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22. A Little Learning, p. 109.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., p. 110.
25. Ibid., p. 113.
26. Transcript of C. L. Chamberlin interview with Selina Hastings, p. 5; AWA.
27. Arthur Waugh, One Man’s Road, p. 358.
28. A Little Learning, p. 120.
29. Alec Waugh to Hugh Mackintosh, 31 January 1919; BU.
30. A Little Learning, p. 117.
31. Hastings, Evelyn Waugh, p. 54.
32. A Little Learning, p. 122.
33. Ibid., p.117.
34. Arthur Waugh to Evelyn Waugh, 6 February 1919; dedicatory letter printed in Tradition and Change (1919).
35. Arthur Waugh to Jean Fleming, 14 April 1918; private collection, quoted in Hastings, p. 55; copy in AWA.
36. A Little Learning, p. 124.
37. Ibid., p. 125.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid., p. 130.
40. Ibid., p. 131; Evelyn Waugh to Randolph Churchill, 5 September 1963, Encounter, Vol. 31, p. 17.
41. A Little Learning, p. 131.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid., p. 126; 23 September 1919; EWD, p. 19.
44. A Little Learning, p. 146.
45. Preface to Francis Crease’s Decorative Designs (1927); EAR, p. 23.
46. A Little Learning, p. 147.
47. EWD, pp. 53 and 54; EW to Arthur Waugh, 29 January 1920, quoted in Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, pp. 140–41; AWA.
48. 8 May 1920; EWD, p. 74.
49. 29 January 1929; EWD, pp. 53–4 and A Little Learning, p. 148.
50. Thus billed on Amazon.
51. 5 February 1920; EWD, p. 55.
52. Preface … Essays Articles, p. 24.
53. 25 March 1920, quoted in Hastings, p. 67; copy in AWA.
54. March 1920; EWD, pp. 65–6.
55. Introduction by Arthur Waugh to Ian Mackenzie, The Darkened Ways (Chapman & Hall, 1919).
56. Philippa Codrington to Selina Hastings, 27 January 1991; AWA.
57. A Little Learning, p. 69.
58. Ibid., p. 153.
59. Ibid, p. 150.
60. EWD, p. 78.
61. 19 July 1921; EWD, p. 132.
62. A Little Learning, p. 162.
5 Watertight Compartments
1. Noel Annan, Roxburgh of Stowe, p. 47.
2. 26 September 1919; EWD, p. 20.
3. Evelyn Waugh’s review of Annan’s Roxburgh of Stowe, The Observer, 17 October 1965; EAR pp. 638–9.
4. 19–25 October 1920; EWD, p. 107.
5. Diary, 23 April 1921; edited version at request of Alec in EWD, p. 125.
6. A Little Learning, p. 158; EW to Nancy Mitford, 6 January [1951], EWL, p. 343.
7. A Little Learning, pp. 159–60.
8. 11 October 1921; EWD, p. 141 (with Macdonald’s name deleted).
9. A Little Learning, p. 160.
10. Ibid., p. 161.
11. 25 October 1920; EWD, p. 107.
12. Robert Murray Davis, Evelyn Waugh, Apprentice, p. 63.
13. Ibid., p. 68.
14. 21 December 1920; EWD, p. 108.
15. A Little Learning, p. 161.
16. 29 October 1921; EWD, p. 144.
17. EW to Arthur Waugh, 13 June [1921]; EWL, p. 3.
18. A Little Learning, p. 132.
19. 31 March 1921; EWD, p. 122; A Little Learning, pp. 134–5.
20. 19 July 1921; EWD, p. 131.
21. Arthur Waugh to EW, 1 June 1921; BL; A Little Learning, p. 136.
22. 3 June 1921; EWD, p. 127.
23. Evelyn Waugh, Apprentice, p. 114.
24. Arthur Waugh to EW, 17 May 1921; BL.
25. 26 June 1921; EWD, p. 129.
