1 Childhood and Youth, 1875–1895
1O. Douglas, Ann and Her Mother, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1922, p. 26.
2Reproduced in the Free Church Newsletter 1973, Fife Cultural Trust (Kirkcaldy Local Studies).
3Douglas, Ann and Her Mother, p. 77.
4Anna Buchan, W. H. B., privately printed, October 1913, p. 15.
5John Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1940, pp. 17–18.
6Fife Free Press, November 1888, Fife Cultural Trust (Kirkcaldy Local Studies).
7Anna Buchan, Unforgettable, Unforgotten, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1945, p. 31.
8John Buchan, Sir Walter Scott, Cassell, London, 1932, p. 23.
9A fellow minister, quoted by Janet Adam Smith, John Buchan: A Biography, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1965, p. 21.
10Recalled by JB in an early essay, ‘Urban Greenery’, in Scholar Gipsies, The Bodley Head, London, 1896, pp. 99–103.
11Notes sent by John Hutchison, Rector of Hutchesons’ Grammar School, to Janet Adam Smith, 1958. National Library of Scotland (NLS), Acc. 11164/11.
12Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 32.
13Reprinted from The Hutchesonian in The John Buchan Journal, no. 20, spring 1999, p. 2.
14Anna Buchan, John Buchan 1847–1911, privately printed, Peebles, 1912, pp. 13–14.
15Ibid., p. 318.
16Ibid., p. 321.
17Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 16.
18Ibid., p. 17.
19Buchan, Unforgettable, Unforgotten, p. 22.
20Fife Free Press, November 1888, Fife Cultural Trust (Kirkcaldy Local Studies).
21Buchan, John Buchan 1847–1911.
22Ibid., p. 143.
23Ibid., pp. 232–3.
24Ibid., p. 114–5.
25John Buchan and George Adam Smith, The Kirk in Scotland, 1560–1929, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1930.
26Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 35.
27Rev. James C. Greig, ‘In journeyings often…’, The John Buchan Journal, no. 11, spring 1992, p. 15.
28Buchan, Scholar Gipsies, p. 46.
29Interview with Janet Adam Smith, 16 May 1958. NLS, Acc. 11164/4.
30Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 33.
31Lady Tweedsmuir, ed., The Clearing House: A Survey of One Man’s Mind, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1946, Preface by Gilbert Murray, O.M., p. vii.
32JB to Charles Dick, letter, 11 April 1893, Queen’s University Archives (QUA), John Buchan fonds, locator 2110, box 13.
33Rev. John Buchan, A Violet Wreath, privately published, 1893, p. 5.
34Ibid., p. 8–9.
35Ibid., p. 12.
36JB to Charles Dick, letter, 5 July 1893, QUA, 2110, box 13.
37JB to Charles Dick, letter, 6 September 1893, QUA, 2110, box 13.
38JB to Charles Dick, 13 January 1902, QUA, 2110, box 13.
39Extract from Alexander MacCallum Scott’s ‘Reminiscences’, NLS, Acc. 11164/4.
40John Buchan, ed., Essays and Apothegms of Francis Lord Bacon, Walter Scott, London, 1894, p. vii.
41JB, unpublished material, QUA 2110, box 20 (b).
42JB to Charles Dick, 13 June 1893, QUA, 2110, box 13.
43Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, pp. 23–4.
44In the same Commonplace Book he quoted a piece of advice from Captain Cuttle in Dombey and Son which he took to heart: When found, make a note of. QUA, 2110, box 21.
45Charles Dick to JB, 16 August 1893, QUA, 2110, box 13.
46Lord Tweedsmuir, Always a Countryman, Robert Hale, London, 1968, p. 64.
47It is in the W. D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.
48JB to Charles Dick, 30 December 1894, QUA, 2110, box 13.
49JB to Charles Dick, October 1893, QUA, 2110, box 13.
50Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, pp. 42–3.
51Ibid.
52Roger Clarke, The Journalistic Writings of John Buchan: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Opinion Pieces, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, 2018, pp. 162–3.
53Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 34.
54Ibid., p. 37.
55Ibid., p. 39.
56John Buchan, ‘The Novel and the Fairy Tale’, The English Association, pamphlet 79, July 1931.
57Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 249.
58Ibid., p. 47.
59JB to Gilbert Murray, 8 October 1895, QUA, 2110, box 1.
60JB to Gilbert Murray, 14 October 1895, QUA, 2110, box 1.
61John Buchan, ‘Sir Quixote’, in Good Reading about Many Books, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1895.
62John Buchan, Sir Quixote of the Moors, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1896, p.13.
1The Glasgow Herald, 2 November 1895.
2Ibid.
3Ibid.
4John Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1940, p. 77.
5Brasenose College Archives, JB to C. B. Heberden, 25 January 1910.
6Published by Henry Holt in America and T. Fisher Unwin in Great Britain.
7JB’s dealings with Lane are described by David Crackanthorpe in ‘Buchan to Lane’, The John Buchan Journal, no. 43, spring 2011, pp. 3–15.
8Quoted in David Crackanthorpe, ibid., p. 9. Jepson, a prolifically published novelist, was the grandfather of the novelist Fay Weldon.
9JB to Charles Dick, 29 February 1896, QUA, 2110, box 13.
10JB to Charles Dick, 18 May 1896, QUA, 2110, box 13.
11JB to Helen Buchan, 22 May 1896, QUA, 2110, box 1.
12JB to Anna Buchan, 12 June 1896, QUA, 2110, box 1.
13Reginald Pound, Arnold Bennett: A Biography, Heinemann, London, 1952, p. 103.
14JB to Taffy Boulter, 16 July 1896, QUA, 2110, box 1.
15JB to Charles Dick, 28 August 1896, QUA, 2110, box 13.
16JB to Charles Dick, 26 September 1896, QUA, 2110, box 13.
17John Buchan, Scholar Gipsies, The Bodley Head, London, 1896, Prefatory.
18Ibid., p. 54.
19JB to Charles Dick, 19 October 1896, QUA, 2110, box 13.
20JB to Charles Dick, 30 December 1896, QUA, 2110, box 13.
21The Oxford Magazine, 8 December 1897.
22JB to Charles Dick, 9 August 1897, QUA, 2110, box 13.
23JB to Charles Dick, 1 November 1897, QUA, 2110, box 13.
24JB to Gilbert Murray, 29 January 1898, QUA, 2110, box 1.
25JB to Charles Dick, 10 February 1898, QUA, 2110, box 13.
26The Spectator, 18 March 1899, p. 23.
27JB to Taffy Boulter, 3 April 1898, QUA, 2110, box 1.
28According to John Betjeman in Summoned by Bells, John Murray, London, 1960, p. 104.
29JB, Memory Hold-the-Door, pp. 56–7.
30John Buchan, These for Remembrance, privately published, 1919, p. 65.
31Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 59.
32Buchan, These for Remembrance, pp. 65–6.
33Now in the Blackwell Collection in Merton College, Oxford.
34The Times, 26 April 1901.
35Susan Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1947, p. 154.
36Who’s Who, A. & C. Black, London, 1898.
37Quoted in Janet Adam Smith, John Buchan: A Biography, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1965, p. 61.
38JB to Charles Dick, 10 February 1898, QUA, 2110, box 13.
39Roger Merriman in Tweedsmuir, ed. John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, pp. 111–12.
40The Oxford Magazine, 8 December 1897.
41Ibid.
42Quoted in Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 64.
43Ibid.
44Quoted in Andrew Lownie and William Milne, eds, John Buchan’s Collected Poems, Scottish Cultural Press, Aberdeen, 1996, p. 1.
45Quoting Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 35.
46The Interpreter’s House by David Daniell, Nelson, London, 1975, p. 9.
47The Times, 6 September 1898.
48NLS, Acc. 6975/22.
49JB to Charles Dick, 18 July 1898, QUA, 2110, box 13.
50Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 70.
51Ibid., pp. 72–3.
52The Isis, 28 January 1899.
53Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 58.
54Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 41.
55JB to Gilbert Murray, 13 October 1900, QUA, 2110, box 1.
56JB to Dr. A. G. Butler, 5 November 1899, QUA, 2110, box 1.
57JB to Helen Buchan, 3 November 1899, QUA, 2110, box 1.
58JB to Rev. John Buchan, 10 November 1899, QUA, 2110, box 1.
59John Buchan, Sir Walter Scott, Cassell, London, 1932, p. 42.
60Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 87.
3 The Bar, Journalism and South Africa, 1900–1903
1Calligraphically, the inscription seems compatible with JB’s handwriting in early adult life, according to James C. G. Greig, ‘The Writing on the Pane’, The John Buchan Journal, no. 3, p. 23.
2John Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1940, p. 92.
3Communication from Andy Haswell of GRM Law to the author, 31 August 2016.
4JB to Anna Buchan, 14 January 1900, private collection.
