Those Wild Wyndhams (73 page)

56
. Ibid.

57
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
4
July
1916
, p.
187
.

58
.
The Times
,
26
September
1916
.

59
. Mary Elcho to Ettie Desborough,
26
September
1916
, Desborough Papers, HALS DE/Rv/C
477
/
49
; see also Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
376
, where Mary recounts those words, asking, ‘Could a finer epitaph be given by one soldier to another than these two words …?’

60
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, January
1916
(
Letters
, pp.
334
–
5
).

61
. Quoted in Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
196
.

62
. Ibid., p.
198
.

63
. Cannadine,
Decline
and Fall
, p.
76
.

64
. Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, p.
222
.

65
. Ibid.

66
. Ibid., p.
210
.

67
. Ibid.

68
. Ibid., p.
221
.

69
. Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
205
.

70
. Quoted in ibid., pp.
199
–
200
.

71
. Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, p.
166
.

72
. Ibid., p.
293
.

73
. Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
199
.

74
. Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, p.
229
.

75
. Ibid., p.
223
.

76
. Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
202
.

77
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
19
September
1916
, p.
217
.

78
. Davenport-Hines,
Ettie
, p.
212
.

79
. Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, p.
234
.

80
. Ibid., p.
115
.

81
. Ibid., p.
234
.

82
. Ibid., p.
238
.

83
. Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
202
.

84
. Ibid., p.
199
.

85
.
The Times
,
27
September
1916
.

86
. Ibid.

1
. Cannadine,
Decline and Fall
, p.
83.

2
. Quoted in ibid., p.
81
; Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
221
.

3
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
11
November
1915
, p.
97
.

4
. Cannadine,
Decline and Fall
, p.
80
.

5
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
5
December
1915
, Blunt Papers, FM
779
-
1975
.

6
. Davenport-Hines,
Ettie
, p.
209
.

7
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
12
September
1916
(
Letters
, p.
341
).

8
. Quoted in Davenport-Hines,
Ettie
, p.
212
.

9
. Glenconner,
The Earthen Vessel
, p.
82
.

10
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
21
January
1916
(
Letters
, pp.
342
–
3
).

11
. Ibid.

12
. Ibid.

13
. Mary Elcho to Ettie Desborough,
23
October
1931
, Desborough Papers, HALS DE/Rv/C
477
/
102
.

14
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
21
January
1916
(
Letters
, pp.
342
–
3
).

15
. Mary Elcho to Ettie Desborough,
23
October
1931
, Desborough Papers, HALS DE/Rv/C
477
/
102
.

16
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
21
January
1916
(
Letters
, pp.
342
–
3
).

17
. Mary Elcho to Ettie Desborough,
23
October
1931
, Desborough Papers, HALS DE/Rv/C
477
/
102
.

18
. Edward Grey to Edward Tennant,
22
January
1916
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD/
510
/
1
/
60
/
4
f.
33
r.

19
. Edward Grey to Edward Tennant,
26
September
1916
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD/
510
/
1
/
60
/
4
ff.
31
,
32
r.

20
. Edward Grey to Edward Tennant,
27
April
1917
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD/
510
/
1
/
60
/
2
f.
19
r.

21
. Blow,
Broken Blood
, p.
157
.

22
. Glenconner,
The Earthen Vessel
, p.
138
.

23
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
11
November
1915
, p.
97
.

24
. Glenconner,
The Earthen Vessel
, p.
141
.

25
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
23
January
1918
, Stanway Papers; Glenconner,
The Earthen Vessel
, p.
79
.

26
. Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, pp.
14
–
15
.

27
. Ibid., p.
129
.

28
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
9
June
1916
, Stanway Papers.

29
. Glenconner,
The Earthen Vessel
, p.
79
.

30
.
The Times
,
8
January
1917
. Pamela would appear as a witness for the defence in similar trials on subsequent occasions, such as the case of ‘The Medium in the Mask’ (
The Times
,
16
March
1920
), and was one of those to attend the opening of
Earthbound
, an American motion picture dealing with spiritualism, at the Covent Garden Opera House, which was released early in the UK due to popular demand (
The Times
,
26
October
1920
).

31
. Barbara McKenzie, ‘James Hewat McKenzie: November
11
th
1869
–August
29
th
1929
’,
Quarterly Transactions of the British College of Psychic Science
8
:
3
(October
1929
):
159
–
68
.

32
. Quoted in Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
157
.

33
. Glenconner,
The Earthen Vessel
, p.
153
.

34
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
19
November
1916
, p.
236
.

35
. Ibid.,
16
December
1916
, pp.
245
–
6
.

36
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, n.d., Stanway Papers.

37
. Marie Stopes,
Married Love
(New York, The Critic and Guide Company,
1918
),
pp.
67
–
8
.

38
. Ibid.

39
. Ibid., p.
68
.

40
. Marie Stopes to Pamela Tennant,
14
July
1918
, BL Stopes Papers, vol. CCXXXVIII, Add. MS.
58684
f.
152
.

41
. Pamela Tennant to Marie Stopes,
14
July
1918
, BL Stopes Papers, vol. CCXXXVIII, Add. MS.
58684
ff.
153
–
4
.

42
. Blow,
Broken Blood
, p.
150
.

43
.
The Times
,
9
March
1920
.

44
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour, n.d. [spring
1917
] (
Letters
, p.
344
).

45
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
22
September
1916
, Stanway Papers.

46
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham, July
1916
, Stanway Papers.

47
. Quoted in Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
222
.

48
. Ibid.

49
. Quoted in Cannadine,
Decline and Fall
, p.
81
; Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
221
.

50
. Davenport-Hines,
Ettie
, p.
229
.

51
. Quoted in Cannadine,
Decline and Fall
, p.
79
.

52
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
7
October
1918
, p.
480
.

1
. Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
51
f.
24
r.

2
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
10
October
1919
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
1
ff.
3
–
6
r.

3
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
23
September
1919
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GR
433
/
2
/
229
/
1
f.
1
r.

4
.
The Times
,
28
November
1917
.

5
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
18
January
1920
, Stanway Papers.

6
. Christopher Simon Sykes,
Private Palaces: Life in the Great London Houses
(Chatto & Windus,
1985
), pp.
325
–
6
.

7
. Ibid., quoted at pp.
321
,
322
.

8
. Edward Tennant to Margot Asquith,
6
August
1919
, Bodleian, Asquith Papers, MS. Eng. c.
6697
ff.
152
–
3
.

9
. Earl Haig would also be buried there in
1928
.

10
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
22
May
1920
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
1
f.
7
r.

11
. Quoted in Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, p.
351
.

12
. Asquith,
Diaries
,
30
July
1918
, p.
464
.

13
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
22
May
1920
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
1
f.
7
r.

14
. Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, p.
351
; Beauman,
Cynthia Asquith
, p.
273
.

15
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
13
May [
1924
], Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
3
f.
22
r.

16
. Quoted in Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, pp.
351
–
2
.

17
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
22
May
1920
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
1
f.
7
r.

18
. Ibid.

19
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
8
December
1921
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
1
f.
29
r.