330 “I have written to”: GLB letter, 14 Jan. 1920, ibid., p. 124
331 “From Mr. Montagu for Miss Bell”: 6 Aug. 1920, ibid., p. 154
331 “. . . Colonel Wilson gives me every opportunity”: GLB to Montagu, 6 Aug. 1920, ibid.
332 “Miss Bell. When Sir Percy Cox”: A. T. Wilson, 6 Aug. 1920, ibid., p. 155
332 “On this we shook hands”: GLB letter, 7 Aug. 1920, ibid.
332 A private letter: 17 June 1922
334 “It is quite impossible to tell you”: GLB letter, 17 Oct. 1920, in Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 455
334 “Oh, if we can pull this thing off”: GLB letter, 1 Nov. 1920, ibid., p. 462
14. FAISAL
335 In May 1885: For the accounts of Faisal’s early life, Mrs. Steuart Erskine, King Faisal of Iraq, and Philip Graves (ed.), King Abdullah of Transjordan: Memoirs
335 Following hallowed tradition: From the account of Faisal in the desert, T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
338 ready for the rebellion: From the account of the Arab Revolt, ibid.
340 “I had believed these misfortunes”: Ibid., book 1.
342 Lawrence was also deeply involved: Lawrence’s admission that on the subject of the Arab Revolt he owed much to Gertrude—from a radio broadcast by Elizabeth Robins of 17 Sept. 1926; nos. 14 and 36, Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL. Mentioned in Liora Lukitz, A Quest in the Middle East, p. 237.
345 “or I shall consider you a traitor”: Steuart Erskine, Faisal, p. 76
346 “He combined the qualities”: In a broadcast of 8 Sept. 1933
347 “In our own country”: From an unsigned, undated document, part handwritten, “Great Britain and the Iraq; an Experiment in Anglo-Asiatic relations,” in Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
348 Gertrude, a third of the way: Descriptions of the Paris Peace Conference from Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers
348 “I’ve dropped into a world so amazing”: GLB letter, 7 Mar. 1919
349 “Colonel T. E. Lawrence . . . seems”: Keay, Sowing the Wind, p. 132
349 “The first deception occurred”: Steuart Erskine, Faisal, pp. 96–97
350 On 6 February Faisal: Address to the Supreme Council, MacMillan, Peacemakers, p. 402
351 “After dinner T.E.L. explained”: GLB letter, 26 Mar. 1919, in Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 110
352 “O my dear”: GLB to Aubrey Herbert, in MacMillan, Peacemakers, p. 411
352 “In John’s studio”: Untitled, undated paper by GLB in Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
353 “the establishment in Palestine”: MacMillan, Peacemakers, p. 427
353 “Mr. Balfour’s Zionist pronouncement”: Ibid.
354 “Palestine for the Jews”: GLB to General Clayton, 22 Jan. 1918
354 the leading Zionist: For Weizmann, MacMillan, Peacemakers, p. 427
356 “In one respect Palestine”: Unsigned, undated document, “Palestine,” in Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
357 “Faisal, with his high ideals”: GLB interview with Faisal in Augustus John’s studio, ibid.
358 General Gouraud arrived: Account of Gouraud’s ultimatum to Faisal, Steuart Erskine, Faisal, p. 104
358 “The resistance of the Arabs”: GLB’s undated handwritten notes, item 12, “French Policy in Syria” in Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
359 “The tears stood in his eyes”: Storrs, Orientations, p. 506
359 “In my opinion”: Untitled, undated paper by GLB, Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
360 “. . . the growing hatred of French control”: GLB paper, “The Syrian Situation and Its Bearings on Iraq,” typescript enclosed with a letter of 17 Nov. 1925 and marked “strictly confidential,” in Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
360 “the Druzes, flawlessly courageous”: Ibid.
