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AP Society Newsletter #9 —Deliver this to SENHOUSE, Roger Aksakov, Montaigne and The Oxford The Anthony Powell Society I prithee postman debonair Books of French, German and Italian He is the handsome upstairs lodger Verse. Powell also came across an

Newsletter At No. 14 Brunswick Square“ autographed copy of Stendhal‘s book on

Italian Painting on the shelves in this Issue 9 W inter 2002 50p -- seems to have been a rather sleepy room œ and suggested it might be —put in a figure. One of the Library Committee, closed case.“ A Hero of Our Club œ Anthony the height, or depth, of the Blitz, a Captain Kennedy appears to have been a Powell at The Travellers 1930- backwoodsman lumbered across to the dedicated follower of the Turf and pressed After all his hard work in improving the 2000: Part Two Marshall‘s solitary table. for the scarce Library funds to be applied Library, Powell was a natural choice as to buying form-guides and Who‘s Who in Chairman of the Library Committee from

—Ah, Portal, there you are! I hear Racing. Then, in November 1946, Harold June 1949 onwards. In the autumn of The edited text of a talk delivered at the Royal Flying Corps have been Nicolson, Alan Pryce-Jones, LE Jones 1951 he presented a first edition copy of A The Travellers Club, 04 March 2002 doin‘ frightfully well. Keep up the (author of that evocative trilogy, A Question of Upbringing to the club (he

good work!“ Victorian Boyhood, Edwardian Youth and had earlier presented some of his pre-war by Hugh Massingberd Georgian Afternoon) and a certain —AD novels, as well as John Aubrey and His

[Part One of this talk was published in the After the war, The Travellers‘ Library Powell“ were brought in —to ginger things Friends in 1949) and this coincided with Autumn 2002 Newsletter] regarded by many, including John up“, as Powell would have put it. his defining Chairman‘s Report on The Betjeman and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Library of The Travellers Club. Although Inevitably, after marrying Lady Violet Mother as their favourite interior in The minutes show a distinctive anonymous, this is recognisably the work Pakenham in 1934 and setting up home in London œ was in a dispiriting state. The astringency. The presentation of a book of the Master. Bloomsbury, Anthony Powell came to The then Chairman of the Library Committee, called I Chose Freedom, for instance, was Travellers less often than before œ and Roger Pocklington Senhouse, a publisher —met with scant enthusiasm, tempered As Chairman of the Library Committee, then they had a spell in California. But and quondam fancy of Lytton Strachey œ with scepticism“. Powell and Pryce- Anthony Powell also served on the Violet Powell, unlike some Travellers‘ who once addressed an envelope to him as Jones, both working on the TLS, were General Committee of the club and in wives, had a warm affection for the club follows: deputed to send in a fortnightly list of 1963 he joined the House Committee. and they frequently entertained here after suitable books for the club‘s circulating Members‘ complaints about —the coldness the war. library. And while Captain Kennedy of the vegetables“ (Powell suggested banged on about the vital need for a hotplates); the inadequacy of the toast W hen I saw Violet for the last time, she History of Newmarket, Powell was under the Roast Grouse; and of how Roast told me a Travellers‘ tale. During the war, recommending works by Proust, Osbert Beef and Lamb were —frequently Marshall of the Royal Air Force Sir Lancaster, Lloyd‘s History of Wales and overcooked“ kept the Committee on their Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff, used The Dictionary of English Place Names toes. Other perennial topics were the use to lunch at The Travellers most days. He (which was to furnish the novelist with of the Library for entertaining œ would sit on his own, lost in quiet such surnames as W idmerpool, something Powell always stoutly resisted contemplation, and the form œ as Anthony Leintwardine and Brent). œ and the advance of —lady guests“ into Powell observed œ was for his fellow- male enclaves, even into this very room members to give the great man a wide Put in charge of —Foreign Literature“ for (—strongly against“, minuted Powell) and, berth so as not to disturb his chain of the Library, Powell came up with the of course, chronic shortage of cash. To thought upon which much of the course of following essentials: Apuleius, increase