by Philip Eade
84. Letter to Nicholls’s mother in Papers of Captain F. R. J Nicholls, IWM 93/17/1.
85. F. C. C. Graham to Michael Davie, 9 June 1976, IWM 76/180/1.
86. Laycock, unpublished memoir, p. 380.
87. Ibid., pp. 380–81.
88. Ibid., p. 388.
89. Ibid.
90. Antony Beevor, Crete 1941 (Introduction to Penguin edition, 2014), p. xv.
91. Conversation between Dr R. E. S. Tanner and Antony Beevor, 2 December 1990, copy of transcript in AWA.
92. Ibid.
93. Colonel E. E. Rich, ‘The Campaign in Crete’, National Archives, CAB 44/121; cited in Gallagher, In the Picture, p. 86.
18 Head Unbloodied but Bowed
1. EW to Laura Waugh, 28 September 1941; AWA.
2. Arthur Waugh Diary, 27 September 1941; BU.
3. EW to Laura Waugh, 28 September 1941; AWA.
4. Cited in Selina Hastings, Evelyn Waugh, p. 422.
5. EW to Laura Waugh, 30 September 1941; AWA.
6. EW to Laura Waugh, 28 September 1941; AWA.
7. EW to Laura Waugh [c. November 1941]; AWA.
8. EW to Laura Waugh, 16 November 1941; EWL, p. 157.
9. EW to Laura Waugh [January 1942]; AWA.
10. Diary, 5 January–7 February 1942; EWD, p. 518.
11. ‘[H]eroic and chivalrous disguise’, Scott-King’s Modern Europe, p. 5; ‘Do you understand …’, EW to Diana Cooper, [Spring 1942], MWMS; ‘I wish I were back with you’, EW to Laycock, 23 March 1942, copy in AWA; ‘It seems unlikely …’, EWD, p. 517; EW to Laura Waugh [May 1942]; AWA.
12. EW to Lady Dorothy Lygon, 17 May 1942; copy in AWA.
13. EW to Laura Waugh, 31 May 1942; EWL, p. 161.
14. Arthur Waugh to EW [25 April 1942]; BL.
15. Laycock to EW, 26 June 1942; BL.
16. 26 October 1942; EWD, p. 530.
17. EW to Laura Waugh, 27 October [1942]; EWL, p. 164.
18. EW to Laura Waugh 27 December 1942; EWL, pp. 164–5.
19. 28 October 1942; EWD, p. 530.
20. EW to Laura Waugh [28 September 1943]; EWL, p. 172.
21. 27 August 1942; EWD, p. 525.
22. EW to Laura Waugh, 24 October [1942]; AWA.
23. EW to Laura Waugh [c. 10 December 1942]; AWA.
24. EW to Laura Waugh [26 July 1943]; AWA.
25. Lord Lovat, March Past, p. 233.
26. EW to Tom Driberg [c. 1 July 1943]; Christ Church, Oxford.
27. EW to Alec Waugh, 8 July 1943; BU.
28. EW to Lord Lovat, 12 July 1943, EWD, p. 541.
29. Lord Lovat to EW, 13 July 1943, EWD, p. 542.
30. Lieutenant-Colonel A. F. Austen to Auberon Waugh, November 1978; AWA.
31. Gen. Haydon to Laycock, 31 July 1943, Laycock Papers 6/20, Liddell Hart Centre.
32. Jakie Astor to Christopher Sykes, cited in Sykes, Evelyn Waugh, p. 228.
33. Laycock Papers, Box 6/15, Liddell Hart Centre; cited in Owen, Commando, p. 312.
34. Brigadier Antony Head to Laycock, 9 September 1942, Laycock Papers, 6/4, LHC, cited in Gallagher In the Picture, p. 227.
35. Laycock to Lovat, 12 September 1942; Laycock Papers, 6/13, LHC, cited in ibid., p. 227.
36. Laura Waugh to Alec Waugh, 3 July 1943, cited in Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, p. 265.
37. EW to Brigadier R. E. Laycock, 19 July 1943, EWD, p. 543.
38. 10 August 1943; EWD, p. 545.
39. 29 August 1943; EWD, p. 548.
40. EW to Laura Waugh [6 December 1943]; EWL, p. 174.
41. Evelyn Waugh, Sword of Honour, p. 533 (Penguin Classics edition).
42. 13 October 1943; EWD, pp. 552–3.
