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NOTES
ABBREVIATIONS
Berg:
Berg Collection, New York Public Library
CL:
Cara Lancaster
Cornell:
Cornell University Library
ES:
Evguenia Souline
Ottawa:
The Lovat Dickson bequest. National Archives of Canada, Ottawa
PRO:
Public Records Office, London
RH:
Radclyffe Hall
SPR:
Society for Psychical Research, London
Texas:
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas
UVT:
Una Vincenzo Troubridge
Una Troubridge’s diaries at the time of writing are in three places:
Those from 1913–1931 are in Ottawa (available on microfilm).
Those from 1931–1943 called Daybooks are in Texas.
Those from 1943–1963 called Letters to John are in London but will go to Texas.
Radclyffe Hall’s 576 letters to Evguenia Soulina are in Texas (available on microfilm). Many are included in Your John, edited by Joanne Glasgow (New York University Press 1997).
Radclyffe Hall’s notes on sittings with Gladys Leonard are owned by the Society for Psychical Research and are at the Cambridge University Library.
Mabel Batten’s diaries and letters are owned by Cara Lancaster, London.
Government papers relating to the trial of The Well of Loneliness in England are in the Public Record Office, London.
Joan Slater in London has an archive of papers relating to Radclyffe Hall.
Private matters
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Even if they add
author to Departmental Record Officer,
The Home Office, 11 December 1998
in the interests of national security
Home Office Record Management Services to author, 9 February 1998
MARGUERITE
1 The Fifth Commandment
4
Always my mother
Forebears and Infancy, mss (Texas)
I pity those
ibid
A night of
ibid, second draft
6
They quarrelled
ibid
7
My mother had me
ibid
8
Without her
ibid
an altogether
Michael West, mss (Texas)
2 Sing, little silent birdie, sing
11
It was delicious
Michael West, mss (Texas)
12
A foolish indefinite
ibid
13
She knew that
ibid
15
a touch of the ‘grand manner’
Agnes Nicholls Harty, Mr Albert Visetti (The Royal College of Music Magazine, vol. 24, no. 3)
She felt as she
Michael West
16
It was a place to dream
ibid
Here then the great
ibid
17
lest we have
UVT Letters to John, 30 June 1945
A faded, shiny
ibid
18
Sing, little silent
‘The Birth of Spring’, from Poems dedicated to Sir Arthur Sullivan, by Marguerite, ‘Toddles’, January 1894
They did not like
Michael West
19
She knew she was different
The Well of Loneliness (Cape 1928)
3 Come in kid
21
passionate declarations
Michael West, mss (Texas)
22
These lessons
ibid
And when I did
ibid
Her music and
ibid
23
I bobbed like a cork
ibid
They were even inclined
ibid
24
I only feel that I have missed
Forebears and Infancy, mss (Texas)
There were some things
ibid
25
pleased, revolted
Michael West, third draft
I used to watch
ibid
4 The pearl necklace she gave me
28
the Lord had not
UVT, The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall (Hammond Hammond 1961)
Man is vile
Violet Hunt, Diary July 1907 (Cornell)
Perhaps even now
RH to Violet
