Farino, Alice, meets LMS, 120; introduces LMS to Ernest Hemingway, 121; in Biarritz with LMS, 165
Farino, Tim, meets LMS, 120; in Biarritz with LMS, 165; golfs with LMS, meets Prince of Wales, 166-7
Felzer, Janet, LMS’s affair with, 305; proposes Alberti fraud, 329; and Nat Tate’s suicide, 349
Feuerbach, Udo, editor of
artrevue
, commissions LMS, 164; discusses German anti-Semitism, 172; in New York, 308; editing
revolver
, 358
Finar, Jack, LMS’s article on, 362
Fitch, Titus, Alannah Rule’s father, his dislike of LMS, 309; continued aggression, 316
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, LMS meets, 122; Hemingway’s comment on, 122 & n.; publication of
Tender is the Night,
168 & n.
Fleming, Ian, meets LMS, 173 & n.; lunches with LMS, described, 174-5; approaches LMS with job offer, 207; suggests LMS goes to Lisbon, 213; at NID, 226; sends LMS to Bahamas, 228; 278
Fletcher, Alistair (Duke of Windsor’s valet), 218 & n. Foley & Cardogin’s Fresh Meat Co., 8
Forsyth, Napier, editor of
Polity
, 378; leaves Polity for the
Economist
, 401
Fort Montague, Nassau, 230
Fothergill, Hugh, Land’s brother, at Hampstead, 77-8; abuses LMS during General Strike, 96
Fothergill, Land, LMS meets, 67; has coffee with LMS, 70; at Le Mayne’s dinner party with LMS, 73-4; invites LMS to lunch at Hampstead, 77-9; kisses LMS, 84; with LMS at Garsington, 98-9; meets LMS at Café Royal, 113; LMS invites to Paris, 117; encounters with LMS in Paris, 134-5; sexual relations with LMS, 138; affair with LMS begins, 139; political disagreements with LMS, 142; turns down LMS’s proposal of marriage, 142; meets LMS at party with Freya, 161
Fothergill, Ursula, Land’s mother, lunch at Hampstead, 77-8
Fothergill, Vernon, Land’s father, LMS lunches with, 77-9; his frontispiece for
The Mind’s Imaginings,
130; 134
‘Francine’ (prostitute), visited by LMS, 455; final visit, 465-6
Gandhi, Mahatma, 139 & n.
Garsington Manor, nr Oxford, 78; LMS visits with Land, 98-9
Gascoyne, David, 376 & n.
Gellhorn, Martha, in Madrid with Hemingway, 190 & n.; with LMS in the University Quarter, 191
General Strike (1926), LMS’s role in, 95-7
genius, LMS’s criteria, 321
George V, death, 176 & n.
George VI, Duke of Windsor’s opinions of, 218
Gilot, Françoise, 290
Ginsberg, Ann, philanthropist, 321; founds
revolver
, 358; LMS escorts to reception, 359
Girl Factory, The,
LMS’s first novel, 130; description of plot, 139; publication, reviews and sales, 141
Glebe Place, 85A, Chelsea, LMS’s first flat, 129
Godfrey, Admiral John, head of Naval Intelligence Division (NID), 211
Goering, Herman, 358 & n.
Goldberg, Cynthia, LMS meets, 55
golf, its appeal to LΜS, 403
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 433
Goodforth, Sam M., 362
Gorce, Lucien, LMS’s neighbour in Sainte-Sabine, 458; thoughts on the Verdel plaque, 471; defaces Verdel plaque, 476
Grant’s Town, Nassau, 232
Greenberg, Clement, 303 & n.; at LMS’s launch party, 308
Grigson, Geoffrey, LMS meets, 212
Gris, Juan, 80; LMS buys painting, 169
Guedalla, Philip, 238 & n.
