Those Wild Wyndhams (74 page)

20
. Ibid.

21
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, December
1921
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
1
f.
28
r.

22
. Quoted in Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, p.
349
.

23
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
23
September
1919
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GR
433
/
2
/
229
/
1
f.
1
r.

24
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
14
January
1922
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
2
f.
1
r.

25
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, n.d. [
1923
], Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
3
f.
17
r.

26
. Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
57
.

27
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, n.d. [
1921
/
2
], Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
2
f.
27
r.

28
. See Mary Strickland to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
13
May
1921
, commenting that the ‘great question’ had been whether Bibs and Ivor were in love with one another, and that she, Mary Strickland, used to find Ivor ‘rather a cold fish … but I expect Bibs will transform him’. Blunt Papers, FM
190
-
1975
.

29
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, n.d. [
1921
], Blunt Papers, FM
193
-
1976
.

30
. Mary Elcho to Dorothy Carleton,
1
March
1920
, Blunt Papers, FM
988
-
1975
.

31
. Quoted in Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
16
.

32
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
17
March
1920
, Stanway Papers. Stephen had gone with Pamela, and was impressed by the reading. One medium had told them ‘things unknown to us both, which we checked in England. She couldn’t have read our minds.’ Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
16
.

33
. Quoted in Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
16
.

34
.
New York Times
,
7
January
1920
.

35
. Quoted in Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
16
.

36
. Pamela Tennant to Margot Asquith,
13
January
1921
, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. c.
6676
f.
154
.

37
. Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, pp.
17
–
18
.

38
. Pamela Tennant to Dorothy Carleton,
1
October
1921
, Blunt Papers, FM
248
-
1976
.

39
. Mary Elcho to Ettie Desborough,
29
November
1920
, Desborough Papers, HALS DE/Rv/C
477
.

40
. Pamela Tennant to Margot Asquith,
17
January
1921
, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, Add. MS. Eng. c.
6676
f.
155
.

41
. Pamela Tennant to Margot Asquith,
11
January
1921
, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, Add. MS. Eng. c.
6676
f.
151
.

42
. Pamela Tennant to Margot Asquith,
17
January
1921
, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, Add. MS. Eng. c.
6676
f.
155
; Margot Asquith to Pamela Tennant, n.d., ff.
152
–
3
.

43
. Pamela Tennant to Margot Asquith,
17
January
1921
, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, Add. MS. Eng. c.
6676
f.
155
.

44
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
28
February
1921
, Stanway Papers.

45
. Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, pp.
14
–
15
.

46
. Blow,
Broken Blood
, p.
164
.

47
. Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
97
.

48
.
The Times
,
17
February
1922
.

49
.
The Times
,
6
June
1922
.

50
. Pamela Tennant to Lucy Graham Smith, n.d. [summer
1921
], Bodleian, Asquith Papers, Add. MS. Eng. c.
6676
f.
157
.

51
. Pamela Tennant to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
1
October
1921
, Blunt Papers, FM
248
-
1976
.

52
. ‘The Romantic Miracle of England’s Loneliest Man’,
American Feature Press
,
1922
.

53
. Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
63
.

54
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
235
.

55
. Baddeley,
The Unsinkable Hermione Baddeley
, p.
47
.

56
. Pamela Tennant to Lucy Graham Smith, n.d. [summer
1921
], Bodleian, Asquith Papers, Add. MS. Eng. c.
6676
f.
157
.

57
. Pamela Tennant to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
11
June
1922
, Blunt Papers, FM
286
-
1976
.

58
. Belloc Lowndes,
A Passing World
, p.
175
.

59
. Pamela Tennant to Marie Stopes,
1
February
1923
, BL Stopes Papers, Add. MSS.
58693
ff.
31
–
2
.

60
. Pamela Tennant to Marie Stopes,
9
February
1921
, BL Stopes Papers, Add. MSS.
58688
f.
7
; and see also letters of
27
May
1921
, Add. MS.
58689
f.
69
; and
27
June
1921
, Add. MSS.
58689
f.
139
.

