Too Close to the Sun (48 page)

“merely an existence”:
PoW to Mrs. Humphrey Butler, September 6, 1920, collection of Mohamed Al Fayed.

“these foul tours”:
PoW to Mrs. Humphrey Butler, November 16, 1921, collection of Mohamed Al Fayed.

“I’ve got four terrible”:
Ibid.

“I’ve not had any”:
PoW to Mrs. Humphrey Butler, September 4, n.y., collection of Mohamed Al Fayed.

“I suppose there are”:
PoW to Mrs. Humphrey Butler, September 6, 1920, collection of Mohamed Al Fayed.

“Darling Poots, well here”:
PoW to Mrs. Humphrey Butler, October 6, 1920, collection of Mohamed Al Fayed.

“the most unpleasant and”:
Lady Grigg’s diary, October 12, 1928, private collection.

“absolutely charming…I am so much”: Letters,
384.

“Harry is enjoying himself ”:
PoW to Mrs. Humphrey Butler, October 6, 1920, collection of Mohamed Al Fayed.

“the farmyard morals…the”:
Duff Hart-Davis, ed.,
In Royal Service: The Letters and Journals of Sir Alan Lascelles, 1920–1936,
vol. 2, 1989, 101.

“were tight before the”:
Ibid., 97.

“Though I have little”:
Ibid., 201.

“Memsahib, they are coming”: SotG,
298.

“that all I felt”:
Vivienne de Watteville,
Speak to the Earth,
New York, 1935, 161.

“absolutely ravishing”: Letters,
387.

“a very strange fish”:
Beard, ed.,
Longing for Darkness: Kamante’s Tales from Out of Africa,
chapter 4 (no page numbers).

“for we all think”: SotG,
299.

“I
fiche
myself completely”:
Hart-Davis, ed.,
In Royal Service,
101.

“practically everyone in Nairobi”:
Patrick R. Chalmers,
Sport and Travel in East
Africa 1928–30,
compiled from the Private Diaries of HRH the Prince of Wales, 1934, 101.

“How dare you shoot”:
Trzebinski,
Silence Will Speak,
242.

“Your Royal Highness”:
Ibid.

“I’m the Prince”:
Blixen-Finecke,
African Hunter,
179.

“You could not”:
Ibid.

“There was something ominous”:
Chalmers,
Sport and Travel,
146.

“I remember sitting, one”:
Hart-Davis, ed.,
In Royal Service,
109.

“I don’t believe a”
et seq.: Ibid.

“Imagine…I could be”:
Trzebinski,
Silence Will Speak,
268.

“One sat and waited”:
Chalmers,
Sport and Travel,
147.

“What a mess up…a curious”:
PoW to DFH, December 4, 1928, family collection.

“It was very sad…I do not”:
Piers “Joey” Legh to DFH, December 5, 1928, family collection.

CHAPTER 9. ARIEL

“A man never forgotten”:
Elspeth Huxley,
Forks and Hope,
1964, 87.

“a law against nature…so would it be”:
Trzebinski,
Silence Will Speak,
271. This postcard has vanished from KBA.

“left a reserve of ”:
Lovell,
Straight on Till Morning,
101.

“He often wondered”:
Blixen (Dinesen),
Last Tales,
265 (page number refers to Penguin Classics edition, 2001).

“Learn as much mathematics”:
DFH to Michael Williams, January 12, 1929, family collection.

“not get far with”:
Michael Williams, conversation with author, 2004.

“an orgy of slaughter”: The Times,
January 21, 1928.

“Is it too much”:
Ibid.

“A treacherous eddy of ”:
Ibid., June 29, 1929.

“hideous abuse”:
Ibid., July 3, 1929.

“the beginning of the end”:
Ibid., July 10, 1929.

“In Nyasaland in my”:
Ibid., July 13, 1929.

“Mr Finch Hatton’s crusade”:
Ibid., July 18, 1929.

“Within a few years”:
Julian Huxley,
Memories,
196.

“It is a terribly”: East African Standard,
January 29, 1927.

“Few portions of the”: Leader,
January 31, 1919.

“epoch-making”: East African Standard,
October 20, 1926.

“too abominable for words”:
Trzebinski,
Silence Will Speak,
158.

“If I don’t move”:
Trzebinski,
The Lives of Beryl Markham,
144.

“enough to make a”: Sporting Times,
April 1, 1922.

“to be secured by”:
Westenholz,
The Power of Aries,
31–2.

“twelve unclouded years of ”:
Eleanor Cole to Christine Cave, November 6, 1929, PRONI.

“the beauty of the”: OoA,
244.

“The scenery was of ”:
Ibid., 243.

“and in the porous”:
Ibid.

“a great hero”:
Allen,
The Wheel of Life,
4.