Guiccioli, Teresa (Byron’s mistress), 68
Gunnarson, Skuli, meets Freya Mountstuart, 278; marries Freya, 278; LMS meets, 282-4; repays money on Melville Road, 285
Guston, Philip, 362
Halliday, Ian, 422
ΗDΜL 1122, LMS’s command in Bahamas, 229
Hemingway, Ernest, meets LMS in Paris, 121-2 & n.; LMS meets in Valencia and Madrid, 186-7; finds paintings with LMS, 194-5; 2. 12.;
For Whom the Bell Tolls,
LMS’s verdict on, 223; and Picasso, 290; suicide, LMS’s shock, 356 & n.; 388
Heuber, Martha, painter, LMS meets, 333; her new paintings, 334
Heuber, Todd, painter, Martha’s brother, 305; LMS buys painting, 311; goes to Cedar Tavern with, 311-12
Hitler, Adolf, becomes Chancellor of Germany, 158n.; and the approach of war, 201; German troops enter Prague, 205 & n.; war begins, 208n.; death, 273
‘Hodge’, LMS’s cat, acquired, 454
Hodge, Richard (‘Dick’), at Oxford, LMS’s new friend, 66; invites LMS to travel in Spain, 70; stays with LMS in London, 72-3; travels with LMS in Spain, their row, 81-3; disapproves of LMS’s affair with Tess Clough, 94; shooting at Edgefield, 115; LMS comes to stay in Scotland with, 127; advises LMS against marriage to Lottie Edgefield, 144; joins Royal Marines, 213; has leg blown off, 253; at Kildonnan with LMS (1946), 279-81; 470
Hog Island, Nassau, owned by Wenner-Gren, 232
Holden-Dawes, James (‘H-D’), LMS’s English master, 14; discusses Oxford with LMS, 21-2; LMS has tea with, 26-7; seen with woman, 42; congratulates LMS on history exhibition, 52; second tea with LMS, 54-5; invites LMS to Hyères, 100; in Oxford, 101
Ηοrizοn
, magazine edited by Cyril Connolly, 212 & n.; LMS contributes to, 223
Hôtel Rembrandt, Paris, LMS moves in, 199, revisits, 322; 482
Huber, Dr Wolfgang, founder of SPK, 426; links with the Baader-Meinhof Gang, 426
Hugo, Thorwald, 290
Idlewild Airport, New York, 371 & n. iguanas, 240
Ikeja Arms Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria, 384
‘Ingeborg’ (Renate Miiller-Gras), LMS meets, 437; to Zurich with LMS, 440; 443n.
Iniquity
, novel by Peter Scabius, 287
Innsbruck, Austria, described, 48
IRA, Peter Scabius potential target of, 409
Issac, LMS’s houseboy in Nigeria, 381; drafted into Biafran Army, 384
‘Jacintha’ (prostitute), LMS’s encounter with, 340-44
Jesus College, Oxford, 32; LMS wins history exhibition to, 52; 65; 433; 450
Jews, German, 280
Joyce, James, LMS meets, their conversation, 86; 212; death, 222; 331; 379
juvenilia, LMS’s theory of, 355
Kahnweiler, Henri, Picasso’s dealer, 291
Keller, Herman, 308
Kennedy, Jackie, alleged beauty of, 358
Kennedy, John F., assassination, 364
Kipling, Rudyard, death, 176 & n.
Klee, Paul, LMS buys painting, 127; 128; death, 212 & n.; LMS’s book jacket compared to, 308; LMS’s article on, 403
Kline, Franz, 301; 358
Kolokowski, Tony, his affair with Janet Felzer, 347
Krasner, Lee, showing at Janet Felzer Gallery, 317
Ku Klux Klan, 309
La Fucina, nr Sienna, Gloria Ness-Smith’s home, described, 361; sold, 405
Lake Lucerne, 265
Lamb, Henry, painter, at Hampstead, 78 &n.
