The Love-Charm of Bombs (76 page)

‘the older woman took it’:
HS,
DaB
,
p. 98.

‘I should have thought’:
HS to PdeM, 30 April 1943 (HS PdeM).

‘The vision of my beloved’:
HS to PdeM, 3 May 1943 (HS PdeM).

‘war’s being global’:
EB,
HoD
,
ch. 17.

‘refreshed (not quite as’:
HY to Matthew Smith, 25 February 1943 (private collection).

‘the most beautiful English girl’:
Ruthven Todd, in Jon Stallworthy,
Louis MacNeice
(London: Faber, 1995), p. 238.

‘Too large in’:
Louis MacNeice, ‘The Kingdom’,
c
.1943,
Collected Poems
(London: Faber, 2003).

‘in the centre’:
Louis MacNeice to Mary Keene, undated (private collection).

‘Lying in bed’:
Terry Southern interview with HY, ‘The Art of Fiction’, 1958,
Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green
(London: Harvill, 1993).

‘above her lovely head’:
HG,
Loving
(London: Vintage, 2000),
pp. 2, 8, 17, 64.

‘her great eyes’: ibid.,
pp. 123, 52, 95, 141.

‘I’d sell it’: ibid.,
pp. 110, 63, 126, 142, 145.

‘Mary Keene’:
for biographical details about Mary Keene and Matthew Smith see Alice Keene,
The Two Mr Smiths: The Life and Work of Matthew Smith
(London: Lund Humphries, 1995).

‘You know of course’:
Matthew Smith to Ida Hughes Stanton, in ibid.,
p. 68.

‘I have been guessing’:
Mary Keene to HY, undated (private collection).

‘I have a great hangover’:
Mary Keene to Matthew Smith, undated (private collection).

‘Believe it or not’:
HY to Rosamond Lehmann, 21 June 1943 (RL KC).

12:
‘Alas, what hate everywhere'

‘As far as I can see':
GG to Raymond Greene, 4 January 1943, in Richard Greene,
Graham Greene, A Life in Letters
(London: Little, Brown, 2007).

‘Kim Philby':
see Norman Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
(London: Pimlico, 2004–5), vol. 2, p. 130.

‘I feel it was':
GG to Marion Greene, 30 November 1942 (
A Life in Letters
).

‘He arranged for Mass':
see GG,
A Sort of Life: An Autobiography
(Bath: Chivers, 1981),
ch. 1ii.

‘I felt sick':
GG to Marion Greene, 19 January 1943, in Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 154.

‘not yet touched': GG to Raymond Greene, 4 January 1943 (
A Life in Letters
).

‘after the North':
Kim Philby, in Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 154.

‘Doll wrote to me':
GG to Hugh Greene, 1 August 1942 (
A Life in Letters
).

‘French letters':
see Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
,
vol. 2, p. 138.

‘things can be':
GG to Elisabeth Greene, 15 October 1942 (
A Life in Letters
).

‘Won't it be nice':
VG to GG, 9 March 1942 (VG Bod).

‘I don't altogether':
VG to GG, 14 April 1942 (VG Bod).

‘so VERY tired':
VG to GG, 21 April 1942 (VG Bod).

‘You are the best':
GG to VG, 8 April 1943 (VG Bod).

‘pity and responsibility':
GG,
HoM
,
book 1, part 1, chs 1iii, 2iv.

‘One forgets the dead': ibid.,
book 3, part 2, ch. 1i.

‘been torpedoed':
GG to VG, undated (VG Bod).

‘Lisbon, with all':
Malcolm Muggeridge,
Chronicles of Wasted Time
, vol. 2:
The Infernal Grove
(London: Collins, 1973),
p. 136.

‘a very thin':
James Lees-Milne, diary, 20 January 1943,
Diaries, 1942–1954
, abridged and introduced by Michael Bloch (London: Hachette, 2011).

‘entailed a good':
RM to Hamilton Johnson, 16 April 1951,
Letters to a Friend 1950–1952
, ed. Constance Babington Smith (London: Collins, 1961).

‘Open your eyes':
RM, ‘Lisbon day: London day' (RM TC).

‘Pleasure in this':
RM, ‘A Happy Neutral',
Spectator
, 9 July 1943.

‘We cannot doubt':
Winston Churchill, speech, 8 June 1943,
War Speeches, 1939–45
, compiled by Charles Eade, 3 vols (London: Cassell & Co, 1951–2).

‘best spirits':
HS, diary, 9 September 1943 (HS NLV).

‘If they shorten':
HS, diary, 24 May 1943 (HS NLV).

‘the Germans should':
Churchill, speech, 14 July 1941 (
War Speeches
).

‘The result was the bombing':
see Gordon Corrigan,
The Second World War: A Military History
(London: Atlantic Books, 2010),
pp. 444–52 and Richard Overy,
Why the Allies Won
(London: Pimlico, 2006),
pp. 143–9.

‘unqualified approval':
see Juliet Gardiner,
Wartime: Britain 1939–1945
(London: Headline, 2005),
p. 612.

‘this horrible smashing':
RM to Jean Smith, 4 July 1943,
Dearest Jean: Rose Macaulay's Letters to a Cousin
, ed. Martin Ferguson Smith (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011).

