When the war . . . Magellan Times, 12.12.28
We met this . . . Judith Jesser, ND 1975
On a wet and . . . 2.3.75
I tried to picture . . . IP, 181
XXIII: I Don’t Know What You’ll Make of It
stuffy as all hell . . . BC to EC, 7.6.75
It is slightly . . . 7.6.75
I’m sorry I’m . . . BC to parents, 25.8.75
I don’t want . . . 11.12.74
I am going . . . 25.8.75
not quite sure . . . EC to GC, 25.10.75
The fatal thing . . . BC to UG, 30.1.80
Like old lacquer . . . Tatler, October 1982
Writing is the painting . . . Box 34
his splashed ink . . . Box 30
the essence of . . . Introduction to John Pawson (Gustavo Gili, 1992)
whittles his possessions . . . Box 12
One of his obvious . . . Gregor von Rezzori, Anecdotage (Farrar Straus, 1996), 41
This is very extraordinary . . . 11.8.76
To my immense . . . BC to Gerald Brenan
I’m chicken about reviews . . . ABC, 25.1.83
It is rare indeed . . . TM to BC, 25.10.77
It’s an athlete’s book . . . Harold Beaven, ND
without writing to . . . PLF to BC, 18.1.78
in a state of emotion . . . Jean Raspail to BC, 5.6.79
My problem with . . . George Steiner to TM, 13.9.77
Perhaps none of them . . . FW to BC, 25.10.77
Don’t flap too . . . BC to Keith Milow, ND [1979?]
peculiarly dotty book . . . BC to DR, 1.12.77
the FORM of . . . BC to CW, 5.11.77
in poetry, but more . . . BC to SS, 26.7.78
For what it’s worth . . . BC to Clarence Brown, 14.4.79
VERY VERY slowly . . . CW to BC, 19.10.77
He spent many . . . Charles Milward, Journals, 182
I once made . . . Granta 21, 1987
on a cursory glance . . . Box 35
how he was . . . Oswaldo Beyer, Introduction to Memorias del Uno Carrero Patagonico, by Asencio Abeijon (Editorial Universitaria de la Patagonia, 1994)
I have always . . . BC to JTZ, 16.6.83
set up on . . . Journals, 199
a worthy recognition . . . CC to BC, 17.10.77
Surely it cannot . . . MB to BC, 28.11.77
If I am in . . . BC to MB, 10.6.78
With little exaggeration . . . Manfred Pfister, “Bruce Chatwin and the Postmodernization of the Travelogue”, LIT, Vol. 7, 1996, 253–267
XXIV: “Kicked by Amazon”
How much did it . . . ABC, 8.5.84
He operated several . . . Box 35
They were mostly elderly . . . Fawn Brodie, The Devil Drives: a life of Sir Richard Burton (Eland, 1987), 213
Do descend if . . . Brendan Oxmantown to BC, ND
wandering among . . . Box 31
half open . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984
le tabac est le produit . . . Pierre Verger, Flux et Reflux de la traite des Nègres entre le Golfe de Bénin et Bahia de Todos os Santos, du XVII au XIX siècle (Mouton, 1968), 30
a magic nose . . . Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade: the history of the Atlantic slave trade 1440–1870 (Picador, 1997), 354
After staging a . . . WAIDH, 136
This town, an old . . . BC to parents, February 1972
as thick as . . . The Slave Trade, 356
that most resembled . . . A. B. Ellis, The Land of Fetish, 1883
Whenever a woman . . . Joseph Skertchley, Dahomey As It Is, 1874, 458
A man came in . . . Box 23
He was a tall man . . . VOO, Preface
The story is wonderful . . . BC to EC, 29.12.76
quite exhausting . . . BC to EC, 14.1.77
One or two . . . 14.1.77
his self-discipline . . . Keith Nicolson Price, unpublished memoir
the allure of otherness . . . TLS, 31.7.98
I met the famous . . . BC to EC, 14.1.77
a French scholar . . . Sunday Times, 29.1.77
story . . . WAIDH, vii
Sunday morning began . . . Box 35
the badge of a mercenary . . . ABC, 14.3.84
Amazon . . . Granta 10, 1984
In one little country . . . James Lees-Milne, 3.2.78
XXV: Brazil
I want to forget . . . Box 34
Will walk off . . . Box 35
the cat-like figures . . . Box 35
infinitely alluring . . . 16.2.70, Box 34
solitary wanderings . . . VOO, 56
unburden his load . . . VOO, 57
cowed and lacking . . . BC to FW, 10.3.77
I want more . . . February 1972, Box 34
The architecture is wonderful . . . BC to JK, 7.3.77
a world where . . . TLS, 31.7.98
the ‘daughters of the god’ . . . BC to JK, 7.3.77
Her shoulders shuddered . . . VOO, 81
He came in off . . . Box 35
His green eyes . . . VOO, 63
