An Index
to M.R. James's Letters to a Friend

(Drawing of M.R. James by Jane McBryde, from Letters to a Friend)

Letters to a Friend was published in 1956 by Edward Arnold (the publishers of M.R. James's ghost story collections). It contains the texts of approximately three hundred letters, written by M.R. James to Gwendolen and Jane McBryde between December 1904 and December 1935 (the year before his death). They were edited by Gwendolen McBryde, who also provided an introduction recounting some of her memories of MRJ. The letters include much that is interesting and sometimes highly amusing, but as a resource of biographical information on MRJ the book is marred by several things, not least the lack of an index. This companion to our index for MRJ's Eton and King's rectifies that problem, but it cannot help to improve the generally disappointing nature of Letters to a Friend. Gwendolen McBryde was not a particularly good editor: she failed to add footnotes to explain obscure references, and on the few occasions when she did include a note it was sometimes unnecessary, in the wrong place - or simply wrong! She seems to have left out some personal sections of letters, and her ability to transcribe MRJ's handwriting also leaves something to be desired. This, at least, is understandable for, as she says: "MRJ's handwriting was not always easy to decipher, and proper names especially could be matter for inference and guesswork". However, it might have been useful if she had marked doubtful readings as such; certainly it has caused us major difficulties when producing our index. Thus, for instance, she read Walsingham as Wokingham, and Baker as Butler. To complicate matters further, some of the letters are wrongly dated (perhaps because MRJ did not put a year on them, or because Gwendolen misread it). For example, a letter dated October 30, 1935, mentions the recent deaths and funerals of "old Mrs Evans" and Lord Brabourne. These actually took place in 1933. Given this corrected date, the reference in the letter to a Latin manuscript about Salome and the Maries suddenly makes sense: it is the text by Maurice of Kirkham, which MRJ described in his 1934 article for the Journal of Theological Studies on "The Salomites".

This index is longer than the one for Eton and King's and has proved much harder to compile for the above reasons, and also because MRJ had a tendency to mention people by their titles alone (the Bishop of Oxford, the Dean of Harrow, etc.). Gwendolen McBryde names only a very few of these in footnotes, but we have managed to identify almost all of them, so they appear in the index under their names rather than their titles. When a name of a person or place (or a book title) is mistranscribed by Gwendolen, it is included in the index in square brackets. If we have been able to work out what the proper reading should be, then that is the one which is indexed (the incorrect word in square brackets is added at the end of the entry).

Corrections and suggestions for additions and identifications are, of course, welcome.

This index is copyright © 2005 Darroll and Rosemary Pardoe. Not to be reproduced without our permission.

*A*

Abbey Dore, Herefs, 18, 22
Abbeys (MRJ), 22, 129-130, 131, 132
Aberbrothock (Arbroath), Angus, 74
Aberdeen University, MSS, 147, 167, 168, 169, 178-179
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, 89
Abingdon, Berks, 129
Acklone (torpedo-maker), 90
actor, MRJ's talents as an, 12
Adoration of the Magi (painting) (Breughel), 111
Agen, France, 101
Agnew, Geoffrey, 201
Ainger, Arthur Campbell, 60, 114
airship, passing over Cambridge (May, 1915), 55
Aix-en-Provence Triptych (in French Exhibition, 1932), 177, 178
Albatross Books, edition of MRJ's ghost stories (Thirteen Ghost Stories), 220
Albi, France, 106
Alceste (Handel), 114
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, 23, 112, 113-114, 121, 126-127, 155, 162, 172, 180-182, 190, 191-192, 209, 211; golf at, 173, 181; Martello Tower, 127; sea urchins and starfish at, 211; shopkeeper with book by MRJ, 192; White Lion Hotel, 121, 126, 137, 142, 155, 180-182, 191, 211
Alexander the Great, 192
Alice, Princess, Countess of Athlone, 105
Alington family, 102, 146, 174, 182, 196
Alington, Cyril Argentine (Headmaster of Eton, later Dean of Durham), 69, 103, 130, 143, 147, 150, 152, 169, 199, 200, 202, 203, 209, 213, 216; becomes Dean of Durham, 189, 190, 191
Alington, Elizabeth, 146
Alington, Giles, 201, 202
Alington, Hester Margaret, 149, 182
Alington, Lavinia, 146
Alington, Patrick, 146, 152
All Saints Margaret Street, London, 109, 116, 120
All The Year Round (ed. Dickens), 17
Allen (Eton boy), 175
Alliss, T.W., 102
Ambassadors, entertained by MRJ at Cambridge, 51
Ambialet, France, 106
ambition, MRJ's modesty of, 25, 108-109
America and Americans, 88, 122, 152, 157, 163, 190, 197, 209, 218
Amiens, France, 204
Ampthill, Lady (Christabel Hulme Russell), 193
Andersen, Hans, fairy tales by, 14-15, 126, 128, 130, 132, 133, 141, 142, 149-150, 157, 158, 163, 166
Andoversford, Glos, 150
Angels, names of, 141
Angoulême, France, 116
Anlaby Chartulary, 178
Anlaby, Thomas, 178
Annals of a Parish (Galt), 16
"Anne Lisbeth" (Andersen), 132, 133
Anstey, F. (Thomas Anstey Guthrie), 15, 19, 37, 39, 43, 93, 106, 117, 118
Antrim, Lord, ("Ducie") (Randal Mark Kerr McDonnell), 185
Apocalypse in Art, lectures on, by MRJ, 147
Apocalypse in Latin and French, The (ed. MRJ), 110
Apocrypha, 38, 72, 73, 139, 153, 162
Apocryphal New Testament, The (MRJ), 112, 116, 119, 125
Apperley Hills, Glos, 146
Arabian Nights, The, 17
Aramston, Herefs, 169
Arnold, Edward, 110, 111, 114, 116
"Art of Dr. Montagu James, The" (Butts), 200-201
Art Religieux en France au XIIe siecle, L' (Male), 132
Ascot, Berks, race meeting, 184, 201
Assier, France, 106
Astley family, of Brinsop Court, 24, 66
Athelstan, King, 79
Athenaeum Club, London, 91, 111
Atherstone, Warwks, 129
Aubazine, France, 101, 117
Auch, France, 99, 101
Auckland Castle, County Durham, 192
Audley End, Essex, 133
Auger tapestries (in French Exhibition, 1932), 177
Augustine of Canterbury, St, 127, 198
Austen Leigh, Misses, 180, 181
Austen Leigh, Lois, 80, 171, 173
automatic writing, 198
Autun, France, 42
Auxerre, France, 37, 204, 205
Avebury, Lady Alice, 126, 127
Avebury, Wilts, 146-147
Aylesbury, Bucks, 173, 174
Ayr, 164, 175

