11Letters, 135.
12Judith Adamson, ‘“I’ve always wanted to be in a publisher’s office” (Graham Greene, 1933)’, lecture, Graham Greene International Festival, Berkhamsted, 24 September 2016.
13Documents related to this agreement can be found in file 92:16, GG Collection, HRC.
14Introduction, The Tenth Man (London: The Bodley Head, 1985), 9–11.
15Mike Hill, ‘An Old Man’s Memory: The Strange Case of The Tenth Man’, A Sort of Newsletter (February 2020), 2–8.
16GG to LP, 23 March 1967, BC.
17GG to GP, 10 August 1983, GG Collection, HRC.
18MR to Jean-Felix Paschoud, 1 May 1987, Max Reinhardt Collection, BL.
19GG to Maria Aurora Couto, 6 April 1985, BC; Introduction, The Tenth Man, 9–11.
20GG to LP, 8 March 1951, HRC.
22: Hot Irons
1VG, notes in a photo album in possession of CB; CB interview with RG, 20 February 2014.
2CB, interview with RG, 20 February 2014.
3I. C. B. Dear, gen. ed, The Oxford Companion to World War II (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 978–9.
4Letters, 131–2.
5Letters, 133.
6GG to MG, Good Friday 1945 [30 March], BL; Peter Ackroyd, London: The Biography (London: Chatto & Windus, 2000), 748–9; London Fire Journal: http://londonfirejournal.blogspot.ca/2005/07/world-war-ii.html.
7GG to MG [June 1945], BL.
8GG to ‘Liberal Party’, 20 August 1962, BC.
9Sunday Times (1 April 1984).
10GG to MG, [June 1945] and [October 1945], BL.
11WOE, 93.
12GG to Betty Judkins, 8 October 1964, HRC.
13Letters, 136–7 and 147.
14WOE, 6; Falk, 25–7.
15Contract between Graham Greene and Theatrecraft, 7 February 1944, GG Collection (93:14), HRC.
16See especially Andrew Spicer, Sydney Box (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006), 64–8.
17WOE, 14; Falk, 25–7.
18Various film contracts are preserved at HRC.
23: Mother of Six
1Except as otherwise indicated, the main source for the next seven paragraphs is Walston.
2Passports of Catherine Walston, private papers of Oliver Walston, Thriplow.
3Information from Dr James Stone of King’s College London.
4John Hayward to CW, 21 July 1949, private papers of Oliver Walston, Thriplow.
5I am grateful to Karl Orend for information on this point.
6Letters, 138.
7Quoted in Walston.
8GG to CW, 26 December 1946, GU.
9VG, notes in photograph album in possession of CB.
10Letters, 146.
11Letters, 143.
12Letters, 139.
13Letters, 141.
14GG to CW, 22 August 1947 and 11 May 1948, GU; Letters, 145–6.
15A series of letters and documents relating to this episode can found in the Graham Greene Papers, Special Collections, University of Tulsa.
16Letters, 159.
17Bevis Hillier, ‘A Sort of Wife’, The Times Magazine (20 December 1996).
18GS, transcript of conversation with YC, 17 January 1992, Sutro Collection, Bod.
24: Banned in the Republic of Ireland
1GG to London Film Productions, 2 October 1947; Contract for film rights between London Film Productions and Graham Greene, 2 October 1947; Contract for services between London Film Productions and Graham Greene, 2 October 1947; all documents in Graham Greene Collection (92:12), HRC. These documents formalized an agreement under which Greene had been working through the late summer.
2My discussion of The Fallen Idol is drawn mainly from Wapshott, 193–206; but see also Falk, 41–7.
3Wapshott, 197.
4Adamson (1984), 45–6.
5GG to MG, 11 June 1947, BL.
6GG to CW, 8 August 1947, GU.
7GG to CW, 8 August 1947, GU.
8Portrait of John Hayward, GG Collection, HRC; see also ‘John Hayward, 1904–1965: Some Memories’, Book Collector (winter 1965).
9John Hayward to Lord Kinross, 4 November 1941, HRC; quoted in John Smart, Tarantula’s Web: John Hayward, T. S. Eliot and their Circle (Norwich: Michael Russell, 2013), 170.
10John Hayward to CW, 19[?] July 1948 and 20 July 1953, private papers of Oliver Walston, Thriplow.
11Portrait of John Hayward, GG Collection, HRC; see also ‘John Hayward, 1904–1965: Some Memories’.
12GG to CW, 21 August 1947, GU.
