Those Wild Wyndhams (63 page)

1
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, Good Friday (
30
March
1888
), Stanway Papers.

2
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
30
March
1888
, Stanway Papers.

3
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
26
November
1887
, Adeane Papers.

4
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
18
May
1888
, Stanway Papers.

5
. Ibid.

6
.
Modern Society
,
4
August
1888
, Adeane Papers.

7
. Charles Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
26
July
1888
, Adeane Papers.

8
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
1
August
1888
, Stanway Papers.

9
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
4
August
1888
, Adeane Papers.

10
. Charles Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
26
July
1888
, Adeane Papers.

11
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
12
August
1888
, Adeane Papers.

12
. Madeline Adeane to George Wyndham,
25
August
1888
, George Wyndham Papers.

13
. George Wyndham to Madeline Adeane,
31
August
1888
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
226
.

14
. Madeline Adeane to George Wyndham,
25
August
1888
, George Wyndham Papers.

15
. Marie Mallet,
Life with Queen Victoria: Marie Mallet’s Letters from Court
1887
–
1901
,
ed. Victor Mallet (John Murray,
1968
), p. xiv; Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
27
March
1889
, Stanway Papers.

16
. Madeline Adeane to Percy Wyndham,
8
October
1889
, Adeane Papers.

17
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
28
March
1889
, Adeane Papers.

18
. Charles Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
6
September
1893
, Adeane Papers.

19
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
17
July
1889
, Adeane Papers.

1
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
17
September
1893
, Stanway Papers.

2
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
8
March
1887
, Stanway Papers.

3
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
21
September
1888
, Stanway Papers.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
134
.

6
. Mary Elcho to Lady Frances Balfour,
21
January
1889
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
301
f.
11
r.

7
. Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
130
.

8
. Ibid., p.
131
.

9
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
23
.

10
. Olivier,
Four Victorian Ladies
, p.
89
.

11
. Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, p.
58
.

12
. Abdy and Gere,
The Souls
, pp.
160
–
1
; and see Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
3
April
1905
(
Letters
, p.
221
).

13
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
23
January
1889
(
Letters
, p.
56
).

14
. Ibid. (
Letters
, p.
55
).

15
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
13
January
1889
(
Letters
, p.
55
).

16
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
23
January
1889
(
Letters
, p.
56
).

17
. Mary Elcho to Frances Balfour,
21
January
1889
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
301
f.
11
r.

18
. George Wyndham to Madeline Wyndham,
7
January
1889
, Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
231
.

19
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
15
March
1889
and
7
February
1905
, Stanway Papers.

20
. Quoted in Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
134
.

21
. Ibid.

22
. Lady Betty Balfour to Lady Frances Balfour,
14
January
1899
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
301
f.
10
r.

23
. Ibid.

24
. Quoted in Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
131
.

25
. Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
231
.

26
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
13
January
1889
(
Letters
, p.
55
).

27
. Dakers,
Clouds
, pp.
132
–
3
.

28
. Quoted in ibid., p.
135
.

29
. Ibid.

1
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
17
July
1889
, Adeane Papers.

2
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
14
September
1888
, Stanway Papers.

3
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
27
March
1899
, Blunt Papers, FM
492
-
1975
.

4
. Quoted in Philip Hoare,
Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant
(Hamish Hamilton,
1990
), p.
8
.

5
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
14
June
1928
, Stanway Papers.

6
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
23
November
1891
, Stanway Papers.

7
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
16
November
1893
, Blunt Papers, FM
1592
-
1976
.

8
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
10
February
1889
, Stanway Papers.

9
. Quoted in Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
22
.

10
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
14
September
1888
, Stanway Papers.

11
. Lady Frances Balfour to Lady Betty Balfour,
13
July
1889
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
301
f.
42
r.

12
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
16
August
1893
(
Letters
, p.
95
).

13
.
The World
,
16
July
1890
, quoted in Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
55
; and in Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
10
.

14
. Ellenberger, ‘The Souls and London “Society”’, pp.
146
–
7
.

15
. Ibid.

16
. Lady Frances Balfour to Lady Betty Balfour, June
1889
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
301
f.
32
r.

17
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
3
July
1889
, Stanway Papers.

18
. Mary Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci,
28
April
1891
, De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/
87
/
3
.

19
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
3
December
1899
, Adeane Papers.

20
. Mary Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci,
2
July
1889
, De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU
87
/
3
.

21
. Mary Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci,
28
April
1891
, De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/
87
/
3
.

22
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
27
July
1900
, Stanway Papers.

23
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
28
July
1889
, Stanway Papers.

24
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
17
September
1890
, Stanway Papers.

25
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
28
July
1889
, Stanway Papers.

26
. Ibid.

27
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
3
August
1889
, Stanway Papers.

28
. Mary Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci,
7
August
1889
, De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/
87
/
3
.

29
. Ibid.

30
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
3
April
1889
, Adeane Papers.

31
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
25
September
1889
, Adeane Papers.

32
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
4
October
1889
, Adeane Papers.

33
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
17
September
1893
, Stanway Papers.

34
. Madeline Adeane to Pamela Tennant,
8
October
1889
, Adeane Papers.

35
. Marie Mallet to Lady Elizabeth Biddulph,
8
November
1889
, quoted in Mallet,
Life with Queen Victoria
, p.
35
.

1
. Neil McKenna,
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
(Arrow Books,
2004
), pp.
185
–
6
.

2
. Curzon’s reference is presumably to the quintessential false god of the Old Testament: see
2
Kings
5
:
18
: ‘In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant,
that
when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing
.’

3
. Helen Kelsall Melland, Asquith’s first wife, was the daughter of a Manchester doctor. The Asquiths married in
1877
and had five children: Raymond, Herbert, Arthur, Violet and Cyril. Helen died a few months after this visit, in the autumn of
1891
, from typhoid fever.

4
. Quoted in Davenport-Hines,
Ettie
, pp.
57
–
8
.

5
. Mary Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci,
28
April
1891
, De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/
87
/
3
.

6
. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Secret Memoirs XVI,
1
July
1893
to
3
July
1893
, Blunt Papers, FM
33
-
1975
.

7
. Quoted in David Gilmour,
Curzon: Imperial Statesman
(John Murray,
2003
), pp.
103
–
4
.

8
. Quoted in Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
293
.

9
. Vansittart,
The Mist Procession
, p.
90
.

10
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
16
August
1893
(
Letters
, p.
14
).

11
. Quoted in Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
187
. If rumours are to be believed, Harry’s affair with a housemaid at Belton House, home of his uncle and aunt, the Earl and Countess Brownlow, resulted in the child named Beatrice Stephenson, whose own daughter was Margaret Roberts, later Thatcher. Certainly Lady Diana Cooper, Harry’s daughter by Violet Granby, maintained that Mrs Thatcher was her niece. See the
Telegraph
,
4
June
2008
and the
Express
,
21
April
2013
.