Cherry (50 page)

Optional Service will solve
Various adverts, 1940, Dorset House archive.

Wartime
Worries
Solved
ibid.

a poor creature, an
James Lees-Milne,
Ancestral Voices
, 1975, p. 31.

Kathleen. No happier woman
Lady Kennet [KS],
Self-Portrait
, p. 361.

She took hold of
Young, p. 272.

Bill had very little
Annotated journal [September 1910].

not what I had
GBS to ACG and AM (then Cherry-Garrard), 26 September 1943, family collection.

quite happy
ACG, notes about Charlotte’s death, ‘about February 1944’, family collection.

A. has flu. I
AM, conversation with author.

the loss of him
Evelyn Forbes, conversation with author.

cataleptic stroke
AM, conversation with author.

the bedrock of existence
Draft material,
WJ
.

the trail of broken . . . Polar madness
Priestley, ‘The Polar Expedition’.

There are many cases
ibid
.

It is easy to
William Styron,
Darkness Visible
, 1991, p. 44.

hysterical hemiplegia
Annotated journal [March 1912].

Of course, she was
ibid.
[September 1910].

I would rather have
Sylvia Plath (first published under pseudonym ‘Victoria Lucas’),
The Bell Jar
, 1963, p. 193.

Cherry v. upset
AM (then Cherry-Garrard), Diary, 22 December 1946, family collection.

was almost like a
ACG to Hugh Farrer, 27 September 1947, Hertford.

Chapter 14: A Winter Journey Indeed

He did love Lamer
and all other direct speech
AM, conversation with author.

You will outlive Cherry
GBS to AM (then Cherry-Garrard), 12 August 1947, family collection.

You really are a Rupert Reynell to ACG, 30 October 1947, family collection.

He has recovered his
GBS to Hilton Young, 2 March 1948, Kennet Papers.

This is the Lamer
Family collection.

I think they are
The Clique
, 7 June 1952.

the generosity, clarity and
Private correspondence, 10 September 1983.

Besides a general aversion
FD, ‘
Scott of the Antarctic
: A Personal Opinion’, Polar Record V, 37 & 38 ( January–July 1949), p. 311.

The more I read
David James,
Scott of the Antarctic
, 1948, p. 136.

Try and throw your
ACG, ‘Notes on conversation with Wright’, 26 October 1948 (notes inserted in Annotated journal).

Of course, it is
Annotated journal [‘Note written on the Barrier’].

Here was Scott with
Marginalia, private collection.

He decided to write a frank postscript
In 1948 GBS drafted a short postscript which Cherry eventually rejected in favour of his own, much longer version. Shaw’s shorthand copy of his suggested postscript can be seen at the Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University.

It may be historically
ACG to Allen Lane, 24 July 1950, Bristol.

I am now a
ACG to Harold Raymond, 9 July 1948, Reading University.

in this sort of
et seq.
Postscript, pp. 589–600.

a winter journey indeed
ibid.
, p. 603.

a somewhat tortuous document
Introduction to
WJ
, p. lxxvii.

We cannot stop knowledge
Postscript, p. 602.

To me, and perhaps
ibid
., p. 603.

Mottled on top of
Birding notes, n.d., family collection.

I never opened this
Family collection.

The nursing home, said
ACG to GBS, 8 June 1950, Texas.

The squire abandons his
The Freethinker
, 30 June 1946.

quite the best brain
Annotated journal [September 1910].

Poor boy. I wish
Isabel Smith to George Seaver, 7 January 1934.

I come to you
ACG to George Seaver, Christmas card, 1950.

won’t believe it when
FD to AM (then Cherry-Garrard), [n.d.] October 1959, family collection.

school, country club or
Particulars, Frederick Reeks & Goode, Auctioneers, July 1948, private collection.

There is about London
, Edmund Wilson,
Europe without Baedecker
, 1948, p. 5.

roaring like a thousand
Man of Everest: The Autobiography of Tenzing told to James Ramsey Ullman
, 1955, p. 255.

