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31. Letter to Pierre Berès, 9 May 1974, Tate 8812/1/4/87
32. Letter to Janet Stone, 12 February 1969, Bodleian Library
33. Letter to Janet Stone, 16 February 1969, Bodleian Library
34. Clark was the subject of Late Night Line-Up, 28 February 1969, interviewed by Joan Bakewell. On 19 March he was Guest of the Week on Woman’s Hour
35. Interview with Willa Petschek, New York Times, 3 May 1976
36. Letter to Michael Gill, 18 June 1969, Tate 8812/1/4/117
37. Letter to Lord Crawford, 21 January 1969, National Library of Scotland
38. Letter from Lord Goodman to Clark, 7 November 1969, Tate 8812/1/4/174
39. Letter from Morshead to Clark, 14 June 1969, Tate 8812/1/4/118
40. Letter from Bowra to Clark, 15 June 1969, Tate 8812/1/4/117
41. Hansard, Vol. CCCXIII, No. 38, p.1405
42. Speech, Tate 8812/1/4/173
43. Lord James (1909–92) was science master at Winchester 1933–45, headmaster of Manchester Grammar School 1945–62, and became York’s first Vice-Chancellor in 1962. It appears to have been Professor Hans Hess, a historian then at York, who first mooted the idea of Clark for Chancellor
44. Letter to Miss Reader Harris, 21 June 1969, Tate 8812/1/4/118
45. Speech, York University, 13 July 1973. Clark enjoyed corresponding with Eric James, and wrote a particularly interesting letter about Platonic aesthetics, 3 March 1975, Tate 8812/1/2/1501
46. Letter to Eric James, 25 June 1969, Tate 8812/1/4/118
47. Julien Cain (1887–1974) was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Clark maintained that he had ‘turned the Bibliothèque Nationale [of which he was director] from the worst to the best run library in the world’, Tate 8812/1/4/43
48. BBC Radio 4, Lord Clark: Servant of Civilisation, presented by Miranda Carter, produced by Thomas Morris, broadcast 3 July 2003
49. Civilisation DVD extra
50. Letter to Sir William Haley, 12 July 1969, Tate 8812/1/4/118
51. Letter to Jock Murray, 16 March 1972, John Murray Archive
Chapter 35: Lord Clark of Suburbia
1. Quoted in eulogy at Isaiah Berlin’s memorial service – see Huth, Well-Remembered Friends
2. Letter from Carel Weight to Clark, 6 February 1970, Tate 8812/1/4/367
3. Some of their mutual friends wrote to Clark, including Colin Anderson: ‘one must write to someone about Maurice, so I write to you’. Bowra’s old college, Wadham, commissioned a hideous statue which Clark unveiled
4. Letter to Janet Stone, 4 November 1969, Bodleian Library. No doubt he was also influenced by visits to John and Anya Sainsbury next door at Ashton, where Hugh Casson had built a long, low bungalow, but with much finer views than those of the Garden House
5. Letter to Janet Stone, 16 May 1970, Bodleian Library
6. Letter to Lord Crawford, 4 June 1971, Crawford Papers, National Library of Scotland
