Bruce Chatwin (107 page)

The reviews such
 . . . BC to EC, 12.1.83

Good for Sir Victor!
 . . . BC to FW, 11.1.83

Can I speak
 . . . Box 35

constantly being jolted
 . . . ABC, 25.1.83

concierge of Brigitte Bardot
 . . .

ABC, 12.8.87

beautiful, resilient and resourceful
 . . . ABC, 25.1.83

She, as you
 . . . BC to parents, 12.1.83

It was absolutely
 . . . BC to DM, 1.3.83

The sky is so
 . . . BC to DR, 23.1.83

sustained meditation
 . . . ABC, 12.8.87

indeed perhaps the reason
 . . . BC to Elisabeth Sifton, 7.2.83

ancient and traditional
 . . . Theodor Strehlow,
Australian Aboriginal Songs
, 1955

It is a 20th century
 . . . BC to Kath Strehlow, 24.8.83

was a real
 . . . BC to Anne-Marie Mykyta, 26.11.84

Sometimes, when
 . . . BC to KS, August 1983

Things never seen
 . . . Box 35

I sat down
 . . . BC to CT

A man set out
 . . . Epilogue,
El Hacedor
, 1960

vastly grander
 . . . comparison ABC, 11.5.83

When you confronted
 . . . BC to CT

At last! I’ve
 . . . BC to EC, 28.9.83

So you’re a
 . . .
SL
, 91

good-looking in
 . . . SL, 46

A good deal
 . . . Box 35

Whether it happened
 . . . ABC, 12.8.87

For myself, I
 . . .
SL
, 116

So what was
 . . .
SL
, 112

Never
have I caught
 . . . BC to Petronella Vaarson-Morel, 8.1.84

Then she strolled
 . . .
SL
, 112

They were two
 . . . 316

Tous les anglais
 . . . Box 34

hideous food poisoning
 . . . BC to DR, 18.4.83

I am terribly sorry
 . . . BC to PVM, 8.1.84

flat, dried-out, alienated
 . . . BC to DR, 18.4.83

Everyone – especially
 . . . Box 35

We walked off and
 . . . EC to GC, 3.6.83

He’s having a bad
 . . . EC to GC, 12.11.84

I come from
 . . . Obituary, Radio 4, January 1989

I made the experiment
 . . . Box 35

To understand human
 . . . ABC, 8.5.84

A few years ago
 . . . BC to parents, February 1982

the point where
 . . . ABC, 8.5.84

should be given
 . . . BC to FW, 19.2.84

a man of infinite gentleness
 . . . Box 35

which appeared
 . . . Box 35

Black mood
 . . . Box 35

There is a point
 . . . ABC, 8.5.84

Australia, I find
 . . . BC to MB, 20.10.83

Aboriginal Australia
 . . . BC to MB, ND

What do you
 . . . BC to PVM, 8.1.84

Thinking of you
 . . . BC to Lydia Livingstone [January?], 1984

They wrote to me
 . . . BC to MB, 20.10.83

I agree with you
 . . . BC to MB, 11.12.87

his sincere disgust
 . . . TLS, 16.6.89

There have been
 . . . BC to MB, 8.2.88

I’m fed up
 . . . BC to Anne-Marie Mykyta, ND

Llosa and I
 . . . BC to MB, 20.10.83

I said (realising
 . . . BC to MB, 20.10.83

Bruce, Salman Rushdie
 . . . Geoff Bagshaw to PVM, March 1984

He left his wife
 . . . BC to Nin Dutton, 1.11.84

The spirit of generosity
 . . . Box 35

The craziest thing
 . . . BC to CT

SR kept audience
 . . . Box 35

I still cannot
 . . . Box 35

Mrs Houston worked
 . . .
SL
, 288

It is ironic
 . . . BC to John Pawson, February 1986

I’m longing
 . . . Jasper Conran to BC, 24.3.84

The novel, if such
 . . . BC to MB, 20.10.83

I assume it is the
 . . . TM to BC, 4.2.85

Should we say
 . . . BC to TM, 1.3.85

The book is not
 . . . BC to ND,

Soupy pre-Fascist
 . . . BC to MB, 4.6.83

Without wanting to
 . . . BC to MB, 1.3.85

I’m only capable
 . . . BC to MB, 11.3.86

this promenade-deck
 . . . BC to MB, ND

This a.m. there
 . . . EC to GC,

This peripatetic existence
 . . . BC to JK, 17.2.86

and needed clearance
 . . . EC to GC, December 1984

the most beautiful
 . . . BC to DM, 30.1.85

I’ve put a block
 . . . BC to MB, 1.3.85

I have a room
 . . . BC to MB, 11.1.85

a really good egg!
 . . . BC to ND, 1.11.84

It’s ambitious, Difficult
 . . . 24.8.84

I feel I must
 . . . BC to MB, December [1984?]

A disaster with
 . . . BC to Penelope Tree, 2.7.84

Although Bruce’s mind
 . . . From “A Nomad Collector”

It would be terrific
 . . . BC to MB, 1.3.85

The whole Taygetus
 . . . BC to EC, 30.8.70

weathered and faded
 . . .
A Time of Gifts
(John Murray, 1977), 23

Abstruse art-forms
 . . .
Spectator
, 18.2.89

Up behind Kardamyli
 . . . BC to DM, 30.1.85

crackpot theory
 . . . BBC2,
The Book Programme, 26.9.79

is not simply
 . . .
WAIDH
, 139

To saunter
 . . . David Plante, “The Restlessness of Bruce Chatwin”

a hollow-chested figure
 . . .
OTBH
, 17

Nothing can be more
 . . . Box 12

Compression is what’s
 . . . BC to PLF, August 1985

And I will be
 . . . Robert Byron,
The Station
, Duckworth, 1928, 143

‘Golden Boy’
 . . .
Anecdotage
, 85

To anyone who
 . . .
The Station
, 148

his entrenched aesthetic
 . . .
Fourteen Friends

No, Bruce, I said
 . . . James Lees-Milne, 1.8.80

Athos is obviously
 . . . BC to MB, April 1985

My whole life
 . . .
WAIDH
, 282

Some form of religion
 . . . Box 34

The search for
 . . . Box 35

religion is a technique
 . . . Box 31

in the Greek
 . . . Box 35

Paddy says
 . . . Box 34

a sweet freckle-faced novice
 . . . Box 34

There must be a God
 . . . Box 34

Catarrh started in
 . . . BC to DR, 27.7.85

I went wind-surfing
 . . . BC to PLF, August 1985

The house we were
 . . . BC to parents, 1.2.86

My biggest worry
 . . . EC to GC, 8.12.85

The house, it turned out
 . . . BC to parents, 1.2.86

The palace in Jodhpur
 . . . BC to parents, 1.2.86

The first stab
 . . . BC to JK, 27.1.86

Murray was a
 . . . BC to JK, 27.1.86

the maharanee choked
 . . . BC to parents, 1.2.86

almost to the day
 . . . BC to MB, 9.2.86

He is the ‘identical twin’
 . . . BC to DM, 15.2.86

I did my usual babble
 . . . BC to parents, 1.2.86

One is so well
 . . . BC to SS, 5.3.86

A cool blue study
 . . . BC to JK, 27.1.86

I’ve not seen her
 . . . BC to DM, 15.2.86

I adore it here
 . . . BC to JK, 17.2.86