362 “I wish there were more people”: GLB letter, 18 Dec. 1922
362 “‘My Lady’ he answered”: GLB letter, 1 Nov. 1920
362 “Cox sent an admirable letter”: GLB letter, July 1921
362 “We were all agreed”: GLB letter, 18 Dec. 1920
363 “Sunni opinion [in Iraq]”: GLB to Chirol, 4 Feb. 1921
364 “I said the matter was entirely”: GLB letter, 18 Dec. 1920
364 “I feel quite clear in my own mind”: GLB letter, Christmas Day 1920, in Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 193
15. CORONATION
365 Churchill, however: Churchill and expenditure: Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, pp. 431, 433
366 “The people of England”: T. E. Lawrence, “Mesopotamia,” article for the Sunday Times, 22 Aug. 1920
367 “Amid potations of whisky”: GLB letter, 24 Feb. 1921, in Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 209
367 “We covered more work”: GLB to Colonel Frank Balfour, 25 Mar. 1921, ibid., p. 211
368 “Have we a policy?”: Wyndham Deedes’s statement recounted by GLB in unsigned, undated paper in Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
368 “The French in Syria”: GLB to Chirol, 4 Feb. 1921
369 “At the end”: GLB letter, 25 Apr. 1921
370 “Haji Naji”: GLB letter, 8 May 1921
370 “I believe Faisal is statesman enough”: GLB letter, 19 June 1921
370 “Can you make sure he is chosen”: Churchill to Cox, 10 Jan. 1921, Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 431
370 “I don’t for a moment”: GLB letter, 12 June 1921
371 “The rank and file of the tribesmen”: GLB, Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia, p. 127
372 “It was an incitement to rebellion”: GLB letter, 17 Apr. 1921
372 “He was arrested in a public thoroughfare”: Cox to Churchill, April 1921, in Winstone, Gertrude Bell
373 “Yesterday we had news”: GLB letter, 23 June 1921, in Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 221
374 “I had to part company”: Cox, in Florence Bell, Letters, p. 428
375 “had a most painful interview”: GLB letter, 7 July 1921, in Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 224
375 “Presently Faisal sent for me”: GLB letter, 30 June 1921
375 “And then there stepped forward”: Ibid.
375 “It was a wonderful sight”: GLB letter, 8 July 1921
376 “I’m immensely happy”: GLB letter, 27 July 1921
376 And then came: Description of Ramadi from GLB letter, 31 July 1921
377–78 “a great tribesman” . . .; “He spoke in the great tongue” . . .; “Faisal was a little surprised”: Ibid.
379 “It was wonderfully interesting”: GLB letter, 6 Aug. 1921
380 “It lives on a perch”: GLB letter, 21 Aug. 1921
380 “‘Enti Iraqiyah . . .’ ”: Ibid.
381 “Faisal looked”: GLB letter, 28 Aug. 1921
381 “Basrah and Amarah came”: Ibid.
381 “Have I ever told you”: GLB letter, 11 Sept. 1921
16. STAYING AND LEAVING
384 a dervish: From GLB letter, 17 July 1922
384 “I’m acutely conscious”: GLB letter, 16 Feb. 1920
385 in a modest British journal: Faisal’s story in Everybody’s Weekly, 1 Oct. 1927
387 Lawrence is evasive: From Seven Pillars of Wisdom, pp. 59–60
387 “She stood out”: Letter from Lawrence to Elsa Richmond, also mentioned in Elizabeth Robins’s radio broadcast of 17 Sept. 1926, nos. 14 and 36, Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
389 “I dined with the King”: GLB letter, 25 Sept. 1921, Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 247
390 “the emotional atmosphere”: GLB letter, 4 June 1922, ibid., p. 271
391 “Safwat Pasha”: GLB letter, 16 July 1922
391 “The Treaty is in statu quo ante”: GLB letter, 30 July 1922
391 “My heart died”: GLB letter, 15 Aug. 1922
391 “But will our government”: Ibid.
