by Philip Eade
22 Suitably Sequestered
1. Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, p. 338.
2. The Times, 23 March 1964.
3. Nancy Spain, ‘My Pilgrimage to See Mr Waugh’, Daily Express, 23 June 1955.
4. ‘Awake My Soul! It Is A Lord’, The Spectator, 8 July 1955.
5. Ibid.
6. 21 and 22 June 1955; EWD, p. 725.
7. Diary, 30 June 1955; EWD, p. 726.
8. EW to Oldfield, 4 July 1955, EWL, p. 443.
9. EW to Nancy Mitford, 14 October 1956; LNMEW, p. 397.
10. EW to Ann Fleming, 13 September [1956], Amory (ed.), Letters of Ann Fleming, pp. 186–7.
11. The Times, 20 and 21 February 1957.
12. EW to Nancy Mitford [5 March] 1957, LNMEW, p. 405.
13. EW to Diana Cooper, 24 February [1957]; MWMS, p. 237.
14. EW to Alec Waugh, 23 February 1957; BU.
15. EW to Ann Fleming, 28 January 1957, EWL, p. 484.
16. EW to Jack Donaldson, 12 March [1957]; copy in AWA.
17. Cited in Sykes, Evelyn Waugh, pp. 390–91.
18. Ronald Knox, p. 286.
19. Ibid., p. 329.
20. EW to Diana Cooper, 20 November [1957], MWMS, p. 245.
21. EW to Dom Hubert van Zeller, 23 January 1958; copy in AWA.
22. Daphne Acton to EW, 25 August 1958; BL.
23. Ibid.
24. EW to Ann Fleming, 10 March 1958, EWL, p. 505.
25. EW to Harold Acton, 4 December 1958; copy in AWA.
26. Laura Waugh to EW, 11 June 1958; BL.
27. Cited in Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, p. 353.
28. Auberon Waugh to EW, 27 April, 1958; ibid., p. 354.
29. Auberon Waugh to EW, May 1958, ibid., p. 356.
30. EW to Diana Cooper, 9 June 1958, MWMS, p. 254.
31. EW to Diana Cooper, 13 June [1958], ibid., p. 255.
32. EW to Ann Fleming, 18 June 1958; private collection, copy in AWA.
33. EW to Diana Cooper, 13 June [1958], MWMS, p. 255.
34. Laura Waugh to EW, 18 June 1958; AWA.
35. EW to Father Aelred Watkin, 17 June 1958; copy in AWA.
36. EW to Father Philip Caraman, 29 June 1958; copy in AWA.
37. EW to Daphne Acton, 21 August 1958; EWL, p. 512.
38. EW to Auberon Waugh, 8 July 1958; EWL, p. 510.
39. Auberon Waugh, Will This Do?, p. 109.
40. Auberon Waugh, to EW, 21 July 1958; BL.
41. EW to Daphne Acton, 21 August 1958; copy in AWA.
42. Auberon Waugh to EW [September] 1958; BL.
43. EW to Father Aelred [c. 8 October 1958]; copy in AWA.
44. EW to Lady Mary Lygon, 26 August 1958; copy in AWA.
45. EW to Auberon Waugh, 14 November 1958, Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, p. 373.
46. Auberon Waugh, Will This Do?, p. 112.
47. EW to Mother Ignatius, 2 August 1950, EWL, p. 334.
48. Christopher Sykes, Evelyn Waugh, p. 452.
49. EW to Ann Fleming, 1 September [1952]; EWL, p. 380.
50. EW to Margaret Waugh, Whitsun 1953; AWA.
51. EW to Margaret Waugh, 3 June [1957], EWL pp. 489-490.
52. EW to Diana Cooper, 29 March 1958, MWMS, p. 250.
53. EW to Mary Lygon, 26 August 1958; copy in AWA.
54. EW to Ann Fleming, 3 December 1958; Amory (ed.) Letters of Ann Fleming, p. 224.
55. EW to Diana Cooper, 14 January 1959, MWMS, p. 262.
56. EW to Ann Fremantle, 31 July 1959, copy in AWA.
57. The Sunday Times, 25 September 1960, EWCH, p. 415.
58. A. D. Peters to EW, 7 October 1959; BL.
59. EW to Maurice Bowra, 22 October 1959, EWL, p. 530.
60. EW to Ann Fleming, 17 February 1960, EWL, p. 533.
61. EW to A. D. Peters, 17 March 1960, HRC.
62. EW to Tom Driberg, 11 June 1960, Christ Church, Oxford.
63. EW to Teresa D’Arms, 16 September 1961; AWA.
64. EW to Margaret Waugh, 20 February 1961; AWA.
65. EW to Diana Cooper, 24 December 1960, MWMS, p. 282.
66. EW to Jack MacDougall, 18 April 1958, EWL, p. 507.
67. EW to Auberon Waugh, 28 July 1959; AWA.
68. EW to John D’Arms, 11 November 1960; copy in AWA.
69. EW to Pansy Lamb, 18 July 1961; copy in AWA.
70. Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, p. 394.
71. EW to John Donaldson [24 April 1961], copy in AWA.
72. EW to Alec Waugh, 22 March 1961; BU.
73. EW to Daphne Fielding, 22 May 1961; EWL, p. 566.
74. EW to Christopher Sykes, 5 June 1961, Sykes Papers, GU.
75. EW to Ann Fleming, 13 June 1961; copy in AWA.
76. EW to Teresa D’Arms, 5 June 1961; copy in AWA.
77. Alexander Waugh, Fathers and Sons, p. 399.
78. Auberon Waugh to EW, 24 June 1961; BL.
79. EW to Auberon Waugh, 29 June 1961; AWA.
80. EW to Margaret Waugh, 5 July [1961]; AWA.
81. EW to Ann Fleming, 17 July 1961; copy in AWA.
23 Decline and Fall
1. A Little Learning, p. 1.
2. A. D. Peters to EW, 27 April 1961; HRC.
3. EW to Alec Waugh, 19 July 1961; BU.
4. EW to Margaret Waugh, 20 July 1961; AWA.
5. EW to Diana Mosley, 9 March 1966; EWL, p. 638.
6. EW to Margaret Waugh, 20 July 1961; AWA.
7. EW to Ann Fleming, 8 August 1961; copy in AWA.
8. EW to Teresa D’Arms, 16 September 1961; copy in AWA.
9. EW to Pamela Berry, 30 October [1961]; copy in AWA.
10. Philip Caraman to EW, 21 April 1961; BL.
11. EW to Ann Fleming, 19 October [1960]; copy in AWA.
12. EW to Margaret Waugh, 7 December 1960; AWA.
13. EW to Margaret Waugh, 20 July 1961; AWA.
14. EW to Margaret Waugh, 12 March 1961; AWA.
15. EW to Ann Fleming, 27 March 1961; EWL, p. 563.
16. EW to Margaret Waugh, 24 May 1961; AWA.
17. EW to Margaret Waugh, 20 July 1961; AWA.
18. Margaret Waugh to EW, 6 April 1961; BL.
19. EW to Diana Cooper, 22 June 1961, MWMS, p. 288.
20. Philip Caraman to EW, 15 September 1961; BL.
21. EW to Ann Fleming, 30 August 1961; copy in AWA.
22. Christopher Sykes to EW, 21 October 1961; BL.
23. Maurice Bowra to EW, 15 October 1961; BL.
24. The Sunday Times, 29 October 1961; EWCH, p. 430.
25. Amory (ed.), Letters of Ann Fleming, p. 295.
26. EW to Teresa D’Arms, 28 October 1961; copy in AWA.
27. EW to Cyril Connolly, 23 October 1961; copy in AWA.
28. Cyril Connolly to EW, 30 October 1961; BL.
29. EW to Cyril Connolly, 20 November 1961; copy in AWA.
30. EW to Diana Cooper, 30 June 1962, MWMS, p. 291.
31. EW to Teresa D’Arms, 19 February 1962; copy in AWA.
32. EW to Diana Cooper, 30 March 1962; MWMS, p. 291.
33. EW to Nancy Mitford, 1 April 1962, LNMEW, pp. 449–50.
34. EW to Nancy Mitford, 27 March 1962; ibid., p. 447.
35. Nancy Mitford to EW, 10 April 1962; ibid., p. 450.
36. Nancy Mitford to EW, 29 March 1962; ibid., p. 449.
37. EW to Margaret Waugh, 12 April [1962]; copy in AWA.
38. Giles FitzHerbert to the author, December 2013.
39. Giles FitzHerbert to EW, 6 August 1962; BL.
40. EW to Nancy Mitford [c. 22 August 1962]; LNMEW, p. 457.
41. Diana Cooper to EW [25 August 1962]; MWMS, p. 293.
42. EW to Diana Cooper, 28 August 1962; ibid., p. 293.
43. Basil Seal Rides Again, p. 13.
44. EW to Daphne Fielding, 25 October 1962; copy in AWA.
45. Margaret Waugh to EW, 7 August 1962; BL.
46. EW to Ann Fleming, 19 September 1962; copy in AWA.
47. EW to Teresa D’Arms, 27 June 1962; copy in AWA.
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48. EW to Daphne Acton, 10 June 1963; copy in AWA.
