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by Diana Souhami

Her grief

  The Life and Death of RH

  10 The eternal triangle

  85

  I have a great

  RH to Cara Harris, June 1916 (CL)

  It was lonely

  The Life and Death of RH

  86

  She is so very

  RH to Cara Harris, June 1916 (CL)

  87

  I should think

  Oliver Lodge, Raymond or Life and Death with Examples of the Evidence for Survival of Memory and Affection After Death (Methuen 1916)

  Great happenings

  ibid

  The King and Queen

  ibid

  88

  made from emanations

  ibid

  The idle apprentice

  The Life and Death of RH

  89

  I understood then

  Gladys Osborne Leonard, My Life in Two Worlds (Cassell 1931)

  90

  heaps and heaps

  RH Notes on Leonard sittings, October 1916 (SPR)

  92

  Tell my Ladye

  ibid, 3 October 1916

  94

  I often wonder

  UVT Diary, July 1917 (Ottawa)

  11 A very grave slander

  97

  So very interesting

  UVT Diary, 11 January 1917 (Ottawa)

  as an educated woman

  The Life and Death of RH

  99

  Their offence to me

  UVT Daybook, 31 March 1931 (Texas)

  100

  Mrs Salter now

  RH to Sir Oliver Lodge, 2 July 1918 (SPR)

  102

  He could not take the child

  RH Notes on Leonard sittings, 26 March 1919 (SPR)

  I think it so damnably

  UVT Diary, 17 November 1919 (Ottawa)

  103

  It is my misfortune

  Hugh Crichton-Miller to UVT, 15 January 1920 (Ottawa)

  12 A grossly immoral woman

  105

  Miss Radclyffe Hall

  The Times, 19 November 1920

  106

  Miss Radclyffe Hall

  ibid

  Admiral Troubridge

  ibid

  107

  as horrible an

  ibid

  109

  You say that

  ibid

  What did you pay

  ibid

  112

  I feel I can

  UVT Diary, December 1920 (Ottawa)

  RADCLYFFE HALL

  13 Octopi

  115

  Miss Hall had

  Winifred Hales to Monica Still

  Why in the name

  UVT, Beds, mss (Ottawa)

  116

  Writing, it was like

  The Well of Loneliness

  unmarried daughters

  The Unlit Lamp (Cassell 1924)

  117

  They wither away

  undated notes (Texas)

  I’m not a woman

  The Unlit Lamp

  plenty of work

  The Life and Death of RH

  118

  I wonder why it is

  The Memoirs of Ethel Smyth, introduction by Ronald Crichton (Viking 1987)

  119

  Olaf went over

  UVT Diary, February 1920 (Ottawa)

  ‘The Fitz-John Dachshunds’

  The Queen, 23 August 1923

  120

  The minute my house

  RH ‘How Other Women Run Their Houses’, Daily Mail, 11 May 1927

  122

  All between members

  UVT Letters to John, 24 February 1946

  One always feels

  RH to ES, 6 September 1934 (Texas)

  14 Octopi and chains

  124

  My plans depend

  Romaine Brooks to RH, 11 Septembern 1921 (Ottawa)

  We had both

  The Life and Death of RH

  We could lunch

  Romaine Brooks to RH, 23 December 1921 (Ottawa)

  125

  Paris ones

  Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company (Faber and Faber 1960)

  127

  One of the women

  RH The Forge (J. W. Arrowsmith 1924)

  128

  Long hours

  The Life and Death of RH

  15 How to treat a genius

  129

  It is pleasant

  RH ‘First-Nighters’, Sketch, February 1924

  130

  a bedlam afternoon

  UVT Diary, 12 June 1923 (Ottawa)

  131

  the life that proudly

  The Life and Death of RH

  132

  Yes your portrait

  Romaine Brooks to UVT, undated (Ottawa)

  This involved

  The Life and Death of RH

  133

  I ask you to kiss

  RH A Saturday Life (J. W. Arrowsmith 1925)

  16 Books about ourselves

  138

  If we cannot

  RH Novel Writing, The Taylorian Institute Oxford, 27 February 1933

  It is wiser

  RH Adam’s Breed (Cassell & Co. 1926)