392 “We roasted great fishes”: GLB letter, 27 Aug. 1922
392 “I opened a parcel”: G
LB letter, 22 Feb. 1922
392 “As soon as we were back”: GLB letter, 27 Aug. 1922
393 “For once Providence”: Ibid., in Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 291
393 Faisal proclaimed the treaty: Steuart Erskine, Faisal, p. 156
394 “I was called up to the palace”: GLB letter, 7 Oct. 1924, in Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 355
394 “I asked him about his wife”: GLB letter, 24 July 1921, ibid., p. 229
394 “She’s charming”: GLB letter, 23 Dec. 1924
395 “The King sent for me”: GLB letter, 31 Dec. 1924, in Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 360
396 “The train and soldiers”: GLB letter, 14 Dec. 1924 396 “I do pray that Husain”: GLB letter, 7 Oct. 1924
397 “The capture of Hail . . . religious sanction”: GLB to Hardinge, 6 Jan. and 16 Mar., 1922, in Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 266
398 “The King is in a mighty taking”: GLB letter, 10 Dec. 1924, ibid., p. 359
398 “The King had violent hysterics”: GLB letter, 15 Oct. 1924, ibid., p. 356
399 “Nor does Abdullah”: GLB paper, “Transjordania,” marked “strictly confidential,” unsigned, undated, Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
399 “I had come back with the conviction”: GLB letter, 18 May 1922
399 “The King’s family, apparently”: GLB letter, 15 Oct. 1924, in Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 356
400 “We’re in the uncomfortable position”: GLB letter, 24 Sept. 1924
400 “Arbil and all the Kurdish districts”: GLB letter, 14 Aug. 1921, in Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 234
401 “I rated them soundly”: GLB letter, 2 Jan. 1922, ibid., p. 258
402 “I spent last week”: GLB letter, 31 Jan. 1922, ibid., p. 261
402 “I went up river”: GLB letter, 17 July 1924, ibid., p. 284
403 “Altogether I think”: GLB letter, 31 Dec. 1923
403 Subsequently writing to : “Confidences re Cornwallis to Molly Trevelyan,” GLB private correspondence, Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
404 “All this time”: GLB letters, 24 April, 9 May 1923, in Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 539
404 “I must tell you something”: GLB letter, 13 Feb. 1924
405 “As if by magic”: Sir Henry Dobbs, in Florence Bell, Letters, p. 441
406 “black depression”: Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 352
406 “I don’t know which of them”: GLB letter, 11 Feb. 1925, ibid., p. 581
406 “in a condition of great nervous fatigue”: Florence Bell, Letters, p. 591
407 “She would stand with her back”: Lecture by Mrs. Pauline Dower, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, May 1976
407 “You dear and beloved Janet”: GLB to Mrs. W. Courtney, 4 Aug. 1925
408 “We all felt”: Florence Bell, Letters, p. 592 408 “Darling Mother”: GLB letter, 21 Oct. 1925
409 “My darling Father and Mother”: GLB letter, 9 Feb. 1926, in Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 384 410
410 “By that time I wasn’t taking”: GLB letter, 30 Dec. 1925
410 “he is going to make me”: GLB letter, 18 Aug. 1922, in Burgoyne, Bell, 1914–1926, p. 290
410 “[Woolley] values it at ten thousand pounds”: GLB letter, Jan. 1924, ibid., p. 333
411 “My sole possessions”: GLB letter, Jan. 1924, ibid., p. 325
412 “Miss Gertrude Bell was one of the most”: Henry Dobbs, in Florence Bell, Letters, p. 453
413 “I think it is extremely unlikely”: GLB letter, 13 May 1926
414 a note to Ken Cornwallis : Request that he look after her dog, from a conversation with Mrs. Susanna Richmond
414 “Dial”: Information from M. Murphy, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, letter to David Bittner
414 “It was my faith always”: Haji Naji to Lady Bell, in Florence Bell, Letters, p. 623
414 “The Queen and I”: King George V to Lady Bell, ibid., p. 624
415 “I think she was very happy in her death”: T. E. Shaw to Sir Hugh Bell, 4 Nov. 1927, in Malcolm Brown (ed.), The Letters of T. E. Lawrence: The Years in India 1927–29
416 a military funeral: Account of GLB’s funeral, The Times, Tuesday 13 July 1926
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GERTRUDE BELL
Unpublished works
Bell, Gertrude, papers and archaeological fieldbooks, Royal Geographical Society, London
———. “The Camel Trade of Arabia” draft paper, Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
———. letters to [Sir] Valentine Chirol, DUL
———. commonplace books, RL
———. “Confidences re Cornwallis to Molly Trevelyan,” private letter, Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
———. “Report of Wyndham Deedes Statement,” unsigned, undated, Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
———. extract from a letter to W. H. Deedes, forwarded to Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, WO 33 doc 48014, DUL 303/1/5
———. diaries, RL, www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk
———. “French Policy in Syria,” undated notes, Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
