Bruce Chatwin (106 page)

Called at 1040
 . . . Box 35

Was it John
 . . . Box 35

Dear Maxine
 . . . BC to EC, 16.2.79

All our encounters
 . . . CW to BC, 19.10.77

Bruce loved to
 . . . JI to NS, 22.10.98

He felt a slight
 . . . Draft of “November”, EC collection

I wanted to
 . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984

this mythical beast
 . . . BC to JK, 27.1.86

I think I’ll sit
 . . . BC to JK, 7.3.77

As you know
 . . . BC to EC, 14.1.77

the state of hysteria
 . . . BC to JK, 1.10.77

wherever I go
 . . . BC to NA, ND [1979?]

I just pace up
 . . . BC to Peter Eyre

At the end
 . . . Box 34

Those of us
 . . .
AOR
, 22

It’s not far
 . . . EC to GC, 29.5.77

The whole of
 . . . BC to EC, 24.10.77

Flat is exactly what I wanted
 . . . BC to JK, 1.10.77

cosy reading corners
 . . . JK diary

He was a cuckoo
 . . .
Shapes on the Horizon
, 122

This is better
 . . . BC to FW, 20.10.77

I know exactly
 . . . BC to EC, 11.3.77

I had thought
 . . . BC to CW, 5.11.77

Kas mentioned to me
 . . . TM to BC, 5.12.77

At its best
 . . . TM to BC, 16.1.78

The greatest master
 . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984

I am
very
serious
 . . . BC to Jonathan Miller, ND

As an Englishman
 . . . BC to NS, June 1987.

the Flaubertian
conte
 . . . BC to Keith Milow, [1979?]

how to string
 . . . BC to Margharita, 17.8.78

At all costs
 . . . BC to Bill Buford, ND

A trick I learned
 . . . BC to NS, 27 August 1988

One quite useful
 . . . BC to NS

an exquisite neo-Classical
 . . . BC to SS, 26.7.78

Ow! the strains
 . . . BC to FW, 2.9.78

Five hours of
 . . . BC to SS, June 1978

I have a huge
 . . . BC to EC, 6.9 .78

Apparently when
 . . . BC to EC, 12.9.78

Xannikins has gone
 . . . BC to EC, 16.9.78

Bruce came in
 . . . 10.8.79

A house is
 . . . Box 35

Everyone, in
 . . . BC to John Pawson, 23.1.86

I think we’d better
 . . . BC to Gerald Brenan, 26.8.76

As one gets older
 . . . BC to EC, July 1970

Patmos is the most
 . . . BC to EC, 30.8.70

she insisted on
 . . . FW to TLS, 21.5.99.

The strain of living
 . . .
VOO
, 55

she carried her devotion
 . . .
OTBH
, 153

I simply can’t begin
 . . . BC to EC, 6.9.78

I left England
 . . . BC to JK, 7.9.78

the ugliest little
 . . . EC to GC, 10.11.78

I have to say
 . . . BC to EC, 16.2.79

NO LIVING WRITER’S
 . . . TM to BC, 23.10.80

bemusement of reviewers
 . . .
WAIDH
, 138

It’s very good
 . . . Georges Borchardt to DR, 3.12.79

I had the distinct
 . . .
TLS
, 14.2.97

on a pair of Welsh
 . . . BC to SS, 29.4.80

No man can
 . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984

a penny a pound too much
 . . .
Paths of Progress: A History of Marlborough College
, Thomas Hinde (James & James, 1992), 189

We set off
 . . . 25.7.55, Marlborough College archive

I remember Penelope
 . . .
Independent
, 14.5.87

She was a
 . . .
OTBH
, 219

I think she was
 . . . EC to Michael Cottrill, 1989

The loss is hardly
 . . . BC to MC, July 1986

The story she told
 . . . BC to Graham C. Greene, 8.6.82

Two or three
 . . . David Plante, “The Restlessness of Bruce Chatwin” in
Bruce Chatwin: Searching for the miraculous

It was a squint at the nineteenth
 . . . ABC, 8.5.84

musty masculine smell
 . . . Box 35

exactly like the
 . . . Box 35

air of saintly
detachment
 . . . Box 35

They went to
 . . . mad . . . Box 35

We never went
 . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984

The two brothers
 . . . Box 35

which of course
 . . . BC to MB, 23.10.83

I look forward
 . . . ND

were pretty gay
 . . .
TLS
, 14.2.97

Novel is of
incest
 . . . Box 35

Some of the details
 . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984

when I went
 . . . BC to FW, ND 1981

For example, you
 . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984

Another coincidence
 . . . R. Zazzo to BC, 28.3.85

Before the War
 . . . BC to GCG, 8.6.82

The dogs howled
 . . . Box 35

I hope ’e comes
 . . . Box 35

I don’t see
 . . .
The South Bank Show

a lovely place
 . . . BC to EC, 25.10.83

believed, seriously, the road
 . . .
OTBH
, 90.

When someone else
 . . .
Esquire
, October 1990

Bruce rings up
 . . . EC to GC, 24.4.81

a sort of’monastery’
 . . . BC to MW, 27.4.81

When Bruce Chatwin
 . . . From “A Nomad Collector”

I could see
 . . .
Anecdotage
, 246

a place where
 . . .
AOR
, 26

One morning she
 . . .
Anecdotage
, 35

I think it an
 . . . TM to Fred Gibb, 17.6.82

Bruce will be
 . . . Rupert Lancaster, ND

Reluctantly I began
 . . . 19.12.82

Some good
 . . . EC to GC, 3.10.82

general herbaciousness
 . . . Karl Miller,
Doubles: Studies in Literary History
(Oxford University Press, 1985), 402–9

WITHOUT MY PERMISSION
 . . . BC to GCG

There’s very
 . . . ABC, 8.5.84

You meet her
 . . . Box 35

Lunch with Elizabeth
 . . . Box 35

frantically looking
 . . . EC to GC, 24.4.81

Bruce is v. busy
 . . . 15.5.80

there is a gap
 . . . EC to BC, ND

E seems to
 . . . BC to MW, 27.4.81

It’s much better
 . . . EC to GC, 16.8.81

Spent a week
 . . . BC to parents, 22.9.81

Some of what
 . . . Chetwynd-Talbot to BC, 15.12.80

I realised, battling
 . . . BC to parents, 7.11.81

The trouble with
 . . . BC to parents, 7.2.82

Coughing of a leopard
 . . . Box 33

I do think
 . . . GC to EC, 6.4.82

I suggested that
 . . . BC to Jorge Zavaleta, 16.6.83

Bruce is in
 . . . EC to GC, 12.7.82

I have to man
 . . . 5.8.82

But don’t say
 . . . 10.11.82

I’m so sorry
 . . . 6.9.82

Thank you for
 . . . Sybille Bedford to BC, 17.9.83

Shanghai! Montevideo!
 . . .
The Moor’s Last Sigh
(Jonathan Cape, 1994), 382

my tremendous difficulty
 . . . BC to EC, 12.1.83

With so many
 . . . BC to parents, 12.1.83

I’m glad he’s
 . . . EC to GC, 3.1.83

I am turning
 . . . BC to Robin Ravlich, 25.6.82

a mindless time
 . . . ABC, 23.1.83