Abbreviations
APJ: Alan Pryce-Jones
GEM: Graham Eyres Monsell
JB: John Betjeman
JLF: Joan Eyres Monsell; Joan Rayner; Joan Leigh Fermor
JR: John Rayner
NLS: National Library of Scotland
PLF: Patrick Leigh Fermor
XF: Xan Fielding
Letters and other documents are dated where possible; ‘nd’ is used for undated; approximate dates and dates which are inferred from internal evidence are given within square brackets.
Introduction
1 Noel Annan, Our Age, p. 3
2 Patrick Leigh Fermor is mentioned among other war heroes on p. 205.
3 JLF to PLF, 24 April [1959]
Chapter 1: The Eyres and the Monsells
1 JLF to PLF, 28 May [1962] (NLS)
2 Information from Joey Casey, February 2016
3 Patrick Leigh Fermor, Roumeli, Penguin (1983), pp. 110–14
4 Leeds Times, January 1868, quoted in John Richard Hodges, Dumbleton Hall: The Story of a Victorian Country House [self-published] (2015), p. 147
5 Family information
6 Morning Post, 26 October 1880
7 F. H. H. Guillemard, The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea, John Murray (1889), p. 118
8 Ibid, p. 436
9 Edward Paice, Lost Lion of Empire: The Life of ‘Cape-to-Cairo’ Grogan, HarperCollins (2001), p. 57
10 Ibid, p. 61
11 Leeds Guardian, 29 November 1935
12 JLF to Professor Stuart Ball, 11 December [1999]
Chapter 2: Growing Up
1 John Richard Hodges, Dumbleton Hall, pp. 156–8
2 Alan Pryce-Jones, The Bonus of Laughter, Hamish Hamilton (1987), p. 26
3 D. R. Thorpe, Alec Douglas-Home, Sinclair-Stevenson (1996), pp. 23–4
4 Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne: The Life, John Murray (2009), p. 304
5 Quoted in Adrian Clark and Jeremy Dronfield, Queer Saint, John Blake Publishing Ltd (2015), p. 25
6 Alan Pryce-Jones, The Bonus of Laughter, pp. 28–9
7 Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne, p. 20
8 Martin Green, Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England after 1918, Constable (1977), pp. 244–5
9 J. M. Scott, Gino Watkins, Hodder & Stoughton (1935), p. 2
10 Ibid, p. 171
11 Ibid, p. 310
12 Osbert Lancaster, With an Eye to the Future, John Murray (1967), pp. 64–5
13 Ibid, pp. 84–5
14 Quoted in Francis Wheen, Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions, Chatto & Windus (1990), p. 40
15 Gloucestershire Echo, 24 May 1928
16 Kate Chester-Lamb, Eventful Days, St James’s and the Abbey School, Malvern, St James’s and the Abbey School (1997), p. 54
1 Bevis Hillier, Young Betjeman, Cardinal (1989), p. 149
2 GEM to APJ, nd [winter 1931] (Yale)
3 JB to Camilla Russell, 2 September 1931, in John Betjeman: Letters, vol. 1, 1926–1951, ed. Candida Lycett-Green, Methuen (1994), p. 81
4 GEM to APJ, nd [1932] (Yale)
5 ‘Our Ladies Letter’, Cheltenham Chronicle, 7 June 1930
6 Alan Pryce-Jones, The Bonus of Laughter, p. 82
7 Ibid, p. 72
8 Ibid, p. 231
9 Bevis Hillier, Young Betjeman, p. 374
10 Alan Pryce-Jones, Devoid of Shyness: From the Journal 1926–1939, ed. David Byrne, Stone Trough Books (2015), p. 136
11 Bystander, 10 February 1932
12 GEM to APJ, 13 November [1932] (Yale)
13 Alan Pryce-Jones, Devoid of Shyness, p. 138
14 Ibid
15 Ibid, p. 139
16 Hugo Vickers, Cecil Beaton: The Authorized Biography, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1985), p. 163
17 JLF to APJ, nd [1933] (Yale)
18 JLF to APJ, nd [1933] (Yale)
