Straight on Till Morning (57 page)

5
Santa Barbara News Press
, 21 September 1962.

6
Collier's Weekly Magazine
, 30 June 1945.

7
Telephone interview with Scott O'Dell, February 1987.

8
Letter to the author from Mrs Doreen Bathurst Norman, June 1986.

9
HL. Paul Brooks to Beryl Markham, 19 September 1941.

10
HL. Beryl Markham to Paul Brooks, 23 September 1941.

11
This house no longer exists but in July 1986 I visited the site and spoke to Mr Charles Fox – a former neighbour of Beryl's – who kindly described the former building and its tenants.

12
HL. R.N. Linscott to Mr Greenslet, 20 October 1941.

13
HL. Paul Brooks to Beryl Markham, 23 October 1941.

14
Osa and Martin Johnson were the husband and wife team who pioneered filming in the ‘jungles' of Africa for early movies. Beryl was notably scathing about their work and in particular thought their zebra-striped seaplane vulgar.

15
HL. Beryl Markham to Paul Brooks, 25 October 1941.

16
HL. Paul Brooks to Beryl Markham, 27 October 1941.

17
HL. Beryl Markham to Paul Brooks, 31 October 1941.

18
HL. R.N. Linscott to Beryl Markham, 4 November 1941.

19
HL. Beryl Markham to R.N. Linscott, 12 November 1941.

20
HL. Paul Brooks to Beryl Markham, 18 November 1941.

21
HL. Beryl Markham to Paul Brooks, 22 November 1941.

22
HL. Beryl Markham to Paul Brooks, 29 November 1941.

23
HL. Paul Brooks to Beryl Markham, 5 December 1941.

24
HL. Beryl Markham to Paul Brooks, 5 December 1941.

25
HL. Paul Brooks to Beryl Markham, 22 December 1941.

26
HL. Beryl Markham to Paul Brooks, 23 December 1941.

27
Letter in Beryl's private papers.

28
Telephone interview with Mr Bertrand Rhine, Los Angeles, July 1986.

29
Letter to the author from Doreen Bathurst Norman, July 1986.

30
Letter (HL), 2 June 1942.

31
Letter (HL), 14 July 1942.

32
Scott O'Dell told me that the original version of
West with the Night
sold 30,000 copies, although Houghton Mifflin were unable to confirm this figure from their existing files. The book sold at three dollars so assuming that Mr O'Dell's statement is accurate and allowing for agency commission Beryl probably earned about $10,000 in royalties.

33
New York Times, 6 and 10 October 1942.

34
HL. Stuart Cloete to Dale Warren, undated but marked ‘filed on 28 November 1942'.

35
HL. Stuart Cloete to Dale Warren, undated but marked ‘filed on 12 November 1942'.

36
Letter and interviews with Sir Charles Markham, 1986.

37
HL. Stuart Cloete to Dale Warren, January 1943.

38
HL. Stuart Cloete to Dale Warren, 25 February 1943.

39
HL. Stuart Cloete to Dale Warren, undated but marked ‘filed on 16 February 1943'.

40
Letter to the author from Mrs Doreen Bathurst Norman, June 1986.

41
Interview with Doreen Bathurst Norman, June 1986.

42
Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, 1986, and transcript on television documentary
World without Walls
, filmed in Kenya, 1984, in which Beryl makes the same statement.

43
Telephone interview with Scott O'Dell, February 1987.

44
Crusader
by Stuart Cloete, a short story about a temperamental horse tamed by a young girl.

45
HL. Stuart Cloete to Dale Warren, 7 September 1943.

46
See a collection of short stories by Beryl Markham,
The Splendid Outcast
, compiled by Mary S. Lovell, Hutchinson, 1987.

47
Telephone interview with Mr John F. Potter (France), December 1986.

48
Many people who knew Raoul Schumacher well thought that he wrote under a pen-name. No one, including two very close friends and his stepson, knew what the pen-name might be, but Scott O'Dell thought it was a woman's name. Most people were surprised to learn that he had ever written under his own name.

49
Collier's Magazine
, 29 January 1941, p. 54.

50
Vanity Fair
, March 1987.

51
Telephone interview with Scott O'Dell, February 1987.

52
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was killed whilst on active service in France, 31 July 1944.

53
Houghton Mifflin contracts files show that Beryl and Raoul received a $2,500 advance to write ‘An African Novel'. The contract is dated 9 January 1944 and was placed through Raoul's literary agents, MacIntosh & Otis. This falls far short of Raoul's claim to Scott O'Dell that Beryl received an advance for $15,000 and Houghton Mifflin confirmed that this would have been considered an enormous sum at that date. It is highly unlikely that an author of Beryl's (or Raoul's) stature could have looked for such an advance based on an outline for a novel.

CHAPTER 13

1
Information provided by C.M. Schrader, US Military Personnel Records Center, Missouri.

2
New York Herald Tribune
, 18 March 1938.

3
Little Gloria, Happy at Last,
Barbara Goldsmith, Macmillan, 1980.

4
The Heart Has its Reasons
, Duchess of Windsor, Michael Joseph, 1969.

5
Little Gloria, Happy at Last
, Barbara Goldsmith, Macmillan, 1980.

6
ibid.

