Gertrude Bell (73 page)

228
“
I can work here all day long”
: GLB to Chirol, 16 Dec.

228
“
Some rather complicated business”
: GLB letter

229
“
In spite of dirt and gloom”
: GLB to Chirol, 20 Jan. 1915, in Burgoyne,
Bell, 1914–1926
, p. 23

229
“
I hear that on Xmas Day”
: GLB letter, 27 Dec. 1914

230
“
At midnight”
: GLB letter, 1 Jan. 1915

230
“
It was full of errors”
: GLB to Chirol, 20 Jan. 1915

231
“
I feel tired”
: GLB to Chirol, 27 Dec. 1914

232
“
They have put all the correspondence”
: GLB to Chirol, 12 Jan. 1915

232
“
My work goes on”
: Ibid.

233
“
They reckon the average duration”
: GLB to Chirol, 2 Feb.

234
“
The Pyrrhic victory”
: GLB to Chirol, 2 Feb.

235
“
Don't let anyone know I'm coming”
: GLB letter, 22 Mar. 1915

235
“
I love Lord Robert”
: GLB to Chirol, 1 Apr.

235
“
I get rather tired”
: GLB letter

236
“
I could not possibly get away”
: GLB letter, 5 Aug.

236
“
It's very dear of you”
: GLB letter, 25 Aug.

236
“
It is of vital importance”
: GLB letter, 20 Aug.

237
“
I've heard from David”
: Recalled by Janet Courtney in an article on Gertrude in the
North American Review
, Dec. 1926

239
“
I'm getting to feel”
: GLB letter, 3 Jan. 1916

240
“
an oasis of peace and quiet”
: GLB letter, 6 Dec. 1915

242
the shrewd Hashemite Sharif of Mecca
: History in Lawrence,
Seven Pillars of Wisdom

243
On the eve of the world war
: Abdullah's visit to Sir Ronald Storrs in Ronald Storrs,
Orientations
; John Keay,
Sowing the Wind: The Mismanagement of the Middle East 1900–1960
, p. 41

246
“
biff the French out of all hope”
: T. E. Lawrence to D. G. Hogarth, 22 Mar. 1915

246
“
I wonder, if I could choose”
: GLB letter, 1 Jan. 1916

248
“
Political union is a conception unfamiliar”
: Undated paper, GLB Archives, Miscellaneous Collection, RL

249
As one commentator
: Keay,
Sowing the Wind

251
“
I devoutly hope”
: Charles Hardinge, letter to the Foreign Office, in Wallach,
Desert Queen
, p. 154

251
“
It is essential”
: GLB to Captain R. Hall, 20 Feb. 1916

252
“. . .
the people in India cling”
: Gilbert Clayton, from General Staff Army Headquarters, Cairo, 28 Jan. 1916

253
“
It was at this time”
: Lord Hardinge of Penshurst,
My Indian Years 1910–1916
, p. 136

253
“
When I got Lord H's message”
: GLB letter, 24 Jan.

253
“
I'm off finally at a moment's notice”
: GLB letter, 28 Jan.

255
“
They get so bored”
: GLB letter, 1 Feb.

255
“
It was very wonderful seeing it”
: GLB letter, 18 Feb.

256
“
I have . . . talked about Arabia”
: Ibid.

257
“
The V. is anxious”
: Ibid.

257
“
She is a remarkably clever woman”
: Lord Hardinge,
Old Diplomacy

257
“
I warned her”
: Hardinge,
My Indian Years

259
“
I wish I ever knew”
: GLB letter, 18 Mar.

261
“
Today I lunched”
: GLB letter, 9 Mar.

261
“
To the south”
. . .
“I need not say”
. . .
“There are many things”
: GLB to Chirol, 12 June 1916

263
“
Nothing happens”
: GLB letter, 27 Apr.

263
“
This week has been greatly enlivened”
: GLB letter, 9 Apr.

264
“. . .
we rushed into the business”
: GLB letter, 27 Apr.

265
“
It never occurred”
: GLB to Chirol, 13 Sept.

265
“
He is . . . a most remarkable creature”
: GLB letter, 24 May 1918, in Burgoyne,
Bell, 1914–1926
, p. 87

266
When he was fifteen
: Account of the capture of Riyadh from Keay,
Sowing the Wind

267
“
Ibn Saud is barely forty”
: GLB, “A Ruler of the Desert,” in
The Arab of Mesopotamia

268
“. . .
the phenomenon of one of”
: Sir Percy Cox of GLB's work, in Florence Bell,
Letters

268
“
Last night I woke”
: GLB letter, 15 July

268
“
one's bath water”
: GLB letter, 29 July

269
“
One wears almost nothing”
: GLB letter, 27 Apr. 1916

269
“
A box has just arrived”
: GLB letter, 20 Jan. 1917

269
“
Do you know”
: GLB letter, 20 Sept. 1916

269
“
The amount I've written”
: GLB letter, 2 Mar. 1917

270
“
Happy to tell you”
: GLB letter, 13 Jan. 1917

270
“
Officialdom . . . could never spoil”
: Kinahan Cornwallis, introduction to Gertrude Bell,
The Arab War: Confidential Information for GHQ Cairo, Dispatches for the Arab Bulletin

271
“
The only interesting letters I have”
: GLB to Chirol, 13 Sept. 1917

272
“
I had a letter from Sir Percy”
: GLB letter, 10 Mar. 1917

The descriptions of the rule of the Ottoman Empire and of the British administration derive from
Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia
prepared by GLB for the India Office, 1920.

274
“
I unpacked my box”
: GLB letter, 20 Apr. 1917

275
“
I confess”
: Ibid.

