“great coat and blue knitted gloves”: Wendy Moffatt, A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 180.
“flowery day”: EMF to Alice Clara Forster, 3-1-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/ACF I, 1922–24. Future references to Alice Clara Forster will be abbreviated as ACF.
“feeling rather like crumbs in the night”: Ibid.
“Let us wish one another a Happy New Year”: EMF to GLD, 1-1-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/158.
“True of M.”: Virginia Woolf’s notes are in vol. 15 of her holograph reading notes in the Berg Collection, New York Public Library. See also Brenda R. Silver, Virginia Woolf’s Reading Notebooks (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983), 89–90.
“C/o Messrs T. Cook”: EMF to ACF, 1-12-21, EMF Papers, KCAC, KCC EMF/ACF, August–December 1921.
“for a splash in Upper Egypt”: EMF to SRM, 8-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/360/1.
“inclined to a pot belly”: Forster, Journals and Diaries, 2:61.
“make another great friend”: EMF to GLD, 31-5-21, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/158.
“I shall be carried past … misery…”: EMF to GLD, 1-1-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/158.
“not see him alive again”: EMF to SRM, 25-1-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/360/1.
“haemorrage, night-sweats, exhaustion”: EMF to SRM, 28-1-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/360/1.
“a robber and probably a quack”: EMF to SRM, 25-1-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/360/1.
“tubes of useless stuff”: EMF Letters 2, 21.
“sit attempting to nurse”: EMF to SRM, 25-1-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/360/1.
“irritable and hard”: Ibid.
“sombre and beautiful”: EMF to SRM, 28-1-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/360/1.
“I am very ill”: Ibid.
would return to Mansourah for another week or two: EMF to SRM, 8-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/360/1 and EMF to FB, 8-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/38/1, vols. 34/1-2.
Morgan was able to pay for a visit: EMF to SRM, 8-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/360/1.
“The leading doctor”: Ibid.
“perked up by this good desert air”: EMF to FB, 8-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/38/1, vols. 34/1-2.
“oddly tranquil considering the circumstances”: EMF to FB, 8-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/38/1, vols. 34/1-2.
Only sixty-six copies: Forster asked Arnold for an accounting of the sales of his books in February 1923. Arnold’s reply is in EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/169.
“How wonderful money is”: EMF Letters 2, 22.
“I wish I knew how long”: EMF to FB, 8-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/38/1, vols. 34/1-2.
“without difficulty”: EMF to SRM, 8-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/360/1.
“very violent” sexual desire … “great loss of sexual power”: Forster, Journals and Diaries, 2:76.
left Mohammed impotent: EMF to FB, 8-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/38/1, vols. 34/1-2.
“I had been looking forward”: Ibid.
“half hour’s stroll”: EMF to SRM, 8-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/360/1.
“and we sit about at cafés”: EMF to SRM, 18-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/360/1.
“little more than bones now”: EMF to GLD, 25-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/158.
“He sat by me in the Railway carriage”: EMF to FB, 25-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/38/1, vols. 34/1-2.
“a very nice one”: Ibid.
“out of love”: Forster, Alexandria, 330.
“collapse may come any minute”: EMF to SRM, 23-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/360/1.
Morgan had done all he could: Ibid.
“Ah me”: EMF Letters 2, 22.
“the usual 25 years of his life”: EMF to SRM, 23-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/360/1.
“for now he is silent”: Ibid.
“We passengers”: EMF to Laura Forster, 26-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/193/1, vol. 6/9.
“The public tragedy”: EMF to SRM, 25-1-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/360/1.
“passed very pleasantly”: EMF to Laura Forster, 26-2-22, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/193/1, vol. 6/9.
“I must not forget”: Ibid.
“The knack of a double life grows”: EMF Letters 2, 59.
“that as soon as I leave”: Ibid.
An uncle of Morgan’s, Willie Forster: Furbank, E. M. Forster, 1:66.
“Depressing & enervating surroundings”: Forster, Journals and Diaries, 2:27.
4: “Somewhere Away by Myself”
“our Bert’s first book”: Edward Nehls, ed., D. H. Lawrence: A Composite Biography, vol. 1, 1885–1919 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957), 72. Future references will be to Composite 1.