5JB to Charles Dick, 27 January 1900, QUA, 2110, box 13.
6John Buchan, The Spectator, 3 November 1928, pp. 20–1.
7Ibid.
8Charles Graves, The Brain of the Nation and Other Verses, Smith, London, 1912, pp. 32–3.
9JB to Anna, 20 January 1901, QUA, 2110, box 1.
10Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 94.
11Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 89.
12See Anthony Lentin, The Last Political Law Lord: Lord Sumner (1859–1934), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2008.
13Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 90.
14JB to Willie Buchan, 17 November 1900, QUA, 2110, box 1.
15Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 89.
16JB to Helen Buchan, 23 April 1901, QUA, 2110, box 1.
17JB to Helen Buchan, 3 July 1901, QUA, 2110, box 1.
18JB to Anna Buchan, 7 July 1901, QUA, 2110, box 1.
19JB to Charles Dick, 9 June 1901, QUA, 2110, box 13.
20Leo Amery, My Political Life, vol. 1, Hutchinson, London, 1953, p. 150.
21Quoted in Michael Redley, ‘John Buchan and the South African War’, in Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps, ed. Kate Macdonald, Routledge, London, 2009, p. 66.
22Lord Milner to JB, 12 August 1901, NLS, Acc. 6975/13.
23R. D. Denman, Political Sketches, Thurnam, Carlisle, 1948, p. 115.
24Quoted in A. M. Gollin, Proconsul in Politics, Blond, London, 1964, p. 41.
25JB to Angela Malcolm, 17 October 1901, QUA, 2110, box 1.
26Denman, Political Sketches, p. 115.
27JB to Helen Buchan, 9 August 1901, QUA, 2110, box 1.
28JB to Lady Mary Murray, 25 August 1901, QUA, 2110, box 1.
29JB to Helen Buchan, 13 September 1901, QUA, 2110, box 1.
30Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, pp. 96–7.
31JB to Anna, 22 September 1901, QUA, 2110, box 1.
32Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 125.
33JB to Anna Buchan, 7 October 1901, QUA, 2110, box 1.
34Ibid.
35JB to Charles Dick, 8 October 1901, QUA, 2110, box 13.
36JB to Anna Buchan, 7 October 1901, QUA, 2110, box 1.
37John Buchan, These for Remembrance, privately published, 1919, p. 41.
38JB to Stair Gillon, 15 October 1901, NLS, Acc. 11164/17.
39JB to Anna Buchan, 7 October 1901, QUA, 2110, box 1.
40NLS, Acc. 11627/39.
41JB to Angela Malcolm, 17 October 1901, QUA, 2110, box 1.
42Ibid.
43JB to Anna Buchan, 28 April 1902, QUA, 2110, box 1.
44John Buchan, The Spectator, 22 June 1901, p. 905.
45Quoted in Denman, Political Sketches, p. 118.
46JB to Charles Dick, 13 January 1902, QUA, 2110, box 13.
47JB to Lady Mary Murray, 16 January 1902, QUA, 2110, box 1.
48Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 109.
49See Michael Redley, ‘John Buchan and the South African War’, in Reassessing John Buchan, ed. Kate Macdonald, pp. 68–71.
50Ibid., p. 74.
51JB to William Buchan, 27 February 1902, QUA, 2110, box 1.
52Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 110.
53Ibid., p. 115.
54John Buchan, The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1903, p. 67.
55Peter Henshaw, ‘John Buchan and the British Imperial Origins of Canadian Multiculturalism’, in Canadas of the Mind: The Making and Unmaking of Canadian Nationalisms in the Twentieth Century, ed. N. Hillmer and A. Chapnick, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 2007, p. 197.
56JB to Walter Buchan, 12 May 1902, QUA, 2110, box 1.
57Edmund Ironside (with Andrew Bamford), Ironside: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Lord Ironside, The History Press, Stroud, 2018, p. 37.
58See Bill Nasson in ‘John Buchan’s South African visions’, in The John Buchan Journal, no. 26, p. 30.
59JB to Helen Buchan, 23 August 1902, QUA, 2110, box 1.
60JB to Helen Buchan, 7 December 1902, QUA, 2110, box 1.
61The Times, 5 January 1903, p. 8.
62Redley, ‘John Buchan and the South African War’, p. 71.
63John Buchan, A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys, Thomas Nelson, Edinburgh, 1922, p. 122.
64Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 121.
65JB to Anna Buchan, 21 December 1902, QUA, 2110, box 1.
66Ibid.
67Ibid.
68Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, pp. 119–20.
69JB to Anna Buchan, 4 January 1903, QUA, 2110, box 1.
70Buchan, The African Colony, p. 390.
71JB to Gilbert Murray, 30 January 1902, QUA, 2110, box 1.
72Buchan, The African Colony, Introductory, p. 2.
73JB to Helen Buchan, 22 February 1903, QUA, 2110, box 1.
74JB to Anna Buchan, 15 February 1903, QUA, 2110, box 1.
75JB to Helen Buchan, 11 January 1903, QUA, 2110, box 1.
76JB to Helen Buchan, 9 May 1903, QUA, 2110, box 1.
77JB to Anna Buchan, 29 May 1903, QUA, 2110, box 1.
78JB to Helen Buchan, 29 July 1903, QUA, 2110, box 1.
79Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, pp. 124–5.
80Ibid., p.112.
4 London, Courtship and Marriage, 1903–1907
1JB to Anna Buchan, 26 June 1903, QUA, 2110, box 1.
2JB to Helen Buchan, QUA, 2110, box 1.
3John Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1940, pp. 127–8.
4Willie Buchan to JB, March 1906, private collection.
5JB to Helen Buchan, 28 November 1903, QUA, 2110, box 1.
6JB to Helen Buchan, 11 November 1903, QUA, 2110, box 1.
7JB to Sandy Gillon, 8 December 1903, NLS, Acc. 11164/18.
8The Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, vol. 22, 1942.
9John Buchan, The Law Relating to the Taxation of Foreign Income, Stevens and Sons, London, October 1905.
10Isobel and Michael Haslett, ‘Buchan and the Classics, part 3: The Law Relating to the Taxation of Foreign Income (1905)’, The John Buchan Journal, no. 26, p. 9.
11JB to Anna Buchan, 14 April 1905, QUA, 2110, box 1.
12JB to Helen Buchan, 23 June 1905, QUA, 2110, box 1.
13Anna Buchan, Unforgettable, Unforgotten, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1945, p. 102.
14JB to Anna Buchan, 18 July 1905, QUA, 2110, box 1.
15Susan Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1947, p. 34.
16According to Willard Connely, ‘Willard Connely and the Buchans’, The John Buchan Journal, no. 37, autumn 2007, p. 15.
17Susan Tweedsmuir, The Lilac and the Rose, Duckworth, London, 1952, p. 16.
18Tweedsmuir, The Lilac and the Rose, p. 92.
19JB to Helen Buchan, 21 July 1905, QUA, 2110, box 1.
20JB to Anna, 9 August 1905, NLS, Acc. 11164/18.
21Undated letter from Susan Grosvenor to Hilda Lyttelton, Queen Mary University of London Archives (QMUL), Lyttelton Collection, PP5/26/1.
22Willie Buchan to JB, 6 September 1905, QUA, 2110, box 2.
23Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, pp. 35–6.
24JB to Helen Buchan, 15 September 1905, QUA, 2110, box 1.
25JB to Susie Grosvenor, 21 October 1905, NLS, Acc. 11627/1.
26JB to Susie Grosvenor, 25 October 1906, NLS, Acc. 11627/5.
27JB to Charles Dick, 17 November 1905, QUA, 2110, box 13.
28JB to Charles Dick, 21 February 1906, QUA, 2110, box 2.
29JB to Susie Grosvenor, 10 April 1906, NLS, Acc. 11627/1.
30Susie Grosvenor to JB, 14 April 1906, NLS, Acc. 1627/5.
31JB to Susie Grosvenor, 14 April 1906, NLS, Acc. 11627/5.
32JB to Susie Grosvenor, 18 April 1906, NLS, Acc. 11627/1.
33Katharine Lyttelton to ‘Poo’, 13 April 1906, QMUL KL/Fam/3426.
34JB to Susie Grosvenor, 6 June 1906, NLS, Acc. 11627/1.
35JB to Susie Grosvenor, 4 September 1906, NLS, Acc. 11627/1.
36Susie Grosvenor to JB, 6 September 1906, NLS, Acc. 11627/5.
37JB to Susie Grosvenor, 12 September 1906, NLS, Acc. 11627/1.
38JB to Susie Grosvenor, 25 September 1906, NLS, Acc. 11627/1.
39John Buchan, A Lodge in the Wilderness, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1906, p. 127.
40JB to Helen Buchan, 14 November 1906, private collection.
41JB to Anna Buchan, 5 November 1906, QUA, 2110, box 2.
