Beautiful Shadow (99 page)

20
Kate Kingsley Skattebol, Letter to the author, 5 May 2000.

21
PH, ‘Uncertain Treasure’,
Home & Food
, August 1943.

22
PH, ‘My First Job’,
The Oldie
, 14 May 1993.

23
Book Beat
, Interview with Donald Swaim, CBS Radio, 29 October 1987, DS.

24
PH, Foreword to
New York Stories
, Librarie A Hatier, SLA.

25
PH, Letter to Winifer Skattebol, 9 January 1983, SLA.

26
Works Progress Administration,
New York City Guide
, Guilds’ Committee for Federal Writers’ Publications Inc.
,
Random House, New York, 1939, p. 226.

27
PH, Diary 3, 7 September 1942, SLA.

28
PH, Lleida speech, 26 April 1987, SLA.

29
Susannah Clapp, ‘The Simple Art of Murder’,
The New Yorker
, 20 December 1999.

30
The Book Programme
, BBC2, 11 November 1976.

31
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, The Writer Inc., Boston, 1966, p. 47.

32
PH, Cahier 7, 6/21/42, SLA.

33
Anonymous memo, attached to letter from William Shawn to PH, 24 September 1942, NY.

34
PH, Cahier 6, 2/23/42, SLA.

35
PH, Cahier 9, 12/5/42, SLA.

36
Interview with Peter Huber, 14 March 1999.

37
PH, Cahier 8, 9/27/42, SLA.

38
PH, Cahier 9, 10/25/42, SLA.

39
PH, Cahier 8, August 1942, SLA.

40
PH, Cahier 8, 9/27/42, SLA.

41
PH, Cahier 8, 10/10/42, SLA.

42
PH, Diary 3, 13 September 1942, SLA.

43
Ibid.

44
PH, Cahier 9, 12/2/43, SLA.

45
PH, Cahier 9, 12/29/42, SLA.

46
PH, Cahier 8, 9/27/42, SLA.

47
PH, Cahier 9, 1942, SLA.

48
PH, Cahier 8, 11/18/42, SLA.

49
Interview with Ruth Bernhard, 9 June 2000.

50
PH, Diary 3, 9 August 1942, SLA.

51
Ibid.

52
PH, Diary 3, 11 August 1942, SLA.

53
PH, ‘An American Book Bag’, 1974, SLA.

54
Dorothy Edson, Letter to the author, 29 February 2000.

55
PH, Diary 3, 13 August 1942, SLA.

56
PH, Diary 3, 21 August 1942, SLA.

57
PH, Diary 3, 16 August 1942, SLA.

58
PH, Diary 3, 18 September 1942, SLA.

59
Ibid.

60
PH, Diary 3, 20 September 1942, SLA.

61
Interview with David Diamond, 17 August 2000.

62
Interview with Kate Kingsley Skattebol, 31 August 1999.

63
PH, Diary 5, 15 October 1943, translated by Ulrich Weber, SLA.

64
PH, List of Lovers, undated, SLA.

65
PH, Diary 4, 10 September 1943, SLA.

66
Ibid.

67
PH, Diary 5, 21 October 1943, translated by Ulrich Weber, SLA.

68
PH, Diary 5, 8 November 1943, translated by Ulrich Weber, SLA.

8 A carefully nurtured bohemianism 1943–1945

1
PH,
A Game for the Living
, Heinemann, London, 1959, p. 58.

2
PH, Cahier 9, 1/10/43, SLA.

3
PH, Letter to Kate Kingsley Skattebol, 22 March 1952, SLA.

4
Katherine Anne Porter, ‘A Country and Some People I Love’, interview by Hank Lopez,
Harper’s
, September 1965, quoted in John Unterecker,
Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane
, Anthony Blond, London, 1970, p. 658.

5
Edith Mackie, Sheldon Dick,
Mexican Journey: An Intimate Guide To Mexico
, Dodge Publishing Company, New York, 1935, p. xi.