“I was always ready”:
Ibid., 35.

“And what a difference”:
Ibid., 47–8.

“put up with it”:
Bunny Allen,
The First Wheel,
n.d., 108.

“weak, self-absorbed, futureless”:
Dinesen,
My Sister, Isak Dinesen,
117.

“Locust eggs are hatching”:
W. H. Dickens to KB, May 21, 1929, KBA.

“I think it is”:
W. H. Dickens to KB, September 26, 1929, KBA.

“Farah I am sorry”:
W. H. Dickens to KB, August 17, 1929, KBA.

“The whole of the”:
W. H. Dickens to KB, July 4, 1929, KBA.

“everything is looking very”:
W. H. Dickens to KB, September 2, 1929, KBA.

“in tip-top condition”:
W. H. Dickens to KB, October 3, 1929, KBA.

“The Somalis…are generally”: OoA,
230.

“for having raised and”:
Westenholz,
The Power of Aries,
33.

“I am longing to”:
PoW to DFH, November 13, 1929, family collection.

“my new hobby”:
Duke of Windsor,
A King’s Story,
1951, 235 (page number refers to Prion edition, 1988).

“We sat down where”:
Blixen-Finecke,
African Hunter,
194.

“If I wanted to…I am sorry that…I will do anything…You are having a”:
DFH to KB, n.d., KBA.

“But I thought that”:
Westenholz,
The Power of Aries,
77.

“a scene of the”: Letters,
407.

“Your talk disturbed me”:
DFH to KB, n.d., KBA.

“This was our Eden”:
Gloria Vanderbilt and Thelma, Lady Furness,
Double Exposure,
1959, 265.

“What [the creatures] left”:
Chalmers,
Sport and Travel,
200.

“Darling…I’ve got to”:
Vanderbilt and Furness,
Double Exposure,
268.

“responsibility to the empire”:
Ibid.

“perhaps the most beautiful”:
Chalmers,
Sport and Travel,
216.

“Finch Hatton was responsible”:
Ibid., 170.

“Everyone says they are”:
DFH to KB, May 11, 1930, KBA.

“The trouble is that…which is very exhilarating…Shall be quite ready”:
Ibid.

“Christ has risen…and”:
Philip Ziegler,
Diana Cooper,
1981, 29.

“pestilential…This is a cursed country…This afternoon I have…I feel it would…One could land it”:
DFH to KB, May 11, 1930, KBA.

“My black brother here”: Letters,
407.

“I am finding it”:
Ibid., 409.

“You were up very”: et seq., OoA,
172.

“You knew then”: WwtN,
38.

“the competence which he”:
Ibid., 193.

“Flying suits Denys…There is a good”: Letters,
413.

“Denys and I could”:
J. A. Hunter,
Hunter’s Tracks,
1957, 66.

“Denys opened up the”:
Ibid., 70.

“But Denys was quicker”: et seq.,
ibid., 69.

CHAPTER 10. TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN

“Denys would have greeted”: WwtN,
192.

“No friend, brother or”: SotG,
300.

“And during this time”: OoA,
233.

“He himself looked upon”:
Ibid., 242.

“He had been in”:
Ibid., 243.

“It is interesting to”:
unpublished trans. (by Lars Kaaber) of Else Brundbjerg, “Kœrlighed og Økonomi” (“Love and Finance”),
Kritik
66 (1984), Copenhagen.

“world of poetry”: Letters,
416.

“We realise that you”:
Westenholz,
The Power of Aries,
35.

“I know that I”: Letters,
421.

“the greatest baby I”:
Lovell,
Straight on Till Morning,
92.

“so young and light”:
Ibid.

“Work hard, trust in”: WwtN,
241.

“the way of all flesh”:
Trzebinski,
The Lives of Beryl Markham,
155.

“She was all right”:
Ibid., 92.

“She had charm but”:
Lovell,
Straight on Till Morning,
261.

“Tania…was always waiting”:
Trzebinski,
The Lives of Beryl Markham,
92.

“He half taught me”:
Ibid., 91.

“This will not only…a force that bore…of almost classical profundity”: WwtN,
192–93.

“a lovely man, very”:
interviews with BM by Mary Lovell, March 1986, transcripts in Mary Lovell Archive.

“This girl who is”:
Carlos Baker to Mary Lovell, December 23, 1983, Mary Lovell Archive.

“an unconditional truthfulness which outside”: OoA,
247.

“Here are your grey”:
Ibid., 245.

“I saw grey geese”:
Tree,
The Traveller and Other Poems.

“The shadow of destiny”: OoA,
245.

“Good God, Denys!…Do”:
Joan Waddington to Errol Trzebinski, n.d., RH.

“I’m going down to”: et seq., WwtN,
193–94.

“Voi presumed to be”:
Ibid.

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