31 “Many broke down then” Ibid., 171.
32 “Willie got home!” unpublished, private collection.
33 “is to London what the Ritz bar” Daily Express, October 1, 1940.
34 “Willie! Thank God you’re safe” Liza Maugham conversation with Pat Wallace, Frere Family Archive.
35 “But it didn’t work that way at all” Ibid.
36 “After my three weeks” Strictly Personal, 239.
37 “Willie Maugham was palpably bored” The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, Vol. II, 1939–1965, ed. Kenneth Young (Macmillan, 1980), 79.
38 “[I] shouted at [Virginia] to take cover” Ilex and Olive, Michael Swan (Home & Van Thal, 1949), 75.
39 “You know we’ve had some air raid warnings” WSM to Alan Searle, nd, HGARC.
40 “W. Somerset Maugham is in this country” New York Times Book Review, November 24, 1940.
41 “Just as the best novel” Writers and Friends, Edward Weeks (Little, Brown, 1981).
42 “When, in this war” New York Times, Ocober 24, 1940.
43 “the crisis was destroying” Strictly Personal, 261.
44 “On his arrival Maugham was given” Beware the British Serpent, 121.
45 “looking old, tired and shrivelled” TheVagrant Mood, 181.
46 “[where] she managed to create” WSM to David Horner, October 11, 1944, HRHRC.
47 “though frequently complimenting me” Continual Lessons, 97.
48 “I said that for my part” Ibid., 91.
49 “I had the feeling” Liza Maugham conversation with Pat Wallace, Frere Family Archive.
50 “I can’t bear this” Glenway Wescott interview with Ted Morgan, Jenman.
51 “a large ginger moustache” Never a Normal Man, 41.
52 “The vast majority are ready” WSM to F. H. Maugham, January 14, 1941, private collection.
53 “If by any chance we are beaten” “The English Family” unpublished typescript, Jenman.
54 “in his hardest, narrowest voice” Glenway Wescott interview with Ted Morgan, Jenman.
55 “Naturally we should keep confidential” David O. Selznick to Daniel T. O’Shea, March 14, 1941, HRHRC.
56 “So far I have only been allowed” WSM to Alan Searle, April 1, 1941, HGARC.
57 (“poor & poorly acted”) WSM to Alan Searle, April 15, 1941, HGARC.
58 “fictional drivel” Nation, May 3, 1941.
59 “worst novel” New Republic, May 19, 1941.
60 “talking in his sleep” Newsweek, April 7, 1941.
61 “an unscrupulous scamp” Up at the Villa, 105.
62 “He had immense vitality” Ibid., 28.
63 “Why didn’t you leave him?” Ibid., 29.
64 “the most tedious job” WSM to Robin Maugham, June 4, 1942, HRHRC.
65 “It is two miles from the sea” WSM to Ellen Doubleday, June 3, 1941, Princeton.
66 “Of course it wasn’t true” Liza Maugham conversation with Pat Wallace, Frere Family Archive.
67 “J’étais dans une grande soirée” Gerald Haxton to Louis Legrand, February 24, 1941, Stanford.
68 “fast-disappearing career” Film Weekly, March 29, 1935.
69 “I see something of the stars” WSM to Kate Bruce, June 27, 1941, Berg.
70 “one little ray of sunshine” WSM to Osbert Sitwell, October 9, 1941, HRHRC.
71 “I meet few people who interest me” WSM to Karl Pfeiffer, July 20, 1941, HRHRC.
72 “You mean about Mickey Rooney?” W. Somerset Maugham: A Candid Portrait, 69.
73 “Which one is he supposed to be now?” “Maugham in Hollywood,” Wilmon Menard, American Film, April 1979.
74 “demure in black silk” A Traveller in Romance, 96.
75 “I was so pleased to see Willie again” Christopher Isherwood Diaries, Vol. I: 1939–1960, ed. Katherine Bucknell, 142.
76 “an old Gladstone bag” Isherwood, Brian Finney (Faber, 1979), 180.
77 “that delightful, strange man” Ilex and Olive, 70.
78 “[climbing] all over him” Christopher Isherwood Diaries, 142.
79 “I am afraid this is no more” WSM to Alan Searle, July 25, 1941, HGARC.
80 “I have read scripts and reviewed fiction” David O. Selznick collection, April 25, 1941, HRHRC.
81 “I loathe the people” WSM to Kate Bruce, June 27, 1941, Berg.
82 “I know very well it was poor” WSM to Edward Marsh, March 1, 1943, Berg.
83 “Writing, writing, writing” WSM to Alan Searle, October 24, 1941, HGARC.
84 “the result so far” Ibid., November 13, 1941.
85 “Now that America is in the war” WSM to Glenway Wescott, December 12, 1941, Maryland.
