Bruce continues to . . . EC to GC, 29.2.68
She is a big . . . BC to EC, 30.11.66
Sometimes during Lent . . . Tamara Talbot Rice, Tamara: memoirs of St Petersburg, Paris, Oxford and Byzantium (John Murray, 1996), 25
The prehistoric Animal . . . From “A Nomad Collector”
an odd young . . . 7.7.68
a lady Marxist . . . WAIDH, 59
I now dread . . . 11.5.68
who is running . . . 3.7.68
Could you try . . . BC to EC, July 5
may well be . . . BC to EC, ND
Every plan was . . . BC to Peter Levi, 15.10.68
Reading Chatwin . . . With Chatwin, 42
reciting a Shakespeare . . . BC to PL
Liver pains and . . . BC to Joan Leigh Fermor, 30.11.71
Although Ruth . . . 16.7.68
I got very depressed . . . 9.7.68
Bruce & George went . . . 9.7.68
Nearly half way through . . . 10.7.68
When one speculated . . . AOR, 178
Moscow is an . . . 16.7.68
Most archaeologists interpret . . . Box 31
If an archaeologist has . . . Box 31
I began to feel . . . BC to NS
two supermale ladies . . . BC to JI, 8.12.69
Emmy is fine . . . BC to EC, ND
He is dreading . . . EC to GC, 14.7.68
His mounting contemept . . . Tatler, October 1982
XVIII: That Wretched Book
Wild horses . . . EC to GC, 21.3.69
Bruce went mad . . . 6.11.68
What you really . . . ABC, 25.1.83
Following their passion . . . AOR, 91
other forms of . . . BC to CW, 8.12.69
Mr Chatwin, an anthropologist . . . Foreword to Art from East to West, Bruce Chatwin, Emma Bunker, Ann Farkas (Asia Society, 1970)
pretty pretentious, but not bad . . . BC to NS, June 1987
He seemed to . . . my roots . . . Box 11
At present I . . . BC to CW, 1.2.69
the whole basis . . . AOR, 83
The idea is emerging . . . DR to TM, 26.2.69
I do just want . . . TM to BC, 13.3.69
What exactly is . . . DM to TM, ND April 1969
The first will . . . BC to TM, 12.5.69
As I said . . . TM to DR, 2.5.69
The argument, roughly . . . AOR, 12
a nebulous no-man . . . Box 31
It was so much . . . BC to NS
It was so much . . . BC to NS
His interest became . . . Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, “Ronald Firbank: A Memoir’, London 1930, reprinted as pp. 3–56 of Mervyn Horder (ed.) Ronald Firbank: Memoirs and Critiques (Duckworth, 1977)
the kind of topographical . . . PL proposal, ND, Burns Library
Peter Levi is . . . EC to GC, 4.6.69
I’ve never felt . . . BC to GC, 4.10.67
Christie’s are crazy . . . EC to GC, 6.11.68
He found the pair . . . 25.9.67
for which he . . . 30.6.68
I hate having . . . 21.4.68
Where is the face . . . BC to CT
They are, if the . . . Box 35
The Times . . . 5.8.71
No spectacle . . . BC to JI, 12.8.71
odd little incident . . . The Light Garden of the Angel King (Collins, 1972), 36
A refreshing spot . . . 7.7.69, Box 35
We looked and . . . LGAK, 63
the moment of sitting . . . Box 35
A Crested lark . . . Box 35
It will be obvious . . . LGAK, 15
drove me wild . . . BC to EC, 14.9.72
Peter is being . . . Box 35
It was one . . . BC to NS
I declared loftily . . . LGAK, 133
Bruce had miled . . . LGAK, 72
small, elfin, mischievous . . . Box 35
I am always moved . . . Box 30
Officer in Charge . . . Box 35
an ecstatic dance . . . Box 35
One cannot adequately . . . Box 30
Bruce has been . . . PL journal
The main question . . . Box 35
The book would . . . Box 30
I am in a mood . . . Box 35
PL is really . . . BC to EC, 14.9.72
in high dugeon . . . BC to JI, 12.8.71
There comes a point . . . Box 35
Anyone who thinks . . . LGAK, 133
Better a quail . . . LGAK, 158
Elizabeth and I . . . Box 35
XIX: Distractions
HOME IS A PERVERSION . . . BC notebooks, Box 41
He hates this place . . . EC to GC, 3.1.73
the most beautiful . . . BC to JI, 21.5.70
Lunch in Llandovery . . . 14.12.69, Box 34
When it miawoed . . . VOO
What do you do? . . . BC to EC, 1.12.70
Last night we . . . BC to EC, ND, December 1970
I’ve never seen . . . EC to GC,
One’s thirtieth year . . . BC to EC, ND [December?] 1970
Some fatuous person . . . BC to CT
12 Dec 1969 . . . Box 34
I have always . . . WAIDH, 366
It’s like the . . . SL, 310
They are the greatest storytellers . . . Box 41
a people obsessed . . . Box 41.
