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Chasing Lost Time

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by Jean Findlay


  20. To Sprott, 13.10.28. King’s College Archive

  21. To mother, 19.9.28. FC

  22. To mother, 19.9.28. FC

  23. To Prentice, March 1928. CA

  24. To VBH, 21.2.29. HRC

  25. Ernst Curtius to JMSM, 1931. M&L

  26. Ibid.

  27. To mother, 20.10.28. FC

  28. To mother, 12.10.28. FC

  29. To mother, 20.10.28. FC

  30. To mother, 29.10.28. FC

  31. TLS, 21.3.29

  32. To Helen Stephen, 17.3.29. M&L, 189

  33. Ibid.

  34. To VBH, Aug. 1929. HRC

  35. Ibid.

  36. Ibid.

  37. Glasgow Herald, 4.1.32

  38. To mother, 9.6.29. M&L, 191

  39. To Prentice, 24.9.28. CA

  40. To Mrs Pearson, Oct. 1928. M&L, 182

  41. To VBH, 5.9.29. HRC (s.a.w. was their code for oral sex. There are now medical links between oral sex and oesophageal cancer.)

  42. To Helen Stephen, Dec. 1929. M&L, 195

  43. To Eliot, 2.12.29. FF

  44. Inscribed in a copy of The Captive published by Knopf in 1929, given to Payen de Payne. From CKSM, Calvary Hospital, Rome, St Andrew’s Day.

  45. Gale, 458

  46. Ibid.

  47. Ibid.

  48. To Eliot, 2.12.29. FF

  49. From Eliot, 12.12.29. Letters vol. IV

  50. Ibid.

  51. To Eliot, 26.12.29. FF

  52. London Mercury, May 1930

  53. To VBH, 14.11.29. HRC

  54. To VBH, 14.2.30. HRC

  55. To Eliot, 29.1.30. FF

  56. Dec. 1929. M&L, 196

  57. To VBH, 14.2.30. HRC

  58. M&L, 202

  Epilogue

  1. Daily Telegraph, 15.12.31

  2. To VBH, 24.12.25, HRC

  3. M&L, 25

  4. F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a letter to his daughter, Scottie, 1939

  5. Jerry Farber, Scott Moncrieff’s Way: Proust in Translation, March 1997

  6. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Observer, 2002

  7. John Ruskin, The Works of John Ruskin, vol. 24, 371

  Index

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  3rd Battalion

  5th Dragoon Guards

  9th Infantry Brigade

  13th Field Ambulance

  16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment

  87th Infantry Brigade

  Abba, Marta

  Abelard, Peter

  Abercrombie, Lascelles

  Académie Française

  Academy journal

  Acton, Arthur

  Acton, Harold

  Memoirs of an Aesthete

  Acton, Hortense

  Adam, Robert

  Adey, More

  Aegean Intelligence service

  Agata, Suora (nun)

  Agate, James

  Ajanta Frescoes (ballet)

  Albreche brothers

  Aldington, Richard

  reviews Song of Roland

  comment on Prentice

  supposed to be looking after Charles but goes to Italy instead

  entertained by Acton in Italy

  description of

  asks Charles to translate two eighteenth-century French memoirs

  receives letter from D. H. Lawrence on Charles

  requests Charles to see Pirandello

  stays with Charles in Italy

  bids farewell to Charles in hospital

  Alembert, Jean le Rond d’

  Alexander the Fierce

  Alexander II of Scotland

  Alfred, King

  Allan, Maud

  Allenby, General Edmund

  Allingham, William, ‘In a Budding Grove’

  Allison (groom)

  Alton Burn school (Nairn)

  Arc, Jeanne d’

  Aristophanes

  Aristotle

  Armstrong, William

  Army Cadet Force

  Army Remount Department

  Arnold, Matthew

  Arts and Letters

  Ashton (Canadian singer)

  Asquith, Charles

  Asquith, Cyril

  Asquith, Herbert

  Asquith, Margot

  Astley Cooper, Evangeline

  Astley Cooper, Stephen

  Aumont, Duc d’