‘At present I feel':
RM to Jean Smith, 4 August 1943 (
Dearest Jean
).

‘Heart not':
RM to Jean Smith, 12 August 1943 (
Dearest Jean
).

‘lunch with Graham Greene':
see RM to Jean Smith, 17 September 1943 (
Dearest Jean
).

‘both books received':
see Jeremy Treglown,
Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green
(London: Faber, 2000),
p. 163.

‘too sour and bitter':
Stephen Spender, in ibid., p. 148.

‘Caught
mirrored':
John Lehmann,
I Am My Brother
(London: Longmans, 1960),
p. 219.

‘two proper novelists':
Philip Toynbee, ‘New Novels',
New Statesman and Nation
, 26 June 1943.

‘Poor Rome':
RM to Jean Smith, 17 September 1943 (
Dearest Jean
).

‘Germany is standing':
Stalin quoted by Churchill, speech, 24 August 1941 (
War Speeches
).

‘Very confused':
HY to Mary Keene, 11 October 1943 (private collection).

‘miserable': Mary Keene to Matthew Smith, undated (private collection).

‘quite dazzled':
Mary Keene to Matthew Smith, undated (private collection).

‘his great world':
Mary Keene,
Mrs Donald
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1983),
pp. 11–13.

‘they stood eternally': ibid.,
pp. 16, 17.

‘to love what': ibid.,
pp. 41, 53–5.

‘Us at your age': ibid.,
pp. 56, 59.

‘turning from her': ibid.,
pp. 85, 81.

‘I know there is':
HY to John Lehmann, 18 December 1943 (John Lehmann archive, HRC).

‘would not make':
Jack Marlowe, ‘A Reader's Notebook',
Penguin New Writing
, April–May 1943 (issue actually published in December).

‘My dear John':
HY to John Lehmann, 29 December 1943 (John Lehmann archive, HRC).

‘full of stories':
HS, diary, 21 December 1943 (HS NLV).

‘one of the loveliest':
HS, diary, 8 January 1944 (HS NLV).

‘I can't stand':
HS, diary, 15 January 1944 (HS NLV).

‘noisy night':
RM to Jean Smith, 24 January 1944 (
Dearest Jean
).

‘All this Rome': ibid.

‘These contained a device':
see William Sansom,
The Blitz: Westminster at War
(London: Faber, 2010), p. 176.

‘the perverse vivacities': ibid.,
p. 178.

‘still hear today':
HS,
DaB
, p. 136.

‘We had not expected':
HS, diary, 26 February 1944 (HS NLV).

‘in contrast
to':
Evelyn Waugh, diary, 2 March 1944,
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
, ed. Michael Davie (London: Phoenix, 2009).

‘He reported to':
see Evelyn Waugh to Laura Wade, 29 February 1944,
The Letters of Evelyn Waugh
(London: Phoenix, 2010).

‘It felt difficult':
HS, diary, 6 March 1944 (HS NLV).

‘under the blankets':
HG,
Pack My Bag
(London: Vintage, 2000),
p. 33.

‘women had men':
HY to Mary Keene, 4 April 1944 (private collection).

‘Darling. I'm so very':
HY to Mary Keene, 15 May 1944 (private collection).

‘sexual intercourse':
Legal letter about the Keene divorce case, 14 February 1946 (private collection).

‘the most compassionate':
Rosamond Lehmann, ‘An Absolute Gift',
Times Literary Supplement
, 6 August 1954.

 

13:
‘Droning things, mindlessly making for you'

‘D-Day has come':
CR, diary, 6 June 1944,
The Siren Years: Undiplomatic Diaries 1937–1945
(London: Macmillan, 1974).

‘D-Day!':
HS, diary, 6 June 1944 (HS NLV).

‘John Lehmann held':
see Selina Hastings,
Rosamond Lehmann
(London: Vintage, 2003),
p. 240.

‘a memorable and glorious':
Winston Churchill, speech, 6 and 8 June 1944,
War Speeches, 1939–45
, compiled by Charles Eade (London: Cassell & Co, 1951–2).

‘stolid, cheerful':
CR, diary, 16 June 1944 (
The Siren Years
).

‘mysterious rocket-planes':
Harold Nicolson, diary, 14 June 1944,
Diaries and Letters 1939–45
, ed. Nigel Nicolson (London: Collins, 1967).

‘They fly slowly':
Harold Nicolson, diary, 16 June 1944 (
Diaries and Letters
).

‘droning
things
':
EB,
HoD
,
ch. 17.

‘As we came out of':
HS,
DaB
, p. 136.

‘A clever, educated':
HS, diary, 20 June 1944 (HS NLV).

‘At the time O'Hea':
see HS, diary, 10 February 1944 (HS NLV).

‘Life is really absurd':
HS, diary, 23 June 1944 (HS NLV).

‘I was incredibly':
HS, diary, 24 June 1944 (HS NLV).

‘Peter and I':
HS, diary, 23 July 1944 (HS NLV).

‘he was confronted':
see GG interview in Norman Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene
(London: Pimlico, 2004–5),
vol. 2, p. 184.

‘one had thought':
GG, diary, 22 June 1944 (GG HRC).

‘I had to put on': ibid.