42JB to Helen Buchan, 12 November 1906, private collection.
43JB to Susie Grosvenor, 14 November 1906, NLS, Acc. 11164/19.
44Anna Buchan to Susie Grosvenor, 21 November 1906, NLS, Acc. 111627/69.
45Helen Buchan to Susie Grosvenor, 17 November 1906, NLS, Acc. 11627/69.
46Willie Buchan to Helen Buchan, 13 December 1906, private collection.
47Willie Buchan to Helen Buchan, 25 December 1906, private collection.
48Buchan, A Lodge in the Wilderness, p. 44.
49Ibid., pp. 340–1.
50Dictionary of National Biography entry for John Buchan by Professor H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004–9.
51Quoted in Janet Adam Smith, John Buchan: A Biography, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1965, p. 162.
52Ibid., p. 163.
53Virginia Woolf to Violet Trefusis, 20 December 1906, Nigel Nicolson, ed., The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, vol. I, 1882–1912, The Hogarth Press, London, 1975.
54John Buchan, Midwinter, Chapter XI, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1923.
55Buchan, Unforgettable, Unforgotten, p. 104.
56Willie Buchan to Helen Buchan, 27 February 1907, private collection.
57Willie Buchan to Anna Buchan, 20 February 1907, private collection.
58St Loe Strachey to JB, 5 February 1907, QUA, 2110, box 2.
59See Allan Ramsay, ‘New Blood’, in The John Buchan Journal, no. 4, autumn 1984, pp. 10–14.
60JB to George Brown, 20 February 1920, University of Edinburgh Special Collections, Thomas Nelson Collection, Gen 1728/B/9/23.
61Ramsay, ‘New Blood’.
62JB to Susie Grosvenor, 5 February 1907, NLS, Acc. 11627/2.
63W. Forbes Gray, ed., Comments and Characters, Thomas Nelson, London and Edinburgh, 1940, pp. xiv–xv.
64Ibid., p. xxiv.
65Ibid., p. xxxii.
66JB to Susie Grosvenor, n.d. 1907, NLS, Acc. 11627/2.
67Willie Buchan to Helen Buchan, 9 April 1907, private collection.
68O. Douglas, Ann and her Mother, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1922, p. 240.
69Buchan, Unforgettable, Unforgotten, p. 103.
70Susie Grosvenor to Caroline Grosvenor, 11 May 1907, NLS, Acc. 11627/8.
71Susie Grosvenor to Caroline Grosvenor, 15 May 1907, NLS, Acc. 11627/8.
72Tweedsmuir, ed. John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, pp. 36–7.
73Susie Grosvenor to Caroline Grosvenor, 16 May 1907, NLS, Acc. 11627/8.
74Anna Buchan, Farewell to Priorsford, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1950, p. 45.
75Susie Grosvenor to Caroline Grosvenor, 14 May 1907, NLS, Acc. 11627/8.
76Janet Adam Smith interview with Lilian Killick (Mrs Hawley), 9 October 1958, NLS, Acc. 11164/4.
77Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, p. 280.
78JB to Susie Grosvenor, 20 June 1907, NLS, Acc. 11627/2.
79JB to Susie Grosvenor, 2 July 1907, NLS, Acc. 11627/2.
80Undated letter from JB to Susie Grosvenor, annotated ‘Just before our marriage’ by Susan Tweedsmuir, NLS, Acc. 11627/2.
81Tweedsmuir, The Lilac and the Rose, p. 144.
82Buchan, Unforgettable, Unforgotten, p. 105.
83JB to Caroline Grosvenor, 28 July 1907, NLS, Acc. 11627/8.
84The eleventh edition was published in 1907.
85Susie Buchan to Caroline Grosvenor, 13 August 1907, NLS, Acc. 11627/8.
86Ibid.
87John Buchan to Caroline Grosvenor, 11 August 1907, NLS, Acc. 11627/8.
88JB to Janet Adam Smith, 5 May 1937, QUA, 2110, box 13.
89Susie Buchan to Caroline Grosvenor, 18 August 1907, NLS, Acc. 11627/8.
90Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 137.
5 London and Edinburgh, 1907–1914
1Willie Buchan to Helen Buchan, 17 July 1907, private collection.
2Willie Buchan to JB, 29 March 1908, QUA, 2110, box 2.
3JB to Lucy Lyttelton, 24 February 1908, QUA, 2110, box 2.
4John Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1940, pp. 151–2.
5Willie Buchan to JB, n.d. September 1909, QUA, 2110, box 2.
6JB to Gilbert Murray, 22 April 1910, QUA, 2110, box 2. This was an early sign of what was to come, the ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Armenians by Turks during the First World War.
7JB to Charles Dick, 30 April 1910, QUA, 2110, box 2.
8Ibid.
9Published in Blackwood’s Magazine, April 1914.
10JB to Susie, 15 October 1910, NLS, Acc. 11627/4.
11JB to Susie, 25 February 1911, NLS, Acc. 11627/4.
12Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, pp. 135–6.
13Caroline Grosvenor to Katharine Lyttelton, 23 August 1911, QMUL, Lyttelton Collection, PP5/24/14.
14Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 146.
15John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1915, chapter IV.
16William Blackwood to Willie Buchan, 26 March 1912, quoted in Anna Buchan, W. H. B., privately published, 1913, p. 63.
17Willie Buchan to JB, 17 April 1911, QUA, 2110, box 2.
18Willie Buchan to JB, 22 November 1911, QUA, 2110, box 2.
19JB to Susie, 21 November 1911, QUA, 2110, box 2.
20JB to Katharine Lyttelton, 28 November 1911, QMUL, Lyttelton Collection, PP5/24/20.
21Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch to JB, 11 January 1912, QUA, 2110, box 2.
22Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to JB, n.d., QUA, 2110, box 2.
23The Bookman, December 1912, p. 140.
24Stuyvesant Fish to JB, 30 November 1910, QUA, 2110, box 2.
25John Buchan, Women’s Suffrage: A Logical Outcome of the Conservative Faith, Conservative and Unionist Women’s Franchise Association, October 1913, p. 1.
26Ibid., p. 3.
27Susan Tweedsmuir, A Winter Bouquet, Duckworth, London, 1954, p. 90.
28Anna Buchan, Unforgettable, Unforgotten, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1945, p. 176.
29JB to Helen Buchan, 21 October 1912, NLS, Acc. 11627/4.
30JB to Susan Buchan, 12 November 1912, QUA, 2110, box 2.
31Lord Carmichael to JB, 5 December 1912, NLS, Acc. 11627/37.
32John Buchan, ‘Fratri Dilectissimo’ (poem), the dedication to The Marquis of Montrose, Thomas Nelson, Edinburgh, 1913.
33JB to Hugh Walpole, 30 March 1913, QUA, 2110, box 2.
34Quoted in Janet Adam Smith, John Buchan: A Biography, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1965, p. 233.
35John Buchan, ‘The Muse of History’ in Homilies and Recreations, Thomas Nelson, Edinburgh, 1926, p. 95.
36Ibid., p. 101.
37Quoted in Anna Buchan, A. E. B., privately published, 1917, p. 14.
38JB to Helen Buchan, 30 December 1913, NLS, Acc. 11627/4.
39John Buchan, Francis and Riversdale Grenfell, A Memoir, Thomas Nelson, Edinburgh, 1920. Arthur Grenfell, although over forty when war broke out, joined the 9th Lancers, in which his twin brothers also served, was badly wounded, and won the DSO.
40Ibid., pp. 182–3.
41Ibid., p. 183.
42Ibid., pp. 184–5.
43The history has been meticulously analysed by John Gilpin in his PhD thesis, ‘The Canadian Agency and British Investment in Western Canadian Land, 1905–1915’, University of Leicester, 1992, in which there is extensive reference to contemporary records, including correspondence and the Official Receiver’s Report on the Canadian Agency, issued on 13 February 1915.
44Gilpin, ‘The Canadian Agency’, pp. 137–9 and 164–7.
45Arthur Grenfell to the Earl Grey, 26 August 1906, quoted in Gilpin, ‘The Canadian Agency’, p. 159.
46Guy St Aubyn to the Earl Grey, 11 July 1908, quoted in Gilpin, ‘The Canadian Agency’, p. 166.
47Interview between the Earl Grey and Herbert Smith, June 1914, quoted in Gilpin, ‘The Canadian Agency’, p. 316.
48Herbert Smith to Lady Wantage, 4 June 1914, quoted in Gilpin, ‘The Canadian Agency’, p. 318.
49JB to Susie, 26 June 1914, NLS, Acc. 11627/4.
50Susan Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1947, p. 73.
51Author’s conversation with Sir Edmund Fairfax-Lucy, Alice’s son, January 2018.
52JB to George Brown, 4 August 1914, University of Edinburgh Special Collections, Thomas Nelson Collection, Gen 1728/B/5/68.
