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Enid Bagnold correspondence Collection 1988-011 Dates: 1928-1953. Extent: (1 box). Level of Description: Item level. Name of creator(s): Unknown. Date of creation: Undetermined. Scope and Content: Consists of 83 handwritten and typed letters and postcards from Enid Bagnold (Lady Jones) to Cynthia Asquith (Lady Diane) dated from 1928-1953. Administrative/Biographical History: The letters are arranged chronologically. Access and Copyright: Language and Scripts: English. Finding aid/Inventory: Provenance/Source of Acquisition: The correspondence was acquired from David J. Holmes Autographs in November 1988. Date(s) of description: Milissa Burkart, Nov 1994. Access Points:
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| 1928 - 1943 | |
| 1:1 | 30 Nov 1928. "Are you going to turn my winter into a nightmare, as you did my summer over the Ghost Book?..." Typed letter signed with AN, 1 sheet. |
| 3 Jul 1931. "Shall I send you lilies or do you prefer coloured flowers on your grave?..." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 22 Mar 1934. "No objection to The Amorous Ghost being reprinted...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 17 Apr 1934. "I love your impulse to send me a Collins. I feel such a Rottingdean hostess...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 17 Apr 1935. "We are just back, and I was thrilled to get your letter. I love the idea of Simon learning French in the movies...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 17 Jun 1935. "You are the one person who seems to run their life like a screaming express train...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 7 Oct 1935. "I am being your Chairman on the 10th, and heaven help me and you too...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 29 Oct 1936. "Hurrah! Cynthia--it's a go!--I finished last night. It is a pearly, moon-y book...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 24 May 1937. "I have only just realized about your mother...." Handwritten letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 3 Jun 1937. "Awake all night and in despair this morning, and hunted, and dictating, and beset by things to do like little waves fretting forward...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 5 Dec 1938. "All my walks are taken mazily through Harrods or Gamages looking for Christmas presents...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 10 Mar 1940. "Dearest Cynthia...drat. I type my MSS. What about that? I have a broken wrist and never put pen to paper...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 20 Mar 1940. "We all thought it divine of you to come...by bus...especially as you had to come alone...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet with envelope. | |
| 15 Apr 1940. "I was entranced by the opalesque-greasy-calm-cold quality of your pads of writing paper...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet with envelope. | |
| 1 Jul 1940. "Tell Bebb...and yourself...I went to the House of Commons on Thursday and stood on pin-heels (aching for a heavy woman shouldn't wear such heels) on marble for two hours, and sent in messages for Lady Astor...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 16 Aug 1940. "You did make Timothy enjoy himself. He adored it. The poor mare hasn't recovered yet...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 21 Aug 1940. "I got back here to find ten bombs had been strewn in the night at 2 am at the back of the village...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 4 Apr 1941. "I am hardly fit to write to you. I have just been writing to Vita about Virginia...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 20 Nov 1941. "I was utterly relieved to get your letter. I wasn't good. I was fairly bad...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet with envelope. | |
| 6 May 1941. "Did I shout down the telephone to you then? I'll happily expend five pounds on Tucker's face...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 28 Nov 1941. "I suddenly thought on a bus on the Old Kent Rd today (I suppose I heard someone sneeze) that your laugh is like a soft, delicious uncontrollable sneeze...." Handwritten letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 30 Nov 1941. "I shall tell you the absolute truth. I meditated some sort of lie but have rejected it...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 22 Dec 1941. "What a moment to dream of asking me to look for anything. But I will...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 27 Jan 1942. "Whole life turned up like a rehash or a vomit; to search for the Barrie letter of 1933...." Typed card. | |