13GG to A. S. Frere, 1 October 1947, BC.
14Muggeridge (1981), 170–1.
15GG to Editor of Quarto, 6 August 1981, BC.
16Wise and Hill 1: 25.
17John O’London’s Weekly (28 May 1948).
18New Yorker, 17 July 1948.
19GG to Sean O’ Faolain, 6 July 1948, BC.
20The Tablet (5 June 1948).
21The Tablet (5 June 1948).
22Universe (18 June 1948).
23Universe (3 September 1948).
24Clifford W. Crouch to Messrs Heinemann, 20 September 1948, BC.
25: Lime
1Letters, 146.
2WOE, 96.
3Wapshott, 207–8.
4Drazin, 318.
5Contract between GG and London Film Productions, 26 August 1948, GG Collection (92:12), HRC.
6Information from Teresa Hadadi Berezuk.
7WOE, 99.
8Jeremy Lewis, David Astor (London: Jonathan Cape, 2016), 121–2.
9West, 157–8.
10Shelden, 266–9.
11WOE, 99–100.
12GG to CW, 23 February 1948, GU; WOE, 101, plays down Greene’s desire to see the revolution but it is clearly expressed in the letter.
13Jean-Luc Fromental and Myles Hyman, Le Coup de Prague (ebook, 2017).
14Egon Hostovský, Seven Times the Leading Man, trans. Fern Long (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945).
15WOE, 109–12; Lonnie Johnson, Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 88.
16Korda, 198.
17Korda, 312.
18Korda, 313.
19Korda, 315–16.
20Korda, 316–17.
21Mark Holloway, Norman Douglas: A Biography (London: Secker & Warburg, 1976), 483.
22Michelangelo Sabatino, Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), 105–6. I am grateful for further information from Professor Sabatino and from Professor Fabio Mangone.
23Letters, 197.
24See Wyse and Hill 1: 25–6.
25See ‘Norman Douglas’, CE, 271–4.
26See Wyse and Hill 2: 97.
27Holloway, Norman Douglas, 483 and 489–91.
28WOE, 96.
29GG to Mary Pritchett, 7 January 1948, BC.
30See Adamson (1984), 55.
31WOE, 97.
32WOE, 98.
33Drazin, 309 and 319–20.
34GG to CW, 9 August 1948, GU.
35Wapshott, 216–20.
36Letters, 161; GG to CW, 23 August 1948, GU.
37Drazin, 318–20; Wapshott, 221–7.
38Independent (7 July 2017).
39Jimmy Stamp, ‘The Past, Present, and Future of the Cuckoo Clock’, Smithsonian Magazine (17 May 2013): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-past-present-and-future-of-the-cuckoo-clock-65073025/.
40Wapshott, 232.
26: A Piece of Grit
1GG to CW, 30 December 1947, GU.
2Muggeridge (1981), 249 and 298.
3Hilary Spurling, Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2017), 285 and 305–6; Letters, 162.
4GG to CW, 15 July 1949 and 26 August 1949, GU; Nic Compton, ‘A Brief Affair with Graham Greene – A Double-Ender Lists the Author as an Owner’, Yachting World (19 April 2016): http://www.yachtingworld.com/features/brief-affair-graham-greene-lovely-double-ender-lists-author-owner-711
10.
5Letters, 163.
6GS, notes on conversation with GG, 4 October 1989, Sutro Collection, Bod; Muggeridge (1973), 262–3.
7Letters, 164.
8See ‘François Mauriac’, CE, 91–6.
9Letters, 151
10‘The Virtue of Disloyalty’, Reflections, 311–16.
27: Points of Departure
1Waugh (1977), 694.
2James Salter, ‘Like a Retired Confidential Agent, Graham Greene Hides Quietly in Paris’, in Don’t Save Anything: The Uncollected Writings of James Salter, ed. Kay Eldredge (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2017), 29.
3Waugh (1980), 322.
4WOE, 200.
5Letters, 175–6; Waugh (1980), 332–3.
6Waugh (1980), 211
7Waugh (1980), 353 and 355.
8Oliver Walston to RG, email, 17 September 2007.
9Waugh (1980), 283–4; GG to CW, 6 July 1948, GU. Further information from Oliver Walston.
10Waugh (1977), 702.
11Waugh (1980), 557.
12Edith Sitwell to GG, n.d. [1945], Graham Greene Collection, GU.
13Edith Sitwell to David Horner, 1 June 1948, Osbert Sitwell Collection, HRC.
14GG to CW, 7 November 1951, GU.