53JB to George Brown, 6 August 1914, UESC, Thomas Nelson Collection, Gen 1728/B/5/69.
54JB to Lord Rosebery, 9 October 1914, NLS, Acc. 11164/21.
55In the Thomas Nelson Collection, UESC.
56JB to George Brown, 3 December 1914, UESC, Thomas Nelson Collection, Gen 1728/B/5/160.
57John Buchan, Greenmantle, Hodder and Stoughton, 1916, chapter II.
1The Spectator, 27 February 1915, p. 16.
2Hew Strachan in the Introduction to John Buchan, Mr Standfast, Polygon, Edinburgh, 2010.
3John Buchan, A History of the Great War, vol. III, Thomas Nelson, Edinburgh, 1922, p. 436.
4David Lloyd George, War Memoirs, vol. III, Ivor Nicholson and Watson, London, 1933, p. 1,492.
5B. H. Liddell Hart, The Liddell Hart Memoirs, vol. I, Cassell, London, 1965, p. 886.
6Peter Buitenhuis, The Great War of Words, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1987, pp. 94 and 132.
7For example, Niall Ferguson, The Pity of War, Allen Lane, Penguin Press, London, 1998, p. xxix.
8See, for example, Alan Clark’s The Donkeys (1961), Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem (1962), a new edition of The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (1963), the play and film Oh! What a Lovely War (respectively, 1963 and 1969), and the television series The Monocled Mutineer (1986) and Blackadder Goes Forth (1989).
9Ivor Gurney, Severn & Somme, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1917.
10Dan Todman, The Great War: Myth and Memory, Continuum, Hambledon, 2005, p. 162.
11For example, Todman, The Great War.
12William Philpott, Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme, Abacus, London, 2010, p. 292.
13Keith Grieves, ‘A History of the Great War: the re-emergence of Buchan’s grand narrative on the Great War in 1921–2’, The John Buchan Journal, no. 13, p. 8.
14John Buchan, Nelson’s History of the War, vol. XIV, Thomas Nelson, Edinburgh, 1915–19, p. 160.
15Ibid., vol. XVI, p. 40.
16Ibid., p. 36.
17Ibid., vol. XXIV, pp. 123–4.
18Lecture, 22 March 1915, QUA, 2110, box 14.
19The Times, 17 May 1915, p. 9.
20The Times, 22 May 1915, p. 9.
21The Times, 29 May 1915, p. 6.
22JB to Gilbert Murray, 19 July 1915, QUA, 2110, box 2.
23JB to Susie, 28 September 1915, NLS, Acc. 11627/4.
24Buchan, Nelson’s History of the War, vol. X, p. 200.
25The first two volumes came out in 1921 and the second two in 1922.
26Buchan, A History of the Great War, vol. II, Thomas Nelson, Edinburgh, 1921–2, p. 321.
27Quoted in the Daily Telegraph, 10 October 2015.
28Sandy Gillon to JB, 6 and 9 December 1915, QUA, 2110, box 2.
29JB to Gilbert Murray, 30 December 1915, QUA, 2110, box 2.
30The Spectator, 6 November 1915, p. 630.
31Janet Adam Smith, John Buchan: A Biography, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1965, p. 197.
32John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1915, chapter V.
33LeRoy L. Panek, The Special Branch: The British Spy Novel, 1890–1980, Bowling Green University Popular Press, Bowling Green, OH, 1981, p. 66.
34Ibid., p. 39.
35John G. Cawelti and Bruce A. Rosenberg, The Spy Story, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1987, p. 100.
36Leslie Stephen, in Hours in a Library, Smith, Elder, London, 1874, quoted in John Buchan, Sir Walter Scott, Cassell, London, 1932.
37Byron Rogers, The Man who Went into the West: The Life of R. S. Thomas, Aurum, London, 2007, p. 194.
38‘39 steps to a better life’, Country Life, 11 May 2011.
39The Scottish novelist Robert J. Harris has recently written a sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps, entitled The Thirty-One Kings, Polygon, Edinburgh, 2017.
40‘Fountainblue’ in Blackwood’s Magazine, part II, 1901.
41Howard Spring, In the Meantime: Reminiscences, Constable, London, 1942, p. 111.
42JB to Susie, 23 May 1915, QUA, 2110, box 2. Repington also caused an uproar by disclosing in The Times that General French had told him that shortage of munitions had caused the failure of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. This at least partly led to the founding of the Ministry of Munitions, under David Lloyd George.
43Quoted by Hew Strachan in ‘John Buchan and the First World War’, in Kate Macdonald, ed., Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps, Routledge, London, 2009, p. 79.
44Brigadier-General John Charteris, At G. H. Q., Cassell, London, 1931, pp. 146–7.
45Ibid., p. 149.
46General Charteris to Lord Newton, 15 July 1916, The National Archives (TNA), FO 395/51.
47JB to George Brown, 22 July 1916, University of Edinburgh Special Collections, Thomas Nelson Collection, Gen 1728/B/6/152.
48Alfred Noyes, Two Worlds for Memory, Sheed and Ward, London, 1953, p. 118.
49JB to Susie, 5 October 1916, QUA, 2110, box 2.
50The Battle of the Somme, First Phase and The Battle of the Somme, Second Phase, published by Thomas Nelson in 1916 and 1917 respectively.
51JB to George Brown, 5 October 1916, University of Edinburgh Special Collections, Thomas Nelson Collection, Gen 1728/B/6/222.
52JB to Captain Basil Liddell Hart, 2 December 1916, QUA, 2110, box 13.
53Dedication in John Buchan, Greenmantle, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1916.
54Lord Tweedsmuir, Always a Countryman, Robert Hale, London, 1953, p. 292.
55Buchan, Greenmantle, chapter II.
56Ibid.
57Quoted by James Buchan in The John Buchan Journal, no. 12, autumn 1992, p. 3.
58Buchan, Nelson’s History of the War, vol. XIII, pp. 82–98.
59JB to Charles Dick, 30 April 1910, QUA, 2110, box 13.
60Arthur Balfour to JB, 30 October 1916, QUA, 2110, box 2.
61According to General Sir Douglas Haig in a letter to The Times, 28 November 1916.
62David S. Katz, The Shaping of Turkey in the British Imagination, 1776–1923, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2016, pp. 220–1.
63Ibid., p. 210.
64Ibid., p. 204.
65JB to Helen Buchan, 27 October 1917, QUA, 2110, box 3.
66JB to Susie, 14 October 1916, QUA, 2110, box 2.
67JB to Susie, 17 October 1916, QUA, 2110, box 2.
68John Buchan, These for Remembrance, privately published, 1919, p. 36.
69John Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, pp. 164–5.
70JB to Susie, 19 October 1916, QUA, 2110, box 2.
71JB to Susie, 20 October 1916, QUA, 2110, box 2.
72Anna Buchan, A. E. B., privately published, 1917, p. 24.
73Cabinet minute, 31 August 1914, TNA, CAB 41/35/38.
74Gary S. Messinger, British Propaganda and the State in the First World War, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1992, p. 38.
75Cabinet minute, 24 January 1917, TNA, CAB 21/37 24.
76‘Propaganda Arrangements’, Robert Donald’s report to David Lloyd George, 9 January 1917, TNA, INF 4/9.
77Lord Milner to David Lloyd George, 17 January 1917, Parliamentary Archives, LG/F/38/2/2.
78‘Propaganda – A Department of Information’, memorandum by John Buchan, 3 February 1917, TNA, CAB 24/3/33.
79Michael Redley, ‘What did John Buchan do in the Great War?’, The John Buchan Journal, no. 47, p. 20.
80Susan Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1947, p. 81.
81Reginald Farrer, The Void of War: Letters from Three Fronts, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1918.
82Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, p. 83.
83Paul Nash, Outline: An Autobiography and Other Writings, Faber and Faber, London, 1949, p. 207.
84Buchan, A. E. B., p. 22.
85Ibid., pp. 31–2.
86Anna Buchan, Unforgettable, Unforgotten, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1945, p. 150.
87Buchan, A. E. B., pp. 37–8.
88JB to Anna Buchan, 18 April 1917, NLS, Acc. 11627/37.
89JB to Helen Buchan, 19 July 1917, QUA, 2110, box 3.
90JB to Anna Buchan, 20 July 1917, NLS, Acc. 6975/14.
91JB to Helen Buchan, 23 July 1917, NLS, Acc. 6975/14.
92Lord Burnham to Robert Donald, 31 July 1917, TNA, INF 4/7.
93Buchan, A History of the Great War, vol. II, p. 65.
94John Buchan, Poems Scots and English, T. C. and E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1917, p. 7.
95The Times, 7 August 1917, p. 7.
96JB to Helen Buchan, 7 August 1917, QUA, 2110, box 3.
97JB to Susie, 10 September 1917, QUA, 2110, box 3.