Nomads of today . . . NA, Box 12
It’s a very great . . . SH, Adelaide, March 1984
Oh God, when . . . BC to EC
Very interesting the . . . BC to PL, December 1969
I must write that . . . Box 35
that wretched book . . . EC to GC, 1.9.72
Penelope seems to . . . BC to EC, 16.11.70
Also you’d better . . . BC to EC, 30.6.70
Offer finally accepted . . . BC to PLF, 1.10.70
I make no promises . . . BC to EC, 22.10.70
The winter was hard . . . OTBH, 31
It lay on a sunless . . . OTBH, 16
the wide staring . . . Diary, Box 34, 13.12.69
Frankly, I thought . . . BC to EC, 22.10.70
I am going to exercise . . . BC to EC, 6.11.70
The anniversary of your . . . BC to EC, 15.11.70
It has caught the nerve . . . BC to EC, 2.1.71
a slightly guilty complex . . . BC to EC, 2.1.71
I don’t know what . . . BC to EC, 3.12.70
long-eared bats . . . BC to EC, 22.10.70
professional snivellers . . . BC to EC, 22.10.70
She really is quite awful . . . BC to EC, 11.12.70
We simply cannot . . . BC to EC, 28.10.70
Imagine my horror . . . BC to EC, 5.11.70
In spite of my screamings . . . BC to EC, 2.1.71
very nearly finished . . . BC to EC, 11.12.70
I have caught worms . . . BC to EC, 28.10.70
I couldn’t sit . . . BC to EC, 2.1.71
Linda and I both . . . BC to EC, 24.11.70
I am quite decided . . . BC to EC, 2.1.71
Doors slam for no reason . . . Box 34
this is the nadir of our fortunes . . . BC to EC, 2.1.71
I am afraid I simply . . . BC to EC, 2.1.71
Miranda has found . . . BC to EC, ND [December?] 1970
It may sound . . . EC to GC, 9.4.71
He has decided . . . EC to GC, 22.3.71
They are supposed . . . EC to GC, 2.4.71
I hope he’ll be . . . 2.4.71
Saw the Qashgais . . . BC to CW, 17.5.71
But with very truble . . . Akbar to EC, 4.5. 71
Rang up Miranda . . . EC to GC, 5.7.71
Elizabeth’s young Pakistani . . . BC to CW, 17.5.71
You must try . . . BC to IF, October 1966
quite broken . . . BC to JI, ND, May 1971
The weather is so . . . BC to CW, 11.6.71
It’s quite beautiful . . . BC to EC, 22.6.71
I do badly . . . BC to JI, 12.7.71
Also on the path . . . CW to BC, 28.5.66
to try and finish . . . EC to GC, 5.7.71
Never never never . . . BC to JI, 2.8.71
I have in the rough . . . 12.7.71
That Andrew story . . . ND, 1972
That really is worth a filum . . . 12.8.71
Once I’m through . . . 15.9.71
ACTION in film . . . ND, 1971
Perhaps I could go . . . 12.7.71
with a car plus another typewriter . . . BC to EC, ND, June 1971
a great expert on birdsong . . . BC to JI, 12.7.71
Very unusual for . . . 12.7.71
XX: Deliverance
Bruce came in . . . James Lees-Milne, A Mingled Measure: Diaries, 1953–72 (John Murray, 1994), 135
the husband who . . . Box 31
I spend the week . . . BC to JI, 21.5.70
Found myself lecturing . . . Unpublished diary, 1.8.80
I’m so broke . . . EC to GC, 29.1.72
Dear Max, well here . . . EC to BC, 4.7.75
I have just read . . . BC to JI, ND, autumn 1971
Bruce Chatwyn [sic] is . . . 23.3.70
Yesterday the phone . . . BC to JI, ND
At the moment . . . EC to GC, 4.11.71
rather disgruntled . . . BC to CW, December 1971
I am at my lowest ebb . . . December 1971
Feeling very Beau Geste . . . BC to EC, ND, January 1972
At the moment . . . BC to EC, 5.2.72
Bruce has been talking . . . EC to GC, 3.6.72
Most aesthetic market . . . BC to EC, ND
a language which . . . BC to JI, ND, 1972
Jeudi, Tahoua, Niger . . . Box 34
Have just returned . . . BC to EC, 2.2.72
I have started writing . . . 2.2.72
Don’t know why . . . BC to EC, ND
I have a moustache . . . BC to JI, ND [March?] 1972
I always think . . . BC to parents, 30.8.72
I have been mouldering . . . BC to JI, 8.4.72
I’m sorry I left . . . 30.8.72