| 21 Sept 1942. "Of course I will keep your lovely news a total secret. I had already told Laurian, Timothy and everyone else in the house only...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 2 Nov 1942. "What a lovely party it sounds. I must try to come. There is almost no family to bring...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 6 Jan 1943. "I am rushing upstairs to pack the books, but meanwhile it is much easier to write to you...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 13 Apr 1943. "Well you entered my mind just as violently, just after dawn about two days ago. I thought "what is the matter with me that I don't take more advantage of this marvelous companion?...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 4 Aug 1943. "THANK YOU for writing about Lottie (and for going), Its full of blemishes. What matters to me now is just that its on!...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 8 Nov 1943. "Born under a lucky star was I? Too soon said. Today I THINK I have been refused by Binkie Beaumont...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 1944 - 1954 | |
| 1:2 | 22 Jun 1944. "I mustn’t write at the length your letter tempts me to. I'd love to...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. |
| 25 Jun 1944. "The opening of your play (with Mrs. Greene and the Countess just saying "Yes") gripped me and excited me at once, and I felt powerfully held as though a good masseuse was putting both her hands on my shoulders...." Typed letter signed, 2 sheets. | |
| 1 Sept 1944. "Just to warn you...I can only be alone with you by arrangement! Laurian starts her week's holiday this week-end, and will be here Monday, and Roderick also...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 7 Sept 1944. "Just before I opened your loving letter this morning I had finished reading one from Timothy. I enclose a copy of it. The relief is terrific, but, as usual after the first moment, less poignant than the horrors of anxiety...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 20 Sept 1944. "I am answering Richard's letter for him as he has been in bed with a cold for a day or two. He loves 'Dramatic'...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 22 Sept 1944. "I have just read it straight through. Pages 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 are just about perfect...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 14 Nov 1944. "How gnawing that you should have dom. troubles. I am sorry. I feel guilty at having none myself...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 12 Dec 1944. "What a "loose" sort of meeting our Sunday meeting was. And now here am I, in a funny position. Your face, rather stern under your Russian hat, was of course showing me that you took in what I was going to, and all its possible ludicrous side...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet with ink sketch. | |
| 3 Apr 1945. "Well! I really must try and read that book myself. Roderick used to take it round the world with him...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 1 Jul 1945. "Never let yourself in to write a script. Never. The whole thing is as unexplainable as being a Lady-in-Waiting in a Court...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 17 Nov 1945. "I like this correspondence-post-card-friendship. It is easy--no drain on time--close-fitting--sustaining in intimacy...." Handwritten postcard signed. | |
| 24 Nov 1945. "I have indeed asked Vivian Simon also to cocktail party--just posted...." Handwritten postcard signed. | |
| 5 Mar 1946. "Lets see if I can put it all on a postcard. Plankie was enchanted with your letter (except it was a blow to be called Dear Miss P...." Handwritten postcard signed. | |
| 12 Mar 1946. "I suppose its no good my coming on Monday to an hotel at Petworth or Pulborough and coming round for coffee with you every evening from Monday to Friday?...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 11 May 1946. "I wish you had come to the wedding. While it lasted it was great fun. Immediately afterwards depression set in...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 1 Jun 1946. "How absolutely wonderful about your play. Is it coming on in London or in Bristol?...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 14 Jun 1946. "No I don't think I can write anything new, and I have no 'written' children's story, and I can't imagine how I ever did write a children's story...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 23 Jul 1946. "I would love to come down and stay the night and see your play any night except the Saturday September 7th. Do I come to Bristol or to Bath?...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 28 Aug 1946. "I shall arrive down I believe about...well I really don't know yet. Somehow I think it is 3 pm...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 27 Oct 1946. "(My birthday alas...) I went up to Bradford and had the first reading, and came away very excited and happy...." Typed postcard signed. | |
| 1 Nov 1946. "I PRAY nothing stops you. I am going up, as I said, on 15th and rehearsing steadily...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet with envelope. | |
| 22 Nov 1946. "Oh dear oh dear...I see it all. You've bitten off too much with the house. And Beb racking your heart too...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet with envelope. | |
| 14 Dec 1946. "The last letter I had from you said your heart had sent you to bed...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 3 Jan 1947. "Oh I was so pleased with your letter. I feel I extorted it out of a poor sick Cynthia. You always speak of your distresses so lightly one cant take them seriously...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 22 Jan 1947. "The last bit of paper left on the ship. I found it in a blotting pad. We land at Cape Town tomorrow...." Handwritten letter signed, 1 sheet with envelope. | |