revenue, Powell suggested the the war depended. But one lunchtime, at Aristophanes, Herodotus, Homer, installation of a fruit-machine (—one- Lucretius, Marcus Aurelius, Propertius, armed bandit“) in the lobby of the bar and © The Anthony Powell Society, 2002 and the Augustine‘s Confessions, Machiavelli‘s a sweepstake. In the event, with the individual authors named. All rights reserved. Published by The Anthony Powell Society and printed The Prince, Castiglione‘s The Courtier, Secretary, Robin McDouall‘s support, a by Express Printing, W errington, Peterborough, UK 2 AP Society Newsletter #9 AP Society Newsletter #9 one-armed bandit was experimented with Travellers, that an outbreak of VD had —a large flat cap shaped like a muffin Memorial Service in the Grosvenor in the Gents œ for a three-month trial, but taken place at Sandhurst. He set off for which he said had been made Chapel in May 2000, Lady Violet should it did not prove popular with the members. the RMC at once, carrying a rolled specially for him by a female friend“. have held a lunch in the Library of The umbrella. Once the cadets were Travellers for family and friends. The Charging members for a second cup of assembled, he thundered: History doesn‘t relate whether he kept it menu included Tony‘s favourite savoury œ coffee after lunch and dinner was one of on in the Coffee Room. Devils on Horseback œ described in Robin Anthony Powell‘s bugbears and he —I hear you boys have been putting McDouall‘s Clubland Cooking as succeeded in having this custom changed your private parts where I wouldn‘t Of one Powell celebration at The œ so that coffee ad lib, after the first cup, put this umbrella“. Travellers he noted in his Journals, —A great favourite with Edwardian is now the rule œ thanks to the Sage of the hostesses and my friend and Chantry. As a cat lover œ his portrait in The other witness to Powell‘s W ill, —Luncheon at The Travellers was not favourite novelist, Anthony Powell. the club, presented in 2001 by Lady executed at The Travellers, was Alick too bad [a Powellian compliment, Prunes, instead of Oysters, wrapped Violet, shows him with his beloved Dru, Evelyn W augh‘s brother-in-law, incidentally] fruits de mer, in Bacon. The only merit I can see in Trelawney on his shoulder œ Powell was portrayed as David Pennistone in Dance. medaillons de veau, épinards à la them is that they do not much harm also a champion of the beleaguered Club It was through Dru that Monsignor Gilbey crême, patisserie, club hock, the last to a red wine.“ Cat, a plumpish animal of unreliable got to know the Powells œ and it was the perfectly drinkable for such an aspect who some members wanted Monsignor who introduced me to my occasion). The meal took place in Anthony Powell was an adornment of The removed on account of her tendency to rip great Hero, Anthony Powell, here in 1970, the Library, an unusually pretty Travellers and did the club —some service“ the leather furniture while sharpening her soon after my election to The Travellers. Regency room with pillars and a (to adapt one of his favourite quotations claws. Her unruly appearance prompted W e had previously corresponded about frieze of the Elgin marbles“. from Othello). He was indeed a true one wag to write in the Suggestions Book: genealogy œ his principal passion œ but —Hero of our Club“. And he understood —The Mat Sat on the Cat“. the dinner generously arranged by Alfred As the 1980s wore on, visits to London club life, just as he understood life in was the first time I met him in the flesh. I became less frequent. They were mainly general. Dogs were more JR Ackerley‘s line œ he describe the evening in my book concerned with dental appointments; was introduced to Tony Powell in the Daydream Believer: Confessions of a indeed his nephew, Ferdie Mount, W hat he wrote about the Somerset Club in 1950s and Powell, as he recorded in his Hero-Worshipper. quipped that one of the Journal volumes Boston œ with its Journals, might have been called The Sussman Happily we were to meet many more Years in honour of Tony‘s dentist. I —inspissated and enveloping club —didn‘t take to him. He said, ”Ah, yes times over his remaining years in the club remember Tony being fascinated, over atmosphere… Ancient armchairs and œ you wrote œ what was it? œ No, and in the 1980s he was a valued one club lunch, by the fact that my own sofas underpropped one or two don‘t tell me œ novel about an artist‘. contributor of obituaries to the page I dentist was an hereditary peer. equally antiquated members, ossified This seemed the most patent one- edited at The Daily Telegraph œ including into states of Emersonian catalepsy upmanship bearing out what one had one of Adrian Daintrey, As Violet recorded in the introduction to in which shadow and sunlight were heard of him as power-maniac when the last volume of the Journals: not only the same, but had long freed Literary Editor of The Listener.