6 DG/CG, The Ram, Firle, ‘Friday night’ [6 October 1916] [HRRC].
7 Caroline Dakers, The Countryside at War 1914–18 (London: Constable, 1987), p. 106.
8 D. Grant, Diary, Thursday January [1918] unpublished MS [HG].
9 Quentin Bell, obituary of David Garnett, Royal Society of Literature: Reports for 1979–80 and 1980–81 (London: Royal Society of Literature, 1981), p. 45.
10 CG/EG, Charleston, ‘Friday’ [postmark 26 October 1916] [Xerox, R. Garnett: location of original letter unknown].
11 DG/EG, Charleston, Firle, Sussex, [1916] [HRRC].
12 DG/CG, Charleston [December 1916] [HRRC].
13 HTJ Norton/DG, 46 Gordon Square, 25 March 1917 [Northwestern].
14 DG, Journal, Tuesday [16 February 1915] [Northwestern].
15 Frances Partridge, Memories (London: Victor Gollancz, 1981; Robin Clark paperback edition, 1982) p. 79.
16 DG, Flowers, p. 42.
17 DG/Alix Strachey, part letter [October 1917] [not sent] [Northwestern].
18 AS-F/DG, 60 Frith Street, ‘Thursday’ [October 1917] [Northwestern].
19 DG, Journal, Saturday 22 December [1917] unpublished MS [Northwestern].
20 This journal is recorded henceforward as ‘DG, Journal (1917–18)’.
21 DG, Journal, Tuesday 15 January [1918] unpublished MS [Northwestern].
22 VB/JMK, Charleston, 8 February [1918] [KCC], in Marler, ed., Letters of Vanessa Bell, p. 210.
23 DG, Journal (1917–18), Saturday [?26 January 1918] [Northwestern].
24 DG, ‘Trouble’, MS [Northwestern].
25 DG, ‘Trouble’, MS [Northwestern].
26 DG, Journal, 4 February [1918] [Northwestern].
27 DG, Journal (1917–18), Sunday [?10 February] [1918] [Northwestern].
28 Duncan Grant, Diary, 19 February [1918] [HG].
29 VB/DG, Eleanor Farm (Tonk’s Studio) 18 May 1915 [HG].
30 DG, Journal (1917–18), Friday [1918] [Northwestern].
31 DG/JMK, Charleston, 2 March [?1918] [KCC].
32 DG, Journal (1918) Monday [1918] [Northwestern].
33 DG, Journal (1918) Thursday [1918] [Northwestern].
Chapter Ten
1 Quoted in David Garnett, Never Be a Bookseller (New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1929; Denby Dale: Fleece Press 1995) [unpaginated].
2 H.T.J. Norton/DG, Friends’ War Victims’ Relief Committee, 104 Ethelburga House, 91 Bishopsgate EC2, 6 September 1918 [Northwestern].
3 DG/EG, Charleston, 30 June [1918] [Northwestern].
4 DG/CG, Charleston, 27 October [1918] [HRRC].
5 DG/CG, Charleston [c. 14 November 1918] [HRRC].
6 DG/D. Grant, The Cearne [?October] [1918] [HG].
7 FB/DG, 53 rue de Rivoli, Paris, 21 December [1918] [Northwestern].
8 DG/CG, Charleston, Christmas Day [1918] [HRRC].
9 DG/GLS, Charleston, Christmas Day [1918] [BL].
10 GLS/DG, Ham Spray House, Hungerford, 20 September 1925 [Princeton].
11 Quoted in D.J. Taylor, Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918–1940 (London: Chatto & Windus, 2007) p. 114.
12 DG/CG, Charleston [1919] [HRRC].
13 H.T.J. Norton/DG, Merton House, Queen’s Road, Cambridge [1919] [Northwestern].
14 DG/CG [c. March] [1919] [HRRC].
15 DG, Diary [1919] [mid-January 1919] [HG].
16 DG, Diary [1919] 2 April [1919] [HG].
17 VB/JMK, 9 March [1919] [KCC], quoted in Frances Spalding, Duncan Grant (London: Chatto & Windus, 1997), p. 216.
18 D. Grant/DG, Charleston ‘Thursday’ [pmk 24 April 1919] [HG].
19 DG, Diary [1919] Wednesday 9 April [1919] [HG].
20 Leda Burke [pseudonym, David Garnett], Dope-Darling: A Story of Cocaine (London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd [c. 1919]), p. 25.
