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31. Harold Nicolson, Observer, 19 March 1950.
32. PLF to AC.
33. JR to PLF, postmark 28 May 1950.
Chapter 14: Travels in Greece
1. PLF to JGM, 26 September 1950 (JMC).
2. Freya Stark to Stewart Perowne, 27 August 1950, Freya Stark Letters, Volume 6: The Broken Road, 1947–1952, ed. Lucy Moorehead (Michael Russell, 1981), p.188.
3. PLF, A Time to Keep Silence, p.81.
4. PLF to DC, 15 March 1952.
5–6. Notebook with no cover, September 1950.
7–8. Notebook: Macedonia, Thessaly, October 1950.
9. PLF, Roumeli, p.94.
10–11. PLF to JGM, 1 December 1950 (JMC).
12. Times Literary Supplement, 29 December 1950.
13. Evening Standard, 19 December 1950; Scottish Daily Mail, 16 December 1950.
14. JR to PLF, 8 January 1951.
15. PLF, Obituary of Kevin Andrews, Independent, 9 September 1989.
16–17. PLF on Louis MacNeice, for his biographer Jon Stallworthy, 26 September 1983.
18. PLF to JGM, undated, c. February–March 1951, from the island of Salamis (JMC).
19. Michael Powell, Million-Dollar Movie (Heinemann, 1992), pp. 123–4.
20–21. PLF to JR, 24 February 1951, from Salamis.
22. PLF to JGM, undated, c. February–March 1951, from Salamis (JMC).
23. Cass Canfield to JGM, 9 August 1950 (JMC).
24. JR to PLF, 6 January 1951.
25, 26, 27. PLF, grey crocodile notebook, 1951.
28–29. PLF to JGM, 12 April 1951 (JMC).
30. PLF, Roumeli, p.190.
31. PLF to JGM, 12 April 1951, from Astros (JMC).
32. Joan Leigh Fermor’s photographs were given to the National Library of Scotland by PLF in 2010.
33–34. PLF, grey crocodile notebook, 1951.
35–36. PLF’s Introduction to George Psychoundakis, The Cretan Runner (1988 edn), pp. 14–15.
37–38. PLF to BC, 28 June 1975.
39. Ruth Page, quoted in Meredith Daneman, Margot Fonteyn (Viking Books, 2004), p.270.
40. PLF to AC.
41. PLF, Mani, p.3.
42. Ibid., pp. 8–9.
43. Ibid., p.13.
44. PLF, black notebook, Crete–Mani 1951.
45. PLF, Mani, p.112.
46. PLF to JGM, 5 August 1951, from Skopelos (JMC).
Chapter 15: Byron’s Slippers
1. PLF to JR, undated, c. February 1952, from Paris.
2. PLF to JGM, 19 March 1952 (JMC).
3. PLF to DC, 14 March 1952.
4. PLF to DC, 3 May 1952.
5. Letter from Professor Richard Dawkins to PLF, 28 April 1952 (JMC).
6. See Evelyn Waugh to DC, 10 April 1948, Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, ed. Artemis Cooper (Hodder & Stoughton, 1991), p.102.
7. PLF to DC, 17 July 1952.
8. PLF to AC.
9. PLF to JR, c. September 1952, from Chantilly.
10. PLF, The Traveller’s Tree, p.71.
11. PLF, Between the Woods and the Water, p.105.
12. JGM to PLF, 8 December 1952.
13. PLF to DC, 13 December 1952.
14. PLF to DC, 2 February 1953.
15. James Pope-Hennessy, Times Literary Supplement, 24 July 1953.
16. Dom Joseph Coombe-Tennant to PLF, 13 February 1982.
17. PLF to DC, 1 March 1953.
18. Mary Dilke to JGM, March 1953 (JMC).
19. Lawrence Durrell to PLF, undated, ?1955, from Bellapaix.
20. PLF to DC, 26 March 1953.
21. PLF to JR, 10 April 1953.
22. PLF to JR, 27 March 1953.
23–24. Peter Quennell, The Wanton Chase (Collins, 1980), pp. 166–70.
