Bruce Chatwin (108 page)

Well, I have to
 . . . BC to the Bails, 9.2.86

I’ve had a terrible
 . . . BC to Roberto Calasso, 18.2.86

I’ve decided the
 . . . BC to PLF, ND

Old English tea
 . . . BC to JK, ND

On the mountain above
 . . . BC to EC, 27.3.86

What was this?
 . . . Box 31

Felt dazed
 . . . Box 31

On the way back
 . . . EC to GC, 4.8.86

allergy to dust
 . . . EC to GC, February 1986

He can only go
 . . . EC to GC, 4.8.86

I put this into
 . . .
The Times
, 20.1.89

which to all the publishers
 . . . BC to MB, 3.11.86

I’m going to
 . . . BC to CT

thinking that a
 . . . BC to MB, 3.11.86

He was in
 . . . Medical records

The fact is I
 . . . BC to MB, 30.11.86

definite glimpse of
 . . . Matthew Spender,
Within Tuscany
(Viking, 1992), 159

I saw green-capped
 . . . BC to NS

the occasional inappropriate
 . . . Medical records, 12.9.86

the self is all
 . . . BC to MB, 3.11.86

One point cannot
 . . . Letter to
LRB
, summer 1988

has previously only
 . . . 27.2.87

an extremely rare
 . . . BC to ND, 17.10.86

an Al medical curiosity
 . . . BC to MB, 3.11.86

In the summer
 . . . BC to CW, 12.12.86

My illness was
 . . . 12.12.86

Where in your
 . . .
Granta 21
, 1987

self-styled great lover
 . . . BC to EC, June 1967

I had thought
 . . . BC to CW, 22.2.88

You know that
 . . . Dr Rudolf Just to KF, 9.2.67

Under the heading
 . . .
Utz
, 32

Rudolf’s treasures
 . . .
Utz
, 13

The shelves were
 . . .
Utz
, 49

the arch improvisor
 . . .
Utz
, 114

No idea of
 . . . BC to TM, March 1988

Ja! Ja!
 . . .
Utz
, 46

a man’s relation
 . . . Box 35

on the bourgeoisie
 . . . Georges Borchardt to DR, 12.3.79

I’m riveted by
 . . . BC to A-MM, 26.11.84

Hoffinann-like tale
 . . . BC to CW, 12.12.86

My legs are
 . . . BC to ND, 19.1.87

it was a city
 . . .
Utz
, 119

Smells of dustbins
 . . . Box 35

Cellini, Montezuma, Noah
 . . . C. Holdefer, “The Spoils of Utz” in
Bruce Chatwin
, Claudine Verley, ed.,
Les Cahiers Forell 4
(Poitiers, 1994), 68

names that meant
 . . .
Utz
, 92

Wry, evocative, sensitive
 . . .
Private Eye
, October 1988

By April
 . . .
Utz
, 88–9

there was never
 . . .
Utz
, 138

Plagues and wars do
 . . . Andrew Sullivan,
Love Undetectable
(Chatto, 1998)

And from that hour
 . . .
Utz
, 152

Elizabeth is being marvellous
 . . . BC, to ND, 17.10.86

Have been giving
 . . . EC to GC, 25.2.87

Elizabeth and I
 . . . BC to EC, 6.5.88

Are you a traveller
 . . . ABC, 14.3.84

the Cyclades Islands
 . . . ABC, 11.5.83

Look at the greatest
 . . . ABC, 11.5.83

The journey it describes
 . . . 8.2.88

Not many authors
 . . . TM to Gillon Aitken, 5.2.88

Reading your
Songlines
 . . . SH to BC, 23.11.88

If there is one
 . . . Stewart Harris,
The Myth of Primitivism
(Routledge, Keegan & Paul, 1991)

One wonders where
 . . . Patrick White to TM, ND

It’s a low, rather
 . . . BC to NS, June 1987

Because to pass off
 . . . “Gentleman of the Road”,
El Pais
, 26.9.93

the burden he’s been carrying
 . . .
Observer
, 19.11.89

There are masses
 . . . BC to ND, 19.1.87

in semi-hallucination
 . . . BC to CW, 22.2.88

All in all
The Songlines
 . . . BC to Charles & Brenda Tomlinson, 14.7.87

You called what
 . . . TM to BC, 13.10.86

I apologize that
 . . . Medical records, 7.7.87

He has no side
 . . . ND [July?] 1987

‘remarkable’ improvement
 . . . 7.7.87

Jasper thought it
 . . . BC to Shirley Conran, ND

would appear to
 . . . Box 35

Je vais vous
 . . . BC to RC, 20.2.87

This poses problems
 . . . Medical records, 17.3.87

A wheelchair will
 . . .
WAIDH
, 141

He’s really awfully
 . . . EC to GC, 18.5.87

Then to Prague
 . . . EC to GC, 30.5.87

I
am
sorry
 . . . BC to George Ortiz, 7.8.87

Then . . . ? Madrid?
 . . . BC to MB, ND

There’s something about
 . . . BC to GG, 20.9.87

febrile illness
 . . . Medical records, February 1988

I fear that all
 . . . 24.11.87

We went first
 . . . BC to MB, 8.2.88

highly suspicious
 . . . Medical records, 25.2.88

Suppose that I
 . . . Gillian Rose,
Love’s Work
(Vintage, 1997), 70

I’ve been on
 . . . BC to NS, June 1987

AIDS and the prowling
 . . .
Guardian
, “When sex becomes sin”, 1.12.89

With AIDS came also
 . . .
NDBW
, 497

his impenetrable aura
 . . . 417

There was a kind
 . . . 416

The first news is
 . . . BC to ND, 29.2.88

Still convinced that
 . . . Medical records, 13.6.88

Last night Sister Patterson
 . . . Box 34

That’s it
 . . . Box 34

Perhaps this will be
 . . . TM to BC

The heart is there
 . . .
NDBW
, 414

I can honestly say
 . . . Rosy Hall to GC, 23.1.89

Can I take a
 . . . BC to BB, ND

sapphire-blue visionary’s
 . . .
Anecdotage
, 33

manic depression
 . . . GC to EC

Ma, I have very
 . . . JC to GC, ND

Profound loss of walking
 . . . Medical records, 10.6.88

I am entirely paralysed
 . . . Charles Nicholl,
Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880–91
(Jonathan Cape, 1997)

makes himself a seer
 . . . Kay Redfield Jamison,
Touched with Fire
(Macmillan, 1993), 110.

incoherent prophecies
 . . .
VOO
, 119

a kind of Middle
 . . . BC to MB, 11.12.87

He spread out
 . . . Box 30

What I’ve kept
 . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984

But he knew that
 . . . Box 30

I have been buying
 . . . BC to GC, 26.6.88

I would like
 . . . 25.7.88

Any ‘new’ species
 . . . Box 34

Mr Chatwin is, of course
 . . . Medical records, 10.8.88

Let me put it in
 . . . TM to BC, 17.7.87

I’ve said it before
 . . . TM to BC, 11.2.88

possession
by the
Beast
 . . . Box 34

thereby
completely
screwing
 . . . BC to ND, 28.8.88

The promise of a
 . . .
NDBW
, 498

The only group
 . . . Michael Elmore-Meegan to NS, 1.10.96

He seems better
 . . . EC to KS, 18.10.88