Bruce Chatwin (102 page)

The hair would contract
 . . . ABC, 25.1.83

They started my
 . . .
Granta 21
, 1987

The Danakil journey
 . . .
AOR
, 110

As Rimbaud was
 . . . Box 10

Not entirely suitable
 . . .
WAIDH
, 361

Could you live
 . . .
OTBH,
28

The deed is done
 . . . BC to IF, 8.6.65

Everything is perfectly
 . . . EC to GC, 22.6.65

partly because Bobby
 . . . GC to EC, 2.3.65

We are so pleased
 . . . GC to MC, 26.6.65

One thing you
 . . . GC to EC, 4.7.65

I do hope you
 . . . BC to GC, 22.6.65

We’re getting married
 . . . BC to IG, ND

I thought I’d drown
 . . . Eleanor Macmillan to EC, 27.6.65

Letters are all
 . . . BC to EC, ND

Father Murray
 . . . BC to EC, 15.7.65

Am much cheered
 . . . 30.7.65

as one day
 . . . EC to GC, 29.6.65

My Dear Liz
 . . . 22.7.65

I hate to be trite
 . . . Jane Lyons to EC, 9.11.65

I still think
 . . . MC to GC, 7.10.65

My career was
 . . .
Granta 21
, 1987

as she will be
 . . . MC to GC, 18.10.65

31 cents annually
 . . . John Chanler

Our situation is not
 . . . EC to GC, 17.10.65

No luck with
 . . . BC to GC, 23.10.65

Wilson told him
 . . . Kenneth Rose diary, 19.4.68

I’ve discovered there’s
 . . . EC to GC, 28.10.65

Lady Rosse is
 . . . EC to GC, 24.11.65

John Hewett and
 . . . BC to GC, 23.10.65

We are sitting
 . . . BC to GC, 7.1.66

All the bluebells
 . . . EC to GC, ND

The main thing is
 . . . O’Donnell Iselin to EC, 19.4.66

He realised then
 . . . BC to Kasmin

I was never
 . . . BC to CT

I decided I didn’t
 . . . SH, ABC, March 1984

Two days in
 . . . BC to JI, 8.12.69

Sotheby’s name must
 . . . BC to Edward Peregrine, 30.6.60

You must tell
 . . . Leo Lerman to EC, 29.8.66

fraudulently
 . . . BC to NS, 27.8.88

a nasty novel
 . . . CW to BC, 24.8.66

to guide Goering’s
Luftwaffe
 . . . Patrick Wright,
The Village that Died for England
(Jonathan Cape, 1995), 163

rather terrifying
 . . . Julian Pitt-Rivers

Bruce used to
 . . . EC to GC, April 21, ND

Peter Wilson did not
 . . .
Sotheby’s: Bidding for class
, 161

A most disagreeable
 . . .
WAIDH
, 357

I met him
 . . . Breyten Breytenbach,
Return to Paradise
(Faber & Faber, 1993), 69

I am afraid
 . . . BC to GC, 6.7.66

the worst of all
 . . . Box 34

fantastic beasts
 . . . Box 30

I know, from experience
 . . . CW to BC, 28.5.66

He has hardly
 . . . BC to GC, 6.7.66

very unedifying
 . . . SP to NS

What we like to call
 . . .
The Times
, 24.9.96

Sotheby’s is having
 . . . EC to GC, 24.6.66

With each day
 . . . BC to EC, 30.11.66

Change is the only
 . . . BC to Michael Cannon, ND

I saw myself
 . . . BC to NS, June 1987

of Alexander Dumas
 . . . BC in “Pompeii – same old humanity”,
Spectator
, 4.12.76

Totally bewildering
 . . . Box 32

I’m dedicating
 . . . Stephen Tennant to BC, 6.11.66

One can only pray
 . . . BC to EC, 30.11.66

Edinburgh must be
 . . . ST to BC, November, ND

a pencil sketch
 . . . Box 32

gaunt northern capital
 . . . “The Road to the Isles”,
TLS
, 25.10.74

Now we have
 . . . EC to GC, 6.9.66

Allowing for the worst
 . . . EC to GC, ND

Everything takes FOREVER
 . . . EC to GC, 24.6.66

I still think
 . . . BC to EC, 27.11.66

I also want
 . . . BC to EC, 30.11.66

At one point
 . . . EC to GC, 13.3.67

Elizabeth is angry
 . . . SP, 15.3.67

revealing all in
 . . . SP, 6.2.67

much entertaining gossip
 . . . SP, 6.8.68

grave and growing
 . . .
The Times
, 24.5.67

My feelings are
 . . . BC to JI, 8.4.72

potentially wonderful
 . . . JI to BC, 12.1.72

My friend Mr Batey
 . . . BC to CW, 6.2.68

Then we went
 . . . BC to EC, June 1967

My Turkish friends
 . . . BC to GC, 4.10.67

all too clear
 . . . CW to BC, 11.5.70

She was very welcoming
 . . . SP, 6.5.67

Elizabeth had suddenly
 . . . SP, 5.2.68

Life is empty
 . . . Box 31

I remember him
 . . . Alice Chanler to EC, 7.2.89

childlessness, being at
 . . .
The South Bank Show
, 7.11.82

Time in its
 . . .
OTBH
, 14

Nearly became a
 . . . Box 34

There is a distinct
 . . . Box 35

The Noblest workes
 . . . Box 37

Low fertility
 . . . Box 37

He’s a sorcerer
 . . . Box 23

Examine the possibility
 . . . Box 35

He was a single
 . . .
IP
, 141

Sound scholarship
 . . . Box 35

I’m afraid he is
 . . . EC to GC, 21.2.67

who is my new
 . . . BC to EC, July 1967

I’m in a horrid
 . . . BC to EC, ND

I am full
 . . . MC to GC, 2.10.67

We see mostly professors
 . . . EC to GC, ND

Bruce continues to
 . . . EC to GC, 29.2.68

She is a big
 . . . BC to EC, 30.11.66

Sometimes during Lent
 . . . Tamara Talbot Rice,
Tamara: memoirs of St Petersburg, Paris, Oxford and Byzantium
(John Murray, 1996), 25

The prehistoric Animal
 . . . From “A Nomad Collector”

an odd young
 . . . 7.7.68

a lady Marxist
 . . .
WAIDH
, 59

I now dread
 . . . 11.5.68

who is running
 . . . 3.7.68

Could you try
 . . . BC to EC, July 5

may well be
 . . . BC to EC, ND

Every plan was
 . . . BC to Peter Levi, 15.10.68

Reading Chatwin
 . . .
With Chatwin,
42

reciting a Shakespeare
 . . . BC to PL

Liver pains and
 . . . BC to Joan Leigh Fermor, 30.11.71

Although Ruth
 . . . 16.7.68

I got very depressed
 . . . 9.7.68

Bruce & George went
 . . . 9.7.68

Nearly half way through
 . . . 10.7.68

When one speculated
 . . .
AOR
, 178

Moscow is an
 . . . 16.7.68

Most archaeologists interpret
 . . . Box 31

If an archaeologist has
 . . . Box 31

I began to feel
 . . . BC to NS

two supermale ladies
 . . . BC to JI, 8.12.69

Emmy is fine
 . . . BC to EC, ND

He is dreading
 . . . EC to GC, 14.7.68

His mounting contemept
 . . .
Tatler,
October 1982

Wild horses
 . . . EC to GC, 21.3.69