25. PLF to DC, June 1953.
26. Spectator, 5 June 1953.
27. PLF to JR, undated, c. June 1953.
28. PLF to DC, June 1953.
29. PLF to Vanessa Fenton, 6 July 1953.
30. Letter to JGM, c. July 1953, c/o British Consul, Rome (JMC).
31. PLF to JGM, 30 July 1953 (JMC).
32. PLF, Roumeli, p.159.
33. PLF to DC, c. July 1953.
34. John Cam Hobhouse, quoted in Leslie A. Marchand, Byron: A Portrait (John Murray, 1971), p.467.
35. PLF to DC, c. July 1953.
36. PLF to JGM, 30 July 1953 (JMC).
37–38. PLF to Jessica Mitford, 29 October 1982, from Kardamyli; for Mitford’s biography, see Faces of Philip (Heinemann, 1984).
39. PLF to Lawrence Durrell, remembering an evening ‘two years ago’, 21 May 1955 (Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale).
40. Maurice Cardiff to AC, May 2001.
41. Janetta Parladé to AC, November 2004.
42. Maurice Cardiff to AC, May 2001.
43. Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons (London, 1957), p.105.
44. PLF to DC, 11 January 1954.
45. PLF to JR, 9 January 1954.
46. PLF to DC, 30 January 1954.
47. PLF to AC.
48. PLF to DC, ‘Sunday, [c/o John Betjeman]’, c. March 1954.
49. PLF to DC, 22 March 1954.
50. PLF to DC, 22 May 1954.
51–52. PLF to DC, 22 May 1954.
53. PLF to Vanessa Fenton, undated, 1954.
54. PLF to DC, 29 June 1954.
55. PLF, ‘The Background of Ghika: Thoughts on a Greek Landscape’, Encounter, February 1957.
56. PLF to JGM, 19 July 1954 (JMC).
57. Leslie Mitchell, Maurice Bowra (Oxford University Press, 2009), p.90.
58. PLF to JGM, 19 July 1954.
59. JR to PLF, 24 August 1954, from Amalfi.
Chapter 16: Cyprus
1. Robert Holland, Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus 1954–1959 (Clarendon Press, 1998), p.35.
2. David Roessel, In Byron’s Shadow (Oxford University Press, 2002), p.45.
3. PLF to Lawrence Durrell, 24 November 1954 (Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale).
4. George Seferis to JR, 24 December 1954, from Beirut; see The Correspondence of George Seferis, P. Leigh Fermor and J. Rayner (1948–1971), ed. Photios Ar. Demetrakopoulos and Vasiliki D. Lambropolou (Nicosia: Publications of the Centre for Academic Research, 2007). The original correspondence is held by the Gennadius Library, Athens.
5. George Seferis to PLF, 23 January 1955.
6. PLF to George Seferis, 25 May 1955, from Hydra.
7. PLF to JR, 2 January 1955, from Hydra.
8. JR to PLF, January 1955.
9. PLF to DC, 2 April 1955.
10. Ian S. McNiven, Lawrence Durrell: A Biography (Faber & Faber, 1998), p.421.
11–12. PLF to DC, 1 June 1955.
13. Rodis Roufos, ‘Philhellenism and Primitivism’, republished in Oi metamorphoseis tou Alachriou (Athens: Ikaros, 1971).
14. PLF to DC, 22 June 1955.
15. PLF to DC, undated, late summer 1955.
16. PLF to JGM, 17 July 1955 (JMC).
17. Ibid.
18. John Julius Norwich, address for PLF’s memorial service, 15 December 2011.
19. Roderick Beaton, George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel (Yale, 2003), p.320.
20. Letter in Greek from George Katsimbalis to PLF, 20 March 1956.
21. George Seferis, pencilled into a letter from JR of 1 May 1956.
22. PLF to JR, 28 October 1955.
23. JR to George Seferis, 1 November 1955, from Dumbleton.
24. George Seferis to JR, 1 December 1955, from Athens.
25. PLF to JGM, undated, c. November 1955, from Normandy (JMC).
26. Spectator, 9 December 1955.
27. PLF to Vanessa Fenton, 26 February 1956.
28. PLF to DC, 26 October 1966.
29. Paul Conway, Seventieth birthday tribute to Malcolm Williamson, Daily Mail, 30 November 1966.
30. PLF to Xan and Daphne
Fielding, quoted in In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor, ed. Charlotte Mosley (John Murray, 2008), p.9.