“ —whose passing will bring a tear to them from shame or fame. It was the eye of more than one lady of —Like the pussycat in the nursery comforting to see so splendid a haunt The Travellers was frequently the mise en quality and black bus conductress“. rhyme, Powell‘s last trip to London from the past surviving intact into a scène of a Powellian anecdote. One was to visit the Queen“ widely disintegrating world“ evening after Osbert Sitwell had In his Journals Powell noted how his old witnessed Anthony Powell‘s W ill œ friend had worn (into the club) when he was invested as Companion of could equally well have been written describing himself as —Poet and Justice of Honour in 1988. But he continued to keep about The Travellers. the Peace“ œ he related the story of how in touch with The Travellers to the end. news came to the Duke of Cambridge, the And he understood too, the vital Victorian C-in-C and a member of The It was fitting that after Anthony Powell‘s importance to the clubman of comforting,

3 4 AP Society Newsletter #9 AP Society Newsletter #9 nursery fare. To return to that lunch US East Coast Group the Jeavonses of South Kensington might W idmerpool gave Jenkins at his club œ well be indicated by three of the one and two of the other.“ while W idmerpool is prosing on about by Leatrice Fountain and Joan Williams Christmas Prize Competition world affairs (and suggesting that Goering be given the Garter) œ the narrator slyly D em onstrate your skill as a poet and Our third Anthony Powell Society observes … w in a year’s free m em bership of the gathering at Silvermine Tavern this Great Lakes Group M eeting

—an enormously fat old fellow who S ociety afternoon found Nick Birns, Joan by Stephen Pyskoty-Olle was opening his luncheon with W illiams, Ed Bock, Jonathan Kooperstein, A ll you have to do is to w rite the best dressed crab and half a bottle of John Gould, W illiam W arren and Leatrice A nthony Pow ell-related haiku September saw the third meeting of the hock… [Later] The fat man had Fountain engaged in literary investigation. Great Lakes group of the Anthony Powell moved on to steak-and-kidney Nick posed some interesting questions For those unfam iliar w ith J apanese Society at the Red Lion Pub in Chicago. pudding, leeks and mashed potato, about Stringham and his relationships. culture, haiku are short poem s of with a green salad…[Later still, W e also discussed whether, at the end, seventeen syllables, in groups of five, Attending œ and consuming many British W idmerpool still boring on] The fat Stringham was happy about the course his seven and five. For exam ple: delicacies and drinks œ were Stephen man was now enjoying the first taste life had taken. John Gould said he found H ave O eufs M eyerbeer Pyskoty-Olle, Tony and Joanne Edmonds, of some apple pie liberally covered Tuffy W eedon to be an unpleasant and G reen cat eyes see w hat to do Eileen Soderstrom, Murray Jacobs, Dick with cream and brown sugar…“. unlikable person. W idmerpool entered our M atilda decides Goerne, and Tony Bruozas. conversation with questions of why he wanted Stringham sent away. No firm * S end your entry, w ith your nam e and address, to: answers on any of the above. Other Interesting topics included whether Daydream Believer: Confessions of a Hero- contributions invited. W illiam W arren W idmerpool and Gypsy knew each other Worshipper by Hugh Massingberd has just been Christmas Competition published in paperback by Pan at £7.99. T he A nthony Pow ell S ociety has offered to arrange our December 20th in the biblical sense; how Nick seemed to 76 Ennismore A venue, G reenford meeting (close to Powell‘s birthday) at the not be attuned to music as he was to art M iddlesex, UB6 0JW , UK Century Club in New York City for a and literature; the fact that no one has Fax: +44 (0)20 8864 6109 seasonal celebration. W e hope members heard any Constant Lambert music W hy N ot A dvertise H ere? Em ail: com p@ anthonypow ell.org.uk will be there to read excerpts from their (Lambert being Powell‘s inspiration for to arrive no later than 31 J anuary 2003 papers being offered for the general Moreland); Carolo‘s many amours; the *** assembly at Oxford in 2003. It was also pleasure to be had reading in pubs; the D isplay A dvert Rates T he w inner w ill be the entry that m ost decided that our group should be multitude of painting references Full Page: £ 30 am uses the N ew sletter Editor, and w ill represented by champagne flutes, sherry throughout the Dance; and Powell‘s ¹ page (horizontal) or full colum n: £ 20 be announced in the S pring 2003 glasses, and thin cups of Chinese tea.