86 “The countryside [is] wild, lonely” WSM to Karl Pfeiffer, January 28, 1942, HRHRC.
87 “[They] have captured my sympathy” WSM to Robin Maugham, June 4, 1942, HRHRC.
88 “Ellen ran the worst household in America” Jerry Zipkin interview with Ted Morgan, Jenman.
89 “I have grand gallops” WSM to Alan Searle, April 16, 1942, HGARC.
90 “It’s no good your telling me” WSM to Edward Marsh, March 1, 1943, Berg.
91 “Of course I should miss him” WSM to Alan Searle, May 10, 1942, HGARC.
92 “I know that people used to come” Glenway Wescott interview with Ted Morgan, Jenman.
93 “three long, long, long weeks” You Might As Well Live, John Keats (Simon & Schuster, 1970), 237.
94 “Thank you very much for the recipe” WSM to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 1, 1945, Library of Congress.
95 “What a distinguished profile” Ibid., nd.
96 “too hot to do anything” WSM to Alan Searle, June 26, 1942, HGARC.
97 “Our stock is falling lower” WSM to Alan Searle, June 30, 1942, HGARC.
98 “The book has been a great pleasure” WSM to Karl Pfeiffer, May 12, 1943, HRHRC.
99 “I will not pretend” WSM to Edward Marsh, June 1, 1944, Berg.
100 “It has given me a lot of satisfaction” WSM to Diana Marr-Johnson, October 18, 1944, private collection.
101 “Believe me, my dear fellow” The Razor’s Edge, 63.
102 “I had written nothing more” Ibid., 340.
103 “[who] calls more countesses” Our Betters, 15.
104 “Gerald is working very hard” WSM to Robin Maugham, October 6, 1943, HRHRC.
105 “[He] is delighted really” WSM to Alan Searle, November 23, 1943, HGARC.
106 “[and] it is a wonderful relief” WSM to Karl Pfeiffer, November 24, 1943, HRHRC.
107 “who will give me, I think” Ibid., January 12, 1944.
108 “I was disappointed, but not distressed” WSM to Edward Marsh, June 1, 1944, Berg.
109 “I have been in great trouble” WSM to Barbara Back, July 9, 1944, HRHRC.
110 “Though I have long known” WSM to Ellen Doubleday, nd, Princeton.
111 “[began] to breathe a little better” WSM to Barbara Back, July 9, 1944, HRHRC.
112 “I think going to see him twice a day” WSM to Barbara Back, July 9, 1944, HRHRC.
113 “I am afraid he is growing weaker” WSM to Edward Knoblock, October 2, 1944, Berg.
114 “I have to face the prospect” WSM to Diana Marr-Johnson, October 18, 1944, private collection.
115 “There is a slight hope” WSM to Alan Searle, November 3, 1944, HGARC.
116 “Gerald’s death has been a bitter blow” WSM to George Cukor, November 18, 1944, Margaret Herrick Library.
117 “Please don’t write & sympathize” WSM to Charles Towne, November 28, 1944, NYPL.
118 “the tempestuous grief” WSM to Alan Searle, December 20, 1944, HGARC.
119 “I don’t want to see you!” Sunshine and Shadow, 1930–1946, Cecil Roberts (Hodder & Stoughton, 1972), 376.
120 “He had his habitual composed” Tribulations and Laughter, 288.
121 “Mon pauvre Loulou” WSM to Louis Legrand, January 12, 1945, Jenman.
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br /> 122 “I suppose I shall give it a trial” WSM to David Horner, October 11, 1944, HRHRC.
CHAPTER 15: THE BRONZINO BOY
1 “For thirty years he has been” The Letters of Noël Coward, 229.
2 “Tout me le rappelle” WSM to Louis Legrand, May 15, 1945, Jenman.
3 “The best years of my life” WSM to Robin Maugham, June 26, 1944, HRHRC.
4 “I found Willie overwhelmed” Escape from the Shadows, Robin Maugham, 140.
5 “It has happened to me from time to time” New Yorker, June 8, 1946.
6 “He has always disliked me” WSM to Ellen Doubleday, August 9, 1946, Princeton.
7 “Everyone here is of course” WSM to Alan Searle, May 9, 1945, HGARC.
8 “[Willie] was very, very kind to me” George Cukor interview with Jesse Hill Ford, Margaret Herrick Library.
9 “I’d never bought a picture” Purely for My Pleasure, 17.
10 “in grateful acknowledgement” Traveller in Romance, 132.
11 “You would be doing me a great favour” WSM to the Earl of Halifax, July 6, 1945, Margaret Herrick Library.
12 “I know that at one time” PRO, FO 371/44582, Donnelly minute, September 14, 1945, quoted in Beware the British Serpent, 132.
