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by Diana Souhami


  The Court retired

  memorandum from Sir Archibald Bodkin to Sir William Joynson-Hicks, 14 December 1928 (PRO)

  219

  The way to make a

  The Sink of Solitude (Hermes Press 1928)

  220

  profound and painful

  The Life and Death of RH

  I renounce

  RH to Audrey Heath, 7 April 1929

  221

  be very guarded

  Harold Rubinstein to RH 9 January 1929 (Ottawa)

  no editor

  Arnold Bennett to RH, 17 December 1928

  222

  Total strangers

  The Life and Death of RH

  25 The freedom of human beings

  223

  The causes

  Morris Leopold Ernst So Far So Good (Harper 1948)

  The only essential

  ibid

  224

  The book is well

  Saturday Review of Literature, 4 May 1929 (Texas)

  She is Byronese

  New York Telegram Magazine, December 1928

  225

  Conscious censoriousness

  Morris Ernst’s brief for the defence (Texas)

  226

  If Stephen were a man

  ibid

  228

  The book in question

  ‘Well of Loneliness Cleared in Court’ New York Times, 20 April 1929

  229

  Tired as I am

  RH to Donald Friede, 4 May 1929 (Texas)

  Long bitter experience

  Morris Ernst to Covici-Friede, 20 April 1929 (Texas)

  a great tragic story

  Wilette Kershaw to RH, 9 April 1929 (Texas)

  230

  unpardonably

  UVT Diary, 17 April 1929 (Ottawa)

  definite plans

  UVT to Wilette Kershaw, 21 April 1929 (Texas)

  THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE

  26 An awful shock

  233

  grave warnings

  The Life and Death of RH

  grew as brown

  ibid

  234

  All afternoon

  UVT Diary, 21 July 1929 (Ottawa)

  as an amends

  The Life and Death of RH

  mad and blasphemous

  UVT Diary, 8 August 1929 (Ottawa)

  I know you would wish

  RH to Wilette Kershaw, 9 August 1929 (Texas)

  235

  Probably we are right

  Audrey Heath to RH, 6 September 1929 (Texas)

  soft as pulp

  UVT to Audrey Heath, 7 September 1929 (Texas)

  We both think

  ibid

  236

  recommend her

  RH to Audrey Heath, 4 October 1929 (Texas)

  ‘Stop, stop!’ he screamed

  Radclyffe Hall, The Master of the House (Jonathan Cape 1932)

  237

  I have made enquiries

  Affidavit from C. S. Tomlinson, 25 October 1929 (Texas)

  238

  At 12.30

  UVT Daybook, 7 January 1931 (Texas)

  lectured her

  UVT Diary, 13 January 1930 (Ottawa)

  239

  in which she begged

  Paris was Yesterday

  backboneless

  J. Holroyd-Reece to RH and UVT, 2 September 1930 (Texas)

  that she knew

  Paris was Yesterday

  240

  use the censorship

  Morris Ernst to Harold Rubinstein, 30 September 1930 (Texas)

  howls of laughter

  UVT Diary, 28 December 1930 (Ottawa)

  27 Just Rye

  241

  just fond

  UVT Daybook, 26 February 1931 (Texas)

  242

  Isn’t Rye heavenly

  ibid, 16 April 1931

  a future life for dogs

  ibid, 27 May 1931

  244

  I long to own

  ibid, June 1931

  When I look back

  ibid, 1 November 1931

  pose of head

  ibid, 11 December 1931

  245

  Even better class

  ibid

  As she left

  ibid

  246

  they thought they

  UVT Daybook, 1 March 1932

  went the colour

  ibid, April 1932

  28 Give us a kiss

  248

  What she has been

  UVT Daybook, 6 July 1932 (Texas)

  249

  the subhuman, seething

  ibid, August 1932

  put me among the girls

  ibid, 2 October 1932

  trying to make

  ibid

  John is genuinely

  ibid, 14 March 1933

  250

  shortly before I

  preface to Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself

  (Heinemann 1934)

  ‘My God!’

  Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself

  252

  decently behaved

  UVT Daybook, February 1933

  They would rather

  ibid, 14 February 1933

  253

  How are the mighty

  ibid, May 1933

  Mabel Bourne!

  ibid, October 1933

  254

  There is always

  ibid, April 1933

  The propaganda novel

  RH Novel Writing, The Taylorian

  Institute, Oxford, 27 February 1933

  255

  I am disgusted

  UVT Daybook, 26 August 1933

  256

  grim outcome

  ibid, September 1933

  It is her duty

  ibid, November 1933

  257

  I shall not be present

  ibid, 7 November 1933

  SAME HEART

  29 The intolerable load

  262

  John was obviously

  Evguenia Souline, autobiographical notes, undated, c. 1957 (Monica Still)

  I can see

  RH to ES, 3 March 1939 (Texas)

  May I take off

  ibid

  There was something

  ES, autobiographical notes

  263

  I fought like

  ibid

  I am really

  RH to ES, 17 July 1934

  Meet me at

  ibid, 20 July 1934

  Darling, Yes

  ibid, 24 July 1934

  264

  And your darling

  ibid, 29 August 1934

  I am tormented

  ibid, 27 July 1934

  265

  After a scene

  ibid, 31 July 1934

  And when she

  ibid

  267

  I want you

  ibid, 13 August 1934

  I resented it

  ES, autobiographical notes

  congenital invert

  RH to ES, 19 August 1934

  I asked if

  ibid, 2 September 1934

  268

  I love you too much

  RH to ES, 7 August 1934

  Now listen Souline

  RH to ES, 29 August 1934

  269

  I haven’t

  ibid

  I found you a virgin

  ibid, 7 June 1934

  all crumpled

  ibid, 30 December 1934

  Very often

  ES, autobiographical notes

  270

  You woke me

  RH to ES, 8 December 1934

  271

  She might have made

  ibid, 5 October 1934

  30 A trois

  272

  I feel crazy

  RH to ES, 27 November 1934 (Texas)

  I am not

  ibid, 4 December 1934

  273


  All that I did

  UVT Daybook, 13 November 1934 (Texas)

  274

  I feel as though

  RH to ES, 22 November 1934

  275

  Una wants to come

  ibid, December 1934

  I am perpetually

  UVT Daybook, 4 March 1935 (Texas)

  276

  Her mind never

  ibid, March 1935

  277

  But how can I

  ibid

  So there is another

  ibid, January 1935

  You’re quite right

  ibid, 20 March 1935

  31 How long O Lord, how long

  279

  Please, oh, please

  RH to ES, 1 April 1935 (Texas)

  280

  I scarcely dare

  UVT Daybook, 12 April 1935 (Texas)

  I wonder how

  RH to ES, Easter Sunday 1935 (Texas)

  If she was

  UVT Daybook, April 1935 (Texas)

  Lord how every

  ibid

  281

  grieved thinking of

  UVT Daybook, April 1935 (Texas)

  282

  Pull yourself together

  RH to ES, 19 May 1935 (Texas)

  283

  Oooh I hate

  UVT Daybook, 24 June 1935 (Texas)

  I am always

  ibid, 22 June 193 5

  284

  John looked upon me

  ES, autobiographical notes

  285

  Why are we not

  UVT Daybook, October 1935 (Texas)

  286

  Just now

  quoted in RH to ES, 7 November 1935 (Texas)

  You belong to me

  RH to ES, 3 November 1935 (Texas)

  287

  My poor old mother’s

  ibid, 18 October 1935

  drag on

  ibid, 26 October 1935

  Me she so hates

  ibid

  The Warrens

  UVT Daybook, 1 December 1935 (Texas)

  32 His name was Father Martin but she called him Henry

  289

  common as dirt

  UVT Daybook, 9 January 1936 (Texas)

