Cherry (48 page)

You will pull the
RFS to Joseph Kinsey, 24 March 1912 (Kinsey photographed the letter. The print he gave Cherry is inserted in Cherry’s journal).

damned disgusted . . . that the men who
FD to ACG, 3 March 1913 (inserted in Journal).

Chapter 8: Kipling in Real Life

Sometimes you seem a
Emily Bowers to ACG, 9 July 1913.

Oh, he was just
Noted by Caroline Oates, 26 June 1913, private collection.

disgusted with the way
ibid.
, 27 April 1913.

It is very undesirable
Francis Drake to ACG, 24 June 1913.

Reginald Smith comes to
KS, Diary, 10 October 1913, Kennet Papers.

gorgeous
RS to ACG, 12 June 1913.

How stupid that minor
Grace Scott to ACG, 18 July 1922.

The frosty reaction of the museum staff
Was Cherry unfair in his attack on the museum? Perhaps. After all, he did not have an appointment.

neither has added greatly C. W. Parsons, British Antarctic (‘Terra
Nova’) Expedition, 1910: Natural History Reports
IV:
Zoology
, 1935, p. 260.

There is courage and
Punch
, 12 November 1913.

quite the nicest thing
ACG to AF, 21 July 1914, Hertford.

They would not listen
Annotated journal [ January 1913].

The committee meant to
ibid
.

I feel how happy
Oriana Wilson to ACG, 8 July 1913.

Lady Scott’s possessive instinct
Annotated journal [October 1911].

Dear Mr Garrad
H. G. Lyons to ACG, 15 February 1914.

Among all the heroes
The Times
, 24 February 1914.

The country is in
ACG to AF, 31 March 1914, BRO.

eye goggles, sledge, tapered . . . Find out the cause . . .
ACG, ‘Notebook of suggestions for the official history’.

Get details of acetylene . . . Plentiful supply of nails
ibid.

I have missed you
EA to ACG, 23 May 1914.

She asked me to
ibid
.

Some day you will
EA to ACG, [n.d.] May 1914.

We never used snowshoes
ACG to Albert Hodge, 13 July 1914.

I cannot read or
Punch
, 29 July 1914.

This is an interesting
South Polar Times
III, Part II.

I can say quite
ACG to Rudyard Kipling, 22 December 1913, the Kipling Collection, Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire. I am grateful to Andrew Lycett and George Potirakis for this information.

My income seems to
ACG to AF, 21 July 1914, BRO.

Now, God be thanked
Rupert Brooke, ‘1914’, 1914.

an awful wild goose . . . We might have as
ACG to AF, 23 August 1914, BRO.

Here I am living . . . They are a splendid
ACG to AF, 23 September 1914, BRO.

I am not sure
ACG to AF, n.d., BRO.

The one thing which
ibid
.

They called it an
Josiah Wedgwood,
Essays and Adventures of a Labour MP
, 1924, p. 203.

We shall be ready
ACG to AF, 16 December 1914, Hertford.

this damn peninsula
Peter Ashton to ACG, 30 August 1915.

the stereotyped respectability of
Draft material,
WJ
.

Tell them I die
The Times
, 13 July 1915.

the first mechanised cavalry
Josiah Wedgwood,
Memoirs of a Fighting Life
, 1941, p. 93.

in trench warfare and
General de Lisle, Report to Admiralty, 27 May 1915, PRO.

Thus at the very
Winston Churchill, Report to President of Royal Commission on War Inventions, September 1919, PRO.

Remember the
Lusitania
Pound, p. 154.

At the end of June 1915
For further information on the demonstration at Wormwood Scrubbs, and on how the tank developed within the RNAS,
see
Rear-Admiral Sir Murray Sueter,
The Evolution of the Tank
, 1941 (revised edition).

a pretty mechanical toy
Lord Kitchener, in Sueter, p. 91.

contracted in his expedition
Admiralty service record, PRO.

Before I had recovered
WJ
, p. liii.

Chapter 9: The War had Won

We all feel we
Ponting, p. 298.

The war from a
Henry Pennell to ACG, 17 December 1915.

We have had some
E. Snelling to ACG, 6 June 1916.

I very much miss A. L. Dykes to ACG, 17 September 1915.