* literary tolerance of homosexuals, and its 1/3 page (horizontal): £ 15 N ew sletter And now, Andrew, Joan and I are lifting unusualness for the times. ² page (¹ colum n): £ 10 our sherry glasses in a toast to you, our 1/6 page (1/3 colum n): £ 8 Com petition Conditions. T he E ditor’s decision own musical agent provocateur. Salut! Please e-mail [email protected] Flyer inserts: £ 10 per A 5 sheet is final and binding. E ntry is open to A nthony Pow ell S ociety m em bers and non-m em bers. N o for information on future meetings. B & W line art only purchase necessary. E ntries m ust be original * Editor‘s note: The allusion is to this email Andrew Clarke sent to the APList: *** and the w ork of the person subm itting them .

S mall A ds M axim um five entries per person. N o cash alternative. N o correspondence w ill be entered —I have written to British Telecom to Free to S ociety m em bers into. T he A nthony Pow ell S ociety reserves the suggest a sort of Guide Michelin or O thers 10p/w ord, m inimum £ 3 right to publish the entries. Baedeker system for their telephone directories: next to each entry there would *** E xam ple haiku © copyright J oan W illiam s be from one to five little symbols, Contact the Editor or S ecretary representing either champagne flutes or for m ore details beer mugs as appropriate. The two might not be mutually exclusive however: I think 5 6 AP Society Newsletter #9 AP Society Newsletter #9 Powell M anuscripts at Eton Casanova‘s Chinese Restaurant appeared M eet the Committee: of this luxury hotel with arguably the College Library in hardcover a doctor told Powell that Dr Nicholas Birns best view œ and lowest prices for a Brandreth‘s medical talk in the novel was five star property œ in Venice. For by Stephen Holden incorrect. Powell made sure this Nicholas Birns is Lecturer in English at the comfortable guest rooms look out inaccuracy was corrected by the time the New School University in New York City onto Santa Maria della Salute and After the AGM on 14 September 2002 novel appeared in paperback. (located near the fictional site of Quentin the entrance to the Grand Canal, those attending were shown round the Shuckerly‘s demise in Hearing Secret with its busy traffic of gondolas and Eton College Library by Michael Powell recycled the paper he used for the Harmonies). He received his BA from vaporetti. . . .“ Meredith and Nick Baker. The tour first and second drafts, typing journalism Columbia University in 1988 and his PhD focused on Eton‘s collection of and other writings on the back. from New York University in 1992. He Powelliana, some owned by the College, has published over twenty scholarly Hugh W hitemore wins Emmy much of it kindly on loan from the Powell The drafts of Afternoon Men and What‘s articles and has also written for general- family. Become of Waring both showed that interest periodicals such as The New York At the 54th Annual Emmy Awards in Powell had changed the names of several Times Book Review and National Forum. September 2002 Hugh W hitemore won Michael Meredith began by telling us that characters before publication. The He serves in a number of positions on US the Emmy for —Outstanding W riting for a the manuscripts before us were, properly W aring character, for instance, was academic committees and editorial boards, Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special“ speaking, —typescripts“. On display were originally to be called Stokes, and hence and has also lectured abroad in Australia for HBO‘s The Gathering Storm. The some half-dozen or so typescripts, the novel was to have been called What‘s and Sweden. His book Understanding film deals with W inston Churchill in the including drafts of Afternoon Men, What‘s Become of Stokes. Anthony Powell is under contract from years before W orld W ar II, where he Become of Waring, and certain volumes of University of South Carolina Press. found himself on the fringe of British Dance. Also displayed were one of Michael