My dear Mrs George
The Prince of Wales to Mrs Keppel, May 1901 (Royal Archive, Windsor)
a number of other
Edward VII: A Portrait
The Queen has taken
The Glitter and the Gold
the complete supremacy
8 April 1901, Lady Curzon’s India: Letters of a Vicereine
Dear Soveral
quoted in Uncle of Europe
I came to rely
Edwardian Daughter
one of whom
Edward VII and his Jewish Court
I hereby acknowledge
7 March 1901, (Cassel papers, Hartley Library, Southampton University)
Referring to our
5 March 1903, ibid
My dear Cassel
Edward VII to Ernest Cassel, September 1901. ibid
The drawing room
Lord Esher to his son Maurice, April 1908. Journals and Letters of Reginald Esher. Ed. Maurice Brett (Nicholson and Watson 1934–8)
Israel in force
July 1900, Lincolnshire papers Bodleian Library Oxford
I quite made up
The Diary of Sir Edward Hamilton, ed. Dudley Bahlman (University of Hull 1993)
one of a new breed
Edward VII and his Jewish Court
When she came
The Enigmatic Edwardian
The poorer classes
Ernest Cassel to Edward VII, 1902 (Cassel papers, Southampton)
You will have doubtless heard
Edward VII to Ernest Cassel, 1 June 1902 (Cassel papers, Southampton)
The party is like
Ernest Cassel to his daughter, 1906 (Cassel papers, Southampton)
The King is rather pleased
ibid, April 1902
a stout Teutonic
Edward VII and his Jewish Court
I have had
ibid
Levee dress
(Cassel papers, Southampton)
greatest wish
Recollections of Three Reigns
The King is perfectly
Lord Esher to his son Maurice, July 1905. Journals and Letters of Reginald Esher
She sits next to him
ibid
HM was in capital
Lincolnshire papers
wonder dully what relation
Violet to Vita (undated 1918)
SIX
Studded wardrobe-trunks
Edwardian Daughter
Out of a square
ibid
Sir Ernest was fervently
ibid
At Biarritz
Uncle of Europe
We are his servants
Janet Morgan, Edwina Mountbatten: A Life of Her Own (HarperCollins, 1992)
lovely little jewelled
Edwardian Daughter
Mama was waiting
Triple Violette
Mrs George Keppel
Uncle of Europe
I put on a frock
ibid
Before leaving
Asquith to Mrs Keppel, 9 May 1908 (John Phillips)
Monsieur Jean
Don’t Look Round
Every year
Violet to Vita, 16 September 1910
We used to come
Don’t Look Round
her tapering
ibid
in the category
Edwardian Daughter
When roused to anger
Don’t Look Round
Persuasion
unpublished note (Beinecke Library, Yale)
suspicious, introspective
Don’t Look Round
This book Mama
Edwardian Daughter
My first (and salutary)
Don’t Look Round
The great lost the power
ibid
of a sudden
ibid
to be dragged
Don’t Look Round
It seems to me
Portrait of a Marriage
SEVEN
One never loves
Violet Trefusis, Hunt the Slipper (Virago 1983)
which became more
Don’t Look Round
I who was the worst
Portrait of a Marriage
Vita belonged to Knole
Don’t Look Round
It was necessary
ibid
It is above all
Vita Sackville-West, Knole and the Sackvilles (Heinemann 1922)
But you require
Knole and the Sackvilles
Had you been a man
Violet to Vita
Violet is mine
Portrait of a Marriage
as floppy as
Vita to Harold, 19 May 1943 (Lilly Library)
There he stands
Vita to Harold, 8 September 1941 (Lilly Library)
intermittent yet
Don’t Look Round
In her too
ibid
All the fast
Victoria Sackville, unpublished diary
He made me sit
Vita Sackville-West, Pepita (Hogarth Press 1937)
He put me at
ibid
mais pourtant
ibid
I wonder whether
Victoria Sackville, unpublished diary
Baby very naughty
ibid
Everybody says
Victoria Sackville, Book of Reminiscences (Lilly Library)
the figure of
23 January 1927, The Diary of Virginia Woolf: volume 3 1925–30. Ed. Anne Olivier Bell (The Hogarth Press 1980)
L says that I talk
Victoria Sackville, unpublished diary
those lovely, lovely
Portrait of a Marriage
Often when I went
ibid
She loved me as a baby
Pepita
one moment
ibid
it has been rather
Portrait of a Marriage
I thought they would
quoted in Victoria Glendinning, Vita (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1983)
I think she touched
Pepita
annual, biennial
ibid
she possessed
ibid
Do you know
Violet to Vita, 7 May 1920
Genealogies
Vita
Mr Keppel is really
Vita’s diary, 4 April 1908 (Lilly Library)
It speaks highly
Don’t Look Round
If I’d read
Violet Trefusis, Broderie Anglaise (Paris 1935. English translation by Barbara Bray, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1985)
stumbled out
Portrait of a Marriage
I can’t hear
ibid
