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33. Roald Dahl, Pig, in Collected Stories, p. 634.
34. Dr. Edmund Goodman, Conversation with the author, 01/12/98.
35. Roald Dahl, A Note on Theo’s Accident—RDMSC RD 11/2.
36. Susan Vivian, Conversation with the author, 11/02/09.
37. Sonia Austrian, Conversation with the author, 01/15/98.
38. Dr. Edmund Goodman, Conversation with the author, 01/12/98.
39. Roald Dahl, Untitled speech, c. 1971—RDMSC RD 6/1/17.
40. Neal, As I Am, p. 220.
41. Dahl, Letter to his mother, 02/26/61—RDMSC RD 14/5/10/8.
42. Dahl, Letter to his mother, 02/18/61—RDMSC RD 14/5/10/10.
43. See Roald Dahl, Letter to America’s Hobby Center, 04/26/50—WLC Box 22.
44. Ophelia Dahl, Memories of My Father, unpublished MS.
45. Roald Dahl, Address to the Speech Rehabilitation Institute, April 29, 1971—RDMSC RD 6/1/1/6.
46. Kenneth Till, Interview with Jeremy Treglown cited in Treglown, p. 143.
47. Roald Dahl, Letter to Sheila St. Lawrence, 10/20/61—WLC Box 25.
48. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 01/13/62—WLC Box 25.
49. Dahl, Address to the Speech Rehabilitation Institute, 1985—RDMSC RD 6/1/1/7.
50. Kenneth Till, “A Valve for the Treatment of Hydrocephalus,” The Lancet, 1 (1964), p. 202.
51. Going Solo (FSG 1986), p. 110.
52. See Dahl, Address to the Speech Rehabilitation Institute, 1985—RDMSC RD 6/1/1/7.
53. Dahl, Letter to his mother, 11/26/52—RDMSC RD 14/5/7/29.
54. Dr. Edmund Goodman, Conversation with the author, 01/12/98.
55. Roald Dahl, George’s Marvellous Medicine (London: Jonathan Cape, 1981).
56. Sonia Austrian, Conversation with the author, 01/15/98.
57. Neal, As I Am, pp. 217, 219.
58. Roald Dahl, Letter to Sheila St. Lawrence, 06/24/57.
59. Roald Dahl, Letter to Sheila St. Lawrence, 03/13/59—WLC Box 24.
60. Farrell, Pat and Roald, p. 65.
61. Nicholas Logsdail, Conversation with the author, 04/24/08.
62. Tessa Dahl, Conversation with the author, 01/17/09.
63. John Betjeman, Letter to Roald Dahl, 01/01/61—RDMSC RD 16/1/2.
64. John Betjeman, Letter to Patricia Neal, 01/23/61—RDMSC RD 16/1/2.
65. John Betjeman, Letter to Roald Dahl, 02/04/63—RDMSC RD 16/1/2.
66. Sheila St. Lawrence, Letter to Roald Dahl, 09/12/61—WLC Box 25.
67. Alfred Knopf, Letter to Roald Dahl, 07/05/60—HRCH KNOPF 280. 1(1960).
68. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 01/26/62—WLC Box 25.
69. Roald Dahl, Letter to Virginie Fowler, 08/20–22/60—WLC Box 24.
70. Aileen Pippett in New York Times, Nov. 12, 1961.
71. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 01/13/62—WLC Box 25.
72. Armitage Watkins, Letter to Roald Dahl, 08/22/61—WLC Box 25.
73. Sheila Lewis Crosby, Conversation with the author, 07/21/08.
74. Neal, As I Am, p. 241.
75. Paul Newman, Interview with Stephen Michael Shearer, 09/30/03, in Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 222.
