Book Read Free

Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps

Page 59

by Ursula Buchan


  royal visit (1939), here, here, here

  declares war on Germany (1939), here

  and aircrew training in Second World War, here

  unity in war, here

  Canadian Agency The, here

  Canadian Authors’ Association, here

  Canadian Clubs, here

  Canning, George, here

  Carmichael, Thomas David Gibson, 1st Baron, here

  Carrington, Dora, here

  Carroll, Madeleine, here, here

  Carson, Sir Edward, here

  Carswell, Catherine, here, here, here

  Carswell, Donald, here

  Carswell, John, here

  Cast, James, here, here, here, here

  Castle Gay (JB), here, here, here, here, here, here

  Cave, George, Viscount, here

  Cecil of Chelwood, Robert, Viscount (earlier Lord Robert Cecil)

  friendship with JB, here

  invites JB to serve in Foreign Office in war, here

  and JB’s role as wartime Director of Information, here

  visits Elsfield, here

  on JB’s appointment as Governor-General of Canada, here

  Cecil, Lord Hugh, here

  Chalmers, Helen, here

  Chalmers, Dr Thomas, here

  Chamberlain, Joseph, here, here, here

  Chamberlain, Neville

  mistrust of Roosevelt, here, here

  succeeds Baldwin as PM, here

  JB reports to from Canada, here

  and proposed royal visit to Canada, here

  dealings with Hitler, here, here

  and Canadian sensitivities in war, here

  attends JB’s memorial service, here

  Chambers’s Journal, here, here

  Chandler, Raymond, here

  Charles I, King, here

  Charlett, Elsie (nanny), here

  Charlett, Mrs (cook), here, here

  Charteris, Brigadier-General John, here

  Chicago Daily News, here

  Chichibu, Prince and Princess of Japan, here

  Childers, Erskine, here

  China

  Japan invades (1937), here

  Chiswick Press, here

  Church of Scotland

  General Assembly, here

  Churchill, Winston S.

  Alastair serves under in Great War, here, here

  declines to support JB’s petition for KCMG, here

  escape from Boers, here

  praises JB’s Commons speech, here

  JB fails to perceive leadership qualities, here

  Karsh portrait, here

  supports Edward VIII in Abdication Crisis, here, here

  and prospect of Roosevelt averting war, here

  JB’s wary relations with, here

  Citadel (Quebec), here, here

  Clapperton, Thomas, here

  Clearing House, The (JB; posthumous collection), here

  Club, The

  JB’s membership, here, here

  Clydesdale, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of (later 14th Duke of Hamilton), here

  Cody, Rev. Henry John, here

  Collen, Lilian, here

  Collins, Sir Godfrey, here

  Colman, Ronald, here

  ‘Company of the Marjolaine, The’ (JB; story), here

  Compatriots (club), here

  Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur, here

  Cone, Dr William, here

  Connely, Willard, here

  Conrad, Joseph, here

  conscientious objectors

  memorandum concerning imprisoned, here

  Constable (publisher), here

  Constantinople, here, here

  Coolidge, Calvin, here

  Cottenham, Mark Everard Pepys, 6th Earl of

  Motoring To-Day and To-Morrow, here

  ‘Count Tolstoi and the Idealism of War’ (JB), here

  Courts of the Morning, The (JB), here, here, here

  Cowper, Francis Thomas de Grey, 7th Earl, here

  Cox, Annie, here, here

  Crabbet Park, near Crawley, Sussex, here, here

  Craig Sellar, Gerard, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Craik, Sir Henry, MP, here

  Crawford and Balcarres, David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of, here, here, here

