Those Wild Wyndhams (65 page)

17
. Ibid., p.
17
.

18
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
14
March
1894
, Adeane Papers.

19
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, January
1894
(
Letters
, p.
94
).

20
. Pamela Tennant to Sibell Grosvenor,
1
February
1894
, George Wyndham Papers.

21
. Pamela Tennant to Sibell Grosvenor, October
1894
, George Wyndham Papers.

22
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
28
August
1916
, Stanway Papers.

23
. Pamela Tennant to Sibell, Countess Grosvenor,
1
February
1894
, George Wyndham Papers.

24
. Ibid.

25
. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Secret Memoirs XVI,
4
May
1894
.

26
. ‘Testament of Millicent Fawcett’,
19
March
1894
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
482
f.
23
r.

27
. Millicent Fawcett to Arthur Balfour,
26
March
1894
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
482
f.
27–8
r.

28
. Arthur Balfour to Millicent Fawcett, copy, n.d., Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
482
f.
25–6
r.

29
. ‘Testament of Millicent Fawcett’,
19
March
1894
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
482
f.
23
r.

30
. Arthur Balfour to Harry Cust,
1
June
1894
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
482
f.
41
r.

31
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, n.d. [spring
1894
], Adeane Papers.

32
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
14
March
1894
, Adeane Papers.

33
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
5
May
1894
, Adeane Papers.

1
. Roy Hattersley,
David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider
(Little, Brown,
2010
), p.
72
.

2
. Cannadine,
Decline and Fall
, p.
45
.

3
. The letter that the Queen wrote to Gladstone after their meeting was scarcely warmer. Victoria told her erstwhile Prime Minister that she would confer a peerage on him, except that she knew he would not accept it: Hibbert,
Queen Victoria
, pp.
368
,
376
.

4
. Ibid., p.
376
.

5
. Patrick Jackson, ‘Harcourt, Lewis Vernon, First Viscount Harcourt (
1863
–
1922
)’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, Oxford University Press,
2004
; online edn, January
2008
,
www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/
33692
, accessed
14
November
2013
.

6
. McKenna,
Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
, pp.
332
–
3
.

7
. Ibid., pp.
342
–
3
.

8
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
30
October
1894
, Stanway Papers.

9
. Ibid.

10
. Pamela Tennant to Sibell, Countess Grosvenor,
29
September
1894
, George Wyndham Papers.

11
. Pamela Tennant to Sibell, Countess Grosvenor, n.d. [October
1894
]. ‘Percy’s policy for dealing with misfortunes had not changed since he outlined it to Madeline Wyndham thirty years before, and would not change thereafter. Some five years later, he briskly, albeit sympathetically, reproved his eldest daughter when she made reference to domestic troubles: ‘I know well all your trials and difficulties but don’t allude to them as it only makes things worse putting them down in
black
and
white
and
underlining
them’ (Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
22
November
1900
, Stanway Papers).

12
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
30
October
1894
, Stanway Papers.

13
. McKenna,
Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
, p.
422
.

14
. Ibid., p.
421
.

15
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
30
October
1894
, Stanway Papers.

16
. Ibid.

17
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
14
December
1894
, Adeane Papers.

18
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
10
December
1894
, Adeane Papers.

19
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
30
October
1894
, Stanway Papers.

1
. For discussion of the play, see Hynes,
Edwardian Turn of Mind
, pp.
174
–
8
.

2
. Ibid., pp.
177
–
8
.

3
. Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
295
.

4
. Fingall,
70
Years Young
, p.
184
.

5
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
16
November
1893
, Blunt Papers, FM
1529
-
1976
.

6
. Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
308
.

7
. Ibid., p.
307
.

8
. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Secret Memoirs XVI,
10
to
13
August and
5
October
1894
.

9
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
22
November
1894
, Stanway Papers.

10
. Annie, Countess of Wemyss and March to Mary Elcho,
30
September
1894
, Stanway Papers.

11
. Ibid.

12
.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, diary entry,
5
January
1895
, Blunt Papers, FM
343
-
1975.

13
. Mary Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci,
17
January
1895
, De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/
87
.

14
. Ibid.

15
. Quoted in Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
311
.

16
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
27
February
1895
(
Letters
, p.
120
).

17
. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, diary entry,
14
/
15
January
1895
, FM
344
-
1975
.

18
. Ibid.

19
. Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
311
; Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
27
March
1899
, Blunt Papers, FM
492
-
1975
; and
5
May
1906
, Blunt Papers, FM
559
-
1975
.

20
. Quoted in Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
313
.

21
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
6
April
1899
, Blunt Papers, FM
493
-
1975
.

22
. Ibid.

23
. Quoted in Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
311
.

24
. Beauman,
Cynthia Asquith
, pp.
26
,
30
,
292
–
3
.

25
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
6
April
1899
, Blunt Papers, FM
493
-
1975
.

26
. Mary Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci,
13
February
1895
, De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/
87
.

27
. Quoted in Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
312
.

28
. Ibid., p.
313.

29
. Hugo Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci, n.d. [
1895
], De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/
102
.

30
. Ibid.

31
. Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
313
.

32
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
6
April
1899
, Blunt Papers, FM
493
-
1975
.

33
. Harrison,
Autobiographic Memoirs
,
2
.
173
–
9
.

34
. Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
313
.

35
. Hugo Elcho to Mary Elcho, n.d. [February
1895
], Stanway Papers.

36
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
6
April
1899
, Blunt Papers, FM
493
-
1975
.

37
. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, diary entries,
5
March
1895
to
13
March
1895
, Blunt Papers, FM
344
-
1975
.

38
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
6
April
1899
, Blunt Papers, FM
493
-
1975
.

39
. Hugo Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci,
20
March
1895
, De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/
102
.

40
. Telegram from Hugo Elcho to Mary Elcho,
20
March
1895
, Stanway Papers. It had been arranged in Hugo’s previous letter to Mary that the two would meet in Rome: Hugo Elcho to Mary Elcho,
14
March
1895
, Stanway Papers.

41
. Hugo Elcho to Evelyn de Vesci,
20
March
1895
, De Vesci Papers, DD/DRU/
102
.

42
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
21
March
1895
, Stanway Papers.

43
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
9
April
1895
, Stanway Papers.

44
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
9
July
1895
, Stanway Papers.

45
. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Secret Memoirs XVII, diary entry,
13
May
1895
(transcript of a letter from Mary Elcho), Blunt Papers, FM
34
-
1975
; Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
9
July
1895
, Stanway Papers.

46
. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Secret Memoirs XVII, diary entry, May
1895
.

1
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
6
April
1895
, Adeane Papers.

2
. George Wyndham to Percy Wyndham,
7
April
1895
, BL Eccles Bequest (unbound), vol. CXIV, Add. MSS.
81732
.

3
. Ibid.

4
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
20
March
1895
(
Letters
, p.
123
).

5
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
6
May
1895
, Stanway Papers.

6
. Paget,
In my Tower
,
25
April
1895
,
1
.
136
–
9
.

7
. Blow,
Broken Blood
, p.
113
.

8
. Quoted in Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
51
.

9
. E. F. Benson,
Dodo – A Detail of the Day
(Lightning Source UK, [n.d.]), p.
27
.

10
. Quoted in Ellenberger., ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics
’
, p.
64
.

11
. Pamela Tennant to George Wyndham,
21
August
1895
, George Wyndham Papers; Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
6
May
1895
, Stanway Papers.

12
. Edward Tennant to Charlotte, Lady Ribblesdale,
7
May
1895
, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. c.
6697
f.
156
.

13
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
6
May
1895
, Stanway Papers.