  I have noticed

  ibid, 18 January 1936

  290

  with an enchanting

  ibid, 4 January 1936

  And much pleasant

  ibid, 17 January 1936

  For my poor sake

  RH to ES, 31 January 1936 (Texas)

  291

  And here we are

  UVT Daybook, March 1936 (Texas)

  291

  With Ladye’s help

  ibid, April 1936

  294

  In the two years

  ibid, 15 July 1936

  We cannot allow

  ibid, July 1936

  295

  I could do not much

  ES, autobiographical notes

  We shall be apart

  UVT Daybook, 8 March 1936 (Texas)

  What a woman

  ibid, August 1936

  296

  It is not

  UVT Daybook, 7 October 1936 (Texas)

  She sneered

  ibid

  297

  Fascist anti-

  ibid, 5 November 1936

  It may shock

  ibid, 24 December 1936

  OUR THREE SELVES

  33 An empty fiction

  301

  The teaching

  UVT Daybook, 18 March 1937 (Texas)

  302

  I pointed out

  ibid, 29 June 1937

  303

  I cannot

  ibid, May 1937

  I think of what

  RH to ES, 16 July 1937 (Texas)

  304

  Don’t you think

  ibid, 21 July 1937

  The cottage looks

  ibid, 15 July 1937

  Oh Evguenia

  ibid, 16 July 1937

  305

  She seemed incapable

  ibid, 17 July 1937

  a grim horror

  UVT Daybook, 8 August 1937 (Texas)

  306

  Thank you good

  RH to ES, 25 August 1937 (Texas)

  307

  She finds fault

  ibid, 1 October 1937

  When I have

  ibid, 23 October 1937

  I seem to get

  ibid, 20 December 1937

  308

  Whatever she is

  UVT Daybook, 15 May 1938 (Texas)

  34 Never mind Una

  309

  Of course this ‘study’

  ibid, 23 June 1938

  that way you would

  ibid, 31 July 1938

  310

  Every task

  ibid, 25 February 1938

  311

  Horrified recipients

  RH to ES, 28 June 1938 (Texas)

  312

  I would like

  ibid

  313

  Can we never Then my nerve

  UVT Daybook, July 1938 (Texas)

  314

  I should not like

  ibid, 24 July 1938

  It was all to me

  ibid, 21 August 1938

  You aren’t going

  ibid

  I shrink under

  ibid, 3 September 1938

  315

  Lord what a jam

  ibid, 30 August 1938

  He is an hysteric

  RH to ES, 13 September 1938 (Texas)

  317

  the pain of her

  UVT Daybook, 15 November 1938 (Texas)

  In the weeks

  ibid, 23 December 1938

  a brown saucer

  ibid, 24 December 1938

  35 The rain pours down, the icy wind howls

  318

  The fat

  UVT Daybook, 11 January 1939 (Texas)

  Una won’t

  ibid, 21 January 1939

  Johnnie would

  ibid, 22 January 1939

  319

  You have held

  RH to ES, 3 March 1939 (Texas)

  Something very

  ibid, 5 February 1939

  unless you do

  ibid, 9 February 1939

  320

  Jews, Yes

  ibid, 22 March 1939

  We are clear of

  UVT Daybook, 2 July 1939 (Texas)

  321

  that slug of

  UVT Daybook, March 1939 (Texas)

  He told me

  Sandra Tealdi to Evguenia Soulina, 27

  May 1939 (Monica Still)

  322

  I refuse in

  UVT Daybook, 16 May 1939 (Texas)

  What’s the good

  RH to ES, 9 July 1939 (Texas)

  The flat is in

  ibid, 19 July 1939

  Oh Piggie

  ibid, 6 June 1939

  323

  I suspect

  UVT Daybook, 24 July 1939 (Texas)

  I knocked

  ibid, 26 August 1939

  325

  But for Mr Eden

  ibid, 11 September 1939

  alias Florence

  ibid, 20 September 1939

  326

  You fool

  ibid, 7 October 1939

 

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