49. EW to Nancy Mitford, 28 December 1962; LNMEW, p. 471.
50. Hugh Molson to EW, 2 January 1962; BL.
51. John Betjeman to EW, September 1964; Lycett Green (ed.), John Betjeman Letters, Vol. 2, p. 279.
52. W. R. B. Young to EW, 21 November 1963; BL.
53. W. R B Young to EW, 27 November 1963; BL.
54. EW to Teresa D’Arms, 29 October 1964; copy in AWA.
55. Auberon Waugh to EW, 8 June 1963; BL.
56. EW to Teresa D’Arms, 14 October 1963; copy in AWA.
57. EW to Ann Fleming, 13 March 1963; EWL, p. 601.
58. EW to Teresa D’Arms, 28 August 1963; copy in AWA.
59. EW to Margaret FitzHerbert, 22 September 1963; copy in AWA.
60. EW to Ann Fleming, 10 October 1963; copy in AWA.
61. EW to Zarita Mattay, 20 November 1963; copy in AWA.
62. EW to Alfred Duggan, 18 November 1963; copy in AWA.
63. New Statesman, September 1964; EWCH, p. 461.
64. EW to Diana Mosley, 9 March 1966; EWL, p. 638.
65. Encounter, December 1964; EWCH, p. 471.
66. Cosmopolitan, November 1964; EWCH, pp. 469–70.
67. Katherine Asquith to EW, 9 September 1964; BL.
68. Dudley Carew to EW, 4 September 1964; BL.
69. EW to Diana Cooper, 24 October [1964]; MWMS, p. 311.
70. EW to Diana Cooper, 20 December 1964, ibid., p. 315.
71. EW to Ann Fleming, 27 January 1965, EWL, p. 630.
72. EW to Nancy Mitford, [2 March] 1965, LNMEW, p. 497.
73. EW to Nancy Mitford, 29 May 1965; EWL, p. 631.
74. EW to Nancy Mitford, 25 January 1966; LNMEW, p. 503.
75. EW to Nancy Mitford, 29 May 1965; EWL, p. 631.
76. EW to Nancy Mitford 5 September 1965; EWL, p. 633.
77. Ibid.
78. EW to Ann Fleming, 3 January 1966; copy in AWA.
79. Margaret FitzHerbert to EW [4 December 1965]; BL.
80. EW to Margaret FitzHerbert, 6 December 1965; EWL, p. 635.
81. Margaret FitzHerbert to EW, 19 December 1965; copy in AWA.
82. EW to A. D. Peters, 29 January 1966; HRC.
83. Sykes, Evelyn Waugh, p. 445.
84. EW to Ann Fleming [31 January 1966]; copy in AWA.
85. EW to Professor Robin Anderson, 10 April 1966; copy in AWA.
86. Auberon Waugh, Will This Do?, pp. 184–5.
87. Margaret FitzHerbert to Diana Cooper, [April 1966]; MWMS, p. 326.
Epilogue
1. Graham Greene to Laura Waugh, 10 April 1966; BL.
2. Diana Mosley to Laura Waugh, 11 April 1966; BL.
3. Nancy Mitford to Laura Waugh, 11 April 1966; BL.
4. A. D. Peters to Laura Waugh, 12 April 1966; BL.
5. Patrick Kinross to Laura Waugh, 17 April 1966; BL.
6. P. G. Wodehouse to Laura Waugh, 11 April 1966; BL.
7. Angus Wilson to Laura Waugh, 13 April 1966; BL.
8. Robert Henriques to Laura Waugh, 12 August 1966; BL.
9. Daphne Acton to Laura Waugh, 13 April 1966; BL.
10. Lady Dorothy Lygon to Laura Waugh, 12 April 1966; BL.
11. Diana Cooper to Laura Waugh, 12 April 1966; BL.
12. John Betjeman to Laura Waugh, 16 April 196; BL.
13. Penelope Betjeman to Laura Waugh, 18 April 1966; BL.
