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84. Roald Dahl, Draft of article for Playboy magazine, June 1967—RDMSC RD 6/2/1/5.
85. See Harold Bloom, Letter to Henry Saltzman, 03/08/67—RDMSC RD 1/5/5.
86. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 04/13/66—WLC Box 27.
87. Treglown, p. 178.
88. Farrell, Pat and Roald, p. 152.
89. Roald Dahl, ABC Radio interview with Terry Lane, 1989.
90. The basic figure was $125,000 (see his Letter to Armitage Watkins, 03/21/66—WLC Box 27). However, with rewrites and additional fees the sum came to $165,500. Dahl put his entire fee into a trust fund in Nassau for Theo and paid Armitage Watkins 1 percent from his own account. The total figure was calculated from the fact that Dahl paid Watkins $1,655—RDMSC RD 1/5/5.
91. Alan Higgin, Conversation with the author, 08/04/09.
92. Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, Letter to Roald Dahl, 07/29/66—RDMSC RD 1/5/5, and Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 07/07/66—WLC Box 27.
93. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alfred Knopf, 16/12/66—HRCH KNOPF 524.12.
94. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 07/07/66—WLC Box 27.
95. Roald Dahl, Letter to B. Indick, 07/13/77—RDMSC RD 1/1/9/67.
96. Ken Hughes quoted in Treglown, pp. 183–84.
97. Roald Dahl, Letter to Irving Lazar, 12/20/68—RDMSC 1/5/5.
98. Roald Dahl, Bedtime Stories, 1970—RDMSC RD 12/1/2.
99. Roald Dahl, Letter to William Dozier, 04/02/68—RDMSC 1/5/5.
100. Roald Dahl, Letter to William Dozier, 03/28/68—RDMSC 1/5/5.
101. Joy Cowley, Letter to Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal, 08/29/70—RDMSC RD 1/5/9.
102. Irving Lazar, Telegram to Roald Dahl, 03/19/69—RDMSC RD 1/5/9.
103. Roald Dahl, Letter to Irving Lazar, 07/20/69—RDMSC RD 1/5/9.
104. Ken Russell, Letter to Roald Dahl, undated—RDMSC RD 1/5/9.
105. Roald Dahl, Letter to Allen Hodshire, 08/20/69—RDMSC RD 1/5/9.
106. Roald Dahl, Letter to Joe Schoenfeld (at William Morris), 12/19/69—RDMSC RD 1/5/5.
107. Allen Hodshire, Letter to YoungStreet Productions, 09/14/70—RDMSC RD 1/5/9.
108. Roald Dahl, Letter to Irving Lazar, 10/12/70—RDMSC RD 1/5/9.
109. Roald Dahl, Letter to Allen Hodshire, 05/27/71—RDMSC RD 1/5/9.
110. Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 293.
111. Rex Reed, “Pat Neal’s Portrait of Courage,” New York Sunday Times, Nov. 8, 1970.
112. Roald Dahl, Letter to Allen Hodshire, 05/27/71—RDMSC RD 1/5/9.
113. Roald Dahl, Interviewed by Stephen Merrick in Argosy (August 1966).
114. Roald Dahl, Letter to Claude Gallimard, 10/29/71—RDMSC RD 1/2/3/146.
115. Neisha Crosland, Conversation with the author, 03/20/09.
116. Patricia Neal, Letter to Sofie Magdalene Dahl, 02/09/65—RDMSC RD 14/5/11/2.
117. Farrell, Pat and Roald, p. 138.
118. Roger Angell, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 04/19/65—WLC Box 26.
119. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 04/27/65—WLC Box 26.
120. Roald Dahl, Letter to A. C. Spectorsky, 04/17/65—WLC Box 26.
121. On March 31, 1968, Knopf’s six-month royalty statement showed that Dahl had earned $681,658 for Charlie, $252,714 for James, $17,290 for Kiss Kiss, and $15,074 for Someone Like You—HRCH KNOPF 1334.5.