21 Arthur Ransome, Bohemia in London (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 74.
22 T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 30 New Bridge Street, London, publication notice [1919] [HRRC].
23 2 October 1919.
24 6 October 1919.
25 The Kitchen Garden and its Management: Abridged and Adapted from the Standard French Work of Professor Gressent with Additions by David Garnett (London: Selwyn & Blount [1919]).
26 DG, Diary [1919] 19 May [1919] [HG].
27 Rayne Garnett Nickalls, extract from unpublished memoir ‘The Time is Past & Gone’ [Caroline White].
28 DG, Diary [1919] Sunday night [1919] [HG].
29 DG, Diary [1919] Sunday night [1919] [HG].
30 F. Birrell/DG, Mission Anglo-Américaine, 53 Rue de Rivoli, Paris [pmk 29 August 1919] [Northwestern].
31 DG/JMK, 19 Pond Place [15 August 1919] [KCC].
32 DG/CG, 19 Pond Place [?September] [1919] [HRRC].
33 JMK/DG, ‘copy of letter I’ve sent Ogden’, Charleston, 14 September 1919 [Northwestern].
34 D. Grant/DG, part letter [postmark 16 September 1919] [HG].
35 Partridge, Memories, p. 75.
36 The Bookman (New York: George H. Doran Company) [undated magazine clipping, probably 1923].
37 DG, Flowers, p. 204.
38 DG, Flowers, p. 204.
39 Partridge, Memories, p. 75.
40 DG, Never Be a Bookseller.
41 Partridge, Memories, p. 75.
Chapter Eleven
1 David Garnett, Lady into Fox (London: Chatto & Windus, 1922), p. 4.
2 GLS/DG, Tidmarsh, 26 May 1920 [Princeton].
3 DG/GLS, Birrell & Garnett [11 June 1920] [BL].
4 DG, Diary notes, April 1914 [unpublished MS] [Northwestern].
5 DG, Echo, p. 261.
6 Quoted by Mrs Julia Rhys, telephone conversation with the author, February 2010.
7 T. Fordham/DG, 40 Well Walk, 11 July 1920 [HG].
8 T. Fordham/DG, 40 Well Walk NW3, 22 April [1920] [HG].
9 DG, Flowers, p. 234.
10 DG, Diary 1920–21, 27 September [1920] [Northwestern].
11 T.H. Marshall, the distinguished social scientist.
12 Later Frances Partridge.
13 Francis Meynell, My Lives (London: The Bodley Head, 1971), pp. 188–9.
14 Sylvia Townsend Warner, ‘Theodore Powys and Some Friends at East Chaldon, 1922–1927: A Narrative and Some Letters’, The Powys Review, Number 5, Vol. III, Summer 1979.
15 DG/GLS, Birrell & Garnett [21 September 1920] [BL].
16 DG/RAG [1920], [Northwestern].
17 T. Fordham/DG, 40 Well Walk, NW3, 22 April [1920] [HG].
18 DG, Diary 1920–21, 27 September [1920] [Northwestern].
19 DG, Diary 1920–21, 27 October [1920] [Northwestern].
20 DG/RAG, 19 Taviton Street WC1 [late October 1920] [Northwestern].
21 RAG/DG [pmk 23 December 1920] [Northwestern].
22 Carrington/GLS, 41 Gordon Square [3 January 1921] in DG, ed., Carrington, p. 172.
23 DG/CG, Birrell & Garnett [1921] [HRRC].
24 DG/CG, Birrell & Garnett [1921] [HRRC].
25 Unpublished MS [Northwestern].
26 GLS/James Strachey, 51 Gordon Square, 14 April 1921 in Paul Levy, ed., The Letters of Lytton Strachey (London: Viking, 2005), p. 484.