The lineaments of . . . VOO, 64
yet he could . . . VOO, 57
I have to say . . . BC to JK, 7.3.77
I am heartily sick of it . . . BC to EC, 7.3.77
Everything’s gone wrong! . . . BC to JK, 7.3.77
unstuck for me . . . BC to Belinda Foster, 9.3.77
the de Souza’s are . . . BC to JK, 7.3.77
None of the black . . . BC to EC, 7.3.77
who was sold . . . BC to EC, 7.3.77
the terror of Brazilian life . . . Box 35
What to make . . . Journal, Box 35
know such expressions . . . Pierre Verger, Les affaires Americains, 1954
vaguely second-rate . . . Box 35
The Director wishes . . . Box 35
the Brazilian secret police . . . SL, 180
with a neat arrow-head . . . Box 35
I’m not entirely sure . . . BC to Nigel Acheson, 25.8.78
One with sub-machine . . . Box 35
XXVI: New York
The Greeks . . . Granta 21, 1987
Like the evolution . . . Walker Books, 1980
Cats have personalities . . . Walker Books, 1980
I can’t think . . . BC to CW, 5.11.77
Talked to DR . . . 1.5.80, Box 35
I do love the borders . . . DR to BC, ND
Such a monumental . . . BC to SS, 18.6.78
is Australian . . . BC to SS, 26.7.78
England more depressing . . . 9.12.78, Box 35
Two friends of ours . . . EC to GC, 17.6.78
The dandy confronts . . . Introduction to On the Marble Cliffs (Penguin, 1969)
DR easing up . . . Box 35
committed every outrage . . . AOR, 85
They dressed up as women . . . Patricia Morrisroe, Mapplethorpe (Random House, 1995), 201
by far the best essay . . . TLS, 14.2.97
a black bedroom . . . “An Eye and Some Body” in Lady Lisa Lyon (St Martin’s Press, 1993), 9–14
I really don’t . . . Box 35
Maybe it was . . . TLS, 14.2.97
By pushing back . . . NDBW, 499
the image of people . . . Sebastian Walker to CT
As if to purge himself . . . Box 35
the pleasures of pain . . . Box 35
I live with that . . . SL, 147
On Monday, stuck . . . BC to SS, 18.6.78
Reviews from U.S . . . BC to EC, 12.9.78
Who knows . . . BC to MC, 17.8.78
my mother’s namesake . . . Chanler Chapman to GC, ND
Ushered into a . . . Box 35
The BIG NEWS . . . BC to EC, 16.2.79
Paul Theroux . . . BC to SS, 29.4.80
Called at 1040 . . . Box 35
Was it John . . . Box 35
Dear Maxine . . . BC to EC, 16.2.79
All our encounters . . . CW to BC, 19.10.77
Bruce loved to . . . JI to NS, 22.10.98
XXVII: Oh, mais c’est du Flaubert!
H
e felt a slight . . . Draft of “November”, EC collection
I wanted to . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984
this mythical beast . . . BC to JK, 27.1.86
I think I’ll sit . . . BC to JK, 7.3.77
As you know . . . BC to EC, 14.1.77
the state of hysteria . . . BC to JK, 1.10.77
wherever I go . . . BC to NA, ND [1979?]
I just pace up . . . BC to Peter Eyre
At the end . . . Box 34
Those of us . . . AOR, 22
It’s not far . . . EC to GC, 29.5.77
The whole of . . . BC to EC, 24.10.77
Flat is exactly what I wanted . . . BC to JK, 1.10.77
cosy reading corners . . . JK diary
He was a cuckoo . . . Shapes on the Horizon, 122
This is better . . . BC to FW, 20.10.77
I know exactly . . . BC to EC, 11.3.77
I had thought . . . BC to CW, 5.11.77
Kas mentioned to me . . . TM to BC, 5.12.77
At its best . . . TM to BC, 16.1.78
The greatest master . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984
I am very serious . . . BC to Jonathan Miller, ND
As an Englishman . . . BC to NS, June 1987.
the Flaubertian conte . . . BC to Keith Milow, [1979?]
how to string . . . BC to Margharita, 17.8.78
At all costs . . . BC to Bill Buford, ND
A trick I learned . . . BC to NS, 27 August 1988
One quite useful . . . BC to NS
an exquisite neo-Classical . . . BC to SS, 26.7.78
Ow! the strains . . . BC to FW, 2.9.78
Five hours of . . . BC to SS, June 1978
I have a huge . . . BC to EC, 6.9 .78
Apparently when . . . BC to EC, 12.9.78
Xannikins has gone . . . BC to EC, 16.9.78
Bruce came in . . . 10.8.79
A house is . . . Box 35
Everyone, in . . . BC to John Pawson, 23.1.86
I think we’d better . . . BC to Gerald Brenan, 26.8.76
As one gets older . . . BC to EC, July 1970
Patmos is the most . . . BC to EC, 30.8.70
she insisted on . . . FW to TLS, 21.5.99.