26. James Lees-Milne diary, 29 July 1973, Ancient as the Hills, p. 66.
27. Christopher Chamberlin to Selina Hastings, interview transcript, AWA
28. Henrietta McCall, The Life of Max Mallowan, p. 15.
29. Max Mallowan, Mallowan’s Memoirs, pp. 19-20.
30. Richard Ollard (ed.), The Diaries of A. L. Rowse, p. 414, ‘Evelyn had a nasty nature (though also charm when he chose).’
31. EW to Nancy Mitford, [28 December] 1962; LNMEW, p. 471.
32. 2 October 1919; EWD, p. 23.
33. 6 May 1921; EWD, p. 126.
34. Ollard, Rowse Diaries, p. 414.
35. 2 October 1919; EWD, p. 23.
36. A Little Learning, p. 128.
37. 17 October 1919; EWD, p. 23, rating one of his efforts a ‘terrible effusion’.
38. 23 October 1919; EWD, p. 31.
39. 2 May 1921; EWD, p. 126.
40. 27 February 1921; EWD, p. 114 (with name deleted).
41. Francis Wheen, Tom Driberg, p. 27.
42. 7 November 1919; EWD, p. 35.
43. A Little Learning, pp. 143–4.
44. Tom Driberg, Ruling Passions, p. 49.
45. 13 June 1921; EWD, p. 127.
46. Wheen, Tom Driberg, pp. 29 and 32–3.
47. Driberg, Ruling Passions, p. 49.
48. 15 October 1920; EWD, p. 106.
49. A Little Learning, p. 135.
50. Luned Hamilton-Jenkins (née Jacobs) to Selina Hastings, December 1991; AWA.
51. Alec Waugh to Hugh Mackintosh, 31 January 1919; BU.
52. 27 September 1919; EWD, p. 21.
53. 24 January 1921; EWD, p. 109.
54. Luned Hamilton-Jenkins (née Jacobs) to Selina Hastings, December 1991; AWA.
55. 12 August 1920; EWD, p. 95.
56. 22–3 April and 31 August 1920; EWD, pp. 69, 99.
57. Dudley Carew Diary, 21 August 1921, HRC.
58. 24 January 1921; EWD, p. 109.
59. Dudley Carew Diary, 21 August 1921; HRC.
60. Dudley Carew Diary, 12 May 1921; HRC.
61. 27 June 1920; EWD, p. 87.
62. Note to Dudley Carew interview with Michael Davie, 17 November 1972; AWA.
63. Dudley Carew Diary, 15 August 1921, HRC.
64. Alec Waugh, Early Years, p. 152.
65. Ibid., p. 160.
66. Alec Waugh, Early Years, pp. 155–6.
67. Andrew Waugh to Selina Hastings, transcript of interview, p. 7; AWA.
68. Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, p. 147.
69. Ibid.
70. Andrew Waugh to Selina Hastings; AWA.
71. A Little Learning, p. 138.
72. 16 October 1921; EWD, p. 141.
73. A Little Learning, p. 138.
74. 16 and 19 October 1921; EWD, pp. 141–2.
75. 19 October 1921; EWD, p. 142.
76. 29 October 1921; EWD, p. 144.
77. 6 December 1921; EWD, p. 150.
78. C. R. M. F. Cruttwell to Evelyn Waugh, 14 December 1921; BL.
79. 16 December 1921; EWD, p. 154.
6 All That One Dreams
1. Arthur Waugh to EW, 15 December 1921; BL.
2. A Little Learning, p. 137.
3. Lancing College report, Christmas Term 1921, AWA.
4. Roxburgh to EW, 12 March 1922; BL.
5. EW to Dudley Carew, undated (c.New Year 1922), HRC.
6. A Little Learning, p. 163.
7. Ibid., p. 166.
8. [Early 1922]; EWL, p.4.
9. 13 February [1922]; EWL, p. 7.
10. Evelyn Waugh in Letters by Terence Greenidge, p. 43.
11. A Little Learning, p. 191.
12. [1922]; EWL, p. 10.