  139

  If our literary

  Novel Writing

  141

  A boy’s first love

  Adam’s Breed

  Firmly rejecting

  The Life and Death of RH

  143

  We followed

  ibid

  144

  Don’t repress my

  James L. Garvin to UVT, 22 December 1926 (Ottawa)

  145

  His subsequent

  The Times, 30 January 1926

  146

  I wished to offer

  RH letter to Gorham Munson 2 June 1934 (Texas)

  148

  it is far

  RH to Winifred Macy, 22 January and 13 June 1926 (Texas)

  STEPHEN GORDON

  17 Something of the acorn about her

  151

  To encourage inverts

  RH, letter to Gorham Munson (Texas)

  152

  I arrived

  RH to Winifred Macy, 23 January 1927 (Texas)

  I can only say

  ibid, 15 February 1927

  153

  He assured me

  ibid

  154

  What have

  ibid

  155

  Congenital inversion

  RH handwritten notes for a lecture on the trial of The Well of Loneliness, given 25 January 1929 to Southend Young Socialists

  156

  The invert’s most

  RH ‘The Well of Loneliness’. Draft of unpublished article, undated, 1931 or 1932, retrieved from the wastepaper basket by Winifred Hales (Monica Still)

  18 She kissed her full on the lips

  158

  the deadly campaign

  RH ‘The Well of Loneliness’, unpublished article

  159

  having had many

  Havelock Ellis to RH, 21 April 1928 (Texas)

  THE TRIAL OF RADCLYFFE HALL

  19 Aspects of sexual inversion

  167

  could not consent

  RH to Newman Flower 10 April 1928 (Ottawa)

  168

  and inevitably

  Charles Evans to Audrey Heath, 27 April 1928 (Ottawa)

  portrait of a publisher

  quoted in Michael S. Howard, Jonathan Cape (Jonathan Cape 1971)

  I wrote the book

  RH to Jonathan Cape, 17 April 1928 (Ottawa)

  170

  The thought of your

  RH to Havelock Ellis, 4 June 1928 (Texas)

  the friend who has

  ibid

  The mate of the

  ibid, 2 December 1928

  My patience is

  RH to Carl Brandt, 21 June 1928 (Ottawa)

  17
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  the best and wisest

  RH to Jonathan Cape, 29 June 1928 (Ottawa)

  Hitherto the subject

  ibid, 17 April 1928

  172

  I know you will

  RH to James Garvin, 15 July 1928 (Texas)

  173

  lively sense

  Sunday Times, 5 August 1928

  174

  failure, lacking form

  The Nation, 4 August 1928

  long, tedious

  New Statesman, 25 August 1928

  notable psychological

  Evening Standard, 9 August 1928

  20 Depraved practice

  176

  They all wanted

  Michael S. Howard, Jonathan Cape

  179

  This was the first

  RH to Havelock Ellis, 25 April 1929 (Texas)

  His were the sins

  RH to Harold Rubinstein, 25 April 1929 (Ottawa)

  I have not anywhere

  Havelock Ellis to RH, 28 August 1929 (Texas)

  dour fanatic

  Herbert Hensley Henson, Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (Oxford University Press 1944). Quoted in Jennie Cooper Frye, A Study in Censorship: Radclyffe Hall’s ‘The Well of Loneliness’, mss

  180

  One’s mind reels

  RH handwritten notes for lecture on the trial

  The book has been

  memorandum from Sir George Stephenson to Sir William Joynson-Hicks, 20 August 1928 (PRO)

  long private conference

  memorandum from Sir William Joynson-Hicks to Sir George Stephenson, 21 August 1928 (PRO)

  182

  All day at telephone

  UVT Diary, 23 August 1928 (Ottawa)

  21 Sapphism and censorship

  183

  I set violently

  The Journal of Arnold Bennett, 24 August 1928 (London 1933)

  Unnatural practices

  transcript of The Director of Public Prosecutions v. Jonathan Cape and Leopold Hill, Bow Street Police Court, 16 November 1928 (Ottawa)

  184

  I hate inaction

  RH handwritten notes for lecture on the trial

  light up the principle

  Havelock Ellis to RH, 3 November 1928 (Texas)

  I, as nothing

  RH handwritten notes for lecture on the trial

  185

  For many days

  Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 28 August 1928 (Berg). See: A Change of Perspective: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, vol. III, ed. Nigel Nicolson (Hogarth Press 1977)

  not in the least

  Vita Sackville-West to Harold Nicolson, 31 August 1928 (Berg)

