Gertrude Bell (72 page)

109
“You know, dearest Father”
: GLB letter

109
“I am so wildly interested”
: GLB letter

109
“I am much entertained”
: GLB letter

111
she became a skilled photographer
: Photographic details from Mr. Jim Crow, School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University

112
“Yesterday . . . in the evening I went”
: GLB letter, one Saturday, Oct. 1907

113
“I went shopping with the Stanleys”
: GLB letter, Monday, 7 Nov. 1904

114
“Reinach has simply set”
: GLB letter

114
“the mud was incredible”
: GLB letter, 1 Feb. 1905

115
“My host”
: GLB letter

116
“I produced the Muallakat”
: GLB letter

116
“I could not help regretting”
: GLB letter

116
“I too contributed”
: GLB letter

116
“Tomorrow the Druzes are going forth”
: GLB letter

117
“ ‘Oh Lord our God! Upon them!' ”
: GLB letter

117
“. . .
it was more abominable than”
: GLB letter

117–18
“The real triumph of eloquence”
: GLB letter

118
“
Islam is the greatest republic”:
GLB letter

118
“Tiresome, for I was never”
: GLB letter

118
“The devil take all Syrian inscriptions!”
: GLB letter

119
“There was nothing for it”
: GLB letter

119
“Fattuh, bless him!”
: GLB letter

120
“We fell into each other's arms”
: GLB letter

120
“Race, culture, art”
: GLB letter

120
“Did I tell you I was writing”
: GLB to Chirol

124
“I need not have hidden the cartridges”
: GLB letter, Jan. 1909

124
“No one knows of it”
: GLB letter

125
“
An interesting boy”
: GLB letter, 18 Apr. 1911

126
“
The whole world shone like a jewel”
: From Gordon,
Gertrude Bell
, “Desert Journeys and Archaeology,” RL

127
“
Braver soldier”
: Tribute by Sir Ian Hamilton to Doughty-Wylie, in Diana Condell,
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Doughty-Wylie VC CMG—Sedd el Bahr and Hill 141
,
www.iwm.org.uk

128
“
The seas and the hills”
: GLB letter, 28 Apr. 1907

128
“
It was surrounded by”
: GLB letter, 1 May 1907

128
“I did all I knew”
: Ibid.

129
“
We think we have a Hittite settlement!”
: GLB letter, 25 May

129
Dick Doughty-Wylie had been educated
: Facts about Doughty-Wylie from Army List

133
“
The nearer I came to it”
: GLB to Chirol, Jan. 1913, DUL

137
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55
“
My Dear Gertrude”
. . . 13 Aug. 1913 to 24 Apr. 1915,
“So many memories, my dear queen, of you”
: Letters from Doughty-Wylie until the day before he was killed at Gallipoli. There is a smaller number of letters from GLB to him, returned to her on the eve of the battle, RL

153
“
My dear Jean”
: From Doughty-Wylie to Mrs. H. H. Coe, in the papers of Mrs. L. O. Doughty-Wylie, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum

157
Elsa, now Lady Richmond
: Elizabeth Burgoyne,
Gertrude Bell from Her Personal Papers, 1914–1926

157
Towards the end of 1915
: For accounts of the missing days: L. A. Carlyon,
Gallipoli
; Michael Hickey,
Gallipoli
; Eric Wheeler Bush,
Gallipoli

157
L. A. Carlyon
: In his book
Gallipoli

158
different version of events
: Hickey,
Gallipoli

158
According to her diaries
: The Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum

160
“
I think it more than likely”
: This letter is excluded from Florence Bell,
Letters
, but appears in Burgoyne,
Bell, 1914–1926
, p. 29

On her trip to Hayyil, Gertrude kept two diaries, one for Doughty-Wylie (D-W) and the other as a reminder to herself of dates, facts, and events. She was also writing frequent letters to her parents and the occasional letter to Chirol. Her love letters to Doughty-Wylie probably continued, but were destroyed by him later so that they should not fall into the hands of his wife in the event of his death.

163
“
If you knew the way”
: GLB to Chirol, Dec. 1913, DUL

166
For a century the enmity
: History of the Sauds and Rashids from T. E. Lawrence,
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

167
Charles Huber . . . Baron Nolde
: From H. V. F. Winstone,
Gertrude Bell
; and Zahra Freeth and H. V. F. Winstone,
Explorers of Arabia from the Renaissance to the Victorian Era

169
“
Miss Bell passed straight through”
: T. E. Lawrence to his brother, 10 Dec. 1913

169
a somewhat sensational biography
: Thomas Lowell,
With Lawrence in Arabia

170
“
Muhammad says”
: GLB letter, 27 Nov. 1913

170
“
I hope you will not say No”
: GLB letter

171
“
This is not a gift for which I am asking”
: GLB letter

171
“
I don't know that it is an ultimate”
: GLB to Chirol, Dec. 1913

171
“
A curious figure”
: GLB letter, 12 Dec. 1913

173
“
We struggled on”
: An account of the incident on 21 Dec., GLB letter

174
“
A preposterous and provoking episode”
: GLB letter

174
“
The stony hills”
: GLB letter

175
“
Extremely nasty dinner”
: GLB letter

175
“
a mountain of evils”
: GLB diary for D-W, 16 Feb. 1914

176
“
I was an idiot”
: GLB letter, 9 Jan. 1914

177
“
It's all rather comic”
: Ibid.

