by William Boyd
St Botolph’s Hospital, Peckham, LMS in Ward C, 411–18
Sainte-Sabine, Lot, 410; described, 446; and the Verdel murders, 476–7; location of LMS’s grave, 489
Samsom, Lucy, LMS’s first love, 16 & n.; first kiss, 18; letters to LMS at school, 36; takes LΜS to Leith docks, 281 & n.; visits Cinq Cyprès, 454; 456; announces news of Peter Scabius’s death, 459; ageing, 463; searches vainly for Octet, 490
Santo, Ricardo Espirito, host of Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Lisbon, 214; 217
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 291
Scabius, Peter, LMS’s oldest friend, 13; his ‘challenge’, 23; kisses Tess Clough, 38; masturbated by Tess, 40; his alarm at Tess’s arrival in Oxford, 69–70; sets up Tess in Islip, 73–4; father suspicious, 87; marries Tess, 121; working on Reading newspaper, 121; godfather to LMS’s son, 151; publishes first novel, Beware of the Dog, 173; success of novel, 177; marriage to Tess in difficulties, 178; publication of third novel, 204; confrontation with LMS about Tess, 205; joins Auxiliary Fire Brigade, 211; guilt over Tess’s death, 224; joins Catholic Church, 224; writing of Guilt, novel about Tess, 227; huge success of Guilt, 253; marries again, 253; 278; affair with Gloria Ness-Smith, 292; marries Gloria Ness-Smith, 310; in New York with Gloria, 312–13; Already Too Late, novel about nuclear proliferation, 362; in tax exile, 400; at Gloria’s funeral, 409; knighted for services to literature, 430; death in Falkland Islands, 459
Schubert, Jerry, Leeping Fils’ lawyer, 349; advises LMS on potential rape charge, 370
Scully, Charles, 387
‘Sergeant Bilko’, 341
Shakespeare, William, 321
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, LMS’s book on, 65; LMS’s description of, 68; 71; title for book, 75 & n.; Prometheus Unbound, 75; ‘Mont Blanc’, 75n.; LMS continues with biography, 109; published and
reviewed, 130
Signoret, Simone, 326
Simeon, LMS’s cook in Nigeria, 381; embarks with LMS to Biafra, 384
Singh, ‘Subadar’, LMS’s upstairs neighbour in Turpentine Lane, 416; buys LMS’s flat for cash, 453
Situation, The, the SPK’s newspaper, 423; LMS as prize vendor, 425
Skarga, Zygmunt, 387
Snow, Squadron Leader, LMS’s Bahamas link with NID, 234
Soutar, Henry, ‘The Lizard’, LMS’s housemaster, 22 & n.; as loathsome old bigot, 24; beats LMS, 61
Spanish Civil War, background, 178; LMS commissioned to write articles on, 178; Barcelona and Valencia during, 179–82; Aragón front described, 188–90; and Madrid, 190–95
Spellbrook, Conn., LMS visits, 309
SPK (Socialits Patients’ Kollective), 420; LMS joins, 423; origins of, 426; LMS joins ‘Working Circle – Direct Action’, 431
Sprymont & Drew, LMS’s first publishers, 116; LMS becomes reader for, 205
Stalingrad, 233
Stefanelli, Jean-Robert, 457; on Sainte-Sabine’s wartime past, 470; discovers LMS’s body, 489
Summer at Saint-Jean, LMS’s second novel, proposed, 170; sold in advance, 177; three chapters written, 199; LMS burns manuscript, 226
Sumner Place, South Kensington, the Mountstuart home in London, 71; first paying guests, 140; with eighteen paying guests, 221; condemnable, 323
Sutherland, Graham, 289n.
Switzerland, 257; LMS parachutes into, 261
Tate, Nat, American painter, LMS meets, 317; LMS visits studio, 336–7 & n.; offers to rework LMS’s Nat Tates, 346; inspired by visit to Braque’s studio, 347 & n.; suicide, 348
Thatcher, Margaret, elected Prime Minister, 453
Thomsett, Keith, Mr & Mrs, 278
Thorpe Hall, Norfolk, LMS’s first married home, described, 146–7
Three Days of the Condor, 435 & n.