The intimate mental history
Siegfried Sassoon,
Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man
, 1928, p. 335.

Look here old chap . . . Please forgive any interference
EA to ACG, 1 February 1916.

The public have not
EA to ACG, 1 January 1916.

the constant poisoning from
ACG to AF, 11 March 1916, BRO.

I don’t think there
ACG to AF, 25 March 1916, BRO.

I have written to
ACG to AF, 18 April 1916, Hertford.

I am very gradually
ACG to AF, 12 June 1916, BRO.

I shall be most
ACG to Sidney Harmer, 12 May 1916.

that it is an . . . one example only. I
ibid
.

I don’t want to
RFS to ES, 18 February 1907.

I wish to God
EW to ES, n.d.

Do you think he
ACG to KS, 8 July 1914.

Darkness settled on six
Frank Worsley,
Shackleton’s Boat Journey
, 1999, p. 161.

Emerged from a war
Frank Hurley,
Argonauts of the South
, 1925, p. 290.

We’ve had a hot
Tom Crean to ACG, 21 September 1917.

desperate venture
Draft material,
WJ
.

For a joint scientific
WJ
, Preface [omitted from 1994 edition].

When you have a
Draft material,
WJ
.

neither race had won
Edmund Blunden,
The Mind’s Eye
, 1934, p. 38.

had met direction that
Introduction to
Keeling: Letters & Recollections
, ed. ‘ET’, 1918, p. xiii.

Talk of ex-soldiers: give
WJ
, Preface [omitted from 1994 edition].

as a dumping ground
ACG to AF, 28 April 1916, BRO.

stood still for about . . . so vivid that I
ACG to AF, 2 October 1916, BRO.

a village where nobody
Bernard Shaw’s Letters to Siegfried Trebitsch
, ed. Samuel A. Weiss, Stanford, 1980, p. 243.

It is right out
ACG to AF, 8 October 1916, Hertford.

for I diagnose
KS, Diary, 28 December 1916, Kennet Papers.

I want to say
EW to RS and Isabel Smith, 21 or 22 March 1912, in Seaver,
Wilson
, p. 293.

We saw Mrs Wilson
KS, Diary, 29 December 1916, Kennet Papers.

It’s much better fun
ACG to Christabel McLaren, 30 March 1921, BL.

He was he says
KS, Diary, 26 April 1917, Kennet Papers.

most intimate and cordial
KS, Diary, 30 June 1917, Kennet Papers.

the nearest I ever
Young, p. 175.

He is coming on
KS, Diary, 10 June 1918, Kennet Papers.

a regular domestic institution
GBS to Lillah McCarthy, 2 September 1917, in
BSCL III
, p. 503.

If you happen to
Harley Granville Barker to ACG, 16 May 1917.

The two most brilliant
Granville Barker and His Correspondents
, ed. Eric Salmon, Detroit, 1986, p. 9.

I should love to
Denis Lillie to ACG, 7 July 1916.

It was only my
Denis Lillie to ACG, 23 August 1916.

examining military shit for
ibid.

When I see a
Tryggve Gran to G. Evelyn Hutchinson, n.d. (
circa
July 1968).

no nice cliffs or
Denis Lillie to ACG, 7 December 1916.

being unconventional and as
Denis Lillie to ACG, 10 June 1917.

if a motor does
Denis Lillie to ACG, 15 August 1917.

I do hope your
Denis Lillie to ACG, n.d.

Clean all boots in
Draft material,
WJ
.

Lashly . . . sent him his field notes
Like most field diaries, Lashly’s polar notebook consisted of brief notes written in extremely trying circumstances. When Cherry asked if he could meet him ‘to have a yarn’ (ACG to Lashly, 5 May 1916), Lashly was unable to get leave, so he copied the notebook out and probably at this point expanded his field jottings into the fuller account that Cherry duly had typed. The two versions of the diary do not differ in substance or interpretation. It is the fuller account that appears in
The Worst Journey
, and was later reprinted by the University of Reading in a limited edition with Lashly’s co-operation (
The Diary of William Lashly
, Reading, 1940). ‘It is the truth,’ Lashly wrote when discussing the Reading edition (Lashly to Robert Gibbings, 4 October 1938). The original, much briefer version was partially reproduced in
Under Scott’s Command: Lashly’s Antarctic Diaries
, ed. A. R. Ellis, 1969. It was standard practice to expand field notes into a fuller diary when time allowed. Both versions of Keohane’s diary, for example, can be read at SPRI.