179
“
Decided to run away”
: GLB (personal) diary, 14 Jan. 1914

179
“
There is something in the written word”
: GLB diary for D-W, 16 Jan. 1914

180
“
My troubles are over”
: GLB letter, 11 Jan. 1914

180
“
I have known loneliness in solitude”
: GLB to Chirol

181
“
I have cut the thread”
: GLB diary for D-W, 16 Jan. 1914

182
“
The Beduin has been born”
: T. E. Lawrence, in preface to
Arabia Deserta
by Charles M. Doughty, p. 15

182
“
a certain hierarchical conception”
: Albert Hourani,
A History of the Arab Peoples
, p. 102

182
“
The Arab is never safe”
: Gertrude Bell,
The Desert and the Sown
, p. 66

183
“
Your safest course of action”
: Ibid., preface, p. xxii

185
“
When we were little”
: GLB diary for D-W, 24 Jan. 1914

185
“
There are no words to tell you”
: GLB diary for D-W, 23 Jan. 1914

187
“
A formidable looking person”
: GLB diary for D-W, 2 Feb. 1914

187
“
I saw his jurisdiction”
: Ibid.

187
“
the price of which . . . enchanting little beast”
: GLB diary for D-W, 29 Jan. 1914

189
“
Abandoned of God and man”
: GLB diary for D-W, 2 Feb. 1914

191
“
[It] springs from a profound doubt”
: GLB diary for D-W, 16 Feb. 1914

192
“
Princes and powers of Arabia”
: Ibid.

192
“
This morning we reached”
: GLB letter, 19 Feb. 1914

197
“
In short, I was not to come further”
: GLB diary for D-W, 2 Mar. 1914

197
“
In Hayil, murder”
: Ibid.

198
“
[It was] a very splendid place”
: Ibid.

199
“
And then followed”
: Ibid.

199
“
Turkiyyeh says”
: GLB (personal) diary, 28 Feb.

200
“
Wind and dust, a little rain”
: GLB (personal) diary

200
“
I have just £40”
: GLB diary for D-W, 2 Mar.

201
“
I spent a long night”
: Ibid.

202
was planning to murder
: For the murder of Zamil ibn Subhan, see H. V. F. Winstone,
Gertrude Bell
, p. 210, and H. V. F. Winstone,
The Illicit Adventure
, ch. 5

202
“
I passed two hours”
: GLB diary for D-W, 6 Mar.

203
“
I spoke to him”
: Ibid.

204
“
And why they have now given way”
: Ibid.

204
“
Everyone was smiling and affable”
: GLB diary for D-W, 17 Mar.

204
“
I went, and took an affectionate farewell”
: GLB diary for D-W

205
“
I fancy they meant”
: GLB diary for D-W

205
“
[The journey is] so wearying”
: GLB diary for D-W

205
“
Not one grown man”
: GLB diary for D-W

206
“
I fear when I look back”
: GLB diary for D-W, 16 Feb.

207
“
On a careful analysis of my feelings”
: GLB diary for D-W, 26 Mar.

207
“ ‘
In all the years”
: GLB diary for D-W, 17 Apr.

208
“
He does not get up till 12”
: GLB diary for D-W, 28 Mar.

209
“
I think the only things”
: GLB diary for D-W, 26 Mar.

209
“
He is too holy”
: GLB diary for D-W, 28 Mar.

210
“
The muddy waters of Tigris flood”
: Ibid.

210
“
Baghdad shimmered”
: GLB diary for D-W, 12 Apr.

210
description of the court of the Caliph
: Baghdad in the time of al-Muqtadir, from the account of al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, in Hourani,
History of the Arab Peoples

211
“
Baghdad has taken to”
: GLB diary for D-W, 13 Apr.

211
“
Out under the open sky again”
: Ibid., 13, 15, and 22 Apr.

212
“
We went on boldly”
: GLB diary for D-W, 16 Apr.

212
“
They brought it to me”
: GLB diary for D-W, 19 Apr.

213
“
He received me with a kindness”
: GLB diary for D-W, 22 Apr.

213
“
We ate and the dusk fell”
: GLB diary for D-W

214
“
There are people camped in the hills”
: GLB diary for D-W, 19 Apr.

214
“
A great storm marched across our path”
: GLB diary for D-W, 25 Apr.

215
“
So here I am in a garden”
: GLB diary for D-W, 1 May

215
“
He looked at me in silence”
: Later undated letter from GLB to Doughty-Wylie

219
“
On the Baghdad side”
: Report by GLB to Wyndham H. Deedes of the Military Operations Directorate, sent on to Sir Edward Grey, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, WO 33 doc 48014

219
The magazines were full of photographs
: Georgina Howell,
In Vogue 1916–1975

220
“
I have asked some of my friends”
: GLB letter, Nov. 1914

220
“
St. Loe remarked”
: GLB letter, 17 Nov.

222
She stepped onto the quay
: Description of Boulogne from
Red Cross
(periodical), Feb. 1915, p. 39

223
“
I had a hideous interview”
: GLB to Doughty-Wylie, in Winstone,
Gertrude Bell
, p. 229

224
“
I think I have inherited”
: GLB letter

224
Her first object was to create
: The working of the W&MED, from a report to the Joint War Committee, spring 1915

224
“
I've very nearly”
: GLB letter, 16 Dec.

225
“
It is fearful the amount”
: GLB letter, 26 Nov.

226
“
The cooks [were]”
: GLB letter, New Year, 1915

226
“
There is a recent order”
: GLB to Chirol, 11 Dec. 1914

227
“
Where we are under a cross fire”
: GLB to Chirol