13. EW to Dudley Carew [March 1922], EWL, p. 8.
14. Claud Cockburn, ‘Evelyn Waugh’s Lost Rabbit’, Atlantic Monthly, December 1973.
15. EW to Dudley Carew, undated (spring 1922), HRC.
16. Christopher Hollis, Oxford in the Twenties, p. 76.
17. Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years: 1903–1939, p. 74.
18. The Isis, 8 February 1922, p. 12.
19. Oxford Magazine, 23 February 1922, p. 246; 30 November 1922, p. 123; and The Isis, 29 November 1922.
20. A Little Learning, pp. 180–81.
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p; 21. Quoted in Noel Annan, Our Age, p. 113.
22. Terence Greenidge, Degenerate Oxford?, p. 91.
23. Driberg, Ruling Passions, p. 55.
24. Sykes, Evelyn Waugh, p. 48.
25. EW to Dudley Carew, 10 March 1922; EWL, p. 8.
26. EW to Tom Driberg, 21 May 1922, Christ Church, Oxford; EWL, p. 10.
27. EW to Tom Driberg, late May 1922, Christ Church, Oxford.
28. Transcript of Selina Hastings’s interview with A. L. Rowse, 17 March 1990; AWA.
29. Cited in Clive Fisher, Cyril Connolly (Macmillan, 1995), p. 58.
30. EW to Nancy Mitford, 18 December 1954; EWL, p. 435.
31. Christopher Hollis to Cyril Connolly, quoted in Jeremy Lewis, Cyril Connolly, p. 111.
32. A. L. Rowse to Selina Hastings, 4 June 1991; AWA.
33. Transcript of Selina Hastings’s interview with A. L. Rowse, 17 March 1990; AWA.
34. Richard Pares to EW, undated; BL.
35. Ibid.
36. Ollard, Rowse Diaries, p. 414.
37. Isaiah Berlin, Personal Impressions, (Hogarth, 1980), p. 92.
38. A Little Learning, pp. 191–2.
39. The Isis, 3 December 1924.
40. Richard Pares to EW, undated [December/January 1923]; BL.
41. Quoted in David Pryce Jones, Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir, p. 63.
42. Transcript of Arena interview with Anthony Bushell; AWA.
43. Hollis, Oxford in the Twenties, p. 79.
44. Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, pp. 82–3.
45. EW to Dudley Carew, two undated letters, from spring 1923 and spring/summer 1924.
46. Brideshead Revisited, p. 25.
47. Transcript of BBC Arena interview with Anthony Bushell, p. 250 (although earlier in the interview, on p. 249, he said the incident was ‘pure invention’); copy in AWA.
48. Ibid.
49. Anthony Powell, Infants of the Spring, p. 154.
50. James Knox, Robert Byron, p. 43.
51. Powell, Infants of the Spring, p. 113.
52. Rowse, A Cornishman at Oxford, p. 23; Lucy Butler (ed.) Robert Byron Letters Home, p. 16; Emlyn Williams, George: An Early Autobiography, pp. 315–16.
53. John Rothenstein, Summer’s Lease, p. 94.
54. Rowse, Cornishman at Oxford, p. 24.
55. Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster (ed.) Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure, p. 126.
56. Harold Acton to EW, 23 September 1923; BL.
57. The New York Times Magazine, 30 November 1952; EAR, pp. 423–4.
58. Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, p. 126.
59. Ibid., p. 120.
60. Harold Acton to Evelyn Waugh, undated; BL.
61. A Little Learning, p. 198.
62. Ibid.
63. Ibid., p. 204; Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, p. 89.
64. A Little Learning, p. 204.
65. Put Out More Flags, p. 19.
66. Sefton Delmer, Trail Sinister, pp. 337–443; Evelyn’s cousin and Murray’s friend Claud Cockburn countered with a more innocent explanation that the ape had inadvertently bitten her host’s jugular vein while attempting to rouse him from sleep. See Claud Cockburn, ‘Spying in Spain and Elsewhere’, Grand Street, Vol.1 No. 2 (1982); Paul Preston, We Saw Spain Die, pp. 125–6.