31. PLF, ‘The Background of Ghika: Thoughts on a Greek Landscape’, Encounter, February 1957.
32. PLF, ‘Sounds of the Greek World’, Encounter, Vol. VI, No. 6, June 1965, pp. 55–8.
Chapter 17: In Africa and Italy
1. PLF to DD, 18 April 1997.
2. PLF to DD, 26 August 1956.
3. PLF to JR, undated, August 1956.
4. AF to Evelyn Waugh, 27 August 1956; see The Letters of Ann Fleming, ed. Mark Amory (Collins Harvill, 1985), pp. 184–5.
5. PLF to DD, 26 August 1956: see In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor, ed. Charlotte Mosley (John Murray, 2008), pp. 19–22.
6. AF to Evelyn Waugh, 27 August 1956.
7. PLF to DD, 26 August 1956.
8. PLF, Mani, p.111 footnote.
9. PLF to DC, 12 November 1956.
10. Ibid.
11. PLF to WSM, 26 November 1956.
12. Michael Powell, Million-Dollar Movie (Heinemann, 1992), pp. 358–9.
13. PLF to DC, 28 September 1956.
14. PLF to Vanessa Fenton, 24 February 1955.
15. PLF to DC, 27 January 1957.
16. PLF to DD, 5 July 1957: see In Tearing Haste, op. cit., p.32.
17. PLF to DC, c. January 1958.
18. PLF to Xan Fielding, 1 April 1958.
19. PLF to DC, c. January 1958.
20. PLF to JR, 25 April 1958.
21. PLF to Xan Fielding, 1 April 1958.
22. Juliette Gréco, Jujube (Stock, 1982), p.201.
23. PLF to DC, March 1958.
24. John Huston, quoted in Lawrence Grobel, The Hustons (Bloomsbury, 1990), p.455.
25. DD to AC.
26. PLF to DD, 12 August 1958: see In Tearing Haste, op. cit., pp. 49–51.
27. Compton Mackenzie, Greece in My Life (Chatto & Windus, 1960), p.185.
28. Judy Montagu to DC, 24 October 1958.
29. PLF to LPH, 23 November 1958; LPH to AC.
30. PLF to DC, undated postcard of Pope John XXIII.
31. Times Literary Supplement, 19 December 1958.
32. The Times, 4 December 1958.
33. Lawrence Durrell to PLF, undated letter, from Faber & Faber, London.
34. PLF, Mani, p.241.
35. Ibid., p.207.
36. PLF to JR, undated, spring 1959.
37. PLF to LPH, 30 April 1959.
38. PLF to JR, April 1959.
39. PLF to DC, 8 June 1959; also PLF to DD, 27 July 1959: see In Tearing Haste, op. cit., pp. 54–5.
40. PLF to DC, 8 June 1959.
41. PLF to JR, 1 June 1959.
42. PLF to Vanessa Fenton, 29 October 1959, from Ischia.
43. PLF to JR, 1 June 1959.
44. PLF to DC, 20 August 1959.
45. PLF to DC, November 1959, from Ischia.
46. PLF to LPH, 28 October 1959.
Chapter 18: A Visit to Rumania
1. PLF to JR, undated letter, January/February 1960.
2. PLF to JGM, undated, c. February 1960, from Chagford (JMC).
3. Magouche Fielding to AC.
4. PLF to LPH, 8 July 1960.
5. PLF to DC, 9 September 1960.
6. PLF to DD, 23 or 24 October 1960.
7. PLF to DC, 9 September 1960.
8. PLF to DD, 23 or 24 October 1960.
9. PLF to DC, The Nones of December 1960.
10. PLF to DD, 16 February 1961.
11. PLF to Ricki Huston, 18 January 1961.
