by William Boyd
Eisenhower, Dwight D., elected President, 317 & n.
Elie, Fife, 281
Eliot, T. S., LMS reads The Waste Land, 53; similarity to Wallace Douglas, 117; on losing teeth, 404
Exumas, Bahamas, 237
Farino, Alice, meets LMS, 120; introduces LMS to Ernest Hemingway, 121; in Biarritz with LMS, 165
Farino, Tim, meets LMS, 120; in Biarritz with LMS, 165; golfs with LMS, meets Prince of Wales, 166–7
Felzer, Janet, LMS’s affair with, 305; proposes Alberti fraud, 329; and Nat Tate’s suicide, 349
Feuerbach, Udo, editor of artrevue, commissions LMS, 164; discusses German anti-Semitism, 172; in New York, 308; editing revolver, 358
Finar, Jack, LMS’s article on, 362
Fitch, Titus, Alannah Rule’s father, his dislike of LMS, 309; continued aggression, 316
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, LMS meets, 122; Hemingway’s comment on, 122 & n.; publication of Tender is the Night, 168 & n.
Fleming, Ian, meets LMS, 173 & n.; lunches with LMS, described, 174–5; approaches LMS with job offer, 207; suggests LMS goes to Lisbon, 213; at NID, 226; sends LMS to Bahamas, 228; 278
Fletcher, Alistair (Duke of Windsor’s valet), 218 & n. Foley & Cardogin’s Fresh Meat Co., 8
Forsyth, Napier, editor of Polity, 378; leaves Polity for the Economist, 401
Fort Montague, Nassau, 230
Fothergill, Hugh, Land’s brother, at Hampstead, 77–8; abuses LMS during General Strike, 96
Fothergill, Land, LMS meets, 67; has coffee with LMS, 70; at Le Mayne’s dinner party with LMS, 73–4; invites LMS to lunch at Hampstead, 77–9; kisses LMS, 84; with LMS at Garsington, 98–9; meets LMS at Café Royal, 113; LMS invites to Paris, 117; encounters with LMS in Paris, 134–5; sexual relations with LMS, 138; affair with LMS begins, 139; political disagreements with LMS, 142; turns down LMS’s proposal of marriage, 142; meets LMS at party with Freya, 161
Fothergill, Ursula, Land’s mother, lunch at Hampstead, 77–8
Fothergill, Vernon, Land’s father, LMS lunches with, 77–9; his frontispiece for The Mind’s Imaginings, 130; 134
‘Francine’ (prostitute), visited by LMS, 455; final visit, 465–6
Gandhi, Mahatma, 139 & n.
Garsington Manor, nr Oxford, 78; LMS visits with Land, 98–9
Gascoyne, David, 376 & n.
Gellhorn, Martha, in Madrid with Hemingway, 190 & n.; with LMS in the University Quarter, 191
General Strike (1926), LMS’s role in, 95–7
genius, LMS’s criteria, 321
George V, death, 176 & n.
George VI, Duke of Windsor’s opinions of, 218
Gilot, Françoise, 290
Ginsberg, Ann, philanthropist, 321; founds revolver, 358; LMS escorts to reception, 359
Girl Factory, The, LMS’s first novel, 130; description of plot, 139; publication, reviews and sales, 141
Glebe Place, 85A, Chelsea, LMS’s first flat, 129
Godfrey, Admiral John, head of Naval Intelligence Division (NID), 211
Goering, Herman, 358 & n.
Goldberg, Cynthia, LMS meets, 55
golf, its appeal to LΜS, 403
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 433
Goodforth, Sam M., 362
Gorce, Lucien, LMS’s neighbour in Sainte-Sabine, 458; thoughts on the Verdel plaque, 471; defaces Verdel plaque, 476
Grant’s Town, Nassau, 232
Greenberg, Clement, 303 & n.; at LMS’s launch party, 308
Grigson, Geoffrey, LMS meets, 212
Gris, Juan, 80; LMS buys painting, 169
Guedalla, Philip, 238 & n.
