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The hair would contract
 . . . ABC, 25.1.83
They started my
 . . .
Granta 21
, 1987
The Danakil journey
 . . .
AOR
, 110
As Rimbaud was
 . . . Box 10
Not entirely suitable
 . . .
WAIDH
, 361
Could you live
 . . .
OTBH,
28
The deed is done
 . . . BC to IF, 8.6.65
Everything is perfectly
 . . . EC to GC, 22.6.65
partly because Bobby
 . . . GC to EC, 2.3.65
We are so pleased
 . . . GC to MC, 26.6.65
One thing you
 . . . GC to EC, 4.7.65
I do hope you
 . . . BC to GC, 22.6.65
We’re getting married
 . . . BC to IG, ND
I thought I’d drown
 . . . Eleanor Macmillan to EC, 27.6.65
Letters are all
 . . . BC to EC, ND
Father Murray
 . . . BC to EC, 15.7.65
Am much cheered
 . . . 30.7.65
as one day
 . . . EC to GC, 29.6.65
My Dear Liz
 . . . 22.7.65
I hate to be trite
 . . . Jane Lyons to EC, 9.11.65
I still think
 . . . MC to GC, 7.10.65
XV: Out of His Depth
 
My career was
 . . .
Granta 21
, 1987
as she will be
 . . . MC to GC, 18.10.65
31 cents annually
 . . . John Chanler
Our situation is not
 . . . EC to GC, 17.10.65
No luck with
 . . . BC to GC, 23.10.65
Wilson told him
 . . . Kenneth Rose diary, 19.4.68
I’ve discovered there’s
 . . . EC to GC, 28.10.65
Lady Rosse is
 . . . EC to GC, 24.11.65
John Hewett and
 . . . BC to GC, 23.10.65
We are sitting
 . . . BC to GC, 7.1.66
All the bluebells
 . . . EC to GC, ND
The main thing is
 . . . O’Donnell Iselin to EC, 19.4.66
He realised then
 . . . BC to Kasmin
I was never
 . . . BC to CT
I decided I didn’t
 . . . SH, ABC, March 1984
Two days in
 . . . BC to JI, 8.12.69
Sotheby’s name must
 . . . BC to Edward Peregrine, 30.6.60
You must tell
 . . . Leo Lerman to EC, 29.8.66
fraudulently
 . . . BC to NS, 27.8.88
a nasty novel
 . . . CW to BC, 24.8.66
to guide Goering’s
Luftwaffe
 . . . Patrick Wright,
The Village that Died for England
(Jonathan Cape, 1995), 163
rather terrifying
 . . . Julian Pitt-Rivers
Bruce used to
 . . . EC to GC, April 21, ND
Peter Wilson did not
 . . .
Sotheby’s: Bidding for class
, 161
A most disagreeable
 . . .
WAIDH
, 357
XVI: The Archaeologist
 
I met him
 . . . Breyten Breytenbach,
Return to Paradise
(Faber & Faber, 1993), 69
I am afraid
 . . . BC to GC, 6.7.66
the worst of all
 . . . Box 34
fantastic beasts
 . . . Box 30
I know, from experience
 . . . CW to BC, 28.5.66
He has hardly
 . . . BC to GC, 6.7.66
very unedifying
 . . . SP to NS
What we like to call
 . . .
The Times
, 24.9.96
Sotheby’s is having
 . . . EC to GC, 24.6.66
With each day
 . . . BC to EC, 30.11.66
Change is the only
 . . . BC to Michael Cannon, ND
I saw myself
 . . . BC to NS, June 1987
of Alexander Dumas
 . . . BC in “Pompeii – same old humanity”,
Spectator
, 4.12.76
Totally bewildering
 . . . Box 32
I’m dedicating
 . . . Stephen Tennant to BC, 6.11.66
One can only pray
 . . . BC to EC, 30.11.66
Edinburgh must be
 . . . ST to BC, November, ND
a pencil sketch
 . . . Box 32
gaunt northern capital
 . . . “The Road to the Isles”,
TLS
, 25.10.74
Now we have
 . . . EC to GC, 6.9.66
Allowing for the worst
 . . . EC to GC, ND
Everything takes FOREVER
 . . . EC to GC, 24.6.66
I still think
 . . . BC to EC, 27.11.66
I also want
 . . . BC to EC, 30.11.66
At one point
 . . . EC to GC, 13.3.67
Elizabeth is angry
 . . . SP, 15.3.67
revealing all in
 . . . SP, 6.2.67
much entertaining gossip
 . . . SP, 6.8.68
grave and growing
 . . .
The Times
, 24.5.67
My feelings are
 . . . BC to JI, 8.4.72
potentially wonderful
 . . . JI to BC, 12.1.72
My friend Mr Batey
 . . . BC to CW, 6.2.68
Then we went
 . . . BC to EC, June 1967
My Turkish friends
 . . . BC to GC, 4.10.67
all too clear
 . . . CW to BC, 11.5.70
She was very welcoming
 . . . SP, 6.5.67
Elizabeth had suddenly
 . . . SP, 5.2.68
Life is empty
 . . . Box 31
I remember him
 . . . Alice Chanler to EC, 7.2.89
childlessness, being at
 . . .
The South Bank Show
, 7.11.82
Time in its
 . . .
OTBH
, 14
Nearly became a
 . . . Box 34
There is a distinct
 . . . Box 35
The Noblest workes
 . . . Box 37
Low fertility
 . . . Box 37
He’s a sorcerer
 . . . Box 23
Examine the possibility
 . . . Box 35
He was a single
 . . .
IP
, 141
XVII: A Season in Hell
 
Sound scholarship
 . . . Box 35
I’m afraid he is
 . . . EC to GC, 21.2.67
who is my new
 . . . BC to EC, July 1967
I’m in a horrid
 . . . BC to EC, ND
I am full
 . . . MC to GC, 2.10.67
We see mostly professors
 . . . EC to GC, ND
Bruce continues to
 . . . EC to GC, 29.2.68
She is a big
 . . . BC to EC, 30.11.66
Sometimes during Lent
 . . . Tamara Talbot Rice,
Tamara: memoirs of St Petersburg, Paris, Oxford and Byzantium
(John Murray, 1996), 25
The prehistoric Animal
 . . . From “A Nomad Collector”
an odd young
 . . . 7.7.68
a lady Marxist
 . . .
WAIDH
, 59
I now dread
 . . . 11.5.68
who is running
 . . . 3.7.68
Could you try
 . . . BC to EC, July 5
may well be
 . . . BC to EC, ND
Every plan was
 . . . BC to Peter Levi, 15.10.68
Reading Chatwin
 . . .
With Chatwin,
42
reciting a Shakespeare
 . . . BC to PL
Liver pains and
 . . . BC to Joan Leigh Fermor, 30.11.71
Although Ruth
 . . . 16.7.68
I got very depressed
 . . . 9.7.68
Bruce & George went
 . . . 9.7.68
Nearly half way through
 . . . 10.7.68
When one speculated
 . . .
AOR
, 178
Moscow is an
 . . . 16.7.68
Most archaeologists interpret
 . . . Box 31
If an archaeologist has
 . . . Box 31
I began to feel
 . . . BC to NS
two supermale ladies
 . . . BC to JI, 8.12.69
Emmy is fine
 . . . BC to EC, ND
He is dreading
 . . . EC to GC, 14.7.68
His mounting contemept
 . . .
Tatler,
October 1982
XVIII: That Wretched Book
 
Wild horses
 . . . EC to GC, 21.3.69

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