122. Michael Joseph, Hamish Hamilton, Hart-Davis, Chatto & Windus, Golden Pleasure Books, Hutchinson, The Bodley Head, Faber & Faber, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Collins and Cassell had all rejected them—Armitage Watkins, Letter to Roald Dahl, 04/22/65—WLC Box 26.
123. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 12/02/64—WLC Box 26.
124. Roald Dahl, Letter to Blanche Knopf, 11/27/64—HRCH KNOPF 1334.5.
125. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 12/5/64—WLC Box 26.
126. Armitage Watkins, Letter to Roald Dahl, 07/22/65—WLC Box 26.
127. Rayner Unwin, Conversation with the author, 01/04/98.
128. Murray Pollinger, Conversation with the author, 10/30/08.
129. Murray Pollinger, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 11/25/65—WLC Box 26, and Rayner Unwin, Conversation with the author, 01/04/98.
130. Roald Dahl, Mr. Fox, Third Draft, 1968—RDMSC RD 2/9/3.
131. Roald Dahl, Mr. Fox, First Draft, 1968—RDMSC RD 2/9/1.
132. Walter Retan (Random House), Letter to Bob Bernstein, 07/16/68—HRCH KNOPF 1334.5.
133. Roald Dahl, Boggis, Bunce and Bean (early draft of Fantastic Mr. Fox)—RDMSC RD 2/9/6/46.
134. Bob Bernstein, Letter to Roald Dahl, 07/17/68—RDMSC RD 1/1/6/205/2.
135. Roald Dahl, Telegram to Bob Bernstein, 07/18/68—HRCH KNOPF 1334.5.
136. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Bernstein, 07/21/68—RDMSC RD 1/1/6/206.
137. Fabio Coen, Letter to Roald Dahl, 11/20/68—RDMSC 1/4/2/1/1–2.
138. Roald Dahl, Letter to Fabio Coen, 11/25/68—RDMSC RD 1/4/2/2.
139. Fabio Coen, Letter to Roald Dahl, 05/13/70—RDMSC RD 1/2/3/15.
140. Roald Dahl, The Last Act in Collected Stories, p. 697.
141. Patricia Neal, An Awfully Big Adventure, Music Link International, 1998.
142. Amanda Conquy, Conversation with the author, 02/22/10.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN : The Gentle Warmth of Love
1. Farrell, Pat and Roald, p. 102.
2. Nicholas Logsdail, Conversation with the author, 04/24/08.
3. Lemina Lawson Johnson, Letter to the author, 11/30/09.
4. Roald Dahl, Letter to Charles Marsh and Claudia Haines, 05/22/50—CMP.
5. Nicholas Logsdail, Conversation with the author, 04/24/08.
6. Susan Vivian, Conversation with the author, 02/11/09.
7. Tim Fisher, Conversation with the author, 09/17/07.
8. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alfred Knopf, 12/14/67—HRCH KNOPF 482.1.
9. Patricia Neal, Conversation with Stephen Michael Shearer, June 2005; also Neal, As I Am, p. 299.
10. Alexandra Anderson, Conversation with the author, 11/14/07.
11. Dahl, Only This in Collected Stories, p. 19.
12. Roald Dahl, The Witches (London: Jonathan Cape, 1983), pp. 14–15.
13. Farrell, Pat and Roald, pp. 204–6, 215.
14. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alfred Knopf, 12/14/67—HRCH KNOPF 482.1.
15. Tessa Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/22/07.
16. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Bernstein, 08/11/68—HRCH KNOPF 1334.5.