98Collection of reports and memoranda by John Buchan and others, Department and Ministry of Information, March 1917–December 1919, QUA, W. D. Jordan Library, John Buchan Collection, no. 130.
99Pembroke Wicks to Sir Edward Carson, 20 October 1917, TNA, CAB 21/37 20.
100Hubert Montgomery to JB, 24 October 1917, TNA, CAB 21/37.
101Entry for 20 August 1917, Leo Amery, The Leo Amery Diaries, vol. I, 1896–1929, Hutchinson, London, 1980.
102Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, pp. 82–4.
103JB to Helen Buchan, 17 May 1918, QUA, 2110, box 3.
104Quoted in Cate Haste, Keep the Home Fires Burning, Allen Lane, London, 1977, p. 47.
105Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, p.82 footnote.
106Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 38.
107Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, p. 134.
108William Buchan, John Buchan: A Memoir, Buchan and Enright, London, 1982, p. 160.
109Pilgrim Trust Ninth Annual Report, 1939, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1939.
110JB to Helen Buchan, 5 August 1918, NLS, Acc. 11627/4.
111JB to Helen Buchan, 10 August 1918, QUA, 2110, box 3.
112Lord Beaverbrook’s memorandum to the House of Commons, September 1918, p. 3, QUA, W. D. Jordan Library, John Buchan Collection, no. 130.
113JB to Helen Buchan, 11 September 1918, NLS, Acc. 11627/4 11.
114John Buchan, The King’s Grace 1910–1935, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1935, pp. 234–5.
115Buchan, The King’s Grace 1910–1935, pp. 247–9.
116John Buchan, The Three Hostages, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1924, chapter IV.
117Adolf Hitler, My Battle, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1933, pp. 76–7. See also Haste, Keep the Home Fires Burning, p. 200.
118James Duane Squires, British Propaganda at Home and in the United States from 1914 to 1918, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1935, p. 283.
119Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 166.
1Memorandum, 1 January 1919, Parliamentary Archives, LG/F/95/1/1.
2John Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1940, p. 181.
3Ibid., pp. 182–3.
4Ibid., p. 184.
5Susan Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1947, pp. 289–90.
6Toby Buchan, ‘John Buchan and the Great War’, in The John Buchan Journal, no. 7, winter 1987, p. 6.
7John Buchan, These for Remembrance, privately published, 1919, Preface.
8JB to Helen Buchan, 19 June 1919, NLS, Acc. 6975/14.
9Cadmus and Harmonia (John and Susan Buchan), The Island of Sheep, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1919, p. 68.
10J. P. Parry, ‘From the Thirty-Nine Articles to the Thirty-Nine Steps: reflections on the thought of John Buchan’, in Public and Private Doctrine: Essays in British History presented to Maurice Cowling, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993, p. 217.
11Arthur Balfour to Lord Beaverbrook, 13 December 1918, NLS, Acc. 7006.
12JB to Lord Beaverbrook, 22 February 1922, NLS, Acc. 7006.
13JB to Lord Beaverbrook, 11 May 1922, NLS, Acc. 7006.
14Lord Beaverbrook to Winston Churchill, 2 June 1922, Parliamentary Archives, BBK/G/15/2.
15University of Glasgow to JB, 1 May 1919, QUA, 2110, box 3.
16John Buchan, Mr Standfast, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1919, chapter 1.
17JB to Helen Buchan, 9 May 1919, QUA, 2110, box 3.
18JB to Helen Buchan, 16 June 1919, QUA, 2110, box 3.
19JB to Helen Buchan, 5 June 1919, QUA, 2110, box 3.
20Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 187.
21Ibid., p. 188–9.
22Ibid., p. 188.
23Robert Stanley, ‘Mr. John Buchan at Home’, in Homes and Gardens, November 1932, pp. 251–4.
24William Buchan, The Rags of Time, Ashford, Buchan and Enright, Southampton, 1990, p. 21.
25JB to Helen Buchan, 15 December 1919, NLS, Acc. 6975/14.
26Susan Tweedsmuir, A Winter Bouquet, Gerald Duckworth, London, 1954, p. 48. There is no longer a Women’s Institute in Elsfield.
27Quoted in Ursula Buchan, ‘An Instinct to Please: The writings of Susan Buchan’, The John Buchan Journal, no. 14, spring 1995, p. 6.
28Hilda Grenfell to JB, 8 August 1926, QUA, 2110, box 4.
29From George Herbert’s poem ‘Prayer 1.’
30According to Susie in BBC’s Times Remembered, broadcast 11 November 1972.
31G. M. Trevelyan to JB, 30 June 1926, QUA, 2110, box 4.
32He died in October 1940. As much as is known about Tom Buchan is to be found in ‘Thomas Henderson Buchan: the last bushranger?’ by Rev. Edwin R. Lee, in The John Buchan Journal, no. 21, autumn 1999, pp. 2–13.
33Letter from Nigel Napier, published in The John Buchan Journal, no. 11, spring 1992, p. 23.
34Quoted in John Buchan, Sir Walter Scott, Cassell, London, 1932, p. 90.
35George Graham to George Brown, 4 August 1920, University of Edinburgh Special Collections, Thomas Nelson Collection, Coll-25, box 125.
36Buchan, Sir Walter Scott, p. 239.
37Quoted in Margaret Newbolt, ed., Later Life and Letters of Sir Henry Newbolt, Faber and Faber, London, 1942, p. 285.
38Ibid., p. 340.
39John Buchan, A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys, Thomas Nelson, Edinburgh, 1925, p. v.
40JB to Ian Nelson, 6 January 1923, UESC, Thomas Nelson Collection, Gen. 1728/B/11/2.
41Ian Nelson to JB, 8 January 1923, UESC, Nelson Collection, Gen. 1728/B/11/4x.
42JB to Ian Nelson, 9 January, 1923, UESC, Nelson Collection, Gen. 1728/B/11/5x.
43JB to Ian Nelson, 24 January 1923, UESC, Nelson Collection, Gen. 1728/B/11/15x.
44Ian Nelson to JB, 30 January 1923, UESC, Nelson Collection, Gen. 1728/B/11/17x.
45JB to Ian Nelson, 1 February 1923, UESC, Nelson Collection, Gen. 1728/B/11/18x.
46Ian Nelson to JB, 4 July 1923, UESC, Nelson Collection, Gen. 1728/B/11/141c.
47JB to Ian Nelson, 16 July 1923, UESC Nelson Collection, Gen. 1728/B/11/145x.
48JB to the Earl of Rosebery, 2 November 1920, QUA, 2110, box 13.
49JB to the Earl of Rosebery, 13 January 1922, QUA, 2110, box 13.
50G. M. Trevelyan to JB, 27 February 1921, QUA, 2110, box 3.
51‘I had poor luck at Glen Etive – got up to a stag after a long stalk and found the cartridges didn’t fit the rifle!’ JB to George Brown, 24 August 1920, UESC, Thomas Nelson Collection, Gen. 1728/ B/9/105.
52John Buchan, ‘Montrose and Leadership’ in Men and Deeds, Peter Davies, London, 1935, p. 278.
53John Buchan, Huntingtower, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1922, chapter XVI.
54John Buchan, ed., The Northern Muse, Thomas Nelson, Edinburgh, 1924, p. xix.
55Ibid., pp. xxix–xxx.
56Ibid., p. 452.
57Ian Brown and Alan Riach, eds, in The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2009, p. 57.
58Quoted in Hugh Macmillan, A Man of Law’s Tale, Macmillan, London, 1952, p. 242.
59Thomas Hardy to JB, 21 November 1921, John Buchan Museum collection.
60JB to Thomas Hardy, 2 June 1922, John Buchan Museum collection.
61Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 197.
62John Buchan, ‘The most difficult form of fiction’, The Listener, 16 January 1929.
63Buchan, Sir Walter Scott, pp. 130–1.
64Quoted in ‘A Mis-Rated Author?’, in M. R. Ridley, Second Thoughts, Dent, London, 1965, p. 15.
65JB to Alice Fairfax-Lucy, 27 March 1939, private collection.
66Arthur Balfour to JB, 16 May 1912, QUA, 2110, box 2.
67J. R. B. Hart to Hodder and Stoughton, 1 December 1919, QUA, 2110, box 3.
68John Buchan, The Three Hostages, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1924, Dedication.
69Ibid., chapter 1.
70Catherine Carswell in Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1947, p. 160.
71Violet Markham, Friendship’s Harvest, Reinhardt, London, 1956, pp. 125–6.
72Sir Brian Fairfax-Lucy, undated, h/w memoir of JB, private collection.
73Quoted in Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 244.
74Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King (MKD), 28 May 1919, Bibliothèque et Archives / Library and Archives Canada (BAC/LAC), MG26-J13, 6994.
75MKD, 13 September 1924, BAC/LAC, MG26-J13, 8919.
