For permission to quote part of a letter from Dodie Smith Beesley to Isherwood, I would like to thank Julian Barnes; for permission to quote from E. M. Forster’s letters to Isherwood, I would like to thank the Society of Authors as agent for the Provost and Scholars of King’s College, Cambridge; for permission to quote part of a letter from John Goodwin to Isherwood, I would like to thank Anthony Russo.
A project like this one is not easy without the continual and thoughtful involvement of editors, agents, and nowadays even lawyers; I am grateful, for each of their efforts, to Helena Caldon, Roger Cazalet, Caroline Dawnay, Jim Fox, Daniel Halpern, Douglas Matthews, Anthea Morton-Saner, Harvey Starte, Stuart Williams and especially Howard Davies, Michael di Capua, Alison Samuel, and Geoffrey Strachan.
To friends who spent more time than they should have spent chasing will-o’-the-wisp details, I am, as ever, very much in debt: Thomas Braun, Axel Neubohn, Peter Parker, Polly Maguire Robison, Margaret Bradham Thornton. I came to depend especially on Christopher Phipps, who is as cheerful as he is meticulous; his resourcefulness has contributed many things to this book. Lucy Bucknell and Edward Mendelson have loyally helped me with small questions and big problems, and above all by reading—with characteristic generosity and strictness—anything I asked them to.
At home I have had unconditional support from Jackie Edgar, Vivian Galang, and Michelle Hatfield, and from a merry and inquisitive little gang who worked hard not to disturb me at my desk: Bob Maguire, Bobby Maguire, Lucy Maguire, Jack Maguire. I could not do without them.
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