“message after message”: Edward Nehls, ed., D. H. Lawrence: A Composite Biography, vol. 3, 1925–1930 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1959), 505. Future references will be to Composite 3.
“no sign was given”: Composite 1, 72.
“a genius for inventing games”: Ibid., 13.
“the girls together to go blackberrying”: Ibid., 17.
“hundreds of niggardly houses”: Ada Lawrence and Stuart Gelder, Young Lorenzo: Early Life of D. H. Lawrence (London: Martin Secker, 1931), 13.
“was as white as lard”: Mabel Dodge Luhan, Lorenzo in Taos (London: Martin Secker, 1933), 169–70.
“tousled head and red beard”: Ibid., 170.
“indomitable, with a will to endure”: Ibid.
“a fleshly Word”: Ibid.
“Dicky Dicky Denches”: Composite 1, 30.
“he had not much use”: Ibid., 25.
“perpetually squeaked or squealed”: Edward Nehls, ed., D. H. Lawrence: A Composite Biography, vol. 2, 1919–1925 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1958), 95. Future references will be to Composite 2.
“ill-bred and hysterical”: Edmund Wilson, Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912–1972, ed. Elena Wilson (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977), 662.
“One saw … burst out”: Edmund Wilson, The Twenties (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975), 149–50.
“It seemed inevitable”: Lawrence and Gelder, Young Lorenzo, 40.
passport: D. H. Lawrence Collection, HRC, Series V, Miscellaneous.
“like flames”: Composite 1, 59.
“funny little cackle”: Robert Mountsier, in D. H. Lawrence Collection, HRC, Box 46, File 4.
“rising inflection … little scream”: Composite 2, 106.
“I wish I could find a ship”: D. H. Lawrence, The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, ed. Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, and Elizabeth Mansfield, vol. 4, 1921–1924 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 93. Future references will be to DHL Letters 4.
“so empty … life-empty”: D. H. Lawrence, Letters to Thomas and Adele Seltzer, ed. Gerald M. Lacy (Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976), 20.
“the great window”: DHL Letters 4, 90.
“naked liberty”: D. H. Lawrence, The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, ed. James T. Boulton and Andrew Robertson, vol. 3, 1916–1921 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 417. Future references will be to DHL Letters 3.
“bog”: DHL Letters 4, 420.
“You will hate it”: D. H. Lawrence, The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, ed. George Zytaruk and James T. Boulton, vol. 2, 1913–1916 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 669.
“a half imbecile fool”: DHL Letters 4, 89.
John Bull: DHL Letters 4, 88n2. The text of the denunciation is in Composite 2, 89–91.
“to disapprove of me”: DHL Letters 4, 115.
“at considerable pecuniary loss”: Ibid., 94n1.
“the best of my books”: Ibid., 40.
“come loose”: Ibid., 97.
“continual Mad-Hatters tea-party”: Ibid., 105.
“it feels so empty”: Ibid., 165.
“What isn’t empty”: Ibid.
“a Columbus who can see”: D. H. Lawrence, Twilight in Italy and Other Es
says, ed. Paul Eggert (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 186.
“companion adventurers”: Composite 2, 71.
“if only to leave behind”: Ibid.
“America, being so much worse”: DHL Letters 3, 25.
“dryrotted”: Ibid.
“really away”: DHL Letters 4, 96.
“forty-odd pounds”: Ibid., 107.
“at the last crumbs”: Ibid., 113.
because he had misplaced: Ibid., 103.
“without new possibilities”: Ibid., 25.
“in a hell of a temper … dagger”: Ibid., 108.
“beshitten”: Ibid., 109.
“slippery ball”: Ibid., 90.
“stolen”: Ibid., 124.
Her letter was not a letter: Luhan, Lorenzo in Taos, 16–17.
“so long that it was rolled”: Ibid., 17.
“There is glamour”: DHL Letters 4, 125.
“just one long arcade”: Ibid., 139.
“tell him every single thing”: Luhan, Lorenzo in Taos, 16.
“full of time and ease”: Ibid.
“carpentered right there in the house”: Ibid., 20.
“I believe what you say”: DHL Letters 4, 111.
“very practical”: Ibid.