67. Alec Waugh, My Brother Evelyn, p. 172.
68. Hertford College Magazine, No. 78 (1992), p. 12.
69. Cockburn, ‘Evelyn Waugh’s Lost Rabbit’, Atlantic Monthly, December 1973.
70. A Little Learning, p. 171.
71. Ibid., p. 171–2.
72. Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, pp. 177–9.
7 His Poor Dead Heart
1. EW to Tom Driberg, [May 1922]; EWL, p. 9.
2. Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, p. 169.
3. Hugh Molson recalling what Christopher Hollis told him, Arena interview with Lord Molson; AWA.
4. Alec Waugh, Early Years, p. 165.
5. Cockburn, ‘Evelyn Waugh’s Lost Rabbit’, Atlantic Monthly, December 1973.
6. Alec Waugh, My Brother Evelyn, p. 169.
7. Fragment of Vol. 2 of autobiography, ‘A Little Hope’, HRC, quoted in ibid., p. 170.
8. See for example Arundel del Re in The Isis, 20 June 1923, p. 12.
9. Transcript of interview with Lord Molson for Arena, copy in AWA.
10. Harold Acton to Christopher Sykes, 16 October 1972, AWA; Introduction by Ann Pasternak Slater to The Complete Short Stories of Evelyn Waugh.
11. Evelyn Waugh in Letters by Terence Greenidge, p. 7.
12. A Little Learning, p. 192.
13. Selina Hastings interview with Anthony Powell; AWA; Duncan Fallowell, How to Disappear, p. 175.
14. Harold Acton to Alastair Graham and EW, 8 April 1924; BL.
15. Humphrey Carpenter, The Brideshead Generation, p. 85.
16. Fallowell, How to Disappear, p. 178.
17. A Little Learning, p. 193.
18. Alastair Graham to Michael Davie, 30 October 1975, Michael Davie Papers; AWA.
19. ‘I wrote to my father asking to be taken away and sent to Paris to enjoy the full life of [George du Maurier’s] Trilby’, A Little Learning, p. 175.
20. EW to Dudley Carew, undated; EWL, p. 12, where the date is estimated as 1924, however the letter also refers to EW speaking at the Union and the only instance recorded in The Isis of his doing that was in late 1923.
21. Jessie Graham to Brasenose College, 6 November 1923, Brasenose College Archives, Oxford.
22. A Little Learning, p. 192.
23. Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Classics edition, 2000), p. 25.
24. Catherine Waugh’s Diary, 15 December 1923; BU.
25. Alastair Graham to EW, 5 September 1925; BL.
26. A Little Learning, p. 208.
8 Pure as Driven Slush
1. EW to Dudley Carew, c. 12 June 1924, HRC.
2. 29 July to 30 August 1924; EWD, p. 172.
3. C. R. M. F. Cruttwell to EW, undated; BL.
4. A Little Learning, p. 210.
5. EWD, 25 June 1924.
6. Paula Byrne, Mad World, p. 63.
7. Transcript of Selina Hastings’s interview with Tamara Talbot Rice; AWA.
8. Harman Grisewood to Selina Hastings, interview transcript; AWA.
9. Powell, Infants of the Spring, p. 98.
10. A Little Learning, p. 210.
11. Anthony Bushell, Arena interview; AWA.
12. 29 October 1924; EWD, p. 183.
13. Rothenstein, Summer’s Lease, p. 110.
14. A Little Learning, p. 212.
15. Douglas Goldring, Odd Man Out, p. 282.
16. Quoted in Kate Summerscale, Queen of Whale Cay (Fourth Estate, 1997), p. 76.
17. 3 July 1924; EWD, p. 166.
18. 12 July 1924; EWD, p. 169.
19. Anthony and Violet Powell to Selina Hastings, interview transcript; AWA.
20. 9 November 1924, EWD, p. 186.
21. A Little Learning, p. 213.
22. 12 November 1924; EWD, p. 187.
23. 18 November 1924; EWD, p. 188.
24. 29 October 1924; EWD, p. 183.