Meredith (aided by Nick Baker politics: a lone voice in crying out in the Powell‘s typewriters (a portable model), reading aloud each draft) showed us how wilderness as he warned his country and first editions, various foreign editions of Powell had gone through several detailed Venice the world of a Nazi threat. Albert Finney his novels (including the first US edition revisions of his description of Brian starred as W inston Churchill. of From a View to a Death, the title Howard in Infants of the Spring. W hat by Julian Allason changed to Mr Zouch: Superman, began as a curt, rather cutting portrait of Hugh W hitemore adapted A Dance to the manuscripts and photographs relating to Howard emerged, after careful polishing, The following appeared in the October Music of Time for Channel 4 television, a Brian Howard (see below), and a group as the measured, witty two paragraphs that issue of Entreé, the US publication series that introduced many viewers (and photograph (apparently found by chance appear in the published memoirs. devoted to travel:- Society members) to Powell‘s work. at a car-boot sale and donated to the College) showing Powell revisiting Eton After the talk we were given the —Why, we wondered, were the group in the 1920s for an old boys match against opportunity to examine the typescripts and of literary types wandering around Solutions for Crossword No. 7 the then Goodhart‘s house football team. exhibits ourselves, and also to peruse Venice‘s venerable Europa & Regina Eton‘s exhibition The Kings and Queens Hotel with their heads in the air? Across: 2 Odo; 3 Orn; 5 Arch; 6 Secret; Michael Meredith explained that Powell of England which was in honour of Her The surprising answer was that the 10 Cadwallader; 13 Bob; 15 Jones; appeared to have typed three complete Majesty‘s Golden Jubilee. building was once the home of the 16 W arminster; 19 Stonehurst; 21 Le Bas; 22 Quarry; 23 Norah; 24 Budd; 26 Eton drafts of each novel, meticulously revising great 18th century painter the text each time, the third draft being The Society is very grateful to Michael Giambattista Tiepolo and the literati Down: 1 Books; 2 Orchard; 4 Nicholas; 5 Art; submitted to the publishers. Then, when Meredith and Nick Baker for organising were members of the Anthony Powell this fascinating display and talk. 7 Evadne; 8 Tar; 9 Suzette; 11 Ada; 12 Alias; the uncorrected proofs returned from the Society in search of the Tiepolo 13 Babs; 14 Bum; 16 W eedon; 17 Tolland; publishers, these too were corrected and ceiling under which some of the most 18 Robert; 20 Rosalie; 25 Urn; 27 Ted amended by Powell. Indeed, Powell was surprising scenes of A Dance to the reluctant to cease revising even once the Music of Time are set. Surprising book was published. Apparently when scenes are something of a speciality

7 8 AP Society Newsletter #9 AP Society Newsletter #9 From the APLIST to the subject of Templer‘s death. I can‘t arguably an escape from cynicism, Dates for Your Diary Recent Discussions on the Society‘s believe it was all on account of Pamela. hopelessness and inertia. Pamela was Email Discussion Group Nick and Duport agree that it was not that probably a contributing factor: her jibes Saturday 07 December 2002 simple. So, what was it? W ere there about his fading virility kicked away the London Local Group Lunch From James Doyle: strains of Henty in it after all? persona of the Sunningdale Lothario, and Celebrate for AP's Birthday & W edding I like Templer very much despite œ or forced him to see reality, I‘d say. Human Anniversary perhaps because œ of the fact that I have a From Andrew Clarke: existence ultimately demands more than W allace Collection, London W 2 number of unanswered questions about [re Mr Templer‘s background] In the bridge, whisky and other people‘s wives. 1245 hrs him. For example, what do the list accents of New Jersey I‘d say he‘s risen Further details from Maggie Noach members think about: already :-) Despite coming a cropper over From Andrew Clarke: [email protected] steel (or was it cement?) he‘s made his Socially W idmerpool‘s chief problem is 1. Mr Templer. W hy is he an old devil? money, and enjoys pretty well the same that home is a flat in Victoria, and not a Saturday 07 December 2002 Or if he isn‘t, why does Sunny status a successful businessman would country house, and that means that he Great Lakes Group M eeting Farebrother say he is? In my tin-eared enjoy in the US. Maybe a little lower in cannot invite friends home for the Art in the