Lang, Jan-Carl, proposes Picasso fraud to LMS, 345-6; LMS declines to participate, 349
Lange, Noel, LMS’s lawyer, represents LMS in divorce proceedings, 197; 285
Lawrence, D. H., 378
Lee, Oliver, MP, 113 & n.; goes to speak to unemployed, 142; on the approach to war, 203
Leeping, Ben, LMS’s oldest friend, 13; his Jewishness, 15; his ‘challenge’, 22; thrown out by Doig, 41; working in Paris, 80; apartment on rue de Grenelle, 86; starts Leeping Frères Gallery in Paris, 119; takes summer house in Biarritz, invites LMS, 165; flees Paris for London (1939), 211; plans New York gallery, 291; fat and bald, 365; suffering from prostate cancer, 397; death and funeral, 424; LMS’s debt to, 425
Leeping, Clothilde, Ben’s daughter, 288
Leeping, Marius, Ben’s stepson, his charm as little boy, 133; a handsome boy, 288; runs Leeping Fils in New York with LMS, 302; antipathy to LMS, 307; placed under LMS’s charge, his resentment, 313; embezzles Leeping Fils’ funds, 321; starts new gallery, 325; fight with LMS, 327-8
Leeping, Sandrine, Ben’s wife, LMS first meets, 121; her son, Marius, 133; as hostess, 288
Leeping Fils Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, established, 301; LMS takes over, 313; proposed role in Picasso fraud, 346
Leeping Frères Gallery, founded by Ben Leeping in Paris, 119
Lefrère-Brunot, Yannich, Mayor of Sainte-Sabine, 457; LMS argues with, 472; LMS apologizes to, 478
Leggatt, Sir Hugh, 286
Le Mayne, P. L., LMS’s tutor at Oxford, 32-3; 66; gives supper party, 66-8; dinner party, 74; dissatisfied with LMS’s work, 90; is discussed at Garsington, 99; has dinner with LMS at the George, 101; argument with Virginia Woolf, 102; discusses LMS’s final exams, 106; disappointment with results, 113; congratulates LMS on
The Mind’s Imaginings
, 131
lesbianism, Gloria Ness-Smith tempted by, 380
Les Invalides, Oxford club, 66 & n.; LMS kissed by Evelyn Waugh in, 76
Lisbon, LMS travels to, 155; 211; arrival of the Duke of Windsor, 213; LMS travels to, 214
Live and Let Die
, by Ian Fleming, what it reveals of the author, 324
Los Angeles, 350
loser, concept of, differences between Europe and USA, 400
‘Ludwig’, 257; his dubious message, 263; LMS speculates about his identity, 268
Maar, Dora, 290
MacDonald, Ramsay, forms second Labour government, 128n.
Machine, Shirley, in
Sweet Charity
, 382
McLeod, Ian, shot by West German police, 438n.
McMasters, Polly, LMS’s colleague at U. C. Ikiri, 382
MacNeice, Louis, compliments
The Girl Factory
, 225-6; suggests radio adaptation, 288
McStay, Sub-Lieutenant Crawford, LMS’s second-in-command in Bahamas, 229; his unhappiness, 233; his frustrations, 235
Madrid (1937), LMS visits during siege, 190-95
Marion, Colonel, his role in ‘Operation Shipbroker’, 256; sought by LMS after war, 293; death in Brussels, 295
Martin Chuzzlewit
, by Charles Dickens, 414
Masson, Colonel, head of Swiss Military Intelligence, 267
Maurois, André, his biography of Shelley (Ariel), 111 & n.
Meinhof, Ulrike, 423; her suicide, 448n.
