Read The Love-Charm of Bombs Online
Authors: Lara Feigel
‘the older woman took it’:
HS,
DaB
,
p. 98.
‘I should have thought’:
HS to PdeM, 30 April 1943 (HS PdeM).
‘The vision of my beloved’:
HS to PdeM, 3 May 1943 (HS PdeM).
‘war’s being global’:
EB,
HoD
,
ch. 17.
‘refreshed (not quite as’:
HY to Matthew Smith, 25 February 1943 (private collection).
‘the most beautiful English girl’:
Ruthven Todd, in Jon Stallworthy,
Louis MacNeice
(London: Faber, 1995), p. 238.
‘Too large in’:
Louis MacNeice, ‘The Kingdom’,
c
.1943,
Collected Poems
(London: Faber, 2003).
‘in the centre’:
Louis MacNeice to Mary Keene, undated (private collection).
‘Lying in bed’:
Terry Southern interview with HY, ‘The Art of Fiction’, 1958,
Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green
(London: Harvill, 1993).
‘above her lovely head’:
HG,
Loving
(London: Vintage, 2000),
pp. 2, 8, 17, 64.
‘her great eyes’: ibid.,
pp. 123, 52, 95, 141.
‘I’d sell it’: ibid.,
pp. 110, 63, 126, 142, 145.
‘Mary Keene’:
for biographical details about Mary Keene and Matthew Smith see Alice Keene,
The Two Mr Smiths: The Life and Work of Matthew Smith
(London: Lund Humphries, 1995).
‘You know of course’:
Matthew Smith to Ida Hughes Stanton, in ibid.,
p. 68.
‘I have been guessing’:
Mary Keene to HY, undated (private collection).
‘I have a great hangover’:
Mary Keene to Matthew Smith, undated (private collection).
‘Believe it or not’:
HY to Rosamond Lehmann, 21 June 1943 (RL KC).
12:
âAlas, what hate everywhere'
âAs far as I can see':
GG to Raymond Greene, 4 January 1943, in Richard Greene,
Graham Greene, A Life in Letters
(London: Little, Brown, 2007).
âKim Philby':
see Norman Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
(London: Pimlico, 2004â5), vol. 2, p. 130.
âI feel it was':
GG to Marion Greene, 30 November 1942 (
A Life in Letters
).
âHe arranged for Mass':
see GG,
A Sort of Life: An Autobiography
(Bath: Chivers, 1981),
ch. 1ii.
âI felt sick':
GG to Marion Greene, 19 January 1943, in Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 154.
ânot yet touched': GG to Raymond Greene, 4 January 1943 (
A Life in Letters
).
âafter the North':
Kim Philby, in Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 154.
âDoll wrote to me':
GG to Hugh Greene, 1 August 1942 (
A Life in Letters
).
âFrench letters':
see Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 138.
âthings can be':
GG to Elisabeth Greene, 15 October 1942 (
A Life in Letters
).
âWon't it be nice':
VG to GG, 9 March 1942 (VG Bod).
âI don't altogether':
VG to GG, 14 April 1942 (VG Bod).
âso VERY tired':
VG to GG, 21 April 1942 (VG Bod).
âYou are the best':
GG to VG, 8 April 1943 (VG Bod).
âpity and responsibility':
GG,
HoM
,
book 1, part 1, chs 1iii, 2iv.
âOne forgets the dead': ibid.,
book 3, part 2, ch. 1i.
âbeen torpedoed':
GG to VG, undated (VG Bod).
âLisbon, with all':
Malcolm Muggeridge,
Chronicles of Wasted Time
, vol. 2:
The Infernal Grove
(London: Collins, 1973),
p. 136.
âa very thin':
James Lees-Milne, diary, 20 January 1943,
Diaries, 1942â1954
, abridged and introduced by Michael Bloch (London: Hachette, 2011).
âentailed a good':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 16 April 1951,
Letters to a Friend 1950â1952
, ed. Constance Babington Smith (London: Collins, 1961).
âOpen your eyes':
RM, âLisbon day: London day' (RM TC).
âPleasure in this':
RM, âA Happy Neutral',
Spectator
, 9 July 1943.
âWe cannot doubt':
Winston Churchill, speech, 8 June 1943,
War Speeches, 1939â45
, compiled by Charles Eade, 3 vols (London: Cassell & Co, 1951â2).
âbest spirits':
HS, diary, 9 September 1943 (HS NLV).
âIf they shorten':
HS, diary, 24 May 1943 (HS NLV).
âthe Germans should':
Churchill, speech, 14 July 1941 (
War Speeches
).
âThe result was the bombing':
see Gordon Corrigan,
The Second World War: A Military History
(London: Atlantic Books, 2010),
pp. 444â52 and Richard Overy,
Why the Allies Won
(London: Pimlico, 2006),
pp. 143â9.
âunqualified approval':
see Juliet Gardiner,
Wartime: Britain 1939â1945
(London: Headline, 2005),
p. 612.
âthis horrible smashing':
RM to Jean Smith, 4 July 1943,
Dearest Jean: Rose Macaulay's Letters to a Cousin
, ed. Martin Ferguson Smith (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011).