43. EW to Colonel A. H. Ferguson, 24 January 1944; copy in AWA.
44. EW to Laura Waugh, 25 January 1944; EWL, p. 176.
19 A Book to Bring Tears
1. EW to Laura Waugh, 2 February 1944; EWL, p. 176.
2. EW to A. D. Peters, 8 February 1944; EWL, p. 177.
3. 13 February 1944; EWD, p. 558.
4. 2 March 1944; EWD, p. 559.
5. EW to Laura Waugh, 2 March [1944]; EWL, p. 179.
6. EW to Lady Dorothy Lygon, 23 March 1944; EWL, p. 180.
7. Ibid.
8. EW to Laura Waugh [26 March 1944]; AWA.
9. EW to Laura Waugh, 19 September 1943; EWL, p. 169.
10. Auberon Waugh, Will This Do?, p. 29.
11. EW to Laura Waugh, 6 December 1941; AWA.
12. EW to Laura Waugh, [c. 15 December 1942]; AWA.
13. EW to Laura Waugh, 19 September 1943; EWL, p. 170.
14. EW to Laura Waugh [c. 13 February 1944]; AWA.
15. EW to Laura Waugh, 2 June 1941; EWL, p. 179.
16. 1 April 1944; EWD, p. 561.
17. 3 April 1944; EWD, p. 561.
18. 16 April 1944; EWD, p. 561.
19. 4 May 1944; EWD, p. 562.
20. Ibid.; EWD, p. 564.
21. 9 March 1944; EWD, pp. 564–5.
22. Auberon Waugh, Will This Do?, pp. 13–14.
23. Evelyn Waugh to Nancy Mitford, 18 May [1944]; LNMEW, p. 4.
24. EW to Lady Dorothy Lygon, 23 March 1944; EWL, p. 182.
25. 6 June 1944; EWD, pp. 567–8.
26. EW to A. D. Peters, 20 June 1944; HRC.
27. 24 June 1944; EWD, p. 568.
28. EW to Laura Waugh, 25 June 1944; AWA.
29. Fitzroy Maclean, ‘Captain Waugh’, in Pryce-Jones, Evelyn Waugh and His World, p. 134.
30. 2 July 1944; EWD, pp. 568–9.
31. EW to Laura Waugh, 6 July 1944; AWA.
32. Nicholas Shakespeare, ‘A Life Less Ordinary’, The Independent, 21 September 2011.
33. Diana Cooper, Trumpets from the Steep, p. 201. John Julius Norwich, Trying to Please, p. 99.
34. 16 July 1944; EWD, p. 573.
35. Randoplh Churchill to Laura Waugh, 26 July 1944; AWA.
36. 31 July 1944; Hermione Ranfurly, To War with Whittaker, (Heinemann, 1994), p. 260.
37. Pryce-Jones, Evelyn Waugh and His World, p. 53.
38. EW to Laura Waugh, 17 August [1944]; EWL, p. 182.
39. Stephen Clissold, ‘Civil Waugh in Croatia’, The South Slav Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, September 1980.
40. 16 September 1944; EWD, p. 579.
41. EW to Laura Waugh, 16 September 1944; EWL, p. 182.
42. EW to Catherine Waugh, 17 October 1944; AWA.
43. Clissold, ‘Civil Waugh in Croatia’, The South Slav Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, September 1980.
44. Pryce-Jones, Evelyn Waugh and His World, p. 143.
45. The Earl of Birkenhead, ‘Fiery Particles’, in ibid., p. 152.
46. Clissold, ‘Civil Waugh in Croatia’, The South Slav Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, September 1980.
47. The Earl of Birkenhead, ‘Fiery Particles’, in Pryce-Jones, Evelyn Waugh and His World, pp. 151–3.
48. 27 October 1944; EWD, p. 587.
49. EW to Nancy Mitford, 12 November [194]; LNMEW, p. 7.
50. EW to Laura Waugh, 2 November [1944]; EWL, p. 192.
51. EW to Laura Waugh, 5 November [1944]; EWL, pp. 192–3.
52. The Earl of Birkenhead to Hugh Trevor-Roper, 29 October 1973; Evelyn Waugh Newsletter, Vol. 43, No. 3.
53. Clissold, ‘Civil Waugh in Croatia’, The South Slav Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, September 1980.