76C. Gray, Mrs King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King, Viking, London, 1997, p. 287, quoted by Victoria Wilcox in ‘John Buchan’s Canadian Prime Minister’, The John Buchan Journal, no. 49, 2016, p. 27.
77MKD, 14 September 1924, BAC/LAC, MG26-J13, 8921.
78Ferris Greenslet, Under the Bridge, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1943, p. 158.
79JB to Walter Buchan, 18 September 1924, NLS, Acc. 1162/79.
80Greenslet, Under the Bridge, pp. 202–3.
81Ibid., p. 203.
82Greenslet, Under the Bridge, p. 202.
83Milton Graduates Bulletin, 1922.
84John Buchan, Homilies and Recreations, Thomas Nelson, Edinburgh, 1926, pp. 152–3.
85Ibid., p. 158.
86Greenslet, Under the Bridge, p. 205.
87Quoted in Jeffery Williams, Byng of Vimy: General and Governor General, Leo Cooper, 1983, p. 277.
88John Buchan, The King’s Grace, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1935, p. 289.
89Reproduced in The John Buchan Journal, no. 34, spring 2006, p. 5.
90John Buchan, John Macnab, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1925, chapter VIII.
91Lord Tweedsmuir, Always a Countryman, Robert Hale, London, 1953, pp. 104–5.
92Buchan, Memory Hold-The-Door, pp. 196–7.
93T. E. Lawrence to JB, 21 December 1928, NLS, Acc. 11627/51.
8 Elsfield and London, 1927–1935
1Quoted in ‘John Buchan and Parliament’ by Lord Stewartby, The John Buchan Journal, no. 31, autumn 2004, p. 12.
2Hansard House of Commons (HC) Debate, 6 July 1927, vol. 208, col. 1316.
3Ibid., col. 1315.
4JB to Helen Buchan, 7 July 1927, QUA, 2110, box 4.
5Ibid.
6JB to Henry Newbolt, 8 July 1927, Brown University Archive, John Buchan, Manuscripts & Correspondence.
7James Johnston, Westminster Voices, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1928, pp. 250–1.
8The Spectator, 15 July 1927, p. 8.
9Hansard HC Debate, 15 December 1927, vol. 211, cc 2615–19.
10Hansard HC Debate, 24 November 1932, vol. 272, cc 259–67.
11Hansard HC Debate, 27 May 1932, vol. 266, col. 741.
12Hansard HC Debate, 22 February 1933, vol. 274, cc 1848–51.
13John Buchan, ‘Conservatism and Progress’, The Spectator, 23 November 1929.
14John Buchan, The Morning Post, 31 December 1929.
15John Buchan, The Runagates Club, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1928, Preface.
16Preface addressed to the President of the United States, F. D. Roosevelt, by Alexander Woollcott in ‘Proofs of Holy Writ’ by Rudyard Kipling, Doubleday, Doran and Co., NY, 1942.
17Alice Buchan, A Scrap Screen, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1979, p. 147.
18JB to Alice Fairfax-Lucy, n.d. 1938, private collection. Although he was never to make a living as a writer, as his father did, William Buchan (1916–2008) published half a dozen novels, as well as an elegant memoir of his father, and a ‘fragment of autobiography’, The Rags of Time, in which he described the enchantment of his childhood and the discontent of his youth. See Bibliography.
19William Buchan, The Rags of Time, Ashford, Buchan and Enright, Southampton, 1990, p. 127.
20Janet Adam Smith, John Buchan: A Biography, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1965, p. 225.
21John Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1940, p. 221.
22Susan Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1947, p. 175.
23Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 213.
24Ibid., pp. 214–15.
25Ibid., pp. 212–13.
26Ibid., p. 216.
27T. E. Lawrence to JB, 19 May 1925, QUA, 2110, box 4.
28T. E. Lawrence to JB, 5 July 1925, QUA, 2110, box 4.
29T. E. Lawrence to JB, 21 December 1928, NLS, Acc. 11627/51.
30T. E. Lawrence to JB, 22 August 1931, NLS, Acc. 11627/51.
31John Buchan, The Blanket of the Dark, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1931, chapter I.
32Quoted in Andrew Lownie, The Presbyterian Cavalier, Constable, London, 1995, p. 226.
33Stewartby, ‘John Buchan and Parliament’, The John Buchan Journal, no. 31, p. 15.
34Pilgrim Trust, Ninth Annual Report, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1939, p. 13.
35The Sunday News, n.d., quoted by Juanita Kruse in John Buchan and the Idea of Empire: Popular Literature and Political Ideology, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, 1989, p. 139.
36Conversation between Janet Adam Smith and Lord Davidson, 5 March 1963, NLS, Acc. 11164/4.
37John Buchan, The Graphic, 26 February 1927 pp. 294–5.
38Quoted in Thomas Jones, A Diary with Letters 1931–1950, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1954, pp. 42–3.
39Ibid.
40JB to Stanley Baldwin, 4 October 1932, QUA, 2110, box 6.
41JB to Leo Amery, 16 May 1936, Leopold Amery Papers, Churchill Archives Centre, AMEL 2/1/26.
42Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, pp. 238–9.
43JB to Lord Beaverbrook, 5 January 1932, NLS, Acc. 7006.
44Hansard HC Debate, 24 November 1932, vol. 272, cc 261–6.
45John Buchan, The Three Hostages, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1924, chapter IV.
46John Buchan, Sir Walter Scott, Cassell, London, 1932, p. 111.
47Ibid., pp. 16–17.
48Ibid., p. 170.
49Ibid., p. 43.
50Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, p. 16.
51JB to Susie, 26 October 1932, NLS, Acc. 6975/15.
52JB to Susie, 31 May 1932, NLS, Acc. 6975/15.
53See Harry Defries, Conservative Party Attitudes to Jews 1900–1950, Routledge, London, 2001.
54Allan Massie, ‘In the Shadow of Empire’, in The John Buchan Journal, no. 42, p. 22.
55Owen Dudley Edwards, ‘John Buchan: Novelist, Publisher and Politician’, in A. Reid and B. D. Osbourne, eds, Discovering Scottish Writers, Scottish Library Association and Scottish Cultural Press, Edinburgh, 1997, p. 16.
56JB to Susie, 16 March 1932, QUA, 2110, box 5.
57The Jewish Chronicle, 4 May 1934, p. 28.
58Christopher Harvie, The Centre of Things: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present, Unwin Hyman, London, 1991, p. 170, footnote.
59Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, London, 1879, chapter 1.
60The Times, 24 May 1933, p. 11.
61Quoted by Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 364.
62Violet Markham, Friendship’s Harvest, Reinhardt, London, 1956, p. 123.
63JB to Sir Alexander Grant, 3 July 1933, private collection.
64The Times, 23 May 1934, p. 7.
65Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 197.
66John Buchan, Oliver Cromwell, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1934, book I, chapter IV.
67Ibid., book I, chapter I.
68Ibid., book IV, chapter V.
69Quoted in Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 331.
70Ibid., p. 367.
71JB to Johnnie Buchan, 22 January 1935, NLS, Acc. 11627/10.
72François Truffaut, Hitchcock by Truffaut, Simon and Schuster, London, 1967, p. 102.
73JB to Johnnie Buchan, 12 February 1935, NLS, Acc. 11627/10.
74John Buchan, The King’s Grace 1910–1935, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1935, pp. 227–8.
75JB to Johnnie Buchan, 19 March 1935, NLS, Acc. 11627/10.
76JB to Susie Buchan, 3 July 1934, QUA, 2110, box 6.
77John Buchan, The Spectator, 6 July 1901.
78Quoted in Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 368.
79Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, p. 146.
80JB to Susie, 19 March 1935, NLS, Acc. 6975/15.
81JB to Johnnie Buchan, 26 February 1935, NLS, Acc. 11627/10.
82JB to Johnnie Buchan, 19 February 1935, NLS, Acc. 11627/10.
83John Buchan, Greenmantle, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1916, chapter I.
84Helen Buchan to JB, 24 March 1935, NLS, Acc. 11164/20.
85Quoted in Professor Keith Neilson, ‘An excellent conning-tower: John Buchan on the fringes of diplomacy’, in On the Fringes of Diplomacy: Influences on British Foreign Policy, 1800–1945, ed. John Fisher and Antony Best, Ashgate, Farnham, 2011, p. 249.
86JB to Johnnie Buchan, 26 March 1935, NLS, Acc. 11627/10.
87Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 370.
88JB to Susie, 28 March 1935, NLS, Acc. 6542/14.
89Quoted in Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 372.
90T. E. Lawrence to JB, 1 April 1935, NLS, Acc. 11627/51.
91JB to Johnnie Buchan, 6 May 1935, NLS, Acc. 11627/10.
92‘Beverley Baxter’s London Letter’, 15 March 1940, Maclean’s Magazine, Toronto.
93Alan Lascelles to JB, 27 May 1935, QUA, 2110, box 7.