19 JB to APJ, 18 February 1933, in John Betjeman: Letters, vol. 1, p. 117
20 JB to Billa Cresswell, nd [February 1933], ibid, p. 96
21 JLF to Billa Cresswell, nd [February 1933], ibid, p. 96
22 ‘Obituary of Lady Harrod’, Daily Telegraph, 12 May 2005
23 GEM to APJ, 5 February [1933] (Yale)
24 GEM to APJ, nd [March 1933] (Yale)
25 JLF to APJ, Hotel Mexen, nd [March 1933]
26 JLF to APJ, nd [April/May 1933] (Yale)
27 Alan Pryce-Jones, The Bonus of Laughter, p. 83
28 Daily Express, 2 May 1933
29 Daily Mirror, 3 May 1933
30 David Pryce-Jones, Fault Lines, Criterion Books (2015), p. 62
31 Ibid, p. 26
32 Patrick Balfour to James Lees-Milne, 13 September [1933] (Yale)
33 Court Circular, The Times, 24 November 1933
Chapter 4: Earning One’s Living
1 Bystander, 27 February 1934
2 Clive Fisher, Cyril Connolly: A Nostalgic Life, Macmillan (1995), pp. 149–50
3 David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir, Collins (1983), p. 254
4 David Pryce-Jones, Fault Lines, p. 101
5 Ibid, p. 104
6 Alan Pryce-Jones, Devoid of Shyness, p. 159
7 Alan Pryce-Jones, The Bonus of Laughter, p. 98
8 Patrick Balfour to James Lees-Milne, 4 September [1934] (Yale)
9 JB to APJ, 6 October 1934, quoted in John Betjeman: Letters, vol. 1, p. 146
10 Deborah Devonshire, Wait for Me!, John Murray (2010), p. 186
11 JB to Billa Cresswell, 10 December 1936, quoted in John Betjeman: Letters, vol. 1, p. 162
12 Conversation with Jochen Voigt, May 2014
13 Bystander, 5 July 1933
14 Ibid, 6 September 1933
15 Philip Eade, Evelyn: A Life Revisited, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (2016), p. 159
16 GEM to APJ, 22 November [c. 1935] (Yale)
17 Maurice Richardson, ‘Portrait of Brian Howard’, Listener, 18 January 1968
18 Ibid
19 Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Half an Arch: A Memoir, Timewell Press (2004), p. 18
20 Bevis Hillier, Young Betjeman, p. 150
21 Christopher Sykes, Four Studies in Loyalty, Collins (1946), p. 83
22 The Times, 1 October 1935
23 Robert Byron, Letters Home, ed. Lucy Butler, John Murray (1991), p. 238
24 Ibid, 2 November 1935
Chapter 5: Love – and Marriage
1 Billa Cresswell to APJ, nd [1933]
2 Hull Daily Mail, 5 August 1936
3 Cheltenham Chronicle, 5 September 1936
4 Julie Kavanagh, Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton, Faber (1996), p. 206
5 Billa Harrod to Jaime Parladé. Janetta Parladé to author, May 2017
6 Adrian Tinniswood, The Long Weekend, Jonathan Cape (2016), p. 324
7 Osbert Lancaster, With an Eye to the Future, p. 120
8 Patrick Balfour, ‘Society’, Listener, 12 June 1935
9 Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne: The Life, p. 81
10 Alan Pryce-Jones, The Bonus of Laughter, p. 85
11 Peter Quennell, The Marble Foot, Collins (1976), pp. 220–1
12 Jeremy Lewis, Cyril Connolly: A Life, Jonathan Cape (1997), pp. 269–70
13 JB to Gerald Berners, 6 September 1936, quoted in John Betjeman: Letters, vol. 1, p. 158
14 Heulyn Rayner, John Rayner: A Life, Alumnia Publishing (2014), p. 60
15 Daily Express, 14 February 1936
16 Tatler, 10 March 1937
17 Daily Express, 5 March 1937
18 Heulyn Rayner, John Rayner, p. 11
19 Peter Quennell, The Wanton Chase, Collins (1980), p. 128
20 Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, Harper & Brothers Publishers (1945), p. 101