7. Letter to Janet Stone, 10 July 1971, Bodleian Library
8. Letter to Janet Stone, 19 March 1971, Bodleian Library
9. Letter to Janet Stone, 5 July 1971, Bodleian Library
10. 5.30–7.30 p.m., 7 April 1971, Tate 8812/2/1/12
11. Letter to Janet Stone, 15 July 1971, Bodleian Library
12. Letter from Jane to Lord Crawford, undated, Crawford Papers, National Library of Scotland
13. Secrest, Kenneth Clark, p.40
14. Letter to Janet Stone, 26 November 1971, Bodleian Library
15. Postcard from Jane, 15 December 1972, private collection
16. Colette Clark, interview with author
17. Postcard to Morna Anderson, 12 May 1971, private collection
18. Vickers (ed.), The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries, pp.377–80
19. Trewin, Alan Clark: The Biography, pp.237–8
20. Letter to Adey Horton, 8 January 1973, Tate 8812/1/4/362
21. Clark, The Other Half, p.204
22. Alan Clark, Diaries: Into Politics 1972–1982 (entry for 6 December 1980). The books entered the Morgan Library in early 1981
23. Letter to Janet Stone, 17 January 1969, Bodleian Library
24. Letter to Stephen Hearst, 26 June 1970, Tate 8812/1/4/55
25. Letter to J. Carter Brown, 9 May 1972, Tate 8812/1/4/449
26. Interview with author. Robert McNab was a Courtauld student under Alan Bowness and John Golding: ‘The view on K at the Courtauld was “not scholarship”. They were nitpicking about Leonardo, although as students we were all the victims of Civilisation’
27. Interview with author
28. Clark, The Other Half, p.227
29. Clark, ‘The Artist Grows Old’, Rede Lecture, Cambridge 1972, p.21
30. Letter to Janet Stone, 2 August 1972, Bodleian Library
31. Lees-Milne, A Mingled Measure, p.265 (entry for 30 July 1971)
32. Letter to Carlo Pedretti, 5 March 1972, Tate 8812/1/4/330. The Burlington Magazine did run a glowing leader, ‘Kenneth Clark at 70’, in July 1973
33. Letter to Apollo magazine, 13 February 1970, Tate 8812/1/4/20
34. Letter to Raymond Mortimer, 22 October 1971, Tate 8812/1/4/338
35. House of Lords speech, 11 April 1973, Tate 8812/2/2/212
36. Letter to Lord Esher, 18 April 1973, Tate 8812/1/4/349b
37. Letter to Eric James, 3 July 1972, Tate 8812/1/4/471
38. Lees-Milne, A Mingled Measure, p.256
39. See correspondence, Tate 8812/1/4/439b
40. Letter to Philip Noel Baker, 31 July 1972, Tate 8812/1/4/39
41. Letter to Cecil Day-Lewis, 14 December 1969, Tate 8812/1/4/349a
42. Letter to Cyril Robinson, 6 May 1971, Tate 8812/1/4/349a
43. Letter to Rt. Hon. John Peyton, 21 September 1973, Tate 8812/1/4/335
44. Letter to Lord McLeod of Fuinary, 30 October 1972, Tate 8812/1/4/195
45. Letter to General Denniston, 11 March 1966, Tate 8812/1/4/399
46. Letter to Janet Stone, 30 May 1970, Bodleian Library
47. ‘Venice in Peril’, Keynote Lecture, Venice, 13 May 1972. The subject he chose was ‘The Relations of Venice and Florence During the Renaissance’