15VG to LD, 9 August 1994, GU.
16Letters, 165.
17GG to CW, 9 September 1949, GU.
18GG to CW, 18 December 1949, GU.
19Letters, 169–72.
20See Basil Dean, Mind’s Eye: An Autobiography 1927–1972 (London: Hutchinson, 1973), 305–7.
21GG to CW, 25 February 1950, GU.
22GG to CW, 28 February 1950, GU.
23GS, manuscript notes, Sutro Collection, Bod.
24GG to CW, 24 March 1950, GU.
25LP to Mary Pritchett, 21 March 1950, BC.
26Friedhard Knolle, Frank Jacobs and Ewald Schug, ‘225 Years Uranium and Radioactivity Cross-Links Around the Brocken: Klaproth, Elster and Geitel, Nazi Research, Wismut Prospection, and Recent Anomalies’, in Broder J. Merkel and Alireza Arab, eds, Uranium – Past and Future Challenges (Switzerland: Springer, 2015), 609–16.
27GG to LP, 12 January 1950, BC.
28See Adamson (1984), 73–5.
29‘No Man’s Land’, HRC; see also GG to LP, 21 April 1950, BC.
30Sir Alexander Korda to GG, 8 September 1950, BC.
31GG to CW, 27–28 March 1950, GU.
32GG to CW, 2 April 1950, GU.
33ODNB.
34C. C. Martindale, SJ, to GG, 9 October 1950, GU.
35GG to CW, 12 April 1950, GU.
36GG to CW, 23 April 1950, GU.
37Meyer, 124.
38GG to CW, 21 February 1950, GU.
39Obituary: E. B. Strauss, British Medical Journal (21 January 1961), 214.
40The Times (17 January 1961).
41The Times (20 January 1961).
42GG to CW, 30 April 1950, GU.
43GG to CW, 3 May 1950 and 4 May 1950, GU.
44I am grateful to Kay Redfield Jamison for information on this point.
45WOE, xiii.
46GG to CW, 4 May 1950, GU.
47SOL, 126; GG to CW, 27 November 1952, GU.
48GG to CW, 24 June 1950, GU.
49GG to CW, 29 Feb 1952, GU.
50See GG to CW, 13 May 1950, 12 July 1950, GU; CW’s whereabouts are confirmed by visa stamps in her passport, private papers of Oliver Walston.
51Michael Korda, Another Life, 313–14.
52GG to CW, 19 May 1948, GU.
53WOE, 113–17; except as indicated my account of the writing of the novel depends on this source.
54GG to CW, 15 August 1950, GU.
55See John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. P. H. Nidditch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975), 345. The origins of the discussion can be traced further back, for example, to Boethius, but that would not be relevant to this biography.
56‘François Mauriac’, CE, 91–2.
57J. W. Lambert, ‘Graham Greene: The Next Move’, in A. F. Cassis, ed., Graham Greene: Man of Paradox (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1994), 185.
58WOE, 117.
59Letters, 177–8; GG to CW, 19 Oct 50, GU.
60Edge.
28: Malaya
1WOE, 110.
2Robert Jackson, The Malayan Emergency (London: Routledge, 1991), 1–15 and passim.
3See Christopher Hale, Massacre in Malaya: Exposing Britain’s My Lai (Stroud: The History Press, 2013).
4The Times (15 December 2015).
5Tracey, 126–37; Lewis, 364–71; Hale, Massacre in Malaya, 344–51.
6Journal, 27 November 1950, GU.
7GG to CW, 5 December 1950, GU.
8New York Times (6 January 2014).
9Letters, 182–3.
10Journal, 15 December 1950, GU; GG later said that he felt like shooting himself: Allain, 112.
11Journal, 15–17 December 1950, GU.
12WOE, 125–7.
13WOE, 81.
14Letters, 183.
15SOL, 82.
16GG to MG, 19 January 1951, BL.
17Journal, 19 December 1950, GU.
18GG to MG, 3 January 1951, BL. GG refers to ‘Rong Rong’, which I have corrected to Ronggeng on the advice of Professor Andrew Biswell.
19Journal, 28 December 1950, GU; GG to CW, 31 December 1950, GU.
20GG to MG, 19 January 1951, BL.
29: Shoulder Flash
1David G. Marr, Vietnam: State, War, and Revolution (1945–1946) (Oakland: University of California Press, 2013), 330.
2GG to MG, 3 January 1951, BL.