First Movement of Dance American way, I‘d read Mr Templer‘s the American pecking order than long- holidays, nor, because they know that he Red Lion Pub, Chicago, USA background as rising middle-class: established Boston bankers, but not far cannot reciprocate, will his 1300 hrs local time perhaps the W idmerpool of his generation, from it. Certainly further up than contemporaries invite him. Further details from Stephen Pyskoty-Olle and assumed that the chateau in which Updike‘s Rabbit œ or, for that matter, Mr [email protected] Templer was raised was not an aristocratic W idmerpool Senior. From Julian Allason: one. I am not at all sure that reciprocation is Friday 20 December 2002 I worry about this comparison. Mr expected. The pre-war diaries (Channon NE USA Group M eeting 2. Templer‘s way of life. Templer‘s Templer quite possibly comes from a et al), and Beaton‘s new post-war Discussion: Pamela Flitton relentlessly middle-brow way of life long-established family of —city gents“ unexpurgation, make it clear that it was The Century Club, New York, USA struck me when I first read Dance as a) a and is quite at home in that particular not a requirement at that period œ as long 1200 hrs local time renunciation of Stringham, Nick, et al‘s world. He may well have been born into as you were prepared to sing for your Further details from W illiam W arren social milieu and ambitions that is money. His abrupt manner is still more supper. The problem was, I think, Ken‘s [email protected] individual because in its almost absolute gentlemanly than that of a Jimmy lack of singing voice rather than stately surface banality it is practically the only Stripling or a Bob Duport, I think. home. M onday 7 & Tuesday 8 April 2003 way in the British context he could Second Biennial Anthony Powell renounce one set of social constraints [re Templer‘s chateau] Solid, Conference without signing on to another. Templer comfortable, extensive —grounds“, tennis Books for Sale Anthony Powell and Oxford of the 1920s seems to me to want to cut himself off courts œ probably these days a swimming- Details elsewhere in this issue from social life altogether. He may be pool, probably of Edwardian construction more of a rebel than he seems, misguided (VII not I), atmosphere of port and cigars Various Anthony Powell and Other Saturday 20 September 2003 œ as Andrew points out, perhaps fatally and even in the twenties a considerable Miscellaneous Volumes Society AGM misguided. Still, I like him. He seems to number of domestic servants. No Provisional date; venue to be decided me to be pretty consistent about sticking pretensions to connoisseurship: the Private Sale at Competitive Prices to his point, and paying the price if it Isbister portrait says it all. But it‘s comes to that. certainly not Nancy Mitford‘s Hampton. For full list contact: Keith Marshall 3. His death. Of course, though, as [re Templer‘s death] I suppose he had the Phone: 020 8864 4095 Powell observed of Orwell, most people opportunity do something really heroic. Fax: 020 8864 6109 in rebellion are half in love with what they Childe Roland‘s horn sounded for him as Email: [email protected] are in rebellion against, which brings me it had done for Stringham. In both cases,

9 10 AP Society Newsletter #9 AP Society Newsletter #9 2003 Conference Update Bookings. At the time of writing not all From the Secretary‘s Desk stepped forward, and, as if performing a the costs are confirmed and not all authors rite, cast some substance œ apparently the Monday 07 & Tuesday 08 April 2003 have been informed. The programme, At this time of year our thoughts œ well remains of two kippers, loosely wrapped Balliol College, Oxford delegate fees and booking information my thoughts, anyway œ turn to the in newspaper œ on the bright coals of the will be available early in the New Year seasons. fire, causing flames to leap fiercely Conference Programme. W ork on the and will be mailed to all members and upward, smoke curling about in eddies of conference is progressing extremely well: friends of the Society. Not so much because one is reviewing the the north-east wind. As the dark fumes the submitted papers have all been entertainments provided by the year which floated above the houses, snow began to reviewed and a draft programme Provisional bookings for the conference is drawing to a close œ in the way in which fall gently from a dull sky, each flake constructed. In outline the programme are still being accepted; please contact the our hero has