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Authors: Mary S. Lovell
29
Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, 1986.
30
Telephone interview with Andrew Maxwell-Hyslop, September 1986.
31
Article, Lesley Ann Jones,
Ladies' Home Journal
, London, December 1982.
32
Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, April 1986.
33
SHG Productions Inc.
34
Interviews with George Gutekunst, Nairobi, London, San Francisco, 1986.
35
âWest with the Rights',
The Monthly
, San Francisco, October 1986.
36
Diana Quick starred in the television series
Brideshead Revisited
.
37
Telephone conversation with George Gutekunst, October 1986. (Note that by October 1986 the actual sales had reached 202,000 and
West with the Night
had reached Number 2 in the
New York Times
paperback-sales charts. In December 1986 it reached Number 1 where it remained for some weeks, and sales had risen to over 300,000.)
38
Interview with Jack Couldrey, Nairobi, April 1986.
39
Telephone conversation with David Sugden, September 1986.
40
Interview with Jack Couldrey, Nairobi, April 1986.
41
ibid.
42
Interview with Paddy Migdoll, Nairobi, March 1986.
43
Extract from eulogy given by Jack Couldrey at Beryl's funeral, Nairobi, August 1986.
44
Telephone conversation with Jack Couldrey, August 1986
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book could never have been written without the help and support of many people. Whether such assistance amounted to the answering of letters and telephone calls, or submitting to the trauma of a lengthy interview or â as in some cases â the offer of generous hospitality, I am deeply grateful and wish to thank everyone involved. Some informants wished for anonymity and are therefore not named here, nevertheless my thanks to those persons is included. I am particularly indebted to the Markham family, the Bathurst Norman family and Mr Nigel Clutterbuck.
Kenya
:
Bunny Allen; David Allen; R. Anjeo (Standard Newspapers); Ulf Aschan; Cptn Hugh Barclay
OBE
,
MC
; E.R. Block; David Bowden; Juanita Carberry, Rose Cartwright; Jack Couldrey
OBE
; David Dykes; Lady Erskine; F.D. Erskine; the late Robin N. Higgin; Molly Hodge; Mrs F. Iceley; E. Maina Kimani (McMillan Library); Nicholas M. Kioko (Standard Newspapers); Sir Charles Markham Bt; Flora âPaddy' Migdoll; Mickey Migdoll; Hugh Morton; Mr Muraguri (Jockey Club, Nairobi); K. Musangi: E. Muwangi; Odero and Adiambo (Beryl's servants); Charles and Eve Satchwell; Pamela Scott; Jørgen Thrane; Bill Purdy; V.J. Varma.
Great Britain
:
Hon. Doreen Bathurst Norman; His Hon. Judge George Bathurst Norman; Patricia Barclay; Katy Belcher; Allen Bell (Rhodes House Library, Oxford); Doris Briggs; Nigel Clutterbuck; Tobina Cole; Sharon Cornwell; John Dawson; Florence Desmond; the Countess of Enniskillen; Victoria Eyre; Jacqueline âCockie' Hoogterp; John Grigg; Elspeth Huxley; James Fox; Hilda Furse; Lady Claud Hamilton; Jane Leggett; Mary Lewis; Peter Leth; Sybil Llewelyn; Graeme Lovell, Fleur Markham; Katherine Moore; Pam Moore; Langley Morris; Greta Nissen; Anna Parnell; Gwyneth, Duchess of Portland, Lady Sorsbie, Doris Smart; Mr and Mrs Stuart Taylor; Lt Col Ward (KOSB); Reginald Wooley; Mary Wright.
USA
:
Dr Warren and Mrs Bunny Austin; Edward Baring-Gould; Oliver Daniel; Douglas Fairbanks Jr; Florence Feiler; Judy Flannery; John B. Greene Jr; Dr Sadja Stokowski Greenwood; George Gutekunst; Dr Douglas Hall; Col. Hopper (CAP); Gloria Loomis; Scott O'Dell; Donald Ott; Bertrand Rhine, Harold Troxel; Fay Troxel; Barry Schlachter; Lee Van Atta; John T. De Blois Wack; Wendy Withington; Judy Whiting, John Yabsley.
Elsewhere
:
Viviane Markham (France); Valery Carol Markham (France); John F. Potter (France), Anneleise Bang (Denmark); Else Brundbjerg (Denmark); Ryan âBuster' Parnell (Denmark); Clara Selborn (Denmark), Robert Leader (Spain); Gustaf Kleen (Sweden); The Hon. Mrs Patricia O'Neill (South Africa); Mrs Tiny Cloete (South Africa), Tonni Arnold (Denmark).