  Austen, Jane

  Sense and Sensibility

  Avalanche Memorial Church (Portland)

  Bad Kissingen

  Bainbrigge, Philip

  close friendship with Charles

  description of

  clerihew by

  liking for ‘authocracy’

  spends time with Charles in Edinburgh

  becomes friends with Wilfred Owen

  enlists in the Lancashire Fusiliers

  death of

  parody of Rupert Brooke poem

  dedicatory poem by Charles

  Latin dialogue by

  Balfour, Arthur

  Balfour Declaration (1917)

  Ball, Richard Reynolds

  Ballard, Joanna

  Balzac, Honoré de

  Lost Illusions

  Banff Castle

  Barbusse, Henri, Under Fire

  Baring, Maurice

  Bassi, Ugo

  Bathurst, Lord

  Baudelaire, Charles Pierre

  Bayley Jones, Norah

  Beach, Sylvia

  Beardsley, Aubrey

  Beddington, Violet see Schiff, Violet Beddington

  Beerbohm, Max

  Bell, Clive

  Bellinzona

  Benignus, Sister (of Lanark)

  Bennett, Arnold

  Benson, E. F., The Challoners

  Benson, Frank

  Benson, Hugh

  Bentley, E. C.

  Beowulf

  Berenson, Bernard

  Besant, Annie

  Billing, Noel Pemberton

  Birdwood, General

  Birrell, Francis

  Bismarck, Count Herbert

  Bismarck, Otto von

  Black and Tans

  Blackwood’s Magazine

  Blair, Eric (aka George Orwell)

  Blair Lodge School

  Blavatsky, Madame

  Isis Unveiled

  The Secret Doctrine

  Bloch, Jean Richard, Et Cie

  Bloomsbury Group

  Boccacio, Giovanni

  Bonar Law, Andrew

  Bonar Law, Charles

  Boni (Albert and Charles) (US publishers)

  A Book of Verse on the Great War (ed. R. Wheeler)

  Borghese, Prince

  Boulestin, Marcel

  Brahan Castle (Ross-shire)

  Bramston, Trant

  Bray-sur-Somme

  Brett-Young, Francis

  Bridges, Robert

  British Grand Fleet

  British Passport Office

  Brooke, Rupert

  ‘The Soldier’

  ‘If I should die’

  Brown, Vincent, The Sacred Cup

  Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

  Browning, Robert

  Bruno (owner of Deene Park)

  Buchanan, William

  Bullen, F. T.

  Bullitt, William

  Burge, J. M.

  Burlington Magazine

  Burnaby (translator)

  Byron, Lord George Gordon

  Cadell, Jean

  Cairo

  Cambridge University

  Canadian National Exhibition (1912)

  Canmore, Malcolm

  Capri

  Carmichael, Montgomery

  Carnarvon, Lady

  Carson, Lord

  Carson, Sir Edward

  Carswell, Catherine

  Cassel
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  Cavell, Edith

  Cayme Press

  Cerasumma

  Challoner, J. M.

  Chamberlain, Austen

  Chanson de Roland

  Chapman, Guy

  Chapman and Hall

  Chatto and Windus

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, Canterbury Tales

  Chearelli, Luigi

  Checkov, Anton

  Tales of Chekhov

  Chesterton, Cecil

  Chesterton, G. K.

  The Club of Queer Trades

  Heretics

  Orthodoxy

  Cheston, Dorothy

  Chisholm-Batten, John

  Christie, Douglas

  Christie, Louis

  intelligence work

  close friendship with Charles

  returns to Italy

  meets Charles in Rome

  in Pisa with Charles

  in Rome

  attacked by unknown assailant

  Christies brothers

  Churchill, Valerie

  Churchill, Winston

  Cities of the Plain (Proust)

  Clapperton, Mgr William

  Claudel, Paul, ‘Hymne à SS Agnès’

  Clermont-Tonerre, Duchesse de

  Clutterbuck, David

  Cobham, Alan

  Cochran, Charles B.

  Compton, Vicar of

  Conrad, Joseph

  Constable & Co.

  Cooper, Lady Diana

  Corriere della sera

  Corvo, Baron, Hadrian the Seventh

  Country Life

  Coward, Nöel

  as intimate friend of Charles

  writes parodies and satires on the Sitwells

  introduces Charles to his theatrical friends

  as close friend of Evangeline Astley Cooper

  entertains invalids at Hambleton Hall during the war

  attends Charles’s farewell birthday

  names his cat Proust

  success of

  published by Benn not Chatto

  his mother finds a room for Charles to stay

  Present Indicative

  Easy Virtue

  London Calling

  Craigie, Violet

  Craiglockhart War Hospital (Edinburgh)

  Crawford, Sir Ronald

  Creal family

  The Criterion

  Cunard family

  Cuneo

  Currie, John

  Curse of the Brahan Seer

  Curtis Brown (literary agents)

  Curtius, Ernst

  Cutty Sark

  Daily Mail

  Dalyell, Amy

  Dalyell, Gladys (d.1920)

  Dalyell, Lily

  Dalyell, Theodore

  D’Annunzio, Gabrielle, Il Fuoco

  Dansey, Claude

  Dante Alighieri

  Daphne, Miss

  Davie, J. M.

  Davis, Lydia

  De la Mare, Walter

  Deene Park (Hertfordshire)

  Dent, E. J.

  Dickens, Charles

  Bleak House

  Dido (mongrel dog)

  Douglas, Alfred

  Douglas family

  Douglas, Gavin

  The Palice of Honour

  Douglas, Norman

  Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert

  Doullens

  Draper, Ruth

  Dreyfus, Alfred

  Duddington

  Dudgeon, Colonel

  Durie (Fife)

  Dutton & Co. (publishers)

  Edgemoore house (Lanark)

  Edinburgh

  Orphan Hospital

  University

  New Club

  Edward, Prince of Wales (later Duke of Windsor)

  Edward VII (formerly Prince of Wales)

  Egoist periodical

  Egypt

  Elie Castle

  Eliot, George

  Adam Bede

  Eliot, T. S.

  The Waste Land

  Elizabeth I

  Encyclopaedia Britannica

  Erik (Lady Seaforth’s nephew)

  Etaples

  Eton

  Winchester-Eton Cricket Match (1904)

  Evans, Consul

  Evans, Dame Edith

  Evening Standard

  The Eye Witness journal

  Fabians

  Fane, Lady Augusta

  Farber, Jerry

  Farquarson, Robert

  Fenzi, Douglas

  Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone, Destiny

  Finlay, Viscount

  First World War

  build up to

  life in the trenches

  Messines Ridge

  Ypres

  officer casualties due to moustaches and uniforms

  Hill

  Rosendael

  the Piper of Loos

  Arras

  Verdun

  Jutland

  Somme

  Armistice Day

  Flecker, James E.

  Fletcher, Wing-Commander

  Flodden, Battle of

  Florence

  Florence City Library

  Foligno, Professor

  Foreign Office

  Forster, E. M.

  Fortnightly Review

  France, Anatole

  France, Peter

  Franklin Expedition (1847)

  Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria

  Franz Josef, Emperor

  Frascani, Iacopi

  Frascani, Signor

  French Army

  Frezzan, Federico

  Fry, Roger

  Fussell, Paul

  Gallimard, Gaston

  Gandhi, Mahatma

  Garnett, Constance

  Gaskell, Elizabeth

  Geikie, Archibald, Scottish Reminiscences

  George V

  Georgian poets

  Georgian Poets (1911–1922)

  Gertler, Mark

  Gibbs, Philip

  Gibson, Robert

  Gibson, Violet

  Gibson, Wilfrid

  Gide, André

  Giles, E.

  Gillespie, Tom

  Gillon, Stair

  Gilroy, George

  Gilroy, Tom

  Giotto

  Glasgow Herald

  Glasgow International Exhibition (1901)

  Glasgow Repertory Theatre

  Glasgow Veterinary School

  Golden Treasury

  Golding, Louis

  Gordon Highlanders

  Gosse, Edmund

  Grand Hotel (Cabourg)

  Grant, Duncan

  Grant, J.