Nick Jenkins review past giving a small hiss as it reached the consists of 6 keynote speakers and 12 Hon. Secretary. Day 1 will be strictly events in Hearing Secret Harmonies. bucket. The flames died down again; and delegate papers on day 1 and two limited to a maximum of 100 delegates; the men, as if required observances were workshops on day 2. The delegate fees there will also be limits on numbers for No, in my case it is more a question of for the moment at an end, all turned away are expected to be comparable to those for the workshops and the dinner. W inter imposing itself upon life with the from the fire, lowering themselves the Eton conference and all the elements chill of Autumn fogs, the evocative smell laboriously into the pit, or withdrawing to of the conference will be separately of wood smoke œ so redolent of those the shadows of their tarpaulin shelter. bookable. A M essage from Nick Baker, Eton closing pages of Dance œ the sparkling, The grey, undecided flakes continued to College Library … fairy-light gaiety of Christmas and the come down, though not heavily, while a The keynote speakers are: Lord Jenkins of hoped-for delights of beautiful alpine harsh odour, bitter and gaseous, Hillhead, Tom W allace (Powell‘s At the Eton conference Nick Baker mornings and of watching fresh snow fall. penetrated the air. The day was drawing American publisher), DJ Taylor, James promised to send a member a photocopy in. Tucker, Allan Massie and Alan Judd. The of a letter from Anthony Powell to This latter always reminds me of one of submitted papers cover a wide range of Bernard Bergonzi. Unfortunately Nick my favourite passages from Dance: the For some reason, the sight of snow topics from Poussin‘s painting A Dance to has mislaid the member‘s name and opening paragraphs of A Question of descending on fire always makes me think the Music of Time to the occult in Dance. address. If you are that member and get in Upbringing which I consider one of the of the ancient world … touch with Nick (write to him at College most evocative passages in the whole of Plans are also being made for an informal Library, Eton College, W indsor, Berks, English literature … It remains only for me to wish all our reception on the Monday evening SL4 6DJ, UK) he will be pleased to fulfil readers a peaceful Christmas and a (possibly including a small auction of AP his promise. The men at work at the corner of the street prosperous New Year … Oh, and not too items) and a dinner on the evening had made a kind of camp for themselves, much dog-kennel cleaning! preceding the conference. where, marked out by tripods hung with red hurricane-lamps, an abyss in the road Ohio Local Group The Chantry, photographed by the Hon. Secretary, 15 led down to a network of subterranean September 2001. drain-pipes. Gathered round the bucket Member Jack McClatchey of Cleveland, of coke that burned in front of the shelter, Ohio has offered to start a Local Group of several figures were swinging arms Society members in the Ohio area if there against bodies and rubbing hands is sufficient interest. Any member who together with large, pantomimic gestures: would like to join a group based around like comedians giving formal expression Cleveland can contact Jack on Balliol College, to the concept of extreme cold. One of +1-216-566-5704 or by email at Oxford. them, a spare fellow in blue overalls, Photograph by [email protected]. the Hon. taller than the rest, with a jocular Secretary, 20 demeanour and long, pointed nose like April 2001. that of a Shakespearian clown, suddenly

11 12 AP Society Newsletter #9 AP Society Newsletter #9 Society M erchandise Audio Tapes of Dance. The Society has Officers & Executive Committee Newsletter Copy Deadlines acquired a limited number of copies of the 2002-2003 for 2003 Postcards following audio tapes of Simon Callow Choice of two cards (illustrated below): reading (abridged) volumes of Dance: Patron John Powell The deadlines for receipt of articles and ñ B&W card of AP with his cat ñ The Kindly Ones President Hugh Massingberd advertisements for the Newsletter are: Trelawney ñ The Valley of Bones ñ The W allace Collection‘s colour ñ The Soldier‘s Art Chairman * Maggie Noach Issue 10, Spring 2003 postcard of the Poussin painting A ñ Boxed set of the ”Autumn‘ trilogy œ just Hon. Copy Deadline: Friday 14 February Dance to the Music of Time a very few left! Secretary * Dr Keith Marshall Publication Date: Friday 07 March Single volumes: £2.50 each (RRP £8.99). Hon. Pack 