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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

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