48. Letter to Janet Stone, 12 November 1970, Bodleian Library
49. Letter to Jane, 8 March 1971, Saltwood
50. Letter to Janet Stone, 16 October 1973, Bodleian Library
51. Letter to Janet Stone, 25 October 1973, Bodleian Library
52. Clark, Another Part of the Wood, p.13
53. Letter to Janet Stone, 24 July 1970, Bodleian Library
54. Partridge, Ups and Downs: Diaries (entry for 23 June 1973)
55. Ibid.
56. Letter to John Eveleigh, 1973, Tate 8812/1/4/154
57. Letter to Meryle Secrest, 20 June 1971, I Tatti
58. Ibid., 24 November 1972
59. There is still a copy in the John Murray Archive. The date of the lunch was 18 July 1973
60. Clark, The Other Half, p.233
61. Letter to Colin Anderson, 12 December 1973, Tate 8812/1/3/64
62. Alan Clark, Diaries: Into Politics 1972–1982 (entry for 26 December 1973)
Chapter 36: Another Part of the Wood
1. Letter to Janet Stone, 14 June 1974, Bodleian Library
2. Letter to Janet Stone, 25 September 1974, Bodleian Library
3. Catherine Porteous, unpublished diary (entry for 21 September 1974)
4. Letter to Sir William Collins, 16 July 1973, Tate 8812/1/4/113
5. Letter to Denys Sutton, 18 August 1972, Tate 8812/1/4/20
6. Letter to Philip Allott, 22 December 1974, Tate 8812/1/4/34
7. Letter from Rosamond Lehmann to Clark, undated, Tate 8812/1/3/1662/2
8. Letter from Lord Evans to Clark, 14 April 1976, Tate 8812/1/4/174
9. Letter to Jock Murray, 22 June 1974, Tate 8812/1/4/286, pt3
10. Clark was sufficiently anxious about libel to ask Charles Wrightsman for an introduction to the legal firm Slaughter & May
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br /> 11. Letter from C. Burnet Pavitt to Clark, 18 October 1974, Tate 8812/1/4/34
12. Letter to Lord David Cecil, 23 January 1975, Tate 8812/1/4/34
13. Letter to Myfanwy Piper, 22 September 1974, Tate 200410/1/1793
14. Letter to Alix Kilroy, 2 December 1975, Tate 8812/1/3/1551–1600
15. New York Times, 30 March 1975
16. Time magazine, 21 April 1975
17. Daily Telegraph, 10 October 1974
18. Guardian, 10 October 1974
19. Letter to Michael Gill, 4 November 1974, Tate 8812/1/4/148
20. Letter to Mary Potter, 16 December 1974, Potter Archive
21. Screened 2 June 1975
22. Catherine Porteous, unpublished diary (entry for 18 November 1974)
23. Letter to Janet Stone, February 1975, Bodleian Library
24. Letter to Janet Stone, 2 March 1975, Bodleian Library
25. Letter to Munroe Wheeler, 29 July 1975, Beinecke Library, Yale
26. Interview with author. As chairman of Ashwood, Clark appointed Peter Montagnon and Eric James to the board
27. Letter to Myfanwy Piper, 22 September 1974, Tate 200410/1/1/793
28. Interview with author
29. See text at Tate 8812/1/4/1. Clark told Harry Abrams that the $1,000 offered for the Introduction to Vasari was not enough, given the labour of rereading all Vasari’s Lives as well as over six hundred letters. He eventually received $2,500 for it. See letter, 15 December 1975, Tate 8812/1/4/1
30. Letter to Sir Bernard Miles, 14 August 1973, Tate 8812/1/3/2009
31. Clark, The Other Half, p.241
32. Ibid.
33. Speech, 26 June 1974, Tate 8812/1/4/174
34. See Tate 8812/1/4/432
35. Letter from Michael Astor to Clark, 17 February 1975, Tate 8812/1/4/237
36. Letter to Michael Astor, 28 February 1975, Tate 8812/1/4/237
37. Letter to Janet Stone, 9 February 1975, Bodleian Library
38. Bow Dialogue with Betty McCulloch, 23 November 1976, British Library National Sound Archive
39. Letter to Lord Annan, 14 April 1976, King’s College, Cambridge
40. Unidentified correspondent
41. Letter to Janet Stone, 17 October 1976, Bodleian Library
42. Letter to Janet Stone, 11 March 1975, Bodleian Library