  Crisp, Sir Frank, here

  Crockett, S.R., here

  Cromer, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of, here, here

  Cromwell, Oliver

  JB writes on, here

  Cudworth, Ralph, here

  Curtis, Lionel, here

  Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess, here, here

  Curzon, Mary, Lady, here

  Cust, Harry, here

  Dafoe, J.W., here

  Daily Express, here

  Dancing Floor, The (JB), here, here, here, here

  Daniell, David, Professor, here, here

  D’Arcy, Fr Martin, here

  Davidson, John Colin Campbell, 1st Viscount, here

  Davies, Sir Walford, here

  Dawson, Bertrand, 1st Viscount, here, here

  Dawson, Geoffrey (earlier Robinson), here, here

  Days to Remember (JB), here

  Deacon, William, here

  de Morgan, William, here

  Denman, Richard, here, here, here, here, here

  Devonshire Club, London, here, here

  Dick, Charlie

  friendship and correspondence with JB, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  edits University of Glasgow Magazine, here

  and publication of JB’s John Burnet of Barns, here

  and JB’s law training, here

  and JB’s social life in London, here

  proposes writing on Ionian Migrations, here

  and JB’s visit to Constantinople, here

  chaplain to JB in Edinburgh, here

  and JB’s grief at George V’s death, here

  visits Canada, here

  JB reports departure of royals from Canada, here

  Distributor, SS, here

  Dodd, Mead & Co. (US publishers), here

  Donald, Robert, here, here, here, here

  Donat, Robert, here, here

  Doyle, Arthur Conan see Conan Doyle, Arthur

  Duchess of Richmond (ship), here

  Dunbar, Captain James Brander, here

  Dunbar, William, here

  Duncan, Patrick, here, here, here

  Dunvegan, SS, here

  du Vallon, H.C de J., here

  Dysart, Fife, here

  Ebury, Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron, here, here, here

  Eckstein, Hermann, here, here

  Eden, Anthony, here

  Edgar, John, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Edgar, Pelham, here

  Edinburgh University

  JB elected Chancellor, here, here

  Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII), here, here

  abdication, here

  Egypt

  Cromer in, here, here

  Elibank, Charles Gideon Erskine-Murray, 2nd Viscount, here

  Elizabeth, Princess (later Queen Elizabeth II), here

  Elizabeth, Queen of George VI, here, here, here

  Elliot, Walter, here, here

  Ellis, William Webb, here

  Elsfield Manor, Oxfordshire

  JB acquires and occupies, here

  staff and servants, here

  life at, here, here, here

  guests, here

  let to Askwiths during JB’s absence in Canada, here

  Susie leaves, here

  Empire (British), here, here

  Empire Club of Canada, Toronto, here

  Empire and Imperialism

  JB’s views on, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Empress of Australia, RMS, here

  Empress of France, RMS, here

  Epistolae praecursorum (Precious Letters; JB), here

  Essays and Apothegms of Francis, Lord Bacon (ed. JB), here


  Everest, Mount

  JB plans expedition to, here

  Fairbanks, Douglas Jr, here, here

  Fairfax-Lucy, Alice Caroline Helen (JB/Susie’s daughter)

