by Ian Ker
34 ‘American Diary’.
35 WISA 62.
36 ‘American Diary’.
37 ‘American Diary’.
38 BL Add. MS 73402, fo. 15.
39 ‘American Diary’.
40 Ward, GKC 482.
41 AP 645–6.
42 BL Add. MS 73402, fo. 19.
43 WISA 90–1.
44 Clemens, 88–9.
45 New York Times, 7 Feb. 1921.
46 BL Add. MS 73402, fo. 25.
47 Clemens, 62.
48 AP 646.
49 AP 647.
50 AP 648.
51 ‘American Diary’.
52 BL Add. MS 73402, fo. 22.
53 ‘American Diary’.
54 Ward, GKC 480–1.
55 ‘American Diary’.
56 ‘American Diary’.
57 AP 651–2; Mark Schorer, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life (London: Heinemann, 1961), 304.
58 ‘American Diary’.
59 Ward, GKC 480.
60 ‘American Diary’.
61 Detroit Saturday Night, 5 Mar. 1921.
62 Ward, GKC 480–1.
63 AP 655–6.
64 Cleveland Press, 28 Feb.–2 March 1921.
65 ‘American Diary’.
66 WISA 56–7.
67 ‘American Diary’.
68 ‘American Diary’.
69 BL Add. MS 73402, fo. 31.
70 ‘American Diary’.
71 AP 657–9.
72 BL Add. MS 73402, fo. 32.
73 Clemens, 87–8.
74 BL Add. MS 73402, fo. 32.
75 ‘American Diary’.
76 BL Add. MS 73402, fo. 31.
77 ‘American Diary’.
78 WISA 172–5.
79 ‘American Diary’.
80 BL Add. MS 73402, fo. 14.
81 ‘American Diary’.
82 Ward, RC 242.
83 ‘American Diary’.
84 WISA 121, 144.
85 Ffinch, 271, 275.
86 New York Times, 13 Apr. 1921.
87 ‘American Diary’.
88 Repr. in the Ignatius Collected Works, xx. 641–2, but wrongly dated.
89 Pearce, 89.
90 R. F. Foster, Paddy and Mr Punch (London: Allen Lane, 1993), 305.
91 New York Times, 2 Jan. 1921.
92 WISA 37–8, 157–8, 227, 235.
93 WISA 48–9, 57–8, 159–63, 250–1.
94 WISA 150–1, 164, 166–8.
95 WISA 146–7, 154–7.
96 WISA 70, 102, 105–7, 130.
97 WISA 65, 82, 86–8, 98, 115–17, 118–19, 121–3, 199, 236–42, 248–50.
98 G. K. Chesterton to R. A. Knox, incomplete draft, n.d., BL Add. MS 73195, fo. 144.
99 I owe this information to Aidan Mackey.
100 Ffinch, 276.
101 Tablet, 26 Dec. 1956.
102 EOE 293–4, 386.
103 EOE 297, 303–7.
104 EOE 308–9, 310–14.
105 EOE 320, 322, 324–9, 330–3.
106 EOE 344–7, 351.
107 EOE 380–1, 383.
108 EOE 396–7, 400, 411, 417–18.
109 CCC 89, 91–3.
110 Ward, GKC 387.
111 Evelyn Waugh, The Life of Ronald Knox (London: Chapman & Hall, 1959), 197.
112 Ward, GKC 391–2, with the addition of the omitted words ‘and I am partly… good enough for her’ (BL Add. MS 73195, fo. 140).
113 MCC 263–4.
114 Ward, GKC 392–3.
115 Letter of 29 May 1922, Tablet, 26 Dec. 1953.
116 Waugh, Knox, 207–8.
117 Ward, GKC 393–5.
118 Frances Chesterton to John O’Connor, 23 July [1922], BL Add. MS. 73196, fo. 124. Partially printed in O’Connor, 127–8.
