The Love-Charm of Bombs

by Lara Feigel

  ‘broken habitations’: RM, WMW, chs 5, 18.

  ‘seized, bound’: ibid., ch. 31.

  ‘Make your way’: RM, ‘In the Ruins’, Spectator, 18 November 1949.

  ‘sharp sense of’: RM, ‘The First Impact of The Waste Land’, Braybrooke (ed.), T. S. Eliot: A Symposium for his Seventieth Birthday (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958).

  ‘Slim, elegant and twenty-three’: RM, WMW, chs 2, 34.

  ‘glitter of good’: ibid., ch. 2.

  ‘I am within’: RM to David Ley, 15 April 1949 (RM TC).

  ‘dispossession of the’: RM, Pleasure of Ruins, pp. 362–3.

  ‘a country of ruins’: EB, B’s C, pp. 15, 17.

  ‘inextricably mixed’: RM, Pleasure of Ruins, p. 1.

  ‘the darkly ruinous’: ibid., pp. 9, 20, 23.

  ‘stupendous past’: ibid., pp. 40, 84, 165.

  ‘enjungled, engulfed’: ibid., pp. 454–5.

  ‘how a young lady’: Hamilton Johnson, in Constance Babington Smith, introduction to Rose Macaulay, Letters to a Friend.

  ‘If you were in England’: RM to Hamilton Johnson, 30 August 1950 (Letters to a Friend).

  ‘The people I love most’: RM to Hamilton Johnson, 28 September 1950 (Letters to a Friend).

  ‘Partly my difficulties’: RM to Hamilton Johnson, 28 October 1950 (Letters to a Friend).

  ‘didn’t feel jolly’: RM to Hamilton Johnson, 10 November 1952, Last Letters to a Friend 1952–1958, ed. Constance Babington Smith (London: Collins, 1962).

  ‘took up with the’: RM, ToT, chs 7, 20, 14.

  ‘last little Byzantine’: RM to Hamilton Johnson, 8 July 1954 (Last Letters to a Friend).

  ‘an old dream’: RM, ToT, chs 8, 25.

  ‘is exciting’: ibid., ch. 25.

  ‘a book I have’: RM to Rosamond Lehmann, 11 September 1956 (RL KC).

  Coda

  ‘I have an’: RM to Jean Macaulay, 22 March 1955 (RM TC).

  ‘she would not’: RM to Hamilton Johnson, 1 October 1956, Last Letters to a Friend 1952–1958, ed. Constance Babington Smith (London: Collins, 1962).

  ‘I can’t not be’: RM to Rosamond Lehmann, 11 September 1956 (RL KC).

  ‘wit and brains’: RM, ToT, ch. 24.

  ‘the long years’: RM to Hamilton Johnson, 9 January 1951, Letters to a Friend 1950–1952, ed. Constance Babington Smith (London: Collins, 1961).

  ‘scattered, adrift’: RM, ToT, ch. 25.

  ‘A kind of shining’: RM to Hamilton Johnson, 25 May 1951 (Letters to a Friend).

  ‘her ice-blue eyes’: Rosamond Lehmann, ‘The Pleasures of Knowing Rose Macaulay’, in Constance Babington Smith, Rose Macaulay: A Biography (London: Collins, 1972).

  ‘unable to put’: RM to Jean Macaulay, 17 March 1958 (RM TC).

  ‘What on earth’: RM, in Anthony Powell, ‘The Pleasures of Knowing Rose Macaulay’, in Babington Smith, Rose Macaulay.

  ‘But we have all’: Rosamond Lehmann, ‘The Pleasures of Knowing Rose Macaulay’, in ibid.

  ‘I had immense hope’: EB interview by three writers, 1959 (EB HRC).

  ‘she told William Plomer’: EB to William Plomer, 6 May 1958, The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen, ed. Hermione Lee (London: Vintage, 1999).

  ‘was the last in which’: CR, diary, 22 January 1957 (LCW).

  ‘We are a family’: EB, ‘Bowen’s Court’, 1958, People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen, ed. Allan Hepburn (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008).

  ‘E and I came home’: CR, diary, 8 May 1956 (LCW).

  ‘dependence on home’: EB, ‘The Idea of the Home’, undated (EB HRC).

  ‘it really would break’: EB to CR, 18 June 1958 (LCW).

  ‘The trouble is’: CR, diary, 23 June 1958 (LCW).

  ‘I suppose it’s’: EB to CR, 21 July 1958 (LCW).

  ‘a clean end’: EB, afterword to B’s C, p. 459.

  ‘My darling, my darling’: EB, A Time in Rome (London: Vintage, 2010), ch. 5.

  ‘Here we have’: EB, B’s C, p. 377.

  ‘Guests invited for dinner’: this and much other information in this paragraph comes from an interview conducted by the author with Anthony Felix de Mendelssohn.

  ‘For the first time’: PdeM to HS, 4 May 1957 (HS PdeM).

  ‘You have systematically’: PdeM to HS, 31 August 1963 (HS PdeM) (originally in German).

  ‘our life is too short’: HS to PdeM, 25 October 1963 (HS PdeM) (originally in German).

  ‘her ultimate return to Vienna’: see afterword to Return to Vienna, trans. Christine Shuttleworth (Riverside, California: Ariadne Press, 2011).

  ‘Very long black’: Evelyn Waugh to Nancy Mitford, 16 May 1951, The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, ed. Charlotte Mosley (London: Sceptre, 1997).

  ‘really very nice’: Christopher Isherwood, diary, 10 May 1948, Diaries Volume One: 1939–1960 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1996).

  ‘livid light’: Nancy Mitford to Evelyn Waugh, 18 May 1951 (The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh).

  ‘a diatribe of’: James Lees-Milne, Fourteen Friends (London: John Murray, 1996), p. 130.

  ‘a shared fondness’: Michael Scammell, Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic (New York: Random House, 2009), p. 495.

  ‘A man falls’: HG, ‘Falling in Love’, Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green (London: Harvill, 1993).

  ‘must meet some time’: HY to Mary Keene, 21 March 1947 (private collection).

  ‘a very good’: HY to Mary Keene, 9 December 1957 (private collection).

  ‘beyond words wonderful’: HY to Matthew Smith, 4 December 1950 (private collection).

  ‘deepest sympathy’: HY to Matthew Smith, 21 January 1958 (private collection).

  ‘is to become’: Rosamond Lehmann, ‘An Absolute Gift’, Times Literary Supplement, 6 August 1954.

  ‘Darling. I’ve read’: HY to Rosamond Lehmann, 30 August 1954 (RL KC).

  ‘The dark eyes’: Cynthia Koestler, Stranger on the Square (London: Hutchinson, 1984), p. 221.

  ‘Only the other day’: HG, ‘For Jenny with Affection from Henry Green’ (Surviving).

  ‘nothing, I believe’: CR, diary, 11 June 1961 (LCW).

  ‘I had that’: CR, diary, 24 December 1968 (LCW).

  ‘I do believe’: CR, diary, 24 May 1973 (LCW).

  ‘I shall never’: CR, diary, 14 June 1973 (LCW).

  ‘I am never’: CR, diary, 30 July 1973 (LCW).

  ‘I think of you’: CW to GG, 13 December 1975 (GG BU).

  ‘What a vast amount’: CW to GG, 18 May 1978 (GG BU).

  ‘ready to take on’: HG, ‘Before the Great Fire’ (Surviving).

  ‘In February 1965’: see GG, A World of my Own: A Dream Diary (London: Penguin, 1993), pp. 39, 50.

  ‘Existence during the war’: EB, review of Angus Calder’s The People’s War (The Mulberry Tree).

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