76. Patricia Neal, Interviewed by Lloyd Shearer for Long Island Sunday Press (1963).
77. Neal, As I Am, p. 229.
78. Patricia Neal, Letter to Sonia Austrian, 05/17/60, in possession of Ophelia Dahl.
79. Patricia Neal, Letter to Sonia Austrian, 07/26/61, in possession of Ophelia Dahl.
80. Barbara Paul, “An American in Buckinghamshire,” Housewife (January 1963).
81. Tessa Dahl, Working for Love (New York: Delacorte Press, 1989), p. 23.
82. Roald Dahl, Letter to Sheila St. Lawrence, 06/30/55—WLC Box 23.
83. Roald Dahl, Olivia—RDMSC RD 7/2.
84. Sheila St. Lawrence, Letter to Roald Dahl, 08/08/55—RDMSC RD 1/1/3/209.
85. Roald Dahl, Letter to Sheila St. Lawrence, 05/21/56—WLC Box 23.
86. Anna Corrie, Conversation with the author, 10/08/07.
87. Nicholas Arnold, Conversation with the author, 01/16/08.
88. Alfhild Hansen, Conversation with the author, 08/07/92.
89. Neal, As I Am, p. 198.
90. Nicholas Arnold, Conversation with the author, 01/16/08.
91. Patricia Neal, Letter to Sheila St. Lawrence, 08/14/57—WLC Box 24.
92. Neal, As I Am, pp. 198–99.
93. Ibid., p. 230.
94. Patricia Neal, interviewed by Lloyd Shearer for Long Island Sunday Press (1963).
95. Neal, As I Am, p. 231.
96. Dahl, Olivia—RDMSC RD 7/2.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN : Breaking Point
1. Dahl, Olivia—RDMSC RD 7/2.
2. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 11/26/62—WLC Box 25.
3. Neal, As I Am, p. 233.
4. Ibid.
5. Tessa Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/22/07.
6. Alfhild Hansen, Letter to Eura Neal cited in Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 228.
7. Tessa Dahl, Working for Love, pp. 36–37.
8. Patricia Neal, Conversation with the author, 01/15/98.
9. Sonia Austrian, Conversation with the author, 01/15/98.
10. Neal, As I Am, pp. 240, 238.
11. In a letter to Dahl dated 12/10/62 Davidson wrote that he hoped the visit in particular will be “all your wife wanted”—RDMSC RD 16/1/2.
12. Lord Fisher of Lambeth, Letter to Roald Dahl, 12/14/62—RDMSC RD 16/1/2.
13. Roald Dahl, A Christmas Message for Children—What I Told Lucy and Ophelia About God—RDMSC RD 7/1/3/1.
14. Farrell, Pat and Roald, pp. 78, 135.
15. Alfhild Hansen, Conversation with the author, 08/07/92.
16. Roald Dahl, Interviewed by Stephen Merrick in Argosy (August 1986).
17. Roald Dahl, Interviewed in A Dose of Dahl’s Magic Medicine, 09/28/86.
18. Dahl, Letter to his mother, 05/33—RDMSC 13/1/8/38.
19. Neal, As I Am, p. 238.
20. Patricia Neal, Letter to Jean Valentino and Chloe Carter, 11/29/62, cited in Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 229.
21. Tessa Dahl, Working for Love, p. 45.
22. Louella Parsons, untitled article, 02/19/63—NYPL.
23. Tessa Dahl, Working for Love, pp. 35, 38–39.
24. Patricia Neal, Letter to Jean Valentino and Chloe Carter, 09/02/63, cited in Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 234.
25. A Streetlamp and the Stars: The Autobiography of Father Mario Borrelli (New York: Coward-McCann, 1963).
26. International Help for Children, Report No. 3, 1964—WLC Box 26.
27. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 10/24/63—WLC Box 25.
28. Boy, p. 134.
29. Roald Dahl, Charlie’s Chocolate Boy, Draft II—RDMSC RD 2/7/1/2.
30. Ibid.
31. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 08/14/61—WLC Box 25.
32. Roald Dahl, Letter to Sheila St. Lawrence, 08/14/61—WLC Box 25.
33. Sheila St. Lawrence, Letter to Roald Dahl, 09/16/61—WLC Box 25.
34. Dahl, Charlie’s Chocolate Boy, Draft II—RDMSC RD 2/7/1/2.
35. Sheila St. Lawrence, Letter to Roald Dahl, 09/12/61—WLC Box 25.
36. Roald Dahl, Letter to Sheila St. Lawrence, 09/16/61—WLC Box 25.
37. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alfred Knopf, 04/19/63—HRCH KNOPF 375.6 (1963).
38. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 09/14/62—WLC Box 25.
39. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 09/03/62—WLC Box 25.
40. Roald Dahl, “Let’s Build a Skyscraper, but Let’s Find a Good Book First,” New York Times Book Review, Nov. 1, 1964—WLC Box 26.
41. Virginie Fowler, Letter to Roald Dahl, 05/21/63—HRCH KNOPF 375.6 (1963).
42. Bob Bernstein, Letter to Roald Dahl, 04/26/63—HRCH KNOPF 375.6 (1963).
43. Alfred Knopf, Letter to Roald Dahl, 07/06/64—HRCH KNOPF 403.5 (1964).
44. Blanche Knopf, Letter to Roald Dahl
, 07/16/64—HRCH KNOPF 403.5 (1964).
45. Roald Dahl, Letter to Peggy Caulfield, 02/24/78—RDMSC RD 1/1/9/106.
46. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Viking Edition), p. 158.
47. Kopper, Anonymous Giver, p. 136.
48. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alfred Knopf, 02/04/63—HRCH KNOPF 375.6 (1963).
49. Roald Dahl, Introduction to Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983), p. 15.
50. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alfred Knopf, 04/19/63—HRCH KNOPF 375.6 (1963).
51. Introduction to Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories, p. 15.
52. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alfred Knopf, 02/04/63—HRCH KNOPF 375.6 (1963).
53. Roald Dahl, The Magic Finger (London: Puffin Books, 1995 ed.), p. 8.
54. Alfred Knopf, Memo to Virginie Fowler, 05/04/65—HRCH KNOPF 454.8.
55. Patricia Neal, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 06/03/63 25—WLC Box 26.
56. International Help for Children, Report No. 1, March 1964—WLC Box 26.
57. Susan and John Vivian, Conversation with the author, 11/03/09.
58. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 08/20/63—WLC Box 25.
59. Neal, As I Am, p. 244.
60. Ibid., p. 248.
61. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 07/13/64—WLC Box 26.
62. Dahl, Letter to his mother, 03/18/61—RDMSC RD 14/5/10/15.
63. Roald Dahl, Letter to Sheila St. Lawrence, 09/14/57—WLC Box 24.
64. Armitage Watkins, Letter to Roald Dahl, 01/24/64—WLC Box 26.
65. Roald Dahl, Letter to Marion McNamara, 01/20/64—WLC Box 26.
66. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 02/16/64—WLC Box 26.
67. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 03/31/64—WLC Box 26.
68. Roald Dahl, Letter to Peggy Caulfield, 04/27/64—WLC Box 26.
69. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 03/01/64—WLC Box 26.
