Letters to a Sister (42 page)

³⁶¹
Abp Fisher, when asked (in a television interview on 25 June) why Abp Makarios had been invited to the Lambeth Conference, replied ‘He is by tradition one of the officials invited... I had to invite him... I know as well as anybody what a bad character he is…' Later, after leaders of the Greek Orthodox Church had protested against the reference to ‘bad character', he sent a cable of apology.

³⁶²
A newspaper for ‘Anglican Catholics'.

³⁶³
St Paul's, Portman Square.

³⁶⁴
Margaret Cropper,
Evelyn Underhill
(1958).

³⁶⁵
One Englishwoman was killed and another seriously injured by Eoka gunmen in Famagusta on 3 October. The subsequent search for the murderers was carried out by British troops who (according to the
Times
Cyprus correspondent) ‘were in the grip of sheer cold rage'.

³⁶⁶
Rev. Donald Soper, Methodist minister.

³⁶⁷
Abbot Extraordinary.

³⁶⁸
The Tablet,
4 October, 1958.

³⁶⁹
In a letter to
The Times
(13 October, 1958) on the Revision of the Psalter, Rev. Andrew Duncan-Jones pointed out that a knowledge of the Bible is of much greater importance than ‘leaving out the bits we don't like'. R.M. then wrote to him asking about the interpretation of one of the Psalms.

³⁷⁰
‘Nevertheless, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting: and my prayer shall turn into mine own bosom.'

³⁷¹
When she answered his reply to her enquiry.

³⁷²
Protesting at the ‘non-interfering* attitude towards apartheid which Great Britain had adhered to in the voting of the political committee of the U.N. General Assembly.

³⁷³
‘Conversation with Aldous Huxley' by Cyril Connolly,
Sunday Times,
19 October, 1958.

³⁷⁴
R.M. was to give this talk to Cambridge undergraduates on 6 Nov.

³⁷⁵
See Gilbert Murray's
Five Stages of Greek Religion
(1925), chap. II.

³⁷⁶
R.M. has abbreviated the quotation as given by Gilbert Murray.

³⁷⁷
The notes for R.M.'s talk suggest that this is a quotation from Erasmus.

³⁷⁸
R.M.'s first cousin.

³⁷⁹
Jessie Boy dell.

³⁸⁰
This was a ‘Christian Town Forum', organized by the Bognor Regis Christian Council, which took place on 7 October, 1958. The Question Master was Adrian Hill, of the B.B.C. Television Sketch Club, and the team consisted of the Bp of Chichester, R.M., a Methodist and a Presbyterian.

³⁸¹
Rt Rev. Roger Wilson.

³⁸²
Rev. Kenneth Slack.

³⁸³
Dr Harold Roberts.

³⁸⁴
From the stove in the Sistine Chapel, the traditional signal that the election of a new Pope has been made.

³⁸⁵
Cardinal Celso Costantini died in Rome on 17 October, just befor the Conclave, and Cardinal Edward Mooney on 25 October.

³⁸⁶
Cardinal Roncalli had been elected Pope John XXIII.

¹
After these two quotations R.M. had jotted down, ‘Ghost Stories of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1860s)' and ‘Ingoldsby Legends'.

²
This refers to Tintoretto's painting of the Last Judgment in the Church of the Madonna dell' Orto.

³
See Horatio Brown's
Life on the Lagoons
(1884).

⁴
Pépin (777-810), son of Charlemagne and King of Italy.

⁵
‘Posts'.

⁶
See Horatio Brown's
Life on the Lagoons.

⁷
‘Snub-nosed, Snub-nosed'. According to Pliny the Elder
(Natural History
, IX, 7-8) dolphins particularly liked to be called ‘Snub-nose', and some became tame enough to allow boys to ride on their backs.

⁸
See Hans Sedlmayr's
Art in Crisis
(trans. B. Battershaw, 1957), p. 166.

⁹
See
Art in Crisis,
p. 187.

¹⁰
Henry Vaughan (1622-95).

¹¹
Johannes Scheffler (1624-77), mystical poet and controversialist.

¹²
This is a free rendering of a passage from C. G. Jung's
Psychology and Religion,
as quoted by Hans Schaer in his
Religion and the Cure of Souls in Jung's Psychology
(trans. R. F. C. Hull; Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951).

¹³
Protestant theologian, b. 1887.

¹⁴
Hans Schaer quotes this from Kurt Leese's
Die Krisis und Wende des christlichen Geistes
(1932).

¹⁵
J. C. Hobhouse, Baron Broughton (1786-1869).

¹⁶
‘Baron Corvo', the pseudonym used by F. W. Rolfe (1860-1913).

¹⁷
J. H. Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), essayist, critic, and poet.

¹⁸
Marguerite, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849), authoress.

¹⁹
H. R. F. Brown (1854-1926), historian of Venice.

²⁰
R.M. probably means Lady Layard, wife of Sir Henry Layard (1817-1894) who became the
grande dame
of the English colony in Venice.

²¹
Augustus J. C. Hare (183 4-1903).

²²
Bartolommeo Colleoni (1400-1475), Italian soldier of fortune.

²³
William D. Howells (1837-1920), American man of letters, and U.S. consul in Venice 1861-65.

²⁴
In 1818 Byron lived in one of the three adjoining Palazzi Mocenigo on the Grand Canal which are known as
Casa Nuova,
to distinguish them from
Casa Vecchia,
the nearby palazzo originally belonging to an older branch of the Mocenigo family.

²⁵
‘The Mocenigo Palace at Venice'; see
English Ballads and Other Poems
by Lord John Manners (1850).

²⁶
See Shelley's ‘Julian and Maddalo'.

²⁷
John Cleveland (1613-58), Royalist poet, see R.M.'s
They Were Defeated.

²⁸
See Francis Thompson's sonnet ‘Correlated Greatness'.

²⁹
The following notes are based on passages in
Venice
by Beryl de Selin-court and M. S. Henderson (1907).

³⁰
The Republic of Venice was abolished by Napoleon in 1797.

³¹
The Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli.

³²
From ‘The Latest Decalogue.' by A. H. Clough (1819-61).

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