5 Pack 10 Pack 25 ”Autumn‘ trilogy: £8 (RRP £25). Issue 11, Summer 2003 Treasurer * Prof. Ian Young (N. Ireland) AP Cards £1.75 £3.50 £8.00 Copy Deadline: Friday 16 May Poussin Postage. Society merchandise is post free Committee Dr Nicholas Birns (USA) £2.00 £4.00 £10.00 Publication Date: Friday 06 June Cards to UK members. Regrettably we have to M embers * Leatrice Fountain (USA) ask overseas members to make the Stephen Holden Issue 12, Autumn 2003 Eton Conference 2001 Proceedings following contributions towards airmail Tony Robinson Copy Deadline: Friday 15 August Limited edition of 250 numbered copies postage: Newsletter Publication Date: Friday 05 September each signed by the Society‘s Patron, John Editor Stephen Holden Powell. £15 each, post free to all Europe W orld Postcards (5 pack) 30p 85p Issue 13, W inter 2003 members. Archivist Noreen Marshall Postcards (10 pack) 50p £1.30 Copy Deadline: Friday 14 November

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The Anthony Powell Society Christmas Quiz 8. In which novel is it declared that —almost all crime is due to the M embership Form Set by Mr Blackhead repressed desire for aesthetic Section A : M ember Information Section C : Payment Information expression“? Type of membership (please check): Total amount payable £ All the questions and/or answers have a § Ordinary M ember œ £20 a year. No. of years x membership rate Powellian connection, however 9. In The Anatomy of Melancholy § I enclose a sterling cheque drawn on a UK § Joint M embership œ £30 a year. Any two Robert Burton said that there were people at the same address. bank. Please make cheques payable to tenuous. § Gold M ember œ £30 minimum a year. The Anthony Powell Society. —two main plagues… which have § Student M ember œ £12 a year. Please send § Please debit my Visa / MasterCard 1. Marcel Proust abandoned his first infatuated and besotted myriads of evidence the recipient is a full-time Card No.: novel, begun in 1895, when he people“. W hat were they? student. Valid from: broke off his passionate § Organisation œ £100 minimum a year. Expires: involvement with Reynaldo Hahn, 10. —Alas, regardless of their doom, Subscriptions are due on 01 April annually. Name & address of cardholder, if different The little victims play!“ If joining after 31 December membership from above. the young composer for whom he includes following full subscription year. was writing it. Finally published in W here? M ember‘s Name 1952, what was it called? Address 11. W hat literary siblings were 2. Of whom did Cyril Connolly once lampooned by Noël Coward as the write, ”He could not blow his nose Swiss Family W hittlebot? without moralising about conditions Postcode/Zip I agree to the Society holding the above details 12. Robert Graves fought in the First Country on computer. in the handkerchief industry“? Email Signed W orld W ar as a captain in the Royal Number of years membership being paid: Date 3. W ho wrote The Book of Bond; or W elch Fusiliers. W hich friend and 1 / 2 / 3 Every Man His Own 007 under the writer held the same rank in the Is this membership a gift? Yes / No Section D : M ailing Information pseudonym Lt.-Col. W illiam —Bill“ same regiment? If Yes please complete Section B Please send the completed form and payment to: Tanner? 13. W hich pseudonym did Cyril Section B : Gift M embership Information Hon. Secretary Connolly use when The Unquiet The Anthony Powell Society 4. W hich American novelist has also Donor‘s Name Grave was first published? Address 76 Ennismore Avenue written books on the language of Greenford, M iddlesex, UB6 0JW, UK clothes, and on children's literature? 14. How did Mikhail Lermontov, author Phone: +44 (0)20 8864 4095 5. Graham Greene did not allow his of A Hero of Our Time, die? Postcode/Zip Fax: +44 (0)20 8864 6109 second and third novels to be

Country republished in his lifetime. W hat 15. —A hard time we had of it. Email were their titles? At the end we preferred to travel all W here shall we send the membership? night, § Direct to the recipient § To me to give to the recipient personally 6. W ho claimed, —I am the kind of Sleeping in snatches.“ Please indicate any special message you writer that people think other people W ho are these travellers? would like sent with this membership. are reading“? * 7. W ho presented his collection of The answers will appear in the next biographical pieces to the issue of the Newsletter. Ashmolean Museum in 1693?

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