13 “Alan arrived, very heavy” Glenway Wescott interview with Ted Morgan, Jenman.
14 “[Alan] is a great comfort to me” WSM to Bert Alanson, January 22, 1946, Stanford.
15 “it recalled a pain” Traveller in Romance, 132.
16 “for the kindness and the generosity” Ibid.
17 “I am very grateful to you” WSM to Ellen Doubleday, August 9, 1946, Princeton.
18 “Voilà votre Colonel d’Amérique” nd, Stanford.
19 “[I lived] in Maugham’s Paris apartment” David Posner to Ted Morgan, March 28, 1977, Jenman.
20 “gigantic Jewish poet” Glenway Westcott interview with Ted Morgan, Jenman.
21 “I was starry-eyed” David Posner to Ted Morgan, February 22, 1977, Jenman.
22 “Willie just cut his head off” Glenway Westcott interview with Ted Morgan, Jenman.
23 “People are strangely apathetic” WSM to Nelson Doubleday, October 20, 1946, Princeton.
24 “I hope I shall like her next husband” WSM to Bert Alanson, April 10, 1947, Stanford.
25 “said mother, aged 67” WSM to Nelson Doubleday, September 12, 1946, Princeton.
26 “In the last week I have had requests” WSM to Ann Fleming, nd, private collection.
27 “Millionaires & such like” WSM to Sibyl Colefax, December 15, 1944, Bodleian.
28 “Does Mr. Maugham realize” Daily Telegraph, April 17, 1947.
29 “overcome [by] the indifference” The Artist and the Theatre, Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson (Heinemann, 1955).
30 “I wish I could enlist your help” WSM to J. B. Priestley, January 12, 1948, HRHRC.
31 “I think you have been harsher” WSM to Edward Marsh, February 9, 1948, Berg.
32 “I cannot tell you what a relief” WSM to Glenway Wescott and Monroe Wheeler, August 22, 1948, Maryland.
33 “very much pleased” WSM to Ellen Doubleday, January 26, 1947, Princeton.
34 “as right as rain for William” Continual Lessons, 162.
35 “[the perfect] nanny” Maugham, 494.
36 “I loved him with all my heart” unpublished ms, Margaret Herrick Library.
37 “I am, I think, very happy” Alan Searle to Ellen Doubleday, December 27, 1946, Princeton.
38 “I’m so glad you’re here” Maugham, 565.
39 “The family were all fond of Alan” Nicolas Paravicini to WSM.
40 “Liza and the children are here” Alan Searle to Bert Alanson, August 21, 1947, Stanford.
41 “He is a pompous donkey” WSM to Ellen Doubleday, September 11, 1953, Princeton.
42 “which adds greatly to the gaiety” WSM to Nelson Doubleday, August 19, 1948, Princeton.
43 “[The Queen] was very nicely dressed” WSM to Bert Alanson, July 23, 1954, Stanford.
44 “But don’t you see” George Rylands interview with Robert Calder, Jenman.
45 “[and as] I am the greatest living writer” F. J. Shirley, The Cantuarian, December 1965.
46 “You will remember how astonished” WSM to Antony Darnborough, nd, Jenman.
47 “soulful damsels” WSM to Diana Marr-Johnson, nd, private collection.
48 “People I haven’t seen” Robin Maugham unpublished diaries, Beinecke.
49 “I am not a monkey in the zoo” WSM to Kate Bruce, nd, Berg.
50 “When he emerges [from the pool]” Remembering Mr. Maugham, 27.
51 “Willie arrived punctually at eight” The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, vol. II, 684.
52 “I feel strange” Remembering Mr. Maugham, 139.
53 “We had Willie Maugham and his catamite” Mr. Wu and Mrs. Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, ed. Artemis Cooper (Hodder & Stoughton, 1991), 261.
54 “It may interest you to know” WSM to A. S. Frere, January 7, 1950, Frere Family Archive.
55 “as though they were gauleiters” The Vagrant Mood, 179.
56 “One could never be quite certain” Liza Maugham conversation with Pat Wallace, Frere Family Archive.
57 “He imposed a regime” The Wanton Chase, Peter Quennell (Collins, 1980), 162.
58 “That’s what you’ll be doing” My World of Theatre, Peter Daubeny (Cape, 1971), 98.
59 “[when] all I had done” Sunday Times, April 3, 1966.
60 “[when] we were enjoying a nightcap” Paris Review no. 165, 205.
61 “his face is the wickedest tangle” In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor, ed. Charlotte Mosley (John Murray, 2008), 20.
62 “It goes with a swing” WSM to Ian Fleming, nd, Lilly.
63 “[It’s] not that I didn’t mean” Ibid.
64 “I had wanted the Queen” Gerald Kelly to Bert Alanson, March 3, 1953, Stanford.