70. Miscellaneous Reviews—undated—WLC Box 27.
71. Roald Dahl, Letter to Dirk Bogarde, 01/09/81—Dirk Bogarde Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.
72. Arno Johanson, “Pat Neal: Her Luck Has Changed At Last,” Parade magazine, Oct. 14, 1964.
73. Neal, As I Am, p. 253.
74. Patricia Neal’s medical notes, compiled by Charles Carton, January 1965—Copy in Possession of Ophelia Dahl.
75. Roald Dahl, “My Wife Patricia Neal,” Ladies’ Home Journal (September 1965).
76. Dahl, Letter to his mother, 02/27/65—RDMSC RD 14/5/11/6.
77. Roald Dahl, Speech to the Speech Rehabilitation Institute, April 29, 1971, reworked in 1985—RDMSC RD 6/1/1/7.
78. Time magazine, March 26, 1965.
79. Edmund Goodman, Conversation with the author, 01/12/98.
80. Neal, As I Am, p. 256.
81. I used a number of sources in assembling my account of the twenty-four hours that followed the stroke. These include Patricia Neal’s own medical notes; firsthand descriptions given by Roald and Pat to Barry Farrell in Pat and Roald; Dahl’s own article “My Wife Patricia Neal” for Ladies’ Home Journal in September 1965; Patricia Neal’s autobiography, As I Am; and Tessa Dahl’s fictionalized autobiography, Working for Love. I have also consulted contemporary letters from Dahl himself, as well as those from Sheena Burt, Angela Kirwan, Margaret Ann Vande Noord and Eura Neal to members of the Dahl family in England during the crisis. Most of these are in the collection at the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden. To flesh these out, I also used interviews with Patricia Neal, Else Logsdail, and Tessa Dahl, and consulted Jeremy Treglown’s Roald Dahl and Stephen Michael Shearer’s Patricia Neal, an Unquiet Life. Where there are differences and discrepancies in the versions of events—and there are many—I have generally relied upon the medical records and the earliest accounts of those actually present.
82. Patricia Neal, Speech given at An Evening with Patricia Neal, March 1967—WLC Box 27.
83. Roald Dahl, William and Mary, in Collected Stories, pp. 477, 482.
84. Farrell, Pat and Roald, p. 137.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN : Indomitable
1. Neal, As I Am, p. 254.
2. Margaret Ann Vande Noord, Letter to Sofie Magdalene Dahl, 02/24/65—RDMSC RD 14/5/11/5.
3. Tessa Dahl, Working for Love, pp. 61, 76.
4. Dahl, Letter to his mother, 03/16/65—RDMSC RD 14/5/11/12.
5. Art Berman, “Patricia Neal Partly Paralyzed, Five Months Pregnant, Husband Says,” Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1965.
6. Dahl, Letter to his mother, 03/27/65—RDMSC RD 14/5/11/15.
7. Jean Alexander, Interview with Stephen Michael Shearer, 09/16/2003, cited in Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 260.
8. Roald Dahl, Introduction to Val Eaton Griffith, A Stroke in the Family (Harmonds-worth, UK: Penguin, 1970), p. 50.
9. Neal, As I Am, pp. 259, 262.
10. Louella Parsons, “Hollywood Snapshots” (n.d.) PNC, cited in Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 260.
11. Neal, As I Am, p. 265.
12. Claire Carton, Conversation with Stephen Michael Shearer, cited in Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 260.
13. Else Logsdail, Letter to Eura Neal, 03/22/65, PNC, cited in ibid., p. 261.
14. Neal, As I Am, p. 263.
15. Marjorie Clipstone, Letter to Alfhild Hansen, 04/24/65—RDMSC RD 14/5/11/20.
16. Neal, As I Am, p. 265.
17. Claudia Marsh, Letter to Alfhild Hansen, 03/04/65—RDMSC RD 14/5/11/8.
18. Sheena Burt, Letter to Sofie Magdalene Dahl, 04/27/65—RDMSC RD 14/5/11/22.
19. Patricia Neal’s medical notes, compiled by Charles Carton, January 1965. Copy in the possession of Ophelia Dahl.
20. Dahl, Letter to his mother, 04/11/65—RDMSC 14/5/11/18.
21. Dahl, Introduction to Eaton Griffith, A Stroke in the Family, p. 9.
22. Patricia Neal, Interview with Stephen Michael Shearer, June 2005, cited in Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 261.
23. Dahl, Letter to his mother, 04/21/65—RDMSC RD 14/5/11/19.
24. Dahl, Introduction to Notes for Treating Recovering Stroke Patients—RDMSC RD 12/5/6/49.
25. Neal, As I Am, p. 272.
26. Roald Dahl, ABC Radio interview with Terry Lane, 1989.
27. Pam Lowndes, Conversation with the author, 02/22/10.
28. Roald Dahl, introduction to Notes for Treating Recovering Stroke Patients—RDMSC RD 12/5/6/49.
29. Neal, As I Am, p. 254.
30. Tessa Dahl, Working for Love, p. 87.
31. Pam Lowndes, Conversation with the author, 02/22/10.
32. Valerie Easton Griffith, Interview with Stephen Michael Shearer, cited in Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 272.
