The fournal of the D.H. Lawrence Society of Australia ISSN No: 1059-9658

Vol2, No. 1, February 1gg4

LAT.]NCH ONTHE GRASS

he official launch of the D.H. stood in open grass-lawn, and Law- La* rence Society ofAustralia, rence and Frieda could hardly have held in the Sydney Botanic missed seeing it as, like their fictional

Gardens on Sunday November2l, I 993, counterparts in Kangaroo, Richard shoued that the Society has come a Lovatt Somers and his wife Harriett, lons u ar since its modest beginnings in they strolled back to Macquarie Street Thinoul a rear belore. across Palace Gardens from the direc- At that nteering. in the Thirroul tion of the "fortified" Conservatorium Municipai Libran'. a srnall group of 11 of Music. Larvrence enthusiasls formed a com- The Pavilion was also chosen for mittee to o\ersce thc drawing up of the the meeting because it is almost oppo- constitution and ro look at the possibil- site the site where once stood a "more- ity of bringin,c our a Society journal. or-less" expensive boarding house run Twelve months on. the Society's by a Mrs Scott. Robert Darroch sug- Lawrence and Lady Ottoline membership has grorvn to more than gests in his D.H. Layvrence in Australia Morrellat Garsington (detail) - turn to page 10 50, many of whom were at the inaugural (1981), that this may have been where meeting in the Gardens, and the first the Lawrences stayed during their "day or issue of Rananim, a journal dedicated to two" in Sydney before they moved ;' contEht$:' "'1;';";' encouraging interest in Lawrence, has down to Thirroul. been launched. Thc inaugural meeting was picnic- The Spirit of the,Place ' The inaugural meeting had some style, and the Botanic Gardens auth- ,"*l What Walter serious business to carry out. but it was orities kindly gave permission for a Knew :3 also an informal and entertainins social celebratory glass o1 champagne, but By Steamship to Rananim 4, occasion. asked that the affair should not go on The Barber of Thirioul 5 In line with the committee's feeling for too long, as it might run into u,ed- that some physical link dings, for which the Rose Garden is a should be main- the Cafe HoVal ' '10 tained, whcre possible, with the actual favourite venue. In fact, the meeting , A Literary House settings described in Kangaroo, the continued well into the latter part of a That Has Been Preserved 15 meeting was held in what is known to brilliant Sydney afternoon, without dis- Sydney people as the Rose Garden turbing any brides or grooms. Was Willie Struthers My Uncle Jock? 16 Pavilion of the Botanic Gardens. Formal business included the adop- A little research revels that its cor- tion of thc constitution drawn up by Frank Hardy's Testimony 21 rect name is the Palace Gardens Shelter, legal oflicer Stephen O'Connor (with Letters 22 and it was erectcd in 1897, twin of useful help irom the D.H. Lawrence Forthcoming Events 22 another designed for Centennial Park. Society of the UK) and the appoinr ,,, Bits ,'i' 23 In 1922,long before thc Rose Garden, it (cottt'd p2)

Paaatz* b The Spirit of the Place

A series of paintings on the theme of D.H. Lawrence at Thirroul by Australian artist and member Gary Shead has been on display at the Art Gallery of NSW over the past few months. Shead, whose portrait of publisher Tom Thompson won last year's Archibald Prize for portrait painting, has been fascinated and inspired by Lawrence's Australian period, and several years ago he was responsible for a major work of art depicting Wyewurk, the now-famous diptych which he painted with the late Brett Whiteley. The D.H. Laurence Shead's new series took the various images associated with Societg of Hustralia Lawrence, Thirroul and the novel Kangaroo inlo a larger realm. The series, which is the subject of a book that accompanied the COMMITTEE: exhibition, was well received by both critics and the public, and Chairman: Prof. Raymond Southall was just the latest example of the on-going inspiration that Law- Secretary: Dr. Beverlcy Burgr-nann rence's time in Australia provides for artists, writers, poets and Vicc-President: Robert Darroch musicians of the present day. Treasurer: Stephen O'Connor As the exhibition drew to a close, two South Coast poets, Membcrship Secrctary: Rullels John Geoffrey Sykes and Greg held reading poetry Editor. Rananim: John Lacey O'Brien, a of their Publishcr, Rananim: Sandra Jobson at the Art Gallery, with readings from Kangaroo, (by actor Arthur Editorirl Comtnirtee. Rrnanim: Dignam) in the room displaying the Shead pictures. Robert Darroch, Dr. Paul Eggcrt, The event was called "lmages of Place - D.H. Lawrence in Sandra Jobson, Margaret Jones. Australia" and we include, with the kind permission of the author, Address: one of the poems read at the occasion. PO Box 100 Millers Point. NSW 2000. Fax: (02) 982 7805.

Letters and contributions to Rananim Evening at Thirroul are very welcome. Pleasc send to the above address, with your name, evening sea of evening light going pale address and telephone number (and, fair of evening light faintly glazed if possible, fax). with yellow eastern sky a glow of rose and smoke blue band - sit at the edge of bush as twilight falls and look (cont'dfrom p l) down on the township scattered Launch out into wide grass road then bush on the Grass rvhere wide scattering lights fizz and a frail transluscent net of light blinks in random among black streets ment of a committee fbr 1 993-94. Mem- the beauty of the known bership Secretary, John Ruff'els, cn- keeping back all alone rolled new members on the spot, and the sea the bush the sky as they drift into dark indifference each received a free copy of Kangaroo, far off far off roll the knolls supplied by Tom Thompson of Angus of the planet of indifference & Robertson, publishers. the night of becoming tolls Not the least achievement of the day, however, was to promote a re- - Geoffrey Sykes (after warding interaction between agroup oi Kangaroo) by D.H. Lawrence people with a common interest, but whose other lives shorv a rclreshing diversity: the Society's membership in- cludes writcrs, lawyers, painters, post- men, teachers, students, academics, If you are able to scnd your article on a tloppy disc (PC or Mac), it would be vcry helpful. Please contact the publisher, Sandra surlers. railway enthusiasts. nurses. Jobson, to establish style details and disc formatting. public servants, merchant bankers and Tel: (02) 971 5013. retirees. - Margaret Jones

Razaain What Walter Knew

missing from the jigsaw. But the the time. However, what Wilbur following piece of information, of Wright then said is a revelation serendipitous provenance, may be of some importance.l of interest. Wright went on to tell Yeend he name of Walter Smale In October last year the of a rather odd connection be- (W.S.) Friend and that of archivist of The King's School at tween this "pseudo-military his family have become Parramatta, Peter Yeend, wrote movement" and a well-known increasingly important to those me a note about a piece of infor- work of literature. Yeend's notes interested in the historical basis of mation that had been lying in his of the interview state: "..in the the paramilitary Diggers de- files for the past 19 years. (The same conversation he [Wright] scribed in D.H. Lawrence's archives, which include biographi- said that Lawrence, the Lady Kangaroo. The Friends - a cal files on former King's School Chatterley's Lover author, had prominent Sydney commercial boys, are quite famous within the used the material about the above family with extensive pastoral Australian history trade. No one, in his Ast'n novel Kangaroo". interests - did not figure in Robert however, had ever suspected that Yeend's notes say that Walter Darroch's 1981 work D.H. they might contain evidence about Friend had told Wilbur Wright Ltutrence in Australia, but eight Australia's most persistent literary about this in a conversation - vears later they were mentioned puzzle.) which must have occurred some rn Joe Davrs's D.H. Lawrence at This particular piece of infor- years previously - at "the Club". Tlirroul. mation was in the file of an Old Wright did not make clear As Davis points out, a prop- Boy, N. H. Wright. Known as what club he was referring to, but ert), owned by the Friends in Wilbur Wright, he was the Yeend assumed it was either the Craig Street. Thirroul, (on which brother-in-law of Walter Friend. Imperial Service Club or the there was a house called A woolbroker, Wilbur had retired Schools Club. At the time, Yeend Wyewunie) lay, across the road to Bowral where he pursued his did not question Wright more from Wyervurk. the seaside literary endeavours, which in- closely, for the significance of the bungalow that Larvrence and cluded writing for his school's information was not apparent to Frieda rented in 1922. The Friend magazine. him then. Today, however, what family not only owned this and On29}lay 1974, Yeend, in Wright told Yeend has a great other property in Thirroul, but the course of collecting informa- deal of significance. Not only did also had property at Collaroy in tion on TKS Old Boys, went Walter Friend reveal that he was Sydney where, Darroch claims, down to Bowral to interview connected with the Old Guard, he Lawrence went on the day after Wilbur Wright. The notes of this also admitted that he knew his arrival in Sydney on27 May interview are in the King's School something that very few other 1922. The Friend firrr, W.S. archives. Wright told Yeend of a people then knew - which was Friend and Co, advertised in the "pseudo-military movement to that D.H. Lawrence had "used journal of the King and Empire overthrow Jack Lang". This was material" about Australia's secret Alliance, which Darroch also not, Wright said, Eric Campbell's armies "in his Ast'n novel, claims was a "front" for a secret "but I New Guard, a secret group of Kangaroo". army that was operating in NSW GPS types and others based on Perhaps the most revealing when Lawrence was there. Imperial Services Club and aspect of what Wright told Yeend Additionally, recently available Schools Club". [We know today is its date: 29 May 1974. rnanuscript evidencel has estab- that this "pseudo-miliary move- Darroch's first article - about the lished that Waiter Smale Friend ment" was the 1930-32 Old possible factual basis of Kanga- was a member of the Old Guard Guard. And now that the Vernon roo - was not published in the in the 1930s. Papers are lodged at the Mitchell Australian until 15 May 1976. Of Such evidence, of course, does Library, identifying Walter Fnend course, before 1974 there had not prove a dircct connection as a member of one of the North been the odd article and stray between Larvrence and the secret Shore units, this information is no paragraph about suspicions that armies of the 1920s and 30s. longer that much of a surprise, Kangaroo was not entirely fiction, There are still many pieces though it must have been news at but Walter Friend was unlikelv to

Ra.aal* L-

ships were the first and last of a class summer cruises from New York to the By Steamship of five which the Orient Line placed in Norwegian fiords. service within five months in 1909. RMS Orsova was the last of the to Rananim This remarkable flurry of building was Orient Line's 1909 ships to enter the result of a new mailcontract signed service. The vessel was named after Wnrt about the ships that in November 1907 which shared this the Romanian town on the River Lawrence used on his quest for Ran- profitable traffic between the Orient Danube close 1o the iron gates gorge anim - do they have any intrinsic Line and P&O and required the which was a barrier to shipping, and interest? No, not really, for with one construction of the new ships. Both its badge was an iron watergate. Many exception, they were regular boats these ships, weighing about 12,000 Sydney residents will recall the name, notable for their regularity and tons, carried 280 first class, 130 second as the Orient Line gave it to its new punctuality. The exception was the and 700 third class passengers. 28,000 ton liner of 1953. RMS Tahitiwhich was once renowned The Osterley was named by her ln 1914 it had been requisitioned for its record passage of 16.5 days sponsor, Lady Jersey, the wife of a by the Australian government to serve from Wellington to San Francisco and former governor of New South Wales, as a troopship. lt was later torpedoed later reviled for the slaughter it caused after her Middlesex home, Osterley and the master ran the ship aground. on Sydney Harbour. This occurred on Park, now a National Trust propeny. After a two-year overhaul its f irst post- 3 November 1927 when lhe Tahiti's After war service as a troopship it war voyage attracted much publicity steel bows sliced through the wooden resumed its regular London-Brisbane by carrying wounded Australian ferry Greycliffe and at least 39 people sailings in Septemberl 919, and carried servicemen home. died in Sydney Harbour's worst the MCC team to Sydney in 1920. ln a letterto Mary Cannan dated 28 disaster. When DHL travelled from Naples to February 1922, Lawrence wrote: From Naples the Lawrences sailed Colombo it was on the Osterley's last to Colombo on the Orient Line's FMS mail passage to Australia ior some It is lovely, lovely weather-blue Osterley and on to Perth aboard the time, as it was then to go under charter Mediterranean - the ship so Orient Line's RMS Orsova. These to a United States travel agency for comfortable. We are second class (cont'd p 24)

