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DG, Journal [24 January 1915] [Northwestern].

¹⁸
DG, Journal [26 January 1915] [Northwestern].

¹⁹
DG, Journal, Saturday [6 February 1915] [Northwestern].

²⁰
D. Grant/DG, n.d. [25 January 1915] [HG].

²¹
DG, Journal, Thursday [18 February 1915] [Northwestern]; my italics.

²²
DG, Journal, Saturday [20 February 1915] [Northwestern].

²³
GLS/DG, 6 Belsize Park Gardens, Friday 7 May 1915 [Princeton].

²⁴
DHL/Lady Ottoline Morrell, Greatham [19 April 1915], in Boulton, ed.,
Letters of D.H. Lawrence
, Vol. II, p. 318.

²⁵
Worthen,
D.H. Lawrence
, p. 162.

²⁶
DHL/DG, Greatham [19 April 1915], in Boulton,
Letters of D.H. Lawrence
, pp. 320–1.

²⁷
Eleanor Farjeon,
Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958; paperback edition 1979), p. 133.

²⁸
DG, ‘A Whole Hive of Genius'.

²⁹
VB/Roger Fry, Eleanor Farm, West Wittering, Sunday [?9 May] [1915], in Regina Marler, ed.,
Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
, introduction by Quentin Bell (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1993, paperback 1994), pp. 179–80.

³⁰
DG, Journal Monday [31 May] 1915 [Northwestern].

¹
  DG,
Flowers
, p. 93.

²
  DG/GLS, 19 Pond Place [15 June 1915] [BL].

³
  GLS/DG, The Lacket, 16 June 1915 [Princeton].

⁴
  David Garnett, ‘War Victims' Relief', in
We Did Not Fight: 1914–18 Experiences of War Resisters
, edited by Julian Bell (London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1935), pp. 131–2.

⁵
  DG/EG, Carte Postale, ‘Bataille de la Marne', postmark 3 July 1915 [Northwestern].

⁶
  DG, ‘War Victims' Relief', pp. 133–4.

⁷
  DG/Ottoline Morrell, Équipe Anglaise, Nettancourt, Meuse, 3 July [1915] [HRRC].

⁸
  DG/Lytton Strachey, Mission Anglaise, La Fontaine, Sommeilles, 29 July [1915] [BL].

⁹
  VB/DG, Garsington Manor, Oxford, 12 July [1915] [HG].

¹⁰
D. Grant/DG, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, Thursday 15 July [1915] [HG].

¹¹
DG/D. Grant, Mission Anglaise, Nettancourt, Meuse, ‘Tuesday' [postmark 14 July 1915] [HG].

¹²
F. Birrell/J.M. Keynes, Mission Anglaise, La Fontaine, Sommeille par Nettancourt, Meuse, Friday 11 August [1915] [KCC].

¹³
F. Birrell/DG, 53 Rue de Rivoli, Paris, 21 December [1918] [Northwestern].

¹⁴
EMH/Louise Bréal, c/o Mrs Pitman, The Chestnuts, Shipham, Somerset, 1 September 1915 [Martin Brunt].

¹⁵
DG/CG, La Fontaine, Sommeille-par-Nettancourt, Meuse, France, 6 September 1915 [Eton]; this is written in Constance's hand, presumably, as was her custom, in order to send a copy of Bunny's letter to Edward, while retaining the original herself.

¹⁶
DG/CG, La Fontaine, Sommeille [September 1915] [Northwestern]; in Constance's hand.

¹⁷
CG/EG, The Cearne, 23 September 1915 [HRRC].

¹⁸
CG/EG, The Cearne, 30 September [1915] [HRRC].

¹⁹
VB/DG, The Grange, Bosham, 22 September [1915] [HG].

²⁰
GLS/DG, 6 Belsize Park Gardens, 22 October 1915 [Princeton].

²¹
D. Grant/DG, SS Arundel, Dieppe [?4 November] [1915] [HG].

²²
DG/GLS, Hotel de L'Elysée, 3 Rue de Beaume, Paris [November 1915] [BL].

²³
VB/DG, 46 Gordon Square, ‘Friday' [November 1915] [HG].

²⁴
Augustine Birrell/DG, 16 November 1915 [Northwestern].

²⁵
DG/GLS [Sommeilles, late November/early December 1915] [BL].

²⁶
JMK/DG, 3 Gower Street WC, 28 November 1915 [Northwestern].

²⁷
VB/DG, 46 Gordon Square, Monday 29 November [1915] [HG].

²⁸
DG/JMK, La Fontaine, Sommeille, 6 December [1915] [KCC].