3Richard J. Aldrich, ’“The Value of Residual Empire”: Anglo-American Intelligence Co-operation in Asia after 1945’, 226–59, in Richard J Aldrich and Michael F Hopkins, eds, Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy: British Policy in the Post-war World (Ilford: Frank Cass, 1994) 239.
4Information from Sarah Greene.
5Milne, 102–3.
6New York Times (5 December 1950).
7New York Times (9 January 1951).
8New York Times (23 January 1951).
9GG to HG, 26 January 1951, GU.
10Journal, 25 January 1951, GU.
11GG to MG, Monday [12 February 1951?], BL.
12My discussion of Greene in Vietnam is very indebted to Professor Ruane’s excellent article on Greene and Wilson (cited here as Ruane, publication information above), which he is developing into a book, and to his lecture ‘Our Man in Hanoi: the strange and enduring friendship of Graham Greene and confidential agent Trevor Wilson’, Graham Greene International Festival, Berkhamsted, 22 September 2017.
13WOE, 133.
14GG to MG, [12 February 1951?], BL.
15Letters, 184–6.
16GG to CW, 18–19 June 1951, GU.
30: The Cards in his Wallet
1See John Cornford, Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pope Pius XII (New York: Viking, 1999); Martin Gilbert, The Righteous: Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust (New York: Doubleday, 2002). There are other works on this subject, but a listing of them is not relevant to this biography.
2‘The Paradox of a Pope’, CE, 291.
3‘The Paradox of a Pope’, CE, 297; Letters, 413–15.
4WOE, 118.
5WOE, 116.
6John Cornwell, ‘Why I am Still a Catholic: An Interview’, in Articles, 130–2.
31: ‘C’
1GG to CW, 16 August 1951 and 19 August 1951, GU.
2Waugh (1980), 352–6; Letters, 191–2.
3GG to CW, 16 September 1951, GU.
4Quoted in GG to CW, [30 August 1951], GU.
5GG to FG, 15 October 1951, BC.
6GG to Margot Fonteyn, 24 March 1952, BC.
7WOE, 116.
8Time (29 October 1951).
9William Faulkner, Selected Letters of William Faulkner, ed. Joseph Blotner (New York: Random House, 1977), 327–8; GG to CW, 29 February 1952, GU.
32: The Bell Tower
1Journal, 30 October 1951, GU.
2Robert
Miller and Dennis D. Wainstock, Indochina and Vietnam: The Thirty-Five Year War, 1940–1975 (New York: Enigma Books, 2013), 90–1.
3New York Times (20 October 1951).
4This chapter, as does the previous one, is generally indebted to the research of Professor Kevin Ruane on Greene’s involvement in Indochina. Specific citations occur as appropriate.
5Journal, 26 October 1951, GU; Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002), 712.
6GG to MG, 29 October 1951, BL.
7Michel Gay, L’Année de Lattre en Indochine 1951 (Paris: les éditions de l’officine, 2011), 119–20.
8Charles Keith, Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), esp. 1, 4, 20, 88, 105, 211–16. I am grateful to Professor Keith for discussing certain points with me by email.
9Goscha, 326–7.
10New York Times (17 October 1951).
11Keith, Catholic Vietnam, 236; Gay, L’Année de Lattre en Indochine 1951, 195; Apostolic Delegation Vietnam: http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/nunciature/nunc183.htm.
12Gay, L’Année de Lattre en Indochine 1951, 189–92.
13WOE, 134–6.
14Journal, 21 January 1952, GU.
15GG to René de Berval, 4 May 1951, BC.
16GG to René de Berval, 26 February 1952, BC; Journal, 9 February 1952, GU.
17GG to CW, 11 Dec 1951, GU.
18Trevor Wilson to GG, 6 November 1953, BC.
19GS, transcript of telephone conversation with YC, c. 1990, Sutro Collection, Bod.
20Danielle Floode, The Unquiet Daughter (Portsmouth, NH: Piscataqua Press, 2016).
21I am grateful to the publisher Kent Davis for drawing this book to my attention.
22New York Times (13 May 1975).
23BD to RG, emails, 4 and 7 January 2018.
24Diederich, 30.
25WOE, 217.
26Kevin Ruane, ‘Our Man in Hanoi: The Strange and Enduring Friendship of Graham Greene and Confidential Agent Trevor Wilson’, lecture, Graham Greene International Festival, Berkhamsted, 22 September 2017.
27GG to Warren Winkelstein, 29 February 1952, BC.
28New York Times (5 August 2012).
29‘Vertical Raid’, Reflections, 214.
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