(cotx'd J.rcnn p j) What Walter Knew

have been an avid reader of visiting All Blacks, but played cricket match ineptll' reported in journals lrke Meanjin or Dissent. against the Springboks. He rvas Tlte Bot irt tlrc Bush. the Thirroul Walter Friend's influence in clearly a very fine footballer. Rugby Leasue same is one of the the Srdnel Establishment is This fact might cast new light feu eranrples ol'sports reporting shorvn br the 1947 campaign to on that incident in Kangoroo in Lau'rence's rvriting. So why is resist a proposal that the King's when Somers and Callcott observe it described so well? In Kangaroo School relocate to a site that is a Rugby League football game in it rs the sinister Jack Callcott who norv occupied br' \\'ollongong Mullumbimby: stands transfixed watching the Universitr . Friend successfully game. Callcott enthusiastically mobilised 3000 of the school's On the field the blues and prods Somers, as footie fans are illustnous and affluent Old Bol s reds darted madly about, want to do: "See that!" Somers is like to deleat the proposal. strange bird-like bemused: "Heaven knows what it creatures rather than men. was that he saw." Thel' rvere mostly blond, On the ball rvith hefty legs, and with Readers familiar with Robert prominent round buttocks Darroch's writings on this subject The King's School archives that worked madly within will be aware of his argument that contain a further insight into the Iittle white cotton shorts. Callcott is based on a thinly- Walter Friend that may cast a new veiled portrait of Major Jack light on an incident descnbed in In England, Rugby League - Scott, insurance broker and secret Kangaroo. For young Walter, the workingman's code - is army leader. Yet if the subtleties nicknamed "Tootles", was not historically confined to the north- of Rugby League had to be only school captain (in 1916-17) west counties: Lancashire, York- explained to a sports-ignorant but was an outstanding Rugby shire and Cumbria. This is the visitor from Nottinghamshire and (Union) footballer, cricketer, teritory of George Orwell, not London, who better than a current boxer and rifle marksman. Little D.H. Lawrence. Lawrence's Rugby Union International? Who wonder the school's present biographer, Harry T. Moore, once better than Walter Smale Friend? gymnasium is named after him. pointed out: " ...throughout - Andrew Moore And in 1922, when Lawrence Lawrence there is virtually no arrived in Sydney, Walter Friend recognition of the football and Endnotes was actively still playing Rugby. cricket and boxing activities that l. P.V. Vernon papers, Mitchell Library, MSS Between 1920 and 1923 he played take up so much of the time of the 5176 Box 10. first grade for the Glebe-Balmain modern man." 2 2 Harry T. Moore, D.H. Lawrence. Tlte Man club. During this period he not Apafi from a soccer match ontl his Works, Forum House, London. 1969, p 24 I . For this reference I am grateful to only played for NSW againsr the described in Strike Poy, and a Steve O'Connor.

Raaazi* The Burber of Thirroul

(unlike the portrayals of Callcott we cannot place much reliance on and Trewhella, who precess what she says about Victoria through various guises). Given Callcott. that we know on whom almost Lawrence, too, provided plenty everyone else is based, it should of apparent clues. Fictionally, have been easy to identify her. Victoria Callcott lives in Mosman ongaroo's qreatest One thing hampers us, f Z how- at 50 Murdoch Street, but has a eyer. Lawrence l{ remaLning mysten, is the based most of his substantial holiday house, Coo-ee, other characters I\ rtrar-rrre,o.n,,ry oI vrctorra in the novel on on the South Coast (so presum- public figures, Callcott, the novel's principal and thus we can ably she is well-off). Her family Australian correlate what he says female character. about them lives on a dairy farm which is a with their public personas. Discovering who she was could Even buggy-ride away from Coo-ee. Trewhella can answer most of the remaining be identified from Her father is a retired surveyor. the fact that questions about Lawrence's his real name is in She has a l7-year-old brother. Lawrence's Australian sojourn, in parlicular address book, and we Another brother went to the war now know how he came to go down to his family, whose and is her husband's "best mate,'. information confirms Thirroul and rent Wyewurk, the the identifi- She is the eldest daughter and has cation. With bungalow where he and Frieda Victoria Callcott we a married sister. She herself is have spent more than two months in none of this. She could have recently married. Her mother 1922, and where he wrote his now been almost any non-working- came from Somerset. Her mother class female rvho controversial Australian,.ro_ lived in NSW in died five years previously, and 1922, mance". and was aged between 18 Victoria became the "mother of We can be reasonably sure she the family". Victoria is dark, was a real person whom Lawrence ...And slightly gawky, flirtatious,,.gen- encountered either in Sydney or teel", and can cook Welsh rarebit. Thirroul, almost certainly within a the Curious And so on. No other character in day or so of his arrival on Satur- the novel is described in such day, May 21,1922. Lawrence Incident of the detail. seldom invented characters when But how much of this is ,,real,', he could borrow them from real Estate Agent in and how much fiction - or dis- life. We have good reason to guise? This question bedevils believet that all the other major the Day attempts to look for clues in the characters in Kangaroo are based, novel to answer the many ques- some very closely, on real people _ tions that still surround its compo- Jack Callcott (Major W.J.R. Scotr), and 40. sition, and about Lawrence's time Trewhella (Gerald Hum), Cooley Frieda did her best to be in Australia generally. Fortu- (Charles Rosenthal), Struthers helpful, remarking to a corre- nately, in this we are now helped (Jock Gardep2) and, ofcourse, spondent some years later that by what we can deduce from some Somers and Harriett (Lawrence the Callcotts were possibly of the "disguise" techniques and Frieda). Bur rhe identity of based on an Australian couple Lawrence adopted when incorpo- Victoria she Callcott has eluded the and Lawrence had met on the rating real-life figures such as most intensive research, now boat to Sydney. Alas, no such Scott and Hum into the novel. In dating back more than 20 years. couple can be found in the their case he largely retained their In the novel the character is various relevant passenger lists. physical appearances and social extensively delineated. Lawrence But then, as many have pointecl detail while changing their has a lot to say about her. He even out, Frieda was notoriously professions, marital status (in provides her with an elaborate unreliable on almost any subject. Scott's case), and other '.gross',, family history. She is as realistic Everything she says about or superfluous characteristics. He as any of the other already-identi_ Australia is suspect3. We know also reversed things, or swapped fied Australian characters, and her she was wrong about whom Jack them between charactersa. His portrayal is consistent throughout Callcott was based on (Scott), so very inconsistencies may provide (cont'd from p5 ) about this aspect of their time in some chance of returning to Australia. In her 1934 autobiogra- Sydney if the expedition failed The Barber of Thirroul phy Not I But the Wind she wrote: (there was an up train that would have got him back to Central at We stayed a day or two 6.56 pm)0. Instead he chose a us with "unconscious" clues. In in Sydney...then took a train train that, had he not found chapter two, for example, we with all our trunks and said: are Wyewurk, would have marooned told that Mrs Trewhella is Victo- 'We'll look out the window him and Frieda, who was not ria's sister-in-law, which would and where it looks nice we,ll get out.' It looked renowned for her patience and make her maiden name Trew- very attractive along the coast but understanding, somewhere on the hella, too. But it is not, it is also depressing....Then we South Coast, with the only pros- Wilmot: her brother is Fred came to Thirroul, we got out pect of accommodation that (Alfred John) Wilmot, Jack at 4 and by six o'clock we evening some unknown hotel or Callcott's best friend. It is likely were settled in a beautiful guest house in an unknown that Lawrence is disguising some tlungalow by the sea. country identifying family relationship town on a stretch of coast he knew absolutely heres. There are a couple of things nothing about. There has been a lot of (quite wrong with this account. Firstly, Not very likely. It is much more probable proper) criticism of the "Darroch it is intrinsically improbable that that Lawrence knew Thesis" concerning its use of the Lawrence and Frieda, utter precisely where he was going that novel in trying to deduce what strangers to NSW, would simply Monday afternoon, and also that really happened to Lawrence in have gone down to Central there was the certainty of at least Sydney and Thirroul in May- Station, chosen a train (apparently overnight accommodation at the August, 1922. As Joe Davis says at random), boarded it, travelled end of the journey. in his excellent book, D.H. more than 40 miles into the bush Lawrence at Thirroul: "Always, looking out the carriage window Lawrence's account it is necessary to find corrobora- for somewhere "nice", happened tive detail from factual, rather upon Thirroul, decided in the brief What does Lawrence himself than fictional, sources, in order to minute the train was at the station say abour this? Not much. His determine the accuracy or other- that this was the place for them first letter from Thirroul said: wise of details in the novel." So, (why not the prior beach resort "Sydnel,town costs too much, so with this caveat in mind, where do Austinmer - a much more attrac- we came down into the country". we start looking for clues to the tive place?), detrained, started A postscript to another letter identity of the real-life Victoria walking in the direction of the sea, added: "We have taken a little Callcott? sought out a local estate agent house on the edge of the Pacific The place to look first rs in Joe (rvho lvas some distance from the here...It costs 30/- a week...I am Davis's book. The "fictional" nrain street, rvorking from a going to try to write a romance...". Victoria Callcott has more private house), been shown A day or so later he told his West associations with the South Coast Wyervurk, decided ro rake it, then Australian friend, Mrs Jenkins: than with Sydney. She has a moved in immediately. It is also "...have taken this house house there, her family comes unlikely they would have taken Wyewurk...for a month...F is from there, her father and brother their heavy trunks with them on happy for the moment ridying the live there, another brother works such a speculative excursion, even house." And his Australian diary as a mining engineer there, she if they had been unloaded from entry, marked "3 July 1922. at accompanies Somers and Harriett the Malwa's hold by Monday Wzewurk [sic]. Thirroul New down there, and later stays with morning. But most unlikely of all South Wales", said: "Landed in them there. But Joe Davis could is that Lawrence would have Sydney on Saturday May 26tht - find no trace of Victoria Callcott chosen the late rather than the came here on the Monday." in Thirroul. He is not even sure early train for such a serendipitous Kangaroo, on the other hand, Lawrence and Frieda were takeri enterprise. provides a detailed and compre- down to Thirroul by anyone. There were t"vo main trains to hensive account of how the Indeed, he does not know why Thirroul that Monday, one at 8.20 Lawrence and Frieda characters Lawrence chose Thirroul at all, am and the other at 2.00 pm. Somers and Harriett go down to suggesting perhaps that he saw Lawrence chose to take the "Mullimbimby" (which is obvi- some advertisements for holiday second, not the first. Had he ously Thirroul). Though this is houses inthe Sydney Morning taken the first, he would have "fiction", it is worth looking at in Herald and went down on spec. maximised his exploratory some detail, for there may be Incidentally, it may be worth options. More importantly, he aspects of it that we can corrobo- noting what Frieda herself said would have provided himself with rate. According to the novel, Rata*r.* Somers and Harriett had been Then follows an accurate large offered accommodation family". in Victo_ enough description of Wyewurk, ,.just ria Note the phrase as it was', Callcott's South Coast holidav the real Craig Street, and the view and the (probably Lawrentian) home, Coo-ee. They catch the 2 from the front and back gardens. euphemism "with o'clock train (some corroboration the atmosphere The party settles in, having, of the home here) and just life of a large fam_ arrive before the however, to do quite .,dark a bit of ily"a. 1, other words, Lawrence sun is sinking behind the "tidying around", as the house and Frieda took Wyewurk tor" (the actual train was due at "had been let for seven months to uncleaned Thirroul and unprepared, just as at 4.28 pm. sunset being a man and wife with 1l children,' Somers and Harriett do in the at 4.5-5 - so there's more corrobo_ who had left the place in such a novel. This is ration there). Somers not only further and mess that the fictional foursome Harriett, corroboration, but also constitutes accompanied by Jack and spent hours cleaning ..towards up, throwing "the Curious Incident of the Estate Victoria Callcott, walk out rubbish ("unspeakable rags") Agent in the Day',. Others have the sea" (no mention of trunks). and generally ..the restoring speculated that Lawrence They pass a house called chose Verdun beautiful bungalow,, to sornething Wyewurk ,,To and other from the Let,' cottages with lawns and like its pristine condition. columns of the SMH. This would fences. But Victoria has to go to imply that Lawrence rang Mrs "the house agent" for the key, so Corroboration (A.F.) Callcott before going the others walk on, along..the down to Thirroul and was told over the wide sandy-rutted road with the A lot of this - perhaps a great phone that broad grass margin',. Wyewurk was avail- deal of it - may have been taken able for renting. But there is This now seems something odd from actuality, for we have about unlikely. According to both Mrs this account, fictionally significant corroboration from at Southwell and her niece Clarice speaking. Why does Victoria least two sources. In 1956 Farraherg, on the Callcott have ..rhe Monday after- to go to agent,, Sydney journalist Fred Esch was noon that Lawrence turned up at to retrieve the key to her o.,,u.n commissioned by Edward Nehls Mrs (A.F.) Callcott's gate, house? That seems "unnatural". front to inten,ierv people in Sydney and she was in the garden, Yet it may reflect pottering something that Thirroul u'ho had known Law- with perhaps dahlias. What she ostenta- did actually happen. in rence and Frieda in 1922. One of tiously was not doing was attend- reality "Coo-ee" wasn't her house, them. \Irs Beatrice Southwell, ing to her estate-agent but someone else's. duties, and Her house ovv'ner of W1,e[,urk, recalled that preparing may Wyewurk for incoming have been elsewhere - a her sister, Mrs A.F. Callcott (who tenants. ("But, Holmes, the estate speculation given some support u,ith her husband ran a local estate agent didn't do anything in fictionally in the later .,Jack the Slaps agency), had met the Lawrences day!" "That, Back" chapter, Watson, was the where Jack and after they "had just arrived from Vicki curious incident.") come down ro Sydney and desired "Mullimbimby" a furnished Had Mrs (A.F.) Callcott had but do not sray cottage paciiic overlooking the any inkling of the imminent with the Somerses - where there is Ocean". Mrs Southwell remem- arrival of Lawrence and Frieda, ample room in a house that Vicki bered that her sister "came to meet she would have ensured herself owns - but that at her familv them drying her hands after Wyewurk house, was spic and span, not some distance away. In washing (more them" corrobora- only because it was her sister,s reality it may have been (and we tion - see above). She added that house, but to establish the condi- shall soon see some corroboration "my bungalow had.just been tion in which it must be left by t. for this) that "Victoria" merely the vacated by the parents and a large incoming knew "Coo-ee" tenants, including that was vacant, family also mentioned,in Kanga- making a proper inventory of its lettable and where the key to it roo" (further corroboration). Mrs contents (note was to be obtained. Mrs Southwell,s (A.F.) Callcotr telephoned Mrs After reference to wanting missing darting to the house_ Southwell in Sydney and asked if household items replaced). No - agent for the key, Viooria rejoins she could let Wyewurk to the the arrival the party, of the Lawrences was who are waiting outside Lawrences. Mrs Southwell unheralded and unsuspected, and the front gate of the holiday agreed, stipularing only that she it was they who insisted, most bungalow. The "fiction', contin- "would prefer to have Wyewurk unorthodoxly and against normal ues: prepared for them and to replace letting practice, that they move in anything...". But ,em?'called the Lawrences, immediately, that evening, despite 'Got .,."vere having inspected Wyervurk. Wyewurk's Jack. NIrs Wvnne unkempt condition. 'Yes. delighted with the was just u,ashing heiself, bungalow...and So, how did the Lawrences, said they preferred to so I had to wait a minute., take posses- cornplete strangers to NSW, know sion just as it was, still with the even of Wyewurk's existence, let atmosphere of the home-life of a alone that it was empty - vacated Ratat<:t* (cont'd from p7) dahs like dark eyelids half and her sister to waive all the closed. Someone switched standard landlord-tenant arrange- The Barber of Thirroul on a light. ments, including the normally mandatory inventory, and allow Now, in her autobiography so recently that the agent had not strangers with no references and Not I But the Wind Frieda said: had time to have it cleaned, no previous renting record to "...we got out at 4 and by six vacated probably within the move in immediately to an o'clock we were settled...". This previous couple of days (Saturday unprepared and uncleaned house. implies the "settling" took some was the normal end of the letting Besides, Mrs (A.F.) Callcott had time - about an hour after their week)? Not from the SMH. Not, many other houses (as her ad in presumed 5 pm arrival at so far as we know, from Hum or the SMH indicated) available for Wyewurk. This "mrssing hour" Scott. Not from Cook's or any letting in Thirroul. It would have would be explained by a scenario other "public" source. The taken a lot of local clout to get that had Lawrence and Frieda information must have come from Lawrence and Frieda into a still- being shown Wyervurk, then someone who was very familiar warm Wyewurk by 6 pm on going around to the estate agent with Thirroul, and who had Monday, May 29. in Harbord Street to settle the private, intimate knowledge that Whoever this influential and tenancy. This. as \'Irs Southwell Wyewurk had just become helpful person was, she (and we said in her memoir. involved a available. assume it is a she) is damned phone call to her in 51dne1 - a Could that someone have elusive. Mrs Southwell didn't call she implies uas made rrlier' accompanied Lawrence and mention her, nor did Lawrence or the prospective tenants had Frieda down to Thirroul, as Frieda. Joe Davis, who knows inspected Wve*urk and decided Victoria Callcott does in Kanga- Thrrroul better than any living to take it. All this uould be roo? Much of that "fictional" trip person. found not the merest perfectly in concert s'ith a return can be coroborated from factual rr hiff of her. Yet she must have to Wyewurk, as the light uas sources. As John Lacey pointed lir ed sorneu here close to lading. allowing the part)' to sit in out in our previous issue, Law- \\'r eu urk or Thirroul. The the main room, as does the rence's description of the train La* rences unquestionably went "fictional" foursome, watching trip. including the carriage trav- do\\ n to Thinoul without any "...the near sea...glimmering pale elled in. tallies with reality. The intention of returning to Sydney and greenish in the sunset". account of the train's arrival at that da1. Yet they also seem not Thirroul also correlates. The walk to hare had. prior to viewing. any What really happened? from the station to Craig Street - firm intention of taking Wyewurk, r,ia Station Street. N'lcCaulev for otherrvise surely someone It is my contention that this Street and Surfers Parade - can be rvould have rung Mrs (A.F.) scenario irnplies that Lawrence retraced todar,. and is prett) much Callcott to alert her. Therefore and Frieda rvere taken down to as Lat'rence described it in the they had assured alternative Thirroul. shown Wyewurk, "Coo-ee" chapterto. Mrs (A.F.) accommodation nearby. Frieda's introduced to Mrs (A.F ) Callcott, Callcott, the estate agent, lived in misty recollection that they went and installed in "the beautiful Harbord Street, just north of down to Thirroul without any bungalow by the sea" by someone Station Street, so someone indeed definite place in mind would fit in who was not only familiar with would have had to make a detour with this. Thirroul and Wyewurk, but was from the direct route if they had to Yet, if one looks closely, there also very well-known to Mrs get the keys to Wyewurk. is some residual trace, Kangaroo Callcott. No self-respecting This means that, by both the apart, of this person in Thirroul. estate agent, especially one in "fictional" account and the actual The fact that some other, un- charge of family property, would logistics of walking from the named people in Thirroul had allow unknown prospective station to Craig Street, Lawrence been helpful to Lawrence is tenants to inspect a house unac- and Frieda, plus whoever may mentioned, obliquely, by Mrs companied, especially if she have been with them, would have Callcott's daughter, Clarice herself had nothing better to do reached the gate of Wyewurk just Farraher, in the memoir she than prune dahiias. No one but before 5 pm, at sunset provided Nehls via Esch. She some person whom the estate said: "The people agent knew personally could have [Lawrence] The sun had gone down just picked rvould have come in contact with behind the great front of popped in and up the have long since moved from the black mountain wall which keys to Wyewurk. And nobody district." That could be taken as a she could still see over the except a well-known and substan- hedge. The house inside was tial local identity could have reference to Lawrence's doctor in dark, with its deep veran- convinced both Mrs Southwell Thirroul. Dr Crossle. But he was