7
Interviews with Mr Lee Van Atta, Montecito, July and August 1986.

8
Interview with Dr Douglas Hall (current owner of the ranch), August 1986, and his subsequent letters to the author.

9
Index files and extract from ‘Noticias', archives of Santa Barbara Historical Society.

10
Interviews with Mr Van Atta, Montecito, July and August 1986.

11
Dr Warren R. Austin, telephone interview (Washington–California), July 1986.

12
After-dinner conversation with Dr Austin, Hampshire, October 1986.

13
ibid.

14
Telephone interview with Mr John F. Potter, France, December 1986.

15
Transcript of filmed interview with Mrs Maddie de Mott by film crew of television documentary
World without Walls
, Kenya, 1984.

16
Santa Barbara News Press
, 8 June 1958.

17
Dr Warren R. Austin, telephone interview (Washington–California), July 1986.

18
ibid.

19
Interview with Mme Viviane Markham, London, June 1986.

20
Conversations with Fleur and Valery Markham, Beryl's granddaughters.

21
After-dinner conversation with Dr Austin, Hampshire, October 1986.

22
Telephone interview with Mr John F. Potter, France, December 1986.

23
Telephone interview with Scott O'Dell, 9 February 1987.

24
ibid., 10 February 1987.

25
Conversation with Warren Austin, Hampshire, 23 October 1986. During research for Beryl's stories this one eluded me until a chance remark to Juanita Carberry caused her to volunteer the information, ‘I've got that story tucked into my copy of
West with the Night
!'

26
‘The Quitter' by Beryl Markham, written 1946, first published by
Cosmopolitan
, June 1946.

27
Cosmopolitan
, June 1946, p. 48.

28
Interview with Barry Schlachter, Boston, July 1986.

29
Mombasa Times
, January 1946.

30
Conversation with Mrs Warren ‘Bunny' Austin, Wiltshire, November 1986.

31
Interview with Mr Ryan ‘Buster' Parnell, Copenhagen, June 1986.

32
These letters, together with some bank statements, are currently in the possession of a good friend of Beryl's, who does not wish to be named.

33
Telephone interview with Mr John F. Potter, France, December 1986.

34
ibid.

35
Santa Barbara News Press
, 28 April 1953.

36
Ref 1750/212, Hall of Records, Santa Barbara, California.

37
Telephone interview with Scott O'Dell, 10 February 1987.

38
Interview with Mr John B. Greene Jr, Santa Barbara, July 1986.

39
Interview with Mrs J. Whiting, Santa Barbara, July 1986.

40
Interviews with Mr John Yabsley, Santa Barbara, July and August 1986.

41
Santa Barbara News Press
, 21 September 1962.

42
Interviews with Mr John Yabsley, Santa Barbara, July and August 1986, and Mr John B. Greene Jr. After Mrs Gertrude Schumacher died her family apparently burned all the couple's papers, as part of a general clear-out of their home prior to its sale.

CHAPTER 14

Much of the information in this chapter is the result of interviews, telephone calls and letters exchanged with Mrs Doreen Bathurst Norman, who was a mine of information. I have therefore not made individual attributions since these will be obvious from the text.

1
Interview with Sir Charles Markham, Nairobi, March 1986.

2
Letter to the author from Mrs Tiny Cloete, 1986.

3
Probably
The Curve and the Tusk
by Stuart Cloete. Mrs Cloete does not recall Beryl doing any secretarial work, but Beryl told Doreen Bathurst Norman that she had done this typing for him.

4
Letter to the author from Mrs Tiny Cloete, 1986.

5
Various racing reports in the Cape Argus, 1948; and article entitled ‘Beryl Markham', Mervyn F. Hill,
Kenya Weekly News
, Kenya.

6
Interview with Sir Charles Markham, Nairobi, 1986.

7
I have purposely steered clear of African politics and do not see it as a function of this book to document or comment on the political situation at any stage in Kenya's development. There are many books on the subject by authors more qualified than I and this short paragraph is merely to illustrate the apprehension of the European settlers during the time of Mau Mau, because of its effect on Beryl's life.

8
Extract from ‘The Tribute to Beryl Markham', given at a Thanksgiving Service for her life on 4 September 1986, by George Bathurst Norman.

9
In Kenya there exists what is called ‘Fusion' in legal practice. This allows barristers to act as solicitors and appear in courts.

10
See
Inside Safari Hunting
by Dennis Holman for Rundgren's interesting history.

11
There are twenty shillings to the pound which was then worth about $2.50 (US).

12
Interview with Mme Viviane Markham in London, May 1986, and her subsequent series of letters to the author. Also, interviews with Beryl's granddaughters, Fleur and Valery Markham.

13
Interview with Mr Ryan ‘Buster' Parnell, Copenhagen, June 1986.

14
Extract from ‘The Tribute to Beryl Markham', given at a Thanksgiving Service for her life on 4 September 1986, by George Bathurst Norman.