94Alan Lascelles to JB, 20 April 1935, QUA, 2110, box 7.
95Alan Lascelles to JB, 9 May 1935, QUA, 2110, box 7.
96JB to Johnnie Buchan, 5 March 1935, NLS, 11627/10.
97Buchan, The Rags of Time, Ashford, Buchan and Enright, Southampton, 1990, pp. 174–6.
98Helen Buchan to JB, 10 July 1935, NLS, Acc. 11164/20.
99JB to Johnnie Buchan, 11 June 1935, NLS, Acc. 11627/10.
100Nigel Nicolson, ed. The Sickle Side of the Moon: Letters of Virginia Woolf 1932–1935, Hogarth Press, London, 1979, pp. 410–11.
101Helen Buchan to JB, 5 August 1935, NLS, Acc. 11164/20.
102Helen Buchan to JB, 8 August 1935, NLS, Acc. 11164/20.
103Helen Buchan to JB, 27 August 1935, NLS, Acc. 11164/20.
104JB to Helen Buchan, 18 October 1935, NLS, Acc. 6975/15.
1JB to Helen Buchan, 5 November 1935, NLS, Acc. 11627/9.
2Yousuf Karsh, Faces of Destiny, Ziff-Davis, Chicago, IL, 1946, pp. 146–7.
3Quoted in Duff Hart-Davis, ed., In Royal Service: Letters and Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles 1920–1936, Vol. II, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989, p. 128.
4Quoted in The John Buchan Journal, no. 9, winter 1989, p. 3.
5JB to Walter Buchan, 27 December 1935, NLS, Acc. 11627/79.
6John Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1940, pp. 240–1.
7JB to Charles Dick, 3 February 1936, QUA, 2110, box 13.
8Susie to Walter Buchan, 18 December, 1939, NLS, Acc. 11627/90.
9JB to Walter Buchan, 9 March 1936, NLS, Acc. 11627/79.
10Shuldham Redfern to Sir Clive Wigram, 13 March 1936, private collection.
11William Deacon to Ellen Elliott, 8 May 1940, quoted by Professor Andrew David Irvine in The John Buchan Journal, no. 49, p. 29.
12John Buchan, Canadian Occasions, Musson, Toronto, 1940, p. 241.
13Joanne Larocque-Poirier, contribution to a round-table discussion, hosted by Queen’s University Archives and held on 21 October 2004 at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.
14Anna Desmarais, ‘Lord Tweedsmuir and the Search for Identity’, Ottawa Citizen, 20 March 2017.
15JB to Sir Henry Newbolt, 31 March 1936, Brown University Archives, John Buchan, Manuscripts & Correspondence.
16The Scotsman, 13 February 1940.
17Beatrice Spencer-Smith to Penelope Butler, 28 June 1936, ZKZ/05/02 /11/02/06, Archive of the Graham family of Norton Conyers, North Yorkshire County Record Office.
18Beatrice Spencer-Smith to Penelope Butler, 18 July 1936, ZKZ/05/ 02/11/02/07, Graham Papers, North Yorkshire County Record Office.
19JB to King Edward VIII, 5 August 1936, Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GVI/C/048/017.
20Rod and Gun, December 1936.
21Toronto Globe, 27 August 1936.
22Quoted in Janet Adam Smith, John Buchan: A Biography, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1965, p. 396.
23Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King (MKD), 4 September 1936, Bibliothèque et Archives / Library and Archives, Canada. MG26-J13, 17172.
24JB to Helen Buchan, 4 September 1936, NLS, Acc. 11627/9.
25Susan Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1947, pp. 227–8.
26JB to Helen Buchan, 13 September 1936, NLS, Acc. 11627/9.
27Mrs Marion W. DeBoice, The John Buchan Journal, no. 6, autumn 1986, p. 32.
28JB to Helen Buchan, 10 September 1936, NLS, Acc. 11627/9.
29Ibid.
30Quoted in Peter Henshaw, ‘John Buchan and the British Imperial Origins of Canadian Multiculturalism’, in Canadas of the Mind: The Making and Unmaking of Canadian Nationalisms in the Twentieth Century, eds. N. Hillmer and A. Chapnick, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2007, p. 191.
31Adam Smith, John Buchan, pp. 391–2.
32John Buchan, Canadian Occasions, p. 29.
33JB to Mackenzie King, 29 September 1936, QUA, 2110, box 8.
34Captain John Boyle to Lady Trenchard, 5 October 1936, private collection.
35JB to Mackenzie King, 29 September 1936, QUA, 2110, box 8.
36The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres to JB, 3 November 1936, QUA, 2110, box 8.
37Ramsay MacDonald to JB, 7 December 1936, QUA, 2110, box 8.
38JB to Walter Buchan, 17 December 1936, NLS, Acc. 11627/79.
39Susie to JB, 30 October 1936, NLS, Acc. 11627/6.
40JB to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 27 October 1936, QUA, 2110, box 7.
41JB to Stanley Baldwin, 9 November 1936, QUA, 2110, box 7.
42Susie to JB, 16 November 1936, NLS, Acc. 11627/6.
43Sir Alexander Hardinge to JB, 16 November 1936, QUA, 2110, box 7.
44Susie to JB, 4 December 1936, NLS, Acc. 11627/6.
45JB to Susie, 1 December 1936, NLS, Acc. 6975/15.
46JB to Helen Buchan, 7 December 1936, NLS, Acc. 11627/9.
47JB to Susie, 10 December 1936, QUA, 2110, box 8.
48JB to Helen Buchan, 17 December 1936, NLS, Acc. 11627/9.
49JB to Stanley Baldwin, 3 February 1937, Cambridge University Library MS Baldwin, 122/181–3.
50Undated cartoon by Shuldham Redfern, QUA, 2110, box 28.
51JB, ‘Private notes on Washington visit’, 8 April 1937, QUA, 2110, box 12.
52Quoted in J. William Galbraith, John Buchan: Model Governor-General, Dundurn, Toronto, 2013, p. 172.
53JB, ‘Private notes on Washington Visit’, 8 April 1937, QUA, 2110, box 12.
54Quoted in Buchan, Canadian Occasions, pp. 61–2.
55Harry S. Truman to Bess Truman, 1 April 1937, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, Independence. MO, Family, Business and Personal Affairs Papers, Truman Papers.
56JB to Walter Buchan, 5 April 1937, NLS, Acc. 11627/79.
57JB, private memorandum, ‘Note for the President’, NLS, Acc. 11627/79.
58JB to Stanley Baldwin, 8 April 1937, QUA, 2110, box 8.
59Ibid.
60See Professor Kevin Hutchings, ‘John Buchan and the First Nations of Canada’, in The John Buchan Journal, no. 50, 2017, pp. 55–61.
61Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, p. 220.
62Hutchings, The John Buchan Journal, no. 50, p. 59.
63Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself, Collins, London, 1964, p. 156.
64Shuldham Redfern’s personal diary entry for 28 July 1937, private collection.
65Susie to JB, 2 August 1937, NLS, Acc. 11627/6.
66The Sunday Times, 12 December 1937, p. 18.
67Archibald Fleming, Archibald The Arctic, Appleton Century Crofts, New York, 1956, p. 336.
68Quoted in Beverley Baxter’s ‘London Letter’ in Maclean’s Magazine, 15 March 1940, Toronto.
69JB to Helen Buchan, 28 August 1937, NLS, Acc. 11627/9.
70JB to Alice Fairfax-Lucy, 10 June 1938, private collection.
71JB to Alice Fairfax-Lucy, 2 February 1938, private collection.
72JB to Alice Fairfax-Lucy, 19 April 1938, private collection.
73Quoted in Buchan, Canadian Occasions, pp. 82–3.
74Delivered in Chicago, 5 October 1937.
75JB to Gilbert Murray, 8 October 1937, QUA, 2110, box 8.
76See TNA, PREM 1/229.
77MKD, diary entries for 9 and 20 October 1937, BAC/LAC, MG26-J13, 18397 and 18428.
78John Buchan, Augustus, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1937, pp. 346–7.
79Quoted in Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 432.
80JB to Helen Buchan, 18 October 1937, NLS, Acc. 11627/9.
81Buchan, Augustus, pp. 25–6.
82Ibid., p. 191.
83JB to Helen Buchan, 3 November 1937, NLS, Acc. 11627/9.
84On 5 and 12 December 1937.
85Sir Alexander Hardinge to JB, 20 December 1937, Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GVI/C/048/055.
86JB to Helen Buchan, 19 July 1937, NLS, Acc. 11627/9.
87Quoted in Andrew Lownie, The Presbyterian Cavalier, Constable, London, 1995, pp. 267–8.
1JB to Alan Lascelles, 1 January 1938, QUA, 2110, box 9.
2Quoted in Francis Williams, A Prime Minister Remembers: The War and Post-War Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Earl Attlee, Heinemann, London, 1961, p. 17.
