, Jacket, 1929 edition.

  He is a man Literary Digest International Book Review , March 1923.

  one of the finest New York Times, 20 June 1930.

  one of the most Bookman, August 1930.

  remarkable descriptive powers . . . Where shall the like New York Times Book Review, 11 May 1930.

  very splendid New York World, 11 May 1930.

  cared nothing about being . . . Why English writers should ibid.

  fine, thrilling . . . long been Saturday Review of Literature, 21 June 1930.

  our greatest practising literary Jeffrey Meyers, Edmund Wilson: A Biography, Boston, 1995, p. 76.

  is very well written . . . The thing that takes American Mercury XXI (1930), p. 123.

  They seem difficult people ACG to Harold Raymond, 18 January 1938, Reading University.

  I don’t want to ACG to Allen Lane, 24 July 1950, Bristol.

  one big, uneasy refugee Rudyard Kipling to André Chevrillon, 31 December 1921, Sussex University Library.

  Bow wow et seq. W. L. G. Joerg, The Work of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition 1928–1930, New York, 1930; marginalia in ACG’s copy, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

  Exploring the many boxes FD, The Quiet Land, p. 178.

  The most minor member FD to ACG, 30 May 1920.

  How they bring it Introduction to Seaver, Wilson, p. xxii.

  All is not lost Family collection.

  Though I called the FD to AM (then Cherry-Garrard), [n.d.] September 1959, family collection.

  His voice has been WJ, Preface to 1937 edition, pp. xi–xix.

  not of the usual Oriana Wilson to ACG, 15 January 1929.

  I sympathise with you George Seaver to ACG, 1 February 1929.

  those post-war productions Introduction to WJ, p. lxix.

  finally starved . . . lack of vitamins Seaver, quoting ACG, ibid., p. lxxi.

  I often wonder whether . . . But surely you are . . . Am I? I wonder ibid., pp. lxxi–ii.

  But he was. The George Seaver to AM (then Cherry-Garrard), 19 May 1959, family collection.

  The doctor says the GBS to ACG, 6 May 1930, Texas.

  Here Ayot’s deaders/Into Note by ACG, n.d., family collection.

  While elsewhere I might ACG to George Seaver, Christmas card, 1950.

  Young Cherry-Garrard soon Bernard Shaw’s Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot St Lawrence, Luton, 1950, p. 31.

  I will freeze in ACG to Francis Drake, 25 November 1930.

  A wasted afternoon ACG to Francis Drake, 11 December 1930.

  ruined . . . has become a semi et seq. Beatrice Webb, Diary XLVI, 4 May 1932, LSE.

  I’m tired of these E. M. Forster, Howards End, 1910, p. 58.

  ideals have been smashed . . . the chaos which threatens . . . What they did has Introduction to Seaver, Wilson, pp. xi–xix.

  There were moments when FD, The Quiet Land, p. 188.

  For a well-read Norman MacKenzie, Introduction to Index to the Diary of Beatrice Webb, 1873–1943, Cambridge, 1978.

  Scott was playing about Marginalia, private collection.

  Scott was obsessed Annotated journal [December 1911].

  WJ See, for example, Louis Bernacchi’s biography of Oates, A Very Gallant Gentleman, 1933, family collection.

  It was just what George Simpson to ACG, in Annotated journal [spring 1912].

  Bowers and I were Annotated journal [December 1911–January 1912].

  The success of the Sunday Graphic, 31 July 1932.

  Chapter 12: Danced with AC-G

  Will be with you FD, The Quiet Land, p. 187.

  Do you know that Herbert Ponting to George Seaver, 12 October 1933.

  is the most beautiful . . . has enabled the world . . . Here in these pictures Geographical Journal LXXXV ( January–June 1935), p. 391.

  author and explorer ‘Candidate for Election’ form, The Athenaeum.

  War is out of WJ, Preface to 1937 edition, p. xii.

  I hope you will Harold Raymond to ACG, 9 April 1937, Reading University.

  The steady cheapening of Harold Raymond to Allen Lane, 1 November 1934, Bristol.

  a wonderful bit of ACG to Eunice Frost, 27 September 1937, Bristol.

  Dear Sir Correspondence in Bristol.

  Even more important than Eunice Frost to Henry Paroissien, 29 April 1955, Bristol.

  Danced with AC-G AM (then Turner), Diary, 13 August 1937, family collection.

  We always move in and all other direct speech AM, conversation with author.

  It sometimes seems that Draft material, WJ.

  It is the only The Times, 18 November 1937.

  will settle everything – and et seq. Introduction to Seaver, Bowers, pp. xi–xxi.

  The people now living Forster, Two Cheers, p. 70.

  There was a wrong spirit Unpublished collection of villagers’ memories, recorded by Daphne Grierson, n.d., Chapter 9, p. 5, private collection.

  She dinks into church Private conversation with author.

  Things look very dark KS (then Young), Diary, 28 September 1938, Kennet Papers.

