mostly ignored . . . Elaine Pyke, The Marlburian, 1989
They made the classics . . . Maureen Cleave, Observer magazine, 31.10.82
Jane Austen was . . . BC essay, family collection
the lineal descendant . . . Portrait of a Public School, BBC documentary, 1954
He is somewhat dreamy . . . Housemaster’s report, Michaelmas 1953
I am thoroughly enjoying . . . BC to parents, autumn 1953, ND
There were Roman Emperors . . . Redmond O’Hanlon, Tatler, May 1989
I was hopeless at school . . . ABC, 25.1.83
We are what . . . Box 41
Chatwin’s Mrs Candour . . . Wiltshire Herald and Advertiser, 19.11.54
He has a smooth . . . Roman History report, Lent 1957
at least in the . . . Introduction to The Road to Oxiana (Picador, 1981)
Robert would have . . . Fourteen Friends (John Murray, 1996), 135
here in the first . . . Louis MacNeice, Collected Poems (Faber & Faber, 1979)
forming a very vivid impression . . . WAIDH, 271
I always had an idea . . . BBC Radio 4, January 1989
How he longed . . . Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage, At Mauberge (Falcon Press, 1949), 31
And another who . . . BC to Margharita, summer 1954, ND
chandeliers . . . Box 14
HC said I had the MAD MAD EYES . . . Box 35
snobismus . . . Peter Medawar, Memoir of a Thinking Radish (Oxford University Press, 1986), 4
It is fearfully select . . . The Marlburian, December 1957
Gentleman, I think . . . The Marlburian, 1989
Ripped off by taxi-driver . . . BC to parents, 2.4.57
Firstly that it is . . . BC to parents, ND
He was one . . . BC to IF, 24.10.66
It was as though . . . BC to IF, 17.5.71
I had to assist Prince William . . . BC to CW, 17.5.71
Awfully nice to . . . Raulin Guild to IF, 21.7.58
Cars & character . . . Family papers
the stabilising influence . . . Housemaster’s report, Michaelmas 1956
When it was decided . . . Family papers
I congratulate him . . . Housemaster’s report, Lent 1958
of a train going . . . Observer magazine, 31.10.82
If there does happen . . . BC to Peter Wilson, 13.6.58
I was sent to Sotheby’s . . . BC to Suzanne Hayes, March 1984
VIII: The Smootherboy
You were panting . . . John Herbert, Inside Christie’s (Hodder & Stoughton, 1990), 231
I suddenly had a horror . . . BC to Nigel Acheson, ND, 1978/9?
In a phenomenally . . . Guy Norton
Whenever there was a sale . . . WAIDH, 358
loitering near a Picasso . . . Susannah Clapp, With Chatwin (Jonathan Cape, 1996), 80
Wilson’s text told stories . . . Robert Lacey, Sotheby’s – Bidding for class (Little, Brown, 1998), 97
A Syrian limestone . . . Antiquities catalogue, 12.12.60
A Bajokwe wooden . . . 22.2.60
The cataloguer’s habits . . . With Chatwin, 88
When I was there . . . BC to CT, June 1987
like watching a young puppy . . . Judith Small
The eye is indefinable . . . Brian Sewell, The Society of London Art Dealers 1995/6, Yearbook, 30
with literally about ten . . . BC to MB, 1.3.85
when it is really English . . . WAIDH, 130
IX: The Imps
How long did it . . . BC to SH, Adelaide, March 1984
Why were you . . . Nigel Craig to Sarah Hunt, May 1960
There came a moment . . . BC to SH
a lot of Birmingham colonels . . . David Nash
Henry Moore is a fake . . . Sunday Telegraph, 22.1.89
terribly obvious . . . BC to SH
I had a marvellous morning . . . BC to CT
Had amusing time . . . BC to parents, 24.6.59
Went to Matisse chapel . . . BC to parents, 25.5.61
An average of 4 parties . . . BC to parents, 3.1.61
from a needle . . . BC to Nigel Acheson, ND, 1978/9
The talk that summer . . . From “A Nomad Collector”
a Germanic folk-tale hero . . ., From Emma Tennant, Girlitude:A Portrait of the 50s and 60s (Jonathan Cape, 1999), 121
Lansberg was delighted . . . John McEwen, Shapes on the Horizon: Teddy Millington-Drake (London, 1996), 24
became the wretched jackdaws . . . SL, 124
The antique dealer was . . . OTBH, 220
I’ve always heard . . . WAIDH, 356
X: The Art Smuggler
I suppose it’s because . . . BC to John Pawson, 23.1.86