“very much cut up”: Ibid., 107.
transforms Frieda and Lawrence into comic characters: Mark Kinkead-Weekes, D. H. Lawrence: Triumph in Exile, 1912–1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 622.
“annoying and uncomfortable … vivacity”: Ibid., 623.
“mass of contradictions and shocks”: Luhan, Lorenzo in Taos, 15.
“he made a fetish”: Richard Aldington, Portrait of a Genius, But…: The Life of D. H. Lawrence, 1885–1930 (London: Heinemann, 1950), 42.
“Still she thought”: D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow, ed. Mark Kinkead-Weekes (New York: Penguin Classics, 1995), 94.
“give a voice”: Luhan, Lorenzo in Taos, 255.
“The white people like”: Ibid., 23.
“severe homosexual fixation”: Lois Palken Rudnick, Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984), 195.
“Are there any trees?”: DHL Letters 4, 111.
“I want to take the next step”: Ibid.
“How far are you”: Ibid., 112.
“I was so weary”: “New Heaven and Earth,” in D. H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems, eds. Vivian De Sola Pinto and F. Warren Roberts (London: Penguin Books, 1993), 256.
“I had a letter yesterday”: DHL Letters 4, 112.
but her income: Brenda Maddox, D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), 311.
“to earn our bread & meat … A round”: The Suppressed Memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan: Sex, Syphilis, and Psychoanalysis in the Making of Modern American Culture, ed. Lois Palken Rudnick (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012), 102.
“I envy Mary Austin”: Ibid., 104.
“he threw everyone over”: Luhan, Lorenzo in Taos, 26.
“till I have crossed”: DHL Letters 4, 111.
“it has got form”: D. H. Lawrence, The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, ed. James T. Boulton, vol. 1, 1901–1913 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), 476.
“Why don’t you write … copying and revising”: Composite 2, 106.
“dull but nice”: DH Letters 4, 187.
“Very well”: Composite 2, 106.
“But I do want”: Ibid.
“For where was life to be found?”: D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, ed. David Farmer, Lindeth Vasey, and John Worthen (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), 193.
“What do you think life is?”: Composite 3, 593.
“all this intimacy … common emotion”: Knud Merrild, A Poet and Two Painters: A Memoir of D. H. Lawrence (New York: Viking Press, 1939), 47.
“inner life … action and strenuousness”: DHL Letters 4, 154.
“I hate Christmas”: Ibid.
“through the blood”: Ibid., 174.
“rest, peace, inside one”: Ibid., 180.
“I feel it is my destiny”: Ibid., 181.
“Lawrence is wear and tear”: To Edward Garnett, January 1913?, in Frieda Lawrence, The Memoirs and Correspondence, ed. E. W. Tedlock, Jr. (New York: Knopf, 1964), 176.
5: “The Greatest Waste Now Going On in Letters”
“not very many others”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 622.
Unreal City: The city was so persuasively unreal in this passage, beginning at line 60 of the published text, that when Virginia Woolf set the poem in type for the Hogarth Press in 1923, she made the mistake of having the crowd flow under the bridge. Tom did not catch the error in proofreading, though in presentation copies he crossed out the word and corrected it in the margin. In his typescript, on TWL Facsimile, 9, Eliot used the word “flow”—an urgent present tense. In the published poem it appears in the past tense, “flowed.”
“crush hour”: Eliot’s friend John Hayward wrote in his notes to a 1947 French edition of Eliot’s poetry—notes surprisingly biographical but presumably approved by Eliot, since they shared a flat at the time Hayward prepared them—that these lines about the Unreal City, with their echoes of Dante, described “a typical London scene during the morning ‘crush-hours.’ City workers are due at their offices by 9 a.m., hence the reference to St. Mary Woolnoth’s bell.” Hayward also noted that King William Street runs from the north side of London Bridge “into the heart of the City,” adding, “T. S. Eliot worked for a time in the City in the Foreign Department of Lloyds Bank.” These are found in the Papers of the Hayward Bequest of T. S. Eliot Material, KCAC, HB/V.4b, John Hayward’s draft notes for his notes on The Waste Land, published in the French translation of Eliot’s Poèmes 1910–1930 (Paris: Seuil, 1947).