Times, The, Peter Scabius’s article in, 287
Tjorn, lake in Reykjavik, 284
‘Tommy’, Stella Mountstuart’s puppy, 258; 401 & n
Townsend, Sergeant, parachute instructor, 256
Tozer, Sergeant, his bellicosity, 53–4; and Corps exercise, 57
Tranmere, Margot, 379
Turpentine Lane, no. IOB, Pimlico, LMS’s last London flat, purchased, 289; moves back from New York to, 370; redecorated, 377; returns to from Africa, 397; sold to Subadar Singh, 453
Uli airstrip, Biafra, 391
University College of Ikiri, Nigeria, LMS appointed lecturer, 375
Upper East Side, New York, LMS moves to, 335
Upper West Side, New York, LMS’s dislike of, 319
urban life, LMS’s affinity for, 352–3
Uruguay, LMS’s birthplace, 5; described, 7
v-2 rocket, 278; LMS finds crater of, 286
Valencia, LMS visits (1936), described, 181; second visit (1937), 186
Vanderpoel, James, First XV hooker, 43; meets LMS, 44; bribed by LMS, 45; at NID, 213; travels to Lisbon with LMS, 214; ill-health in Lisbon, 219, 278; headmaster of girls’ school, 293,
Velázquez, 321
Verdel, Benoit, Gabrielle Dupetit’s father, memorial plaque placed, 466; plaque defaced, 469; true history of, 476–7
Vichy France, severs diplomatic relations with Britain, 219
Villa by the Lake, The, LMS’s war novella, started, 295; publication and reviews, 301
Vivian, John, head of SΡK, LMS meets, 422; relations with LMS, 432–4; sends LMS on SPK mission, 434; goes underground, 449; last meeting with LMS, 450 & n.
‘Voyeur’s Luck’, LMS’s concept of, 330
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 312, 313
Warhol, Andy, his graphic skills, 359; 367
Waugh, Evelyn, allegedly kisses LMS, 76; 77 & n.; congratulates LMS, 132; talks about Catholicism, 133 & n.; his love of Oxford, 149; discusses Spanish Civil War with LMS, 182; asks LMS about marriage, 183 & n.; 379; loss of teeth, 404
Weiss, Ted, LMS’s US editor, 307
Wenner-Gren, Axel, Swedish millionaire, Nazi sympathizer and friend of the Duke of Windsor, 228; friend of Goering, 232
Wilson, Edmund, his Anglophobia, 316
Wilson, Harold, British Prime Minister, 388 & n.; equated with Adolf Hitler, 388
Windsor, Duchess of, in Biarritz (when Mrs Simpson), 167; in Lisbon (1940), described, 216; LMS meets, 220; her gratitude to LMS, 221; in Government House, Bahamas, 228; her opinion of Bahamas, 231; at dinner, 237; her effect on the Duke, 238; her hatred of LMS, 246; in New York, 313; her enduring hatred for LMS, 360
Windsor, Duke of, LMS meets (when Prince of Wales), 167; affair with Mrs Simpson, 172; abdication crisis discussed, 183; abdicates, broadcasts to the nation, 184 & n.; LMS meets in Lisbon (1940), 216; LMS golfs with, 217; his gratitude to LMS, 221; sails to Bahamas, 221; LMS meets in Bahamas, 231; golfs with LMS, 236; reaction to Oakes’s murder, 243; hostility towards LMS, 245; his connection to Colonel Marion, 295; described, 359; final encounter with LMS, 360
Wodehouse, P. G., 228
Woolf, Virginia, meets LMS at Garsington, 99 & n.; contretemps with Le Mayne, her personality discussed, 102; To the Lighthouse, LMS’s dislike of, 150; discussed, 158; defended, 168; abuses Cyril Connolly’s wife, 171; is rebuked by LMS, 171; cuts LMS dead, 171; suicide, 222; 379
Yeats, W. B., 291
Yorke, Henry (Henry Green), meets LMS, 91
Zemsche, Charlie, on hotel-life, 332
Zippo lighter, LMS’s life saved by, 301
Zollo, fraudulent painter, 312
Zurich, LMS returns with Petra and Ingeborg, 440
Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Any Human Heart
Preamble to these Journals
The School Journal
The Oxford Journal
The First London Journal
The Second World War Journal
The Post-War Journal
The New York Journal
The African Journal
The Second London Journal
The French Journal
Afterword
Works by Logan Mountstuart
Index
Footnotes
Chapter 01
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Chapter 02
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Chapter 03
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