17. Neal, As I Am, p. 309.
18. Felicity Dahl, Conversation with the author, 11/20/06.
19. Felicity Dahl, Conversation with the author, 02/05/10.
20. Neal, As I Am, pp. 320, 318.
21. Patricia Neal, Conversation with the author, 03/21/07.
22. Annabella Power, cited in Treglown, p. 208.
23. Liccy Dahl, Conversation with the author, 02/05/10.
24. Ophelia Dahl, Conversation with the author, 03/17/08.
25. Roald Dahl, Letter to Felicity Crosland, undated, Felicity Dahl Collection.
26. Charlotte Crosland, Conversation with the author, 03/12/10.
27. Neisha Crosland, Conversation with the author, 03/20/09.
28. Tessa Dahl, Working for Love, p. 127.
29. The Gipsy House Cookbook, p. 21.
30. Neal, As I Am, p. 320.
31. Ophelia Dahl, Memories of My Father, unpublished MS.
32. Tessa Dahl, Working for Love, p. 130.
33. Tessa Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/22/07.
34. Treglown, p. 199.
35. Maria Tucci, Conversation with the author, 06/24/08.
36. Marian Goodman, Conversation with the author, 03/11/07.
37. Tessa Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/22/07.
38. Tessa Dahl, Working for Love, p. 152.
39. Tessa Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/22/07.
40. Patricia Neal, Conversation with the author, 03/21/07.
41. Neal, As I Am, pp. 325–26.
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br /> 42. Neisha Crosland, Conversation with the author, 03/20/09.
43. Neal, As I Am, p. 327.
44. Tessa Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/22/07.
45. Lucy Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/09/08.
46. Roald Dahl, Letter to Felicity Crosland, 09/19/74—Felicity Dahl Collection.
47. Tessa Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/22/07.
48. Neal, As I Am, pp. 331–32.
49. Roald Dahl, “Love,” Ladies’ Home Journal (May 1949).
50. Louise (Lou) Pearl, Conversation with the author, 05/09/08.
51. Felicity Crosland, Letter to Patricia Neal (1975), cited in Neal, As I Am, p. 337.
52. Neal, As I Am, p. 336.
53. Ibid., p. 339.
54. Ophelia Dahl, Memories of My Father, unpublished MS.
55. Marian Goodman, Conversation with the author, 03/11/07.
56. Dennis Pearl cited in Treglown, p. 214.
57. Roald Dahl, Letter to Lucy Dahl, 10/16/80—Collection of Lucy Dahl.
58. Marian Goodman, Conversation with the author, 03/11/07.
59. Lucy Dahl cited in Treglown, p. 198.
60. Ophelia Dahl, Memories of My Father, unpublished MS.
61. Danny The Champion of the World, p. 17.
62. Ibid., pp. 10, 38, 33.
63. Wintle and Fisher, The Pied Pipers, p. 110.
64. Roald Dahl, Letter to Charles and Claudia Marsh, 08/31/55—CMP.
65. Roald Dahl, Introduction to The Croaker—RDMSC RD 8a/2.
66. Roald Dahl, Introduction to I Heard You Calling Me—RDMSC RD 8a/2.
67. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alfred Knopf, 09/19/74—HRCH KNOPF 653.2.
68. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alfred Knopf, 11/18/63—HRCH KNOPF 375.6.
69. Alfred Knopf, Letter to Roald Dahl, 11/26/63—HRCH KNOPF 375.6.
70. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alfred Knopf, 12/16/66—HRCH KNOPF 524.12.
71. Alfred Knopf, Letter to Roald Dahl, 12/21/66—HRCH KNOPF 524.12.
72. Wintle and Fisher, The Pied Pipers, p. 110.
73. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alfred Knopf, 1/11/75—HRCH KNOPF 653.2.
74. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, pp. 192, 179.
75. Roald Dahl, Letter to Felicity Crosland, 05/14/76—Felicity Dahl Private Collection.
76. Claudia Haines, Letter to Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg, 01/17/53—RDMSC RD 14/5/8/3.
77. Maria Tucci, Conversation with the author, 06/24/08.
78. Douglas Highton, Conversation with the author, 11/08/07.
79. Tessa Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/22/07.
80. Neisha Crosland, Conversation with the author, 03/20/09.
81. Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 320.
82. Ophelia Dahl, Conversation with the author, 03/17/08.
83. Neal, As I Am, p. 346.
84. Roald Dahl, Letter to Ophelia Dahl, undated—Ophelia Dahl Private Connection.
85. Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio, 10/27/79.