275
“
Oh my dearest ones”
: GLB letter, 17 May 1917, in Burgoyne,
Bell, 1914–1926
, p. 60

276
“
General Maude”
: GLB letter, 22 Nov., ibid., p. 67

278
“
Nowhere in the war-shattered universe”
: GLB letter, 18 May

280
“
Today there rolled in”
: GLB letter, 2 Feb., in Burgoyne,
Bell, 1914–1926
, p. 54

282
“
Fahad Beg and I”
: GLB letter, 26 May, ibid., p. 58

283
“ ‘. . .
I summoned my sheikhs' ”
: GLB letter, 1 June

284
“
Our office”
: GLB letter, 24 May 1918

284
“
I had a difficult time”
: GLB letter, 24 Apr. 1917, in Burgoyne,
Bell, 1914–1926
, p. 84

285
“
I don't really care”
: GLB letter, 26 Oct.

286
“
Please, please don't supply”
: GLB letter, 6 Sept.

288
“
[She] had all the personnel”
: Sir Percy Cox, in Florence Bell,
Letters
, p. 428

289
“
The question of regulation of pilgrim”
: GLB,
Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia

290
“
It has resulted”
: Ibid.

291
“
We are put to it”
: GLB to Chirol, 9 Nov. 1918, in Burgoyne,
Bell, 1914–1926
, p. 67

293
“
The Turkish educational programme”
: GLB,
Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia

294
“
We were all sitting”
: Florence Bell,
Letters
, p. 402

295
“
What I need”
: GLB letter, 25 Jan. 1918, in Burgoyne,
Bell, 1914–1926
, p. 75

295
“
I regret to say”
: GLB letter, 26 May 1917

296
“
The nuns are making me”
: GLB letter, 14 June 1918

296
“
O Father Dearest”
: GLB letter, 15 Feb. 1918, in Burgoyne,
Bell, 1914–1926
, p. 77

296
“
the drawback”
: GLB letter, 22 Feb., ibid., p. 78

296
“
I have been wishing”
: GLB to Chirol, end 1917, ibid., p. 71

297
“
Dearest Mother”
: GLB letter, 28 Mar. 1918, ibid., p. 81

298
“. . .
two most beautiful Arab greyhounds”
: GLB letter, 30 Nov. 1919

298
“
It's a most attractive little beast”
: GLB letter, 20 July 1920

299
“
Last week you told me”
: GLB letter, 2 Mar. 1917, in Burgoyne,
Bell, 1914–1926
, p. 55

299
“
One of my few consolations”
: GLB letter, 5 Sept., ibid., p. 63

299
“
there arrived a jeweller's shop”
: GLB letter, 25 Sept., ibid., p. 65

300
“
The Devil Worshippers”
: GLB letter, 28 June 1918, ibid., p. 89

301
“
The underlying truth”
: GLB letter, 10 Oct. 1920

302
“. . .
I might be able”
: GLB letter, 17 Jan. 1919

303
“
For the first quarter of an hour”
: Ibid.

303
“
When I come back”
: GLB to Hon. Mildred Lowther, 6 July 1918

304
“
I can't tell you”
: GLB letter, 16 Mar. 1919

308
“
If we wish to apply”
: GLB, “Self-Determination as Applied to the Iraq”

309
“
If the Arab Nation assist England”
: Telegram no. 233 from Kitchener, in Winstone,
Gertrude Bell
, pp. 243, 452

309
“
I propose to assume”
: GLB, “The Political Future of Iraq”

310
“
[Maude] did not see his way”
: And the story of Khanikin, GLB,
Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia

310
“
In no part of Mesopotamia”
: Ibid.

311
“
We have taken on Khanikin”
: GLB to Chirol, Dec. 1917

311
“
Experts on Western Arabia”
: A. T. Wilson, in Burgoyne,
Bell, 1914–1926
, p. 110

312
“
a Kurdish independent state”
: GLB letter, 14 Aug. 1921

312
“
Beloved Mother”
: GLB letter, 16 Mar. 1919

313
“
I've never been so well dressed”
: GLB letter, 26 Sept. 1919

313
“
Heaven knows”
: GLB letter, 1 June 1917

314
“. . .
Fattuh looks older”
: GLB letter, 17 Oct. 1919

315
“
Marie has been invaluable”
: GLB letter, 7 Dec. 1919

316
“
I wonder how anyone can complain”
: GLB letter, 6 May 1920

316
“
I had a ladies' tea party”
: GLB to Chirol, 10 May 1918

317
“
I find social duties rather trying”
: Gordon,
Gertrude Bell

317
“
I really think I am beginning”
: GLB to Chirol, 12 Feb. 1920

318
“
I think we're on the edge”
: GLB letter, 10 Apr. 1920

318
“
We are at our wits' end”
: In Margaret MacMillan,
Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
, p. 419

318
“
I do not understand this squeamishness”
: Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill
, companion vol. 4, part 1

319
“
If only [the rebel tribes]”
: GLB letter, 8 Aug. 1920

320
“
The Nationalist propaganda increases”
: GLB letter, 14 June 1920

320
“
There they sit”
: GLB letter, 14 Mar. 1920

321
“
I was acutely conscious”
: Ibid.

321
At the end of 1919
: For the incident at Dair, Ibid.

323
“
We share the blame”
: GLB letter, 1 Feb. 1920

324
“
The tribes down there”
: GLB letter, 4 July 1920

325
“
He was visibly put out”
: GLB letter, 26 July 1920

325
“
We are now in the middle”
: GLB letter, Feb. 1920

325
“
It's touch and go”
: GLB letter, 2 Aug. 1920

325
“
Well, if the British evacuate”
: GLB letter, 26 July 1920

326
“
Rather a trying week”
: GLB letter, 20 Dec. 1920