Those Wild Wyndhams (68 page)

18
. See the picture of Edward Grey drawn by Prince Carl Lichnowsky,
My Mission to London,
1912
–
1914
(Toronto, Cassell,
1918
), pp.
27
–
8
.

19
. Robert Eccleshall and Graham Walker (eds),
Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers
(London and New York, Routledge,
1998
), p.
229
.

20
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho, December
1903
, Stanway Papers; Pamela Tennant to Sidney Cockerell,
22
January
1904
, BL Cockerell Papers, vol. CXLVII, Add. MSS.
52769
f.
157
.

21
.
The Times
,
5
February
1906
.

22
. Quoted in Marie Belloc Lowndes,
A Passing World
(Macmillan,
1948
), p.
187
.

23
. Viscount Grey of Fallodon,
The Cottage Book: The Undiscovered Country Diary of an Edwardian Statesman
, ed. and introduced by Michael Waterhouse (Gollancz,
1999
), p.
26
.

24
. Belloc Lowndes,
A Passing World
, p.
175
.

25
. Charles Adeane to Mary Elcho,
6
November
1905
, Stanway Papers.

26
. Sitwell,
Laughter in the Next Room
, p.
45
.

27
. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant,
25
March
1908
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
41
f.
3
r.

28
. Edward Wyndham Tennant to Pamela Tennant,
23
August
1916
, quoted in Glenconner,
Edward Wyndham Tennant
, p.
221
.

29
. Ibid., p.
249
.

30
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
9
June
1928
, Stanway Papers.

31
. Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
6
.

32
. Ibid., p.
14
.

33
. Blow,
Broken Blood
, p.
165
.

34
. Quoted in Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
7
.

35
. Ibid., p.
23
.

36
. Ibid., p.
7
.

37
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
31
October
1909
, Stanway Papers.

38
. Fanny Cliffe to Mary Elcho,
6
July
1906
, Stanway Papers.

39
. Wemyss,
Family Record
, p.
204
.

40
. Asquith,
Remember and Be Glad
, p.
23
.

41
. Ibid., p.
20
.

42
. Ibid.

43
. Ibid.

44
. Asquith,
An Autobiography
,
2
.
44
.

45
. Asquith,
Remember and Be Glad
, pp.
42
–
3
;
Haply I May Remember
, p.
14
.

46
. Beatrice Webb,
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: All the Good Things of Life
, vol.
2
:
1892
–
1905
, ed. Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie (Virago,
1986
), p.
254
.

47
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
1
October
1896
(
Letters
, p.
148
).

48
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
30
November
1912
, Stanway Papers.

49
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
18
February
1907
(
Letters
, p.
237
).

50
. Asquith,
Remember and Be Glad
, pp.
42
–
3
;
Haply I May Remember
, p.
14
.

51
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
18
February
1907
(
Letters
, p.
237
).

52
. Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, quoted at p.
17
.

53
. Asquith,
Haply I May Remember
, p.
13
.

54
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
12
October
1905
, Adeane Papers.

55
. Charles Adeane to Madeline Wyndham, n.d. [November/December
1905
], Adeane Papers.

56
. Percy Wyndham to Madeline Wyndham,
3
November
1905
, Stanway Papers.

57
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
1
December
1905
, Adeane Papers.

58
. Ibid.

59
. Madeline Adeane to Mary Elcho,
21
November
1905
, Stanway Papers.

60
. Charles Adeane to Mary Elcho,
6
November
1905
, Stanway Papers.

61
. Madeline Adeane to Madeline Wyndham,
12
December
1905
, Adeane Papers.

62
. Madeline Adeane to Percy Wyndham,
31
December
1905
, Adeane Papers.

1
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
15
July
1902
(
Letters
, pp.
188
–
9
).

2
. Ibid.

3
. Asquith,
Remember and Be Glad
, p.
3
.

