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16
DG/AVG, Hilton, 28 February 1940 [KCC].

17
DG/CG, Hilton, Tuesday 27 February 1940 [HRRC].

18
DG/AVG, Hilton, ‘Good Friday' [22 March 1940] [KCC].

19
DG/AVG, Hilton, ‘Easter Sunday' [24 March 1940] [KCC].

20
DG/THW, Hilton [late March 1940], in DG, ed.,
White/Garnett Letters
, p. 62.

21
DG/RG and William Garnett, Hilton, 26 March 1940 [RG].

22
DG,
Familiar Faces
, p. 218.

23
DG/D. Grant, Hilton, 27 April 1940 [HG].

24
Diary entry for 29 March 1940 in Frances Partridge,
A Pacifist's War
(London: Hogarth Press, 1978; Robin Clark paperback edition 1983), p. 34.

25
DG/AVG, Hilton, ‘Tuesday evening' [April 1940] [KCC].

26
DG/D Grant, Hilton, 27 April 1940 [HG].

27
DG/AG, Butts Intake, 30 April [1940] [KCC].

28
DG, ‘Burst Balloons', unpublished MS [c. 1970] [RG].

29
CG/DG, The Cearne, 13 June 1940 [HRRC].

30
AVG/DG, Charleston, ‘Thursday' [April 1940] [KCC].

31
DG/CG, Claverham Farm, 26 February 1941 [HRRC].

32
Quoted in DG/RG, The Cearne, 13 June 1943 [RG].

33
DG/AVG, 159 Clifford's Inn, 13 November 1941[KCC].

34
AVG/DG [Longford Grove], [16 November 1941] [KCC].

35
DG/AVG, 159 Clifford's Inn, 18 November 1941 [KCC].

Chapter Twenty-Four

1
  DG/THW, Hilton [September 1938], in DG, ed.,
White/Garnett Letters
, p. 34.

2
  DG/AVG, Political Intelligence Department of the FO, Centre Block, Bush House, Aldwych, ‘Tuesday' [c. late March 1942] [KCC].

3
  DG/AVG, 159 Clifford's Inn, 18 November 1941 [KCC].

4
  AVG/DG, Eyewood, Friday 21 November [1941] [KCC].

5
  AVG interviewed by the author, Forcalquier, France, 3 January 2008.

6
  AVG/DG, Eywood, Tuesday 2 December 1941 [KCC].

7
  VB/AVG, Charleston, 2 December [1941] [KCC].

8
  AVG, ‘Connie' [Northwestern].

9
  DG/AVG, Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office, 2 Fitzmaurice Place, London W1, Tuesday 2 December 1941 [KCC].

10
Partridge,
A Pacifist's War
, p. 124.

11
AVG/DG, Eywood, ‘Tuesday' [10 December 1941] [KCC].

12
DG/AVG, 159 Clifford's Inn, Monday 17 November [1941] [KCC].

13
Andrew Roberts, Introduction, in David Garnett,
The Secret History of PWE: The Political Warfare Executive 1939–1945
(London: St Ermin's Press, 2002), p. xiii.

14
Charles Cruickshank,
The Fourth Arm: Psychological Warfare 1938–1945
(London: Davis-Poynter, 1977), pp. 26–27.

15
Ibid., pp. 31–2.

16
Quoted in Robert Hewison,
Under Siege: Literary Life in London 1939–45
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977; Readers Union edition, 1978), p. 55.

17
George Orwell, ‘As I Please',
Tribune
, 13 October 1944, quoted in Hewison,
Under Siege
, p. 56.

18
Partridge,
A Pacifist's War
, p. 124.

19
David Garnett, ed.,
Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1979; paperback edition, Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 11.

20
Quoted in Partridge,
A Pacifist's War
, p. 133.

21
AVG/D. Grant, The Central Institute of Art and Design, National Gallery, London, TS, 6 May 1942 [copy or unsent letter?] [KCC].

22
DG, ‘Burst Balloons', unpublished TS [c. 1970] [RG].

23
Ray's ashes remained in a cupboard at Hilton Hall until Richard found them when he took over the house. After being buried under a mulberry tree until it blew down, they found a final resting place in the shadow of a crag at Ridley Stokoe.