I know you would
William Lashly to ACG, 2 September 1916.

very ordinary, middle-class
KS to ACG, n.d.

I have seen Lyons
FD to ACG, 20 December 1918.

I see no end
ACG to Emily Bowers, 14 December 1917.

If it be admitted . . . If it is to
ACG to Canon Nance, 8 March 1918.

At the same time . . . I have neither their
ibid.

And now God go
Sassoon,
Memoirs
, p. 333.

How amazing. How could
KS, Diary, 21 October 1917, Kennet Papers.

a slight waning in
ibid
., 9 January 1918.

If you have a
Denis Lillie to ACG, 28 May 1918.

visiting is contra-indicated . . . frequently relapsing
Bethlem Royal Hospital to ACG, 3 August 1918.

it was an incurable
FD to Angela Mathias, [n.d.] September 1959, family collection.

I think it is
KS, Diary, 30 June 1918, Kennet Papers.

I think you may
EA to ACG, 17 November 1918.

disobeyed orders
ibid.
, and elsewhere.

My mind groped in
Vera Brittain,
Testament of Youth
, 1933, pp. 470–1.

Chapter 10: The Most Wonderful Story in the World

Though the old forms
McKenna, p. 12.

waking from dreams
Rudyard Kipling,
A Book of Words
, 1928, p. 217.

The country cannot tax ACG to AF, 22 May 1917, Hertford.

grey hollowed (or hallowed)
Paul Nash to Mercia Oakley, 23 September 1911, Tate Gallery Archive.

part of the early forest
Paul Nash,
Outline, An Autobiography & Other Writings
, 1949, p. 122.

approaches completion
ACG to H. G. Lyons, [n.d.] January 1919.

as a completed work
ACG to H. G. Lyons, 25 September 1919.

The refusal of my
ACG to H. G. Lyons, 13 November 1919.

Am I to understand
H. G. Lyons to ACG, 17 November 1919.

My dear Lyons
ACG to H. G. Lyons, 22 November 1919.

I want it read
ACG to H. G. Lyons, 2 December 1919.

Teddy Evans is probably . . . He comes out of
ACG to EA, [n.d.] April 1919.

the right-hand man
Sir Eric Geddes,
The Times
, 6 December 1919.

in the hope of . . . without in any way . . . unfortunately
The Times
, 11 December 1919.

Bill used to say
Oriana Wilson to ACG, 26 December 1919.

I don’t like the
E. R. G. R. Evans to ACG, 12 January 1922.

You are now utterly
KS to ACG, 24 November 1919.

Unfortunately I could not . . . any catharsis of the
WJ
, pp. lii–liii.

In a most ruthless
Draft material,
WJ
.

Good literary criticism has
ACG to EA, [n.d.] April 1919.

What is pack
WJ
, p. 59.

Charlotte told him he
GBS to Lord Kennet, 21 February 1948, Kennet Papers.

I said to Cherry
GBS to KS, 23 March 1923, in
BSCL III
, p. 816.

It would be fatal
GBS to ACG, 26 April 1922, in
ibid.
, p. 768.

Some centuries ago, it . . . Now I know why . . . Darkness is
coming on
Nation
, 13 December 1919.

make the atrocities of . . . The penguin has won
The Times
, 4 April 1919.

Otherwise the penguins will
Spectator
, 26 April 1919.

There are some Huns
The Times
, 29 December 1919.

Wells
Two letters from the Cherry-Garrard–Wells correspondence have survived and can be seen at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.

considerable success . . . Fetch one of these
The Times
, 10 October 1919.

Is it Really Christ
Graphic
, 14 February 1920.

All the Christs in
ibid
., 20 March 1920.

My natural kindness of
ACG to KS (draft), 3 February 1919.

two unforgettable days
Fridtjof Nansen, inscribed in a copy of
Farthest North
presented to ACG, family collection.

Ortobiogriffie
Thomas Griffith Taylor to ACG, 17 November 1917.

a true glimpse into
WJ
, p. 1.

If you think your
ibid.
, pp. l–li.