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boos of the other diners, marched of Lady Ottoline Morrell, I came out of the cafe. across two further letters which Lawrence learned of the mentioned the incident. I found incident not from Katherine them in the Ottoline Monell Mansfield herself, but from papers in the Humanities Research cholars and critics con- Koteliansky. Katherine and John Center at the University of Texas cede that D.H. Lawrence Middleton Murry had stayed with at Austin (HRC). One letter was based many of his charac- Lawrence and Frieda during the from Aldous Huxley, who was not ters on real people, and much of winter of 1915-16 in Cornwall, a first-hand witness. The other his action on real events. Yet it is where Lawrence was putting the letter was from Katherine herself. rare that we know enough about finishing touches to Women in Regretably, my publishers Chatto such "reality" to be able to Love. It had been a difficult time & Windus advised me to delete establrsh the translormation and had led to a cooling of the the accounts of the incident from process: howhe turned fact into friendship between Lawrence and my manuscript (I seem to recall fiction. However, an incident the Murrys. Lawrence had not u'e had trouble getting copyright which occurred one evening in heard from Katherine or MurrY permission from N,lark Gertler's 1916 at the Cafe Royal in London since this falling-out. estate. perhaps understandably, for provides such a rare opporlunity. Soon after the incident the content of the letter does not Lawrence tumed the incident, Koteliansky wrote two letters to cast him in a pretty light). which he himself did not observe, Lawrence, describing what Ho*ever, in 1980 Antony into the "Gudrun in the Pompa- Katherine had done. We don't Alpers. in The Life of Katherine dour" chapter in Womut in Love. know exactly what Koteliansky Martsfield, published all three In real lile, Katherine said, for the letters have been lost. letters. The addition of the Mansfield was at the Cafe Royal But we do have Lawrence's reply Huxley and Mansfield letters to in London, meeting place of the to Kot, which is dated Monday, that of Gertler's provides an artistic and demi-mondaine. September 4,1916 opportunity to see how Lawrence accompanied by Lawrence's assembled the "Gudrun in the Russian friend, S.S. Koteliansky, My dear Kot, Pompadour" chapter. and the painter, Mark Gertler. In his letter to Ottoline (written Overhearing some Indian academ- Both Letters ccune this .vour on 219116 , the day after the ics ridiculing D.H. Lawrence's morning. Your " Dostoevsky incident), Mark Gertler could recently-published book of evening" gives rne a qLteer hardly contain his excitement: poems. Amores, Katherine contraction ofthe heart. It walked up to their table, asked to frightens me when I think of Lctndon, the Cafe Royal - I must write to tell you about a see the book, took it and, to the 1,s11 actually th.ere, and Katherirrc - most excitirtg evening I spent hisses of other diners, marched terror overcomes me and I take to lost night with Katherine & out of the cafe. my heels, cmd hide ntyself in a Koteliansky. Katherine is a most In the novel the character bush. It is o real feeling of tt'otulerftLl tvon1at7. I will tell you Gudrun was in the Pompadour horror. I dare tlot come to v'hy. It was my first night in Cafe in London with her compan- Lonrlott, for mr life. Lorrdott too ofter being in ion, Gerald Crich. Overhearing a Cholesbury. First of all we had a group of people at another table In his 1978 book about Law- t'grl good dinner at the "Eiffel deriding a letter that her friend rence's life during World War l, Tott'er" then we vvent on to the Cafe Roval. It was packed hardly Birkin had written, she walked up D. H. Lawrence' s N ightmare, a table to be got. At last we to the man who was reading out Paul Delaney said that the onlY found a table with only one person - a excerpts from the letter - Halliday, other known account was in a coloured nlan - an Indian perhaps a Bohemian acquaintance of letter from Gertler to Lady - but a v eak type - we hardly Birkin's. She then asked to see Ottoline Morrell. In 1972, when noticed litn, he asked for tea O. the letter - seized it, and, to the I was researching my biography Suddettlv, a long thin White

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Herring of o Wontan w,itlt cr t_errffic High Bunch of Crimson Hctir, Outdoing easily the col_ ottred.b!shcs of hair in rhe CctJe, ltot.h itt lteigltr & itt irttensity of coloLtr, came in, wcrs recog,tiiecl by Our mild Holf-cast, tnet & escorted tu rhe tuble next us. A few montents loter in came another colottretl ntan & joinerl the other tw.o. We immecliatel, hated alt tltrec, t!'rltcnt. Soo,r'ro our ostortislurtertt thet begon to talk " lntellectuzll\."'- thi, w.ere U niy,ersiry Black.s - usitt.q,. pe r_ Gudrun seizes Amores -trords Drawing fect" English t,er), long by Paul D€lprat carefully cho,sen. Thei. tatkert ohottt Dostot,vsk.r,. Rrrs.sio _ tlt( certainlv did not see Gertler's taxi, new Age, all in a very aclvancecl into the night...Curious. lerter to Ottoline l. t?7anner. All this irritated Kotelianskv,s us "lost" letters ertough, Brtt irtrcrgine our Hotretl describing the This was the sort of gossip incident must have & Horror wlten the Red headecl contained verv Ottohne relished, and she immedi_ piece of sintilar material. dried Dttttg prodtrcetl a for Larvrence,s ately wrote to Katherine to inquire Voltttrte of Latrcnie's fictional version poetn.s & is, as rve shall further about it. Katherine wai comrnenced to discuss Lawrence see. quite close to Gertler's staying in Dorothy with the other, Brett,s London in this pefect ( appall in-ely racist) account. En gl studio at the time and Ottoline i,sh &.co re{rtl I v pickid, t on g " Ottoline's second informant was appears words.t We had heen raggirrg to have enclosed both one of her frequent Garsington them all the time, but noyv we Gertler's and Huxley's letters _ or guests, the youthful knew sornething drastic tnLtst be Aldous perhaps she transcrited parts of Huxley. He had d9ne. We sat & thougltt. Sud_ heard of the them, for Katherine refers to both dettl.t', Kat haritte leattt towa rtls incident from one of the Indian letters in her reply. tltettt & w.ith a sy.,eet stnile sairj academics who had been involved "l\:ill let me lnt,e ),orr thctt Book a in the incident, and who was Dearest ntotnent? " " Ottoline, Certoinlv', thet, oll apparently an acquaintance. beornecl back - ,rLror" siveetly. Huxley wrote to Ottoline: Imagirte then their"r,"r, horror & uttir Wlnt ant I to make of this? Of course the omazsnTe tlt, w, he rt Kathe rine lf colouricl w.ithout I met Suhrctvvardi to_clay, gentlennn u.ith the young party a w'ord ntore, Rose from Isicl u'ho told tne of ort odcl with pink lrctir y.as the table, Book antl all. w,e adt.entrtr'e Suhriwardi he'd had last then indeed following most caltnly - most night. He x.cts Isic] I do know the sittittg in the Cafe "rerer.\e of the calmly we wolkecl ottr oJ tlre Royal ancl story"' I am a happened to be-cliscu'ssirtg liule lruiy obour _ Clfe!!! We heord theni hiss & Law- Sihrawardi rence s Atnores... trnfav- yvas he one of make various souncls to try & stop Lawrence's Bing tturably...u.irh o Boys last t,ts o,r hove rrs stopped btrt ever.v frieitt. He hart winter? the book ltodl' ottt.v stured & tto orte with him. Sutlclenly At any rate, Huxley,s languid nta'cle yvho _ tlte Gertler, w,ith anotlter le tt e r..do.e s n' temp .slightest ufi(ntpt to stop tt.\. itan t t me d re ahyully and a yroman So we got (ut.a.\. rr,'ith tht,ir Look wls at the next to tell him - to satisfy even his of ruble. interposed "very Lavvrence's Poerns! Wltat re- irt tlteir cotrtt,r- idlest curiosity" and sation, " uenge! Outside we simply upholcling Lou.rence, I tnerest inquisitiveness', I am -rrn.,trent_ golhe! bled with excitentent. it Finoll.v tire t,L.trrrtg tt.otn(tn o{raid I am not young enough to askecl Stthraver(li inrleed a good end. t() lertrl her the dance rc such small pipittg. book, and no sootrcr vt,os it in her Heavens.t his lener inakei me feel hgndl thcn they all swepr our of so old - and inclined to dress ip, Although Lawrence almost the place ancl disappearetl, in i alone in the studio here. Tie mv

