In citing works in the notes, short titles have generally been used. Works frequently cited have been identified by the following abbreviations:
1369 – The Red Book in the Wiener Library
495-198-1267 – Glading Papers in the Russian State Archive of Social-Political History (RGASPI), Moscow
ADM – Records of the Admiralty and related bodies in the National Archives, Kew
CAB – Records of the Cabinet Office in the National Archives, Kew
COR – London Western Coroners District Collection in the London Metropolitan Archive
DOM – Domvile Papers in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
HO – Records created or inherited by the Home Office and related bodies in the National Archives, Kew (the first two numbers following HO indicate the record shelfmark, the third number refers to the document number, so HO 283/40/22 is the document numbered 22 in the record HO 283/40)
HS – Records of Special Operations Executive
IOR – India Office Records in the British Library, London
KV – Records of the Security Service in the National Archives, Kew (the first two numbers following KV indicate the record shelfmark, the third number refers to the item number, so KV 4/227/1a is the document labelled 1a in the record KV 4/227; ‘History Sheet’ refers to a non-indexed section found at the back of some older MI5 personal files)
MS 310 – Kent (Tyler Gatewood) Papers in the Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut
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1 ‘except for an uncomfortable’: John Baker White, It’s Gone for Good (London: Vacher, 1941), 119.
2 ‘promising young officer’: ADM 240/49/4.
3 ‘the inevitable tortoises’: Maxwell Knight, Some of My Animals (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1954), 20.
4 ‘I was brought up’: Maxwell Knight, How to Keep an Elephant (London: Wolfe, 1967), 26.
5 ‘more intelligent than’: Knight, Some of My Animals, 13–14.
6 ‘I got her to’: Maxwell Knight, Pets: Usual and Unusual (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951), 78.
7 ‘He handled them’: Quoted in Anthony Masters, The Man Who Was M (London: Grafton, 1986), 15.
8 ‘unfit for’: Dennis Wheatley, The Young Man Said (London: Hutchinson, 1977), 136.
9 ‘You can call off’: 1924 Black’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London: A & C Black, 1924), 296.
10 ‘London’s first small’: Tom Driberg, ‘William Hickey’, Daily Express, 27 September, 1934.
11 ‘as they say love’: Philip Larkin, ‘For Sidney Bechet’, in The Whitsun Weddings (London: Faber, 1971), 16.
12 ‘did my best’: Desert Island Discs, BBC Home Service, 28 June, 1965.
13 ‘Some ass’: Ibid.
14 ‘fairly close’: Maxwell Knight, Reptiles in Britain (Leicester: Brockhampton, 1965), 34.
15 ‘the most attractive bundle’: Knight, Pets: Usual and Unusual, 78.
16 ‘In a world where’: Ibid., 13.
17 ‘completely enamoured’: Nigel Farndale, Haw-Haw (London: Macmillan, 2005), 59.