21 Celia Paget to JLF, 29 September 1985 (priv. coll.)
Chapter 6: Wartime London
1 JLF to Penelope Betjeman, nd [1939] (Victoria)
2 James Lees-Milne, Fourteen Friends, John Murray (1996), pp. 112–13
3 Francis Wheen, Tom Driberg, p. 139
4 JR to JB, 4 January 1940 (Victoria)
5 JLF to JB, nd [February/March 1940] (Victoria)
6 JLF to Tom Driberg, nd [April 1940] (Christ Church, Oxford)
7 JLF to Heulyn Rayner, 31 May 1993 (priv. coll.)
8 Nancy Mitford to Jessica Treuhaft, 13 April 1945, in Love from Nancy: The letters of Nancy Mitford, ed. Charlotte Mosley, Sceptre (1994), p. 80
9 Heulyn Rayner, John Rayner, p. 107
10 Julian Symons, A. J. A. Symons: His Life and Speculations, Eyre & Spottiswood (1950), p. 37
11 Sefton Delmer, Trail Sinister, Secker & Warburg (1960), p. 105
12 Isabel Rawsthorne, unpublished autobiography (Tate)
13 Ibid
14 Heulyn Rayner, John Rayner, p. 109
15 Ian Collins, John Craxton, Lund Humphries (2011), pp. 38–40
16 JR to Myfanwy Piper, 20 August 1941 (Tate)
17 Adrian Clark and Jeremy Dronfield, Queer Saint, p. 177
18 John Costello, Love, Sex and War, Collins (1984), pp. 245–6
19 ‘Obituary of Joan Leigh Fermor’ by John Craxton, Independent, 10 June 2003
20 Peter Quennell, The Wanton Chase, p. 23
21 Quoted in David Pryce-Jones, Fault Lines, p. 201
22 Adrian Tinniswood, The Long Weekend, p. 373
Chapter 7: Encounter in Cairo
1 Sefton Delmer, Black Boomerang, Secker & Warburg (1962), p. 153
2 GEM to JB, 7 August 1942 (Victoria)
3 GEM to APJ, 21 April 1943 (Yale)
4 JLF to JR, 7 October [1943] (priv. coll.)
5 JLF to Heulyn Rayner, 31 May 1993 (priv. coll.)
6 Patrick Kinross to James Lees-Milne, 17 September 1940 (Yale)
7 Patrick Kinross to James Lees-Milne, 22 July 1941 (Yale)
8 Nancy Mitford to Jessica Treuhaft, 13 April 1945, in Love from Nancy, p. 176
9 Evelyn Waugh, Diaries, ed. Michael Davie, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1976), p. 575
10 JR to Isabel Delmer, [July/August 1944] (Tate)
11 JR to Isabel Delmer, 12 November 1944 (Tate)
12 PLF, ‘The First Ball at Tara’ (NLS)
13 PLF to Lord Lloyd of Dolobran, 9 December 1939 (Churchill College, Cambridge)
14 PLF to Lord Lloyd, 28 May 1940 (Churchill College, Cambridge)
15 Information from Chris White, 3 March 2017
16 Artemis Cooper, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, John Murray (2012), pp. 193–4
17 Denise Menasce to PLF, 29 October 1944 (NLS)
18 Artemis Cooper, Cairo in the War 1939–1945, Hamish Hamilton (1989), p. 36
19 Barbara Skelton, Tears Before Bedtime, Hamish Hamilton (1959), p. 59
20 JLF to Janetta Parladé, 6 September [?] (priv. coll.)
21 PLF, draft obituary, www.bookride.com/2010/08/eddiegathornehardy.html
22 Denise Menasce to PLF, 10 November 1944 (NLS)
23 Denise Menasce to PLF, 15 November 1944 (NLS)
24 Artemis Cooper, Paddy Leigh Fermor, p. 200
25 Denise Menasce to PLF, [January 1945] (NLS)
26 Ian MacNiven, Lawrence Durrell: A Biography, Faber & Faber (1998), p. 276
27 Denise Menasce to PLF, 10 February 1945 (NLS)
28 MacNiven, Lawrence Durrell, p. 242
29 Denise Menasce to PLF, postmark 26 April 1945 (NLS)
30 Heulyn Rayner, John Rayner, p. 140
31 Isabel Rawsthorne, unpublished autobiography (Tate)
Chapter 8: Athenian Adventures
1 James Knox, Cartoons and Coronets: The Genius of Osbert Lancaster, Frances Lincoln (2008), p. 48
2 Maurice Cardiff, Friends Abroad, Radcliffe Press (1997), pp. 1–2
3 Ibid, p. 5
4 JLF to Patrick Kinross, 10 November [1945] (Huntington)
5 Nancy Mitford to Mark Ogilvie-Grant, 8 February 1947, in Love from Nancy, p. 159
6 Artemis Cooper, Patrick Leigh Fermor, p. 208
7 Maurice Cardiff, Friends Abroad, p. 17
8 XF to PLF, 25 November 1945 (NLS)
9 Xan Fielding archives (NLS)
10 Max Hastings, ‘Demob Unhappy’, Spectator, 16 May 2015
11 Patrick Leigh Fermor, ‘Observations on a Marine Venus’, Twentieth Century Literature, Hofstra University, vol. 33, no. 3
12 JLF to Lawrence Durrell, 10 November 1946 (South Illinois)
13 PLF to Lawrence Durrell, 18 October 1946 (South Illinois)
14 Tom Driberg to JLF, nd (Christ Church, Oxford)
Chapter 9: From Curzon Street to the Caribbean
1 JLF to Penelope Betjeman, nd [1947] (Victoria)
2 JR to Tom Driberg, 29 March 1947 (Christ Church, Oxford)
3 Ibid
4 Juliet Gardiner, ‘Preface’, in Marghanita Laski, To Bed with Grand Music, Persephone (2009), p. xiv
5 Maurice Bowra to XF, 3 April 1947 (Fielding archive, NLS)
6 Times obituary, 6 May 1955
7 Horizon, September 1946, pp. 140–75
8 JLF to PLF, nd (NLS)
9 JLF to PLF, postmark 28 May 1950 (NLS)
10 Lawrence Durrell to XF, nd (Fielding archive, NLS)
11 JLF to Penelope Betjeman, nd [1947] (Victoria)
12 Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Traveller’s Tree, Penguin (2005), p. xi
13 Ibid, pp. 16–17
14 Ibid, pp. 105–6
15 JLF to JR, 31 March [1948] (priv. coll.)
16 Ibid (priv. coll.)
17 Quoted in Jeremy Lewis, Cyril Connolly: A Life, p. 416
18 Ian Fleming, Sunday Times, 23 May 1948
19 JLF to JR, 3 August [1948] (priv. coll.)
20 JLF to JR, [December 1949] (priv. coll.)
21 Michael Shelden, Friends of Promise: Cyril Connolly and the World of Horizon, Hamish Hamilton (1989), p. 198
22 PLF and JLF always refer to the village as ‘Gadencourt’; this seems to be a variant of the more usual ‘Gadancourt’.
23 JLF to PLF, nd [August 1948] (NLS)
24 JLF to PLF, nd [August 1948] (NLS)
25 Jeremy Lewis, Cyril Connolly, op. cit. pp. 418–19
26 Ibid
Chapter 10: Separation
1 Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time to Keep Silence, Penguin (1988), p. 41
2 Ibid, p. 10
3 PLF to JLF, Wednesday [September] 1948 (NLS)
4 PLF to JLF, [30 September 1948] (NLS), Adam Sisman, The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor, John Murray (2016), pp. 34–5
5 JLF to PLF, Wednesday [October 1948] (NLS)
6 PLF to JLF, [October 1948] (NLS)
7 PLF to JLF, 13 October 1948 (NLS)
8 Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time to Keep Silence, pp. 46–7
9 PLF to JLF, 2 December 1948 (Huntington)
10 Artemis Cooper, Patrick Leigh Fermor, p. 234
11 PLF to JLF, Sunday night [December] (NLS)
12 JLF to PLF, [December] (NLS)
13 Ibid, p. 79
14 JLF to PLF, [December] (NLS)
Chapter 11: Family Affairs
1 Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time to Keep Silence, p. 79
2 JLF to PLF, 26 January [1950] (NLS)
3 Harold Nicolson, Observer, 10 December 1950
4 JLF to PLF, 21 January [1951] (NLS)
5 JLF to PLF, nd [October 1949] (NLS)
6 JLF to PLF, nd [January 1951] (NLS)
7 PLF to JLF, nd [January 1951] (NLS)
8 JLF to PLF, 10 January 1951 (NLS)
9 JLF to PLF, nd (NLS)
10 Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon in Your Blood, Bloomsbury (2016), p. 96
11 JLF to PLF, nd [c. May 1949] (NLS)
12 PLF, notebook [NLS]
13 Quoted in Andrew Motion, The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit, Chatto & Windus (1986), p. 240
14 JLF to PLF, 3 February [?] (NLS)
15 Michael Wishart, High Diver: An Autobiography, Quartet (1978), p. 149
16 Barbara Skelton, Tears Before Bedtime, p. 83
17 JLF to PLF, 26 January [1951] (NLS)
18 PLF to JLF, 28 February 1951 (NLS)
19 Barbara Skelton, Tears Before Bedtime, pp. 181–2
20 PLF to the Spectator, 16 April 2014
21 PLF to Patrick Kinross, 17 February 1952 (Huntington)
22 JLF to PLF, 18 February 1952 (NLS)
23 PLF, Lismore Castle, Ireland, to JLF, 28 April 1963 (NLS)
24 Family archive
25 GEM to APJ, 4 March 1948 (Yale)
26 JLF to PLF, nd [postmark 28 May 1950] (NLS)
27 JLF to PLF, 6 March 1951 (NLS)
28 JLF to PLF, [postmark 29 November 1954] (NLS)
29 JLF to PLF, [January 1955] (NLS)
30 JLF to PLF, 19 January 1956 (NLS)
31 JLF to PLF, 24 April [1959] (NLS)
32 Adam Sisman, The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor, p. 185
Chapter 12: In Love with Greece
1 PLF, Greek diary, ‘September 1950’ (NLS)
2 PLF, Gadencourt diary, ‘December 1951’ (NLS)
3 PLF, Greek diary, ‘September 1950’ (NLS)
4 PLF, undated diary [early 1950s] (NLS)
5 Xan Fielding archive (NLS)
6 Charlotte Mosley (ed.), In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor, John Murray (2009), p. 12
7 Conversation with Janetta Parladé, May 2014
8 Daphne Fielding, The Nearest Way Home, Eyre & Spottiswood (1970), p. 10
9 JLF to PLF, 28 November 1954 (NLS)
10 Adam Sisman, The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor, pp. 93–4
11 Leslie Mitchell, Maurice Bowra: A Life, Oxford University Press (2011), pp. 89–90
12 Mark Amory (ed.), The Letters of Ann Fleming, Collins Harvill (1985), pp. 138–9
13 PLF to Lawrence Durrell, 24 November 1954 (South Illinois)
14 Mark Amory (ed.), The Letters of Ann Fleming, p. 139
15 Conversation with Janetta Parladé, May 2014
16 Leslie Mitchell, Maurice Bowra, p. 146
17 JLF to PLF, 9 January [1952?] (NLS)
18 Leslie Mitchell, Maurice Bowra, p. 138
19 Charlotte Mosley (ed.), In Tearing Haste, pp. 366–7
20 Henry Hardy, ‘Maurice Bowra on Patrick Leigh Fermor’, Spectator, 17 December 2011
21 Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, Penguin (1983), pp. 9–11
22 JLF to PLF, 21 April [c. 1962] (NLS)
Chapter 13: Kardamyli
1 I. McD. G. Stewart, The Struggle for Crete 20 May–1 June 1941: A Story of Lost Opportunity, Oxford University Press (1966), pp. 18–19
2 JLF to PLF, 21 April [c. 1961]
3 PLF to JLF, nd [1962] (NLS)
4 PLF to JLF, nd [1962] (NLS)
5 Charlotte Mosley (ed.), In Tearing Haste, p. 109
6 JLF to Maurice Bowra, 16 November [1963?] (Wadham College, Oxford)
7 JLF to Patrick Kinross, [December 1966] (Huntington)
8 JLF to John Banting, 6 January 1968 (Tate)
9 PLF to Patrick Kinross, 8 March 1968 (Huntington)
10 Conversation with Janetta Parladé, May 2017
11 Draft letter, PLF to XF [1960] (NLS). Square brackets in text.
12 Ian Collins, John Craxton, p. 132
Chapter 14: Friendship and Loss
1 PLF to Balasha Cantacuzene, 10 November 1971 (NLS)
2 GEM to APJ, 30 November 1961 (Yale)
3 James Lees-Milne, Diaries 1971–1983, abridged and introduced by Michael Bloch, John Murray (2007), p. 176
4 JLF to John Banting, 6 April [1960s] (Tate)
5 JLF kept a copy of the letter among her papers (priv. coll)
6 PLF to Balasha Cantacuzene, 10 November 1971 (NLS)
7 Mark Amory (ed.), The Letters of Ann Fleming, pp. 395–7
8 PLF to James Lees-Milne, 5 July 1981 (Yale)
9 JLF to XF, 28 August [early 1970s], (NLS)
10 JLF to John Banting, 3 June [1971] (Tate)
11 Conversation with Janetta Parladé, May 2014
12 JLF to Janetta Parladé, nd (priv. coll.)
13 JLF to Janetta Parladé, 14 December [1960s] (priv. coll.)
14 PLF to Robert and Bridget Kenward, 21 December 2004 (priv. coll.)
15 JLF to Patrick Kinross, 14 October [1971] (Huntington)
16 John Saumarez Smith (ed.), The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill, Frances Lincoln (2004), p. 154
17 JLF to Janetta Parladé, 3 October [1973] (priv. coll.)
18 Heywood Hill to Robin Fedden, nd [c. 1978] (NLS)
19 Draft obituary of Edward Gathorne-Hardy (d. 1978) by Patrick Leigh Fermor, www.bookride.com/2010/08/eddie.gathorne.hardy.html
20 Alvilde Lees-Milne and Derry Moore, The Englishman’s Room, Viking (1986), p. 92
21 JB to PLF, 20 September 1969 (NLS)
22 JB to JLF, 20 September 1969, in John Betjeman: Letters, vol. 2, 1951–1984, ed. Candida Lycett-Green, Methuen (1995), pp. 389–90