²⁹
VB/DG, 46 Gordon Square, 7 December [1915] [HG].

³⁰
D. Grant/DG, n.d. ‘Friday' [December 1915] [HG].

³¹
DG,
Flowers
, p. 103.

¹
  DG/F. Birrell, Wissett Lodge, 20 September [1916] [Northwestern].

²
  Quoted in Felicity Goodall,
A Question of Conscience: Conscientious Objection in the Two World Wars
(Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1997), p. 4.

³
  DG interviewed by James Mellen, 1 March 1971 [BL: Sound Archive].

⁴
  DG,
Flowers
, p. 112.

⁵
  DG/CG, 15 February [1916] [Northwestern].

⁶
  D. Garnett, ‘Answers to Questions of Objection to Combatant Service', unpublished MS [Northwestern].

⁷
  Bertrand Russell, ‘Some Psychological Difficulties of Pacifism in Wartime', in
We Did Not Fight
, p. 329.

⁸
  Adrian Stephen, ‘The Tribunals', in
We Did Not Fight
, p. 384.

⁹
  DG/CG, The Swan Inn, Wissett, ‘Thursday' [?March] [1916] [HRRC].

¹⁰
DG/CG, Wissett Lodge, ‘Sunday' [March 1916] [HRRC].

¹¹
Frances Garnett interviewed by the author, May 2008.

¹²
Barbara Mackenzie-Smith/DG, King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, Beaumont Street, London, 4 December 1972 [Northwestern].

¹³
Frances Partridge,
Everything to Lose: Diaries 1945–1960
(London: Victor Gollancz, 1985; Phoenix paperback edition, 1997), p. 118.

¹⁴
DG,
Flowers
, p. 19; the words are misquoted from William Blake's poem ‘The Question Answered'.

¹⁵
DG/CG, Wissett, 3 April [1916] [HRRC].

¹⁶
DG/CG, Charleston [c. late June] [?1917] [HRRC].

¹⁷
Robert Gathorne-Hardy, ed.,
Ottoline at Garsington: Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell 1915–1918
(London: Faber and Faber, 1974), p. 123.

¹⁸
DG/CG, Wissett, 1 June [1916] [HRRC].

¹⁹
DG/CG, ‘Tuesday' [1916] [HRRC].

²⁰
DG/CG, Wissett, ‘Monday night' [May 1916] [HRRC].

²¹
DG/EG, Wissett Lodge, 1 May [1916] [HRRC].

²²
DG/EG, Wissett Lodge, [May 1916] [HRRC].

²³
VB/Virginia Woolf, Wissett Lodge, 10 May [1916] [Berg], Marler, ed.,
Letters of Vanessa Bell
, pp. 196–7.

²⁴
DG/CG, Wissett Lodge, ‘Monday night' [1916] [HRRC].

²⁵
See Pamela Horn,
Rural Life in England in the First World War
(Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1984), p. 37.

²⁶
DG,
Flowers
, pp. 122–3.

²⁷
DG,
Flowers
, p. 118.

²⁸
Lytton Strachey, ‘Monday June 26th 1916' in Michael Holroyd, ed.,
Lytton Strachey by Himself
(London: William Heinemann, 1971; Abacus, 2005), p. 185.

²⁹
Ibid., p. 201.

³⁰
Strachey, ‘Monday June 26th 1916', p. 204.

³¹
Strachey, ‘Monday June 26th 1916', p. 204.

³²
GLS/DG, 67 Belsize Park Gardens, Hampstead, 1 July [1916] [Princeton].

³³
DG/CG, Wissett Lodge, 19 September [1916] [HRRC].

³⁴
DG/F Birrell, Wissett Lodge, 20 September [1916] [Northwestern].

³⁵
DG/CG, Wissett Lodge, 19 September [1916] [HRRC].

¹
  Anne Olivier Bell, ed.,
The Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume I: 1915–19
(London: The Hogarth Press, 1977; Penguin Books 1979), p. 93; entry for Thursday 3 January 1918 but referring to Christmas 1917.

²
  D. Carrington/DG, 3 Gower Street, London, ‘Tuesday evening' DG gives as 11 October 1916 but the Tuesday was in fact 10 October], in David Garnett, ed.,
Carrington: Letters and Extracts from Her Diaries
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1970; Oxford University Press 1979) p. 45.