  186

  meritorious dull

  The Diary of Virginia Woolf vol. III, ed. Anne Olivier Bell (Hogarth Press 1980). 31 August 1928

  The dulness

  Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, early November 1928, A Change of Perspective

  screamed like a

  Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 2 September 1928, ibid

  Sapphism disgusting

  The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 31 August 1928

  187

  gently and just

  Endnote to E. M. Forster Maurice, begun 1913, finished 1914, dedicated to a Happier Year, first published 1971

  A heavenly haven

  The Life and Death of RH

  188

  better type

  Blanche Knopf to RH, 27 September 1928 (Ottawa)

  189

  John mobbed

  UVT Diary, 3 October 1928 (Ottawa)

  Pending consideration

  Notes on the suppression of The Well of Loneliness (PRO)

  I hereby authorise

  Joynson-Hicks to Postmaster General, 3 October 1928 (PRO)

  190

  so that our clients

  Harold Rubinstein to Custom House, London, 10 October 1928 (Ottawa)

  were according it

  Harold Rubinstein, ‘Scotland Yard and The Well of Loneliness’ (Ottawa)

  The subject is treated

  memorandum from Sir Francis Floud to the Chancellor of the Excheqeur, 9 October 1928 (PRO)

  192

  The government was bent

  RH handwritten notes for lecture on trial

  22 A serious psychological subject

  194

  They generally

  Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, I November 1928. A Change of Perspective

  195

  I have never

  Havelock Ellis to RH, 20 October 1928 (Ottawa)

  brimming with

  Harold Rubinstein, ‘Scotland Yard and The Well of Loneliness’ (Ottawa)

  198

  The company grew bolder

  Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, 3 November 1928 (Berg)

  made a long

  ibid

  199

  we, neither you

  RH supplementary notes for Counsel (Texas)

  23 I have read the book

  201

  an assemblage which might

  Sheila Kaye-Smith, All the Books of My Life (Harper 1956)

  All London

  Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 1 November 1928. A Change of Perspective

  eminent men

  RH handwritten notes for lecture on the trial

  fidgeting

  E. M. Forster, Abinger Harvest (Harcourt 1936)

  lemon yellow

  The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 10 November 1928

  the pale tepid

  ibid

  something like

  ibid

  202

  deprave and corrupt those

  transcript of The Director of Public Prosecutions v. Jonathan Cape and Leopold Hill, Bow Street Police Court, 9 November 1928 (Ottawa)

  ‘Podsnappery’

  see: Jenny Cooper Frye, A Study in Censorship

  203

  substantial question

  ibid

  deadly campaign

  RH draft of letter for the press, 1931

  The policeman might

  RH handwritten notes for lecture on the trial

  205

  too indifferent

  The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 10 November 1928

  We could not

  ibid

  207

  impressed by

  ibid

  shamed and degraded

  RH to the novelist Gerard Hopkins, 14 November 1928 (Berg)

  In the eyes

  RH to Havelock Ellis, 2 December 1928 (Texas)

  209

  He made of my book

  RH handwritten notes for lecture on the trial

  210

  so much respect

  ibid

  211

  perpetual sexual

  UVT Letters to John, 24 February 1946

  24 Depress! Repress! Suppress!

  213

  This is the End

  Daily Express, 17 November 1928

  Also, I am

  RH to Havelock Ellis, 2 December 1928 (Texas)

  214

  as high as

  Janet Flanner (Genêt), Paris was Yesterday (Angus & Robertson 1973)

  for the sake

  RH handwritten lecture notes on the trial

  215

  With reference

  A. H. Bodkin, Director of Public Prosecution Department to Rubinstein, 27 November 1928 (Ottawa)

  His aged mind

  RH handwritten lecture notes on the trial

  I received

  Retrospect of an Unimportant Life

  I asked him

  Charles Carrington Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work (London 1955)

  216

  I shall have to

  transcript of The Director of Public Prosecutions v. Rubinstein and Leopold Hill, Bow Street Police Court, 16 November 1928 (Ottawa)

  propaganda for vice

  ibid

  He was very absurd


  RH handwritten lecture notes on the trial

  217

  The bewildered

  Harold Rubinstein ‘Scotland Yard and The Well of Loneliness’ (Ottawa)

 

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