———. letter to Lord Hardinge, 8 Feb. 1921, Miscellaneous Collection, GLB archives 11, RL
———. “In John’s studio,” interview with Faisal in Augustus John’s studio during Paris Peace Conference, untitled, undated, Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
———. letters, RL, www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk
———. “Palestine,” undated, Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
———. photographic archive, RL, www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk
———. “The Political Future of Iraq,” paper, DUL, 150/7/69
———. private papers, RL
———. “The Resistance of the Arabs,” undated handwritten notes, item 12, Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
———. “Self-Determination as Applied to the Iraq,” paper, DUL, 150/7/62
———. “Self-Determination in Mesopotamia,” memorandum no. S-24, dated Baghdad, 22 Feb. 1919, marked in handwriting “By G.L.B.,” DUL, 303/1/60
———. “Note by Miss Gertrude Bell on the Settlement of the Arab Provinces,” undated, RL
———. “The Syrian Situation and Its Bearings on Iraq,” typescript enclosed with a letter dated 17 Nov. 1925, signed GLB, RL
———. “Transjordania,” marked “strictly confidential,” unsigned, undated, Miscellaneous Collection, GLB Archives, RL
———. “Gertrude Bell Archive, Part 2: Miscellaneous 1892–1938,” RL, 1961–91
Published works
Bell, Gertrude, “The Vaulting System at Ukhaidir,” Journal of Hellenic Studies, xxx (1910)
———. The Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914
———. Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia, London: HMSO, 1920
———. Great Britain and Iraq: An Experiment in Anglo-Asiatic Relations, London: Round Table, published anonymously, 1924
———. Persian Pictures, New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928
———. The Arab War: Confidential Information for GHQ Cairo, Dispatches for the Arab Bulletin, London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1940
———. trans., The Teachings of Hafiz, London: Octagon Press, 1979
———. Arab War Lords and Iraqi Star Gazers, Gertrude Bell’s The Arab of Mesopotamia, USA: Authors’ Choice Press, 1992
———. The Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell, Bethesda, MD: Iranbooks, 1995
———. The Desert and the Sown, New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001
———. Amurath to Amurath, A Journey Along the Banks of the Euphrates, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2002
———. with Sir William Ramsey, The Thousand and One Churches, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909
GENERAL
Account of funeral of Gertrude Bell, The Times, 13 July 1926
“A Great Figure, What Miss Bell Has D
one for Iraq,” Times of India, Bombay, 8 Aug. 1926
Alpine Club, “Miss Gertrude Lowthian Bell,” Alpine Journal, xxxviii (1926), pp. 296–99
Amery, L. S., My Political Life, England Before the Storm 1896–1914, London: Hutchinson, 1953
The Leo Amery Diaries, vol. 1, 1896–1929, London: Barnes & Nicolson, 1980
“An Appeal Against Female Suffrage,” manifesto statement, National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage, London
Anon., secret notes, “The Establishment of an Intelligence Centre in the Near East,” with handwritten diagram, to GFC 1918, DUL, 694/6/1
Anon., “Arab Revolt,” report to Secretary of State from Simla, 29 June, DUL, 137/6/102
Anon., “Lady [Florence] Bell’s Scheme,” North Eastern Daily Gazette, 10 Sept. 1906
Balfour, Lord F. C. C., Gertrude Bell Letters, DUL
“The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 1915,” www.firstworldwar.com and www.1914–1918.net
Bell, Lady Florence, Alan’s Wife, London: Henry & Co., 1893
———. The Story of Ursula, London: Hutchinson, 1895
———. Angela, London: Ernest Benn, 1926
———. The Letters of Gertrude Bell, London: Ernest Benn, 1927
———. At the Works: A Study of a Manufacturing Town, London: Virago Press, 1985
Bell, Sir Hugh, “High Wages: Their Cause and Effect,” address to National Association of Merchants and Manufacturers, repr. in Contemporary Review, Dec. 1920
———. Speeches in Defence of Free Trade and Sound Finance, delivered to the electors of the City of London, Jan. 1910, Literary and Philosophical Society Library, Newcastle upon Tyne
Bell, Sir Isaac Lowthian, Chemical Phenomena of Iron Smelting, London: 1872
———. The Iron Trade of the United Kingdom Compared with That of the Other Chief Iron-making Nations, Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1875
———. Obituary, The Times, Durham Mining Museum, 21 Dec. 1904
———. catalogue entries, Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon Tyne
Berchem, M. van, Strzygowski, J., and Bell, Gertrude L., Amida: matériaux pour l’épigraphie et l’histoire musulmane du Diyar-Bekr, Heidelberg: Amida, 1910 (Berchem)/Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte von Nordmesopotamien Hellas und dem Abendlände (Strzygowski:)/Bell, The Churches and Monasteries of the Tur Abdin
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