12. PLF to AC; see In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor (John Murray, 2008), p.108, note 3.
13. PLF to Ricki Huston, 28 April 1961.
14. George Hayim to AC, October 2010.
15. PLF to Ricki Huston, 22 June 1961, from Dinas, Pembrokeshire.
16. PLF to Ricki Huston, 17 July 1961.
17. Ricki Huston to PLF, undated.
18. PLF to Ricki Huston, 11 August 1961.
19. PLF to Lawrence Durrell,30 October 1961 (Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale).
20. PLF to DD, November 1961; see In Tearing Haste, op. cit., p.88.
21. Undated memo from JGM, c. January 1962 (JMC).
22. PLF to JGM, 4 February 1962 (JMC).
23. PLF to JGM, 9 March 1962 (JMC).
24. PLF to JR, 4 June 1962.
25. PLF to AC.
26. PLF to JR; the date ‘30 June 1962’ has been inscribed later, the only contemporary dating being ‘Tuesday’.
27–28. PLF to JR, undated letter, ‘Monday 9am’, ?summer/autumn 1962, from Athens.
29. JR to PLF, undated.
30. PLF to JGM, undated, c. January 1963, from Chester Row (JMC).
31. PLF, autograph MS of A Time of Gifts, Ch. XI, 10.
32. PLF to JGM, January 1963, from Chester Row (JMC).
33. PLF to JGM, 8 February 1964, from Katounia (JMC).
34. PLF to DC, 5 September 1965.
35. PLF, ‘The Aftermath of Travel’, an informal talk given at the Gennadion Library, Athens, 18 March 1997.
36. PLF to Aymer Maxwell, 8 November 1964.
37. PLF to JR, undated, March/April 1965, from Chester Row.
38. PLF, ‘Travels in a Land before Darkness Fell’, Weekend Telegraph, 12 May 1990.
39. Balasha’s eviction from Băleni: Dorin Pintile and Mariana Pintile, Comuna Baleni: Studiu monografic complex (Cluj-Napoca: Editura Eurodidact, 2003).
40–41. PLF, ‘Travels in a Land before Darkness Fell’, Weekend Telegraph, 12 May 1990.
42. PLF to JR, 3 September 1965.
43. PLF to JGM, 6 July 1965 (JMC).
44, 45, 46, 47. PLF to DC, November 1965.
48. PLF to Aymer Maxwell, undated, 1965.
49. PLF to JR, 3 September 1965.
50. PLF, Roumeli, p.97.
51. Ibid., p.99.
52. Ibid., p.123.
53. The Times, 21 April 1966.
54. Dilys Powell, Sunday Times, 17 April 1966.
55. ‘Londoner’s Diary’, Evening Standard, 20 April 1966.
56. PLF, ‘Londoner’s Diary’, Evening Standard, 25 April 1966.
57. PLF to JGM, 24 September 1966 (JMC).
Chapter 19: A Monastery Built for Two
1. PLF to AC.
2. Peter Levi, A Bottle in the Shade (Sinclair Stevenson, 1966), p.54.
3. PLF to DC, 30 October 1973.
4. JLF to PLF, 1971.
5. PLF to JR, 27 April 1967, from La Tartan, Spain.
6. Barrie Pitt to PLF, 31 October 1967; PLF’s article appears in The Purnell History of the Second World War (n.d.), Vol. 5 (of 20), No. 7, p.1984.
7. PLF to Vanessa Fenton, 8 November 1981.
8, 9, 10, 11. PLF to BC, 26 February 1968.
12. PLF to JGM, 10 March 1968 (JMC).
13–14. PLF to JGM, 10 May 1968 (JMC).
15, 16, 17. PLF to JLF, 1 October 1968.
18–19. PLF to DC, 28 February–20 March 1969.
