by Ian Ker
100 Ward, GKC 297.
101 MCC 94.
102 MCC 97.
103 Ffinch, 212–13; Dale, 173.
104 MCC 98, 100–1.
105 Donaldson, The Marconi Scandal, 185.
106 Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead, Famous Trials of History (London: Hutchinson, 1926), 286, 288.
107 Ffinch, 217–18.
108 A. 264–5.
109 MCC 99, 106, 111–12.
110 Barker, 217–18.
111 II 153.
112 Ward, GKC 303; Donaldson, The Marconi Scandal, 203.
113 Donaldson, The Marconi Scandal, 204.
114 On the second day’s debate, 19 June 1913. Hansard, pp. 559–71.
115 Ward, GKC 308–9.
116 Donaldson, The Marconi Scandal, 238.
117 Ward, GKC 306.
118 MCC 93.
119 A. 192.
120 Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Inclusive Edition 1885–1918 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919), ii. 2.
121 A. 191, 195–8.
1 Frances Chesterton to John O’Connor, 15 May 1913, BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 92.
2 George Bernard Shaw to G. K. Chesterton, 11 June 1914, BL Add. MS 73198, fo. 43.
3 Ward, GKC 319, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 731978, fo. 44.
4 Ward, GKC 319–21, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73198, fo. 43.
5 G. K. Chesterton to Hilaire Belloc, n.d., JJBL.
6 G. K. Chesterton to Hilaire Belloc, n.d., JJBL.
7 G. K. Chesterton to H. G. Wells, n.d., BL Add. MS 73199, fo. 23.
8 FI 588; CP i. 475.
9 AD 60.
10 A. 258–9.
11 WB 99.
12 Stephen Koss, Fleet Street Radical (London: Allen Lane, 1973), 116.
13 Julia Stapleton, Christianity, Patriotism, and Nationhood: The England of G. K. Chesterton (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009), 112, quotes the sentence in italics omitted by Koss in his account.
14 Barker, 219.
15 Ward, GKC 255–6.
16 A. 258–9.
17 See below, p. 367.
18 A. 283–4.
19 VAL 423.
20 VAL 427–9, 430, 434–6.
21 VAL 438.
22 VAL 438–41.
23 HA 130–3.
24 VAL 441–6.
25 VAL 447–9, 450.
26 VAL 450–1.
27 VAL 452–4.
28 VAL 454–9.
29 VAL 473.
30 VAL 483.
31 A. 261–3.
32 A. 266–7.
33 VAL 489–92, 496.
34 VAL 466.
35 Ward, GKC 207–8, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73198, fo. 39.
36 Ward, GKC 315–16 (with text of Moore’s letter to Forster Bovill, 24 Nov. 1913, corrected from BL Add. MS 73231A, fo. 18); Ffinch, 222; Patrick Braybrooke, I Remember G. K. Chesterton (Epsom: Dorling, n.d.), 23, 25.
37 New Statesman, 13 May 1916.
38 John Sullivan, Chesterton Continued: A Bibliographical Supplement (London: London University Press, 1968), 91, quoting from ‘Notes on Recent Books by their Authors’, Dublin Review, Jan. 1914.
39 Frances Chesterton to John O’Connor, n.d., BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 101.
40 Ward, GKC 208, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73198, fo. 40.
41 George Bernard Shaw to Frances Chesterton, 24 Feb. 1914, BL Add. MS 73198, fos. 40–1.
42 Ward, GKC 206–7, with text corrected and name of publisher restored from BL Add. MS 73198, fo. 30.
43 Ward, GKC 207.
44 MCC 144–8; Dickensian, 10/1 (Jan. 1914), 10, 34, 40.
45 FI 631, 435–6, 513, 456, 450, 474, 498, 526, 610–1
46 MCC 76–7.
47 A. 203–4.
48 New York Times, 4 July 1914.
49 A. 219–21.
50 A. 219–20.
51 New York Times, 10 June 1916.
52 Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters 1911–1925, ed. Dan H. Laurence (London: Max Reinhardt, 1985), 447–8.
53 A. 221–2.
54 A. 199–201.
55 ILN xxx. 153.
56 Clemens, 166–7.
57 Charles Masterman to Frances Chesterton, 7 Oct. 1915, BL Add. MS 73454, fo, 53.
58 AT 248–9, 250–2, 254–5, 258–9.
59 ILN xxxi. 165.
60 BL Add. MS 73198, fos. 46–52.
61 BL Add. MS 73198, fos. 55–9. On the third of the handwritten drafts Dorothy Collins has noted, ‘This letter was probably not sent.’ In fact, Shaw’s subsequent letter to Frances of 5 May 1915 and Chesterton’s letter to Shaw of 12 June 1915, as well as Chesterton’s own account in the Autobiography that follows immediately below, make it clear that the letter was never sent or even finished.
62 A. 233, 235.
63 Ffinch, 229.
64 MCC 168–9, 300–1.
65 See above, p. 260.
66 Ward, GKC 328, 454–5, 562–3.
67 Ward, GKC 329.
68 Sullivan, 162.
69 Frances Chesterton to John O’Connor, [25 Nov. 1914], BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 104. Partly printed (with errors) in O’Connor, 98, where the date, which has been pencilled in on the letter, is supplied, as in the case of the following letters where Frances failed to supply a date.