Guiccioli, Teresa (Byron’s mistress), 68
Gunnarson, Skuli, meets Freya Mountstuart, 278; marries Freya, 278; LMS meets, 282–4; repays money on Melville Road, 285
Guston, Philip, 362
Halliday, Ian, 422
ΗDΜL 1122, LMS’s command in Bahamas, 229
Hemingway, Ernest, meets LMS in Paris, 121–2 & n.; LMS meets in Valencia and Madrid, 186–7; finds paintings with LMS, 194–5; 2. 12.; For Whom the Bell Tolls, LMS’s verdict on, 223; and Picasso, 290; suicide, LMS’s shock, 356 & n.; 388
Heuber, Martha, painter, LMS meets, 333; her new paintings, 334
Heuber, Todd, painter, Martha’s brother, 305; LMS buys painting, 311; goes to Cedar Tavern with, 311–12
Hitler, Adolf, becomes Chancellor of Germany, 158n.; and the approach of war, 201; German troops enter Prague, 205 & n.; war begins, 208n.; death, 273
‘Hodge’, LMS’s cat, acquired, 454
Hodge, Richard (‘Dick’), at Oxford, LMS’s new friend, 66; invites LMS to travel in Spain, 70; stays with LMS in London, 72–3; travels with LMS in Spain, their row, 81–3; disapproves of LMS’s affair with Tess Clough, 94; shooting at Edgefield, 115; LMS comes to stay in Scotland with, 127; advises LMS against marriage to Lottie Edgefield, 144; joins Royal Marines, 213; has leg blown off, 253; at Kildonnan with LMS (1946), 279–81; 470
Hog Island, Nassau, owned by Wenner-Gren, 232
Holden-Dawes, James (‘H-D’), LMS’s English master, 14; discusses Oxford with LMS, 21–2; LMS has tea with, 26–7; seen with woman, 42; congratulates LMS on history exhibition, 52; second tea with LMS, 54–5; invites LMS to Hyères, 100; in Oxford, 101
Ηοrizοn, magazine edited by Cyril Connolly, 212 & n.; LMS contributes to, 223
Hôtel Rembrandt, Paris, LMS moves in, 199, revisits, 322; 482
Huber, Dr Wolfgang, founder of SPK, 426; links with the Baader-Meinhof Gang, 426
Hugo, Thorwald, 290
Idlewild Airport, New York, 371 & n. iguanas, 240
Ikeja Arms Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria, 384
‘Ingeborg’ (Renate Miiller-Gras), LMS meets, 437; to Zurich with LMS, 440; 443n.
Iniquity, novel by Peter Scabius, 287
Innsbruck, Austria, described, 48
IRA, Peter Scabius potential target of, 409
Issac, LMS’s houseboy in Nigeria, 381; drafted into Biafran Army, 384
‘Jacintha’ (prostitute), LMS’s encounter with, 340–44
Jesus College, Oxford, 32; LMS wins history exhibition to, 52; 65; 433; 450
Jews, German, 280
Joyce, James, LMS meets, their conversation, 86; 212; death, 222; 331; 379
juvenilia, LMS’s theory of, 355
Kahnweiler, Henri, Picasso’s dealer, 291
Keller, Herman, 308
Kennedy, Jackie, alleged beauty of, 358
Kennedy, John F., assassination, 364
Kipling, Rudyard, death, 176 & n.
Klee, Paul, LMS buys painting, 127; 128; death, 212 & n.; LMS’s book jacket compared to, 308; LMS’s article on, 403
Kline, Franz, 301; 358
Kolokowski, Tony, his affair with Janet Felzer, 347
Krasner, Lee, showing at Janet Felzer Gallery, 317
Ku Klux Klan, 309
La Fucina, nr Sienna, Gloria Ness-Smith’s home, described, 361; sold, 405
Lake Lucerne, 265
Lamb, Henry, painter, at Hampstead, 78 &n.