14. Daphne Acton to Laura Waugh, 13 April 1966; BL.
Select Bibliography
Works by Evelyn Waugh
PRB: An Essay on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 1847–54, privately printed, 1926.
Rossetti: His Life and Works, Duckworth, 1928.
Decline and Fall: An Illustrated Novelette, Chapman & Hall, 1928.
Vile Bodies, Chapman & Hall, 1930.
Labels, A Mediterranean Journey, Duckworth, 1930; US edition: A Bachelor Abroad, J. Cape & H. Smith, 1930.
Remote People, Duckworth, 1931; US edition: They Were Still Dancing, Farrar & Rinehart, 1932.
Black Mischief, Chapman & Hall, 1932.
Ninety-Two Days, Duckworth, 1934.
A Handful of Dust, Chapman & Hall, 1934.
Edmund Campion, Longman, 1935.
Mr Loveday’s Little Outing and Other Sad Stories, Chapman & Hall, 1936.
Waugh in Abyssinia, Longman Green & Co, 1936.
Scoop: A Novel About Journalists, Chapman & Hall, 1938.
Robbery Under Law, Chapman & Hall, 1939; US edition: Mexico: An Object Lesson, Little, Brown, 1939.
Put Out More Flags, Chapman & Hall, 1942.
Work Suspended, Chapman & Hall, 1942.
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, Chapman & Hall, 1945.
Scott-King’s Modern Europe, Chapman & Hall, 1947.
The Loved One, Chapman & Hall, 1948.
Helena, Chapman & Hall, 1950.
The Holy Places, Queen Anne Press, 1952.
Men at Arms, Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future, Chapman & Hall, 1953.
Officers and Gentlemen, Chapman & Hall, 1955.
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Chapman & Hall, 1957.
The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox, Chapman & Hall, 1959.
A Tourist in Africa, Chapman & Hall, 1960.
Unconditional Surrender, Chapman & Hall, 1961.
Basil Seal Rides Again, Chapman & Hall, 1963.
A Little Learning: The First Volume of An Autobiography, Chapman & Hall, 1964.
Sword of Honour (his final version of the war trilogy Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender), Chapman & Hall, 1965.
Collected Editions
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976 (NB: the 2009 Phoenix paperback edition has a greatly improved index).
The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980.
Evelyn Waugh, A Little Order: A Selection from his Journalism, edited by Donat Gallagher, Eyre Methuen, 1977.
The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Donat Gallagher, Methuen, 1983.
Mr Wu & Mrs Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, edited by Artemis Cooper, Hodder & Stoughton, 1991.
The Letters of Nancy Mitford & Evelyn Waugh, edited by Charlotte Mosley, Hodder & Stoughton, 1996.
The Complete Short Stories of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater, Everyman, 1998.
Other Sources
Acton, Harold, Memoirs of An Aesthete, Methuen, 1948.
Acton, Harold, More Memoirs of An Aesthete, Methuen, 1970.