6
Malcolm Lowry,
La Mordida
, quoted in Gordon Bowker,
Pursued by
Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry
, HarperCollins, London, 1993, p. 205.

7
PH, Letter to Kate Kingsley Skattebol, 12 May 1944, SLA.

8
PH, ‘An Weihnachten gewöhnt man sich’ (‘Some Christmases – Mine or Anybody’s’),
Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin
, 20 January 1991, SLA.

9
PH, Diary 6, 25 December 1944, translated by Ulrich Weber, SLA.

10
PH, Cahier 11, 1/6/44, SLA.

11
Aldous Huxley,
Beyond The Mexique Bay,
Chatto & Windus, London, 1934, p. 309.

12
Malcolm Lowry, Letter to Jonathan Cape, 2 January 1946,
Sursum Corda! The Collected Letters of Malcolm Lowry, Vol. 1
, 1926–1946, edited with an introduction and annotations by Sherill E. Grace, Jonathan Cape, London, 1995, p. 502.

13
Paul Bowles, Foreword to
O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane
, ed. Langdon Hammer and Brom Weber, Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, London, 1997, p. vii.

14
Paul Bowles, quoted in Millicent Dillon,
A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles
, 1st ed. 1981, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1998, p. 88.

15
Aldous Huxley,
Beyond The Mexique Bay
, p. 309.

16
Paul Bowles, Letter to Virgil Thomson, 27 July 1941, Virgil Thomson Archive, Music Library, Yale University, quoted by Dillon,
A Little Original Sin
, p. 97.

17
William Spratling,
A Small Mexican World
, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, Toronto, 1964, originally published as Little Mexico, 1932, pp. 6, 12.

18
PH, Mexico Diary, 25 April 1944, SLA.

19
PH, Cahier 11, 4/16/44, SLA.

20
PH, Cahier 11, 2/10/44, SLA.

21
PH, Mexico Diary, 9 April 1944, SLA.

22
PH, Mexico Diary, 17 April 1944, SLA.

23
PH, Cahier 11, 4/2/44, SLA.

24
PH, Mexico Diary, 19 March 1944, translated by Anna von Planta, SLA.

25
PH,
A Game for the Living
, p. 241.

26
PH, Cahier 11, 4/14/44, SLA.

27
PH, Mexico Diary, 30 March 1944, translated by Anna von Planta, SLA.

28
PH, Lleida speech, 26 April 1987, SLA.

29
PH, Cahier 12, 11/24/44, SLA.

30
PH,
The Click of the Shutting
, p. 1, SLA.

31
Ibid., p. 5.

32
Ibid., p. 113.

33
Ibid., p. 145.

34
Ibid.

35
PH, Mexico Diary, 6 April 1944, SLA.

36
PH, Cahier 8, 9/25/42, SLA.

37
Andre Gide,
The Counterfeiters
, translated by Dorothy Bussy, Alfred Knopf, London, 1928, p. 63.

38
Ibid., p. 311.

39
Graham Greene, Foreword,
Eleven
, Heinemann, London, 1970, p. x.

40
PH, Cahier 11, 4/16/44, SLA.

41
PH, Mexico Diary, 13 April 1944, SLA.

42
PH, Cahier 11, 10/16/44, SLA.

43
PH,
Strangers on a Train
, Cresset Press, London, p. 56.

44
PH, Letter to Kate Kingsley Skattebol, 12 May 1944, SLA.

45
Ibid.

46
Ibid.

47
Kate Kingsley Skattebol, Letter to the author, 13 July 2001.

48
PH, Cahier 11, 6/11/44, SLA.

49
PH, Cahier 11, 6/22/44, SLA.

50
PH, Cahier 11, 6/25/44.

51
Lucretia Stewart, ‘Animal Lover’s Beastly Murders’,
Sunday Telegraph
, 8 September 1991.