Those Wild Wyndhams (60 page)

32
. Lord Elcho invented an Elcho boot, bayonet and military shovel and was a founder of the Volunteer Rifle Force, a forerunner of the Territorial Army, established in the late
1850
s in response to invasion scares in the wake of the Crimean War (Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
11
).

33
. Ibid., p.
10
.

34
. Hugo Elcho to Mary Elcho,
12
October
1887
, Stanway Papers.

35
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
23
February
1881
, Stanway Papers.

36
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, n.d. (Summer
1887
), Stanway Papers.

37
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
3
August
1881
, Stanway Papers.

38
. Quoted in James,
Aristocrats
, p.
307
.

39
. Evan Charteris to Hugo Elcho,
1
October [
1881
], Stanway Papers.

40
. Hugo Elcho to Mary Elcho,
31
August
1887
, Stanway Papers.

41
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, n.d. [summer
1887
], Stanway Papers.

42
. Quoted in Simon Blow,
Broken Blood: The Rise and Fall of the Tennant Family
(Faber & Faber,
1987
), p.
42
; Abdy and Gere,
The Souls
, p.
11
.

43
. Hugo Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
1
November
1881
, Stanway Papers.

44
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
1
April
1882
, Stanway Papers.

45
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, n.d. [summer
1887
], Stanway Papers.

46
. Adams,
The Last Grandee
, p.
55
.

47
. Quoted in Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
180
.

48
. Ibid., p.
190
.

49
.
The Times
,
27
November
1882
.

50
. Quoted in Hugh Cunningham,
The Challenge of Democracy: Britain,
1832
–
1918
(Harlow, Longman,
2001
), p.
122
.

51
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
28
June
1883
, Stanway Papers.

52
. Percy Wyndham to Hugo Elcho,
2
July
1883
, Stanway Papers.

53
. Unknown correspondent to Percy Wyndham,
11
July
1883
, Stanway Papers.

54
. Hugo Elcho to Mary Elcho, n.d. [July
1883
], Stanway Papers.

55
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
6
December
1913
(
Letters
, p.
307
).

56
. See, for example, the letters of Godfrey Webb to Percy Wyndham, and Constance Mure to Percy Wyndham, both n.d. [July
1883
], Stanway Papers.

57
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
6
December
1913
(
Letters
, p.
307
).

58
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
11
August
1883
, Stanway Papers.

59
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, n.d. [July
1883
], Stanway Papers.

60
. Hugo Elcho to Mary Elcho, n.d. [July
1883
], Stanway Papers.

61
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
2
July
1883
, Stanway Papers.

62
. Hugo Elcho to Mary Elcho,
1
July
1883
, Stanway Papers.

63
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
18
July
1883
, Stanway Papers.

64
. Ibid.

65
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, n.d. [
c.
17
July
1883
], Stanway Papers.

66
. George Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
15
February
1913
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
2
.
737
–
8
.

67
.
Maud Wyndham to Ettie Desborough,
3
March
1944
, Desborough Papers, HALS DE/rv c
2806
f.
3
.

68
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
31
July
1883
[sic], Stanway Papers

69
. Hugo Elcho to Mary Elcho,
9
August
1883
, Stanway Papers.

70
.
The Times
,
10
August
1883
.

71
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
10
August
1883
, Stanway Papers.

72
. Ibid.

1
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho, n.d. (
c
.August
1885
), Stanway Papers.

2
. Mary Elcho to Guy Wyndham, n.d. [
1883
], Stanway Papers.

3
. Andrew Marr,
The Making of Modern Britain
(Macmillan,
2009
), pp.
74
–
5
.

4
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
11
August
1883
, Stanway Papers.

5
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, n.d. [
c
.
1903
], Stanway Papers.

6
. Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
143
.

7
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, n.d., Stanway Papers; Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
7
September
1884
, Stanway Papers.

8
. Hugo Elcho to Percy Wyndham,
14
August
1883
, Stanway Papers.

9
. Pat Jalland,
Women, Marriage and Politics
1860
–
1914
(Oxford, Oxford University Press,
1988
), pp.
59
–
64
.