20. PLF to DC, undated, spring 1969.
21. John Betjeman to JLF, 29 September 1969; see John Betjeman, Letters 1926–1984 (Methuen, 1994–5), Vol. II, pp. 389–90.
22. PLF to JGM, 17 November 1969 (JMC).
23. PLF to George Seferis, 10 December 1969.
24. George Seferis to PLF, 26 December 1969.
25–26. PLF to JGM, 17 November 1969 (JMC).
27. For PLF’s review of George Seferis’s Poiémata me Zographies se Mikra Paidia, see Times Literary Supplement, 28 January 1977.
28. PLF to AF, 1 July 1970.
29. Damaris Stewart to AC.
30. PLF to DC, ‘Late-ish Feb’, 1971.
31. PLF to JGM, mid-August 1973 (JMC).
32. PLF to JGM, 23 March 1971 (JMC).
33. PLF, autograph MS of A Time of Gifts, Ch. III, 14.
34. PLF,
Three Letters from the Andes (John Murray, 1991; Penguin edition, 1992), p.21.
35. Ibid., p.36.
36. Ibid., p.50.
37. PLF to JGM, 5 or 6 September 1971 (JMC).
38. PLF to JGM, 20 September 1971 (JMC).
39. PLF to Michael Stewart, undated, early 1971.
40–41. PLF to Æileen LF, 11 May 1972.
42. PLF to DD, account of the walk in the Pindus, 28 June 1972: see In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor (John Murray, 2008), p.138.
Chapter 20: Shifts in Perspective
1. PLF to DC, 17 July 1973.
2. PLF to JGM, 29 August 1973 (JMC).
3. PLF to JGM, 18 October 1974.
4. JLF to PLF, undated, from Dumbleton.
5. Sale of English Literature and History, Sotheby’s, 21 July 1988.
6. PLF to BC, 28 June 1975.
7. PLF to JGM, 4 August 1975, from Cockermouth.
8. Pamela Egremont to AC.
9. Hélène Donici to PLF, 6 December 1975.
10. PLF to JGM, August–early September 1976 (JMC).
11. PLF, ‘Paradox in the Himalayas’, London Magazine, December 1979–January 1980.
12. Vanessa Fenton to PLF, 21 December 1976.
13. PLF to Vanessa Fenton, c. January 1977.
14. PLF, A Time of Gifts, p.16.
15. See David Roessel, Anglo-Hellenic Review, No. 44 (Autumn 2011), p.23.
16. Ben Downing, ‘A Visit with Patrick Leigh Fermor’, Paris Review, No. 165 (Spring 2003), p.186.
17. Jan Morris, Spectator, 24 September 1977.
18. Dervla Murphy, Irish Times, 15 October 1977.
19. Frederic Raphael, Sunday Times, 25 September 1977.
20. Philip Toynbee, Observer, 25 September 1977.
21. Mary Wood to AC.
22. PLF to JLF, 3 April 1979, from Kardamyli; the plaque was eventually put up in Heraklion.
23. From a letter in Greek from PLF’s Cretan friends, quoted by PLF to JGM, late June 1979.
24. PLF to JGM, 16 October 1980.
25. AF to Michael Astor, 10 July 1978; see The Letters of Ann Fleming, ed. Mark Amory (Collins Harvill, 1985), p.418.
26. JLF to Vanessa Fenton, 17 September 1982.
27. PLF to DD, 7 December 1985.
28. PLF to Aymer Maxwell, 22 April 1980.
29. PLF on Auberon Herbert, Auberon Herbert: A Composite Memoir, ed. John Jolliffe (privately published, 1976); PLF on Roger Hinks, The Gymnasium of the Mind: The Journals of Roger Hinks 1933–1963, ed. John Goldsmith, (Michael Russell, 1984); PLF on Iain Moncreiffe, from Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk: An Informal Portrait, ed. John Jolliffe (privately published, 1986). All can be found in PLF, Words of Mercury, ed. Artemis Cooper (John Murray, 2004).