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I wish to record an immense debt to my agent and friend, John Belcher, who provided incalculable help and support during the entire project. John died with devastating suddenness a few weeks before this book was published and so never saw the results of his hard work on my behalf. My thanks to a large number of friends who loaned books and magazine articles, and to Andrea Ranson and Patricia Taylor Chalmers at Century Hutchinson. Finally â but certainly not least â my editors: Tony Whittome at Century Hutchinson, and Susan Rabiner at St Martin's Press; both of whom have made many constructive suggestions and with whom it has been my great privilege to work.
In addition to assistance from individuals, I have received enormous help from the staff of organizations and libraries. In particular I should like to thank the staff of the Salisbury (Wiltshire) Public Library, who have diligently acquired out-of-date and rare books on Kenya on my behalf; and to the staff in the archive room of Standard Newspapers in Nairobi.
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Special Collections and Reference Libraries:
Houghton Library, Harvard, Cambridge, Mass., USA; Butler Library, Columbia University, NY, USA; UCLA Ref. Library, and Theatre Arts Library at the University of California in Los Angeles, California, USA; UCSB Ref. Library, Santa Barbara, California, USA; Santa Barbara City Library; California, USA; Santa Barbara News-Press, California, USA; Reference Library: University of Southern California (USC) Los Angeles, California, USA; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, California, USA; National Personnel Records Centre, Mo. USA: Rhodes House Library, Oxford University, Oxford, England; Wiltshire County Library, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; British Library, Colindale, London, England;
Daily Express
Library, London, England; McMillan Library, Nairobi, Kenya; Kenya National Archives, Nairobi, Kenya; Jockey Club, Nairobi, Kenya; Jockey Club, Newmarket, England;
East African Standard
Archives Library, Nairobi, Kenya; Newarke House Museum, Leicester; Army Records Office, Chelsea.
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Newspapers:
UK:
The Times
;
Daily Telegraph
;
Daily Express
;
Daily Mirror
;
Southern Evening Echo
;
Liverpool Echo
.
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Elsewhere:
New York Times
(USA);
Los Angeles Times
(USA);
East African Standard
(Kenya);
Leader
(Kenya);
Globetrotter
(Kenya);
Mombasa Times
(Kenya);
Cape Times
(South Africa);
Cape Argus
(South Africa);
Santa Barbara News-Press
(USA);
Truth
(Australia).
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Extract Rights:
My particular thanks go to the Runstedlund Foundation for their permission to quote from Karen Blixen's works including previously unpublished letters, and to Anne Born who provided translations for these from the original Danish. Grateful thanks are also extended to the Houghton Library, Harvard University for permission to quote from the collection of letters between Beryl Markham and her publishers Houghton Mifflin. In addition the following publishers, authors and literary executors generously gave permission to quote from copyrighted materials:
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The Lunatic Express
by Charles Miller: permission granted by Macdonald & Co Ltd and by the author's representative Gunter Stuhlmann.
Ernest Hemingway â Selected Letters
compiled by Carlos Baker; permission granted by Grafton Books, a division of Collins Ltd, and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation.
Black Laughter
by Llewelyn Powys; permission granted by the Society of Authors.
Out of Africa
and
Letters from Africa
by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen); permission granted by Florence Feiler on behalf of the Runstedlund Foundation.
Out in the Midday Sun
and
White Man's Country
by Elspeth Huxley, permission granted by Chatto & Windus Ltd and The Hogarth Press.
Kenya Diary
by Richard Meinertzhagen; permission granted by Eland Books.
Kenya Chronicles
by Lord Cranworth; permission granted by Macmillan and Co. Ltd.
Florence Desmond
by Florence Desmond; permission granted by Harrap Limited.
Hunter's Tracks
by J.A. Hunter; permission granted by Hamish Hamilton Limited.
Silence Will Speak
by Errol Trzebinski; permission granted by William Heinemann Limited and the Chicago Press.
Inside Safari Hunting
by Dennis Holman; permission granted by W.H. Allen & Co PLC
Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen
by Judith Thurman; permission granted by Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd and St Martin's Press.
Prince Henry: Duke of Gloucester
by Noble Frankland; permission granted by Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd.