Those Wild Wyndhams (61 page)

24
. Quoted in Blow,
Broken Blood
, p.
88
.

25
. Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
53
.

26
. Quoted in ibid., p.
51
.

27
. Mary Elcho to Percy Wyndham,
12
April
1884
, Stanway Papers.

28
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
26
May
1905
(
Letters
, p.
223
).

29
. Ibid.

30
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
14
August
1887
, Stanway Papers.

31
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, December
1886
, quoted in Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
201
.

32
. Laura Lyttelton to Lady Frances Balfour,
9
October [
1885
], Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
477
f.
10
:
13
r.

33
. Ibid.; and see also Laura Lyttelton to Arthur Balfour, n.d. [
c
.
1885
], Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
477
f
. 8
r, in which Laura declined, on behalf of herself and Mary, Arthur’s suggestion that they dine at the New Club, with Hugo Elcho and Arthur Lyttelton out of town: ‘dear Mr. Arthur I wd not go to the new Club anyhow with the awful protection of
10
Alfreds &
15
Hugos because it is full of gratuituous gossip & I think it wd be idiotic …’.

34
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
3
June
1885
, Stanway Papers.

35
. Laura Lyttelton to Lady Frances Balfour,
9
October [
1885
], Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
477
. f
. 10.13
r.

36
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho, May
1885
, Stanway Papers.

37
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
3
June
1885
, Stanway Papers.

38
. Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
244
.

39
. Laura Lyttelton to Lady Frances Balfour, n.d. [autumn
1885
], Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
477
/
4
f.
17
r.

40
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho, August
1885
, Stanway Papers.

41
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
10
August
1885
, Stanway Papers.

42
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, n.d. [August
1885
], Stanway Papers.

43
. Laura Lyttelton to Lady Frances Balfour, n.d. [autumn
1885
], Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
477
/
4
f.
17
r.

1
. Quoted in Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
81
.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Georgiana Burne-Jones to Mary Elcho, November
1885
, quoted in Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
81
.

4
. Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
225
.

5
. Ibid., p.
106
.

6
. Ibid., p.
104
.

7
. Ibid., pp.
87
–
9
.

8
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho, September
1886
, quoted in ibid., p.
82
.

9
. Quoted in Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
81
.

10
. Asquith,
Haply I May Remember
, pp.
40
–
1
.

11
. The auction was of the collection of William Graham, Frances Horner’s father and an eminent art collector. In fact, the painting was by Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino. This was only discovered later. Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
142
.

12
. Ibid., p.
94
.

13
. Pamela Adeane, daughter of Madeline and Charles Adeane, quoted in ibid., p.
91
.

14
. Dakers,
Clouds
,
p.
130
.

15
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, pp.
20
–
1
.

16
. Asquith,
Haply I May Remember
, pp.
40
–
1
.

17
. Madeline Wyndham to Pamela Tennant,
19
August
1897
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
26
f.
33
r.

18
. Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
31
.

19
. Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
81
.

20
. Ibid., p.
119
.

21
. Ibid., p.
107
.

22
. Percy Wyndham to Philip Webb,
c
.January
1886
, quoted in ibid., p.
82
.

23
. Quoted in Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
83
.

24
. Ibid., p.
81
.

25
. Violet Bradby,
A Family Chronicle
, quoted in ibid., p.
116
.

26
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
18
December
1885
, Stanway Papers.

27
. Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
119
.

28
. Fiona MacCarthy, ‘
Lethaby, William Richard
(
1857
–
1931
)
’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, Oxford, Oxford University Press,
2004
; online edn, May
2008
[
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/
34503
, accessed
22
October
2013
].

29
.
Wemyss,
Family Record
, pp.
21
–
2
.

30
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
16
September (
1883
), Stanway Papers.

31
. Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
94
; Asquith,
Haply I May Remember
, p.
42
.

32
. Mary Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci,
24
September
1889
, De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/
87
/
3
.

33
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
15
September
1884
, Stanway Papers.

34
. Pamela Glenconner,
The Earthen Vessel: A Volume Dealing with Spirit-Communication Received in the Form of Book-Tests
(New York, John Lane,
1921
), p.
138
.

35
. Walburga, Lady Paget,
In my Tower
,
2
vols (Hutchinson,
1924
),
1
.
5
–
6
.

36
. Samuel Hynes,
The Edwardian Turn of Mind: First World War and English Culture
(Pimlico,
1991
), pp.
134
–
5
.

37
. Ibid., p.
139
.

38
. Ibid.

39
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho, September
1884
, Stanway Papers.

40
. Glenconner,
The Earthen Vessel
, pp.
136
–
7
.

41
. Dakers,
Clouds
,
p.
78
.

42
. Ibid., p.
105
.

43
. Angela Lambert,
Unquiet Souls: The Indian Summer of the British Aristocracy
(Macmillan,
1984
), p.
144
.

44
. Ibid.

45
. Madeline Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
c
.September
1884
, Stanway Papers.

46
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
14
March
1892
, Stanway Papers.

47
. Petworth Papers; Jeremy Musson,
Up and Down Stairs
(John Murray,
2009
), pp.
148
–
9
.

48
. Ibid., p.
245
. Horne’s memoir was splendidly titled
What the Butler Winked At
(T. Werner Laurie,
1923
), confirmation for suspicious employers of just how much their staff knew about their most intimate lives.

49
. Dakers,
Clouds
,
p.
107
.

1
. Marquand,
Britain since
1918
, p.
32
.

2
. White,
London in the Nineteenth Century
, p.
375
.

3
. Marquand,
Britain since
1918
, p.
58
.

4
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, n.d., Stanway Papers.

5
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
28
January
1886
, Stanway Papers.

6
. See Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
21
March
1885
and
6
January
1886
, Stanway Papers. The Cadogan Square house was originally numbered
36
, and then renumbered
62
as the square expanded. Hugo’s initial objection – that the house did not come with stables – was overcome when Mary found stables nearby that the Elchos could buy.

7
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
20
March
1883
, Stanway Papers.

8
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
7
February
1886
, Stanway Papers.

9
. White,
London in the Nineteenth Century
, p.
376
.

10
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, dated
7
February
1886
(in fact, the riots were on
8
February), Stanway Papers.

11
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
21
February
1886
, Stanway Papers.

12
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
1
February
1906
(
Letters
, p.
231
).

13
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
27
February
1886
, Stanway Papers.

14
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
21
February
1886
, Stanway Papers.

15
. Laura Lyttelton to Arthur Balfour,
2
April
1886
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
479
/
1
f.
6
r.

16
. Margot Asquith to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
10
and
28
May
1906
,
27
January
1911
, quoted in Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
375
.

17
. Mary Elcho, diary entry,
24
April
1886
, Stanway Papers.

18
. Laura Lyttelton to Arthur Balfour,
2
April
1886
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
479
/
1
f.
6
r.

19
. Asquith,
An Autobiography
,
1
.
63
–
4
.

20
. Spencer Lyttelton to Mary Gladstone,
22
April
1886
, quoted in Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
54
.

21
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
26
April
1886
, Stanway Papers.

22
. Quoted in Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, p.
24
.

23
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
8
May
1886
(
Letters
, pp.
24
–
5
).

24
. Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
54
.

25
. Ibid.

26
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
8
May
1886
(
Letters
, pp.
24
–
5
).

27
. Wheatcroft,
The Strange Death of Tory England
, p.
33
; Marquand,
Britain since
1918
, p.
57
; James,
Aristocrats
, p.
337
.

28
. Asquith,
An Autobiography
,
1
.
203
–
4
.