  John Betjeman teases, here

  interest in theatre, here, here

  birth, here

  aunt Anna’s fondness for, here

  Littlehampton holiday as child, here

  operation for mastoiditis, here

  and title of The Thirty-Nine Steps, here

  Newbolt’s fondness for, here

  and JB’s historical fiction, here

  education and training as actress, here

  role in JB’s post as Lord High Commissioner to General Assembly, here

  engagement and marriage, here

  allowance from JB, here

  digestive troubles, here

  writes Sunday Times article on royal visit to Canada, here

  Fairfax-Lucy, Captain Brian

  as aide-de-camp to JB, here

  marriage to Alice, here

  ‘Far Islands, The’ (JB; story), here

  Farrer, Reginald, here, here

  The Void of War, here

  Fawcett, Millicent, Dame, here

  Federation of University Conservative and Unionist Associations, here

  Feilding, Percy and Clotilde, here

  Ferguson, Rev. Alexander, here

  Fifteenth (Scottish) Division, The (JB, with J. Stewart), here

  Fight for Right (organisation), here

  ‘Film in National Life’ (report, 1932), here

  Finlay, Robert, 1st Viscount, here

  Firebrace, Blanche, here

  First World War, The (TV series), here

  Fish, Stuyvesant, here

  Fisher, H.A.L., here, here

  ‘Fisher Jamie’ (JB; poem), here

  Fitzpatrick, Sir Percy, here

  Fleming, Archibald, Bishop of the Arctic, here

  Fleming, Ian, here

  Floud, Sir Francis, here

  Floud, Phyllis, Lady, here

  Foreign Office

  JB joins in wartime, here

  ‘Fountainblue’ (JB; story), here, here

  Frank, Professor Tenney, here

  Fraser, Alec, here

  ‘Fratri Dilectissimo’ (JB; poem), here, here, here

  Free Fishers, The (JB), here, here, here

  Free Church of Scotland (‘Wee Frees’), here

  Freeman, Douglas Southall, here

  French, General Sir John, here

  ‘From the Pentlands Looking North and South’ (JB; poem), here

  ‘Fullcircle’ (JB; story), here

  Galloway, here

  Gap in the Curtain, The (JB), here, here

  Gaskell, Dorothy, here

  Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, here

  General Elections(1906), here

  (1918), here, here

  (1929), here

  Gentleman’s Magazine, The, here

  George V, King, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  death, here

  George VI, King

  gives way to wife, here

  approves of JB’s visit to Roosevelt, here

  and JB’s promotion of Canada, here

  visit to Canada and USA, here, here, here

  JB’s audience with, here

  meets Roosevelt in USA, here

  Guildhall speech on return from Canada, here

  agrees to JB retiring from Canada, here

  Gerard, John, here

  Germany

  wartime propaganda, here

  as war threat, here

  invades Poland, here

  signs non-aggression pact with USSR, here

  and outbreak of Second World War, here

  Gillon, Nina (née Johnston-Douglas), here

  Gillon, Stair (‘Sandy’)

  friendship with JB at Oxford, here, here, here

  at Ardwall with JB, here

  and JB’s failure to gain All Souls Fellowship, here

  JB dedicates The Watcher by the Threshold to, here

  letter from JB in South Africa, here

  climbing with JB, here, here

  and John Edgar’s depressions, here

  JB lodges with in Edinburgh, here

  praises JB’s writings, here

  enjoys The Thirty-Nine Steps, here

  meets Alastair in France, here

  war service, here

  on Alastair’s death, here

  attends JB’s installation as Chancellor of Edinburgh University, here

  and JB’s son William’s marriage, here

  and JB’s political beliefs, here

  Gilmour, T.L., here

  ‘Gipsy’s Song to the Lady Cassilis, The’ (JB; poem), here

  Gladstone, William Ewart, here, here

  Glasgow Herald, The, here, here, here

  Glasgow, University of

  JB attends, here, here

  JB’s brother Willie attends, here

  JB’s brother Alastair attends, here

  Globe (Toronto newspaper), here

  Goebbels, Joseph, here

  Gorbals, the (Glasgow), here, here

  Gosse, Edmund, here

  Government House, Ottawa

  Green Book on organisation and protocol, here, here

  Governor-General’s Awards (Canada), here

  Gowers, Ernest, here

  Graham, George, here

  Grant, Sir Alexander, here, here, here

  Graphic, The (journal), here, here

  Graves, Charles, here, here

  ‘To John Buchan’ (poem), here

  Graves, Nancy, here

  Graves, Robert, here, here

  Gray, William Forbes, here

  Great War (1914–18)

  outbreak, here, here

  JB writes history of, here, here, here, here, here, here

  British propaganda organisation and policy, here, here, here, here, here, here

  reverses, here

  in Mr Standfast, here

  war aims, here

  ends, here

  memorandum concerning imprisoned conscientious objectors, here

  JB on effects, here

  ‘Green Wildebeest, The’ (JB; story), here

  Greene, Graham, here

  Greenly, Lt.-Colonel Sir John, here

  Greenmantle (JB)

