The Bolter (43 page)

3
. Republished November 2007 as
A Voyage in the Sunbeam
by Anna Brassey (Trotamundas Press Ltd., England 2007).

4
. King George V, reigned 1910–36.

5
. Royal Archives, Z449/80, Windsor Castle.

6
. The
Times
, 20 March 1902.

7
. Lansbury, George,
Looking Backwards and Forwards
(Blackie, London 1935).

8
. Besant, Annie,
The Law of Population
(Freethought Publishing Co., London 1884).

9
. Interview with Lady Kitty Giles, Corfu, August 2007.

10
. Trzebinski, Errol,
The Life and Death of Lord Erroll
(Fourth Estate, London 2001), p. 52.

11
.
Daily Express
, January 1929.

12
. Trzebinski,
The Life and Death of Lord Erroll
, p. 52.

13
.
Errol Trzebinski interview with David Fielden, Kilifi, Kenya, 1996.

14
. Pugh, Martin, “Conservative Recruits to Labour 1900–30,”
English Historical Review
, Vol. 113, No. 450 (Feb. 1998), pp. 38–64.

15
. The
Times
, 6 January 1911.

16
. The
Times
, 29 April 1911.

17
. Letter, David Wallace to his wife, Pru, 1942.

18
.
Oakland Tribune
, 16 February 1913.

19
. Ibid.

20
.
New York Times
, 6 September 1911.

21
. Ibid.

22
.
New York Times
, 27 April 1917.

23
.
New York Times
, 24 December 1908.

24
. According to
The New York Times
, 11 January 1991, this is 840 Madison Avenue, but in the edition of 23 December 1991 it is given as 850 Madison Avenue.

25
.
New York Times
, 24 December 1908.

26
.
New York Times
, 11 January 1911.

27
.
New York Times
, 23 December 1911.

28
.
Washington Post
, 26 March 1919.

29
. Ibid.

30
.
East Grinstead Observer
, 26 July 1913.

CHAPTER
3

1
. Wallace, Euan, personal diaries, 1917.

2
.
Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in Scotland
(John Murray, London 1875).

3
. “The younger generation [of Bairds] born in the purple, eschew trade.” John Guthrie Smith and John Oswald Mitchell,
The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry
(James Maclehose, Glasgow 1878), Chapter 48.

4
. Wallace, Euan, personal diaries, 1917.

5
. Lansbury, George,
Looking Backwards and Forwards
(Blackie, London 1935).

6
. The
Times
, 25 November 1913, the day before the wedding.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Ibid.

9
. The bra had been invented in 1910, by a New York socialite, Mary Phelps Jacob (she would later become Peabody, then Crosby, by marriage). Jacob had used a pair of handkerchiefs and later made brassieres for her friends. Eventually somebody paid her for one and she decided to patent it in 1914. Idina would almost certainly have met Mary in New York and, given her fascination with fashion, might have been a wearer of one of these early makeshift bras.

10
. The
Times
, 11 February 1908.

11
. Interview with Errol Trzebinski, Kilifi, Kenya, June 2004.

12
.
Having absented himself from his children’s childhood, Gilbert Sackville joined the Navy at the outbreak of the Great War and died of fever at Messina in Sicily at the end of 1915.

13
. Interview with Mr. Young, Barrhill, U.K., June 2007.

CHAPTER
4

1
. Diana Manners would later marry Duff Cooper and is better known as Diana Cooper, under which name she wrote her autobiography,
The Rainbow Comes and Goes
(Penguin, London 1961).

2
. Holmes, Richard,
Tommy
(HarperCollins, London 2004), p. 438.

3
. Interview with John Julius Norwich, Hay-on-Wye, U.K., May 2006.

4
. Roynon, Gavin,
Massacre of the Innocents: The Crofton Diaries, Ypres 1914–1915
(Sutton Publishing, Stroud 2004), p. 22.

CHAPTER
5

1
. Wallace, Euan, personal diaries, 1917.

2
. “Here even motorcars look out of date.” Apollinaire, Guillaume, “Zone,” first published in
Alcools
, Paris 1913.

3
. Wallace, Euan, personal diaries, 1917.

4
. Idina’s own words, written by her in Euan Wallace, personal diaries, 1917.

5
. Ibid

6
. Ibid.

7
. Baedeker, Karl,
Paris and Its Environs
, 1913.

CHAPTER
6

1
. Wallace, Euan, personal diaries, 1917–18.

2
. Now known as “bring-a-bottle parties.”

3
. Idina’s own words, written by her in Euan Wallace, personal diaries, 1917.

4
. Lutyens, Mary,
Edwin Lutyens
(John Murray, London 1980), p. 148.

5
.
Illustrated London News
, 17 December 1917.

