Bruce Chatwin (100 page)

were of a most grave character
 . . .
Birmingham Daily Mail
, 12 December, 1902

Dressed as a courtier
 . . .
AOR
, 4

All were very intrigued
 . . . Box 30

Bruce tells us
 . . . Kenneth Rose, diary

A real operator
 . . . BC to Kenneth Rose, April 1968

Every writer is a cut-purse
 . . . BC to CT, June 1987

off it
 . . . a wild one! Mary Crowder to BC, ND

You know how
 . . . BC to Uki Goni, taped interview, 30.1.80

Never in my life have I wanted anything
 . . .
IP
, 2

For those who
 . . . Box 35

things on holiday
 . . . Steven Mullaney, “Strange Things, Gross Terms, Curious Customs: The Rehearsal of Cultures in the Late Renaissance” in
Representing the English Renaissance
, Stephen Greenblatt, ed. (University of California Press, 1988)

If nature speaks
 . . . Anthony Alan Shelton in “Cabinets of Transgression: Renaissance collections and the incorporation of the New World” in
The Cultures of Collecting
, John Elsner and Roger Cardinal, ed. (Harvard University Press, 1994)

The Imperial mantle of
1125
!
 . . . BC to EC, June 1967

I want him
 . . .
Utz
, 18

a chronic restiveness
 . . . Werner Muensterberger,
Collecting: An Unruly Passion
(Princeton University Press, 1994)

Things are substitutes
 . . . Box 31

this world of little figures
 . . .
Utz

To Freud we owe
. . . Box 31

desperate attempts
. . . Box 34

gazing squarely at the camera
. . .
WAIDH
, 9

didn’t quite belong
. . . BC to CT, June 1987

He took us bicycling
. . .
WAIDH
, 9

found a family
. . . BC to CT, June 1987

The place I liked most
. . . From “A Place to Hang Your Hat”,
AOR
, 15

He said you could hear
. . . BC to Valerian Freyberg, Easter 1978

Now moved to tears
. . . Box 35

The house and garden
 . . . School prospectus, 1943

the arrival of
 . . . rejection
NA
, Box 12, 250–1

a small and hideous cottage
. . . Box 42

This is the room
. . . Box 31

a pivotal point
. . . Box 41

Sam said there was
 . . .
OTBH
, 52

I became convinced
 . . . Box 41

My subsequent travels
 . . . Box 41

These restricted horizons
 . . .
OTBH
, 13

on the wrong side
 . . . Charles Chatwin

My bedroom window
 . . .
Sydney Morning Herald
, 15.1.83

The house absorbed
 . . .
OTBH
, 35

The absolute hideousness
 . . . Box 35

fairly derelict
 . . . Charles Chatwin

Old Sam had come to live
 . . .
OTBH
, 46

Once a year
 . . . BC Marlborough essay, family papers

absolute fairness
 . . . BC to MB, 9.2.86

Imagine the horror
 . . . Box 31

a buxom woman
 . . .
OTBH
, 58

I was a tremendous fabulist
 . . . Box 41

the boy who never smiled
 . . . From Margaret Chatwin’s broadcast, “Life on the Gold Coast No.”,
Daily Life
, ND

sad end in Africa
 . . .
AOR
, 4

He was his mother’s darling
 . . . 4.10.71

One drizzly morning
 . . .
OTBH
, 64

golden headdress
 . . .
AOR
, 4

I am starting for a long journey
 . . . The figurine is in Box 40

Old Hall, Wellington
 . . . BC to parents, 2.5.48, family collection

Dear Mummy, this is
 . . . BC to Margharita, 4.5.49

He is rather
 . . . Fee-Smith, summer report 1948

In a low liturgical voice
 . . .
OTBH
, 85

The Broad and Narrow
 . . .
OTBH
, 89

a hard, relentless hitter
 . . .
Old Hall School Record
, Lent 1951

do or die spirit
 . . .
Old Hall School Record
, 1951

Dear Mummy, Please
 . . . BC to Margharita, 23 January, ND

We had a film called
 . . . BC to parents, 10 October, ND

Please could you get me
 . . . BC to parents, 29 February [1949?]

I have just got a book
 . . . ND

I took a very
 . . . ND

Please don’t send me
 . . . 4 February, ND

the odd ones, the Victorian ones
 . . . BC to CT, June 1987

one of the surrealist books
 . . . BC to CT

Some children obviously
 . . . BC to CT

sort of one’s back door
 . . .
Washington Post
, 4.11.87

Conjouring has taken
 . . . BC to parents, 4 March [1951?]

I am sure he
 . . . Fee-Smith, report, Lent 1951

On Monday I had the wacking
 . . . BC to parents, 3.10.50

I was awfully embarassed
 . . . ND

The play is going
 . . . BC to parents, 10.12.50

Yesturday the fireworks
 . . . BC to parents, 6 November [1949?]

I enjoyed the fireworks
 . . . BC to parents, November 1951

hold on to
 . . . Reprinted in
Old Hall School Record
, 1957–58

he had to sell
 . . . Celestine Dars

Although the boys
 . . . Marlborough College archives

mostly ignored
 . . . Elaine Pyke,
The Marlburian
, 1989

They made the classics
 . . . Maureen Cleave,
Observer
magazine, 31.10.82

Jane Austen was
 . . . BC essay, family collection

the lineal descendant
 . . .
Portrait of a Public School
, BBC documentary, 1954

He is somewhat dreamy
 . . . Housemaster’s report, Michaelmas 1953

I am thoroughly enjoying
 . . . BC to parents, autumn 1953, ND

There were Roman Emperors
 . . . Redmond O’Hanlon,
Tatler
, May 1989

I was
hopeless
at school
 . . . ABC, 25.1.83

We are what
 . . . Box 41

Chatwin’s Mrs Candour
 . . .
Wiltshire Herald and Advertiser
, 19.11.54

He has a smooth
 . . . Roman History report, Lent 1957

at least in the
 . . . Introduction to
The Road to Oxiana
(Picador, 1981)

Robert would have
 . . .
Fourteen Friends
(John Murray, 1996), 135

here in the first
 . . . Louis MacNeice,
Collected Poems
(Faber & Faber, 1979)

forming a very vivid impression
 . . .
WAIDH
, 271

I always had an idea
 . . . BBC Radio 4, January 1989

How he longed
 . . . Robert Louis Stevenson,
An Inland Voyage
, At Mauberge (Falcon Press, 1949), 31

And another who
 . . . BC to Margharita, summer 1954, ND

chandeliers
 . . . Box 14

HC said I had the MAD MAD EYES
 . . . Box 35

snobismus
 . . . Peter Medawar,
Memoir of a Thinking Radish
(Oxford University Press, 1986), 4

It is fearfully select
 . . .
The Marlburian
, December 1957

Gentleman, I think
 . . .
The Marlburian
, 1989

Ripped off by taxi-driver
 . . . BC to parents, 2.4.57

Firstly that it is
 . . . BC to parents, ND

He was one
 . . . BC to IF, 24.10.66

It was as though
 . . . BC to IF, 17.5.71

I had to assist Prince William
 . . . BC to CW, 17.5.71

Awfully nice to
 . . . Raulin Guild to IF, 21.7.58

Cars & character
 . . . Family papers

the stabilising influence
 . . . Housemaster’s report, Michaelmas 1956

When it was decided
 . . . Family papers

I congratulate him
 . . . Housemaster’s report, Lent 1958