Lang, Jan-Carl, proposes Picasso fraud to LMS, 345–6; LMS declines to participate, 349
Lange, Noel, LMS’s lawyer, represents LMS in divorce proceedings, 197; 285
Lawrence, D. H., 378
Lee, Oliver, MP, 113 & n.; goes to speak to unemployed, 142; on the approach to war, 203
Leeping, Ben, LMS’s oldest friend, 13; his Jewishness, 15; his ‘challenge’, 22; thrown out by Doig, 41; working in Paris, 80; apartment on rue de Grenelle, 86; starts Leeping Frères Gallery in Paris, 119; takes summer house in Biarritz, invites LMS, 165; flees Paris for London (1939), 211; plans New York gallery, 291; fat and bald, 365; suffering from prostate cancer, 397; death and funeral, 424; LMS’s debt to, 425
Leeping, Clothilde, Ben’s daughter, 288
Leeping, Marius, Ben’s stepson, his charm as little boy, 133; a handsome boy, 288; runs Leeping Fils in New York with LMS, 302; antipathy to LMS, 307; placed under LMS’s charge, his
resentment, 313; embezzles Leeping Fils’ funds, 321; starts new gallery, 325; fight with LMS, 327–8
Leeping, Sandrine, Ben’s wife, LMS first meets, 121; her son, Marius, 133; as hostess, 288
Leeping Fils Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, established, 301; LMS takes over, 313; proposed role in Picasso fraud, 346
Leeping Frères Gallery, founded by Ben Leeping in Paris, 119
Lefrère-Brunot, Yannich, Mayor of Sainte-Sabine, 457; LMS argues with, 472; LMS apologizes to, 478
Leggatt, Sir Hugh, 286
Le Mayne, P. L., LMS’s tutor at Oxford, 32–3; 66; gives supper party, 66–8; dinner party, 74; dissatisfied with LMS’s work, 90; is discussed at Garsington, 99; has dinner with LMS at the George, 101; argument with Virginia Woolf, 102; discusses LMS’s final exams, 106; disappointment with results, 113; congratulates LMS on The Mind’s Imaginings, 131
lesbianism, Gloria Ness-Smith tempted by, 380
Les Invalides, Oxford club, 66 & n.; LMS kissed by Evelyn Waugh in, 76
Lisbon, LMS travels to, 155; 211; arrival of the Duke of Windsor, 213; LMS travels to, 214
Live and Let Die, by Ian Fleming, what it reveals of the author, 324
Los Angeles, 350
loser, concept of, differences between Europe and USA, 400
‘Ludwig’, 257; his dubious message, 263; LMS speculates about his identity, 268
Maar, Dora, 290
MacDonald, Ramsay, forms second Labour government, 128n.
Machine, Shirley, in Sweet Charity, 382
McLeod, Ian, shot by West German police, 438n.
McMasters, Polly, LMS’s colleague at U. C. Ikiri, 382
MacNeice, Louis, compliments The Girl Factory, 225–6; suggests radio adaptation, 288
McStay, Sub-Lieutenant Crawford, LMS’s second-in-command in Bahamas, 229; his unhappiness, 233; his frustrations, 235
Madrid (1937), LMS visits during siege, 190–95
Marion, Colonel, his role in ‘Operation Shipbroker’, 256; sought by LMS after war, 293; death in Brussels, 295
Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens, 414
Masson, Colonel, head of Swiss Military Intelligence, 267
Maurois, André, his biography of Shelley (Ariel), 111 & n.
Meinhof, Ulrike, 423; her suicide, 448n.
