1 ‘admirable and tranquil’: Ernst Robert Curtius, English Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, trans. Willard R. Trask (Princeton University Press, 1953), p. 357
2 ‘I could … by giving half my money’: Memoir, p. 76
3 ‘no authority’: Louise Wright, ‘Disputed Dregs: D. H. Lawrence and the Publication of Maurice Magnus’s Memoirs of the Foreign Legion’, Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies (1996), p. 58
4 ‘a dead dog’: Letters, 10 November 1921
5 ‘lovely monuments of our European past’: ‘Foreword to Studies in Classic American Literature’ (1920), in Studies in Classic American Literature, p. 384
6 it ‘was the dark country’: Van Wyck Brooks, ‘The American Scene: General Thoughts on Henry James and America’, The Dial, vol. 75 (July 1923)
7 ‘the flower of art blooms’: Henry James, Hawthorne (Macmillan, 1887), p. 3
8 ‘whole tree of life’: Letters, 26 October 1915
9 ‘display the role of the imagination’: William Wasserstrom, The Time of the Dial (Syracuse University Press, 1963), p. 2
10 ‘two stories (or somethings)’: Nicholas Joost and Alvin Sullivan, D. H. Lawrence and The Dial (Southern Illinois University Press, 1970), p. 9
11 ‘Nowadays I depend almost entirely’: Letters, 10 November 1921
12 ‘real American book’: epilogue to the American edition of Fantasia of the Unconscious (Thomas Seltzer, 1922)
13 ‘It is exactly two years’: Memoir, p. 76
14 ‘stone-cold to this pink-faced … lower classes’: these remarks about Magnus’s homosexuality were edited out of Lawrence’s introduction to the Memoirs of the Foreign Legion by M.M. (1924) and can be found in Memoir of Maurice Magnus, ed. Keith Cushman, pp. 93–4
15 ‘Let him die and be thrice dead’: edited out of the 1924 introduction and found in Memoir of Maurice Magnus, ed. Cushman, p. 95.
16 ‘littérateur’: Memoir, p. 78
17 ‘expurgated’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 115
18 ‘I like him for that … consciousness’: Memoir, pp. 80–1
19 ‘Apparently the shades of Magnus’: Letters, 20 December 1921
20 ‘Damn the Foreign Legion’: Norman Douglas to D. H. Lawrence, 26 December 1921, D. H. Lawrence archive, University of Nottingham
21 ‘Lawrence’s memoir … is sure to be full of bias’: Norman Douglas to Grant Richards, 6 February 1922, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin
22 ‘All this is awkward’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 120
23 ‘the novelist’s touch in biography’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 118
24 ‘He never borrowed a hundred’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 117
25 ‘what Lawrence wrote’: Richard Aldington, introduction to D. H. Lawrence, Apocalypse (Penguin, 1974), p. xiii
26 270 satire of him in Aaron’s Rod: Richard Aldington, Pinorman: Personal Recollections of Norman Douglas, Pino Orioli and Charles Prentice (William Heinemann, 1954), p. 185
27 ‘spiteful observations’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 125
28 ‘men cannot live’: Norman Douglas, South Wind (Secker & Warburg, 1947), p. 153
29 ‘I like to taste my friends’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 108
30 ‘Let us examine this Siren-loving monster’: Norman Douglas, Siren Land (Martin Secker, 1929), p. 71
31 ‘The news of his arrival’: Norman Douglas, p. 314
32 ‘Rather a mess in here’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 113
33 ‘admirable’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 111
34 ‘bad breeding … age of eunuchs’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 125
35 ‘transition state is that of a girl’: Norman Douglas, p. 334
36 ‘Lawrence is all wrong about my room’: Norman Douglas, p. 334
37 ‘a masterpiece of unconscious’: A Plea for Better Manners, p. 108
38 ‘Every place has its genius’: Norman Douglas, Old Calabria (Martin Secker, 1920), p. 1
39 ‘reader of a good travel-book’: Norman Douglas, Experiments: A Miscellany (Chapman & Hall, 1925), p. 13
40 ‘It is time that I said a word’: Memoir of Maurice Magnus, ed. Cushman, pp. 135–7
41 ‘I induced Lawrence to’: Looking Back, pp. 288–9