  Graves, Robert

  considered a ‘Georgian’ poet

  contributor to The Muse in Arms anthology

  wedding of

  asks Charles for advice on publication of poems

  description of

  transfers from 3rd Battalion to 16th as Cadet Trainer

  ceases correspondence with Charles

  article on

  Country Sentiment

  Fairies and Fusiliers

  Goliath and David

  Goodby to All That

  ‘Manticor’

  Over the Brazier

  Gray, Thomas, Elegy

  Grenfell, Julian

  Haig, Douglas

  Hall, Radclyffe, The Well of Loneliness

  Hambleton Hall (Rutland)

  Hamilton, Helen, The Compleat Schoolmarm

  Handel, Friedrich

  Hardy, Thomas

  The Dynasts

  A Pair of Blue Eyes

  Return of the Native

  Harmsworth, Alfred, Lord Northcliffe

  Hartmann, Cardinal

  Haweis, Stephen

  Hay, Ian, The Oppressed English

  Haynes, Celia

  Haynes, Edmund ‘Ted’

  Haynes, E. S. P.

  Haynes, Gloriana

  Haynes, Oriana

  description of
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  sent translation of Proust by Charles

  tolerance of Charles’s innuendos

  told apocryphal story concerning a wheelbarrow and money

  visits Charles in Italy

  illness of

  encourages Charles’s satirical wit

  visited by Charles at Tortworth

  correspondence with Charles

  learns of Charles’s illness

  Haynes, Renée

  Neapolitan Ice

  Heinemann, William

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Herbert, A. P.

  Herbert, George

  Herries, Alexander

  Hess, A. G.

  Hewlett, Maurice, The Road in Tuscany

  Hill, Canon Erskine

  Hill, Lady

  Hitler, Adolf

  Holland, Cyril

  Holland, Vyvyan

  correspondence with Charles

  description of

  death of his wife

  meets Charles at Amiens

  visits Charles at Carlton House Terrace

  portrait painted by E. S. Mercer

  lives with Stanley Mercer

  teased by Charles

  HBV as pet name for

  visits Charles in Italy

  offers to help find Charles a place to live in Italy

  involvement with Mrs Melville

  lets Charles stay for a short while

  receives wicked limerick from Charles

  letters destroyed by Charles

  told of Charles’s gonorrhea

  told of the ‘Vagina Phallus Hotel’ in Stresa

  told of Charles’s secret mission to Bellinzona

  asked for advice concerning possible marriage of Charles and Lucy Lunn

  arranges for Charles to to hospital

  recalls Charles’s final, bitter Sitwell moment

  Holt, Henry

  Hôtel du Petit Paradis (Langrune, Normandy)

  Houghton, Claude

  Housman, A. E., A Shropshire Lad

  Housman, Laurence, Cloak of Friendship

  Howe (publisher)

  Hunt, Violet

  Huxley, Aldous

  Antic Hay

  Huxley, Maria

  Iliad

  Inverness College

  Inverness Formula (1921)

  Irish Free State

  Irving, Henry

  Isola san Giovanni

  Israel

  Italian Mail

  James, Henry

  The Turn of the Screw

  The Wings of the Dove

  Jews

  Jorlund (Danish singer)

  Journal des débats

  Joyce, James

  Finnegans Wake

  Ulysses

  Joynson-Hicks, Sir William

  Keats, John

  Kempis, Thomas à, The Way of the Cross

  King’s Own Scottish Borderers

  King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

  Kitchener, Horatio

  The Knight of the Burning Pestle (play)

  Knopf, Alfred

  Knox, Ronald

  Spiritual Aeneid

  Kraut, William

  Krishnamurti, Jiddu

  La Stampa

  Ladies Own journal

  Lanark

  Lanark Moor

  Lancashire Fusiliers

  Lang, Andrew

  Lauzun, Armand Louis de Gontaut, duc de, Mémoires du duc de Lauzun

  Law, Bonar

  Law, Charles

  Lawrence, D. H.

  Aaron’s Rod

  Lady Chatterley’s Lover

  Lawrence, Frieda

  Lawrence, Gertrude

 

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