Collected Letters Volume One: Family Letters 1905–1931. Walter Hooper
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38 Lewis’s mother’s mother, Mary Warren Hamilton (b. 16 December 1826) died on 22 March 1916. See The Hamilton Family in the Biographical Appendix.
39 George MacDonald, Sir Gibbie (1879).
40 George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind (1871).
41 Sir Launcelot’s castle in the Arthurian legend.
42 Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), Belgian poetic dramatist and essayist, achieved great popularity with L’Oiseau bleu (1908) and its translation The Blue Bird (1909).
43 Robert Burns, ‘To a Mouse’ (1786): ‘The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.’
44 Isaac Bickerstaffe, An Expostulation (1789): ‘Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, / But–why did you kick me downstairs?’
45 Virgil, Aeneid, I,462: ‘Sunt lachrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt’ (‘There are tears for those things and they touch the minds of men.’)
46 Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson (1854-1935), Ulster leader, was attorney general of Ireland.
47 The Starlight Express, a play based on Algernon Blackwood’s A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913), with incidental music by Edward Elgar, was first performed on 29 December 1915.
48 Louis Napoleon Parker’s Disraeli was first performed on 23 January 1911.
49 Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81), first Earl of Beaconsfield, was Prime Minister 1868 and 1874-80. He published a number of novels, including Vivian Grey (1826), Coningsby (1844), Sybil (1845) and Tancred (1847).
50 Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblauch’s play Milestones (1912).
51 The 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Lewis was reading the prose translation by E.J.B. Kirtlan (1912).
52 Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy (1818).
53 Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Sketches of Rural Life, Character, and Scenery, 5 vols. (1824-32).
54 Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818).
55 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein (1818; 1831).
56 Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1818).
57 Jane Austen, Emma (1816).
58 Aida, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, first performed in 1871.
59 Mrs Kirkpatrick.
60 The Royal Academy of Art, London.
61 A complete list of the art works at the Royal Academy Exhibition can be found in The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 148 (1916). But Lewis is referring to The Royal Academy Illustrated (1916) which contains photographs of most of the paintings mentioned here.
62 Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales for the Modern Reader, prepared and edited by A. Burrell, Everyman’s Library (1908).
63 Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut, Traduit et Restauré par Joseph Bédier, Préface de Gaston Paris (Paris [1900]).
64 Milton, Paradise Lost, IX, 27-8.
65 Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! (1855).
66 Diana Vernon and Rashleigh are characters in Rob Roy.
67 Warnie was on leave, and at Little Lea, 19-25 May.
68 Punch, vol. CL (12 April 1916), p. 252.
69 Mr Lewis had probably been reading William Flavelle Monypenny’s The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, 6 vols. (1910-20).
70 Rob Roy, ch. XXXIV.
71 John Dryden (1631-1700), so called both for his writings and for the fact that he was the first Poet Laureate to be officially so designated.
72 William De Morgan, Alice-for-Short (1907).
73 Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
74 The Canterbury Tales, 2797.
75 ibid., 2808.
76 La Chanson de Roland, Traduction Nouvelle D’Après les Textes Originaux [1911].
77 Beowulf, a poem in Old English generally dated to the eighth century and surviving in a 10th century manuscript. It tells the story of the Geatish hero, Beowulf, and is the most important poem in Old English.
78 Algernon Blackwood, John Silence: Physician Extraordinary