  in context of author’s life and times, here

  Peter Pienaar character in, here, here

  duodenal trouble in, here

  and Battle of Loos, here

  sales, here, here

  publication, here, here

  plot and characters, here

  reception, here, here

  JB sends to colleague’s son, here

  Greenslet, Ferris, here, here, here, here, here

  Grenfell, Arthur

  bankruptcy, here

  Grenfell, Billy, here

  Grenfell, Frances, here

  Grenfell, Francis, VC, here, here

  Grenfell, Hilda (née Lyttelton), here, here, here, here, here

  Grenfell, Julian, here

  Grenfell, Riversdale, here, here

  Grey, Sir Edward, here, here, here, here

  Grey Owl (i.e. Archibald Belaney), here

  Grey Weather (JB; story collection), here, here, here, here

  Grieves, Professor Keith, here

  Grosvenor, Caroline (née Stuart-Wortley; Susie’s mother; ‘Baba’, ‘Gerald’)

  Susie protects, here

  impecuniousness, here

  JB’s affection for, here

  JB dedicates Greenmantle to, here

  at Church of Scotland ceremonies, here

  visits Canada, here

  death, here

  The Bands of Orion, here

  Grosvenor, Marnie see Peyton-Jones, Margaret Sophie Katherine

  Grosvenor, Norman (Susan’s father), here

  Grosvenor, Susan see Buchan, Susan Charlotte

  ‘Gr
ove of Ashtaroth, The’ (JB; story), here, here, here, here

  Guest, Ivor, later 2nd Viscount Wimborne, here, here

  Guest, Mrs Ivor, here

  Gurney, Ivor

  Severn and Somme, here

  Haig, Douglas, 79, 166, 185, 193, 204

  Haldane, Richard Burdon, 1st Viscount

  takes interest in young JB, here

  suggests JB write on tax law, here

  JB’s acquaintance with, here

  JB stays with, here

  contributes to The Scottish Review, here

  petitions for KCMG for JB, here

  The Pathway to Reality, here

  Half-Hearted, The (JB), here, here, here

  Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of (earlier Baron Irwin), here, here, here, here, here, here

  Hannay, Sir Richard (fictional character), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Hardinge, Sir Alexander, here, here, here, here

  Hardwicke, Sir Cedric, here

  Hardy, Thomas, here, here

  Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, here

  Harehope, near Peebles, here, here

  Hart, Basil Liddell see Liddell Hart, Captain Basil

  Hawkins, Anthony Hope (‘Anthony Hope’), here

  Heber, Reginald, Bishop of Calcutta, here

  Heberden, Dr Charles Buller, here, here, here

  Henderson, Arthur, here

  Henderson, Lieut-General David, 146, 174

  Henley, W.E., here

  Herbert, A.P., here

  Herbert, Auberon see Lucas, 9th Baron

  Herbert, Aubrey

  at Oxford, here, here

  enlists in Great War, here

  as model for Sandy Arbuthnot character, here

  ‘Herd of Standlan, The’ (JB; story), here

  Hichens, Lionel, here

  Hichens, Robert

  The Green Carnation, here

  Hills, Jack, here

  History of Brasenose College, A (JB), here

  History of the Great War, A (JB; 4 vols), here

  History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, The (JB), here

  History of the South African Forces in France, The (JB), here, here

  Hitchcock, Alfred, here, here, here, here

  Hitler, Adolf, here, here

  Mein Kampf, here

  Hobhouse, Emily, here, here

  Hodder & Stoughton (publishers), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Hogarth Press, here

  Holt, Henry & Company (US publishing house), here

  ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’ (JB; poem), here

  Homer

  Iliad, here

  Homes and Gardens (magazine), here

  Hope, Anthony see Hawkins, Anthony Hope

  Horace Club (Oxford), here

  Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), here

  Horne, Sir Robert (Bertie), here, here, here

  Houghton Mifflin (US publishers), here

  House of the Four Winds, The (JB), here, here, here

  Hull, Cordell, here, here, here, here, here

  Huntingtower (JB), here, here, here

  Hutchesons’ Grammar School, Glasgow, here, here

 

‹ Prev