There is a canoe . . . 30.8.72
The Book is . . . BC to EC, 28.8.72
I hope he’ll get . . . EC to GC, 1.9.72
one of the most unpleasant . . . BC to EC, 14.9.72
I am convinced . . . 13.3.69
The best travellers . . . NA, Box 12
The style alone . . . SL, 266
XXI: The Journalist
PHONE HOPELESS . . . 1973, Box 35
The idea of a job . . . BC to EC, 28.8.72
a colossal inspiration . . . ABC, 11.5.83
I felt that for writing . . . BC to CT
The Sunday Times things . . . EC to GC, 29.10.72
Journalism does help . . . ABC, 11.5.83
The feeling as one . . . Philip Norman, unpublished article
articulated pipe-cleaners . . . Everyone’s Gone to the Moon (Hutchinson, 1995), 15
If a thing’s worth doing . . . EGTTM, 59
We have frequently . . . Sunday Times magazine, 26.8.72
They’ve lost all . . . EGTTM, 205
le corset, c’est une . . . WAIDH, 89
The interior is as . . . WAIDH, 87
in a bedroom which . . . Sunday Times magazine, 4.3.73
There was never any . . . BC to CT
a man of about 40 . . . EGTTM, 68
We soon forgot . . . AOR, 13
The Sunday Times still . . . EC to GC, 28.12.72
the mad Greek . . . WAIDH, 154
I fear I intended . . . Box 34
encouraged, criticised, edited . . . AOR, 13
I’m always seeing things . . . BC to CT
No whinches, thats and whos . . . Box 35
The rumours were true . . . Utz, 24
His eyes are a . . . WAIDH, 297
He writes a hard . . . 300
No one but . . . 301
An observed detail . . . New Yorker, 23.6.87
In interview, he . . . WAIDH, 261
the interview was . . . WAIDH, 323
In answer to questions . . . WAIDH, 314
He was extremely nasty . . . BC to SS, 26.7.78
Personally, I would . . . PN, op. cit.
one of the most . . . WAIDH, 114
Malraux was there . . . February 1970, Box 34
In Lawrence’s career . . . WAIDH, 122
adventurers of . . . TLS, 16.6.89
I do not want to . . . BC to EC, 6.9.78
I go through . . . WAIDH, 329
Bruce, you have . . . BC to CT
the 23-yr-old whizz-kid . . . BC to Nigel Acheson, 25.8.78
an exhilarating companion . . . WAIDH, 333
A bitch to write . . . BC to parents, ND, 1978
She’s far worse . . . BC to CW, 21.5.78
The copy came back . . . BC to SS, 18.6.78
Resolution of the month . . . 18.6.78
Quotation of the Month . . . 18.6.78
XXII: “Gone to Patagonia”
I have done . . . BC to FW, 11.12.74
the most enjoyable . . . BC to Eileen Gray, 21.12.72
Allez-y pour moi . . . Peter Adam, Not Drowning but Waving (André Deutsch, 1995), 353
anyone would be . . . BC to CT
She said that Bruce . . . MC to EC, 4.2.75
Charles Milward’s life . . . Box 35
I like my cousins . . . BC to EC, 12.12.74
It was like . . . ABC, 14.3.84
In all their minds . . . Box 35
Buenos Aires is . . . BC to EC, December 1974, ND
Here am I . . . Box 31
Last night dreamt. . . In museum, Trelew
Whether it is the. . . Tom Jones, A Patagonian Panorama (The Outspoken Press, 1961)
The further one. . . Box 31
I always try. . . The South Bank Show, September 1982
absolute constant. . . BC to Uki Goni, 1980
His lack of roots . . . Notice in Harberton
My business was . . . BC to Millicent Jane Saunders, 27.9.79
I’m not interested . . . ABC, 14.3.84
you could imagine . . . IP, 28
rolled off her tongue . . . IP, 60
England in full . . . Box 35
spending nights in . . . Box 6
Dying of tiredness . . . BC to EC, 21.1.74
Difficulties of Patagonia . . . Box 35
Basically, God is . . . Box 35
Tourists always wave . . . Box 35
Day of disasters . . . Box 35
the tragedy of . . . Box 35
N.G. sounded . . . Box 35
live in a . . . Box 35
Mother remained on . . . MB to BC, 28.11.77, Box 6
He was German . . . BC to CC, 15.3.75
a foppish man . . . Box 31
Said they were . . . Box 35