54. EW to Laura Waugh, 5 November 1944; EWL, p. 192–3.
55. EW to Catherine Waugh, 11 December [1944]; AWA.
56. EW to Laura Waugh, 25 December 1944; AWA.
57. EW to Nancy Mitford, 4 January 1945; AWA.
58. EW to Laura Waugh, 7 January 1945; EWL, p. 195.
59. EW to Nancy Mitford, 7 January 1945; EWL, p. 196.
60. 12 January 1945; EWD, p. 608.
61. EW to Laura Waugh, 5 January 1945; AWA.
62. EW to Laura Waugh, 10 February 1945; EWL, p. 201.
63. EW to Laura Waugh, 8 March 1945; EWL, p. 202.
20 The Occupation
1. EW to Nancy Mit
ford, 7 January 1945; LNMEW, p. 14.
2. Martin D’Arcy to EW, 21 April 1945; BL.
3. Penelope Betjeman to EW, 23 January 1945; BL.
4. Nancy Mitford to EW, 17 January 1945; BL.
5. Henry Yorke to EW, Christmas Day 1944; BL.
6. Nancy Mitford to EW, 17 January 1945; BL.
7. Preface to 1960 edition of Brideshead Revisited (Chapman & Hall).
8. Harold Acton to EW, 30 May 1945; BL.
9. Manchester Guardian, 1 June 1945; EWCH, p. 233.
10. 23 June 1945; EWCH, p. 239.
11. 5 January 1946, EWCH, p. 245.
12. EWL, p. 219n.
13. 12 April 1945; EWD, p. 625.
14. EW to Douglas Woodruff, 12 January 1946; copy in AWA.
15. 1 July 1945; EWD, p. 608.
16. EW to Alfred Gilbey, 31 October 1945; copy in AWA.
17. The Daily Telegraph, 11 November 1947, EAR, p. 339.
18. EW to Laura Waugh, 28 July 1945; AWA.
19. ‘What To Do With the Upper Classes’, Town and Country, September 1946, EAR, p. 312.
20. Ibid.
21. 28 July 1945; EWD, p. 629.
22. EW to Laura Waugh, 28 July 1945; AWA.
23. 28 July 1945; EWD, p. 629.
24. EW to Laura Waugh, 25 August 1945; EWL, p. 211.
25. 11 September 1945; EWD, p. 608.
26. EW to Lady Diana Cooper, 12 January 1947; MWMS, p. 93.
27. EW to Catherine Waugh, 19 September 1945; AWA.
28. EW to Lady Mary Lygon, 12 October 1945; copy in AWA.
29. EW to Randolph Churchill, 8 October 1945; EWL, p. 213.
30. 26 December 1945; EWD, p. 608.
31. EW to Lady Diana Cooper, 3 January 1946; MWMS, p. 82.
32. Auberon Waugh, Will This Do? p. 65.
33. EW to Penelope Betjeman [August 1935]; edited version in EWL, pp. 96–7.
34. Richard Ingrams to Auberon Waugh, January 1987, cited in Bevis Hillier, John Betjeman: New Fame New Love, 2002, p. 661.
35. Penelope Betjeman to Martin Stannard, cited in Stannard, Evelyn Waugh, p. 282.
36. Auberon Waugh, Literary Review, December 1986.
37. EW to John Betjeman, 27 May 1945; EWL, p. 207.
38. EW to Penelope Betjeman, 15 January 1946; EWL, pp. 217–18.
39. Penelope Betjeman to EW, 23 January 1946; BL.
40. EW to John Betjeman, 22 September 1946; copy in AWA.
41. Penelope Betjeman to EW, 1 June 1947; BL.
42. EW to Penelope Betjeman, 4 June [1947]; EWL, pp. 252–3.
43. Diary, 4 August 1947; edited version in EWD, p. 608.
44. EW to Nancy Mitford, 7 August [1946]; LNMEW, p. 46.
45. EW to Graham Greene, 21 August 1951; EWL, p. 353. EW to Nancy Mitford, 29 October 1951; LNMEW, p. 244.
46. The Tablet, 3 December 1938, EAR, pp. 238–41.
47. The Tablet, 10 November 1945, EAR, pp. 281–3.
48. EW to Nancy Mitford, 7 January 1945; LNMEW, p. 14.
49. 31 March 1946; EWD, p. 645.
