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The interlude in Adam Street is not very important in Waugh’s life or work. It does show, however, how ardently he pursued Evelyn Gardner. It also shows that Waugh prevailed upon an Oxford acquaintance, Robert Byron, to further his romance, though he and Byron were never close friends. Waugh’s experience at St Paul’s, Portman Square also seems to have encouraged him to convert to Roman Catholicism. If she returned with Waugh to 25 Adam Street, and if his rooms were really as “disgusting” as Byron thought they were, She-Evelyn may well have had second thoughts about her marriage. On the other hand, if Waugh went to 25 Adam Street by himself for ten days, She-Evelyn may well have grown bored and lonely. In either case, the time spent in Adam Street probably did not strengthen the marriage.

This project is not yet complete. I would like to obtain photographs of St Paul’s, Portman Square and 25 Adam Street. I would also like to learn the identity of the curate who married He- Evelyn and She-Evelyn. His name may be in the records of the Metropolitan Archives. I plan to visit these sites on my next trip to London, but perhaps someone else can beat me to it.

Works Cited Acton, Harold. Memoirs of an Aesthete. London: Methuen, 1948. Byron, Robert. Letters Home. Ed. Lucy Butler. London: John Murray, 1991. Davis, Robert Murray, et al. A Bibliography of . Troy, NY: Whitston, 1986. Hastings, Selina. Evelyn Waugh: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. Stannard, Martin. Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, 1903-1939. 1986. New York: Norton, 1987. Sykes, Christopher. Evelyn Waugh: A Biography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975. Waugh, Alec. My Brother Evelyn and Other Portraits. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967. Waugh, Alexander. E-mail to the author. 9 October 2009. Waugh, Evelyn. “Address Snobbery.” Daily Mail, 12 July 1930: 8. ---. The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh. Ed. Michael Davie. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976. ---. Letter to the editor, Daily Express. December 16th [1929]. Box 11, Evelyn Waugh Manuscript Collection. Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.

Abstracts of Japanese Essays about Evelyn Waugh, 1981-1987 by Yoshiharu Usui

Obayashi, Mikiaki. “Evurin Wo oboegaki--Furaitoke to Kurauchibatsukuke” [“A Note on Evelyn Waugh--The Flytes and the Crouchbacks”]. Feris Jogakuindaigaku Kiyo [Bulletin of Ferris University] 16 (1981): 41-58. Abstract: Evelyn Waugh portrayed a phase of the English ruling class in the Flytes in and the Crouchbacks in Men at Arms, and Unconditional Surrender. He depicted how these two representative families acted and how they survived in the new times from the 1920s to the end of World War II. Unknown forces are working in our daily lives. The young Flytes and Guy Crouchback tried to fulfill their wishes, but they could not do it because of these forces. Waugh portrayed them as an inner force in the Flytes and an outer force in the Crouchbacks. The former is faith and the latter is politics.

Suzuki, Shigenobu. “Kindai no fuushika Evurin Wo--Suibouki wo chuushi ni” [“On a Modern Satirist, Evelyn Waugh--A Study of ”]. Kyoto Sangiodaigaku Ronshu [Acta Humanitica et Scientifica Universitatis Sangio Kyotiensis] 11 (1982): 77-93. Abstract: Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall caricatured the English upper class. This novel was received with much applause. Satire expresses fury. Jonathan Swift did that. Waugh did

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