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Anthony Powell Society Newsletter #14 From the Secretary’s Desk The Anthony Powell Society The Anthony Powell Society Membership Renewal Registered Charity No. 1096873 Newsletter Members whose subscription expires this year The Anthony Powell Society is a will be receiving renewal notices during Issue 14, Spring 2004 ISSN 1743-0976 March. charitable literary society devoted to the life and works of the English author As always members are asked to not just renew Anthony Dymoke Powell, 1905-2000. their membership, but to do so promptly. Kalamazoo Anthony Powell.” It went on: “What would those supremely English Sending extra membership renewal reminders costs the Society a significant amount of Officers & Executive Committee by James Tucker characters in Anthony Powell’s 12 money – an amount which last year was the Patron: John MA Powell volume novel, A Dance to the Music of equivalent of several membership President: Hugh Massingberd In my talk at Balliol College, Oxford, Time, have made of it? I have it on the subscriptions in postage alone. Vice-President: John S Monagan (USA) 2003 I mentioned a previous Anthony authority of James Tucker, author of The Members who are UK taxpayers are reminded Powell Society that I’d had some contact Novels of Anthony Powell, that a thriving *Chairman: Patric Dickinson American fan club for Powell’s work has that they can GiftAid their subscriptions, with in the 1970s and 80s, but which enabling the Society to reclaim basic rate *Hon. Secretary: Dr Keith C Marshall seemed suddenly to disappear. I grown up in the US, with its centre in income tax already paid on the amount of the *Hon. Treasurer: Kevin Jewell wondered whether a few details about it deepest Michigan – Kalamazoo, no less.” subscription; currently this is 28p for every £1 now would interest members of our paid to the Society. Members who GiftAid *Committee Members: Anthony Powell Society; and also “‘Fan club is to put it flippantly, perhaps,’ their subscriptions/donations, and who pay UK Dr Christine Berberich, whether a Newsletter piece might prompt says Tucker. ‘This is in fact a body of higher rate tax, can also offset the amounts Dr Nicholas Birns (USA), against their higher rate tax. That doesn’t some information about what happened American academics who publish a Leatrice Fountain (USA), sound a lot, but if every UK member signed a Stephen Holden, to that earlier body. magazine concerned exclusively with GiftAid declaration it would be worth around Powell’s writing and who are currently £700 a year to the Society – very worthwhile! Tony Robinson, It was based in the Department of pushing his candidature for the Nobel Prof. Ian Young (N Ireland) We are working on offering UK members the English at Western Michigan University, prize.’” Dunn wrote that Issue 13 of Newsletter Editor: Stephen Holden Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA and (Continued on page 3) ability to pay subscriptions by Direct Debit. With luck this will be in place in time for this Hon. Archivist: Noreen Marshall produced an occasional journal called year’s renewals. As an alternative we are PR/Media Adviser: Julian Allason Anthony Powell Communication, edited looking at the possibility of allowing members by Nancy Cutbirth of the Department of to pay subscriptions for a number of years in All correspondence should be sent to: English. She took over from Professor advance at a small discount. This is quite a William B Stone of the University of juggling act as the subscription received has to Hon. Secretary, Anthony Powell Society Illinois. I have issues 12-17 and 19. be balanced against future inflation and 76 Ennismore Avenue, Greenford investment income while making the scheme Issue 12 is stamped on the cover, “26 Middlesex, UB6 0JW, UK attractive to members and ensuring the Society Phone: +44 (0)20 8864 4095 October 1979 90 copies.” Kalamazoo has sufficient funds to meet future obligations was, of course, made famous in the song, to members. Also in the background one of Fax: +44 (0)20 8864 6109 “A B C D E F G H I – I got a girl in our members in the USA is looking at securing Email: [email protected] Kalamazoo – don’t want to boast, but I the equivalent of charitable status there, which know she’s the toast of Kalamazoo.” will allow our US members to reclaim tax on * Members of the Executive Committee who their subscriptions. Watch this space! are the Society’s trustees. All officers are resident in England or Wales unless stated. I worked for the Sunday Times at this Meanwhile, please renew your subscription period and told a colleague, Peter Dunn, promptly, continue to support the development about the US Society. He wrote a regular of the Society and enable us to capitalise on the © The Anthony Powell Society, 2004 and the individual opportunity which is Powell’s centenary in authors named. All rights reserved. arts column and in June 1980 published Published by The Anthony Powell Society. an item headed: “Kalamazoo Hails 2005 – we won’t have another such chance for Printed and distributed by Express Printing, a long time! Peterborough, UK. 2 Anthony Powell Society Newsletter #14 Anthony Powell Society Newsletter #14 (Continued from page 1) while after The Acceptance World Professor Arthur Schlesinger Junior Maclaren-Ross Bends His Mind Anthony Powell Communication “reports that Tolland and Dicky Umfraville (Graduate School and University Centre, in some jubilation that the powerful are not of an age to be school City University of New York) says he by Tom Miller Modern Language Association will contemporaries, and had Alfred hesitates to claim he was the original mount a special Powell session at its make the correction in Books Do American Powell fan, but “I was Renewed interest in the exotic life of annual conclave in Houston … Suggested Furnish a Room.) At any rate, I certainly an early one. I happened on Julian Maclaren-Ross (see, for example, topics include ‘Powell and practically gave RHJ no entry in my “Who’s Venusberg and From a View to a Death in Paul Willetts on the subject in the Spring everybody – Powell’s personal, Who”, perhaps understandably, London during the war and became an 2003 Newsletter) reminded me of an professional and literary relationships since he never appears. I did include addict”. interesting contribution by this able, but with other people of letters.’” Tolland’s withdrawal of his claim in disturbed, writer, the original of X the entry on Alfred Tolland himself: And thereafter silence. I received no Trapnel in the great Powellite cycle. Dunn telephoned Powell about it and he ‘Umfraville not his fag,’ that entry more copies of Communication and no said: “‘Naturally one is pleased … I ends. More accurately it should replies to letters sent to Nancy Cutbirth at In the 1950s, an aspiring culture-fan, I certainly shouldn’t be able to go to the have read: ‘Dicky Umfraville not his her university and what I took to be her collected newspaper cuttings – as a conference, much as one enjoys going to fag.’ Worse, much worse, in the home address in Merrill Street, though matter of fact, I still do, though nowadays America. I’ve reached the age where I entry for Dicky Umfraville, I added until then she had been a dutiful I seem to accumulate more notices of just use my mornings for work.’” the initials RHJ. (In other words, I correspondent. My efforts at getting in films than of books. A theorist of ran two people into one, as Tolland touch could have been more thorough, I importance to me at that time was the I had an article in Issue 15 myself, largely for some reason does in The know. I might have picked up the novelist Aldous Huxley (1894-1963). devoted to an apology for messing up in Acceptance World). telephone or even made a trip to the “Who’s Who” chapter of my book an Kalamazoo, but didn’t. As things stood, Links between Anthony Powell and entry about Dicky Umfraville. This slip I was able to tell Communication readers and stand, there came a total breakdown Huxley are hard to establish: so far as I might be worth a digression. I don’t that in the British second edition of The in “Communication”, which I regret. am aware, the men never met, though excuse the error, but I still think Novels of Anthony Powell matters had Huxley may have been a resident of something dodgy went on in the way been righted; and that I hoped Columbia Southern California when Powell worked Powell presented the Umfraville material. University Press, who brought out the there as a scriptwriter before World War My article said: book over there, would follow suit. II. It is difficult to point to any influence of Huxley on Powell, though Afternoon Somehow I failed to take account of Issue 19 of Communication – the latest I Brief Lives Men reads slightly like an early Huxleyan that correction by Alfred Tolland, have – is dated July 1983. It refers to a “country house” novel; in To Keep the Erridge’s uncle, in Books Do draft constitution for the Society which Alan Watkins’ book Brief Lives is Ball Rolling, Powell admits that, when Furnish a Room (chapter 2) of his had been printed in Issue 18. Somehow I republished by Elliott & Thompson this Huxley’s Antic Hay came out, he was assertion in The Acceptance World lack that one. Two people had agreed to month. The book is a series of short “prostrated by its brilliance”. (chapter 5) that Dicky Umfraville stand for office: John Riley, of the autobiographies (somewhat in the style of had been his fag at school.

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