24
DG/FP, Crown Inn, Stannersburn, Tuesday 12 May 1942 [KCC].

25
Partridge,
A Pacifist's War
, diary entry for 20 June 1942, p. 139.

26
DG,
The Secret History of PWE
, p. 113.

27
DG/THW, 41 Gordon Square, 2 July 1943, in DG, ed.,
White/Garnett Letters
, p. 124.

28
DG/RG, Ham Spray, 22 August 1943 [RG].

29
DG/RG, 41 Gordon Square, 17 October 1943 [RG].

30
AVG/DG, Charleston, ‘Thursday' [late November 1943] [KCC].

31
DG/RG, 41 Gordon Square, 1 July 1943 [RG].

32
Partridge,
A Pacifist's War
, p. 172, diary entry for 1 November 1943.

33
DG/RG, 41 Gordon Square, 6 September 1943 [RG].

34
DG/THW, 41 Gordon Square [January 1944], in DG, ed.,
White/Garnett Letters
, p. 143.

35
DG/RG, 25–28 February 1944 [RG].

36
AVG, ‘Connie', 1986, TS [Northwestern].

37
DG, ‘Burst Balloons', unpublished TS [c. 1970] [RG].

38
Leonard Woolf,
The Journey Not the Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1969
(London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), pp. 138–9.

39
DG/CG, Butts Intake, Saturday 5 August 1944 [HRRC].

40
Cyriax's mother, Dr Annjuta Cyriax, was a friend of Constance, and the sister-in-law of Antonia Almgrem, Bunny's first lover.

Chapter Twenty-Five

1
  As I Please',
Tribune
, 13 October 1944, quoted in Hewison,
Under Siege
, p. 85.

2
  DG/F Partridge, 41 Gordon Square, 18 May 1945 [KCC].

3
  Evelyn Waugh,
Brideshead Revisited
(London: Chapman & Hall, 1945; Penguin 1981).

4
  Ibid. p. 71.

5
  DG/F Partridge, Hilton, 18 July 1945 [KCC].

6
  AVG interviewed by the author, Forcalquier, France, 3 January 2008.

7
  DG/F Partridge, 41 Gordon Square, 18 May 1945 [KCC].

8
  DG/AVG, The Reform Club, 10 October 1946 [KCC].

9
  THW/DG [Doolistown], [?25 November 1944], in DG, ed.,
White/Garnett Letters
, p. 179.

10
DG/RG, Crown Inn, Stannersburn, 1 October 1945 [RG].

11
DG/L Woolf, Hilton, 19 February 1946 [Sussex].

12
DG/RH-D, Claverham Farm, Berwick, 10 February 1941, TS [Northwestern].

13
RH-D/DG, as from Bromsden Farm, Henley-on-Thames, 15 February 1941 [Northwestern].

14
Quoted in Richard Garnett,
Rupert Hart-Davis Limited
(London: The Book Collector, 2004), p. 8.

15
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency/results.asp-mid
.

16
Philip Ziegler,
Rupert Hart-Davis: Man of Letters
(London: Chatto & Windus, 2004), p. 133.

17
DG/Roy Harrod, Hilton, 7 March 1947 [BL].

18
John Maynard Keynes,
Two Memoirs
, Introduced by David Garnett (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949), p. 8.

19
(c. 1943), National Portrait Gallery, London.

20
DG, Pocket Diary, entry for Thursday 28 March 1946 [Northwestern].

21
DG, Notebook, ‘Volume 4', unpublished MS [Northwestern].

22
Roberts, Introduction in DG,
The Secret History of PWE
, p. xv.

23
DG/FP, 51 Gordon Square, 22 November 1946 [KCC].

24
VB/Jane Bussy, Charleston, 20 December [1946] in Marler, ed.,
Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
, p. 509.

25
DG, Notebook ‘Volume 4', unpublished MS [Northwestern].

26
DG, Pocket Diary 1946 [Northwestern].

27
DG/FP, Hilton, 6 February 1947 [KCC].

28
MCurtiss/DG, The Ritz-Carlton, Boston, 19 January 1947 [Northwestern].

Chapter Twenty-Six

1
  DG/Elizabeth Frost, Hilton, 4 January 1949 [Northwestern].

2
  Despite the date 1946 on the title pages.

3
  DG/AVG, The Cearne, 11 July 1947 [KCC].

4
  STW/DG, Maiden Newton, 24 January 1962 in RG, ed.,
Sylvia and David
, p. 66.

5
  John Lehmann, single page of [incomplete] TS re DG, n.d. [Princeton].

6
  Quoted in Nicholas Mosley,
Efforts at Truth: an Autobiography
(London: Secker & Warburg, 1994; Dalkey Archive, 1995), p. 17.