50. ‘Notes on Nuremberg’; EW to Randolph Churchill [April 1946], EWL, p. 226.
51. Philip Ziegler, Diana Cooper, p. 241.
52. Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell, 7 April 1946, cited in Ziegler, p. 241.
53. 1–2 April 1946; EWD, p. 647.
54. EW to Lady Mary Lygon, 4 February 1946; EWL, p. 233.
55. 6 March 1946; EWD, p. 643.
56. ‘Fan-Fare’, Life, 8 April 1946, EAR, pp. 300–304.
57. A. D. Peters to EW, 15 November 1946; HRC.
58. EW to A. D. Peters, 21 November 1946; HRC.
59. Harold Acton, More Memoirs of an Aesthete, p. 225.
60. EW to Lady Diana Cooper [c.2 February 1947]; MWMS, p. 94.
61. Alec Waugh to Catherine Waugh, 22 February 1948; BU.
62. Diary, 7 February 1947 (omitted from EWD).
63. Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, p. 381.
64. EW to A. D. Peters, 19 February 1947; HRC.
65. 7 February 1947; EWD, p. 673.
66. 7 April 1947; EWD, p. 675.
67. EW to A. D. Peters, 6 March [1947]; HRC.
68. Ibid.
69. 7 April 1947; EWD, p. 675.
70. Ibid.
71. The Tablet, 17 July 1936.
72. 7 April 1947; EWD, p. 675.
73. EW to A. D. Peters, 6 March [1947]; HRC.
74. EW to Lady Diana Cooper, 10 May [1947]; MWMS, pp. 95–6.
75. EW to A. D. Peters, 6 March [1947]; HRC.
76. 1 February 1947; EWD, p. 670.
77. Carol Brandt to A. D. Peters, 18 March 1947, HRC, cited in Hastings, Evelyn Waugh, p. 517.
78. Anthony Slide (ed.), ‘It’s the Pictures That Got Small’: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood’s Golden Age (2014), 16 February 1947, p. 304.
79. Cited in Craig Brown, One on One, (Fourth Estate, 2011), p. 53.
80. Hastings, Evelyn Waugh, p. 517.
81. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, p. 23 (Penguin Modern Classics edition).
82. EW’s remark to Toye is in Michael Swan to Maurice Cranston, 16 July [1952], Cranston Papers, HRC. His warning to Baby is in EW to Teresa Cuthbertson, 4 January 1946; private collection, copy in AWA.
83. 19 April 1947; EWD, p. 675.
84. EW to Nancy Mitford, 16 October [1946]; EWL, p. 246.
85. EW to Margaret Stephens, 26 May 1947; AWA.
86. ‘Half in Love with Easeful Death: An Examination of Californian Burial Customs’, Life, 29 September 1947, The Tablet, 18 October 1947, EAR, pp. 331–7.
87. EW to A. D. Peters, 11 September 1947; HRC.
88. A. D. Peters to EW, 13 September 1947; HRC.
89. EW to A. D. Peters, 14 September [1947]; HRC.
90. 29 June 1947; EWD, p. 681.
91. Cyril Connolly to EW, [2 September 1947]; BL.
92. Horizon, February 1948, pp. 76–7; EAR, pp. 299–300.
93. Sykes, Evelyn Waugh, p. 312.
94. Cited in Jeffrey Meyers, Edmund Wilson, (Houghton Mifflin, 1995), p. 271.
95. Nancy Mitford to EW, 9 February 1948; LNMEW, p. 90.
96. EW to Nancy Mitford [December 1950]; LNMEW, p. 207.
97. Lady Pamela Berry to Nancy Mitford, 27 November 1949, cited in Hastings, Evelyn Waugh, pp. 537–8.
98. EWL, pp. 288–9n.
99. EW to Laura Waugh, 9 November [1948]; EWL, p. 288.
100. EW to Nancy Mitford, 2 April [1949]; LNMEW, p. 121.
101. Sykes, Evelyn Waugh, p. 337.
21 Off My Rocker
1. Laura Waugh to EW [July 1950]; BL.
2. EW to Laura Waugh, 30 July and 31 July 1950; EWL, p. 334 and AWA.
3. Auberon Waugh, Will This Do?, p. 46.
4. Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, p. 312.
