Bruce Chatwin (104 page)

Very unusual for
 . . . 12.7.71

Bruce came in
 . . . James Lees-Milne,
A Mingled Measure: Diaries, 1953–72
(John Murray, 1994), 135

the husband who
 . . . Box 31

I spend the week
 . . . BC to JI, 21.5.70

Found myself lecturing
 . . . Unpublished diary, 1.8.80

I’m so broke
 . . . EC to GC, 29.1.72

Dear Max, well here
 . . . EC to BC, 4.7.75

I have just read
 . . . BC to JI, ND, autumn 1971

Bruce Chatwyn [
sic
] is
 . . . 23.3.70

Yesterday the phone
 . . . BC to JI, ND

At the moment
 . . . EC to GC, 4.11.71

rather disgruntled
 . . . BC to CW, December 1971

I am at my lowest ebb
 . . . December 1971

Feeling very Beau Geste
 . . . BC to EC, ND, January 1972

At the moment
 . . . BC to EC, 5.2.72

Bruce has been talking
 . . . EC to GC, 3.6.72

Most aesthetic market
 . . . BC to EC, ND

a language which
 . . . BC to JI, ND, 1972

Jeudi
, Tahoua, Niger
 . . . Box 34

Have just returned
 . . . BC to EC, 2.2.72

I have started writing
 . . . 2.2.72

Don’t know why
 . . . BC to EC, ND

I have a moustache
 . . . BC to JI, ND [March?] 1972

I always think
 . . . BC to parents, 30.8.72

I have been mouldering
 . . . BC to JI, 8.4.72

I’m sorry I left
 . . . 30.8.72

There is a canoe
 . . . 30.8.72

The Book is
 . . . BC to EC, 28.8.72

I hope he’ll get
 . . . EC to GC, 1.9.72

one of the most unpleasant
 . . . BC to EC, 14.9.72

I am convinced
 . . . 13.3.69

The best travellers
 . . .
NA
, Box 12

The style alone
 . . .
SL
, 266

PHONE HOPELESS
 . . . 1973, Box 35

The idea of a job
 . . . BC to EC, 28.8.72

a colossal inspiration
 . . . ABC, 11.5.83

I felt that for writing
 . . . BC to CT

The
Sunday Times
things
 . . . EC to GC, 29.10.72

Journalism does help
 . . . ABC, 11.5.83

The feeling as one
 . . . Philip Norman, unpublished article

articulated pipe-cleaners
 . . .
Everyone’s Gone to the Moon
(Hutchinson, 1995), 15

If a thing’s worth doing
 . . .
EGTTM
, 59

We have frequently
 . . .
Sunday Times
magazine, 26.8.72

They’ve lost all
 . . .
EGTTM
, 205

le corset, c’est une
 . . .
WAIDH
, 89

The interior is as
 . . .
WAIDH
, 87

in a bedroom which
 . . .
Sunday Times
magazine, 4.3.73

There was never any
 . . . BC to CT

a man of about 40
 . . .
EGTTM
, 68

barbed observation
 . . . Philip Norman, op. cit.

We soon forgot
 . . .
AOR
, 13

The
Sunday Times
still
 . . . EC to GC, 28.12.72

the mad Greek
 . . .
WAIDH
, 154

I fear I intended
 . . . Box 34

encouraged, criticised, edited
 . . .
AOR
, 13

I’m always seeing things
 . . . BC to CT

No whinches, thats and whos
 . . . Box 35

The rumours were true
 . . .
Utz
, 24

His eyes are a
 . . .
WAIDH
, 297

He writes a hard
 . . . 300

No one but
 . . . 301

An observed detail
 . . .
New Yorker
, 23.6.87

In interview, he
 . . .
WAIDH
, 261

the interview was
 . . .
WAIDH
, 323

In answer to questions
 . . .
WAIDH
, 314

He was extremely nasty
 . . . BC to SS, 26.7.78

Personally, I would
 . . . PN, op. cit.

one of the most
 . . .
WAIDH
, 114

Malraux was there
 . . . February 1970, Box 34

In Lawrence’s career
 . . .
WAIDH
, 122

adventurers of
 . . .
TLS
, 16.6.89

I do not want to
 . . . BC to EC, 6.9.78

I go through
 . . .
WAIDH
, 329

Bruce, you have
 . . . BC to CT

the 23-yr-old whizz-kid
 . . . BC to Nigel Acheson, 25.8.78

an exhilarating companion
 . . .
WAIDH
, 333

A bitch to write
 . . . BC to parents, ND, 1978

She’s far worse
 . . . BC to CW, 21.5.78

The copy came back
 . . . BC to SS, 18.6.78

Resolution of the month
 . . . 18.6.78

Quotation of the Month
 . . . 18.6.78

I have done
 . . . BC to FW, 11.12.74

the most enjoyable
 . . . BC to Eileen Gray, 21.12.72

Allez-y pour moi
 . . . Peter Adam,
Not Drowning but Waving
(André Deutsch, 1995), 353

anyone would be
 . . . BC to CT

She said that Bruce
 . . . MC to EC, 4.2.75

Charles Milward’s life
 . . . Box 35

I like my cousins
 . . . BC to EC, 12.12.74

It was like
 . . . ABC, 14.3.84

In all their minds
 . . . Box 35

Buenos Aires is
 . . . BC to EC, December 1974, ND

Here am I
 . . . Box 31

Last night dreamt
. . . In museum, Trelew

Whether it is the
. . . Tom Jones,
A Patagonian Panorama
(The Outspoken Press, 1961)

The further one
. . . Box 31

I always try
. . .
The South Bank Show
, September 1982

absolute constant
. . . BC to Uki Goni, 1980

His lack of roots
 . . . Notice in Harberton

My business was
 . . . BC to Millicent Jane Saunders, 27.9.79

I’m not interested
 . . . ABC, 14.3.84

you could imagine
 . . . IP, 28

rolled off her tongue
 . . . IP, 60

England in full
 . . . Box 35

spending nights in
 . . . Box 6

Dying of tiredness
 . . . BC to EC, 21.1.74

Difficulties of Patagonia
 . . . Box 35

Basically, God is
 . . . Box 35

Tourists always wave
 . . . Box 35

Day of disasters
 . . . Box 35

the tragedy of
 . . . Box 35

N.G. sounded
 . . . Box 35

live in a
 . . . Box 35

Mother remained on
 . . . MB to BC, 28.11.77, Box 6

He was German
 . . . BC to CC, 15.3.75

a foppish man
 . . . Box 31

Said they were
 . . . Box 35

When the war
 . . .
Magellan Times
, 12.12.28

We met this
 . . . Judith Jesser, ND 1975

On a wet and
 . . . 2.3.75

I tried to picture
 . . . IP, 181

stuffy as all hell
 . . . BC to EC, 7.6.75

It is slightly
 . . . 7.6.75

I’m sorry I’m
 . . . BC to parents, 25.8.75

I don’t want
 . . . 11.12.74

I am going
 . . . 25.8.75

not quite sure
 . . . EC to GC, 25.10.75

The fatal thing
 . . . BC to UG, 30.1.80