70 O’Connor, 98, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 104.
71 Josephine Ward to John O’Connor, n.d., BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 105.
72 Josephine Ward to John O’Connor, 2 Jan. 1915, BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 106.
73 O’Connor, 98, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 107.
74 O’Connor, 98–9.
75 Josephine Ward to John O’Connor, 10 Jan. 1915, BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 109.
76 O’Connor, 98–9, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 114.
77 O’Connor, 100, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 111.
78 Ward, GKC 330, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73454, fo. 46.
79 Frances Chesterton to Josephine Ward, n.d., BL Add. MS 73454, fo. 46.
80 Ward, GKC 329–30. Frances Chesterton to Josephine Ward, 24 Jan. 1915, BL Add. MS 73454, fo. 47.
81 O’Connor, 100–1, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 114.
82 O’Connor, 101–2, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 116.
83 Ward, GKC 330–1.
84 A. 236.
85 Ward, GKC 332, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73198, fo. 70.
86 Shaw: Collected Letters 1911–1925, ed. Laurence, 294.
87 Ward, GKC 333–4, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 37198, fos. 72–3, 75.
88 Ward, RC 133–5.
89 Ward, RC 139–40, 143–4.
90 Ward, RC 156–7.
1 A. 234–6.
2 Ward, GKC 279–80; Ffinch, 179–80.
3 A. 236.
4 CE 300, 324, 330–1, 335, 337, 350, 355–6, 359, 363, 367, 373–4.
5 A. 236–8.
6 Ward, GKC 350, corrected from BL Add. MS 73199, fo. 26, with the deleted name ‘Prothero’ restored.
7 See below, p. 395.
8 Ward, GKC 351–2, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73199, fos. 27–8.
9 Ward, GKC 352, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73199, fo. 29.
10 DD 421–2.
11 DD 423–9.
12 MCC 164, 167, 193, 198.
13 Ffinch, 244.
14 Ffinch, 244–5.
15 MCC 190–1.
16 A. 240; Titterton, 119–21.
17 Barker, 234.
18 The date ‘1917’ has been pencilled on to the letter.
19 G. K. Chesterton to George Bernard Shaw, 25 Feb. [1917], BL Add. MS 73198, fos. 76–7.
20 Photocopy, GKCL.
21 K 380–1, 384–5, 389–90, 397–8.
22 MCC 202–4.
23 Ward, GKC 348–9, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73198, fos. 79–80.
24 CP i. 490.
25 Ward, GKC 355.
26 SHE 429, 584–5
.
27 SHE 449, 469, 473, 484–5, 488, 498.
28 SHE 465–7.
29 SHE 544–5, 547–8.
30 SHE 479, 506, 525, 527, 539, 552, 554, 561–3, 570, 573, 576–7 587–8, 590.
31 UU 409, 414–15, 421–2, 424, 428, 435–6.
32 UU 444–5, 479–80, 495, 499.
33 UU 450–2, 500–1.
34 SD 227.
35 SD 229, 231, 233, 235, 237, 253, 264–9, 279, 289–90.
36 SD 241–2, 245–7, 260, 270, 275.
37 SD 237–41, 247–9, 253–4, 288.
38 Ffinch, 248–9.
39 MCC 219–20, 224, 233–8.
40 A. 240–1; Ward, GKC 358; Ffinch, 250–1.
41 CP i. 389.
42 Ward, GKC 359–62.
43 A. 241.
44 See below, pp. 421–4.
45 Ward, GKC 362–5.
46 Titterton, 111.
47 MCC 241.
48 Ward, GKC 367–8.
49 Ward, GKC 381.
50 MCC 183.
51 Robert Speaight, The Life of Hilaire Belloc (London: Hollis & Carter, 1957), 362–4
52 G. K. Chesterton to Hilaire Belloc, 22 Apr. [1919], JJBL.
53 G. K. Chesterton to Hilaire Belloc, 3 May [1919], JJBL.
54 G. K. Chesterton to Hilaire Belloc, 25 Aug. 1919, JJBL.
55 G. K. Chesterton to Hilaire Belloc, n.d., JJBL.
56 MCC 252–3.
57 George Bernard Shaw to G. K. Chesterton, 9 June 1919, BL Add. MS 73198, fo. 81.
58 Frances Chesterton to George Bernard Shaw, 25 June 1919, BL Add. MS 73198, fo. 83.
59 George Bernard Shaw to Frances Chesterton, 26 June 1919, BL Add. MS 73198, fo. 84.
60 No letter was published either during or after the publication of Pugh’s articles.
61 Ward, GKC 369.
62 New Witness, 16 May, 27 June 1919.
63 G. K. Chesterton to E. S. P. Haynes, 10 Aug. 1919, BL Add. MS 73237, fo. 156.
64 G. K. Chesterton to E. S. P. Haynes, 18 Aug. 1919, BL Add. MS 73237, fo. 158.
65 Clemens, 81–3.
66 Ward, GKC 371.
67 G. K. Chesterton to Edwin Pugh, n.d., BL Add. MS 73481B, fo. 66.
68 R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, ii. The Arch-Poet 1915–1939 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 131.