65 “Your father bore with grim disapproval” WSM to Robin Maugham, February 3, 1950, HRHRC.
66 “Only two hearts” Ena: Spain’s English Queen, Gerard Noel (Constable, 1984), 282.
67 “Frank says, ‘Hiya, baby!’” Remembering Mr. Maugham, 191.
68 “Far too many people” The Noël Coward Diaries, ed. Graham Payne and Sheridan Morley (Papermac, 1982), 382.
69 “It has always been an ambition” WSM to Bert Alanson, April 30, 1949, Stanford.
70 “He liked a picture” Memoirs of an Aesthete, 189.
71 “I do not think Utrillo” Life, December 1, 1941.
72 “It was the picture” Purely for My Pleasure, 24.
73 “a fantastic absence of feeling” Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of Bernard Berenson, ed. Nicky Mariano (Hamish Hamilton, 1964), 439.
74 “was remarkably perceptive” The Other Half, Kenneth Clark (John Murray, 1977), 116.
75 “The first time I saw it” Daily Express, November 16, 1951.
76 “Although I wouldn’t like Graham to know” WSM to Kenneth Clark, April 16, 1951, Wake Forest.
CHAPTER 16: BETRAYAL
1 “On the continent of Europe” A Writer’s Notebook, 318.
2 “not a great fan of his” William Plomer to Jocelyn Brooke, May 14, 1953, Jenman.
3 “don’t think I’m at all” Angus Wilson to Jocelyn Brooke, May 5, 1953, Jenman.
4 “May I be excused?” William Sansom to Jocelyn Brooke, May 5, 1953, Jenman.
5 “[cannot] because of the novel” Elizabeth Bowen to Jocelyn Brooke, March 24, 1953, Jenman.
6 “truly and deeply sorry” Noël Coward to Jocelyn Brooke, June 16, 1953, Jenman.
7 “[I] shall produce 2000 words” Raymond Mortimer to Jocelyn Brooke, April 27, 1953, Jenman.
8 “I bask in Antibes” Punch, January 1954.
9 “those thousands of readers” The Author, January 25, 1954, Lilly.
10 “Anybody else would have sa
t down” St. John Ervine to Richard Church, February 19, 1954, HRHRC.
11 “he will tell you everything” New Yorker, October 29, 1949.
12 “I really cannot stand” WSM to Richard Cordell, January 23, 1939, Lilly.
13 “he tears everything” Continual Lessons, 166.
14 “I had held on to those letters” Jerry Zipkin interview with Ted Morgan, Jenman.
15 (“Your kids of Paravicini”) Louis Legrand to Liza Maugham, April 15, 1964, private collection.
16 “Robin’s handicap has always been” WSM to Kate Bruce, February 2, 1957, Berg.
17 “[Robin] is as frivolous” WSM to Bert Alanson, July 28, 1955, Stanford.
18 “It has been my ill-fortune” A Choice of Kipling’s Prose, xxii.
19 “I must tell you that this has come” Robin Maugham to Alan Searle, December 28, 1962, HGARC.
20 “I’ve had an offer from the American” Robin Maugham to WSM, February 14, 1962, HGARC.
21 “I promise you here and now” Ibid., February 20, 1962.
22 “[Mr. Maugham’s] celebrity in Europe” Alan Searle to Bert Alanson, January 29, 1953, Stanford.
23 “[Alan] was not in himself” Continual Lessons, 162.
24 “a namby-pamby” Jerry Zipkin interview with Ted Morgan, Jenman.
25 “muddle-headed [and] not very bright” Douglas Cooper to Robert Calder, September 10, 1978, Jenman.
26 “I think you are a darling” Alan Searle to Jane Clark, April 17, 1952, Wake Forest.
27 “[You are] such a darling” Alan Searle to Jerry Zipkin, March 10, 1959, HGARC.
28 “he enjoyed the complaining” Jerry Zipkin interview with Ted Morgan, Jenman.
29 “Thank you for all those wonderful picture books!” Alan Searle to Jerry Zipkin, December 28, 1954, HGARC.
30 “[Mr. Maugham] was generous to me” unpublished ms, Margaret Herrick Library.
31 “Alan Searle was a knight” Liza Maugham conversation with Pat Wallace, Frere Family Collection.
32 “said in his entire life” Glenway Wescott interview with Ted Morgan, Jenman.
33 “Mr. M.’s popularity in Japan” Alan Searle to Klaus Jonas, November 25, 1959, HRHRC.
34 “He still felt he had something” Somerset Maugham: A Life, 317.
35 “He’s a white man” Diaries, 1942–1954, James Lees-Milne, ed. Michael Bloch (John Murray, 2006), 435.
36 “I have been reading Kipling” WSM to G. B. Stern, February 6, 1951, HRHRC.
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