27 D. Grant/DG, 46 Gordon Square [pmk 22 April 1921] [HG].
28 DG, Flowers, pp. 233–4.
29 GLS/James Strachey, 51 Gordon Square, 14 April 1921 in Levy, ed., Letters of Lytton Strachey, p. 484.
30 Carrington/Alix Strachey, The Mill House, Tidmarsh, 15 April 1921, in DG, ed., Carrington, p. 174.
31 Copy by D. Garnett of letter from D. Grant to DG [original returned to D. Grant], ‘Private’, 46 Gordon square, 17 April 1921 [HG].
32 D. Grant/DG, ‘Copy of covering letter, 46 Gordon Square, Thursday 17 April’ [1921] [HG].
33 DG, Flowers, p. 233.
34 DG, Flowers, p. 234.
35 Envelope, RAG/DG [pmk 25 July, 1921] [Northwestern].
36 DG, Diary [1920–21], Sunday 19 December [1920] [Northwestern].
37 RAG/DG, Glebe Cott
age, Goring-on-Thames, Tues 13th [September, 1921] [Northwestern].
38 RAG/DG [October 1921] [Northwestern].
39 DG/EG, Birrell & Garnett, ‘Friday’ [October, 1921] [Northwestern].
40 DG/CG, [October, 1921] [HRRC].
41 When not induced, stillbirths usually begin spontaneously two weeks after the death of the foetus; if, as seems likely, Ray had gone into spontaneous labour, she may have been spared some of the more gruesome and gruelling aspects of stillborn deliveries practised at that time. These included surgically breaking the bones of the dead baby in utero, prior to extraction.
42 DG/CG, Birrell & Garnett [October, 1921] [HRRC].
43 GLS/James Strachey, 51 Gordon Square, 14 April 1921, in Levy, ed., Letters of Lytton Strachey, p. 484.
44 DG, Flowers, p. 235.
45 RAG/DG [November, 1921] [Northwestern].
46 T. Fordham/DG, ‘Monday’ [pmk November 1921] [HG].
47 RAG/DG, Glebe Cottage, Goring [July, 1922] [Northwestern].
Chapter Twelve
1 DG/Trystan Edwards, The Cearne [?late 1918] [Northwestern].
2 DG, Flowers, pp. 243–4.
3 RAG/DG [pmk 8 September 1922] [Northwestern].
4 Mina Curtiss, Other People’s Letters (London: Macmillan, 1978), p. 15.
5 David Garnett, The Familiar Faces (London: Chatto & Windus, 1962), p. 1.
6 Frances Partridge, ed., Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey by Herself and Frances Partridge (London: Victor Gollancz, 1983; Penguin Books, 1984), pp. 106–7.
7 Richard Garnett, ed., Sylvia & David: The Townsend Warner/Garnett Letters (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994), p. 2.
8 DG/STW, The Nonesuch Press, 16 Great James Street, London WC1 [c. 24 November 1927] in RG, ed., Sylvia and David, p. 35.
9 D. Garnett, ‘Theo Powys’, in The Borzoi 1925 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925), p. 89.
10 Powys was forty-seven.
11 DG/RAG, East Chaldon, Dorset, ‘Monday’ [c, August 1922] [Northwestern].
12 S, Tomlin/DG, Chaldon Herring, 10 October [1922] [Northwestern].
13 DG/RAG, Hilton Hall [1928] [Northwestern].
14 Partridge, ed., Julia, p. 129.
15 Now in the garden at Charleston.
16 DG, Familiar Faces, p. 2; typically Bunny misquoted the last two lines of the poem and missed out intervening lines.
17 GLS/Carrington, Oriental Club, Hanover Square, 1 March 1922, in Levy, ed., Letters of Lytton Strachey, p. 511.
18 27 January 1923.
19 2 February 1923.
20 4 April 1923.
21 DG, ‘Author’s Note to the Present Edition’, 20 May 1965 [Northwestern] [contribution to the 1966 Norton edition, ed. Vincent Starett].
22 DG/Mina Curtiss, 30 Gerrard Street, 26 January 1923 [Berg].
23 T.E. Lawrence/EG, 7 December 1922 [Bodleian].
24 DG/CG, 27 Brunswick Square [8 January 1923] [HRRC].
25 DG/CG, 27 Brunswick Square [8 January 1923] and 9 January 1923 [HRRC].
26 STW/Paul Nordoff, 8 May 1946 [but re 1923], in William Maxwell, ed., Letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner (London: Chatto & Windus, 1982), p. 93.