3See Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm, Cassell, London, 1948, p. 199.
4George Spence, ‘When the Governor-General came to Val Marie’, 11 May 1938, QUA, 2110, box 25.
5Quoted in Janet Adam Smith, John Buchan: A Biography, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1965, p. 449.
6‘Harvard Commencement Address’, The John Buchan Journal, no. 19, autumn 1998, pp. 3–4.
7Lord Tweedsmuir, The John Buchan Journal, no. 1, spring 1980, p. 3.
8Quoted by Professor Keith Neilson, ‘An Excellent Conning-Tower: John Buchan on the fringes of diplomacy’, in On the Fringes of Diplomacy: Influences on British Foreign Policy 1800–1945, ed. John Fisher and Antony Best, Ashgate, Farnham, 2011, p. 262.
9Anna Buchan, Unforgettable, Unforgotten, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1945, pp. 213–14.
10JB to Susie, 17 August 1938, NLS, Acc. 6975/15.
11JB to Susie, 14 August 1938, NLS, Acc. 6975/15.
12JB to Susie, 29 August 1938, NLS, Acc. 6975/15.
13Ibid.
14JB to Susie, 15 September 1938, NLS, Acc. 6975/15.
15JB to Alice Fairfax-Lucy, 6 April 1939, private collection.
16Susie to JB, 9 September 1938, NLS, Acc. 11627/6.
17Susie to JB, 15 September 1938, NLS, Acc. 11627/6.
18JB to Susie, 24/25 September 1938, NLS, Acc. 6975/15.
19Ibid.
20Franklin D. Roosevelt to JB, 3 November 1938, QUA, 2110, box 10.
21Shuldham Redfern to Alan Lascelles, 13 March 1939, private collection.
22Col. H. Willis-O’Connor and M. Macbeth, Inside Government House, Ryerson, Toronto, 1954, p. 82.
23JB to Walter Buchan, 26 January 1939, NLS, Acc. 11627/83.
24JB’s personal diary for 1939, NLS, Acc. 6975/11.
25JB to Walter Buchan, 26 January 1939, NLS, Acc. 11627/83.
26JB to Violet Markham, 3 February 1939, QUA, 2110, box 10.
27Alice Fairfax-Lucy, ‘Canada and the Royal Visit’, The Sunday Times, early May 1939 (date from internal evidence).
28Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King (MKD), 17 May 1939, BAC/LAC, MG26-J13, 20278.
29Susan Tweedsmuir, ‘Memories of Royal Visit’, dated 22 May 1939, unpublished, NLS, Acc. 11627/65.
30Quoted in Buchan, Unforgettable, Unforgotten, p. 218.
31Quoted in Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 456.
32Susan Tweedsmuir, ‘Memories of the Royal Visit’, NLS, Acc. 11627/65.
33Ibid.
34John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI: His Life and Reign, Macmillan, London, 1958, p. 390.
35JB to Charles Dick, 20 June 1939, QUA, 2110, box 13.
36Quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, p. 380.
37Burgon Bickersteth to Susie, 24 July 1939, NLS, Acc. 6975/22.
38Violet Markham to JB, 17 January 1939, QUA, 2110, box 10.
39Quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, p. 393.
40Ibid., p. 394.
41Ibid., p. 392.
42Violet Markham, Friendship’s Harvest, Reinhardt, London, 1956, p. 129.
43Alastair never got to the University of Virginia, because war intervened, but he inherited his father’s interest in the United States, serving as the Washington correspondent of The Observer for some years after the Second World War. Later, he became the first head of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, then the head of the Royal College of Defence Studies, and his counsel on the politics of the Cold War was widely sought by Western statesmen. In 1973 he delivered the Reith Lectures (‘Change without War’) and ended his career as Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. He had as incisive a mind as his father, as well as his capacity for hard work. He died in 1976, the year before his mother.
44JB to Violet Carruthers [Markham], 5 September 1939, QUA, 2110, box 11.
45JB, diary entry for 2 September 1939, NLS, Acc. 6975/11.
46JB to Sandy Gillon, 1 December 1939, QUA, 2110, box 11.
47JB to King George VI, 19 September 1939, Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GVI/C/048/095.
48Sir Gerald Campbell, Of True Experience, Hutchinson, London, 1949, p. 86.
49JB to Anna Buchan, 13 November 1939, NLS, Acc. 11627/25.
50JB to Walter Buchan, 14 September 1939, NLS, Acc. 11627/84.
51Ibid.
52JB to King George VI, 19 September 1939, Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GVI/C/048/95.
53JB to Lord (Hugh) Macmillan, 11 September 1939, QUA, 2110, box 11.
54JB to Walter Buchan, 19 October 1939, NLS, Acc. 11627/84.
55Moritz J. Bonn, Wandering Scholar, Cohen and West, London, 1949, p. 369.
56Peter Henshaw, ‘John Buchan and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan: The Under-Rated Role of the “Man on the Spot” ’, Defence Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, Summer 2001, p. 130.
57Mackenzie King to JB, 12 December 1939, QUA, 2110, box 11.
58MKD, 16 December 1939, BAC/LAC, MG26-J13, 21052.
59JB, diary entry, 16 December 1939, NLS, Acc. 6975/11.
60MKD, 16 December 1939, BAC/LAC, MG26-J13, 21059.
61Quoted by Henshaw, ‘John Buchan and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan’, p. 133.
62Ottawa Citizen, 18 December 1939.
63Neilson, ‘An Excellent Conning-Tower’, p. 267.
64Ibid., p. 269.
65Franklin D. Roosevelt to JB, 5 October 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, President’s Personal File, PPF 3396.
66See J. William Galbraith, John Buchan: Model Governor General, Dundurn, Toronto, 2013, chapter 10.
67David Walker, Lean, Wind, Lean, Collins, London, 1984, p. 99.
68Joan Pape, diary of the Royal Visit, unpublished, John Buchan Museum, Peebles.
69Quoted in Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 461.
70Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, p. 13.
71JB to Walter Buchan, 23 November 1939, NLS, Acc. 11627/84.
72JB to Walter Buchan, 2 November 1939, NLS, Acc. 11627/84.
73JB’s diary entry for 31 December 1939, NLS, Acc. 6975/11.
74JB to Anna Buchan, 1 January 1940, NLS, Acc. 11164/25.
75JB to Anna Buchan, 15 January 1940, NLS, Acc. 11164/25.
76JB to Sandy Gillon, 19 January 1940, QUA, 2110, box 11.
77John Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1940, p. 7.
78Ibid., pp. 284–7.
79Ibid., p. 169.
80JB to Walter Buchan, 25 January 1940, NLS, Acc. 11627/84.
81JB to Walter Buchan, 1 February 1940, NLS, Acc. 11627/84.
82See Galbraith, Model Governor General, chapter 17.
83JB to Anna Buchan, 5 February 1940, NLS, Acc. 6542/14.
84JB to Walter Buchan, 1 February 1940, NLS, Acc. 11627/84.
85JB to Anna Buchan, 5 February 1940, NLS, Acc. 6542/14.
86Reported in the Daily Mail, 15 February 1940.
87Telegram from Susie to Anna and Walter Buchan, 11 February 1940, NLS, Acc. 11164/25.
88Susie to Alice Fairfax-Lucy, 12 February 1940, private collection.
89Memorial booklet, Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GVI/PS/DOM/04518/52.
90Ferris Greenslet, Under the Bridge, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1943, pp. 207–8.
91The Reverend Alexander Ferguson, 14 February 1940, CBC Broadcast.
92Memorial Meeting for the Governor-General, Montreal Neurological Institute, 14 February 1940, QUA, 2110, box 12.
93J. P. Parry, ‘Reflections on the thought of John Buchan’, in Michael Bentley, ed., Public and Private Doctrine: Essays in British History Presented to Maurice Cowling, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993, p. 235.
94Sir Shuldham Redfern to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 16 February 1940, private collection.
95A. L. Rowse, The English Past, Macmillan, London, 1957, p. 184.
96Ibid., p. 194.
97George M. Trevelyan to Susie, 19 February 1940, QUA, 2110, box 23.
98Tweedsmuir, ed., John Buchan by his Wife and Friends, p. 12.
99J. W. Dafoe to Viscount Greenwood, 29 March 1940, NLS, Acc. 11164/10.
100The New York Tribune, 12 February 1940.
101Arthur Murray, At Close Quarters, John Murray, London, 1946, pp. 97–8.
102Quoted in Adam Smith, John Buchan, p. 463.
103M. R. Ridley, Second Thoughts: More Studies in Literature, J. M. Dent, London, 1965, pp. 25–6.
104John Buchan, Scholar Gipsies, The Bodley Head, London, 1896, pp. 205–6.
1Alec Maitland to Susie, 12 February 1940, QUA, 2110, box 23.