25. EW to Harold Acton, [c. 15 December 1924]; BL; 19 December 1924; EWD, p. 192.
26. Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, p. 146.
27. The only institutional libraries known to hold copies of Irais are the Kinsey Institute, Cornell, and the British Library.
28. 24 December 1924; EWD, p. 193–4.
29. A Little Learning, pp. 217–18.
30. Dorothea Ponsonby Diary, 28 July 1924, quoted in Taylor, Bright Young People, p. 56.
31. Note by Harman Grisewood headed ‘Olivia Plunket Greene’; AWA.
32. Harman Grisewood to Selina Hastings, interview transcript; AWA.
33. Harman Grisewood to Christopher Sykes, 2 April 1973, GU.
34. 11 January 1925; EWD, p. 197.
35. 21 January 1925; EWD, p. 199.
36. 25 January 1925; EWD, p. 201.
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bsp; 37. A Little Learning, p. 221.
38. EW to Catherine Waugh, undated [c.23 January 1925]; BL.
39. 5 May 1925; EWD, p. 211.
40. Quoted in Sykes, Evelyn Waugh, p. 60.
41. Verschoyle, quoted in ibid., p. 60.
42. A Little Learning, p. 224.
43. 2 March 1925; EWD, p. 203.
44. 29 March 1925; EWD, p. 204.
45. A Little Learning, p. 225.
46. Georgiana Russell (later Blakiston) to Patrick Balfour, 22 April 1925, Balfour Papers, Huntington Library.
47. Ibid.
48. The Daily Telegraph, 16 April 1925.
49. Georgiana Blakiston to Patrick Balfour, 22 April 1925, Huntington Library.
50. Arthur Ponsonby to Dorothea Ponsonby, 7 April 1925, Shulbrede archives, quoted in Raymond A. Jones, Arthur Ponsonby, (Christopher Helm, 1985), p. 161.
51. 20 October 1925; EWD, p. 229.
52. 24 April 1925; EWD, p. 209.
53. Evelyn Waugh in Letters by Terence Greenidge, p. 135.
54. 15 April 1925; EWD, pp. 207–8 (with name deleted).
55. Ibid.
56. 18 April 1925; EWD, p. 208.
57. Ibid.
58. Alexander Waugh Fathers and Sons, p. 192.
59. 14 May 1925; EWD, p. 211.
60. Decline and Fall, p. 45.
61. A Little Learning, pp. 227-8; not recorded in his Diary.
62. 3 July 1925; EWD, p. 213.
63. 28 May 1925; EWD, p. 212.
64. A Little Learning, p. 228.
65. Ibid.
66. 1 July 1925; EWD, p. 213.
67. A Little Learning, p. 230.
9 Becoming a Man of Letters
1. 28 July 1925; EWD, p. 241.
2. EW to Harold Acton, [18 February 1925]; EWL, pp. 23–4.
3. 26 August 1925; EWD, p. 218.
4. Alastair Graham to EW; 1 September 1925; BL.
5. Alastair Graham to EW; 5 September 1925; BL.
6. 16 and 20 August 1925; EWD, pp. 216–7.
7. 23 September 1925; EWD, p. 223.
8. 1 and 7 August, 1925; EWD, pp. 214–15.
9. 22 December 1925; EWD, p. 238.
10. Christmas Day 1925; EWD, p. 238.
11. 15 November 1925; EWD, p. 234.
12. Note headed ‘Olivia Plunket Greene’ by Harman Grisewood; AWA.
13. Michael Holroyd, Augustus John, Vol. 2, pp. 167–8.
14. 29 December 1925; EWD, p. 240.
15. Harman Grisewood to Selina Hastings, transcript of interview, p. 9; AWA.
16. 8 October 1925; EWD, p. 226.
17. 26 January 1926; EWD, p. 244.
18. 25 February 1926; EWD, p. 247.
19. 13 March 1926; EWD, p. 248.
20. 20 January 1926; EWD, p. 243.
21. 26 January 1926; EWD, p. 244.