How I loved you
Violet to Vita, August 1920
Darling, how dreadfully
ibid, 14 August 1920
EIGHT
Magnus, King Edward VII
Mrs Keppel and the affront
ibid
The King’s cold
Mrs Keppel to the Marquis de Soveral, quoted in Uncle of Europe
the matter you
Edward VII and his Jewish Court
I shall be sorry
Magnus, King Edward VII
Poor Alice
Ernest Cassel to his daughter, May 1910 (Cassel papers, Southampton)
looked as if
ibid, 6 May 1910
Yes I have heard
Uncle of Europe
I never did any harm
Lord Esher’s journal, 12 June 1910. Quoted in James Lees-Milne, The Enigmatic Edwardian (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986)
interest I gave
Edward VII and his Jewish Court
It was the fruit of a quite
ibid
Mrs Keppel had lied
quoted in James Lee
s-Milne, The Enigmatic Edwardian: The Life of Reginald 2nd Viscount Esher (Sidgwick & Jackson 1976)
We went up
Edwardian Daughter
Why does it matter
ibid
Today the King
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, My Diaries (Secker 1919)
regular sweep
ibid
surely one
Osbert Sitwell, Great Morning (Macmillan 1948)
My dear Lady Knollys
Uncle of Europe
No young lady’s
Don’t Look Round
I want you to come
Violet to Vita, 8 October 1910 (written in French)
you ask me pointblank
ibid
O my dears
Vita
wife of a gentleman
Violet to Vita, 12 December 1910
I didn’t think
Portrait of a Marriage
Your speech impressed
Violet to Vita, 31 October 1910 (written in French)
The chauffeur sounded
Edwardian Daughter
My dear Harold
Vita and Harold, 5 November 1910
For the first time
Violet to Vita, 12 December 1910 (written in French)
I hope terribly
ibid 12 December 1910
The parting with Mama
Edwardian Daughter
I remember admiring
Portrait of a Marriage
O Vita
Violet to Vita, undated 1911 (written in French)
I knew it then
Portrait of a Marriage
like the Babes
Don’t Look Round
I liked the two
Edwardian Daughter
No I am not angry
31 July 1911 (Beinecke Library, Yale)
A lady caught
Edwardian Daughter
In these spacious
ibid
Not only were the rooms
Great Morning
masses of beautiful
Edwardian Daughter
After a month
Don’t Look Round
NINE
exquisite beauties
Edwardian Daughter
their conversation
Vita Sackville-West, The Edwardians
The house was full
She was tall
Don’t Look Round
This is a rather nice
Violet to Vita, 8 June 1912 (Beinecke Library)
Vita to Harold, 6 June 1913 (Lilly Library)
Isn’t it funny
Harold to Vita, 28 July 1913 (Lilly Library)
Accepté mes félicitations
Violet to Vita, 5 August 1913 (Beinecke Library)
Dear Mr Smith
quoted in Susan Mary Alsop, Lady Sackville (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1978)
How she flung
Portrait of a Marriage
I remember
ibid
Everything in me
Harold to Vita, 11 September 1914 (Lilly Library)
not very attractive
Edwardian Daughter
It required
Don’t Look Round
He would arrive
Edwardian Daughter
His courtship was too
Don’t Look Round
It was tacitly
ibid
Even Mama
Edwardian Daughter
You and your dog
ibid
There’s a war
ibid
Poor Archie
ibid
The idea of matrimony
Don’t Look Round
I think perhaps
Pepita
Damn that little too too
Harold to Vita, 7 June 1917 (Lilly Library)
I used to invent
Pat Dansey to Vita, 4 September 1922 (Nigel Nicolson)
Part Two: Portrait of a Lesbian Affair
TEN
I simply cant
Violet to Vita, 29 October 1917
bloody time
Harold to Vita, 6 November 1917 (Lilly Library)
untidy or crawly
ibid, 6 November 1917
like a searchlight
ibid, 7 November 1917
And I shall be
ibid, 7 November 1917
my whole soul
ibid, 7 November 1917
frightfully opty
ibid, 15 March 1918
We were in fact
Portrait of a Marriage
in the unaccustomed
ibid
I was infinitely
ibid
I am young
Violet to Vita, undated 1918
I felt like a person
Portrait of a Marriage
How triumphant we were
Violet to Vita, 20 July 1919
I wish I was more
Harold to Vita, 9 May 1918 (Lilly Library)
where no one will want me
Vita to Harold, 11 May 1918 Vita and Harold
Darling one day
ibid
God Mitya do you wonder
Violet to Vita, undated May 1918 (Beinecke Library)
I am drunk with the beauty
Violet to Vita, undated 1918
she looks so charming
Victoria Sackville, unpublished diary, 18 May 1918 (Lilly Library)
God knows it is
Violet to Vita, 23 January 1918
O Mitya come
ibid, 14 August 1918
How happy we were
ibid, 20 July 1919
I adore you
ibid, 22 July 1919
Married life under
Victoria Sackville, Lady Sackville
What sort of life