Melchen, Captain W., Miami detective, 244
Melville Road, no. 32, Battersea, LMS and Freya’s married home, purchased, 200; near miss in Blitz, subsequently burgled, 223n.; sold by Gunnarson, 278
Milau-Plage, LMS’s first visit, 468; 478; final visit, reflections on life, 481
Mind’s Imaginings, The,
LMS’s first book, 75 & n.; LMS hands in typescript to publishers, 111; published and reviewed, 130
Miró, Joan, LMS discovers seven paintings by, 194 & n.; sold to Ben Leeping, 212; final painting sold, LMS’s profit, 302
Mitchell, Naomi, LMS meets, 356; sexual relations with LMS, 365; LMS breaks off relationship, 375
‘Monday’ (Laura Schmidt), Lionel’s girlfriend, LMS meets, 363; reaction to Lionel’s death, 366; moves in with LMS, 367; sexual relations with LMS, 369; reflections on, 377
Montaigne, Michel de, and old age, 480
Moon landing (1969), 376-7
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, 78 & n.; meets LMS at Garsington, 99
Mountstuart, Francis, LMS’s father, 8; announces terminal illness, 19; treatment at Bad Riegerbach, 50; death, 61; his legacy squandered, 163-4; LMS’s memories of, 254
Mountstuart, Lionel, LMS’s son, born, 150; LMS’s distaste for name, 151; sickly child, 162; visited by LMS after divorce, 200; confused by LMS’s remarriage, 207; adopted by stepfather (Sir Hugh Leggatt), 286 & n.; in music business, 336; inherits baronetcy, 336; arrives in New York, stays with LMS, 353; accidental death, 366
Mountstuart, Mercedes, LMS’s mother, née de Solis, 8; delighted to be in Birmingham, 10; in Bad Riegerbach, 47-52; sets up house in London (Sumner Place), 65; on Wall Street Crash, 128; on loss of New York apartment, 129; and financial ruin, 129; takes in paying guests, 140; precarious financial situation, 163; reaction to LMS’s divorce, 199; reduced to living in one room, 222; ageing, 227; at Freya’s wedding to Gunnarson, 278; at LMS’s memorial mass, 278; varicose veins, 287; ill with bronchitis, 323; death, 325; burial in Brompton Cemetery, 326
Mountstuart, Stella, LMS’s daughter, born, 204; beautiful toddler, 206; death, 278; LMS imagines future for, 401; enduring grief over, 460
Munich Crisis (1938), LMS’s feelings, 202 & n.
Mystic House, Spellbrook, Conn. (LMS’s summer house), described, 315; 333
Naples, 259
Nassau, Bahamas, LMS arrives (1942), described, 230
Naval Intelligence Division (NID), LMS joins, 211; 449
Nazi Germany, 240; 309
NBC, 302
Ness-Smith, Gloria, Peter Scabius’s mistress and later third wife, LMS meets, 292; at Scabiuses’ party, 294; marries Peter Scabius, 310; starts affair with LMS, 324; on holiday with LMS, 325-6; meets Picasso, 326; marries Cesare di Cordato, 357; LMS can’t afford to visit, 399; ill, comes to stay with LMS, 404; diagnosed with cancer, 405; final illness, 406-7; death, 408; funeral, 409
Newman, Barnett, 333
New York City, LMS in, en route for Bahamas, 228; LMS moves to (1950), 302; its allure, 305; LMS’s nostagia for, 382
Nigeria, 375
Nigerian Civil War (Biafran War), LMS’s articles on, 378 & n.; analyses war’s anomalies, 381; Nigerian Air Force tactics, 383; progress of war, 383-4
Nixon, Richard Μ., 317n.
Nolde, Emil, 311
Northwich, Cheshire, 284
‘Nude by a Window’, painting by Picasso, object of fraud, 346
Oakes, Sir Harry, 243 & n.; his murder announced, 242; murder described, 247; LMS heckles Duke of Windsor about, 360
Octet
, LMS’s final novel, decides on title, 345; unable to receive advance for, 397; researching, 399; determination to complete, 430; 469; probably burnt by LMS, 490
Odile, girl at Leeping Frères, 296; LMS kisses, 296, sexual relations with LMS, 297; discovers LMS after his suicide attempt, 301; her fate, 305
O’Hara, Frank, at LΜS’s launch party, 308 & n.; at Cedar Tavern, 312; discovers Nat Tate, 314; argues with LMS, 321; intense argument with LMS, 355
O’Hara, John, 435
Ojukwu, General, Biafran leader, 387 & n.
Okafor, Dr Kwaku, LMS’s neighbour in Nigeria, 376 & n.; LMS golfs with, 381; discusses civil war, 381-2; 392