I have never heard
WJ
, p. 288.

I read it time
Edmund Hillary,
View from the Summit
, 1999, p. 124.

chafed by nearly half
Vivian Fuchs & Edmund Hillary,
The Crossing of Antarctica
, 1958, p. 96.

halo of good fellowship
WJ
, p. 318.

Know yourself. Accept yourself
Postscript, p. 593.

here and here by
Robert Graves, ‘Flying Crooked’, in
Poems
1926–1930, 1931.

charming and lacelike
Oxford Diocesan Papers, Oxfordshire County Archives.

We shall visit the
Draft material,
WJ
.

Men do not fear
WJ
, p. 287.

Select Bibliography

All books published in London unless otherwise stated.

Amundsen, Roald,
The South Pole
, 2 vols., 1912

Arnold, H. J. P., Photographer of the World: A Biography of Herbert Ponting, 1969

Brendon, Piers,
The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s
, 2000

Campbell, Victor,
The Wicked Mate: the Antarctic Diary of Victor Campbell
, ed. H. G. R. King, Huntingdon, 1988

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley,
The Worst Journey in the World
, 1922

——,
The Worst Journey in the World, with Postscript
, 1951

——, Untitled biographical essay in T. E. Lawrence by his Friends, ed. A. W. Lawrence, 1936

Clark, Kenneth,
Another Part of the Wood
, 1974

Dangerfield, George,
The Strange Death of Liberal England
, New York, 1935

Debenham, Frank,
The Quiet Land: The Antarctic Diaries of Frank Debenham
, ed. June Debenham Back, Huntingdon, 1992

Evans, E. R. G. R.,
South with Scott
, 1921

Fussell, Paul,
The Great War and Modern Memory
, Oxford, 1975

Girouard, Mark,
The Return to Camelot
, New Haven, 1981

Gran, Tryggve,
The Norwegian with Scott
, 1984

Jones, Steve,
Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Species Updated
, 1999

Holroyd, Michael, Bernard Shaw, vols. I–V, 1988–92

——,
Lytton Strachey
, 1967

Huntford, Roland,
Scott and Amundsen
, 1979

——,
Shackleton
, 1985

——, Nansen, 1997

Huxley, Elspeth,
Scott of the Antarctic
, 1977

Kennet, Lady Kathleen (Kathleen Scott),
Self-Portrait of an Artist
, 1949

Lashly, William,
The Diary of William Lashly
, Reading, 1940

Laurence, Dan H. (ed.),
Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters
III (1911–1925), 1985

Lawrence, T. E.,
Letters, Vol I: Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw 1922–1926
, ed. Jeremy & Nicole Wilson, Woodgreen Common, 2000

——,
The Letters of T. E. Lawrence
, ed. Malcolm Brown, Oxford, 1991 Lees-Milne, James,
Ancestral Voices
, 1975

Levick, G. Murray,
Antarctic Penguins: a Study of their Social Habits
, 1914

Limb, Sue & Cordingley, Patrick,
Captain Oates: Soldier and Explorer
, 1995

Mackenzie, Compton,
Sinister Street
, 2 vols., 1913–14

Mais, S. P. B., All the Days of My Life, 1937

Manning, Frederic,
Her Privates We
, unexpurgated edition, 1999

Parker, Peter,
The Old Lie: the Great War and the Public School Ethos
, 1987

Ponting, Herbert,
The Great White South
, 1921

Pound, Reginald,
Evans of the Broke
, Oxford, 1963

Priestley, Raymond,
Antarctic Adventure
, 1914

Sassoon, Siegfried,
Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man
, 1928

——,
The Old Century
, 1938

Scott, Robert Falcon,
The Voyage of the ‘Discovery’
, 1905

——, (
et al.
),
Scott’s Last Expedition
, arranged Leonard Huxley, 2 vols., 1913

——,
The Diaries of Captain Robert Scott
, 6 vols., facsimile edition, Tylers Green, 1968

