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Issue 5 Winter 2001 50P The Anthony Powell Society Newsletter #5 The Anthony Powell Society Newsletter Issue 5 Winter 2001 50p 1 The Anthony Powell Society Newsletter #5 Editorial Anthony Powell’s Cats by Stephen Holden by Michael Goldman Two important books have been published since To me one of Anthony Powell’s most endearing the last Newsletter. The first is the Eton personal characteristics was his love of cats. The conference proceedings, produced in a limited and way that this eminent writer of slightly mandarin numbered edition of 250, signed by the Society’s demeanour would treat his cats as if they had Patron, John Powell. human personalities must surely appeal to all cat lovers. Ailurophobes, however, need not stop The second is Daydream Believer: Confessions of reading here because Anthony Powell’s attitude to a Hero-Worshipper by the Society’s President, his cats was not cloying or repellent - as some Hugh Massingberd. Not only does it contain a might find, for example, JR Ackerley’s attitude to whole chapter on Anthony Powell, but it is his dog Tulip - but sober and sensible, at least to extremely funny throughout. A review of this other ailurophiles. Anthony Powell’s written excellent book can be found herein. references to his cats resemble the rather deadpan references to minor characters in the novels. This Newsletter contains, among other articles, a piece on Anthony Powell and music by John S The great mystery, however, is why no cat appears Monagan (“the Congressman” of the Journals), in A Dance to the Music of Time even in a walk-on and a fascinating piece on Anthony Powell’s cats part. I am relying on my memory, having read by Michael Goldman. each volume as it appeared and then the whole of the sequence twice, though not recently, but Lady All Newsletter contributions are welcome and Violet Powell confirms my impression. I am also should be sent to the editor, Stephen Holden, The grateful to her for pointing out the only appearance Anthony Powell Society, 76 Ennismore Avenue, of cats, to her recollection, in Anthony Powell’s Greenford, Middlesex, UB6 0JW, UK. fiction: that is in Agents and Patients (pages 26 (email: [email protected]). and 29, original 1936 edition): “Stepping over two cats… Maltravers Corrections walked across the room… The two cats who until now had been asleep rose In Issue 4 of the Newsletter the end of paragraph simultaneously and pompously walked two of the Tea at The Chantry article should read: across the room.” “John Powell joined us and mentioned that his There are some mentions of cats in the third and mother had taken a sketchbook with her when on fourth volumes of To Keep the Ball Rolling and holiday abroad, using it as a kind of illustrated many in the Journals: this article is mainly based journal of their travels. Anthony Powell had kept on those sources. Also helpful, though divergent up his drawing and painting by contributing a from the main sources in one or two instances, was drawing or cartoon on each trip.” an article in the Daily Telegraph Weekend Magazine (25 November 1989) by Alison Nadel Our apologies for this error. entitled Animal Passions: Anthony Powell’s Cat. --------------------------------------------------------- The singular is appropriate because the article Item 8.E. of the AGM minutes refers to Anne majors on Snook, the cat resident at the time of the Hastings. This should, of course, read Lady interview on which it is based. I noticed a copy of Lancaster (the author Anne Scott-James, formerly the article on display in the exhibition in the Eton Anne Hastings). College Library which was one of the most interesting features of the 2001 Anthony Powell conference. I am grateful to Michael Meredith, the Librarian, for sending me a photocopy very promptly in response to my request. Last but certainly not least, Lady Violet helped me to bring this article up to date and she was also very prompt in replying to my queries. 2 The Anthony Powell Society Newsletter #5 Alison Nadel’s article and the third volume of A pedigree dark brown Burmese followed, called Powell’s autobiography give contradictory Kingsplay Flixey Fum, brother of the Burmese information on his first cat and I prefer to rely on champion. the autobiography. Soon after their marriage, while living in Great Ormond Street, the Powells “… Fum, though he liked being acquired a Siamese cat whom they named Bosola photographed on social occasions, was after the devious character in The Duchess of unambitious in the professional field. Malfi. Something of an intellectual, a strong character with a warm nature, he was “… Bosola was a strong feline personality, universally loved and respected. He died