7
  David Garnett, ed.,
The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock
(London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948), p. xii.

8
  Ibid., p. xiii.

9
  DG/FP, Hilton, 25 April 1948 [KCC].

10
DG, Pocket Diary 1948, entry for Saturday 3 July [Northwestern].

11
Quoted in Ziegler,
Rupert Hart-Davis
, p. 142.

12
C. Prentice/DG, Piper's Barn, Penpol, Near Truro, 29 May 1948 [Northwestern].

13
Ziegler,
Rupert Hart-Davis
, p. 142.

14
Ibid., p. 135.

15
Quoted in ibid., p 137.

16
DG/AVG, Hilton, 9 September 1948 [KCC].

17
DG/AVG, Hilton, 15 September 1948 [KCC].

18
DG/M. Curtiss, Hilton, 22 February 1949 [Berg].

19
DG/AVG, Hilton, 11 August 1949 [KCC].

20
DG/AVG, Hilton, Thursday 8 September 1949 [KCC].

21
DG/M. Curtiss, Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd, 53 Connaught Street, 4 January 1950 [Berg].

22
Ziegler,
Rupert Hart-Davis
, p. 161.

23
RG,
Rupert Hart-Davis
, p. 17.

24
Partridge,
Everything to Lose
, diary entry for 6 June 1950, pp. 116–17.

25
AVG/DG, Cézy, Wednesday [July 1950] [KCC].

26
DG/M. Curtiss, Hilton, 18 November 1950 [Berg].

27
A. Hopkin/DG, The Office [c. April] [1951] [Northwestern].

Chapter Twenty-Seven

1
  DG/L. Woolf, 20 November 1961 [Sussex].

2
  JMK/DG, 7 February 1938 [KCC].

3
  David Garnett, ‘Forster and Bloomsbury', in Oliver Stallybrass, ed.,
Aspects of E.M. Forster: Essays and Recollections Written for his Ninetieth Birthday
(London: Edward Arnold, 1969), p. 34.

4
  DG/M. Curtiss, Hilton, 23 September 1951 [Berg].

5
  DG, Notebook, ‘Rosemary Peto', unpublished MS [Northwestern].

6
  HG/SGK [personal communication].

7
  DG/AVG, 45 Quai Bourbon IV, Good Friday [11 April] 1952 [KCC].

8
  DG/AVG, Hilton, Saturday 19 April 1952 [KCC].

9
  DG/AVG, Hilton, 24 May 1952 [KCC].

10
M. Curtiss/DG, The Ritz-Carlton, Boston, 19 January 1947 [Northwestern].

11
Ziegler,
Rupert Hart-Davis
, p. 164.

12
Dennis Proctor/DG, 46 St Mary Axe, London, 6 June 1952 [Northwestern].

13
RG, ‘For Angelica 17 July 2009' [RG].

14
DG/M. Curtiss, Hilton, 10 January 1953 [Berg].

15
HG/SGK [personal communication].

16
AVG/DG, Hotel d'Angleterre, ‘Monday' [c. 4 May 1953] [KCC].

17
AVG/DG, Charleston, ‘Saturday' [17 February 1940] [KCC].

18
DG/M Curtiss, Hilton, 27 May 1953 [Berg].

19
DG/M Curtiss, Hilton, 27 May 1953 [Berg].

20
Quoted in Ziegler,
Rupert Hart-Davis
, p. 165.

21
RG/SK.

22
DG/M. Curtiss, Hilton, 27 May 1953 [Berg].

23
RG,
Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd
, p. 22.

24
M. Curtiss/DG, Chapelbrook, 30 November 1953 [Northwestern].

25
DG/M. Curtiss, Hilton, 21 March 1954 [Berg].

26
Jane Garnett, ‘Notes on Bunny', unpublished TS [personal communication].

27
DH/AVG, Hilton, ‘Sunday night' [c. July 1953] [KCC].

28
David Garnett, ‘T.F. Powys' in
The Borzoi 1925: Being a Sort of Record of Ten Years of Publishing
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925), p. 90.

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