Rarea*oo 1l (cont'dfromp ll) Ottoline's husband Liberal MP had satirised Ottoline in the novel Incident at the Cafe Royal Philip Morrell and others ro have as the vengef,ul Hermione the book published privately, Roddice. When he learned of the heocl in a turbon, mcrke myself .fat, Lawrence convinced himself that incident at the don a.fur coat with lace Cafe Royal he frills their attempts were half-heafted. sLiglttLy spotted yvith teo, ancl act decided to incorporate it. As it Lady Mary- Wortley Montagu He was turning against the entire turned out, it was just what he receiy,irtg tr ntctning leg front - London literary scene. In Corn- needed to help him complete the Swifr, perhaps (plaved by rhe wall Murry had found Lawrence novel. c hurtt' o man, M rs S qu e e ks ). "a man possessed, now an angel, The "Gudrun in the Pompa- now a devil...lt was pain to see dour" chapter begins with Ursula. Kalherine was due to visit hirn so transformed and transfig- Gudrun, Gerald Crich and Birkin Ottoline the following week, and ured by the paroxysms of murder- preparing for their trip to Austria. rvhen she came she brought the ous hatred, of his wife, of us, of Gudrun and Gerald finish pi:.,;king incriminating evidence - the stolen all rnankind...We packed our few earlier, so thev dectde to S^ ':p to copy possessions of Amores (which she later and went away to the London and spend a nrsht iiiire e r-r passed on to Dorothy Brett)2. other side of Cornwall." route to the continent. u here they Ottoline, of course, knew all of Lawrence was even beginning planned to rcndiz\ ous in Inns- the participants in the Caf-e Royal to turn against Ottoline herself, bruck. In Lrrildtrn Gudrun and incrdent. She had introduced ntost dcspite her continuirre generositl Gerald de ;iJe rrr call in at the of thern to each other at to him. Frieda, rvho did not get on Por-lrplrd..ur Crie. the centre of Garsington, the Oxfbrdshrre well with Ottoline or the Bohentraii r.;rchtliie: manor house where she held Garsington crowd, added poison artistrc and literary cour1. Indeed, to Lawrence's reactions. and Gudrun hated the Cafe, Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy (spelt during their stay Katherine and .r rt rhe alrr a] s rvent back to it. as did most differently from Huxley's version) others apparentlv plied Lau rencc of the artists of her acquaintance. She had been at Garsington the with the ntalicic'rus uossip ther hld loathed its atmosphere of previous November, in a party pickcd Llp at Garsinqton and rn pett\' \ ice and petty jealousy that included the Lawrences. London - much of it directed rir and pettr art. Yet she Aldous Huxley and Philip him. As well, Lau,rence's grand alrr s,,5 called in again, when Heseltine. Lawrence was one of plan to go to Florida to staft she rr as in tolvn. It was as if had to return the major figures in Ottoline's life Rananim, his utopian colonl of -'he to this snrall. slolr', central whirl- and kne,,v the Garsington like-rninded people (to scene include pool of disintegration and very well. He had been a frequent Katherine, Murry, Kotelianskr,. dissolution: just give it a house guest, and had er en helped Heseltine - and even Suhrarviirdr,). look....The old crowd was Ottoline paint some of the roonts had tallen through, Lawrence there. Carlyon with his pupils soon after she had moved there in quarrelline ivith most of them. and his girl, Halliday and Libidnikov and the May I915. He was also familiar Nou' rirtuallr alone in Cornrvall. Pussum - with her other favoured guests, Lau,rence brooded orer the War particularly the leading and rvhat he re_sarded as the Or erhearing Halliday and his Bloomsburies (Virginia Woolf, decline of En-sland. He felt cro*'d ridiculing a letter in which Clive and Vanessa Bell, England woLrld be a Lytton tar better Birkin had, at some length, Strachey) and Bertrand Russell, place if only a hundred or so postulated his theories - about the who was still Ottoline's lover. people inhabited the island. He need for men to reduce themselves But by I 916 relations was suffering between from what were to the original rudimentary Lawrence and the world probably the early srages of of conditions of being - Gudrun Garsington had begun to deterio- tuberculosis and was ill and became increasingly annoyed. rate. He had taken a dislike to the irritable. Despite the critrcal Halliday, who was inebriated and Bloomsbury group after visiling success of Sorzs rtrtd Lot'ers. he hiccupping, read on in "the sing- Maynard Keynes at Cambridge, rvas in desperate financial straits. song, slow, distinct voice of a describing the Bloomsburies His feelings of the rnoment as were clergyman reading the Scrip- "black beetles". His friendship being channelled into his new tures", sneering at Birkin's ideas. and intellectual sympathy with novel, Wctmert in Love. he which Finally Gudrun could stand no Bertrand Russell had foundered. believed was his best work. more: Lawrence's previous novel, The At the time of the Cafe Royal Ruinbow, had recently incident, been he was in the process of "[ u,ant to go," said Gudrun to suppressed by a London magis- typing and revising his handwrit- Gerald, as she signalled the waiter. trate for alleged indecency. ten manuscript, as he couldn't Her eves were flashing, her cheeks Despite some attempts by afford to pay a typist. Already he uere flushed. The strange l2 Raaa-aiac r-

(cortt'd from p l3) "villainess" in the novel, Ottoline publisher to come to Garsington insisted on seeing the manuscript, to see Ottoline for himself to Incident at the Cafe Royal which Lawrence, reluctantly, sent compare her with Hermione. In her. On reading it she was aghast the event nothing came of the character Halliday was forced on - and very angry. She saw herself threat, and Ottoline remained Lawrence. Halliday was already portrayed in a very unflattering Hennione. part of the novel, and to introduce light. Hermione's physical Lawrence' s obliviousness to a new character based on appearance, despite a change in other people's sensitivity over Suhrawardy, at that late stage, was hair colour from red to blond, and seeing themselves, or aspects of extraneous and would have a change in age from forties to themselves, portrayed in his confused the narrative. And so he twenties, was straight ottoline, as fiction was not reformed b;" his added in the Puma/Pussum (who were Hermione's elaborate and experiences with Wornett irt Love exotic hats and dresses. But it - in future novels he to repeat was almost certainly not at the "r'as Cafe Royal that evening either, wasn't the physical portrait that so the process. One explanation for and is definitely not the "long thin upset ottoline (although she was his blindness in this area may be White Herring of a Woman" in annoyed at his describing some of that fte saw his characters in a Gertler's account - the Puma was Hermione's gowns as soiled and different light. In the case of quite dark). It also gave Law- tattered) - it was the way he Hermione Roddice, Lawrence had rence an opportunity to hark back portrayed her as a bitter, evil, started otf basing the character, at to Gerald Crich's brief liaison first called Ethel. on his first love, with the Pussum before he knew Jessie Chambers. When, much Gudrun. Gudrun's sudden later in the evolution of the novel, recognition in the chapter that he recast Ethel in Ottoline's Gerald had been involved with the appearance and clothes, and Pussum helps build up her realisa- invested her with some of tion that he was naturally promis- Ottoline's personality, he prob- cuous - a matter that is fleshed out ably continued to think of the in succeeding chapters. Lawrence character as partly Jessie, who also had to change the book of also embodied the intellectual, poems into a letter from Birkin, unspontaneous type of woman for the good reason that Birkin that he wanted to portray. Thus it was not a poet. was that Lawrence would only On the whole. hou'ever, reluctantly admit to his agent, Lawrence didn't rnake rnanv vc / Pinker, in February l9lJ'."There factual changes to the original 'v is a hirr of [Ottoline] in the incident. Katherine is Gudrun. the character of Hermione: but so Cafe Royal is the Pornpadour, her (^^.a A,lr.':> there is a hint of a miLLion actions are the same. Larvrence wontett...Anyway, they could make claimed to be surprised and hurt Ottoline, after Johtt BJ" Paul Delprat libel cases for ever, they haven't when people accused him of half a leg to stand ort..." basing characters on real people, One interesting aspect of all particularly themselves. Writing twisted woman. As she read the this is to observe the techniques "going to Catherine Carswell, whose manuscript she felt herself Lawrence used for transferring barrister husband had "vetted" the pale with horror, for nothing could real-life models into his fiction. vile and manuscript of Women in Love, he have been more obvi- One technique was to change their maintained: ously spiteful and contemptu- names - but not arbitrarily, for he ous...". Furious, she despatched a seemed unable to resist the Halliday is HeseLtine. The letter to Lawrence. The letter has temptation to leave behind a hint Pussum is a moclel knovvt as been lost, but Clive Bell, who was or echo of the original inspiration. Ptuna, and thev ctre taken frctnl at Garsington at the time, men- For example, Bertrand Russell, life - rtobody else at aLl lifelike tioned that she had written Law- rvho appears in Women in Love as rence "an incredibly foolish a baronet, is called Malleson, the However, Philip Heseltine was reply...Every line of her letter that surname of one of Russell's not the only person to threaten I was allowed to hear revealed a lovers. Another example is Lawrence with legal action over wound...". Au,eustus John who appears at the their portrayal in Women irt Love. Philip Morrell threatened to Pompadour as Carlyon (a play on Hearing on the gossip grapevine sue Lawrence and reportedlY the name of the style of hat John that she had been cast as the wanted Lawrence's ProsPecti\ e \\ore. lr Carlyle). The Puma is

14 Ra,Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Liberal MP, Hermione has a difficulty when disembarking. Society was incorporated. As a brother, Alexander, who is a Harriett is detained by the local result of donations from the public Liberal MP.) As the biographer immigration authorities, for the and corporations, together with a of Ottoline I can attest to the fact reason that "she was not bcrn in considerable government grant, that his portrayal of Hermione is England". This obviously hap- the house has been acquired. A extremely perceptive. Yet Law- pened to Frieda, and as a result Society newsletter, "The Somers (Lawrence) rence professed surprise that took a harsh Mansfield News", concentrates on view of both New Zealand and the house, giving subscribers Ottoline wasn't delighted with the New Zealanders, "...they had less updates on restoration work, news pen pofirait, claiming that he had desire than ever to stay in this of the acquisition of period made her a more noble figure in cold, snobbish, lower- middle- furniture and details of exhibitions. the book than she was in real life! class colony ol pretentious An educational program is a The "Gudrun in the Pompa- nobodies." major priority of the Society. dour" chapter was exactly what Wellington was the birthplace Various school and literary groups Lawrence needed to tighten up the of the writer Katherine Mansfield. are encouraged to visit the house. She left New Zealand in 1908, The localcouncil recently granted novel's narralive direction, never to return. She met Law- a $25,000 subsidy towards the inserting a stagin_r point betrveen rence and Frieda in 1913. Thus salary of the curator-manager for the English section of the book began a close but often strained the forthcoming year. and the continental ending. relationship that was to last until The local council has cause to Additionally, it brought the focus Katherine's death in 1923. have an interest in the Society, as back on to Gudrun, who is the ln May 1922 Lawrence the house attracts a considerable main character in l.he linal chap- documented his thoughts about number of tourists which of course ters of the novel. It also allowed Katherine, crossing the Great benefits the local community. "The Australian Bight en route to Mansf ield News" of October 1993 Lawrence to tre the earlier part, NSW. He wrote to Koteliansky gives the following account of particularly chapter VI, "Creme saying: "l think f rom Sydney we inspections of the house by two de Menthe", which is set in the shall visit the South Sea lslands - visiting Australians: Pompadour, to the later section of think of our'Rananim' - on the the novel. way across to San Francisco. lf On 21 May Mrs Annita But ii Kot hadn't written to you were here you would under- Keating, wife of the Austral- ian Prime Minister, visited him about the events at the Cafe stand Katherine so much better. She is very Australian - or New the house with Mrs Joan Royal, this vital chapter probably Bolger Zealand. Wonder how she is." and Mrs Jenny Greet. would not have She brought a gift from been written. And (Letters Vol 4 No 2518). if the other witnesses of the Australia of two serigraphs While in Australia Lawrence from Barbara Hanrahan, one incident had not written their did not write to Katherine. There showing her genealogical accounts, we would not know how had been a falling-out, but this did search for "the Australian closely Larvrence based his not stop Katherine writing Law- family" and the other, a characters and action on an actual rence into her will on 1418122. On flower piece. These will be e\ ent. 1518122, the day after Katherine's interesting additions to our gesture, Lawrence and Frieda collection. Mrs Fahey, wife - Sandra Jobson sailed into Wellington Harbour. of the Premier of New South That same day from Wellington Wales, visited on 29 July. Endnotes he sent a postcard to Katherine via Lady Ottoline Morrell with a The constitution of the D.H. l. We can deduce thrs frorl the fact that "Ricordi" Lawrence Society states that the Lawrence, whose letters Ottoline sedulously one word message, preservation of is of preserved, did not write back to her. (meaning "remembrances"). Wyewurk one (Letters Vol 4, no 2565). Law- the objects of the Society. We 2. It is interesting to note lhat Amores rence chose not to share with can perhaps point to this example (published in Juty 1916), the book which Katherine news of the "preten- of the Katherine Mansfield Birth- caused lhe incidcnt at the Cafe Royal, had place been dedicated by Lawrence to Ottoline tious" behaviour of her country- Society to foster our aims. Morrell, in happier days. men that day. - Stephen O'Connor