4
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
19
January
1904
(
Letters
, p.
210
).

5
. Ibid.

6
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
27
February
1904
(
Letters
, pp.
212
–
13
). Lady Edward Cavendish was the widowed sister of Sir Frank and ‘hostessed’ for her brother in Berlin.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Nigel Nicolson,
Mary Curzon
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1977
), pp.
147
–
8
.

9
. Ibid.

10
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
1
August
1900
(
Letters
, p.
171
).

11
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
19
January
1904
(
Letters
, p.
209
).

12
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
14
February
1907
(
Letters
, p.
236
).

13
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
19
January
1904
(
Letters
, p.
209
).

14
. Asquith,
An Autobiography
,
2
.
45
.

15
. Jalland,
Women, Marriage and Politics
, pp.
197
,
204
.

16
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
14
March
1894
(
Letters
, p.
105
); Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
23
September
1896
(
Letters
, p.
145
).

17
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
15
July
1902
(
Letters
, p.
190
).

18
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
12
July
1902
(
Letters
, p.
186
); Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
79
.

19
. Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, p.
197
.

20
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
3
September
1902
, Stanway Papers.

21
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, n.d. [
1902
], Stanway Papers.

22
. Adams,
The Last Grandee
, p.
194
.

23
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
17
February
1903
, Stanway Papers.

24
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho,
20
February
1905
, Stanway Papers.

25
. Mary Elcho to Hugo Elcho, n.d. [
1902
], Stanway Papers.

26
. Morris,
Farewell the Trumpets
, p.
114
.

27
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
17
February
1902
, Stanway Papers.

28
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
13
February
1903
(
Letters
, pp.
196
–
7
).

29
. Arthur Balfour to Mary Elcho,
27
February
1903
(
Letters
, pp.
197
–
8
).

30
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
10
August
1903
(
Letters
, pp.
203
–
4
).

31
. Ibid.

32
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
18
September
1903
(
Letters
, p.
206
).

33
. Murray Hornibrook, in July
1924
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
2
.
791
.

34
. Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
91
.

35
. Ibid.,
1
.
92
.

36
. Ibid.,
2
.
795
.

37
. Ibid.

38
. Ibid.,
1
.
93
.

39
. Antony MacDonnell to George Wyndham,
10
September
1904
, quoted in Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
2
.
764
–
5
.

40
. Ibid.,
1
.
97
.

41
. Mary Elcho to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, n.d. [
1913
], Blunt Papers, FM
673
-
1975
.

42
. Mackail and Wyndham,
Life and Letters
,
1
.
102
.

43
. Ibid.,
1
.
103
.

44
. Ibid.,
1
.
105
.

45
. Ibid.

46
. Pamela Tennant to Mary Elcho,
8
March
1905
, Stanway Papers.

47
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
24
February
1905
(
Letters
, pp.
219
–
20
).

48
. Tynan Hinkson,
Years of the Shadow
, p.
257
.

49
. Mary Elcho to Arthur Balfour,
24
February
1905
(
Letters
, pp.
219
–
20
).

50
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
14
January
1906
, Stanway Papers.

51
. Lambert,
Unquiet Souls
, pp.
128
–
9
.

1
. Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
4
.

2
. Percy Wyndham to Mary Elcho,
7
January
1906
, Stanway Papers.

3
. Pamela Tennant to Charles Tennant,
25
March
1908
, Glenconner Papers, NRS GD
510
/
1
/
41
f.
3
r. The lines are from Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’.

4
.
The Times
,
5
February
1906
.

5
. Hoare,
Serious Pleasures
, p.
6
.

6
.
The Times
,
4
January
1921
. The equivalent in RPI is £
278
,
200
,
000
; in ESV £
1
,
605
,
000
,
000
; and in EPV £
2
,
338
,
000
,
000
.

7
. Ridley and Percy (eds),
Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho
, p.
14
.

8
.
The Times
,
4
January
1921
.