intelligent, serious, noting such things as full of years and honour at the venerable age Violet tying an unaccustomed ribbon in her of nineteen-and-a-half.” hair, but also a trifle neurotic. We thought a companion of his own Next, in 1977, came Trelawney “a Cornish Rex breed might steady Bosola’s nerves, give also of aristocratic origins… one of the most him a friend to confide in, so a year or two affectionate cats I have ever met, and one of the later, after we had moved from Bloomsbury most intelligent, though less intellectual than to Regent’s Park, acquired another Siamese Fum.” The name derived partly from his Cornish neuter. This was not a success. Paris (his origin and “partly because one of his ancestors was pedigree name), younger than Bosola, was called Marina Mystic, thereby recalling Dr hearty, carefree, bouncing, not unfriendly, Trelawney in Dance.” It is Trelawney’s but Bosola could never get used to his tremendous appetite, not Albert’s, that Lady Violet extrovert ways, was indeed a little afraid of remembers, also his capacity for opening doors in him. Nevertheless, although not developing order to get at food. It may be that this talented cat truly fraternal feelings towards each other, could also read, for he tore down from one food Bosola and Paris would occasionally enter cupboard a notice which said “Keep bolted”! into a temporary alliance to exclude from what they regarded as their own territory There are several references to Trelawney in the any cat they looked on as a social inferior.” Journals, mostly to do with his dislike of being photographed. He appears in one of the At the outbreak of war in 1939 the two Siamese photographs in the Journals whereas Albert and were sent to live in the country not far from Flixey Fum appear twice each. However, it think London, an arrangement which, intended to be it must have been Trelawney who, I remember, sat temporary, turned out to be permanent. composedly on Anthony Powell’s knee during a television interview some time in the 1980s, After the war, in 1946, there was a Russian Blue washing himself apparently unconcerned by the called Smoke who was killed in a road accident camera. only a month after the Powells acquired him. The policeman who found him gave them a non- The saddest of all Anthony Powell’s references to pedigree kitten, tabby with a white shirt-front, his cats is that in the Journal for 7 May 1988: whom they called Albert - after Albert Lechat, a Belgian assistant military attaché with whom “The Trelawney (cat) situation has now Anthony Powell had worked during World War II. come to the worst. He is a little bag of He was “a very popular member of the local cat bones, finding difficulty in eating, lifting his community” in Chester Gate and “also on head with an effort, tho’ will jump on my exceptionally good terms with dogs.” Albert knee. It breaks one’s heart. Only six moved with the Powells to The Chantry in 1952 months ago the vet commented that it was “complaining loudly all the way in a crowded nice to see a cat of Trelawney’s age looking railway carriage.” He took a little time to get used so well. He is now within a month of his to his new surroundings then “settled down rather eleventh birthday. V and John took him in self-consciously as a country cat.” He died of today to the vet to make an end of things. I over-eating when he was thirteen in 1958, felt ashamed that this unpleasant job fell on according to Anthony Powell, but Lady Violet’s them. Dreadfully distressing… A very, very memory is different: “Albert did not die of over- sad day.” eating” but simply of age. Maintaining a pedigree/moggie alternating sequence, the next Powell cat was Snook, so called 3 The Anthony Powell Society Newsletter #5 because on 1 July 1988 he came from the Snook like to go outside, Snook?’ he asks with grave family at a nearby farm. The month old tabby formality.” As the interviewer writes: “he speaks kitten with white shirt-front and white paws of his cats as if they are old friends, with seemed “very pleased with himself.” unselfconscious affection.” On 26 September “Snook recognised Kingsley [Amis] at once as a cat victim, sat on him, then to Dance Music show off jumped on the lintel of the library door.” by John S Monagan Other journal entries also refer to Snook showing off, “preposterously” on one occasion. Snook Anthony Powell made great use of music to frequently asserted his presence. On 26 October sharpen the narratives of his novels. Since dance is 1989 Anthony Powell was talking to a goat in the the symbol of his major novel, A Dance to the Paddock Field when he found himself “roughly Music of Time, it is appropriate that the pushed aside by Snook.
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