Those Wild Wyndhams (62 page)

29
. Ibid.,
1
.
207
.

30
. Ibid.

31
. Asquith,
An Autobiography
,
1
.
217
;
2
.
14
–
15
.

32
. Robert Blake, quoted in Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
1
.

33
. Frances Horner,
Times Remembered
, quoted in ibid., p.
5
.

34
. Quoted in Blow,
Broken Blood
, p.
202
.

35
. Quoted in Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
297
.

36
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
28
October
1886
, Stanway Papers.

37
. Quoted in Abdy and Gere,
The Souls
, p.
12
.

38
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
29
April
1890
(
Letters
, p.
69
).

39
. Abdy and Gere,
The Souls
, p.
11
.

40
. See MacCarthy,
The Last Pre-Raphaelite
, p.
478
. Burne-Jones described Poynter, his brother-in-law, as filled with ‘dull excellencies’.

41
. Cynthia Asquith, quoted in Abdy and Gere,
The Souls
, p.
108
.

42
. Quoted in ibid., p.
11
.

43
. Ibid., p.
12
.

44
. Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
93
.

45
. Nancy Waters Ellenberger, ‘The Souls and London “Society” at the End of the Nineteenth Century’,
Victorian Society
25
:
2
(Winter
1982
):
133
–
60
,
146
n.
43
; Robert, Lord Vansittart,
The Mist Procession: The Autobiography of Lord Vansittart
(Hutchinson,
1958
), p.
90
.

46
. Edith Lyttelton, quoted in Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
83
.

47
. Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
5
, and ‘The Souls and London “Society”’, p.
133
; see also Abdy and Gere,
The Souls
, p.
10
.

48
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, [
10
April]
1890
(
Letters
, pp.
67
–
8
); also quoted in Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
84
.

49
. Mary Elcho, diaries,
30
May
1887
, Stanway Papers.

50
. Ibid.,
20
,
25
June
1887
.

51
. Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
85
.

52
. Lady Sibyl Lubbock, quoted in Abdy and Gere,
The Souls
, p.
169
.

53
. Quoted in ibid., p.
15
.

54
. Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, p.
19
; Blanche Dugdale,
Family Homespun
(John Murray,
1940
)
,
pp.
72
–
3
.

55
. Lady Frances Balfour to Lady Betty Balfour, June
1889
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
301
.

56
. Mary Elcho to Ettie Grenfell,
19
November
1890
, Desborough Papers, HALS DE/Rv/C
477
.

57
. Mary Elcho to Ettie Grenfell, n.d. [
c
.
1929
], Desborough Papers, HALS DE/Rv/C
477
/
101
.

58
. See, for example, Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
28
February [
1894
] (
Letters
, p.
102
), and Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
15
May
1895
(
Letters
, pp.
124
–
5
).

59
. Margot Asquith,
Off the Record
(Frederick Muller,
1944
), p.
52
.

60
. Ellenberger, ‘Constructing George Wyndham’, p.
497
.

61
. Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall,
Seventy Years Young: Memories of Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall
(Dublin, The Lilliput Press,
1991
), p.
273
.

62
. Quoted in Egremont,
The Cousins
, p.
141
.

63
. Paget,
In my Tower
,
1
.
110
.

64
. Fingall,
Seventy Years Young
, p.
271
.

65
. Abdy and Gere,
The Souls
, p.
92
.

66
. For an account of the episode see Egremont,
The Cousins
, pp.
78
–
9
.

67
. Alfred Lyttelton to Mary Gladstone,
31
December
1886
, quoted in Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, pp.
62
–
3
.

1
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
13
January
1887
, Stanway Papers.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, p.
17
.

4
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
12
January
1887
, Stanway Papers.

5
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
13
January
1887
, Stanway Papers.

6
.
The Times
,
8
February
1887
.

7
. Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
119
.

8
. Ibid.

9
. Patrick Jackson, ‘Sir George Trevelyan’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
.

10
. Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
59
; Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, p.
33
.

11
. For the suggestion, see Adams,
The Last Grandee
, p.
71
. However, there does not appear to be an example in print of this phrase until Eric Partridge’s
Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
(George Routledge,
1937
), which would make it surprising if the phrase really dated back to
1887
.

12
. Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
, p.
37
.

13
. Adams,
The Last Grandee
, p.
76
.

14
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
8
December
1921
, Whittingehame Papers, NRS GD
433
/
2
/
229
/
1
f.
29
.

15
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
7
March
1929
(
Letters
, p.
353
).

16
. Quoted in Davenport-Hines
,
Ettie
, p.
62
.

17
. Quoted in Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
297
.

18
. Arthur Balfour to Lady Frances Balfour,
6
March
1887
, quoted in Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, pp.
33
–
4
.

19
. Mary Elcho, diary entry,
8
July
1887
, Stanway Papers.

20
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
4
July
1887
, Stanway Papers.

21
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
12
August
1887
, Stanway Papers.

22
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
26
August
1887
, Stanway Papers.

23
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
12
August
1887
, Stanway Papers.

24
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
29
August
1887
, Stanway Papers.

25
. Asquith,
An Autobiography
,
2
.
83
.

26
. Abdy and Gere,
The Souls
, p.
145
.

27
. Quoted in Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
303
.

28
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
18
August
1887
, Stanway Papers.

29
. Ibid.

30
. Marie Adeane married, in
1891
, Sir Bernard Mallet. Her recollections of her life with Queen Victoria were published under her married name.

31
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
27
March
1899
, Blunt Papers, FM
492
-
1975
.

32
. MA vol
10
.

33
. Madeline jokingly adopted the name herself: see her signature in a letter to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
21
February
1901
, Blunt Papers, FM
258
-
1975
.

34
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
19
August
1899
, Adeane Papers.

35
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
15
November
1887
, Adeane Papers.

36
. Hibbert,
Queen Victoria
, p.
467
.

37
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
18
August
1887
, Stanway Papers; Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
27
September
1903
, Stanway Papers.

38
. Hugo Elcho to Mary Elcho,
29
August
1887
, Stanway Papers.

39
. Hugo was born on
25
August
1857
, making him just short of five years older than Mary. Charles Adeane was born on
2
November
1863
, making him about five and a half years older than Mananai, born on
31
March
1869
.

40
. Charles Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
29
August
1887
, Adeane Papers.

41
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
18
May
1888
, Stanway Papers.

42
. Quoted in Brendan,
Decline and Fall
, p.
295
.

43
. Ibid.

44
. Tynan Hinkson,
Years of the Shadow
, p.
256
.

45
. See Constance Leconfield to Madeline Wyndham,
30
March
1898
,
7
April
1898
, Petworth Papers.

46
. Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, pp.
228
–
9
.

47
. Quoted in ibid., p.
246
.

48
. Quoted in Dakers,
Clouds
, pp.
126
–
7
.

49
. Quoted in Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
247
.

50
. Ibid.

51
. Quoted in Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
62
.

52
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
3
September
1887
, Stanway Papers.

53
. Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
63
.

54
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
15
November
1887
, Adeane Papers.

55
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
10
November
1887
, Adeane Papers.

56
. White,
London in the Nineteenth Century
, pp.
377
–
9
.

57
. Brendon,
Decline and Fall
, p.
295
.

58
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
24
December
1887
(
Letters
, p.
46
).

59
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
13
August
1888
, Stanway Papers.

60
. Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, pp.
259
–
61
.

61
. Quoted in ibid., p.
252
.

62
. Quoted in Egremont,
The Cousins
, p.
130
; Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, p.
63
.

63
. Longford,
Pilgrimage of Passion
, p.
261
.