³
  For example, in 1966 he told Diana Mosley that he had been in love with Carrington (Diana Mosley/Deborah Duchess of Devonshire, Temple de la Gloire, Orsay, 7 April 1966, in Charlotte Mosley, ed.,
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
(London: Fourth Estate, 2007; Harper Perennial, 2008), p. 456), whereas two years later he told Frances Partridge he had not (DG/Frances Partridge, Moby Dick, 12 March 1968 [KCC]). In an interview in 1972 he stated, ‘I was rather in love with her to start with but she had too many other fish to fry' (DG Interviewed by James Mellen, 1 March 1971 (BL: Sound Archive).

⁴
  DG/D. Grant, The Ram, Firle, [October 1916] [HG].

⁵
  D. Carrington/DG, ‘Friday' [13 October 1916], in DG, ed.,
Carrington
, p. 45.

⁶
  DG/CG, The Ram, Firle, ‘Friday night' [6 October 1916] [HRRC].

⁷
  Caroline Dakers,
The Countryside at War 1914–18
(London: Constable, 1987), p. 106.

⁸
  D. Grant, Diary, Thursday January [1918] unpublished MS [HG].

⁹
  Quentin Bell, obituary of David Garnett,
Royal Society of Literature: Reports for 1979–80 and 1980–81
(London: Royal Society of Literature, 1981), p. 45.

¹⁰
CG/EG, Charleston, ‘Friday' [postmark 26 October 1916] [Xerox, R. Garnett: location of original letter unknown].

¹¹
DG/EG, Charleston, Firle, Sussex, [1916] [HRRC].

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DG/CG, Charleston [December 1916] [HRRC].

¹³
HTJ Norton/DG, 46 Gordon Square, 25 March 1917 [Northwestern].

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DG, Journal, Tuesday [16 February 1915] [Northwestern].

¹⁵
Frances Partridge,
Memories
(London: Victor Gollancz, 1981; Robin Clark paperback edition, 1982) p. 79.

¹⁶
DG,
Flowers
, p. 42.

¹⁷
DG/Alix Strachey, part letter [October 1917] [not sent] [Northwestern].

¹⁸
AS-F/DG, 60 Frith Street, ‘Thursday' [October 1917] [Northwestern].

¹⁹
DG, Journal, Saturday 22 December [1917] unpublished MS [Northwestern].

²⁰
This journal is recorded henceforward as ‘DG, Journal (1917–18)'.

²¹
DG, Journal, Tuesday 15 January [1918] unpublished MS [Northwestern].

²²
VB/JMK, Charleston, 8 February [1918] [KCC], in Marler, ed.,
Letters of Vanessa Bell
, p. 210.

²³
DG, Journal (1917–18), Saturday [?26 January 1918] [Northwestern].

²⁴
DG, ‘Trouble', MS [Northwestern].

²⁵
DG, ‘Trouble', MS [Northwestern].

²⁶
DG, Journal, 4 February [1918] [Northwestern].

²⁷
DG, Journal (1917–18), Sunday [?10 February] [1918] [Northwestern].

²⁸
Duncan Grant, Diary, 19 February [1918] [HG].

²⁹
VB/DG, Eleanor Farm (Tonk's Studio) 18 May 1915 [HG].

³⁰
DG, Journal (1917–18), Friday [1918] [Northwestern].

³¹
DG/JMK, Charleston, 2 March [?1918] [KCC].

³²
DG, Journal (1918) Monday [1918] [Northwestern].

³³
DG, Journal (1918) Thursday [1918] [Northwestern].

¹
  Quoted in David Garnett,
Never Be a Bookseller
(New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1929; Denby Dale: Fleece Press 1995) [unpaginated].

²
  H.T.J. Norton/DG, Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee, 104 Ethelburga House, 91 Bishopsgate EC2, 6 September 1918 [Northwestern].

³
  DG/EG, Charleston, 30 June [1918] [Northwestern].

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  DG/CG, Charleston, 27 October [1918] [HRRC].

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  DG/CG, Charleston [c. 14 November 1918] [HRRC].

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  DG/D. Grant, The Cearne [?October] [1918] [HG].

⁷
  FB/DG, 53 rue de Rivoli, Paris, 21 December [1918] [Northwestern].

⁸
  DG/CG, Charleston, Christmas Day [1918] [HRRC].

⁹
  DG/GLS, Charleston, Christmas Day [1918] [BL].

¹⁰
GLS/DG, Ham Spray House, Hungerford, 20 September 1925 [Princeton].

¹¹
Quoted in D.J. Taylor,
Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918–1940
(London: Chatto & Windus, 2007) p. 114.

¹²
DG/CG, Charleston [1919] [HRRC].

¹³
H.T.J. Norton/DG, Merton House, Queen's Road, Cambridge [1919] [Northwestern].

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DG/CG [c. March] [1919] [HRRC].