Melchen, Captain W., Miami detective, 244
Melville Road, no. 32, Battersea, LMS and Freya’s married home, purchased, 200; near miss in Blitz, subsequently burgled, 223n.; sold by Gunnarson, 278
Milau-Plage, LMS’s first visit, 468; 478; final visit, reflections on life, 481
Mind’s Imaginings, The, LMS’s first book, 75 & n.; LMS hands in typescript to publishers, 111; published and reviewed, 130
Miró, Joan, LMS discovers seven paintings by, 194 & n.; sold to Ben Leeping, 212; final painting sold, LMS’s profit, 302
Mitchell, Naomi, LMS meets, 356; sexual relations with LMS, 365; LMS breaks off relationship, 375
‘Monday’ (Laura Schmidt), Lionel’s girlfriend, LMS meets, 363; reaction to Lionel’s death, 366; moves in with LMS, 367; sexual relations with LMS, 369; reflections on, 377
Montaigne, Michel de, and old age, 480
Moon landing (1969), 376–7
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, 78 & n.; meets LMS at Garsington, 99
Mountstuart, Francis, LMS’s father, 8; announces terminal illness, 19; treatment at Bad Riegerbach, 50; death, 61; his legacy squandered, 163–4; LMS’s memories of, 254
Mountstuart, Lionel, LMS’s son, born, 150; LMS’s distaste for name, 151; sickly child, 162; visited by LMS after divorce, 200; confused by LMS’s remarriage, 207; adopted by stepfather (Sir Hugh Leggatt), 286 & n.; in music business, 336; inherits baronetcy, 336; arrives in New York, stays with LMS, 353; accidental death, 366
Mountstuart, Mercedes, LMS’s mother, née de Solis, 8; delighted to be in Birmingham, 10; in Bad Riegerbach, 47–52; sets up house in London (Sumner Place), 65; on Wall Street Crash, 128; on loss of New York apartment, 129; and financial ruin, 129; takes in paying guests, 140; precarious financial situation, 163; reaction to LMS’s divorce, 199; reduced to living in one room, 222; ageing, 227; at Freya’s wedding to Gunnarson, 278; at LMS’s memorial mass, 278; varicose veins, 287; ill with bronchitis, 323; death, 325; burial in Brompton Cemetery, 326
Mountstuart, Stella, LMS’s daughter, born, 204; beautiful toddler, 206; death, 278; LMS imagines future for, 401; enduring grief over, 460
Munich Crisis (1938), LMS’s feelings, 202 & n.
Mystic House, Spellbrook, Conn. (LMS’s summer house), described, 315; 333
Naples, 259
Nassau, Bahamas, LMS arrives (1942), described, 230
Naval Intelligence Division (NID), LMS joins, 211; 449
Nazi Germany, 240; 309
NBC, 302
Ness-Smith, Gloria, Peter Scabius’s mistress and later third wife, LMS meets, 292; at Scabiuses’ party, 294; marries Peter Scabius, 310; starts affair with LMS, 324; on holiday with LMS, 325–6; meets Picasso, 326; marries Cesare di Cordato, 357; LMS can’t afford to visit, 399; ill, comes to stay with LMS, 404; diagnosed with cancer, 405; final illness, 406–7; death, 408; funeral, 409
Newman, Barnett, 333
New York City, LMS in, en route for Bahamas, 228; LMS moves to (1950), 302; its allure, 305; LMS’s nostagia for, 382
Nigeria, 375
Nigerian Civil War (Biafran War), LMS’s articles on, 378 & n.; analyses war’s anomalies, 381; Nigerian Air Force tactics, 383; progress of war, 383–4
Nixon, Richard Μ., 317n.
Nolde, Emil, 311
Northwich, Cheshire, 284
‘Nude by a Window’, painting by Picasso, object of fraud, 346
Oakes, Sir Harry, 243 & n.; his murder announced, 242; murder described, 247; LMS heckles Duke of Windsor about, 360
Octet, LMS’s final novel, decides on title, 345; unable to receive advance for, 397; researching, 399; determination to complete, 430; 469; probably burnt by LMS, 490
Odile, girl at Leeping Frères, 296; LMS kisses, 296, sexual relations with LMS, 297; discovers LMS after his suicide attempt, 301; her fate, 305
O’Hara, Frank, at LΜS’s launch party, 308 & n.; at Cedar Tavern, 312; discovers Nat Tate, 314; argues with LMS, 321; intense argument with LMS, 355
O’Hara, John, 435
Ojukwu, General, Biafran leader, 387 & n.
Okafor, Dr Kwaku, LMS’s neighbour in Nigeria, 376 & n.; LMS golfs with, 381; discusses civil war, 381–2; 392
Okoli, Colonel ‘Jack’, 387–8; on winning the Biafran War, 390; LMS’s article on, 391
O’Neill, Ann, later Mrs Ian Fleming, 252η.