10
. The equivalent in ESV is £
9
,
881
,
000
and in EPV £
17
,
600
,
00
.

11
. Asquith,
Haply I May Remember
, p.
21
.

12
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
13
and
18
May
1888
, Stanway Papers.

13
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
6
December
1913
(
Letters
, p.
308
).

14
. Daker,
Clouds
, pp.
136
–
7
.

15
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
27
September
1888
, Stanway Papers.

16
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
16
.

17
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
11
August
1915
, Blunt Papers, FM
758
-
1975
.

18
. Cynthia Asquith, diary entry,
1
August
1918
, quoted in Cynthia Asquith,
Diaries,
1915
–
1918
, ed. E. M. Horsley (New York, Alfred A. Knopf,
1969
), p.
464
.

19
. Dakers,
Clouds
, pp.
136
–
7
.

20
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
16
October
1883
, Stanway Papers.

21
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
17
October
1883
, Stanway Papers.

22
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
19
April
1884
, Stanway Papers. Until mid-March
1884
, Mary’s letters from London are written on writing paper headed
44
Belgrave Square. After that, they are headed
12
North Audley Street (see, for example, Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
10
and
27
March
1884
, Stanway Papers).

23
. Laura Lyttelton to Arthur Balfour, n.d. (
c
.
1885
), Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
477
/
4
.

24
. Abdy and Gere,
The Souls
, p.
150
.

25
. Hugo Elcho to Mary Elcho,
31
August
1887
, Stanway Papers.

26
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
28
January
1886
, Stanway Papers.

27
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
10
March
1884
, Stanway Papers.

28
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
c
.
1902
, Adeane Papers.

29
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
1
August
1884
, Stanway Papers.

30
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
35
.

31
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
5
September
1884
, Stanway Papers; Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
7
.

32
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho, September
1884
, Stanway Papers.

33
. Ibid.

34
. Quoted in Kenneth Young,
Arthur James Balfour: The Happy Life of the Politician, Prime Minister, Statesman and Philosopher,
1848
–
1930
(G. Bell,
1963
), pp.
81
–
2
.

35
. Mary Elcho to Percy Wyndham,
30
November
1884
, Stanway Papers.

36
. Mary Elcho, diary entry,
23
November
1884
, Stanway Papers.

37
. Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
53
.

38
. Ibid., p.
50
.

1
. The dates suggest that Ego was a ‘new thread’, and that Mary fell pregnant almost immediately after she miscarried in the spring of
1884
.

2
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, n.d. [
c
.January
1905
], Stanway Papers.

3
. For a full account see Jan Morris,
Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress
(Harmondsworth, Penguin,
1979
), pp.
491
–
513
.

4
.
The Times
,
24
December
1884
.

5
.
The Times
,
31
December
1884
.

6
. Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
212
.

7
. Mary Elcho, diary entries, December
1884
, Stanway Papers.

8
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
30
July
1889
, Stanway Papers.

9
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho, February
1885
, Stanway Papers.

10
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
15
March
1899
(
Letters
, pp.
60
–
1
).

11
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
13
February
1885
, Stanway Papers.

12
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho, February
1885
, Stanway Papers.

13
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho, February
1885
, Stanway Papers.

14
. Percy Wyndham to George Wyndham,
19
February
1885
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
29
.

15
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho, February
1885
, Stanway Papers.

16
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
18
February
1885
, Stanway Papers.

17
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho, February
1885
, Stanway Papers.

18
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho, March
1885
, Stanway Papers.

19
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
6
March
1885
, Stanway Papers.

20
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho, March
1885
, Stanway Papers.

21
. Margot Asquith,
An Autobiography
,
2
vols (Thornton Butterworth,
1920
–
2
),
1
.
60
.

22
. Mary Elcho to Percy Wyndham,
12
April
1885
, Stanway Papers.

23
. Mary Elcho, ‘The Souls’, unpublished memoir, cited in Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, pp.
49
–
50
.