119 O’Connor, 125–8.
120 RR 451.
121 This Mass room’ later became a bar when the Railway Hotel was renamed the ‘Earl of Beaconsfield’. Eventually the hotel was demolished to make way for a supermarket. St Teresa’s Church, Beaconsfield, parish archives.
122 Ward, GKC 396; O’Connor, 129–31; F.J. Sheed, The Church and I (London: Sheed and Ward, 1974), 103.
123 St Teresa’s Church, Beaconsfield, parish archives, parish history, p. 92. The first seventy-five pages of this typed parish history have disappeared, which means that it is untitled.
124 O’Connor, 131–2.
125 O’Connor, 132.
126 Ward, GKC 396.
127 CP (1933), 387.
128 Ward, GKC 396–7.
129 Pearce, 270, interprets it as ‘at best, Jesuitical equivocation, inasmuch as he hadn’t literally seen or talked to them, but had only written to them’; at ‘worst, it was plainly and simply a lie, albeit a white lie to spare his mother’s feelings’. Ffinch, 289, comments: The last part of the letter was strictly accurate only as far as Belloc and Baring were concerned, but it was those two particularly that Chesterton regarded as his “Catholic friends”.’
130 Marie Louise Chesterton to G. K. Chesterton, 7 [Aug. 1922], BL Add. MS 73193, fos. 84–5.
131 Ward, GKC 396–7, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73189, fo. 44.
132 Ward, GKC 403–4, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73190, fo. 60.
133 O’Connor, 141, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73187, fo. 69. O’Connor significantly capitalizes ‘agent’.
134 Ward, GKC 404–5.
135 Letters from Hilaire Belloc, ed. Robert Speaight (London: Hollis & Carter, 1958), 119.
136 Ward, RC 239.
137 St Augustine’s Church, High Wycombe, parish archives, diary begun by Father Augustine Peacock and continued by his successor Father Thomas Walker, p. 44. Hereafter referred to as ‘parish diary’. See Sheila Mawhood, The Gem of the Diocese: St Augustine’s, High Wycombe (privately printed, n.d.), 26, 34.
138 Ward, GKC 463, 530.
139 G. K. Chesterton to Thomas Walker, n.d., BL Add. MS 73241, fo. 21. A typed copy of the letter is annotated never sent’. BL Add. MS 73241, fo. 22.
140 Ward, GKC 522.
141 Patrick J. Fryer to Aidan Mackey, 29 Jan. 1989, GKCL.
142 A. 319.
143 See below, pp. 547–8.
144 A. 319–20.
145 A. 320–5, 327–8.
146 A. 329–31.
147 Ward, GKC 406.
148 The Ignatius edition, which reprints the Catholic World articles (with the omission of a few words), wrongly dates them all to Nov. 1922. Dorothy Collins years later published extracts in a pamphlet for the Catholic Truth Society with the same title, Where All Roads Lead (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1961).
149 WARL 27–9, 34–9, 40, 44–5, 48–50.
150 WARL 39–40.
151 WARL 41, 46.
1 MKM 424.
2 Sullivan, 70.
3 Ward, GKC 389–91, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73189, fos. 49–50.
4 O’Connor, 139–41.
5 MCC 257–63.
6 Ward, GKC 418–19.
7 Barker, 263; Dale, 245.
8 New Witness, 12 Jan. 1923.
9 New Witness, 19 Jan. 1923.
10 New Witness, 26 Jan. 1923.
11 New Witness, 2 Feb. 1923.
12 New Witness, 9 Feb. 1923.
13 New Witness, 16 Feb. 1923.
14 MCC 242; Titterton, 135–6.
15 Ward, GKC 415, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73198, fo. 89.
16 Ward, GKC 415–17, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73198, fo. 89. The story of Shaw offensively attacking Chesterton for converting a year later in the house of a mutual friend in Chelsea, which is recounted by Hesketh Pearson in ‘G.B.S. v. G.K.C.’, Adelphi Magazine (Sept. 1923), repr. in CS 577–83, and repeated in William B. Furlong, Shaw and Chesterton: The Metaphysical Jesters (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1970), 121–33, is a total fabrication. For the hoax, see Hesketh Pearson, Thinking it over: The Reminiscences of Hesketh Pearson (London: Hami
sh Hamilton, 1938), 221.
17 New Witness, 20 Apr. 1923.
18 New Witness, 27 Apr. 1923.
19 New Witness, 4 May 1923.
20 FVF 66, 108, 181–2.
21 FVF 88, 90–1, 210–1.
22 FVF 97, 125, 127–8, 154.
23 FVF 120–2.
24 Oddie, 67, 85.
25 Oddie, 100.
26 Ward, GKC 52–3.
27 Speaker, 1 Dec. 1900.
28 O. 300.
29 SFA 31.
30 SFA 74–8, 132.
31 SFA 81–2.
32 SFA 38–40, 45, 59, 70.
33 SFA 88–9, 94–5.
34 SFA 89–90, 92–4. 97.
35 SFA 36, 128, 130–1.
36 SFA 83–4, 86–7.
37 SFA 103–5.
38 John Henry Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1885), 40.
39 A. 167.
40 Greville McDonald, George McDonald and his Wife (London: Allen and Unwin, 1924), 9–11; repr. in MC 163–72.
41 Gilbert K. Chesterton, The Superstitions of the Sceptic (Cambridge: W. Heffer, 1925).
42 G. K. Chesterton to Maurice Baring, 26 May 1924, Tablet, 26 Dec. 1953.
43 G. K. Chesterton to Hilaire Belloc, 15 Sept. [1924], JJBL.
44 MC 265–7, 269, 271.
45 BL Add. MS 73230, fos. 14–15, 30–1.
46 Ward, GKC 418, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73198, fo. 93.
47 Barker, 272. For the date, see BL Add. MS 73198, fo. 99.
48 Ward, GKC 418–20.
49 Titterton, 136.
50 Ward, GKC 506.
51 G. K. Chesterton to Walter de la Mare, 4 Mar. [1925], BL Add. MS 73195, fo. 2.
52 ‘Found Wandering: A Politician on Purgatory’, G.K.’s Weekly, 11 Apr. 1925.
53 Ward, GKC 550.
54 Ward, GKC 414, 420–1.
55 Titterton, 115, 138–47.
56 TLB 255, 288, 311.
57 EM 10–12, 14–18. The Ignatius Press Collected Works edition unfortunately omits a lengthy passage from the introduction to The Everlasting Man. References are instead to the separate Ignatius Press edition of 1993.