| 15 Feb 1947. "I have just had breakfast, waited on by black hands in white gloves, an iced glass of tomato juice, melon, a small piece of bacon and delicious coffee, my book propped in from of me. How divine hotel life is...." Typed letter signed, 2 sheets. | |
| 19 Mar 1947. "I must describe to your the Pitso in Basutoland before it gets trodden over in my mind with other things, I have just come back...." Typed letter signed, 2 sheets. | |
| 5 Mar 1947. "It's WONDERFUL about your play and Sibyl Thorndyke. Oh I do hope it happens...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet with envelope. | |
| 19 Aug 1947. "What a wonderful letter. Too distracted, dim, desolate, disheartened to do more than exclaim...." Handwritten postcard signed. | |
| 25 Jan 1948. "To keep you abreast--Timothy got married on Friday to Pandora Clifford aged 18 and lovely as a Renoir...." Handwritten postcard signed. | |
| 6 Apr 1948. "Be careful of [Cassants] Nylon used as packing. Also an enveloped one coming. Look well at both because you should have had size 10...." Handwritten letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 4 May 1948. "I was just putting on the crackle of browned sugar to a Creme Brulee for you when the telephone went and Mrs. Kelly never fetched me and never said anything about Vivien having a baby...." Typed postcard signed. | |
| 19 Apr 1949. "Just back Good Friday. Still in muddle. I have been sending you one pair nylons every week...." Typed postcard signed. | |
| 15 Nov 1949. "I've just finished reading your Lawrence. I'm dazzled by it...." Typed postcard signed. | |
| 21 Sept 1952. "Lovely to have postcard sent. Its what I do to people. It ensures answer, for very shame. News...Roderick better but low and tired...." Typed postcard signed. | |
| 19 Jun 1953. "Monstrous to answer your enchanting letter by this card. But I'm so behindhand. Its past eleven and I should be at it...." Typed postcard signed. | |
| 3 Sept 1953. "Was called in urgently by Richard to the Television the other night 'Mummie! Mummie! Here's Lady Cynthia!'...." Typed postcard signed. | |
| 10 Dec 1954. "Dearest Cynthia, generous Cynthia. I was so happy and excited to get the book. I saw mounds and mounds of it in Harrods and opened it and had a nasty recall in that I had spent so much in the gramophone department for Tucker that I couldn’t bear to spend another penny at that moment...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| Incomplete date or undated correspondence | |
| 1:3 | 14 Sept. "Oh so relieved and happy you like it. If Christabel hadn’t written yesterday saying she liked it I would really have had cold feet...." Typed postcard signed. |
| "More and more enchanting as I read--its divinely done. So light, so accurate...." Handwritten postcard signed. | |
| 14 May. "Oggie not in book. For...secrecy reasons...Purse reasons?....More likely...." Typed postcard signed. | |
| "I adored that luncheon. Why did I go so soon (and miss so much)?...." Typed postcard signed. | |
| "My Collins is written here now in bed--though it may be finished on the train...." Handwritten letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| "My word--if you'd woken me up. Such a scowl from the pillow!...." Handwritten letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 8 Mar. "Waking in your bedroom--No 331--I think of you. How are you...." Handwritten letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 12 Jul. "Here it is. It is very bad. I have done it because I promised you I would, but if you decide not to include it I shall only be relieved...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| "Oh dear Cynthia--I had to show [Antoine] your letter--I was so flattered proud and pleased and warmed.... " Handwritten letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| "Great Northern Victoria Hotel. Bradford. Nov 20..the Great Day, and you not here and I in bed with a temperature of 102!!!!...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| "Oh darling, Thank God I wrote on Friday. I wouldn’t not have written for the world; but I take time. Especially when I want to read poems really...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| "(Dictated) because as usual I am in the midst of to and fro-ing...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| "I had a terrifying bus drive. I went on top after you suggested it and the man drove like a fiend and the bus "whipped" and swung and I was nearly sick and there was a thick fog...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| "No one ever believes it when one says so--but I was thinking of you very hard when you must have been writing that letter...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
| 17 Jul. "I can hardly believe it, and yet I've all the pleasure of someone whose first magazine story has been taken...." Typed letter signed, 1 sheet. | |
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