61
. Pamela Tennant to Marie Stopes, June
1922
, BL Stopes Papers, Add. MSS.
58691
f.
224
.

62
. Founded as the Eugenics Education Society in
1906
, it changed its name to the Eugenics Society in
1926
.

63
. Marie Stopes,
Radiant Motherhood
(G. B. Putnam’s Sons,
1920
), p.
220
;
The Times
,
29
October
1918
; Glenconner,
The White Wallet
, pp.
372
–
5
.

64
. Pamela Tennant to the Stopes Society,
10
November [post-
1922
], BL Stopes Papers, Add. MSS.
58702
f.
111
.

65
. Pamela Tennant to Marie Stopes, June
1922
, BL Stopes Papers, Add. MSS.
58691
f.
224
.

66
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
11
December
1925
, Stanway Papers.

67
. Grey of Fallodon,
Twenty-Five Years
,
1
.xxii.

68
. See Keith Robbins,
Sir Edward Grey: A Biography of Lord Grey of Fallodon
(Cassell,
1971
).

69
. Baddeley,
The Unsinkable Hermione Baddeley
, p.
13
.

70
. Ibid., pp.
44
–
9
and
53
–
4
; Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
52
. In this, David resisted Pamela’s attempts to match-make him more successfully than Christopher, whom Pamela persuaded to marry her goddaughter Pamela Paget (offspring of her erstwhile suitor, Arthur). Stephen Tennant designed the bride and bridesmaids’ medieval-themed dresses for the Paget–Glenconner wedding, which was billed by
Vogue
as one of the ‘most important social events of
1925
’. The marriage was a disaster and ended in divorce a decade later (see: Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
51
).

71
. Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
63
.

72
. Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
219
.

73
. Ibid., p.
220
.

74
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
13
March
1928
, Stanway Papers.

75
. Baddeley,
The Unsinkable Hermione Baddeley
, p.
48
.

76
. Ibid., pp.
57
–
8
.

77
. Ibid., p.
62
.

78
.
Miami News
,
4
January
1931
.

79
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
14
May
1928
, Stanway Papers.

80
. Quoted in Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
114
.

81
. Beck had been one of the speakers at the luncheon that Pamela and Eddy had attended on their American tour in
1920
, promoting Anglo-American relations. It seems likely that when Pamela had advocated extending the arm of friendship, this was not quite what she had meant.

82
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
14
June
1928
, Stanway Papers.

83
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
14
May
1928
, Stanway Papers.

84
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
14
June
1928
, Stanway Papers. Doubtless it was Romer Wilson’s
All Alone: The Life and Private History of Emily Jane Brontë
(
1928
).

85
. Blow,
Broken Blood
, p.
172
.

86
.
The Times
,
20
November
1928
.

87
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
5
December
1928
, Stanway Papers.

88
. Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, pp.
125
–
6
.

89
. Ibid., p.
128
.

90
.
Ogden Standard Examiner
,
17
February
1929
.

91
. Baddeley,
The Unsinkable Hermione Baddeley
, p.
68
.

1
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
5
December
1928
, Stanway Papers.

2
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
2
January
1929
, Stanway Papers.

3
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
11
December
1925
, Stanway Papers.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
19
November
1929
, Stanway Papers.

6
. Ibid.

7
. See, for example, Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
7
March
1929
(
Letters
, p.
353
).

8
. Quoted in Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, pp.
351
–
2
.

9
. Ibid.

10
.
The Times
,
3
May
1937
.

11
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
17
November
1920
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
1
f.
12
r.

12
. Ibid.

13
.
The Times
,
17
January
1929
.

14
.
The Times
,
21
January
1929
, letter from ‘X’;
26
January
1929
, letter from ‘Q’; Ettie Desborough to Mary Elcho,
25
January
1930
, Desborough Papers, HALS DE/Rv/C
1100
/
257
; and
9
November
1935
, DE/Rv/C
1100
/
166
.

15
.
The Times
,
21
January
1929
, letter from ‘X’;
26
January
1929
, letter from ‘Q’.