23 JB to Wayland Kennet, 19 September 1969, ibid, p. 390
24 John Banting to JLF, nd [c. January 1958] (NLS)
25 JLF to PLF, 3 November [1974] (NLS)
26 John Betjeman: Letters, vol. 2, p. 450
27 Barbara Skelton, Weep No More, Hamish Hamilton (1989), p. 150
28 Stephen Spender, New Selected Journals, Faber (2012), pp. 388–9
29 Notebook (NLS)
30 John Banting to JLF, nd [10 May 1971] (NLS)
31 Frances Partridge, Diaries 1939–1972, Phoenix Press (2001), p. 322
32 The Times, 12 August 1976
33 JLF to JR, 13 October 1976 (priv. arch.)
34 JB to Ena Driberg, 1 October 1976, in John Betjeman: Letters, vol. 2, p. 520
35 JLF to Janetta Parladé, nd [November 1976] (private archive)
36 JLF to JR, 15 July 1977 (private archive)
Chapter 15: A Time of Gifts
1 JLF to Sir Michael Stewart, 1 October 1988 (private archive)
2 Conversation with Janetta Parladé, May 2014
3 JLF to Janetta Parladé, 25 November 1967 (private archive)
4 JLF to Patrick Kinross, 29 January 1970 (Huntington)
5 PLF to Janetta Parladé, March 1976 (private archive)
6 Correspondence between author and Michael O’Sullivan, September–December 2016
7 Patrick Leigh Fermor, Three Letters from the Andes, John Murray (1991), p. 3
8 JLF to PLF, nd [1971] (NLS)
9 John Betjeman: Letters, vol. 2, p. 374
10 JLF to Janetta Parladé, 20 June 1976 (private archive)
11 John Betjeman: Letters, vol. 2, p. 450
12 JB to JLF and PLF, 15 February 1979, ibid, pp. 559–60
13 JB to JLF, 18 June 1969, ibid, p. 386
14 James Lees-Milne, A Mingled Measure: Diaries 1951–1972, John Murray (1994), pp. 135–6
15 Bruce Chatwin to Elizabeth Chatwin, 30 August 1970, in Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin, eds Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare, Jonathan Cape (2016), p. 158
16 XF to PLF, 27 April 1980 (NLS)
17 Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, Vintage (2000), p. 566
18 PLF to XF, 12 April 1983 (Fielding archive, NLS)
19 JLF to Michael and Damaris Stewart, nd [1985] (priv. coll.)
20 Bruce Chatwin to JLF and PLF, 24 April 1986, Under the Sun, p. 456
21 JLF to Billa Harrod, 9 May [1986] (Norfolk County Records Office)
22 JLF to Janetta Parladé, nd (priv. coll.)
Chapter 16: Endings
1 APJ to Billa Harrod, nd [postmark 3 December 1987]
2 PLF to Janetta Parladé, 15 May 1990 (priv. coll.)
3 JLF to Janetta Parladé, 6 January 1993 (priv. coll.)
4 Jonathan Reeves to author, 10 October 2016
5 JLF to Daily Telegraph, 16 July 1999
6 JLF to Billa Harrod, 12 February [1992] (Norfolk County Records Office)
7 JLF to Janetta Parladé, 19 February [1992] (Norfolk County Records Office)
8 JLF to Billa Harrod, 12 February [1992] (Norfolk County Records Office)
9 JLF to Janetta Parladé, 28 November [postmark 1993] (priv. coll.)
10 JLF to Janetta Parladé, nd [13 February 1995] (priv. coll.)
11 JLF to Janetta Parladé, 22 February [nd] (priv. coll.)
12 JLF to Janetta Parladé, 25 February [nd] (priv. coll.)
13 James Lees-Milne, The Milk of Paradise: Diaries 1993–1997, John Murray (2005), pp. 142–3
14 JLF to Janetta Parladé, 12 February [198?] (priv. coll.)
15 PLF to XF, 12 April 1983 (Fielding archive, NLS)
16 JLF to Janetta Parladé, nd (priv. coll.)
17 JLF to PLF, Friday [nd] (NLS)
18 JLF to Janetta Parladé, 15 January [?] (priv. coll.)
19 Billa Harrod to JLF, 28 September [1982] (NLS)
20 JLF to Billa Harrod, 4 July [c. 1999] (Norfolk Records Office)
21 JLF to Billa Harrod, 24 September [?] (Norfolk Records Office)
22 Celia Paget to JLF, 29 September 1985 (priv. coll.)
23 Celia Paget to JLF, 28 October 1998 (priv. coll.)
24 Conversation with Janetta Parladé, 27 July 2017
25 JLF to Robert Kenward [1990s] (priv. coll.)
26 PLF to XF, 12 April 1983 (Fielding archive, NLS)
27 Janetta Parladé to JLF, 2 May 2002 (NLS)
28 PLF to Robert and Bridget Kenward, 4 November 2003 (priv. coll.)
29 PLF to Michael and Joey Casey, 13 September 2006 (priv. coll.)
30 ‘Obituary of Joan Leigh Fermor’ by John Craxton, Independent, 10 June 2003