Rata*:* 15 Was Willie Struthers My [-Jncle Jock?

spoke English and Gaelic. Destitute' Nairn in the entry on Jock Garden in Annie moved her Young familY to the the Australian Dictionarv of Biogra' upper town, where she did washing p/21, says that Jock was regarded as and housekeeping for her richer "courageous, generous and romantic". awrence visited SydneY and married sister. MY grandfather, Thirroul in 1922. Just over a Jimmy, was apprenticed to a Background: 1921 year later his novel of sailmaker. He went to sea at l5 on Australia, Kangaro o, was published. the Glasgow-Melbourne run. Jock ln Russia the 3rd Comintern There has been much sPeculation was also apprenticed as a sailmaker' congress had in June 1921 adoPted about who was the inspiration for the but did not go to sea. the policy of a "united front". to novel's socialist demagogue, Willie By the age of 29 , Grandfather Communists were encouraged Struthers. Robert Darroch, in his Jimmy had worked his waY uP to support socialist parties on specific D.H. Lc*vrence in Australla (1981), being a captain tbr the Adclaide points. This was reflected in the A11 said it was Jock Garden (John Smith Steamship ComPanY, tbr which he Australian Trades Union Conference, Garden, 1882-1968). Jock Garden worked for 42 ycars. retiring as the ri hich u'as held in Melbourne also in was my mother's uncle. commodore of their fleet. June 1921. Jock Garden was a I only met Jock Garden once. ln dominant figure at this conference, 1965, at the funeral of mY grand- Church and State which reflected the views of the mothcr Olire Garden, I was intro- broad Australian labour movement at duccd to a iit but large octogenarian Captain Garden Paid for the other this time. with a shock oi white hair, en children's education and later for the Its minutes record that J.S. brousse. "This is your Uncle Jock," I family to emigrate to Australia. Garden, representing the Sail Makers was told. I shook his hand. He had Uncle Jock arrived in Australia in Union of NSW, moved a resolution large-jointed hands. He gol into an 1904. By then he had become a supporting the view that parliamen- animated discussion with my grand- Church of Christ preacher. At first tary government was the instrument father, who was balding. They talked he was a minister in a Church of of domination by the caPitalist about whose genes had caused their Christ parish in Harcourt. Victoria. minority toying with the ignorance different heads of hair. but lrter uorked in a lttistion lo and apathy of the majoritY of work- I later asked my mother ahout seamen in St'dne'r'. This. apparenth. ers. Uncle Jock. She said: "He is the led him to hecome a socialist. Later the congress adoPted its black sheep of our famill'. We even In 191-l he becarne a member of historic and notorious "socialisation" tried to get Dad to change our name the NSW Trades and Labor Council. policy (which the ALP has onlY "the to "Gordon", we were so ashamed of He was also at this tirne a "Wobbly" recently shed), resolving that: being associated with Jock." (the IWW - Industrial Workers of only way in which the working class the I went abroad soon after this, so I the World). BY 1918 Jock had can achieve its emancipation is by never got a chance to talk to him. I becomc SecretarY of the Labor complete overthrow of the capitalistic only learned his full history later' Council (known as "Trades Hall"). crchange. production and distribution where he ruled tbr l6 Years. He rvas s\ stem." Early days - Lossiemouth also a founder of the Communist Garden insisted that a waYs and Party of Australia in 1920' and its mcans committee of 12 be aPPointed Towards the end of last centurY, first secretarY. to report immediatelY on how to Great Grandfather Alexander Garden Jock remained a dedicated achieve this aim. Garden later moved went off to seek his fortune (vainly) Christian (and teetotaller), and there an amendment to the committee's parlia- in North America. He left behind his are newspaper cuttings showing him report to the effect that the "onlY a wife, Annie (nee) Smith, and four cloing Trades Hall business in the mentarv s)'stcm be used as children - James (known as morning, and officiating at weddings temporary weapon to systematically the "Jimmy"), John (known as "Jock"), in the afternoon. He was, mY mother expose the true nature and hamper act as Bessie and Jessie - in a tinY (4 x 6 told me, a tremendous idealist. He opcrations of Capitalism and to metre) stone cottage in the Scottish was also generous. When beggars a medium of working class ProPa- fishing village of Lossiemouth came to the door he would give ganda and education." of (whose other famous son was British everything away, to the annoyance of Following the strong objections Willis, Labour Prime Minister RamseY his wife, Auntie MaY. He once gave J. Scullin, J. Curtin, and A.C. MacDonald). the coat he was wearing to a destitute Jock's amendment was lost. Willis The Gardens were fisher folk and sailor he met on the street. Bede said that if this were to be adoPted,

16 Raru.a*ro then they rvould be better discussing (Jock had a habit of saying things that for Aunty May while all the family the creation of a Red Army. infuriated the bourgeoisie.) How- pulled faces behind her back. In the Lawrence was in New South ever, Jock was deeply disappointed in event, Captain Garden wouldn't \\'ales from 27 May to 11 August, the workers' paradise. If this were the accept the apology/explanation and 1922. Newspaper reports show Jock future, it did not work for Jock. stopped talking to Jock. * as in Sydney most of this time. The On the way back from Moscow In the late 1920s Garden officially reports also make it clear that he was Jock scandalised his Comintern resigned from the Communist Party the principal focus of anti-socialist colleagues when he stopped in and rejoined the Labor Party, fervour. For example, in the Sydney Lossiemouth and preached a revival- becoming a strong Lang supporter. It Daily MaiL of 7 July 1922 he was ist sermon. A Lossiemouth cousin was he who coined the famous reported as accusing a leading remembers him marching through the slogan, "Lang is greater than Lenin". "loyalist", Mr Scott Fell MLA, of town at the head of some 30 or more In 1931, in a scene curiously pres- "bloodthirsty intolerance". Scott "saved souls" singin g'. " Romans Four aged in Kangaroo, he was counted Feil, along with Sir Charles and Nine Are a Favourite Verse of out by communists at a public Rosenthal, had spoken at a recent Mirte". Arthur Hoyle, Jock's biogra- meeting. He was also the subject of meeting at the Town Hall "in loyal phcr. descrihed to me meeting a man. physical attacks from the extreme support of the Empire and the Union only l0 years or so ago, who had right, being assaulted by a New Jack". Scott Fell called at the rcmained a Iile-long Christian Guard unit in 1932 (the famous "Pack meeting for all "disloyalists" to be following his conversion by Jock's of Cards" raid). "sent to hell" or "strung up". A lively exchange had ensued in which Mother's wedding - 1935 Garden recalled Scott Fell's involve- ment in the 192 I Red Flag riot in the My father used to heckle Jock in Sydney Domain, which "culminated the Domain. Jock was always a great in the attack on peaceable workers in orator. When my mother and father the Domain by bands of drunken got engaged, in 1935, Jock was jingoes". Jock lvent on to remark: already a Lang Labor Member of "The time is not far distant when the Federal Parliament. My father's organised workers will secure real father, H.V. Douglass, was the political (not Parliamentary) power. General Manager of the Perpetual When they do so Mr. Scott Fell can Trustee Company. Also located in rest assurcd he will be presented with the Perpetual Building in Hunter the full bill - plus interest." Street was the firm of solicitors, On August 4, 1922, The Commu- Campbell, Campbell, & Campbell. ni.st had published un encomium on However, H.V. Douglass had no time Garden likening him to Lenin, part of for the New Guard's leader, Colonel which said: "One of the most Eric Campbell, whom he regarded as outstanding reasons tbr Jock's "a bounder, as well as being a Garden c 1922 popularity, and his progress with the Jock Campbell". revolutionary spirit of the timcs, is sermon in Lossiemouth. After Jock's H.V. declared that he would not the fact that he stands on no return to Sydney there was no more come to my parents' wedding if Jock ceremony...Hc is easily approached talk of moving to Russia. were there. Captain Garden hadn't bv everyonc. and gives the same Jock's role as the bourgeoisie's spoken to Jock for seven years, close attention to anv scrious caller, bogeyman really got into its stride in following the "dead men tell no tales" *haterer his vie*s or station...he is 1928, with the great seamen's strike. incident. Captain Garden now alri'avs open to the reception of the He effectively told the seamen to declared that if his brother were not latest lesson of the tin.res." throw their officers overboard. say'ing suitable to be invited, then he would that sailors outnumbered officers six not attend the wedding either. Move to Russia to one, and "The water is damp. the This put my mother in an awful sea is deep, and dead men tell no dilemma. Mother's cousin, Nancy, Jock departed for Moscow to tales!" PM Stanley Bruce tried Jock's niece, worked in Jock's office attend the Fourth Congress of the unsuccessfully to deport Jock back to in Trades Hall. She suggested Comintern, which commenced on 11 Scotland. Mother go out to Kensington to see August, 1922. My mother recalls thal Jock's wife, poor Aunty May, in the ogre, Jock. She did and Jock was Jock had been filled with enthusiasm her traditional big hat, came to charming. "Send the invitation," he for this trip. Before he left, Auntie Blakesley Street, Chatswood, to said, "and I'll refuse." He still sent May was told to prepare herself and explain that although Captain Garden my mother and father a very hand- the three children. Harcourt. Ian and was sailing with a scab crew. Jock some wedding gift. Isma, to move to Russia. In Moscow didn't want Jimmy's sailors to Mother has always said that, on Jock was elected to the Comintern's murder him. I don't know il'Aunty this occasion, Jock was the only executive committee. Jock told May sang at the piano on this gentleman among the lot of them. Lenin that Australia "will be the next occasion. My mother tells of turning She won't hear a word against him country to become Communist". the pages at the piano at other times even today. She feels he was an

