Bruce Chatwin (103 page)

Bruce went mad
 . . . 6.11.68

What you really
 . . . ABC, 25.1.83

Following their passion
 . . .
AOR
, 91

other forms of
 . . . BC to CW, 8.12.69

Mr Chatwin, an anthropologist
 . . . Foreword to
Art from East to West
, Bruce Chatwin, Emma Bunker, Ann Farkas (Asia Society, 1970)

pretty pretentious, but not bad
 . . . BC to NS, June 1987

He seemed to . . . my roots
 . . . Box 11

At present I
 . . . BC to CW, 1.2.69

the whole basis
 . . .
AOR
, 83

The idea is emerging
 . . . DR to TM, 26.2.69

I do just want
 . . . TM to BC, 13.3.69

What exactly is
 . . . DM to TM, ND April 1969

The first will
 . . . BC to TM, 12.5.69

As I said
 . . . TM to DR, 2.5.69

The argument, roughly
 . . .
AOR
, 12

a nebulous no-man
 . . . Box 31

It was so much
 . . . BC to NS

It was so much
 . . . BC to NS

His interest became
 . . . Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, “Ronald Firbank: A Memoir’, London 1930, reprinted as pp. 3–56 of Mervyn Horder (ed.)
Ronald Firbank: Memoirs and Critiques
(Duckworth, 1977)

the kind of topographical
 . . . PL proposal, ND, Burns Library

Peter Levi is
 . . . EC to GC, 4.6.69

I’ve never felt
 . . . BC to GC, 4.10.67

Christie’s are crazy
 . . . EC to GC, 6.11.68

He found the pair
 . . . 25.9.67

for which he
 . . . 30.6.68

I hate having
 . . . 21.4.68

Where is the face
 . . . BC to CT

They are, if the
 . . . Box 35

The Times
 . . . 5.8.71

No spectacle
 . . . BC to JI, 12.8.71

odd little incident
 . . .
The Light Garden of the Angel King
(Collins, 1972), 36

A refreshing spot
 . . . 7.7.69, Box 35

We looked and
 . . .
LGAK
, 63

the moment of sitting
 . . . Box 35

A Crested lark
 . . . Box 35

It will be obvious
 . . .
LGAK
, 15

drove me wild
 . . . BC to EC, 14.9.72

Peter is being
 . . . Box 35

It was one
 . . . BC to NS

I declared loftily
 . . .
LGAK
, 133

Bruce had miled
 . . .
LGAK
, 72

small, elfin, mischievous
 . . . Box 35

I am always moved
 . . . Box 30

Officer in Charge
 . . . Box 35

an ecstatic dance
 . . . Box 35

One cannot adequately
 . . . Box 30

Bruce has been
 . . . PL journal

The main question
 . . . Box 35

The book would
 . . . Box 30

I am in a mood
 . . . Box 35

PL is really
 . . . BC to EC, 14.9.72

in high dugeon
 . . . BC to JI, 12.8.71

There comes a point
 . . . Box 35

Anyone who thinks
 . . .
LGAK
, 133

Better a quail
 . . .
LGAK
, 158

Elizabeth and I
 . . . Box 35

HOME IS A PERVERSION
 . . . BC notebooks, Box 41

He hates this place
 . . . EC to GC, 3.1.73

the most beautiful
 . . . BC to JI, 21.5.70

Lunch in Llandovery
 . . . 14.12.69, Box 34

When it miawoed
 . . .
VOO

What do you do?
 . . . BC to EC, 1.12.70

Last night we
 . . . BC to EC, ND, December 1970

I’ve never seen
 . . . EC to GC,

One’s thirtieth year
 . . . BC to EC, ND [December?] 1970

Some fatuous person
 . . . BC to CT

12 Dec 1969
 . . . Box 34

I have always
 . . .
WAIDH
, 366

It’s like the
 . . .
SL
, 310

They are the greatest storytellers
 . . . Box 41

a people obsessed
 . . . Box 41.

Nomads of today
 . . .
NA
, Box 12

It’s a very great
 . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984

Oh God, when
 . . . BC to EC

Very interesting the
 . . . BC to PL, December 1969

I must write that
 . . . Box 35

that wretched book
 . . . EC to GC, 1.9.72

Penelope seems to
 . . . BC to EC, 16.11.70

Also you’d better
 . . . BC to EC, 30.6.70

Offer finally accepted
 . . . BC to PLF, 1.10.70

I make no promises
 . . . BC to EC, 22.10.70

The winter was hard
 . . .
OTBH
, 31

It lay on a sunless
 . . .
OTBH
, 16

the wide staring
 . . . Diary, Box 34, 13.12.69

Frankly, I thought
 . . . BC to EC, 22.10.70

I am going to exercise
 . . . BC to EC, 6.11.70

The anniversary of your
 . . . BC to EC, 15.11.70

It has caught the nerve
 . . . BC to EC, 2.1.71

a slightly guilty complex
 . . . BC to EC, 2.1.71

I don’t know what
 . . . BC to EC, 3.12.70

long-eared bats
 . . . BC to EC, 22.10.70

professional snivellers
 . . . BC to EC, 22.10.70

She really is quite awful
 . . . BC to EC, 11.12.70

We simply cannot
 . . . BC to EC, 28.10.70

Imagine my horror
 . . . BC to EC, 5.11.70

In spite of my screamings
 . . . BC to EC, 2.1.71

very nearly finished
 . . . BC to EC, 11.12.70

I have caught worms
 . . . BC to EC, 28.10.70

I couldn’t sit
 . . . BC to EC, 2.1.71

Linda and I both
 . . . BC to EC, 24.11.70

I am quite decided
 . . . BC to EC, 2.1.71

Doors slam for no reason
 . . . Box 34

this is the nadir of our fortunes
 . . . BC to EC, 2.1.71

I am afraid I simply
 . . . BC to EC, 2.1.71

Miranda has found
 . . . BC to EC, ND [December?] 1970

It may sound
 . . . EC to GC, 9.4.71

He has decided
 . . . EC to GC, 22.3.71

They are supposed
 . . . EC to GC, 2.4.71

I hope he’ll be
 . . . 2.4.71

Saw the Qashgais
 . . . BC to CW, 17.5.71

But with very truble
 . . . Akbar to EC, 4.5. 71

Miranda is really
 . . . EC to GC, 28.5.71

Rang up Miranda
 . . . EC to GC, 5.7.71

Elizabeth’s young Pakistani
 . . . BC to CW, 17.5.71

You must try
 . . . BC to IF, October 1966

quite broken
 . . . BC to JI, ND, May 1971

The weather is so
 . . . BC to CW, 11.6.71

It’s quite beautiful
 . . . BC to EC, 22.6.71

I do badly
 . . . BC to JI, 12.7.71

Also on the path
 . . . CW to BC, 28.5.66

to try and finish
 . . . EC to GC, 5.7.71

Never never never
 . . . BC to JI, 2.8.71

I have in the rough
 . . . 12.7.71

That Andrew story
 . . . ND, 1972

That really is worth a filum
 . . . 12.8.71

Once I’m through
 . . . 15.9.71

ACTION in film
 . . . ND, 1971

Perhaps I could go
 . . . 12.7.71

with a car
plus
another
typewriter
 . . . BC to EC, ND, June 1971

a great expert on birdsong
 . . . BC to JI, 12.7.71