29
She loved me so hotly
Violet Hunt diary, May 1907 (Cornell)
I had never seen
Michael West, mss (Texas)
I wondered angrily
ibid
30
I was tongue tied
ibid
Those were carefree
Forebears and Infancy, second draft, mss (Texas)
31
A gondola
Twixt Earth and Stars (Bumpus 1906)
If you were a Rose
ibid
33
I was so embarrassingly
Radclyffe Hall, ‘I must have been a tiresome and disconcerting baby’, mss (Texas)
He has found
Mabel Veronica Batten to Cara Harris, August 1906 (CL)
5 Sporks, poggers and poons
35
I was as wax
Michael West, third draft, mss (Texas)
36
she accepted homage
The Life and Death of RH
I do hope that you do not
George Batten to Mabel Veronica Batten, undated 1875 (CL)
37
He has a perfect mania
Lady Strachey to Mabel Batten, November 1875 (Strachey papers, India Office Library, London)
38
Batten is the only
quoted in Philip Magnus, King Edward VII (John Murray 1964)
I warned him
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Collection (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
40
Very soon it was born
Forebears and Infancy, mss (Texas)
41
She used to come and sit the seeds were sown
Violet Hunt diary, August 1907 (Cornell) Forebears and Infancy
JOHN
6 John and Ladye
47
Never sends a line
Mabel Batten to Cara Harris, 17 February 1911 (CL)
I find Jonathan
ibid, 7 February 1911 ibid
51
They seem very happy
ibid
How I wish
ibid, 14 February 1911
52
Sir, Have the Suffragettes
RH to the Pall Mall Gazette, 4 March 1912
7 If I can fix something for Ladye
54
Johnnie is pink
MVB to Cara Harris, 8 December 1912 (CL)
They say he suffers
ibid
56
Every appointment
RH to Cara Harris, undated, June 1916 (CL)
57
Johnnie almost feels
MVB to Cara Harris, 19 September 1913 (CL)
59
It leaves Rome far
RH to Cara Harris, 19 April 1914 (CL)
Travelling grows
ibid
60
Once, when I suggested
ibid, 10 June 1916
What manner of men
Malvern Gazette, 11 September 1914
Recruiting is
MVB to Cara Harris, 13 September 1914 (CL)
8 Roads with no signposts
63
compelling, devouring
Out of the Night, mss (Texas)
65
All eyes are fixed
The Modern Miss Thompson, mss (Texas)
They always came back
‘I must have been a tiresome and disconcerting baby’ (Texas)
But he seemed
Forebears and Infancy, mss (Texas)
67
For very good reasons
The Life and Death of RH
69
I came to believe
UVT Letters to John, March 1944
70
He had no right
UVT Daybook, 8 February 1931 (Texas)
The physical never mattered
UVT Letters to John, March 1944
Having chosen
UVT Clothes, unpublished essay (Texas)
Troubridge brought me
UVT Letters to John, March 1944
Gradually and infallibly
UVT Daybook, 5 November 1931 (Texas)
71
It is horribly
Crichton-Miller to UVT, 23 November 1913 (Ottawa)
73
He said to me, ‘I am a naval officer’
UVT ‘A Thumbnail Sketch of the Rt Hon. Sir Winston Churchill & Admiral Sir Ernest Troubridge, Royal Navy in 1914’, unpublished essay (Ottawa)
9 Chenille caterpillars
74
Una here to breakfast
MVB Diary, 22 January 1916 (CL)
All I knew or cared
The Life and Death of RH
75
There are three
Crichton-Miller to UVT, 21 September 1915 (Ottawa)
76
I can shut my eyes
UVT Daybook, 23 August 1938 (Texas)
78
Felt chilled
MVB Diary, 22 January 1916 (CL)
80
I don’t understand
RH to Cara Harris, June 1916 (CL)
I have tried
ibid
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
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