CHAPTER
7

1
. Telephone interview with Sarah Graham, 2004, who was struck by Idina’s dressing table when she saw it. When Idina died, these pots and jars would form the bulk of the possessions she left behind.

2
. Wallace, Euan, personal diaries, 1918.

3
. Ibid.

4
.
Interview with Pru de Winton, David Wallace’s wife and author’s grandmother.

5
. Wallace, Euan, personal diaries, 1918.

6
. A servant would have packed his bag for him, driven it to him, and taken him on to the station.

7
. Lady Sackville was the mother of Vita Sackville-West and had married her cousin, Lionel, who was Lord Sackville. Both Lionel and Lady Sackville, whose first name was Victoria, were first cousins of Idina’s father, Gilbert.

8
. Wallace, Euan, personal diaries, 1918.

CHAPTER
8

1
. Wallace, Euan, personal diaries, 1918.

2
. Ibid

CHAPTER
9

1
. Wallace, Euan, personal diaries, 1918.

2
. The
Times
, 8 May 1918.

3
. Ibid.

CHAPTER
10

1
. Wallace, Euan, personal diaries, 1918.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Ibid

CHAPTER
11

1
. Norwich, John Julius,
The Duff Cooper Diaries
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2005), p. 5.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Interviews with Marybelle Drummond, Charles Gordon’s daughter from a later marriage, London, 2004–2007.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Ibid.

6
. Frampton, Peggy,
Seven Candles for My Life
(Pentland Press, Durham 1994).

7
. Fox, James,
White Mischief
(Penguin, London 1984), p. 30.

8
. Interviews with Marybelle Drummond, Charles Gordon’s daughter from a later marriage, London, 2004–2007.

9
. Wallace, Euan, personal diaries, 1918.

10
. And would continue to do so, dying with a photograph of him by her bed.

CHAPTER
12

1
. Wallace, Euan, personal diaries, 1918–19.

2
. The
Times
, 29 November 1918.

3
. Wallace, Euan, personal diaries, 1918–19.

4
.
Washington Post
, 26 March 1919

CHAPTER
13

1
. The
Times
, 10 November 1955.

2
. “The Watchman,”
Times Almanac
, 10 November 1955.

3
. Interviews with Marybelle Drummond, Charles Gordon’s daughter from a later marriage, London, 2004–2007.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Ibid.

6
. Wallace, Euan, personal diaries, 1920.

7
. Mary Lutyens in conversation with one of Idina’s great-granddaughters, Sophy Skeet.

8
. As later referred to in
Daily Express
, January 1929.

9
.
New York Times
, 31 August 1922.

10
. But only her first. The following year she became engaged to a South American polo player, Guillemo Delanda. However, despite plans for a swift wedding, the marriage never took place.

11
. Idina to David Wallace, 1 August 1936.

CHAPTER
14

1
. Idina to David Wallace, 1 August 1936.

2
. Arlen, Michael,
The Green Hat
(Robin Clark, London 1991), p. 15.

3
. Interview with Mary Fox, London, May 2004.

4
. De Janzé, Frédéric,
Vertical Land
(Duckworth, London 1928), p. 128.

5
. Arlen,
The Green Hat
, p. 66.

6
. Telephone interview with Ann McKay (née Soltau), July 2008.

7
. Arlen,
The Green Hat
, p. 98.

8
. Ibid., p. 111.

9
. Ibid., p. 34.

10
. Ibid., p. 16.

11
. Ibid., p. 31.

12
. Ibid., p. 32.

13
. Ibid., p. 35.

14
. Ibid., p. 23.

15
. Ibid., p. 13.

16
. Sitwell, Georgia, personal diary.

17
.
Errol Trzebinski interview with Kath Biggs, Kimpton, U.K., August 1995.

18
. Faulks, Sebastian,
The Fatal Englishman
(Vintage, London 1997), p. 13.

19
. Interview with Patsy Chilton, London, June 2004.

20
. Arlen,
The Green Hat
, p. 28.

21
. Ibid., p. 28.

22
.
A Woman of Affairs
, directed by Clarence Brown, 1928.

23
. Arlen,
The Green Hat
, p. 215.

24
. Ibid., p. 112.

CHAPTER
15

1
. Interview with Lady Kitty Giles, London, 2005.

2
. Trzebinski, Errol,
The Life and Death of Lord Erroll
(Fourth Estate, London 2001), p. 51.

3
. De Janzé, Frédéric, poem giving the key to the romans à clef
Vertical Land
and
Tarred with the Same Brush
.

4
. Trzebinski,
The Life and Death of Lord Erroll
, p. 51.

5
. Idina to Lord and Lady Kilmarnock, 11 May 1926.

6
. Errol Trzebinski interview with the late Bettine Anderson, Aldeburgh, U.K., 1996.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Ibid.

9
. Ibid.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Ibid.