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Authors: Lara Feigel
âThis is still the most':
HS to PdeM, 4 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âA hundred times more': ibid.
âwhere my roots reach':
HS,
Return to Vienna
,
6 February.
âHeiligenstadt unchanged':
HS, diary, 2 February 1946 (HS NLV).
âone of the most':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 110.
âThe opera still':
HS, âVienna',
The New Statesman and Nation
, 13 April 1946.
âQuite definitely not':
HS to PdeM, 1 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âThe Frau Doktor':
HS,
Return to Vienna
,
9 February.
âExpropriation, humiliation': ibid.
âIn England, during': HS,
Return to Vienna
,
10 February.
âOf course, I'm envious':
PdeM to HS, 2 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âEngland suits me': ibid.
âI can just see how':
PdeM to HS, 11 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âI lead this curious':
HS to PdeM, 7 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âThose that are nice':
HS to PdeM, 15 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âsweet major':
HS to PdeM, 4 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âthe pleasant, cultured':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 156.
âCooked at Sam's':
HS, diary, 9 February 1946 (HS NLV).
âSam didn't appear':
HS, diary, 11 February 1946 (HS NLV).
âQuite delightful':
HS, diary, 12 February 1946 (HS NLV).
âSam: end':
HS, diary, 14 February 1946 (HS NLV).
âWhat an absurd':
HS, diary, 15 February 1946 (HS NLV).
âextraordinary scene':
HS, diary, 16 February 1946 (HS NLV).
âYou don't think':
HS,
The Darkened Room
(English translation of
Lisas Zimmer
)
(London: Methuen, 1961),
p. 132.
âI feel like someone':
HS to PdeM, 10 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âprecisely the kind':
PdeM to HS, 14 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âDearest Mummili':
PdeM to HS, 20 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âmost charmingly':
HS to PdeM, 18 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âas wide and full':
HS,
Return to Vienna
,
20 February.
âI am on a winter': ibid.
âin the limp': HS,
Return to Vienna
,
21 February.
âIs it fear': ibid.
âwith a look': ibid.
âEurope is a graveyard': ibid.
âThese people have':
HS, âThe Trek to Palestine',
The New Statesman and Nation
, 23 March 1946.
âa worldwide Jewish':
HS,
Return to Vienna
, 21
February.
âeven with the':
HS, âThe Trek to Palestine'.
âa solution must': ibid.
âthe ozone that':
HS,
Return to Vienna
,
23 February.
âwith my most':
HS,
DaB
,
p. 164.
âmost dreary thought':
HS to PdeM, 7 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âA dozen times':
PdeM to HS, 17 March 1946 (HS PdeM).
âOur stakes in':
PdeM to HS, 20 March 1946 (HS PdeM).
âfallen in love':
PdeM to HS, 27 March 1946 (PdeM Mon).
âwept with rage': HS,
DaB
,
p. 165.
âYou have set':
PdeM to HS, 4 April 1946 (HS PdeM).
âI feel very suspended':
PdeM to HS, 10 April 1946 (PdeM Mon).
âI must assume':
PdeM to HS, 13 April 1946 (PdeM Mon).
âOf course, I still':
HS to PdeM, 11 April 1946 (HS PdeM).
âThank God':
PdeM to HS, 20 April 1946 (PdeM Mon).
âI have one firm':
HS to PdeM, 7 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âDarling, there's nothing':
HS to PdeM, February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âThis is such':
HS to PdeM, 10 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âThe only thing':
PdeM to HS, 14 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âAbsolutely. If':
PdeM to HS, 20 February 1946 (HS PdeM).
âAlready people':
PdeM to HS, 2 May 1946 (PdeM Mon).
âit is certainly':
PdeM to HS, 4 May 1946 (PdeM Mon).
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âO, maybe we'll live a while in Killala'
âIn fact the Irish':
for an account of the Irish economy in this period see J. J. Lee,
Ireland 1912â1985, Politics and Society
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
âtake whatever steps':
Ãamon de Valera, in ibid.,
pp. 289â90.
âconstantly recurring':
Evelyn Waugh, diary, 9 November 1946,
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
, ed. Michael Davie (London: Phoenix, 2009).
âbrief shelter from':
Evelyn Waugh to Randolph Churchill, 22 December 1946,
The Letters of Evelyn Waugh
(London: Phoenix, 2010).
âtotal to me':
Nancy Mitford to Evelyn Waugh, 26 April 1952,
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
, ed. Charlotte Mosley (London: Sceptre, 1997).
âThe war's on now':
HG,
Loving
(London: Vintage, 2000),
pp. 29, 192.
âthe dear Shelbourne':
EB to CR, 26 November 1945 (
LCW
).
