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
