Those Wild Wyndhams (67 page)

24
. Quoted in ibid., p.
188
.

25
. Quoted in ibid., p.
201
.

26
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
31
October
1899
, Adeane Papers.

27
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
2
November
1899
, Adeane Papers.

28
. Charles Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
3
November
1899
, Adeane Papers.

29
. Madeline Wyndham to Pamela Tennant,
4
November
1899
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
29
f.
38
;
7
November
1899
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
29
f.
22
.

30
. Madeline Wyndham to Pamela Tennant,
7
November
1899
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
29
f.
22
.

31
. Ibid.

32
. H. G. Wells,
The New Machiavelli
(Duffield,
1910
), p.
122
.

33
. See Chapter
9
onwards of Arthur Conan Doyle,
The Great Boer War
(Smith, Elder,
1900
).

34
. Brendon,
Decline and Fall
, pp.
218
–
19
.

35
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
16
/
17
December
1899
, Stanway Papers.

1
. H. G. Wells,
The New Machiavelli
, p.
122
.

2
. Brendon,
Decline and Fall
, p.
219
.

3
. George Wyndham to Guy Wyndham,
6
January
1900
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
386
.

4
. Margot Asquith to Edward Tennant,
17
January
1900
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
10
/
1
/
42
f.
8
.

5
. George Wyndham to Madeline Wyndham,
3
February
1900
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
391
.

6
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
1
February
1900
(
Letters
, p.
166
).

7
. Margot Asquith to Edward Tennant, n.d. [
5
November
1900
], Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
42
f.
12
.

8
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
5
February
1900
, Stanway Papers.

9
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
16
March
1900
(
Letters
, p.
167
).

10
. Newspaper cutting, n.d., among Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
29
f.
7
.

11
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
29
March
1900
, Adeane Papers.

12
. Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
72
.

13
.
New York Times
,
14
December
1913
.

14
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
18
March
1900
, Adeane Papers.

15
. George Wyndham to Pamela Tennant,
11
September
1900
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
405
.

16
. Charles Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
1
February
1900
, Adeane Papers.

17
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
13
August
1900
, Adeane Papers.

18
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
20
May
1900
, Adeane Papers.

19
. Brendon,
Decline and Fall
, p.
220
.

20
. Jan Morris,
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
(London and Boston, Faber
1978
), p.
86
.

21
. Downes,
John S. Sargent
, pp.
54
,
188
–
9
.

22
. Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
97
.

23
. Quoted in ibid., p.
165
.

24
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
1
August
1900
, Stanway Papers.

25
. Quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
72
–
3
.

1
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
1
August
1900
, Stanway Papers.

2
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
13
September
1900
, Stanway Papers.

3
. Quoted in Ellenberger, ‘The Souls: High Society and Politics’, p.
91
; Dakers,
Clouds
, p.
158
.

4
. Abdy and Gere,
The Souls
, p.
106
.

5
. Mary Elcho to Madeline Wyndham,
16
July
1895
, Stanway Papers.

6
. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Secret Memoirs XVII,
16
July
1895
.

7
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, n.d. [
c
.
1898
], Stanway Papers.

8
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
13
September
1900
, Stanway Papers.

9
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
25
September
1900
, Stanway Papers.

10
. Ellenberger, ‘The Souls and London “Society”’, p.
154
. The equivalent in RPI is £
7
,
389
,
000
; in ESV £
43
,
050
,
000
; and in EPV £
66
,
680
,
000
.

11
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
30
August
1899
(
Letters
, pp.
158
–
9
).

12
. Abdy and Gere,
The Souls
, p.
105
.

13
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho, n.d. [September
1896
] (
Letters
, p.
146
).

14
. Mary Elcho to Percy Wyndham,
28
September
1899
, Stanway Papers.

15
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
30
August
1899
(
Letters
, pp.
158
–
9
).

16
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
20
September
1904
(
Letters
, pp.
216
–
17
).

17
. Margot Asquith to Edward Tennant,
10
October
1900
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
42
f.
9
.

18
. Margot Asquith to Edward Tennant,
31
July
1900
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
42
f.
11
.

19
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, n.d. [
1900
], Stanway Papers.

20
. Quoted in Marquand,
Britain since
1918
, p.
56
.

21
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, n.d. [
1900
], Stanway Papers.

22
. Ibid.

23
. Jalland,
Women, Marriage and Politics
, pp.
206
ff.

24
. Ibid., quoted at pp.
209
–
10
.

25
. Ibid., pp.
209
–
14
.

26
. See, for example, Edward Tennant to Pamela Tennant,
27
May
1896
, teasingly suggesting that Pamela should show a prominent suffragist guest at Clouds, Lady Grove (a niece of the Wyndhams’ friend Rosalind Howard), a letter in
The Times
presumably opposing women’s suffrage, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
30
f.
32
.
2
; and Clare Tennant to Edward Tennant,
15
November
1912
, responding to her father’s having sent her a printed copy of a recent speech he had made opposing women’s suffrage: ‘I’m sure the meeting will retard the “vote” & when I read your speech I couldn’t think
what
the suffragets [sic] could find to contradict reasonably the things you said …’, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
41
f.
21
.

27
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
21
and
1
September
1900
, Adeane Papers.

28
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
28
September
1900
, Adeane Papers.

29
. Quoted in Marr,
History of Modern Britain
, p.
27
.

30
. James,
Rise and Fall
, p.
321
.

31
. Margot Asquith to Edward Tennant,
31
July
1900
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
42
f.
11
.

32
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
5
October
1900
, Adeane Papers.

33
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, n.d. (
1900
), Stanway Papers.

34
. Margot Asquith to Edward Tennant,
5
November
1900
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
42
f.
12
.

35
. Antony MacDonnell to George Wyndham,
22
September
1902
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
2
.
760
–
1
.

1
. Asquith,
Remember and Be Glad
, p.
192
.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Mary Elcho to Ettie Desborough,
23
June
1915
, Desborough Papers, HALS DE/Rv/C
479
/
1
.

4
. Margot Asquith to Mary Elcho,
c
.
1900
, quoted in Blow,
Broken Blood
, p.
142
.

5
. Mary Elcho to Ettie Desborough, n.d. [
c
.
1918
/
19
], Desborough Papers, HALS DE/Rv/C
477
/
66
.

6
. Madeline Adeane to Percy Wyndham,
12
February
1901
, Adeane Papers.

7
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
30
January
1901
, Adeane Papers.

8
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, n.d. [July
1902
], Stanway Papers.

9
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
2
January
1903
(
Letters
, pp.
193
–
4
).

10
. Francis Oke Buckland,
Health Springs of Germany and Austria
(W. H. Allen,
1890
), p.
71
.

11
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
11
September
1900
, Adeane Papers.

12
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, n.d. [July
1902
], Stanway Papers.

13
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
1
January
1901
and
20
December
1900
; Charles Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
21
December
1900
, Adeane Papers.

14
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
17
January
1901
, Adeane Papers.

15
. Blow,
Broken Blood
, p.
134
.

16
. Viscount Grey of Fallodon,
Recreation
(New York, Houghton Mifflin,
1920
). These essays were drawn from an address given at Harvard University in December
1919
.

17
. Their lengthy correspondence is in four large folders in the Glenconner Papers at NRS GD
510
/
1
/
60
.