27 DG/Mina Curtiss, 17 January 1923 [Berg].
28 DG/Mina Curtiss, [c. April] [1923] [Berg].
29 DG, Familiar Faces, p. 19.
30 Francis Meynell, ‘The Personal Element’ in A.J.A. Symons, Desmond Flower and Francis Meynell, The Nonesuch Century (London: The Nonesuch Press, 1936), p. 43.
31 John Dreyfus, A History of the Nonesuch Press (London: The Nonesuch Press, 1981), p. 21.
32 National Fur Company Lady into Mink [publicity brochure] (London: National Fur Company [c. 1935]).
33 DG/CG, Birrell & Garnett, 30 Gerrard Street, 3 July 1923 [HRRC].
34 12 July 1923.
35 DG/Mina Curtiss, Birrell & Garnett, [pmk 16 August 1923] [Berg].
36 M. Curtiss/DG, Ashfield, 2 October 1949 [Northwestern].
37 DG/Mina Curtiss [?c. August] [1923] [Berg].
38 T. Fordham/DG, Grove House, Mobberley, Cheshire, ‘Monday’ [pmk 1 October 1923] [HG].
39 On envelope, T. Fordham/DG, 166 Boulevard du Montparnasse, Paris XIV, 18 July [1923] [HG].
40 T. Fordham/DG, 40 Well Walk, ‘Monday’ [pmk 22 October 1923] [HG].
41 DG, Familiar Faces, p. 44.
42 DG/Mina Curtiss, Birrell & Garnett, [pmk 5 October 1923] [Berg].
43 Eliot Weinberger, ‘Who Made it New?, The New York Review of Books, 23 June 2011.
44 RAG/DG, The Cearne, Edenbridge, ‘Thurs’ [1923] [Northwestern].
Chapter Thirteen
1 DG/Mina Curtiss, Hilton, 23 June 1955 [Berg].
2 DG/EG, [The Cearne], ‘Sunday’ [22 May 1922] [Northwestern].
3 EG/DG, 19 Pond Place, Chelsea, ‘Friday 1’ [February 1924] [Northwestern].
4 David Garnett, A Man in the Zoo (London: Chatto & Windus, 1924), p. 93.
5 24 April 1924.
6 24 April 1924.
7 Undated press cutting [?May] [1924].
8 26 April 1924.
9 Undated press cutting [?May] [1924].
10 DG/RAG, Nonesuch Press [April 1924] [Northwestern].
11 DG/STW [September 1924], in RG, ed., Sylvia and David, pp. 8–9.
12 RAG/DG, The Cearne, Friday [September 1924] [Northwestern].
13 DG/RAG, ‘Friday’ [October 1924] [Northwestern].
14 DG/CG, Hilton [October 1924] [HRRC].
15 EG/DG, 19 Pond Place, 11 November 1924 [Northwestern].
16 G. Brenan/Carrington, Tuesday night, 29 December 1926 [TGA].
17 Frances Partridge, Everything to Lose: Diaries 1945–1960 (London: Victor Gollancz, 1985; Phoenix paperback edition 1997), p. 197.
18 RAG/STW, Hilton [c. January 1925] [Berg].
19 EG/DG, 19 Pond Place, 14 February 1925 [Northwestern].
20 DG/EG, Hilton Hall [pmk 18 February 1925] [Northwestern].
21 DG, Familiar Faces, p. 73.
22 DG/Charles Prentice, Hilton, 29 January [1925] [Reading].
23 EG/DG, 19 Pond Place, Chelsea, The Cearne, ‘Whit Monday’ 1925 [this is misdated; it was Easter Monday] [Northwestern].
24 The Sailor’s Return is the name of the inn at East Chaldon, which still exists. Bunny often stayed there on his visits to Tommy, T.F. Powys and Sylvia Townsend Warner, who also moved there.
25 DG/GLS, Hilton Hall, 20 May 1925 [BL].
26 The London Artists’ Association, Recent Paintings by Duncan Grant with a foreword by David Garnett (London: The Cooling Galleries) [1931].