The strain of living . . . VOO, 55
she carried her devotion . . . OTBH, 153
I simply can’t begin . . . BC to EC, 6.9.78
I left England . . . BC to JK, 7.9.78
the ugliest little . . . EC to GC, 10.11.78
I have to say . . . BC to EC, 16.2.79
XXVIII: Border Country
NO LIVING WRITER’S . . . TM to BC, 23.10.80
bemusement of reviewers . . . WAIDH, 138
It’s very good . . . Georges Borchardt to DR, 3.12.79
I had the distinct . . . TLS, 14.2.97
on a pair of Welsh . . . BC to SS, 29.4.80
No man can . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984
a penny a pound too much . . . Paths of Progress: A History of Marlborough College, Thomas Hinde (James & James, 1992), 189
We set off . . . 25.7.55, Marlborough College archive
I remember Penelope . . . Independent, 14.5.87
She was a . . . OTBH, 219
I think she was . . . EC to Michael Cottrill, 1989
The loss is hardly . . . BC to MC, July 1986
The story she told . . . BC to Graham C. Greene, 8.6.82
Two or three . . . David Plante, “The Restlessness of Bruce Chatwin” in Bruce Chatwin: Searching for the miraculous
It was a squint at the nineteenth . . . ABC, 8.5.84
musty masculine smell . . . Box 35
exactly like the . . . Box 35
air of saintly detachment . . . Box 35
They went to . . . mad . . . Box 35
We never went . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984
The two brothers . . . Box 35
which of course . . . BC to MB, 23.10.83
I look forward . . . ND
were pretty gay . . . TLS, 14.2.97
Novel is of incest . . . Box 35
Some of the details . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984
when I went . . . BC to FW, ND 1981
For example, you . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984
Another coincidence . . . R. Zazzo to BC, 28.3.85
Before the War . . . BC to GCG, 8.6.82
The dogs howled . . . Box 35
I hope ’e comes . . . Box 35
I don’t see . . . The South Bank Show
a lovely place . . . BC to EC, 25.10.83
believed, seriously, the road . . . OTBH, 90.
When someone else . . . Esquire, October 1990
Bruce rings up . . . EC to GC, 24.4.81
a sort of’monastery’ . . . BC to MW, 27.4.81
When Bruce Chatwin . . . From “A Nomad Collector”
I could see . . . Anecdotage, 246
a place where . . . AOR, 26
One morning she . . . Anecdotage, 35
I think it an . . . TM to Fred Gibb, 17.6.82
Bruce will be . . . Rupert Lancaster, ND
Reluctantly I began . . . 19.12.82
Some good . . . EC to GC, 3.10.82
general herbaciousness . . . Karl Miller, Doubles: Studies in Literary History (Oxford University Press, 1985), 402–9
WITHOUT MY PERMISSION . . . BC to GCG
There’s very . . . ABC, 8.5.84
You meet her . . . Box 35
XXIX: A Judicial Separation
Lunch with Elizabeth . . . Box 35
frantically looking . . . EC to GC, 24.4.81
Bruce is v. busy . . . 15.5.80
there is a gap . . . EC to BC, ND
E seems to . . . BC to MW, 27.4.81
It’s much better . . . EC to GC, 16.8.81
Spent a week . . . BC to parents, 22.9.81
Some of what . . . Chetwynd-Talbot to BC, 15.12.80
I realised, battling . . . BC to parents, 7.11.81
The trouble with . . . BC to parents, 7.2.82
Coughing of a leopard . . . Box 33
I do think . . . GC to EC, 6.4.82
I suggested that . . . BC to Jorge Zavaleta, 16.6.83
Bruce is in . . . EC to GC, 12.7.82
I have to man . . . 5.8.82
But don’t say . . . 10.11.82
I’m so sorry . . . 6.9.82
Thank you for . . . Sybille Bedford to BC, 17.9.83
XXX: Australia
Shanghai! Montevideo! . . . The Moor’s Last Sigh (Jonathan Cape, 1994), 382
my tremendous difficulty . . . BC to EC, 12.1.83
With so many . . . BC to parents, 12.1.83
I’m glad he’s . . . EC to GC, 3.1.83
I am turning . . . BC to Robin Ravlich, 25.6.82
a mindless time . . . ABC, 23.1.83
The reviews such . . . BC to EC, 12.1.83
Good for Sir Victor! . . . BC to FW, 11.1.83
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