âimpassive, cheerful':
EB,
The Shelbourne
(London: Vintage, 2001),
p. 6.
âa complete success':
HY to Matthew Smith, 3 September 1947 (private collection).
âA mattress was spread':
GG, âAfter Two Years',
A Quick Look Behind: Footnotes to an Autobiography
(Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1983).
âat a loss':
see GG,
Ways of Escape
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982),
ch. 4ii.
âa belated congratulatory':
see GG to CW, 25 September 1946 (GG GU).
âhe was keen to':
see GG to Evelyn Waugh, undated, Richard Greene,
Graham Greene, A Life in Letters
(London: Little, Brown, 2007),
p. 139.
âThey had a drink':
see Norman Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
(London: Pimlico, 2004â5),
vol. 2, p. 227.
âan extraordinary house':
Evelyn Waugh to Nancy Mitford, 4 October 1948 (
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
).
âShe had a marvellous':
Belinda Straight, interview in Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 220.
âa Marie-Antoinette':
John Rothenstein,
Brave Day, Hideous Night: Autobiography 1939â1965
(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966),
p. 155.
âI had no idea':
GG,
EoA
,
book 1, ch. 3.
âThey drove to':
see GG to Marion Greene, undated, in Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 227.
âto go up in an aeroplane':
see GG, in William Cash,
The Third Woman: The Secret Passion that Inspired The End of the Affair
(London: Abacus, 2001),
p. 4.
âThe act of creation':
GG to CW, 30 September 1947 (GG GU).
âthe same kind of in-love':
see GG to CW, 12 April 1949 (GG GU).
âCambridge, snow':
see GG to CW, 2 September 1955 (GG GU).
âthey would have done more':
see GG to CW, 24 September 1949 (GG GU).
âgave it away to the nuns':
see VG, interview with William Cash (private collection).
âDorothy was complaining':
see GG to CW, 5 May 1947 (GG GU).
âwoke up blissfully': ibid.
âa second-rate Ireland':
see GG to CW, 15 May 1947 (GG GU).
âGraham led Catherine':
see VG, interview with William Cash (private collection).
âhe felt like a cornered':
see GG to CW, 15 May 1947 (GG GU).
âif I found anyone':
CW to Belinda Straight, 1 January 1969, in Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 233.
âYou know, Graham':
CW in Lady Melchett interview, in ibid.,
p. 260.
âit is better to avoid lying':
see GG,
HoM
,
book 3, part 1, ch. 1i; book 1, part 1, ch. 2iv; book 1, part 2, ch. 2ii.
âbefore she appeared he used to':
see GG to CW, 25 August 1947 (GG GU).
âthe difference between peacefulness':
see GG to CW, 27 August 1947 (GG GU).
âYou are in':
GG to CW, 27 June 1947 (GG GU).
âhe was missing her obsessively':
see GG to CW, 29 June 1947 (GG GU).
âhe wanted to kiss':
see GG to CW, 30 June 1947 (GG GU).
âWould he really see':
see GG to CW, 4 July 1947 (GG GU).
âescape to Romania':
see GG to CW, 5 July 1947 (GG GU).
âlazily reading on':
see GG to CW, 24 August 1947 (GG GU).
âwatching her make':
see GG to CW, 3 October 1949 (GG GU).
âafter four and a half':
see GG to CW, undated, 1951 (GG GU).
âIrish faith to':
Sean O'Faolain to GG, 9 February 1976 (GG BU).
âAt once he was in love': see
GG to CW, 3 September 1947 (GG GU).
âO, maybe we'll':
F. R. Higgins, âElopement',
Arable Holdings
(Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1933). GG inscribed the 8 April 1949 entry of CW's diary with this quotation.
âGraham has just':
CW to Phillip Caraman, undated, 1951 (GG BU).
âthe first diary':
CW's diaries are held in GG GU.
âthey only liked each other':
see GG to CW, 2 August 1947 (GG GU).
âalways quiet or gentle':
see VG, interview with William Cash (private collection).
âhis cigarette burn':
see GG to CW, 25 August 1947 (GG GU).
âHe fell in love':
see GG to CW, 21 August 1947 (GG GU).
âHe could become a pagan':
see GG to CW, 18 August 1947 (GG GU).
âIreland seemed to be':
see GG to CW, 27 August 1947 (GG GU).
âromantically admired':
see GG, interview, 1981 in Henry Donaghy (ed.),
Conversations with Graham Greene
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992), p. 156.
âan enchanting figure': see ibid.,
p. 153.
âit might be fun':
see GG to CW, 5 September 1947 (GG GU).
âlustrous and blonde': see ibid.
âa flight from':
see GG to CW, 28 September 1947 (GG GU).
âthe Atlantic blowing':
see GG to CW, undated, 1947 (GG GU).
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