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16
. Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, p.
352
.

17
. Quoted in ibid., p.
353
.

18
. Ibid., p.
354
.

19
. Quoted in Abdy and Gere,
The Souls
, p.
41
.

20
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
7
March
1929
(
Letters
, p.
353
).

21
. Ettie Desborough to Mary Elcho,
25
January
1930
, Desborough Papers, HALS DE/Rv/C
1100
/
257
.

22
. Ettie Desborough to Mary Elcho,
16
June
1936
, Desborough Papers, HALS DE/Rv/C
1100
/
176
.

23
. Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
226
.

24
. Ibid., pp.
225
–
7
,
239
–
44
.

25
. Ettie Desborough to Mary Elcho, n.d. [
1935
], Desborough Papers, HALS DE/Rv/C
1100
/
167
.

26
. Evelyn de Vesci to Evan Charteris, n.d. [summer
1936
], De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/
5
/
3
/
2
.

27
. Evan Charteris to Evelyn de Vesci, n.d. [summer
1936
], De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/
5
/
3
/
2
.

28
. Evelyn de Vesci to unknown correspondent, n.d., DD DRU
5
/
3
/
2
.

29
. Dorothy Charteris to Evelyn de Vesci,
18
August
1936
, De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/
5
/
3
/
2
.

30
. Evan Charteris to Evelyn de Vesci, n.d. [summer
1936
], De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/
5
/
3
/
2
.

31
. Ibid.

32
. Ibid.

33
. Ibid.

34
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
3
February
1937
, Stanway Papers.

35
.
The Times
,
3
May
1937
.

36
. Ibid.,
4
August
1941
.

37
. Ibid.,
2
August
1941
.

38
. Pamela slightly misquoted this, as she so often did, as ‘the Light of the Just shineth more & more unto the perfect Day’.

39
. Again, Pamela misquotes, giving the boy’s name as ‘Hans’.

40
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
13
March
1928
, Stanway Papers.

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