Rarat ttto 17 (Cont'd from P 17) Struthers is the anti-Christ' clothes had that look as if he had preaching love alone just thrown them on his back' after - Was Willie Struthers ...big, dark, glancing eYes, like picking them off the floor' Also one an atroriginal's." My Uncle Jock? of nit tt in shoulders was noticeably than the other. But he was a who eventually higher wonderful idealist, diitinct Australian tYPe, thin' My mother reread the "Willie when he worked for with a brightish' discovered, hollow-cheeked, Struthers and Kangaroo" chapter of red skin on his face, and big, Eddie Ward, that nicc guYs finish brittle, with this piece' dark incensed-looking eYes"' Kangaroo to help me father maintains that Jock last. My He sPoke with a Pronounccd She also read the descriPtions of more than a a bad Cock- was "alwaYs nothing Australian accent' Willie Struthers, above. to Cousin bloody nuisance". ncy... Jock for A sort of bitter fire corroding Nancy, who worked for in his eyes... many years. after mctallic voice The War and ...in his flat My mother and Cousin \anc1 thin, verY red, hairY hand ...his lhin-cs The fighting look was in the both say the two most striking War II Captain Garden In World front of his eyes..' about Jock's appearance \\ ere the heroes of the glow had come into became one of the A strange thick shock of black hair' nhich grew black eYes, something bombing of Darwin, as CaPtain of the his large hack g.listening and half-swect. fixing straight up and was brushed Manunda. and 'itself hospital ship, HMAS on hi. listener. Somers felt over the toP of his head and' even OBE for his towards a strange sweetness was awarded the drawn more, his unusual brorvnish' slate- poisonous. Yet it touched bravery. Jock, on the other hand' - perhaps were "warm on one of his quivering coloured eyes. Eyes that to Federal Richard failect to get re-elected strings - the latcnt powcr that is in and brown" according to Cousin count, and his near mate Parliament on a disPuted man todaY, to love but "cold and glittering" absolutelY Nancy. degenerated into Eddie Ward's with a Passionate trusting love... according to mY mother. Jock was disgraced bagman. In 1948 "You know that Labour is Thcl agree Jock's demeanour was timber scandal here, more in the Ncw Guinea stronger PerhaPs' irlu ar s quiet. He u as an extremely than in anY countr\-in Royal Commission, in which Eddie unopPosed a rostrum' world...'When rvilt thou save good listencr. except on Jock was the Ward was whitewashed thc PeoPle, oh God of Israel' *here he was most eloquent and as if thc God of ultimatelY acquitted. when?'-- It looked persuasivc. He made his Point of neler save them' However, CaPtain Garden, at one Israel would obvious' All We've got to save ourselves'" ,i"* ,"". simPle and t'elt obiiged to go point in the scandal. The red face of Willie Struthers his life he had a distinct, attractive who was in Long BaY to glow with fire, and his and visit Jock seemed Scottish burr in his voice, which was He took with him a tin of black eYes had a strange Gaol. el cs at lcngth much admired. It became more l'avourite tbod' But elisten...Richard's asparagus, .Iock's tct the black, cxcited glistening pronounced when he was excited' it, because the other man, and he felt Jock coulcl not eat eves of the Like m,v grandfather, Jock was a tin tirat something in the glisten was authorities would not allow him read. bearing him down, as a snake bears extremelv rvell have been an opener. It must down a bird. Himself the bird' It must be remembered that in fclt] thcl' rtere uncomlortablc mecling' [Richard l9l2 N{othcr and Cousin Nancy were capable of building uP this great After the u'ar Jock eked out a age and nol Cliurch of Christ. the grcat beaut]' both undcr 10 Years of Leo. u'riting on thc living as Mr of a PeoPlc. upon the generous a\\iare of politics. Jock was then 40' application of the Zodiac oassion of matc'lor e"' astrological Both mY mother and Cousin NancY "\\rll 16qp - rrcll thcn'Ihc to horse racing. He died' still a fact had met religious qucstion is ticklish' t'elt that il Lawrence in Church of Cllrist' in member of the cspicialll here in Australia' But all Uncle Jock, either he had not churches arc established on 1968. the clescribed him accurately tn Kanga- And Christ sa1's Love one Christ. the another." roo, or had sought to disguise Lawrence base Willie Did Richard laughed suddenlY' character to such an extent that Willie on Garden? makes Christ into Struthers Jock "That could not be said to be Uncle Jock another Political agent," he said' then ' I'm not deeP "because he was so unsympatheti- Kangaroo Lawrence describes "Well In enough for thcse matters' But calll' drar.vn. and was described as how to squarc it Willie Struthers: surclY You knorv 'brooding an inncr wrong''" with religion. Secms to me it is - love one another'" Ther concedc that the Piercing He was vcrY dark' rcd'faced' religion a God'" Lawrence makes great and thin, with deep lines in his facc' "Without e)'es of rvhich - as I saY - it's Christ's a tight-shut, receding mouth, and "Well pla)' u'ere indeed characteristic of teaching, and that ought to be God trlaik, burning cYes. He reminded that Law- enough." Jock. TheY recognise Somers of the Portraits of Abraham Struthers didn't mind Christ' "Church of Christ" in Lincoln, the same sunkcn chceks rcnce's talk of Christ could easill' he made to and deeP cadaverous lines and big the context of Willie Struthers may suhscrve his egoistic purpose' But black eYes. But this man, Willie to convey first. dark, Unnamed God \\'ell have been an attempt Struthers, lacked the look of thc had once knoun so Christianity' My humour and almost sweetness that rvhom men Jock's well-known tremendous - Struthers had no use one can find in Abraham Lincoln's mother further believes that Willie Him. Instead he was susPi- for dialogue Portraits. N{r Struthers watched him as if Struthers' views in the cious. and scemed as if he were woultl read his soul' But and Somers could brooding an inner wrong. he between Struthers Richard wasn't going to have his He was a born Australian, had indeed have bcen a fair representation bY forcc' about the continent, and soul read knocked thin and hairY and ol Jock's Christian vicws' many on the goldfields' '..somcthing spcnt Years I didn't want to touch NancY' however' According to report hc was just spiderish. She and Cousin hlm. But he's a force, he's comfortablY off - not rich. Hc Point to a numhcr ol discrepancies' looked rather shabbY, seedY; his something.

18 R44a4ir,r, Jock was not a..born Australian,,. the top All oJ it an(l juclging b1t tlte st:um.,, ,.you his life. lV,j: don'r Jock had a pronounced and _ care for Liberty, ' Equalin and Frorerniry. alrracri\.e Scottish is rhar t? i like ro burr in his voice. This undemocral.ic statement Knuw whut ).ou literant gentlemen do think, ar His roice was certainly reflects tlte back beautiful. He certainly the publicly_ of wur minds. I find it intere-stin'u:. did not have .,pronounced expressed "l wouldn,t et.en like a Austral_ views ofJock Garden at . h ,p"ot n,, ir,r"' t r t h e.r l.i r e r a gs :: ty n t I e m u n i lan accent _ a bad the l92l Trades t", a i iy y iS.' Cockney,,. He had Union Conference. smiled Somers. ,,But " nor rhe great F.rench knocked about the goldfields The text continues: watclmord (sic) does really yail b move me _ (although except to irritation." Harcourt, where he had his R.L Somers: ,,None trnder.stand t.ou. first Ministry with the tf rhe labour people , ,."1 Mr Somers. you Church of vtant a revolution, oet.ter...e in tlrc status quo... Christ, in their heart of heirts., This was said is near Bendigo). Thev're u,trui,l. qure t ly and i ronically. Thev.re just purt ttJ the whrtls .k)ctefy, RLS: .'No Though Jock was a big_framed and tltev dt,n.1 ,r,,11r. wOnt I(,rt,llow I don.t... Ras.lc. " WS: .,What man, he did not ttren?,, in their opinion Somers was .'.'That's .so! Thal's so!,, Mr Struthers nors uneasy. He guessed he resemble Abraham no.dded. "Thet' would look Lincoln, except rlon't real\, want to. The; afool. v,ltnt RLS: ,,Oh,,, ,,1 that, as well as being a good listener, do the1, want?', . . tte said, believe in power, ,,Frit:tion. in its rrue sense. he radiated .RLS: Justfticrion, it seems to I even believe in o ailtitoi.' a sort of sweetness, which nrc.' But not a Soviet, because a Soviet ,"presaents was much commented ..Jusr one upon. (Like lYS. friction. lttu rhink?...,, class only, and one inrerest only: tlr" riig" RaS. ,, or com,m.?n property - my grandiather, Jock was quite ... and tlrc oiher side will never interest. It isi,t good dour. r,tlJer t.slntrp (ilt)rtNlt enough. " He and my grandfather rc.\i.\tonce t(t t.tutse (t would sit t)laZ?..- uild s(t it till g, rtn; 'fhe wage doesn,t together in J.rictittn..,... \_5.- ..Mr. interest ,_ou?,, for hours and not sav a "...The nan looked RLS: . . d hini, rhen dotritn ar ,.Of word.) They his [1]14rt1 thin, reddislt WS: course. But do nor feel thatie .own hand, *.irh ir.r . since you,re a t,,ather,t,ltick rlnt r,triting it ma).intere.st would sneer at anyone. i.oinl.s. lat on rlte de.sk before -mun, you at second He was Ittm. He at nand. U I haye understottd ,lr,oked it as if it nere u big sriange your book, you are always a tr.\ ( polite. Jock dressed tnsect... " Na i | af i t d ! iS m ?', carefully ,'yes and never RIS: ...,,yon RLS: _ but lookecl seedy. He did not . saw rhat Engtish ktbour . it is money altogether lta.s repudiated ,,,:.?.,., r tlte Third h i.s t i v i n g _ have one shoulder higher International and !,o F, fitr mo n ey. L. ompe ri than the Soviet Rule?', tron, ambition to get on _ t *ouia lik, ti other, nor have particularly WS: "lt remove all that.', repulsive . should have done so sooner. or thin Atrstralia can,t rcpltdiate WS: "And ltow will you red hands. Indeed, his hands it.,, remove it!., Can' t it ? " ,,Antl were Iarge . ." saitl Somers. yet I .nl,S. tBl_ctlasral I shan.r. I shan.t and thick-jointed. don't mo.ke the believe.fot a moment Australiaiould sligltest difference. But ir makes ttnrnlerested me ever make aviolenl reyoluliln.,, in State Ownership or equal "mo." opprtrtunities.,' The holograph Y!. hat,e no neetl to. May nor.,, Oar; '.Artd WS: "you ds J'rty gslling u big en,,uglt . think men can live without L,o.futur, , Mujt)t, private ambition, N int(, .\.t,ur lldrlia*rnr, ,,i l,or., wirhout competing with one Ho*ever, IilutN.t unotlte.r there is another version ull ).out r,tilI rr...l-1.. untl be uble to Ji)t tlte acquiring ,{ wealtlti., "They of the "Willie pnr.laint o St,r'iet in tltut rrtt.t; RLS: have livei Struthers and it seefi1.r 11t sns for rhousands of Kanga_ unlikely. " ui,rlu,.ut roo" chapter. );ay,r it._lt.s quite a new dodge. This sheds a very ".May Lx!11t, tlrc lncu peru. seem n 1,ou unlikelt, Mr Sonters. even Greece ,n2 Ro^, diff'erent lt ltad light on the matter. It is may." o vast popularion which t,oa n, iogr'ora Lawrence's r+u.t no opportuniry,of getting original handwritten ... Tl:rr" u pouse. Sotner.r felt he lntl on. It,s the Jirel his sltlt.s tert eurl). op.pu..rtunity for geuing on which manuscripr (holograph) " blasts all which was RLS; "Tlte \dt? .\ecnt.\ lUe. sent by Lawrence to be setting to be typed ugainst Sotictli.rm ull tlrc y.orld _ Struthers warched in tn,er hZre . _Mr him with a faint America. u.r ntuclt.' iust smi le. (Some months later. in mean Taos, fes. it seens tu be, as you say.,, . ."You Slavery, Mr Somers?,, he he extensively revised the fl_S, ..1 said. RLS. suppose rhe fide may turn chapter, turning ugaitt. " RI S: "No it into the version . t don.r. tf t were dicraror in that now '.'V'e mat.presttme Au.vrolto. people wouldn,t appears in the published text it n.ill, Mr SLsmer.s.., hute any I n..\pi te t'pportuniryfitr geiling t,{ lt i mse lf R i churd Lrtratt on. Tltere.i be no of Kctngaroo.) " be yan getting.on. trt feel foytl. And u sneering Tltat woutdn,t be the 1t .rttrt oJ smile point. [!1 The first page or so tl.l:,-1, ,,, ltorer.indelinirelv wouli be lil But there of the holo_ t,n rlte face of Mr would be nt, slave'l It graph Jlrutlters. Juz..rltiJted a..r in Eyvpr. chapter is virtually the ttncomlortablt. t,tt iis ":!,ld 2, say. wlten the ml..rteries same as t,!l rlte Gods the final version. and the temples and rhe dit.ine Then the conversa_ RLS:. 'lt'.r Ktn!\ sttmul.tred , tlte vdt t,l tide.,. lte sttitl, all kinds of lile_responses in tion about/ruscisli ancl L leuring his ..7,t ttte.ppople. ultit.lt socialisti in tltn)at. 1.tt111q, and go... Mr we huve lost. Thiy hud Italy struthers i.rtfinite sensations starts. Struthers encourages Icli{-l] tooked ot ttim, bui rnade no and feelings and strange t.emat.'k. ,,:1,,.:.":r,!uSt in S.omers Tltere \.as a pause. Tlten he tlrcir sout. an elndless chan'g-ing to give his personal impres_ said ttt iltr()b. lo.sr drib; be(ous? tlte world of gerting-on hai SIONS. "Tlien you il.erer becn inyented, tltink, Mr Somet s, tllat lhe and tlrc world of barren d re,a,r i I have t,ottrse t:f demttCracy n e.s s of s o - c a I le I underlined and square_ ltut t.un (,ul - tltat it.S d e d uc at" d de io c rary. finished l" ,-.,!,!,r, t,,,,, u sluve in. bracketed those parts Egypt ltad a myriod_jotd crossed out by Somer.\ lrud suDue utbratiu.ns and Lawrence trt rhink a minute. respon.res to tiirgr' in the hoiograph RLS: " l mean u,s.dt)n't even version. it doesn,t vitally inrere.st l^,^,:i,:JU exisr. tUe have"gone l'or the tne uil.\ tnt,re. ' lte ', insen.ririve. sake of clarity. I have .sLtid. Ert u.re me if I ant so like tree.r rhar ure alt lrom egotisticallv ;:',:;'Y.oro trme-to-time indicated personal. It seems the only wat who is one can speak As Somers talked speaking.l: the truth, to say what one ybe'ls . . he boked back at the in oneselJ." black.sardtmit. e1.es uf the other man. Mr .,Democrar:;, JtruilteN doesn,t interest yolt vitally was listening witlt ltinl uutomatic ''Quite att\ mt)re. ears, tu t.h_is rtyltt..\,lt.St,rt(t. sPeu.kittl Pers(tntltt," iepeatel i4r stream of word.s, and gazing on Stnrrlter.t.shttlt. "wtt) ,l!.1 h,"r.,,wirlt wLtnt 'rrt tntrres.rirttt.r. ,,,"t',,!,ii,li,',ir/),' ' ru,,t,r,", cu, .r":i a I.sunerirtrl aisnni'son u1 l,sneerl ddmirutilm.,,1 1rnur.,, rhougltf ,ii ,,,,, '"" ";;;",:{':;;:;j. "lte"rltinks l'm.1usr Ii,ioill,fi,',',',,!!,':',1,'i/,:;'; 'y!.i11r:' o,, k,n*,, srn(e the Iu1Le,y,, tt gas_big ranring *o,,-tt*r \ (trd..t J(,t. elJect, but wltether " ,,rti,g ,i,,,:,'i' rni,-riilili ,.,",'ii ,iii',ii,' ,,a ,,,* he thinis it or rigltt. ..",*',,,,;r; ,l,,ilr'|,,' ,ii,fii!,| ?qltaltly, even no.t, lrc sh_all have it, the tin Moses You've tt) trip equulin ol.oltpr,rtuni\. i.s that hi is.,, N(,1 ,,,,,r'r,r,,,,,,",,,j ,i,," u n^d^.:.1 n,, k e d b.a c k w i t t t a h,lh)m ()f rlie JlNiltettt,d.ltretttMe tth.str,t, riln. wt,tlse , :, n u n swe r i n g l1t)r o,,,! riu[" , U,i, ,lui ,i,'j ,rr," ,,, tlutn a t,fffl.delr,unce,oJ.his! ! "-t ir r sic). blue eyes. as if ro iay; beiuri t,,u kn,,r,. ,,1,,i,'.'r,.:i.',;;,i:;.:;, ,;;:rfi;;rr,;;::, ,l,r,fil"",r,o t aKe iltot! And iJ l,ttu can,t undersiand tltere is cooking. lr's no good i:;,"i:i,X,,,iiiXi , it," Ju.er luokittg ut know,t,ltat \ou't.e u tin_pot demag

Rarant* 19 (cont'd Jiom P l9) "Well, Mr Somers," he said, "wlten top union official, secretary of the MY educated uP to tour ideas they ma1' Was Witlie Struthers 'bepeople ure Communist PartY, loYal to Moscow, w'illing to be slot'es Ittferingl and tffir up Uncle Jock? and about to set off there to live. their .first-born to a ftttted calJ or golden serpent, - tltough they non'l see tlrc use ol it In the circumstances, Struthers aboLtt the Egl,ptitttts. YttLL meun the ones llult jLtst at present, I'tn aJi'aid. Meunwhile I extraordinarilY hotl tlrc plagttes oJ mice and lot:trsls and aJew turns out to be an sltppose I ntat'as well [!ll]l:o otl ltf ittg lo polite and active listener. Both equalise tltings a bit, as Jar us tnonel goes, orher little thitt;4s. We aren'l so.fhr ofi thern in eien iJ some oJ'tts ure.t(, r'd.lrl)' superior to tlte versions remark: " The man could llrut way oul here. - But Let nrc pLtt )oLt d rest ii all other:r'ars ex(:ept moner' Goodbye his black eyes too' straigllt question, iJ l ma1'." listen: listen with Mr Somers, and tltttnk ,-ou.fttr contittg." " Oh t\o," said Riclnrtl LoYatt' Watchful, always watchful, as if he t:upital itt tlrc ltunds WS: "Are we to leave expected some bird to flY suddenlY ttt work to oJ the Jetv, and are the mant' We know that Lawrence almost " out of the speaker's face. He was increase rit:hes fitr tlrc Jbw'? certainly visited Trades Hall. The RLS: "No, " saitl Somers, \in(e lllut rttts well-informed, and seemed to weigh description at the beginning of simplest. and judge everl'thing he heard as he llS: "What is the -*tt1'out?" Chapter 1 1 is too exact for anything the next stel' i\ heard it." RLS: 1 suPPose other than first-hand observation. ttttl ionul isat ion, " Irc adnti tt ed' This is much more apparent in the Also, in ChaPter 1, Lawrence saYS of WS: "Yott tlo atlmit tlrtrt /" holograph. Indeed. aPart from RLS: "1 wouldn't, il PeoPle could Somers "in Sussex Street he almost " Struthers' dialectical skill in bringing Lmde rstand dn)'t lting e lse - wept for Covent Garden"' Interest- WS: "They t:an't. All thel'can under- Somers around lo either supporting him' ingly, this implies a very early visit sland is Hang on and Take it from Communism, or looking foolish. PaddY's Markets Whk:tt is it to be, rhen'/" by Lawrence to the views I sqtpose," suid there is very little of Struthers' "Toke ir.fi om hitn, end of Sussex Street. a few hundred Somers. directly disclosed in the holograph' Trades Hall. WS: "YotL do! Yott do agtee'? And hotY is yards from the subject of the " Struthers raises it to be taken Ji ttm hin / We have trvo quite different "BY sotiulisttt' - But Diggers in the holograPh and sug- RLS: sorne.fbrm oJ versions of the Sorners-Struthers v,hole situatiott reulll' bores me"' gests Lawrence conduct the same the the " there's encounter. The earlier text, WS: It bores tt lttt ttJ y'ou But clialectic with Kangaroo. This sorne o.f trs thdt aren' t bored. Sone Jitnn o.f holograph, being an immediate recall, " implies that Struthers knew about the Commtutisrtr, 1'ou me un'? must be presumed to be the more RLS: "/l tttill need o cenlrttl ptttyer' II Diggers and their leader alreadY' ' accurate reportage , if that is what it wilL neetl u ttne nutn.fltr the tinte being' This might be a device of the plot' In "And e'wutple' tlte months \YS: supposing,.for is. Any recollection, some who o.f everl'thing' the printed version it is Somers Dip,gers put their mdn at the top later in tranquillitY in another Hiv tt,oirld he tackle the utltitLtlist tprestirtn'1" mentions the Diggers, but the topic is country, would, in general, not be so RLS: "l drtn't ktrtttt." not pursued. But in both versions the "A.rk him. Ask hitn lwt' he's golttg The latter could WS: verbally accurate. is properry. Ask hinr lum lrc's topic of returned servicemen to settle ubout reflect a further encounter, or a p,oitg'cupiialist trt seltle the split benteen Icanital] discussed. be going recollection of additional omitted and v'ase-earner. He mav In the final \'ersion, Struthers, to kiss und be ttJ t:rsurse ' improved understand- to ask tlrcm fi'iends material, or an just Somers out' they'll do it his askinp,' insteatl of drawing Artti oJ.r:ourse Jltr ing, or a rewrite to enhance the "Thet' rumnted u bil ttJ poetry ittlo ttte ut hr'e orTte S quite eloquent. saying e1-tect. As llction. Kanga- sclnol, Mr Stnllrcrs (sir:). I believe utt dramatic (consistent with Jock Garden's views Antetictttt x'role it renlains rcmarkabl\ truL' to the roo at the 1921 Trade re hetl in u sittgle ltttLttul. openlv expressed Heaen is nol ot character and r ie* s ot'Jock Gardcn' Btttxe Ltuildthe ludder l;r'trhttlt rr' - Union Conference) that change is rltct"' '/rt One lnljt r diit'.-r.'ncc L'etu c-en thr- to the some sttrt ttr otlter,/ inevitable, but a revolution may be a " I e.\(t(:ll.\'. Bt!t I//(ll s it ll(?r ll e '' i: thut in ihg' htr|ogruPh forget '11 t\\o tc\ts a "step trrltirl.g rrl rlelt src7rs prematurc jump. He says that Yorr rerninded nte ttJ it. version Sclmers clcarlr kno$s he is tou kttott-" bv stcp" approach will achieve the gu-.ed inttt sltate talking to a C()lnnluni:t \o nlention Richanl lttutl Soners socialistic and communal ideal - tn Kdtt'!oroo' v,lrcn silence.fell. of the Sor iet appears "State lrc suid, I tlort't Ownership and International "To rell the trutlt"' although it can be interred. All beliet'e the next slep inletesls nrc' Mr Labour Control." reference to Somers leeling uncom- Slrutlrcrs." In thc holograPh the Communist "That ilu\ be. But sone o.l us llute 8ol to having iired his shots earlr ' fortable, by Somers as il we 're going to to lltttt Struthcrs is clescribed take it, Mr Sonters, 8el or fecling a fool have becn droPPed setenlh lrcttten )'rttt hote in mintl' tttu krtott'' bcing a "tin \ltlses". Whv Moses? netl step, ot' between the holograPh and the It's eitlrct' a case o.f laking llrc Struthcrs quotes thc Bible. but not stondiilll still. I trnclersttLnd the Jblks tt'ho'l novel. In the hoiograPh published he does in the (ls we are. tnclersluttd thent' nearlr as much as tother sloP Qtrite Somers does most ol thc talking' and tlrc)' migllt be v'orse oll tlrun tlrcy version. Here Struthers is They'Jbel into printed see, Mr Somer's?" clcarly is trying to bait Struthers ure, tlotott seen bY Somers as wanting to build " l think. vt,e migltt," lauglted Sonters, somc kinci of an outburst. No wonder "tiris great of Christ, the great mking rhe hint. "Yet I (k)n'l wattl llrc v'orlcl lo Church Struthcrs was suspicious. Who rvas 'treaurl' ,r,,,ni,, ,r, ir is eitlrcr. To tell the lrutiL I reall! of a People, upon the gener- man talking don't care." this strange earnest little ous Passions of mate-love." "Yotr knr'l t'lnl lhev sat'' Mr Sotners'l "strange answerings" in the about that Lawrence u,ent ond killetl u mart. Dott'l-t:are I f ind it striking Don't'(:ore souls of slaves in Ancient Egypt and huttg." Willic Struthers as a P,ot fact described "l lrun14.fbr BLtt trub'I Inca Peru? If Struthers was in nav lite to be it Christian. who apparently wanted to ttr or dictalor or reason to (lon't cure. Sot;iel capilttlisn Jock Garden, he had good The Mr Strulhers, I dln'l care." build the "Church of Chrisf'' digger: be suspicious. Jock was a dour man' " Ma.-1tr,ru,," smiled M r SIrtLtlrcrs. Christ whom Willie Struthers "The."-'v, Ltp lo the ltih itt a teetotaller, a born-again, total- net'er ltud their kni.t'e describes is not that social reformer' mulbe." Church of Christ I'ou. immersion-baptised quoted by socialists' the e ru) oJ so respected and Tlrcre was a pause which was minister. He passionateiy believed in the inten'iew. Mr Struthers rose to his Jbet Instead Struthers' Christ is the god of He was also a tvilh an air o.f ttlntost nulilpunrt joy. what he was doing.

