Bruce Chatwin (101 page)

of a train going
 . . .
Observer
magazine, 31.10.82

If there does happen
 . . . BC to Peter Wilson, 13.6.58

I was sent to Sotheby’s
 . . . BC to Suzanne Hayes, March 1984

You were panting
 . . . John Herbert,
Inside Christie’s
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1990), 231

I suddenly had a horror
 . . . BC to Nigel Acheson, ND, 1978/9?

In a phenomenally
 . . . Guy Norton

Whenever there was a sale
 . . .
WAIDH
, 358

loitering near a Picasso
 . . . Susannah Clapp,
With Chatwin
(Jonathan Cape, 1996), 80

Wilson’s text told stories
 . . . Robert Lacey,
Sotheby’s – Bidding for class
(Little, Brown, 1998), 97

A Syrian limestone
 . . . Antiquities catalogue, 12.12.60

A Bajokwe wooden
 . . . 22.2.60

The cataloguer’s habits
 . . .
With Chatwin
, 88

When I was there
 . . . BC to CT, June 1987

like watching a young puppy
 . . . Judith Small

The eye is indefinable
 . . . Brian Sewell,
The Society of London Art Dealers 1995/6
, Yearbook, 30

with literally about ten
 . . . BC to MB, 1.3.85

when it is really English
 . . .
WAIDH
, 130

How long did it
 . . . BC to SH, Adelaide, March 1984

Why were you
 . . . Nigel Craig to Sarah Hunt, May 1960

There came a moment
 . . . BC to SH

a lot of Birmingham colonels
 . . . David Nash

Henry Moore is a fake
 . . .
Sunday Telegraph
, 22.1.89

terribly obvious
 . . . BC to SH

I had a marvellous morning
 . . . BC to CT

Had amusing time
 . . . BC to parents, 24.6.59

Went to Matisse chapel
 . . . BC to parents, 25.5.61

An average of 4 parties
 . . . BC to parents, 3.1.61

from a needle
 . . . BC to Nigel Acheson, ND, 1978/9

The talk that summer
 . . . From “A Nomad Collector”

a Germanic folk-tale hero
 . . ., From Emma Tennant,
Girlitude:A Portrait of the 50s and 60s
(Jonathan Cape, 1999), 121

Lansberg was delighted
 . . . John McEwen,
Shapes on the Horizon: Teddy Millington-Drake
(London, 1996), 24

became the wretched jackdaws
 . . .
SL
, 124

The antique dealer was
 . . .
OTBH, 220

I’ve always heard
 . . .
WAIDH
, 356

I suppose it’s because
 . . . BC to John Pawson, 23.1.86

the chase, the recognition
 . . .
AOR
, 172

He was a split personality
 . . . From “A Nomad Collector”

the texture of
 . . . Box 34

entertaining sparely, deliciously
 . . . Christopher Gibbs,
Tatler
, October 1982

It was terrifying to walk
 . . . BC to MB, 8.2.88

My nose bled
 . . . BC to parents, 29.7.59

The ugliest men
 . . .
Utz
, 91

1. When Bruce dictates
 . . . SG to Sarah Inglis-Jones, 1964

Rotting Fruit
 . . . Box 31

He didn’t appear
 . . . James Crathome

I have a
gôut de monstres
 . . . BC to JI, 12.7.71

a blonde innocent
 . . .
WAIDH
, 168

bi-sexual since youth
 . . . Churchill medical records, 14.9.86

The one truly
 . . . EC papers

like two warm rabbits
 . . . James Fox

the only truly cultured
 . . .
Harper’s Bazaar
, February 1948

I am Admiral Chanler
 . . . BC to CW, ND, 1966

a volatile mixture
 . . .
A Pride of Lions
:
TheAstor Orphans
, Lately Thomas (Morrow, 1971)

one of the most
 . . .
Evening Star
, 25.10.37

Why didn’t you
 . . . Hubert Chanler to EC, 20.8.49

Did you take
 . . . GC to EC, 25.9.56

She would steal
 . . .
OTBH
, 131

You might drop
 . . . Hubert Chanler to EC, ND, May 1957

having found that
 . . . EC to GC, 16.6.59

It’s the most
 . . . EC to GC, 22.1.64

The house is heated
 . . . EC to GC, 14.11.62

he is apt to
 . . . EC to GC, 6.9.63

I like having
 . . . EC to GC, 14.1.63

I wish I could
 . . . EC to GC, 6.9.63

so I spend
 . . . EC to GC, 23.10.62

Dearest Liz
 . . . Bufton Brady to EC, 25.11.62

He walked ahead
 . . .
OTBH
, 24

They visited megalithic
 . . .
OTBH
, 191

I like getting mail
 . . . EC to GC, ND

Is it love
 . . . EC to Eleanor Macmillan, July 1964

He will live
 . . . Sue Goodhew, private collection

I come from
 . . .
Granta 21
, 1987.

with its pale green
 . . .
WAIDH
, 135

Sotheby’s sounded healthy
 . . . 17.8.63, Box 30

Yesterday afternoon confirmed
 . . . Box 35

The mother is
 . . . 21.8.63, Box 30

To the bazaar
 . . . 22.8.63

Do you live
 . . . ND [26.8.63?]

The most useless
 . . . 1.9.63

In half a minute
 . . . 3.9.63

On to Beirut
 . . . Robert Erskine to mother, 8.9.63

I have refused
 . . . 3.9.63

Considering the very
 . . . RE to mother

He cannot find
 . . . 4.9.63

We drove with
 . . . BC to Margharita Chatwin, 10.9.63

culled no doubt
 . . . RE to mother

an Afghan truck
 . . . 9.9.63

No sumptuary laws here
 . . . 10.9.63

From Maine to
 . . . BC to MC

Furiously impatient
 . . . 10.9.63

‘Why,’ we asked
 . . . 18.9.63

Robert is sick
 . . . 18.9.63

We pray that
 . . . 24.9.63

I wake up in
 . . . 17.8.64

clutching a
 . . . David Nash diary,

The driver was
 . . . 19.8.64

The whole of her
 . . . 22.8.64

The reservations of
 . . . 11.7.69, Box 34

Having been reduced
 . . . 25.8.64

I collected a
 . . . 25.8.64

We are leaving Afghanistan
 . . . 27.8.64

Am given over
 . . . BC to CW, 27.7.64

Poor thing
 . . . Katherine Maclean to EC, 12.8.65

He never got
 . . . EC to GC, 21.9.64

I felt sort
 . . . BC to CT

However enthusiastic
 . . . Box 41

Bruce Chatwin
 . . .
New York Times
, 21.11.64

a deafening barrister
 . . . BC to MB, 1.3.85

I manufactured a nervous
. . . Box 41

Am rather depressed
 . . . BC to CW, ND

It was all . . . at all
 . . . BC to CT

Collectors, after all
 . . . CW to BC, 28.5.66

Things are tougher
 . . .
Utz
, 113

What I really
 . . . EC to GC, 16.1.65

I asked if I could
 . . . Box 31

great turning point
 . . . BC to CT, June 1987

women who sent
 . . . Box 31

He was the utter
 . . . BC to CT

the joy of going on and on
 . . . Box 31

The word homecoming
 . . . BC to CT

They are sensationally idle
 . . .
AOR, 80