69 II 118–22.
70 Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, 132–3.
71 Clemens, 145. William M. Murphy, The Life of John Butler Teats 1839–1922 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978), 584 n. 54, suggests that the explanation of this forgetfulness is that when Yeats knew Chesterton in Bedford Park he was ‘unaware of the large, insecure young man who was then a nobody’. But Yeats’s invitation in 1918 clearly shows that he had not forgotten ‘his old Bedford Park acquaintance’, and the debate that he had arranged at the Abbey Theatre shows that, since the Bedford Park days, he had had certainly met Chesterton on more than a couple of social occasions.
72 II 113–14.
73 II 91–2, 96, 98, 111, 171, 183–4, 186–7.
74 WB 5.
75 II 149, 177–9, 182–4.
76 A. 224–7.
77 A. 228–33.
78 G. K. Chesterton to Hilaire Belloc, 13 Nov. [1919], JJBL.
79 Ward, GKC 377.
80 A. 299.
81 Ffinch, 257–8.
82 ‘Diary of Visit to Jerusalem 1920’, BL Add. MS 73468, fo. 5.
83 BL Add. MS 73468, fos. 6–9.
84 BL Add. MS 73468, fos. 8–15.
85 BL Add. MS 73468, fos. 17–18.
86 BL Add. MS 73468, fo. 12.
87 BL Add. MS 73468, fos. 19–24.
88 BL Add. MS 73468, fos. 25–32.
89 BL Add. MS 73468, fos. 32–40.
90 BL Add. MS 73468, fos. 41–57.
91 BL Add. MS 73468, fos. 58–60.
92 A. 299.
93 BL Add. MS 73468, fos. 61–3.
94 BL Add. MS 73468, fos. 64–6.
95 BL Add. MS 73468, fos. 66–72.
96 BL Add. MS 73468, fos. 72–80.
97 BL Add. MS 73468, fos. 81–4.
98 Ward, GKC 380.
99 WS 462–3.
100 NJ 191.
101 Ward, GKC 381.
102 NJ 211–14.
103 NJ 195, 215–18, 229, 247, 249, 351–2, 360–1, 380, 387.
104 NJ 392–3.
105 NJ 405, 409, 417.
106 Dorothy Collins (ed.), ‘Extracts from Note-book (about 1893. G.K.C. aged 19)’, Tablet, 4 Apr. 1953. ‘The original notebook appears to have been lost…’(Oddie, 109, n. 55).
107 WW 60.
108 WC 193.
109 Ward, GKC 227–8.
110 G. K. Chesterton to Leslie Claude Greenberg, 26 Apr. 1911, BL Add. MS 73237, fo. 109.
111 NJ 397.
112 Cf. Christopher Hollis, The Mind of Chesterton (London: Hollis and Carter, 1970), 137–8; David Lodge, The Novelist at the Crossroads and Other Essays on Fiction and Criticism (London: Ark, 1986), 154; Sheridan Gilley, ‘Chesterton‘s Politics’, CR 21/1–2 (Feb./May 1995), 41.
113 WS 466.
114 UD 1–4, 6, 54, 72, 97–9, 151, 153.
115 UD 27, 33, 42–3, 116, 130, 142–3.
116 UD 21, 50, 53, 122–3, 188.
1 Ffinch, 266–7.
2 CP (1933), 46–9.
3 Tablet, 26 Dec. 1953. Part of this letter is quoted in Ward, GKC 455.
4 Ward, GKC 384–5, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73189, fo. 35.
5 Ffinch, 275. This notebook, which is not in BL, has apparently disappeared.
6 Ward, GKC 388–9.
7 Ward, GKC 389.
8 Ward, GKC 384–5, 388–9.
9 O’Connor, 124–5, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 121.
10 O’Connor, 125.
11 O’Connor, 121.
12 A. 38–40.
13 A. 40–8.
14 This diary, which is in GKCL, was given to Aidan Mackey by William Braybrooke, the son of Patrick Braybrooke, a writer and critic and a cousin of Chesterton, who presumably was given it by Dorothy Collins. Hereafter referred to as ‘American Diary’.
15 ‘American Diary’.
16 ‘American Diary’.
17 New York Times, 11 Jan. 1921.
18 Ward, GKC 478–9. Frances kept newspaper cuttings of their American trip, now in BL Add. MS 73402, but, unlike on the later visit of 1930–1, without noting the dates and names of the newspapers.
19 DJ 16.
20 ‘American Diary’.
21 WISA 73.
22 BL Add. MS 73402, fo. 48.
23 BL Add. MS 73402, fo. 9.
24 A. 51.
25 WISA 52, 55.
26 Ward, GKC 478–80.
27 BL Add. MS 73402, fo. 10.
28 ‘American Diary’.
29 ‘American Diary’.
30 ‘American Diary’.
31 BL Add. MS 73402, fo. 12.
32 AP 642.
33 ‘American Diary’.