Acton, Harold, Nancy Mitford, Hamish Hamilton, 1975.
Agar, Eileen, A Look at My Life, Methuen, 1988.
Amory, Mark (ed.), The Letters of Ann Fleming, Collins Harvill, 1985.
Amory, Mark, Lord Berners, Chatto & Windus, 1998.
Annan, Noel, Roxburgh of Stowe, Longman, 1964.
Annan, Noel, Our Age, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990.
Barber, Michael, Anthony Powell, Duckworth, 2004.
Barber, Michael, Evelyn Waugh, Hesperus Press, 2013.
Beaton, Cecil, The Wandering Years: Diaries 1922–1939, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966.
Beevor, Antony, Crete: The Battle and the Resistance, John Murray, 1991; rev. edition: Penguin, 2014.
Blayac, Alain (ed.), Evelyn Waugh: New Directions, Macmillan, 1992.
Blondel, Nathalie, Mary Butts: Scenes from Life, Kingston, NY, 1998.
Bowra, C. M., Memories, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966.
Boyd, William, Bamboo, Hamish Hamilton, 2005.
Bradbury, Malcolm, Evelyn Waugh, Oliver & Boyd, 1964.
Bradford, Sarah, Sacheverell Sitwell, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993.
Butler, Lucy (ed.), Robert Byron: Letters Home, John Murray, 1991.
Byrne, Paula, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead, Harper Press, 2009.
Carew,
Dudley, A Fragment of Friendship: A Memory of Evelyn Waugh When Young, Everest Books, 1974.
Carpenter, Humphrey, The Brideshead Generation, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989.
Charteris, Evan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Edmund Gosse, William Heinemann, 1931.
Cooper, Diana, The Rainbow Comes and Goes, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958.
Cooper, Diana, The Light of Common Day, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959.
Cooper, Diana, Trumpets from the Steep, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960.
Davis, Robert Murray, Evelyn Waugh: A Checklist of Primary and Secondary Material, Whitston, 1972.
Davis, Robert Murray, A Catalogue of the Evelyn Waugh Collection at the Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Whitston, 1981.
Davis, Robert Murray, Evelyn Waugh, Writer, Pilgrim Books, 1981.
Davis, Robert Murray, Evelyn Waugh, Apprentice, Pilgrim Books, 1985.
Davis, Robert Murray et al., A Bibliography of Evelyn Waugh, Whitston, 1986.
Deedes, W. F., At War with Waugh: The Real Story of Scoop, Macmillan, 2003.
Delmer, Sefton, Trail Sinister, Secker & Warburg, 1961.
Donaldson, Frances, Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Country Neighbour, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.
Driberg, Tom, Ruling Passions, Quartet Books, 1978.
Fallowell, Duncan, How to Disappear: A Memoir for Misfits, Ditto Press, 2011.
Fussell, Paul, Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars, Oxford University Press, 1980.
Gale, Iain, Waugh’s World: A Guide to the Novels of Evelyn Waugh, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1990.
Gallagher, Donat, In the Picture: The Facts Behind the Fiction in Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour, Rodopi, 2014.
Gallagher, Donat, Ann Pasternak Slater and John Howard Wilson (eds), A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011.
Goldring, Douglas, Odd Man Out, Chapman & Hall, 1935.
Green, Henry (Henry Yorke), Pack My Bag: a Self-Portrait, Hogarth Press, 1979.
Green, Martin, Children of the Sun: A Narrative of ‘Decadence’ in England After 1918, Constable, 1977.
Greenidge, Terence, Degenerate Oxford?, Chapman & Hall, 1930.
Grisewood, Harman, One Thing at a Time: An Autobiography, Hutchinson, 1968.
Handford, B. W. T., Lancing 1848–1930, Blackwell, 1933.
Hastings, Selina, Nancy Mitford, Hamish Hamilton, 1985.
Hastings, Selina, Evelyn Waugh: A Biography, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994.
Hastings, Selina, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, John Murray, 2009.
Heath, Jeffrey, The Picturesque Prison, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982.
Hillier, Bevis, Young Betjeman, John Murray, 1988.