the chase, the recognition . . . AOR, 172
He was a split personality . . . From “A Nomad Collector”
the texture of . . . Box 34
entertaining sparely, deliciously . . . Christopher Gibbs, Tatler, October 1982
It was terrifying to walk . . . BC to MB, 8.2.88
My nose bled . . . BC to parents, 29.7.59
XI: A gôut de monstres
The ugliest men . . . Utz, 91
1. When Bruce dictates . . . SG to Sarah Inglis-Jones, 1964
Rotting Fruit . . . Box 31
He didn’t appear . . . James Crathome
I have a gôut de monstres . . . BC to JI, 12.7.71
a blonde innocent . . . WAIDH, 168
bi-sexual since youth . . . Churchill medical records, 14.9.86
XII: Elizabeth
The one truly . . . EC papers
like two warm rabbits . . . James Fox
the only truly cultured . . . Harper’s Bazaar, February 1948
I am Admiral Chanler . . . BC to CW, ND, 1966
a volatile mixture . . . A Pride of Lions: TheAstor Orphans, Lately Thomas (Morrow, 1971)
one of the most . . . Evening Star, 25.10.37
Why didn’t you . . . Hubert Chanler to EC, 20.8.49
Did you take . . . GC to EC, 25.9.56
She would steal . . . OTBH, 131
You might drop . . . Hubert Chanler to EC, ND, May 1957
having found that . . . EC to GC, 16.6.59
It’s the most . . . EC to GC, 22.1.64
The house is heated . . . EC to GC, 14.11.62
he is apt to . . . EC to GC, 6.9.63
I like having . . . EC to GC, 14.1.63
I wish I could . . . EC to GC, 6.9.63
so I spend . . . EC to GC, 23.10.62
Dearest Liz . . . Bufton Brady to EC, 25.11.62
He walked ahead . . . OTBH, 24
They visited megalithic . . . OTBH, 191
I like getting mail . . . EC to GC, ND
Is it love . . . EC to Eleanor Macmillan, July 1964
He will live . . . Sue Goodhew, private collection
XIII: Afghanistan
I come from . . . Granta 21, 1987.
with its pale green . . . WAIDH, 135
Sotheby’s sounded healthy . . . 17.8.63, Box 30
Yesterday afternoon confirmed . . . Box 35
The mother is . . . 21.8.63, Box 30
To the bazaar . . . 22.8.63
Do you live . . . ND [26.8.63?]
The most useless . . . 1.9.63
In half a minute . . . 3.9.63
On to Beirut . . . Robert Erskine to mother, 8.9.63
I have refused . . . 3.9.63
Considering the very . . . RE to mother
He cannot find . . . 4.9.63
We drove with . . . BC to Margharita Chatwin, 10.9.63
culled no doubt . . . RE to mother
an Afghan truck . . . 9.9.63
No sumptuary laws here . . . 10.9.63
From Maine to . . . BC to MC
Furiously impatient . . . 10.9.63
‘Why,’ we asked . . . 18.9.63
Robert is sick . . . 18.9.63
We pray that . . . 24.9.63
I wake up in . . . 17.8.64
clutching a . . . David Nash diary
,
The driver was . . . 19.8.64
The whole of her . . . 22.8.64
The reservations of . . . 11.7.69, Box 34
Having been reduced . . . 25.8.64
I collected a . . . 25.8.64
We are leaving Afghanistan . . . 27.8.64
XIV: The Chattys
Am given over . . . BC to CW, 27.7.64
Poor thing . . . Katherine Maclean to EC, 12.8.65
He never got . . . EC to GC, 21.9.64
I felt sort . . . BC to CT
However enthusiastic . . . Box 41
Bruce Chatwin . . . New York Times, 21.11.64
a deafening barrister . . . BC to MB, 1.3.85
I manufactured a nervous. . . Box 41
Am rather depressed . . . BC to CW, ND
It was all . . . at all . . . BC to CT
Collectors, after all . . . CW to BC, 28.5.66
Things are tougher . . . Utz, 113
What I really . . . EC to GC, 16.1.65
I asked if I could . . . Box 31
great turning point . . . BC to CT, June 1987
women who sent . . . Box 31
He was the utter . . . BC to CT
the joy of going on and on . . . Box 31
The word homecoming . . . BC to CT
They are sensationally idle . . . AOR, 80
The hair would contract . . . ABC, 25.1.83
They started my . . . Granta 21, 1987
The Danakil journey . . . AOR, 110
As Rimbaud was . . . Box 10
Not entirely suitable . . . WAIDH, 361
Could you live . . . OTBH, 28
The deed is done . . . BC to IF, 8.6.65
Everything is perfectly . . . EC to GC, 22.6.65
partly because Bobby . . . GC to EC, 2.3.65