58 EM 36, 53.
59 EM 59, 71, 87–90, 92–4, 119.
60 EM 84–6, 95, 97–8.
61 EM 109–14, 124, 126.
62 EM 169–71, 173, 180–4.
63 EM 186–9, 190–1, 193, 196, 198; NJ 333, 335.
64 EM 191–2.
65 EM 199, 200, 203–4, 207–8, 210–12.
66 See above, p. 226.
67 EM 214–15, 224, 227–9, 239.
68 EM 241–3.
69 EM 243–4, 246–8.
70 EM 250, 252, 255–9, 269.
71 EM 135, 266–9, 270.
72 For the following account, see Gerard Slevin, ‘Vote for Chesterton’, CR 12/2 (May 1986), 153–63.
73 MCC 280–1.
74 MCC 281–2.
75 Ward, GKC 468–9.
76 WC 5, 7, 12–17, 20–2.
77 WC 22–5, 45–6, 52, 69–71, 76, 79, 88, 90, 97–8, 100–1, 138, 193, 228–9.
78 WC 124, 148–9, 153–4, 156–9, 161–4, 166, 168, 176.
79 WC 177–81, 205–6, 227, 229–30, 262, 267–8.
80 WC 269–70, 272–4.
1 Ward, RC 146–50.
2 Ward, RC 150–3.
3 Ward, RC 154, 181.
4 Free Europe Radio interview with Dorothy Collins, BL Add. MS 73477, fos. 54, 85, 102; Sullivan, 156.
5 Frances Chesterton to Dorothy Collins, 25 Oct. 1936, BL Add. MS 73456, fos. 2–4.
6 Dorothy Collins’s notes for talks, BL Add. MS 73477, fo. 85.
7 Ffinch, 304.
8 Ward, RC 157.
9 Dorothy Collins’s notes for talks, BL Add. MS 73477, fo. 85.
10 Ward, RC 157–8.
11 Sullivan, 157–8.
12 Ward, GKC 455.
13 Sullivan, 158.
14 Dorothy Collins’s notes for BBC ‘Woman’s Hour’ talk, 13 Feb. 1962, BL Add. MS 73477, fo. 55.
15 Free Europe Radio interview with Dorothy Collins, BL Add. MS 73477, fo. 54.
16 Sullivan, 157–8, 167; Ward, RC 101.
17 Ward, GKC 463.
18 Ward, RC 240.
19 Ward, RC 236.
20 Oddie, 236.
21 Oddie, 245, 257.
22 Oddie, 249.
23 Iddings Bernard Bell to Maisie Ward, 19 Nov. 1943, BL Add. MS 73481A, fos. 32–3
24 Bernard Iddings Bell to Maisie Ward, 27 Mar. 1944, BL Add. MS 73481A, fos. 35–6.
25 Maisie Ward to Dorothy Collins, 24 Nov. 1943, BL Add. MS 73472, fo. 7.
26 Dorothy Collins to Maisie Ward, 8 Feb. 1944, BL Add. MS 73472, fo. 8.
27 Ward, GKC 450.
28 Clemens, 124–5, 130–2, 134–5.
29 Clemens, 135.
30 Ward, GKC 452–3.
31 Ward, GKC 450–1.
32 Sullivan, 158.
33 Ward, GKC 453.
34 MCC 254–6.
35 MCC 275.
36 Silvia Coll-Vincent, ‘Chesterton’s First Visit to Catalonia and its Context,’ CR 31/1–2 Spring/Summer 2005), 104–8.
37 Ward, GKC 457–8.
38 Frances Chesterton to John O’Connor, 19 July [1926], BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 128.
39 St Teresa’s Church, Beaconsfield, parish archives, parish diary, p. 67.
40 Bucks Free Press, 23 July 1926.
41 Bucks Free Press, 7 Aug. 1925.
42 Catholic Times, 30 July 1926.
43 Ward, GKC 458.
44 Frances Chesterton to John O’Connor, n.d., BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 130.
45 Frances Chesterton to John O’Connor, 25 Oct. [1926], BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 131.
46 St Teresa’s Church, Beaconsfield, parish archives, parish diary, pp. 68–9, parish history, p. 95.
47 A. 104.
48 Ward, GKC 458.
49 Frances Chesterton to John O’Connor, 23 Dec. [1926], BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 133.
50 Titterton, 160–1.
51 H. S. D. Went to Maisie Ward, n.d., BL Add. MS 73481A, fo. 120.
52 Ward, GKC 433.
53 Titterton, 165–6.
54 Titterton, 163.
55 Ward, GKC 433.
56 Ward, GKC 433–4.
57 Titterton, 162.
58 Ward, GKC 435–8; Titterton, 172.
59 G.K.’s Weekly, 12 Oct. 1929.
60 Ward, GKC 440.
61 OS 41–2, 44–5, 47, 51, 59, 78.
62 OS 80–1, 103, 120–1, 145–7, 167.
63 OS 207–9.
64 WIC 127, 129–30, 132.
65 CCC 64–6, 68.
66 CCC 72, 78–9, 81.
67 CCC 72–5.
68 CCC 85–88.
69 CCC 95, 101–7, 120.
70 CCC 110–12, 114–17.
71 SRBC 435, 437, 440–2.