  BLUE SKIES, BLUEBELLS, BLUE AM, conversation with author.

  how things turn out ACG to Harold Raymond, 4 May 1939, Reading University.

  if these blasted and ACG to Harold Raymond, 13 July 1939, Reading University.

  We were so thankful WJ, p. 289.

  if there are no ACG to Harold Raymond, 2 August 1939, Reading University.

  One can’t exactly say Harold Raymond to ACG, 13 October 1939, Reading University.

  If a manufacturer is Harold Raymond to William Maxwell, 1

  November 1939, Reading University. 263 I do not think ACG to Eunice Frost, 17 June 1939, Bristol.

  Chapter 13: A Darker Continent

  he wields a new GBS to ACG, 30 October 1940, Texas.

  To strive, to seek Letters from Ettie Desborough to ACG, family collection.

  to have a yarn ACG to William Lashly, 5 May 1916.

  came from one who William Lashly to ACG, 31 January 1920.

  So now he lies Polar Record III, 20 ( July 1940), p. 331.

  I think the only CS to Clara Turner, 30 October 1941, family collection.

  the best book in New Statesman and Nation, 21 March 1942.

  the only one who Nancy Mitford, The Water Beetle , 1962, p. 18.

  If Cherry-Garrard had The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, ed. Charlotte Mosley, 1996, pp. 465–6.

  general paralysis of the AM, conversation with author.

  Please stop coming here . . . I’m going to add and all other direct speech AM, ibid.

  We should be so ibid.

  But who brings you ibid.

  We think you are ECG to AM (then Cherry-Garrard), 17 June [no year], family collection.

  We think he is ibid.

  I have thought it ACG to Harold Raymond, 2 July 1942, Reading University.

  The large private house Financial Times, 15 October 1935.

  London’s most up-to St Pancras Chronicle, 25 October 1935.

  Optional Service will solve Various adverts, 1940, Dorset House archive.

  Wartime Worries Solved ibid.

  a poor creature, an James Lees-Milne, Ancestral Voices , 1975, p. 31.

  Kathleen. No happier woman Lady Kennet [KS], Self-Portrait , p. 361.

  She took hold of Young, p. 272.

  Bill had very little Annotated journal [September 1910].

  not what I had GBS to ACG and AM (then Cherry-Garrard), 26 September 1943, family collection.

  quite happy ACG, notes about Charlotte’s death, ‘about February 1944’, family collection.

  A. has flu. I AM, conversation with author.

  the loss of him Evelyn Forbes, conversation with author.

  cataleptic stroke AM, conversat
ion with author.

  the bedrock of existence Draft material, WJ.

  the trail of broken . . . Polar madness Priestley, ‘The Polar Expedition’.

  There are many cases ibid.

  It is easy to William Styron, Darkness Visible, 1991, p. 44.

  hysterical hemiplegia Annotated journal [March 1912].

  Of course, she was ibid. [September 1910].

  I would rather have Sylvia Plath (first published under pseudonym ‘Victoria Lucas’), The Bell Jar, 1963, p. 193.

  Cherry v. upset AM (then Cherry-Garrard), Diary, 22 December 1946, family collection.

  was almost like a ACG to Hugh Farrer, 27 September 1947, Hertford.

  Chapter 14: A Winter Journey Indeed

  He did love Lamer and all other direct speech AM, conversation with author.

  You will outlive Cherry GBS to AM (then Cherry-Garrard), 12 August 1947, family collection.

  You really are a Rupert Reynell to ACG, 30 October 1947, family collection.

  He has recovered his GBS to Hilton Young, 2 March 1948, Kennet Papers.

  This is the Lamer Family collection.

  I think they are The Clique, 7 June 1952.

  the generosity, clarity and Private correspondence, 10 September 1983.

  Besides a general aversion FD, ‘Scott of the Antarctic : A Personal Opinion’, Polar Record V, 37 & 38 ( January–July 1949), p. 311.

  The more I read David James, Scott of the Antarctic , 1948, p. 136.

  Try and throw your ACG, ‘Notes on conversation with Wright’, 26 October 1948 (notes inserted in Annotated journal).

  Of course, it is Annotated journal [‘Note written on the Barrier’].

  Here was Scott with Marginalia, private collection.

  He decided to write a frank postscript In 1948 GBS drafted a short postscript which Cherry eventually rejected in favour of his own, much longer version. Shaw’s shorthand copy of his suggested postscript can be seen at the Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University.

  It may be historically ACG to Allen Lane, 24 July 1950, Bristol.

  I am now a ACG to Harold Raymond, 9 July 1948, Reading University.

  in this sort of et seq. Postscript, pp. 589–600.

  a winter journey indeed ibid., p. 603.

  a somewhat tortuous document Introduction to WJ, p. lxxvii.

  We cannot stop knowledge Postscript, p. 602.

  To me, and perhaps ibid., p. 603.

  Mottled on top of Birding notes, n.d., family collection.

  I never opened this Family collection.

  The nursing home, said ACG to GBS, 8 June 1950, Texas.

  The squire abandons his The Freethinker, 30 June 1946.