We are so pleased . . . GC to MC, 26.6.65
One thing you . . . GC to EC, 4.7.65
I do hope you . . . BC to GC, 22.6.65
We’re getting married . . . BC to IG, ND
I thought I’d drown . . . Eleanor Macmillan to EC, 27.6.65
Letters are all . . . BC to EC, ND
Father Murray . . . BC to EC, 15.7.65
Am much cheered . . . 30.7.65
as one day . . . EC to GC, 29.6.65
My Dear Liz . . . 22.7.65
I hate to be trite . . . Jane Lyons to EC, 9.11.65
I still think . . . MC to GC, 7.10.65
XV: Out of His Depth
My career was . . . Granta 21, 1987
as she will be . . . MC to GC, 18.10.65
31 cents annually . . . John Chanler
Our situation is not . . . EC to GC, 17.10.65
No luck with . . . BC to GC, 23.10.65
Wilson told him . . . Kenneth Rose diary, 19.4.68
I’ve discovered there’s . . . EC to GC, 28.10.65
Lady Rosse is . . . EC to GC, 24.11.65
John Hewett and . . . BC to GC, 23.10.65
We are sitting . . . BC to GC, 7.1.66
All the bluebells . . . EC to GC, ND
The main thing is . . . O’Donnell Iselin to EC, 19.4.66
He realised then . . . BC to Kasmin
I was never . . . BC to CT
I decided I didn’t . . . SH, ABC, March 1984
Two days in . . . BC to JI, 8.12.69
Sotheby’s name must . . . BC to Edward Peregrine, 30.6.60
You must tell . . . Leo Lerman to EC, 29.8.66
fraudulently . . . BC to NS, 27.8.88
a nasty novel . . . CW to BC, 24.8.66
to guide Goering’s Luftwaffe . . . Patrick Wright, The Village that Died for England (Jonathan Cape, 1995), 163
rather terrifying . . . Julian Pitt-Rivers
Bruce used to . . . EC to GC, April 21, ND
Peter Wilson did not . . . Sotheby’s: Bidding for class, 161
A most disagreeable . . . WAIDH, 357
XVI: The Archaeologist
I met him . . . Breyten Breytenbach, Return to Paradise (Faber & Faber, 1993), 69
I am afraid . . . BC to GC, 6.7.66
the worst of all . . . Box 34
fantastic beasts . . . Box 30
I know, from experience . . . CW to BC, 28.5.66
He has hardly . . . BC to GC, 6.7.66
very unedifying . . . SP to NS
What we like to call . . . The Times, 24.9.96
Sotheby’s is having . . . EC to GC, 24.6.66
With each day . . . BC to EC, 30.11.66
Change is the only . . . BC to Michael Cannon, ND
I saw myself . . . BC to NS, June 1987
of Alexander Dumas . . . BC in “Pompeii – same old humanity”, Spectator, 4.12.76
Totally bewildering . . . Box 32
I’m dedicating . . . Stephen Tennant to BC, 6.11.66
One can only pray . . . BC to EC, 30.11.66
Edinburgh must be . . . ST to BC, November, ND
a pencil sketch . . . Box 32
gaunt northern capital . . . “The Road to the Isles”, TLS, 25.10.74
Now we have . . . EC to GC, 6.9.66
Allowing for the worst . . . EC to GC, ND
Everything takes FOREVER . . . EC to GC, 24.6.66
I still think . . . BC to EC, 27.11.66
I also want . . . BC to EC, 30.11.66
At one point . . . EC to GC, 13.3.67
Elizabeth is angry . . . SP, 15.3.67
revealing all in . . . SP, 6.2.67
much entertaining gossip . . . SP, 6.8.68
grave and growing . . . The Times, 24.5.67
My feelings are . . . BC to JI, 8.4.72
potentially wonderful . . . JI to BC, 12.1.72
My friend Mr Batey . . . BC to CW, 6.2.68
Then we went . . . BC to EC, June 1967
My Turkish friends . . . BC to GC, 4.10.67
all too clear . . . CW to BC, 11.5.70
She was very welcoming . . . SP, 6.5.67
Elizabeth had suddenly . . . SP, 5.2.68
Life is empty . . . Box 31
I remember him . . . Alice Chanler to EC, 7.2.89
childlessness, being at . . . The South Bank Show, 7.11.82
Time in its . . . OTBH, 14
Nearly became a . . . Box 34
There is a distinct . . . Box 35
The Noblest workes . . . Box 37
Low fertility . . . Box 37
He’s a sorcerer . . . Box 23
Examine the possibility . . . Box 35
He was a single . . . IP, 141
XVII: A Season in Hell
Sound scholarship . . . Box 35
I’m afraid he is . . . EC to GC, 21.2.67
who is my new . . . BC to EC, July 1967
I’m in a horrid . . . BC to EC, ND
I am full . . . MC to GC, 2.10.67
We see mostly professors . . . EC to GC, ND
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