‘One Writer’s War’, article on LMS in The Times by Peter Scabius, 287
‘Operation Mogadishu’, LMS’s memorandum on, 435–49
‘Operation Shipbroker’, 257; its rapid failure, 265; 293
Outridge, Dr Adam, LMS’s psychiatrist, 301; describes LMS as ‘cyclothymic’, 304
Pearl Harbor, 221 & n.
Peebles, Scotland, 279
Peredes, Faustino Angel, LMS’s press liaison officer, 180; relationship with LMS, 190; arrest and death, 195; 434
Peterman, David, affair with Alannah Mountstuart, 335; LMS’s aggression towards, 336
‘Petra’ (Hanna Hauptbeck), LMS meets, 437; to Zurich with LMS, 440; 443n.
Petrie-Jones, Sammie, 379
Philby, Kim, 428 & n.
Philips, Major Grey, the Duke of Windsor’s comptroller, 231
Picasso, Pablo, 80; LMS meets, description, 154; 168; LMS meets again, 290; and Spanish Civil War, 291; nature of his genius, 291; has LMS to lunch at La Californie, 326; sketches LMS and Gloria Ness-Smith, 326; sketch sold, 406
Plomer, William, reader at Jonathan Cape Ltd, 205 & n.; at NID, 226; his autobiography and its absence of sexual candour, 256 & n.; 278
Polity, magazine, LMS contracted to, 378; folds, 397
Pollock, Jackson, 301; LMS tries to visit, his talent assessed, 321
; death in car crash, 327; LMS buys paintings, 327; 358
Poole, Roderick, LMS’s boyhood tutor, later publisher, 6; lunches with LMS, 79–80; takes delivery of The Mind’s Imaginings, 111; agrees to publish, 115; hears LMS’s plans for novel, 125; receives typescript of The Girl Factory, 131; moves to Michael Kazin Ltd, 353
Pop Art, 367
Powell, Anthony, at Oxford, 90 & n.; lunches with LMS, 130
Premoli, Paula, LMS’s favourite nurse, 412; her parting gift to LMS, 418
Prendergast, Mr, Mercedes Mountstuart’s lover, 51; in Paris with LMS’s mother, 71; invests LMS’s legacy in US stocks, 75; at dinner, his exaggerated politeness, 79; success with US investments, 112; reports Wall Street Crash, 128; a ‘broken man’, 140; his mysterious disappearance, 163
Prince George Hotel, Nassau, 234
Queen Elizabeth, the Duke of Windsor’s opinion of, 218; blamed by the Duke for his troubles, 237
Quennell, Peter, at Oxford, 65 & n.; abandons book on Blake, 75
Quogue, Long Island, 321
RAF Clerkhall, Staffordshire, LMS undergoes parachute training, 252
Rauschenberg, Robert, LMS’s article on, 345
Red and the Blue and the Red, The, Peter Scabius’s Algerian novel, sales of, 327
revolver (magazine), launch party, 358
Reykjavik, LMS visits, 281–4; 460
Rimbaud, Arthur, 291
Rivers, Larry, 317, 358
Riverside Drive, Alannah Rule’s apartment, LMS moves in, 304; LMS moves out, 335
‘Robinson Crusoe’, 240
Roisanssac, Didier, LMS’s doctor, 457; LMS consults, 464; and LMS’s heart attack, 479
Roth, Anna, LMS meets, 422
Rothko, Mark, 399
‘Rose’ (prostitute), LMS’s encounter with, 339–42
Roundabout Hotel, Manjo, Nigeria, 386
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve (‘The Wavy Navy’), LMS created Lieutenant, 212
Rule, Alannah, LMS’s third wife, affair with LMS begins, 302; accepts proposal of marriage, 318; complains about LMS’s drinking, 319; sexual relations with LMS, 322; marriage difficulties with LMS, 328; begins affair with David Peterman, 335; divorces LMS, marries Peterman, 357
Rule, Arlene, daughter, 302
Rule, Gail, daughter, 302; LMS’s affection for, 311; clandestine meetings with, 364; LMS meets in London, 429; inherits Cinq Cyprès, 490