1 ‘The agent must trust’: KV 4/227/1a.
2 ‘A vivid imagination’: Eric Roberts to Harry, 10 February, 1969, Eric Roberts Papers.
3 ‘best watcher’: John Le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (London: Sceptre, 2009), 12.
4 ‘There are few’: Maxwell Knight, A Cuckoo in the House (London: Methuen, 1955), 80.
5 ‘I have hand-reared’: Knight, Some of My Animals, 89.
6 ‘deserted or stray’: Maxwell Knight, Bird Gardening (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954), 3.
7 ‘fledglings fallen from’: Maxwell Knight, Animals After Dark (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1956), 92.
8 ‘I have reared many’: Maxwell Knight, Maxwell Knight Replies (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959), 67.
9 ‘crawling on hands’: Joan Miller, One Girl’s War (Dingle: Brandon, 1986), 49.
10 ‘beating out a tune’: Ibid., 50
11 ‘soothing words’: Maxwell Knight, Taming and Handling Animals (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1959), 104.
12 ‘the tone of the human voice’: Knight, Pets: Usual and Unusual, 33.
13 ‘hypnotic’: Miller, One Girl’s War, 16.
14 ‘dance, whistle’: Maxwell Knight, Talking Birds (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1961), 58.
15 ‘I didn’t have’: Masters, Man Who Was M, 49.