20 Rarurctt, Love. Surely, openly admitted and tolerance which provokes the Diggers blotter, with his thin, very red, discussed Christianity, buttressed by hairy to start counting Struthers out. hand". biblical appeals to rhe God of Israei, Surely no one but the Communist Also, it may is a most idiosyncratic characteristic be indicative that, Jock Garden could have committed rather for a fictional than choosing an Irish name Bolshevik agitator. this heretical deviation from con_ for his revolutionary _ And between the holograph version socialist as temporary Labor orthodoxy. might have to the printed version, Lawrence been expected in NSW If Lawrence had only observed Labor politics actually intensifies Struthers, - Lawrence chose the Christi- Garden speaking, this would anity not have name "Willie Struthers,', which is and introduces thc ',Church of given Lawrence the knowledge of both Scots and, in ..Willie,,'as Christ", as if the holograph had not Garden's eyes, extraordinary listen_ intimate ,,Jock',. put this clearly enough. a diminutive as ing skills, and his Christianity of All-in-all, In the printed version, the strict verdict on Struthers Love. Since Jock was so approach_ the question probably lies between offers Somers the editorship of a able, why wouldn't Lawrence, who the ..not Labor newspaper. Scottish one of proven,, and Struthers says that was at least a minor celebrity in his not "proven beyond reasonable as a man of working class back- own right, a published novelist, and doubt". But I think that, ground, Somers can unite Austral_ on the the author of a pamphlet on Democ- balance of probabilities, ians, by appealing to Lawrence the..deeper racy, have taken the time to meet him not only based Struthers on Garden, man" within them by editing a true and exchange views? but in People's paper: fact met him and talked with him. Wait a minute, NIr Somers. Summing up If Uncle Jock was not the model You are the man I have been for Struthers, then there is no waiting for...we,r,e got other no real In summary, we can conclude Labor figure Labour netyspaper in Sydney - or in in Australia who is a that there Australia...Come and take charge is an almost identical more likely candidate. Earlier people,s of a true paper us. overlay of for Struthers' peculiar views speculation that Struthers was based Show us that the issue isn't just the with Jock Garden's equally idiosyn_ on William wage issue, or who holds the Holman or A.C. Willis cratic public money. It,s brother_love at last. on and private views in cannot be sustained. There is no which Christ's democracv is bound both versions. question that to rest. Garden personified the In a number of respects, such as "Red Menace" in the press and the Struthers' Australian accent, his seedy public mind at the Jock, in fact, was charged with time Lawrence clothes, his misshapen shoulder and was in setting up a Labor Australia, as he continued to paper in Sydney. his thin hands, it is almost as if do so for the whole of the 1920s But what is even more convincing is and Lawrence went to the opposite thereafter. Ockham's Razor that Jock's reported re marks at the would extreme of Jock to describe Willie. argue that we conclude that i921 Trade Union Conf'crencc. not ro Struthers However, this might be more is based, firsrhand, on mention his articles in The Comtnu_ Jock Garden. indicative of Larvrence, concerned - Robert Douglass nisl and the Dail1. Moil and else_ about defamation, having met Jock, where, carry no refcrence to his rather than not. Lawrence had religious tenets. Lawrcnce,s account Frank Hardy's already had unhappy cxperiences of Struthers' attempt to persuade rvith defamation. Testimony Somers to take up the editorship of One of the obvious points of the Labor newspaper is laced with Robert Douglass,s difference between Struthers and article is a Jock Garden's humanitarian Christi_ significant addition to what we know Jock were Jock's large, thick-jointed anity. Struthers in Kangaroct about Lawrence's time in Australia. hands. But in the holograph As Douglass promises to send Somers details of remarks, it now Struthers does have thick hands. This seems very probable that Lawrence the editorship position the next day. could be an example of Lawrence's visited the Trades Hall and probably It is most curious that Lawrence does met and talked "disguise" technique. The holograph with Jock Garden there. not report whether Struthers carried lndeed, it is likely (from the Covent says [corrected as indicated]: out this prontise. or u,hether he failed Garden reference mentioned above) "The man looked at him, then that Lawrence f irst went Icr dcr so. Ir is sirnplr left up in the to the Trades down ar his own fthick] thin, reddish H.all on the day he arrived in Sydney. luir. \\'a> thi: the e\cuSr- La*19ngs hand. with its rather thick joints, that This odd excursion could be exflained used to So t(r see and inrerr jeri Jock lav on the desk by Lawrence having been given an Garden. before him. He and harinS .sor marl,rial tor introduction to Gaiden by William looked ar ir as if it were a big strange his novel,just let ir drop? " Siebenhaar in perth (both were IWW i n sect. sympathisers). In Struthers'public speech in Later. * hen Somers is with speculation is given a great Canberra Hall, reported by Lari.rence. . 9r9f,a Kanqlroo . CoolL'\ sa\ s: deal of credence by a lelter the-late there is no mention of Christ. but a "'Hc. Frank Hardy wrote researcher John didn'r oflcr to shake hands. ,,...Garden def'ence of the basic wage system Buff els in 1 983. Hardy said: did he l" "\o. rhank goodnc-ss." said (very topical in 1922) told me [around 1947-49 when I was and an extraor_ Somers, thinkin,s oi the rc..i. drr. research in g Powe dinarily enlightened attempr ro r Without G tory)thal Ithick] thin skinnetl hanJ likc, Lawrence had visited the Trades modify the thinking behind Hall the White skinned reptile. while in Sydney asking questions Australia Policy - the leading plank about the political In the printed version this is situation...one of the Australian Labor partv. subject Garden claimed Indeed reduced to: Lawrence was it is this plea fbr greater raci;l interested in was the political situation "Struthers fidgeted with the of the returned soldiers. _ R. Darroch

Rataa<:nc 2l (corttirtued frortl p0ge 9) The Barber of Thirroul Z,M Endnotes I appreciate being invited to Many thanks for sending me attend the Inaugural Meeting of the Volume I Number l of Rananim and l. Others rnight dispute this' however. Bruce D.H. Lawrence Society of Australia, for offering me [Honorary] member- Steele in a 1990 article in Mericlitut questioncd and I thank you for the first issue of ship of the D.H. Lawrence Society of whether Cooley, for exarnple, was based on RANANIM which was enclosed. Australia. At first I felt I should Rosenthal. Thank you again for the invita- decline the honour, being neither a passionate reader and disciple nor a 2. See accompanying article, "Was Willie tions; I regret that I have to decline as But Struthers Uncle Jock?". I have already arranged lo givc mY scholarly student of Lawrence. annual lecture to the Royal Air Force in his time Manning was all three. 3. Lawrence actually quotes not only from the R.A.F. Museum at R.A.F. and it was a very well-\r'orn edition Bttlletin, but from the Sydney Dail,- Telegraph at the day. of Sons cmd Lovers that * as pressed and The Sun. Hendon on that upon me early in our acquaintance...I Manning's interest 4. An example of his reversal technique is in Yours certainly shared gifts and his remark- seen in the relationship between Cooley and Gerald Pollinger I literary agent for in Lawrence's Callcott. In the novel Callcott is portrayed a the Lawrence Estatel. October 26, able career and legacl. In the spirit haPPY to Cooley's waftime superior (which fictionally I 993. of that reminiscence, I am is not very likely), this being a simple reversal accept honorar)' membershiP of the of the real relationship between Maior Scott Very many thanks for the Journal: societ)'. Re swapping: and Ceuerul Roscn(hel. I found a lot to interest me. And Wirh relief I read in Rananimthat Lawrence has Callcott srnoking "his short many thanks. too. lor me on by a miracle Wyewurk still stands little pipe". Scott did not snoke a pipe, but Putting your mailing list: I'll be looking unaltered. I would of course endorse used a cigalette -holder (as in the picture in issues and any moves to ensure its integrity and D.H. Lrovrence in Australia). But Hum - forward to tbrthcoming preservation on the grounds of Trewhella - habitually used a short-stem, especially, of course, the one dealing curved pipe. Interestingly. as with many of with the exchanges between literary and architectural signifi- his disguise techniques. Lawrence later slips R.A. [Richard Aldington] and Adrian cance. up, having Callcott offer a cigarette to Harriett L. fl-awlor]. With renewed thanks and every in thc train to Mullimbimby. Tom Thompson is at Present in good wish for the success of the Paris but I forwarded the extra copy society and its Journal, 5. What he seents to be disguising is the of the Journal to him. "Narrabeen" presence at the afiernoon tea Yours sinccrell' party at "St Columb" (alrnost certainly Renewed thanks Collaroy' and Hinelnoa) of peoplc who we re Aldington's Dy'mphna (Clark). helpful to him in S1'dney and rvho rvere rclated Alister Kershaw [Richard ,rol as sistels-in-la$. tbrmer secretarY].

6. The Sydney-Thirroul do\\n lraini that Monday rvere (Thirr-oul arrir al titnes in brackets): 02.05 (0.1.39).08.10 I 10.1-1). I-1.r() Forthcoming Events (16.28 ), 16.4s (18.1i). 18.25 (10.-17r The relevant up train tirttes $cre (Sldne) arri\al ln the FootstePs of Lawrence 1: times in brackets): I 1.2-5 ( 13.52). l6.35pm (18.56), 19.58 Q2.73). I am. as in all such Sydney matters, indebted to John Lacey for this go infbrrnation. The D.H. Lawrence SocietY Plans Eliya, but we will also to other to hold a seminar on Sunday MaY places of interest in Sri Lanka have been thc with 7. Lawrence's error. Should 29, to commemorate the arrival of such as Galle, and SigiriYa, 21th. "fountains paradise". We Lawrence and Frieda in SYdneY its of rnvestigating the possibility of that weekend in 1922. The are 8. One can imagine Lawrence. deterrnined to travelling at least of the waY seminar will start in the morning Part rnove in imrnediately. brushing aside on the Viceroy SPecial train. But obiections that the cottage was not rcady with with talks and discussion followed the intention is to have an inex- the assurance that they would enjoy the with furlher talks in the by lunch, pensive tour in a country where "atniosphcre of the home lile of a large SPeakers and other afternoon. hotels and other travel arrange- fanily". later. details to be announced ments are remarkablY good value. including lunch: 9. As quoted in Nehls. Price, $25. John Lacey, a veteran of seven trips to Sri Lanka, as well as ln the FootstePs of Lawrence 2: 10. Though, as John Ruffbls points out. thc being our resident train buff , is cottage Verdun was not on the route from thc Ceylon advising on logistics and other station to craig street. arrangements. More details soon, DHL SocietY of Australia is but in the meantime You might I L I believe its proper name is probably "The The "ln like to register your interest and Ni ghtwatchrnan's Song". planning a tour the FootstePs of Lawrence" to Sri Lanka in we will send you a brochure. Lawrence 12. It would be rcmiss of rne to omit here that the December 1 994/January 1 995' Write to : The D.H. 100' head of the Harbour Lights Guild in 1922 was Mrc We will visit the Lawrence sites o{ Society of Australia, PO Box A.S. Scrivener. rnother of one of Llwrcnce's Colombo, Kandy, and Nuwara Millers Point, NSW 2000. shipboad compar.rions on the Malwa. aaa / L t<.aalatl

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(Cont'd from P 4) Sterne Lawrence By SteamshiP the torpedo failed to detonate. to Mabel Dodge Rananim The liner in which the Lawrences wrote: to sailed from Sydney to San Francisco The " I exPect we shall have to go flrst quite because the oained both fame and infamY' and it is Perfect, for the class on these small boats" (and to people quiet and simPle and iahiti was launched in 1904 are so the Anna Jenkins)," lt is about t60 first 'nobody The boat is UK-West lndies mail service as shows off at all. and t50 second class to San Francisco - a luxurious Poft Kingston When Elder DemPster nothing but comfort like on the Tahiti. We thought of going First class. First is no lines losl the mail contract, the ship hotet lhis second purchased bY the Union to San Francisco because it is a long different, except one deck more - but was ComPanY of New Zealand trip." more showing off - dances etc. lt cost SteamshiP 191 1 and renamed lt was t140 for the two of us, NaPles to in in Wellington, requistioned bY the New Zealand During the ship's call Colombo. First class only ten pounds postcard of her birth place Government during the war and used DHL senia more." this gesture as a trooPshiP, esPeciallY to ESYPJ to Katherine Mansfield, and 7800 tons. theTahiti was much aPPreciated. From Fremantle to SYdneY DHL Weiohino himself 227 first. 97 second However, what Lawrence sailed on the P&O Matwa, named after acco"mmo-dated seen in class thought of Wellington maY be the Central lndia province. Originally, and 141 third Passengers' ln 1923 lhe Tahitigained fame for Stephen O'Connor's arlicle. the vessel was to be named the Medina - John LaceY was not available in its record Passage of 16.5 daYs but this name and San 1908. (The laler Medina'sfirst voyage between Wellington to come later was as the RoYal Yacht to take the Francisco. lnfamy was when the lahifi King-Emperor and EmPress to the on 3 Novemb er 1927 Coming Up in the ferry Greycliffe, Delhi Durbar in 191 1 .) sliced through 3 minutes, killing at Issues The Matwa was one of a series of which sank within Future including manY liners built either for the London- least 39 PeoPle, Australia or London-lndia mail homeward bound schoolchildren on the 4.16 Circular Quay-Watson's Bay services. Thus all Passenger in 1930 was above the main service. The Iahitl itself sank I Dr PaulEggert's bibliograPhY accommodation propeller shaft in tropical conditions' when the starboard and Australia. Ceck for comfort hole-in her ot'DHL liners, weighing about snapped leaving a huge These M class for two tons, carried 400 first class side. The ship stayed afloat 11,000 everyone and their I DHL in CeYlon and 200 second class. The P&0 line days enabling carrY 3rd or emigrant lu{gage to be transferred to the did not Ventura (which passengers as emigrant ships had to rei6uiig Matson liner I The Fred Esch PaPers while the P&0 was on6 of the liners considered bY have ali-white crews, into staff DHL) before sinking 18,000 feet line had lndian deck and saloon , I The Wyewurk Visitors' with white officers and senior seamen. the Pacific. f rom NaPles to Book a trooPshiP lhe Malwa U nlike their voYage ln service as travelled in was the victim of a torpedo attack, but Svdnev, the Lawrences fiist class aboard lhe Tahiti. ln a letter

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