33. Dahl, Introduction to Notes for Treating Recovering Stroke Patients—RDMSC RD 12/5/6/49.
34. Patricia Neal, Speech given at An Evening with Patricia Neal, March 1967—WLC Box 27.
35. Roald Dahl, Speech to the Speech Rehabilitation Institute, April 29, 1971—RDMSC RD 6/1/1/6.
36. Tessa Dahl, Working for Love, p. 112.
37. Patricia Neal, Conversation with the author, 03/21/07.
38. Neal, As I Am, p. 279.
39. Neal, As I Am, pp. 289, 275, 310.
40. Tessa Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/22/07.
41. Neal, As I Am, p. 271.
42. Bob Thomas, “Pat Neal Hopes to Work,” Los Angeles Mirror-Times, Jan. 31, 1966, cited in Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 273.
43. Gereon Zimmermann, “Does Everyone Love Pat Neal? Oh Yes!” Look magazine, Feb. 18, 1969, p. 84.
44. Farrell, Pat and Roald, p. 111.
45. Neal, As I Am, p. 290.
46. Ibid., 294.
47. Patricia Neal, Interview with Cindy Adams, Long Island Press, April 3, 1968—WLC Box 27.
48. Judith Crist, New York magazine, cited in Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 289; Time magazine, Oct. 18, 1968.
49. Susan Vivian, Conversation with the author, 11/02/09.
50. Dahl, “My Wif
e: Patricia Neal,” Ladies’ Home Journal (September 1965)—RDMSC RD 6/3/8.
51. Roald Dahl, Letter to Eura Neal, 11/01/65, cited in Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 268.
52. Farrell, Pat and Roald, pp. 126, 139.
53. Marian Goodman, Conversation with the author, 03/11/07.
54. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 06/22/65—WLC Box 26.
55. Neal, As I Am, p. 285.
56. Dahl and Farrell shared the rights to the book 50:50. See Armitage Watkins, Letter to Murray Pollinger, 10/13/66—WLC Box 27.
57. Patricia Neal, Letter to Barry Farrell, 02/10/69—WLC Box 28.
58. Barry Farrell, Letter to Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal, 05/20/69—WLC Box 28.
59. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 05/27/69—WLC Box 28.
60. Roald Dahl, Letter to Dirk Bogarde, 01/09/81—Dirk Bogarde Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.
61. Farrell, Pat and Roald, p. 211.
62. Marian Goodman, Conversation with the author, 03/11/07.
63. Roald Dahl, Interview by Michael Parkinson, BBC Television, 1982.
64. Maria Tucci, Conversation with the author, 06/24/08.
65. Neal, As I Am, p. 267.
66. Val Eaton Griffith cited in Treglown, pp. 208–09.
67. Untitled newspaper article—PNC, cited in Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 284.
68. Tessa Dahl, Working for Love, p. 110.
69. Neal, As I Am, p. 289.
70. Roald Dahl, ABC Radio interview with Terry Lane, 1989.
71. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 01/23/65—WLC Box 26.
72. Armitage Watkins, Letter to Roald Dahl, 10/28/64—RDMSC RD 1/1/5/220.
73. Roald Dahl, ABC Radio interview with Terry Lane, 1989.
74. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 04/09/65—WLC Box 26.
75. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alfred Knopf, 07/26/65—HRCH KNOPF 657.3.
76. Lucy Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/09/08.
77. Roald Dahl, Letter to Peggy Caulfield, 10/18/65—WLC Box 26.
78. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 08/23/66—WLC Box 27.
79. Missy Schwartz, Interview with Robert Altman, Entertainment Weekly, June 12, 1966.
80. Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming, p. 240.
81. Roald Dahl, Speech given at Chesham High School, Jan. 13, 1978—RDMSC RD 6/1/15.
82. Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming, p. 231.
83. Roald Dahl, ABC Radio interview with Terry Lane, 1989, and Letter to Armitage Watkins, 03/21/66—WLC Box 27.