Seaver, George,
Edward Wilson of the Antarctic
, 1933

——,
Edward Wilson, Nature Lover
, 1937

——,
Birdie Bowers of the Antarctic
, 1938

——,
The Faith of Edward Wilson
, 1948

Shackleton, Sir Ernest,
South
, 1919

Sissons, Michael & French, Philip (eds.),
Age of Austerity: 1945–51
, 1963

Smith, Michael,
An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor
, Cork, 2000

Solomon, Susan,
The Coldest March
, New Haven, 2001

The South Polar Times
III (1911), facsimile edition, 1914

Styron, William,
Darkness Visible
, 1991

Symons, A. J. A.,
The Quest for Corvo
, 1934

Taylor, Thomas Griffith,
With Scott: the Silver Lining
, 1916

Thomson, David,
Scott’s Men
, 1977

Tuchman, Barbara,
The Proud Tower
, 1966

Wilson, D. M., & Elder, D. B.,
Cheltenham in Antarctica: the Life of Edward Wilson
, Cheltenham, 2000

Wilson, Edward,
Diary of the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic 1910–1912
, ed. H. G. R. King, 1972

Wolpert, Lewis,
Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression
, 1999

Wright, Charles, Silas: The Antarctic Diaries and Memoir of Charles S. Wright, ed. Colin Bull & Pat F. Wright, Columbus, 1993

Yelverton, David E.,
Antarctica Unveiled
, Boulder, 2000

Young, Louisa,
A Great Task of Happiness: the Life of Kathleen Scott
, 1995

Selected Unpublished Sources

Bowers, Henry, Diary and Letters, various dates, SPRI

Chatto & Windus Archive, University of Reading

Cherry-Garrard, Miscellaneous Papers, Berkshire Record Office, Reading

Cherry-Garrard Archive, SPRI (includes Cherry’s Antarctic journals, as well as correspondence with Atkinson, Lillie, Kathleen Scott, Oriana Wilson, Sidney Harmer and many others)

Constable & Co. Directors’ Files, Special Collections Department, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia

Emery Walker Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

Garrard Papers, Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Hertford

George Bernard Shaw Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

Keohane, Patrick, Diary, 1911–12, SPRI

Oates, Lawrence, Letters to his mother, various dates, SPRI

Penguin Archive, University of Bristol

Simpson, George, Diary, 1910–12, SPRI

Scott, Kathleen, Diary, various dates (Kennet Papers, Cambridge University Library)

Williamson, Thomas, Diary, 1912–13, SPRI

Guide to Selected Antarcticans

Lamer

Evelyn Cherry and her first-born, Apsley George Benet, in 1886.

General Apsley Cherry-Garrard and his wife Evelyn, with their children Mildred (
standing
), Elsie (
centre
), Ida (‘Lassie’;
second from right
) and Apsley, posing at Lamer in 1896 for the distinguished royal photographer Frederick Thurston. Evelyn is pregnant with Margaret (‘Peggy’).

Culver House at Winchester College in 1903 (Apsley is circled). The house was known as ‘Kenny’s’ after its housemaster Theodore Kensington (
seated centre
).

Christ Church 2nd Torpid, 1906. Apsley is in the back row on the far right.

Apsley in the dell at Lamer, aged twenty-one.

Reggie Smith, Isabel Smith, Oriana Wilson and Robert Scott picnicking at Kirriemuir, 1907.

The
Terra Nova
weathers the Southern Ocean.

Assistant zoologist on board the
Terra Nova
: ‘I have never seen anyone with such a constant expression of “this is what I have been looking for” on his face.’

The
Terra Nova
in the ice.

Home: the hut at Cape Evans.

The Tenements: Cherry (bottom left); Birdie Bowers (standing); Titus Oates (centre); Cecil Meares (
top right
); Atch (
bottom right
).