43. Letter to Janet Stone, 18 December 1975, Bodleian Library. Lord Crawford was certainly an admirer of Jane, and her letters to him at Edinburgh suggest a warm intimacy
44. Letter to Morna Anderson, 8 February 1976, private collection
45. Clark, The Other Half, p.242. See also description in Colin Clark, Younger Brother, Younger Son, p.7
46. Jane died on 14 November 1976. This account of her death is taken from Clark, The Other Half, p.243, and a letter to Meryle Secrest, 3 December 1976, I Tatti
47. Alan Clark, Diaries: Into Politics 1972–1982 (entry for 14 November 1976)
48. Information from Colette Clark
49. Alan Clark, Diaries: Into Politics 1972–1982 (entry for 31 January 1976)
50. Trewin, Alan Clark: The Biography, p.253
51. Letter to Myfanwy Piper, 27 November 1976, Tate 200410/1/1/793
52. Letter to Janet Stone, 8 July 1977, Bodleian Library
53. Letter from John Russell to Clark, 7 December 1977, and Clark’s response, 20 December 1977, Tate 8812/1/3/2751–2800
54. Clark, The Other Half, p.xii
55. Letter to Mrs Huws Jones, Tate 8812/1/4/35
56. Peter Conrad in the Times Literary Supplement, 4 November 1977
57. Reprinted in The Seventies, pp.215–19
58. Letter to Janet Stone, 31 December 1976, Bodleian Library
59. Letter to Janet Stone, 13 August 1977, Bodleian Library
60. Colin Clark, Younger Brother, Younger Son, pp.6–7
61. Letter to Janet Stone, 18 August 1977, Bodleian Library
62. Letter to Colin Clark, 25 September 1977, private collection
Chapter 37: Last Years and Nolwen
1. She is the subject of a biography: The Temptress, by Paul Spicer
2. Colin Clark, Younger Brother, Younger Son, p.32
3. Roy Strong, Diaries 1967–1987, p.351
4. Ibid., p.350
5. Interview with author
6. Information from Mary Moore
7. Letter to Mary Potter, 2 August 1977, Potter Archive
8. Letter to Mary Potter, 3 October 1977, Potter Archive
9. Letter to Janet Stone, 9 October 1977, Bodleian Library
10. Letter from Janet Stone to Dr Frank Tait, 18 October 1977, Stone Archive
11. Letter to Clark from John Sparrow, 20 October 1977, Tate 8812/1/3/2901–2950
12. Letter to Morna Anderson, 5 December 1977, private collection
13. Information from Colette Clark
14. Lees-Milne, Holy Dread, p.143 (entry for 11 January 1984)
15. Interview with author
16. Letter to Janet Stone, 24 December 1977, Bodleian Library
17. Letter to Janet Stone, 18 August 1979, Bodleian Library
18. Interview with Colette Clark
19. Secrest, Shoot the Widow, p.41
20. Letter to Brinsley Ford, no date
21. Letter from John Sparrow to Clark, 11 March 1979, Tate 8813/1/3/2901–2950
22. Information from Lady Egremont
23. Information from Catherine Porteous
24. Letter to Janet Stone, 7 June 1978, Bodleian Library
25. Letter to Janet Stone, 21 July 1978, Bodleian Library
26. Letter to Janet Stone, 2 September 1978, Bodleian Library
27. Letter to Janet Stone, 22 June 1979, Bodleian Library
28. This letter, dated 23 March 1980, is in the Stone Archive at the Bodleian Library
29. Letter to Colette Clark, 1 July 1980, family possession
30. Letter to Janet Stone, 24 March 1976, Bodleian Library
31. Letter to Meryle Secrest, 20 February 1976, I Tatti
32. Secrest, Being Bernard Berenson. See review by John Pope-Hennessy, republished in his On Artists and Art Historians, pp.261–6
33. Letter to Meryle Secrest, 23 August 1977, I Tatti
34. Letter to Meryle Secrest, 5 July 1979, I Tatti
35. Letter to Meryle Secrest, 7 March 1979, I Tatti
36. Letter to Meryle Secrest, 23 July 1979, I Tatti
37. Letter to Mary Potter, 1 October 1979, Potter Archive
38. Lees-Milne, Deep Romantic Chasm, p.184 (entry for 6 November 1981)