86. Charlotte Crosland, Conversation with the author, 03/12/10.
87. Neisha Crosland, Conversation with the author, 03/20/09.
88. Charlotte Crosland, Conversation with the author, 03/12/10.
89. Sonia Austrian, Conversation with the author, 01/15/98.
90. Ophelia Dahl, Memories of My Father, unpublished MS.
91. Neal, As I Am, pp. 348, 350.
92. Roald Dahl, Interview with Susan Slavetin, Boston Globe, 1980.
93. Roald Dahl, Letter to Patricia Neal, undated—PNC.
94. Neal, As I Am, p. 352.
95. Roald Dahl, Letter to Dirk Bogarde, 10/07/81—Howard Gotlieb Collection, University of Boston.
96. Ophelia Dahl, Memories of My Father, unpublished MS.
97. Neal, As I Am, p. 358.
98. Ibid.
99. Patricia Neal, Conversation with the author, 03/21/07.
100. Joe Leyden, Houston Post, March 1982—PNC, cited in Shearer, Patricia Neal, p. 332.
101. Patricia Neal, Conversation with the author, 03/21/07.
102. Neal, As I Am, p. 366.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN : Explosions Are Exciting
1. Neal, As I Am, p. 308.
2. Roald Dahl, Autobiographical Statement (1972)—RDMSC RD 6/2/1/9.
3. Roald Dahl, Letters to The Times, 08/20/77, 09/20/80, 06/20/80 (RD 1/2/6/151), and 08/02/85.
4. Theo Dahl, Conversation with the author, 09/17/07.
5. Sheila Lewis Crosby, Conversation with the author, 07/21/08.
6. Lesley O’Malley (née Pares), Conversation with the author, 1992.
7. Pam Lowndes, Conversation with the author, 02/22/10.
8. Sir Leonard Figg, Conversation with the author, 02/22/10.
9. Marian Goodman, Conversation with the author, 03/11/07.
10. Ophelia Dahl, Conversation with the author, 1998.
11. Lucy Dahl, Conversation with the author, 10/09/08.
12. Ophelia Dahl, Conversation with the author, 1998.
13. Amanda Conquy, Conversation with the author, 01/05/98.
14. Patricia Neal, Letter to Sonia Austrian, 01/24/64—Ophelia Dahl Collection.
15. Rayner Unwin, Conversation with the author, 01/04/98.
16. Robert Bernstein, Conversation with the author, 06/25/08.
17. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Bernstein, 05/08/68—HRCH KNOPF 1334.5.
18. Robert Bernstein, Conversation with the author, 06/25/08.
19. Robert Gottlieb, Conversation with the author, 06/24/08.
20. Roald Dahl, Letter to Yvonne MacManus of Leisure Books, 05/14/71—RDMSC RD 1/1/7/138.
21. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Gottlieb, 03/16/71—RDMSC RD 1/1/7/106.
22. Robert Gottlieb, Conversation with the author, 06/24/08.
23. Maria Tucci, Conversation with the author, 06/24/08.
24. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 04/14/69—WLC Box 28.
25. Murray Pollinger, Conversation with the author, 10/30/08.
26. Bob Bernstein, Letter to Roald Dahl, 06/03/69—WLC Box 28.
27. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 03/08/69—WLC Box 28.
28. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 06/07/69—WLC Box 28.
29. Armitage Watkins, note of phone conversation with Bob Bernstein, 06/10/69—WLC Box 28.
30. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 06/18/69—WLC Box 28.
31. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Bernstein, 07/07/69—WLC Box 28.
32. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 09/03/69—WLC Box 28.
33. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 10/20/69—WLC Box 28.
34. Bob Gottlieb, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 10/22/69—WLC Box 28.
35. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alfred Knopf, 05/13/81—HRCH KNOPF 553.1 (1981).
36. Roald Dahl, Letter to Sheila St. Lawrence, 07/05/56—WLC Box 23.
37. Ethel L. Heins, review of James and the Giant Peach in Library Journal, Nov. 15, 1961.
38. Roald Dahl, Letter to Sue Mason, 02/05/62—HRCH KNOPF 1334.7.
39. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 01/12/68—WLC Box 27.
40. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, p. 73.
41. John Morsell, Letter to Lillian Hellman, 12/03/69—RDMSC RD 1/5/8/27/1.
42. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Bernstein, 10/01/69—RDMSC RD 1/5/8/16/1.
43. Roald Dahl, Letter to Alfred Knopf, 07/25/70—HRCH KNOPF 530.2.
44. Roald Dahl, Note to Armitage Watkins, undated—WLC Box 28, also Letter to Rayner Unwin, 04/05/72—RDMSC RD 1/4/3/32.
45. Roald Dahl, Letter to Stan Margulies, 05/04/71—RDMSC RD 1/5/8.
46. Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio, 10/27/79.
47. Roald Dahl, Letter to Irving Lazar, 12/01/70—RDMSC RD 1/5/8/101. A rich variety of adjectives critical of Mr. Stuart can be found in this letter and in another letter to Lazar, written in September 1970—RDMSC RD 1/5/8/58.
48. Roald Dahl, Draft letter to David Wolper—RDMSC RD 1/5/8/54.
49. Roald Dahl, Letter
to James Stuart (Quaker Oats), 06/28/71—RDMSC RD 1/5/8.
50. Roald Dahl, Letter to Stan Margulies, 05/04/71—RDMSC RD 1/5/8.
51. Roald Dahl, Letter to Irving Lazar, 01/70—RDMSC RD 1/5/8.
52. Roald Dahl, Draft telegram to David Wolper—RDMSC RD 1/5/8/58.
53. Roald Dahl, Letter to James Stuart, 06/28/71—RDMSC RD 1/5/8.
54. Murray Pollinger, Conversation with the author, 10/30/08.
55. Rayner Unwin, Conversation with the author, 01/04/98.
56. Roald Dahl, Letter to Fabio Coen, 12/3/69—RDMSC RD 1/4/2/92.
57. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Gottlieb, 03/23/72—RDMSC RD 1/4/3.
58. Librarians of Madison Public Library, Letter to Roald Dahl, 04/20/72. RDMSC RD 1/3/9/167/1–2.
59. Roald Dahl, Letter to Librarians of Madison Public Library, 04/25/72—RDMSC RD 1/3/6/9/167/3.
60. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, p. 85.
61. Ibid., p. 146.
62. Cameron, “McLuhan, Youth and Literature,” The Horn Book Magazine. “The author of a work of imagination is trying to affect us wholly, as human beings, whether he knows it or not; and we are affected by it, as human beings, whether we intend to be or not”—T. S. Eliot, Essays Ancient and Modern (New York: Harcourt, 1936), p. 102.
63. Roald Dahl, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A Reply,” The Horn Book Magazine (February 1973).
64. Roald Dahl, Letter to Armitage Watkins, 05/22/66—WLC Box 27.
65. Roald Dahl, Letter to Keith Olbermann cited in the Greenburgh [N.Y] Independent, April 7, 1966—WLC Box 27.
66. Roald Dahl, Letter to Michael Untermeyer, 01/13/62—WLC Box 25.
67. Ursula K. Le Guin, Letter to the Editor of The Horn Book Magazine (April 1973).
68. Roald Dahl, Letter to Richard Krinsley, 12/20/72.
69. Roald Dahl, Letter to Richard Story at Travel and Leisure, 01/23/79.
70. Roald Dahl, Interview with Parkinson, BBC Television, December 1978.
71. Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald, first draft—RDMSC RD 2/1/15/4.
72. Roald Dahl, Notes for My Uncle Oswald—RDMSC RD 2/15/2/9–14.
73. Bob Gottlieb, Letter to Roald Dahl, 12/78—RDMSC RD 1/1/9/130.
74. Bob Gottlieb, Letter to Roald Dahl, 05/04/79—RDMSC RD 1/5/16.
75. Roald Dahl, Letter to Bob Gottlieb, 05/18/79—HRCH KNOPF 8237.
76. Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald (London: Michael Joseph, 1979), pp. 164, 184, 189.