5. Ibid., pp. 312–13.
6. Auberon Waugh, Will This Do?, p. 41.
7. EW to Auberon Waugh, 20 February 1956, EWL, p. 466.
8. Auberon Waugh, Will This Do?, p. 41.
9. Auberon Waugh, Will This Do?, p. 41; Auberon Waugh to Nicholas Shakespeare, Arena interview.
10. Cited in Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, p. 308.
11. Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, p. 310.
12. EW to Teresa D’Arms 17 April 1964; AWA; James Waugh to author, February 2016; ‘Let Evelyn Waugh back into Combe Florey churchyard’ by Septimus Waugh, The Spectator, 26 March 2016.
13. EW to Graham Greene, 18 August 1951; EWL, p. 353.
14. Catherine Walston to EW [24 August 1951]; BL.
15. EW to Catherine Walston, 25 August 1951; EWL, p. 355.
16. Time, 27 October 1952, EWCH, pp. 341–3.
17. 19 December 1952, EWD, p. 705.
18. EW to Laura Waugh, 5 January 1953; EWL, p. 389.
19. EW to Nancy Mitford, 10 February 1953; LNMEW, p. 300.
20. John Betjeman to EW, 24 May 1953; Candida Lycett Green (ed.)., John Betjeman Letters, Vol. 2 (Methuen, 1995), p. 42.
21. Cited in A. N. Wilson, Betjeman, p. 209.
22. EW to Lord Kinross [1953]; EWL, p. 416.
23. John Betjeman to EW, 31 December 1953, John Betjeman Letters, Vol. 2, p. 47.
24. EW to John Betjeman, 2 January 1954; coopy in AWA.
25. Sykes, Evelyn Waugh, p. 472.
26. Barbara Skelton, Tears Before Bedtime (Hamish Hamilton, 1987), pp. 135–6.
27. John Julius Norwich (ed.), Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to her son John Julius Norwich, 1939–1952, p. 229.
28. 29 July 1947; EWD, p. 682.
29. EW to Nancy Mitford, 5 December [1949]; LNMEW, p. 158.
30. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, pp.11–12.
31. Ibid., p. 12.
32. EW to John Betjeman, 17 September 1953, EWL, p. 410.
33. Auberon Waugh to Martin Stannard, 9 February 1989; Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years 1939–1966, p. 334.
34. Ibid.
35. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, p. 15.
36. Frankly Speaking, cited in Appendix to Penguin edition of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold.
37. EW to Diana Cooper, 7 August [1953]; MWMS, p. 179.
38. Philip Ziegler, Diana Cooper, p. 266.
39. EW to Diana Cooper, 19 September [1953]; MWMS, p. 183.
40. EW to Diana Cooper, 19 August [1953]; MWMS, p. 178.
41. Ziegler, Diana Cooper, p. 277.
42. EW to Diana Cooper, 2 January 1954; MWMS, p. 186.
43. 6 January 1954; EWD, p. 724.
44. 6 January 1954; ibid.
45. EW to Laura Waugh, 3 February [1954]; EWL, p. 418.
46. EW to Laura Waugh, 8 February [1954]; ibid.
47. EW to Diana Cooper, 18 February [1954]; MWMS, p. 187–8.
48. Frances Donaldson, Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Country Neighbour, p. 59.
49. Ibid., p. 60.
50. EW to Cyril Connolly, 13 March 1954; copy in AWA.
51. EW to Diana Cooper, 6 March 1954; MWMS, p. 189.
52. EW to Nancy Mitford, 5 March 1954; LNMEW, p. 332.
53. EW to Cyril Connolly, 13 March 1954; copy in AWA.
54. Hollis, Oxford in the Twenties, p. 82.
55. EW to Margaret Waugh, 11 December 1954; EWL, p. 434.
56. EW to Nancy Mitford, 18 December 1954; LNMEW, p. 332.
57. EW to Ann Fleming, 1955; quoted in Matthew Parker, Goldeneye (Hutchinson, 2014), p. 188.
58. EW to Ann Fleming, 6 March [1955]; copy in AWA.
59. EW to Daphne Fielding, 2 October [1956]; EWL, p. 476.
60. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, pp. 9–10 (Penguin Modern Classics edition, 2006).
61. 20 July 1957, EWCH, pp. 384–6.
62. 21 July 1957, EWCH, pp. 386–7.