39. Letter from Colin Anderson to Clark, 8 January 1980, private collection
40. Letter to Colette Clark, 1 July 1980, family possession
41. Letter to Alan Clark, 20 April 1979, Tate 8812/1/4/289
42. Letter to Janet Stone, 4 August 1980, Bodleian Library
43. Letter to Meryle Secrest, 8 October 1982, I Tatti
44. Letter to Janet Stone, January 1983, Bodleian Library
45. Letter to Jock Murray, 11 June 1982, Tate 8812/1/4/289
46. Letter to Jock Murray, 8 December 1980, Tate 8812/1/4/289. Quite a substantial fragment is held in the John Murray Archive, on which the author has drawn for the early chapters of this book
47. Maggie Hanbury was working for C. & J. Wolfers Ltd at the time. She still looks after the Clark estate today, from the agency under her own name
48. Anatole Broyard, New York Times, 14 April 1982
49. Letter from Catherine Porteous to Clark, 26 August 1981, Tate 8812/1/3/2601–2650
50. Alan Clark, Diaries: Into Politics 1972–1982 (entry for 20 July 1982)
51. Colin Clark, Younger Brother, Younger Son, p.33
52. Alan Clark, Diaries: In Power 1983–1992 (entry for 15 May 1983)
53. Ibid. (entry for 21 May 1983)
54. Lees-Milne, Holy Dread, p.125 (entry for 13 October 1983)
55. Michael Levey, obituary of Kenneth Clark, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. LXX, 1984
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p; 56. Lecture on the Louvre, Tate 8812/2/2/546
Epilogue
1. Michael Levey, obituary of Kenneth Clark, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. LXX, 1984
2. Ibid.
3. Lees-Milne, Holy Dread, pp.94–5 (entry for 22 May 1983)
4. The text was printed in Apollo magazine, January 1984
5. Strong, Diaries 1967–1987, pp.347–8
6. Alan Clark, Diaries: In Power 1983–1992 (entry for 13 October 1983)
7. Strong, Diaries 1967–1987, pp.347–8
8. Alan Clark, Diaries: In Power 1983–1992 (entry for 15 August 1983)
9. Letter to Janet Stone, 3 March 1957, Bodleian Library
10. Margaret Slythe
11. Letter to Charlotte Kohler, 9 August 1972, Tate 8812/1/4/440
12. ‘Art and Society’, reprinted in Moments of Vision, pp.79–80
Appendix I: The Clark Papers
1. John Murray was Clark’s publisher, and Weidenfeld & Nicolson was Secrest’s publisher. They had agreed to do a joint book, but Jock Murray withdrew
2. Letter from Alan Clark to Meryle Secrest, 9 February 1984, copy in the John Murray Archive
3. This transaction remains a controversial one with the Clark family, who are nevertheless content that these papers should remain at I Tatti
Appendix II: ‘Suddenly People are Curious About Clark Again’
1. Interview with Chris Stephens, Tate Gallery, in article by Rachel Cooke, Observer, 18 May 2014
2. Glasgow, The Nineteen Hundreds: A Diary in Retrospect, p.198
3. Over the ten-year period from 2005 to 2015, DVD sales of Civilisation averaged 4,500 a year (information from BBC Worldwide)
4. Professor Alan Powers at Greenwich University and Professor Robert Cumming at Boston University are two academics who have tried Civilisation on their students, with mixed results
5. BBC Radio 4, Life Story, presented by Peggy Reynolds, produced by Sarah Brown, broadcast 3 July 1997; Lees-Milne, The Milk of Paradise (entry for 4 July 1997)
6. BBC Radio 4, Lord Clark: Servant of Civilisation, presented by Miranda Carter, produced by Thomas Morris, broadcast 3 July 2003
7. Ibid.
8. BBC Radio 4, Archive on 4: Seeing Through the Tweed, presented by Richard Weight, broadcast 28 November 2009
9. Sunday Times, 1 March 2009
Bibliography
Selected Books and Other Works
Acton, Harold, Memoirs of an Aesthete, London 2008
Anderson, Sir Colin, Three Score Years and Ten, privately printed, London 1974