“London, the swarming life … B—ll—S”: TWL Facsimile, 31.
Eliot’s influenza: TSE Letters 1 2009, 624.
“excessively depressed”: Ibid., 629.
“approximately what the Dial would offer”: Ibid., 623.
“postpone all … but not more”: Ibid.
“It will have been three times”: Ibid.
“12pp. 120,”: Ibid., 623n2.
“I only wish”: Dial/Scofield Thayer Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, YCAL MSS 34, Series IV, Box 31, Folder 809. The Beinecke has penciled a date of 1921 for this letter, but it seems to be Thayer’s response to a TSE letter of February 14, 1920.
“Why no verse?”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 539n2.
“You must excuse”: Ibid., 572.
“That at least is definite”: Ibid.
“embarrassing situation”: Ibid., 623.
“I was glad to hear”: Ibid., 616.
“howsoever good your next”: Ibid., 617.
a gap of seven months: For Eliot’s excuse see Letters 1 2009, 623, and for Thayer’s reply see Letters 1 2009, 632.
“await another case of influenza”: Ibid., 631.
“that if she had realised”: Ibid., 629.
“Three months off … undiplomatic”: Ibid., 640.
“almost enough to make everyone”: Walter Sutton, ed., Pound, Thayer, Watson, and the Dial (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994), 227.
“incommodious delay”: Ibid., 194.
“Some minds aberrant”: TWL Facsimile, 37. For the dating of this passage, see Gordon, T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life, 541.
“life has been horrible generally”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 652.
“two highly nervous people”: Kate Zambreno, Heroines (Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext[e], 2012), 39.
“as good pay for a year’s work … graciousness … more yielding”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 641.
“I have no disposition”: Ibid., 639.
“I have just got through to Eliot”: Wyndham Lewis to Violet Schiff, 4-28-1922, British Library, Schiff Papers, BL Add MS 52919.
“glowed with a tawny light … it may not be … a real curiosity”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 638n2.
“the oth
er offers for it”: Ibid., 638.
“CANNOT ACCEPT”: Ibid., 639.
“I have had to notify … I trust your review”: Ibid., 644.
“merely gone to pieces again”: Ibid., 640.
“I dare say … so DAMN little genius … two offspring … tougher than Thomas … Three months off”: Ibid.
“Let The Dial stew”: February 7, 1922, John Quinn papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, Letterbook vol. 25.
“was much given … leaning sideways … in a bantering tone … flirtatious”: Stape, 46.
“a little encouragement … throw off a cascade”: Ibid., 47.
“was ever bookish”: Ibid., 46.
“preen itself with self-confidence”: Ibid., 47.
“yes, grown positively familiar”: VW Diary 2, 170.
“irritable and exhausted … overwhelmed … having let my flat”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 646.
“What, then, did we discuss?” … “He has written”: VW Diary 2, 171.
“This is his best work”: Ibid.
“V. went for short walk”: LW pocket diary, Leonard Woolf Papers, University of Sussex, SxMs-13/2/R/A/15.
“I am back again”: VW Diary 2, 170.
“Clive, via Mary”: Ibid., 171.
“I sat next to Tom”: James E. Miller, Jr., T. S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, 1888–1922 (University Park: PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005), 380–81.
“She asked me, rather pointedly”: Ibid.
“invalid wife … work all day”: VW Letters 2, 549.
“He still remains”: VW Diary 2, 204.
“Knopf knows … dear publisher”: John Quinn to TSE, October 3, 1919, John Quinn papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, Microfilm ZL-355, Reel 10.
“Israelite”: John Quinn to Harriet Weaver, June 22, 1922, John Quinn papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, Letterbook vol. 25, 838.
“three New York Jewish publishers re: Ulysses”: Ibid.
“apparently loved”: Ibid., 839.
“You have asked me several times”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 652.
“hammered all but incessantly”: Allen Tate, ed., T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work (New York: Delacorte Press, 1966), 264.
“hunted round like a ghost”: OM journal, Lady Ottoline Morrell Papers, British Library, Add MS 88886/6/13, transcript, 158.
enjoyed herself “enormously … We are all lonely”: Ibid., transcript, 25.
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