âAt present I feel':
RM to Jean Smith, 4 August 1943 (
Dearest Jean
).
âHeart not':
RM to Jean Smith, 12 August 1943 (
Dearest Jean
).
âlunch with Graham Greene':
see RM to Jean Smith, 17 September 1943 (
Dearest Jean
).
âboth books received':
see Jeremy Treglown,
Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green
(London: Faber, 2000),
p. 163.
âtoo sour and bitter':
Stephen Spender, in ibid., p. 148.
âCaught
mirrored':
John Lehmann,
I Am My Brother
(London: Longmans, 1960),
p. 219.
âtwo proper novelists':
Philip Toynbee, âNew Novels',
New Statesman and Nation
, 26 June 1943.
âPoor Rome':
RM to Jean Smith, 17 September 1943 (
Dearest Jean
).
âGermany is standing':
Stalin quoted by Churchill, speech, 24 August 1941 (
War Speeches
).
âVery confused':
HY to Mary Keene, 11 October 1943 (private collection).
âmiserable': Mary Keene to Matthew Smith, undated (private collection).
âquite dazzled':
Mary Keene to Matthew Smith, undated (private collection).
âhis great world':
Mary Keene,
Mrs Donald
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1983),
pp. 11â13.
âthey stood eternally': ibid.,
pp. 16, 17.
âto love what': ibid.,
pp. 41, 53â5.
âUs at your age': ibid.,
pp. 56, 59.
âturning from her': ibid.,
pp. 85, 81.
âI know there is':
HY to John Lehmann, 18 December 1943 (John Lehmann archive, HRC).
âwould not make':
Jack Marlowe, âA Reader's Notebook',
Penguin New Writing
, AprilâMay 1943 (issue actually published in December).
âMy dear John':
HY to John Lehmann, 29 December 1943 (John Lehmann archive, HRC).
âfull of stories':
HS, diary, 21 December 1943 (HS NLV).
âone of the loveliest':
HS, diary, 8 January 1944 (HS NLV).
âI can't stand':
HS, diary, 15 January 1944 (HS NLV).
ânoisy night':
RM to Jean Smith, 24 January 1944 (
Dearest Jean
).
âAll this Rome': ibid.
âThese contained a device':
see William Sansom,
The Blitz: Westminster at War
(London: Faber, 2010), p. 176.
âthe perverse vivacities': ibid.,
p. 178.
âstill hear today':
HS,
DaB
, p. 136.
âWe had not expected':
HS, diary, 26 February 1944 (HS NLV).
âin contrast
to':
Evelyn Waugh, diary, 2 March 1944,
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
, ed. Michael Davie (London: Phoenix, 2009).
âHe reported to':
see Evelyn Waugh to Laura Wade, 29 February 1944,
The Letters of Evelyn Waugh
(London: Phoenix, 2010).
âIt felt difficult':
HS, diary, 6 March 1944 (HS NLV).
âunder the blankets':
HG,
Pack My Bag
(London: Vintage, 2000),
p. 33.
âwomen had men':
HY to Mary Keene, 4 April 1944 (private collection).
âDarling. I'm so very':
HY to Mary Keene, 15 May 1944 (private collection).
âsexual intercourse':
Legal letter about the Keene divorce case, 14 February 1946 (private collection).
âthe most compassionate':
Rosamond Lehmann, âAn Absolute Gift',
Times Literary Supplement
, 6 August 1954.
Â
13:
âDroning things, mindlessly making for you'
âD-Day has come':
CR, diary, 6 June 1944,
The Siren Years: Undiplomatic Diaries 1937â1945
(London: Macmillan, 1974).
âD-Day!':
HS, diary, 6 June 1944 (HS NLV).
âJohn Lehmann held':
see Selina Hastings,
Rosamond Lehmann
(London: Vintage, 2003),
p. 240.
âa memorable and glorious':
Winston Churchill, speech, 6 and 8 June 1944,
War Speeches, 1939â45
, compiled by Charles Eade (London: Cassell & Co, 1951â2).
âstolid, cheerful':
CR, diary, 16 June 1944 (
The Siren Years
).
âmysterious rocket-planes':
Harold Nicolson, diary, 14 June 1944,
Diaries and Letters 1939â45
, ed. Nigel Nicolson (London: Collins, 1967).
âThey fly slowly':
Harold Nicolson, diary, 16 June 1944 (
Diaries and Letters
).
âdroning
things
':
EB,
HoD
,
ch. 17.
âAs we came out of':
HS,
DaB
, p. 136.
âA clever, educated':
HS, diary, 20 June 1944 (HS NLV).
âAt the time O'Hea':
see HS, diary, 10 February 1944 (HS NLV).
âLife is really absurd':
HS, diary, 23 June 1944 (HS NLV).
âI was incredibly':
HS, diary, 24 June 1944 (HS NLV).
âPeter and I':
HS, diary, 23 July 1944 (HS NLV).
âhe was confronted':
see GG interview in Norman Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
(London: Pimlico, 2004â5),
vol. 2, p. 184.
âone had thought':
GG, diary, 22 June 1944 (GG HRC).
âI had to put on': ibid.