27 DG/AVG, Charry, 24 July 1974 [KCC].
28 DG/GLS, Hilton Hall, 20 May 1925 [BL].
29 DG, ‘Morals’, unpublished MS [Northwestern].
30 Sylvia Lynd, Daily News, 17 September 1925.
31 Liverpool Post, 17 September 1925.
32 The Scotsman, 24 September 1925.
33 29 September 1925.
34 19 September 1925.
35 Daily News, 17 September 1925.
36 17 September 1925.
37 3 October 1925.
38 S. Tomlin/DG, Widcombe, Hillside Road, [pmk 16 April 1925] [Northwestern].
39 DG/CG, Hilton, 5 June 1925 [HRRC].
40 DG, Familiar Faces, p. 48.
41 JDH/DG, King’s College, Cambridge, 24 January [?1926] [Northwestern].
Chapter Fourteen
1 DG/M Curtiss, Nonesuch Press, 16 James Street [but from Hilton], 30 May 1927 [Berg].
2 DG/RAG, Clos du Plan, Cassis [July 1925] [Northwestern].
3 DG/RAG, [Cassis] part letter [August 1925] [Northwestern].
4 DG/RAG, Clos du [Plan], Cassis, [August 1925] [Northwestern].
5 RAG/DG [August 1925] [Northwestern].
6 DG/GLS, Hilton, ‘Monday’ [?August] [1925] [BL].
7 DG/RAG, Birrell & Garnett [c. 1920] [Northwestern].
8 DG/Charles Prentice, Hilton, 3 September 1925 [Reading].
9 EG/DG, Portland House, St Davids, Pembrokeshire, 9 September 1925 [N
orthwestern].
10 DG, Familiar Faces, p. 67.
11 Richard Garnett email to author, 14 June 2010.
12 DG/EG, Hilton Hall, [1926] [Northwestern].
13 DG/C Prentice, ‘Thursday’ [C&W stamp 21 June 1926] [Reading].
14 DG/C Prentice, Hilton, 10 July [1926] [Reading].
15 David Garnett, Go She Must! (London: Chatto & Windus, 1927), pp. 221–2.
16 DG/C Prentice, Hilton, 1 August [1926] [Reading].
17 DG, Go She Must!, p. 229.
18 DG, Go She Must!, p. 183.
19 The first Monday after Epiphany; an East Anglian tradition.
20 DG, Go She Must!, p. 66.
21 STW/DG, 121 Inverness Terrace, 9 November 1927, in RG, Sylvia and David, p. 33.
22 EG/DG, 19 Pond Place, 30 September 1926 [Northwestern].
23 G. Brenan/Carrington, Monday 3 May 1926 [TGA].
24 DG/C. Prentice [C&W stamp 6 February 1926] [Reading].
25 Radio Times, 3 December 1926.
26 David Garnett, No Love (London: Chatto & Windus, 1929), p. 129.
27 DG, ‘Molly Everitt’, 20 November 1926 [unpublished MS, Northwestern].
28 DG, Familiar Faces, p. 72.
29 G. Brenan/Carrington, Tuesday night, 29 December 1926 [TGA].
30 Judith Mackrell, Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008), p. 292.
31 DG/CG [Spring 1927] [HRRC].
32 DG, Familiar Faces, p. 118.
33 Alix Meynell after her marriage to Francis Meynell.
34 Alix Meynell, Public Servant, Private Woman: An Autobiography (London: Victor Gollancz, 1988), p. 105.
35 DG/RAG, 5 Clifton Place, [July 1927] [HG].
36 DG/G Tomlin, Nonesuch Press, Friday 22 August 1927 [misdated; should be Friday 22 July] [HG].
37 DG/RAG, The Nonesuch Press, Friday [22 July 1927] [HG].
38 RAG/DG, ‘Monday’ [pmk 26 July 1927] [HG].
39 DG/RAG, The Nonesuch Press, ‘Friday’ [22 July 1927] [HG].
40 DG/RAG, The Nonesuch Press, Friday [22 July 1927] [HG].
41 DG/RAG, Hilton, [1928] [Northwestern].
42 DG/RAG, Friday 12 August [1927] [Northwestern].
43 DG/RAG [Cassis] [October 1927] [Northwestern].
44 DG/RAG, Tarascon, Hotel des Empereurs, ‘Friday’ [October 1927] [Northwestern].
Chapter Fifteen
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