*B*

Baigneuse Inconnue, La (film), 106
Bailey, Philip James, 208
Bainton, Yorks, 153
Baker, A.C. ["Butler"], 103-104
Balfour, Nemone, parents of, 189
Ball, W.V. ("Willy"), 177, 189
Bannister, A.T., 135, 136, 139
Baptists ("Dippers"), in Herefordshire, 20, 149
Barrie, James M., 14, 19, 112, 164
Barrington family, 181
Barrington, Patrick, 198
Bartlett, Henrietta, 157
Bashkirtseff, Marie, 92
Basingwerk Abbey, Flintshire, 129
Batten, John Dickson, 113
Beauchamp Chapel, Warwick, 141
Beaulieu, France, 106
Beaune, France, 42
Beaverbrook Press, 199
Bede, The Venerable, 200
Bede. His Life, Times, and Writings (Thompson), chapter - "The Manuscripts of Bede" - by MRJ in, 200
Bedford, 71
Beeleigh Abbey, Essex, 103, 133
beetles, 69, 167
"Bell, The" (Andersen), 130
Bembridge, Isle of Wight (Sydney James's house), 52, 53, 132
Benham, Benjamin, 55, 59, 70, 71
Benson, Arthur C., 112, 134
Bern (Berne), Switzerland, 42, 43
Bernard, John Henry (Archbishop of Dublin), 91
Bestiaries, 147, 170
Binham, Norfolk, 165
birds, 13, 14, 20, 21, 38, 122, 125, 138, 152, 161, 168, 173, 181, 182, 192, 197; the Bulbul and the Cuckoo (Indian folk tale), 65-66; designs of cats on, 96, 97, 102, 115, 173, 184, 197, 212, 222; McBrydes', 17-18, 69; parrots, MRJ's love of, 63; see also owls
Birds, The (Aristophanes), 146
Birmingham: Birmingham and Midland Institute, 148; Cathedral, 135
Bisham, Bucks, 99
Black Magic (Bowen), 134
Black Mountains, Mon/Brec, 21, 25, 146
Black Templar of York, The (Sykes), 73, 74, 77, 89
Blackmouse (Mouse), Jane McBryde's name for MRJ, 9-10, 15, 21, 40
Blackwood's Magazine, 18, 19
Bladé, Jean-François ["F.X. Blades"], 101
Blakeney, Norfolk, 165
Bland, Nevile, 34, 205
Blücher (German battlecruiser), 53
Bodleian Library, Oxford, 80, 113, 128
Bodmin, Cornwall, 121
Bolton Priory, Yorks, 196
Book of Tobit and the History of Susanna, The (intr. MRJ), 153
Bookman, The, 159
booksellers' catalogues, proliferation of, 219, 221
Bordeaux, France, 99
Borgia, Lucretia, 49
Borrow, George, 19, 131, 132
Boscastle, Cornwall, 121
Boswell, James, 47
Bourges, France, 37, 101, 204
Boxey Brown (G. McBryde), 171
Boy Bishop's Play, on Founder's Day at Eton, 94, 103
Brabourne, Lord (Cecil Marcus Knatchbull-Hugessen), 218
Bradley, Enoch, 18, 73
Brandon Hall, Suffolk, 187
Brandsby, Yorks ["Bransby"], 117, 134, 158, 175
Brantôme, France, 117, 118
Breamore, Hants, 167
Bretenoux, France, 106
Bridgeman family, 188
Bridgeman, William Clive, 92, 203, 215, 216
Bridges, Robert, 159, 160
Bridstow, Herefs, 188
Brindley, Harold Hulme, 216
Brinsop Court, Herefs, 24, 66
Briscoe (Army Officer), 74, 75, 76, 79
Bristol, 137, 199
British Academy, 147
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 221
British Exhibition (1934), 199
British Museum, 88, 113, 120, 123, 135, 136, 138, 164, 172, 179, 201, 206, 214, 219; Codex Sinaiticus at, 199, 200; MRJ becomes Trustee of, 132
British Painting (Baker), chapter - "The Mediaeval Period" - by MRJ in, 192, 195, 218
British Primitives, Committee on Exhibition of (1923), 123
Brive-la-Gaillard, France, 101, 106, 117
Broad Chalke, Wilts, 196
Broadbent, Henry (Eton Librarian), 76, 147, 178, 183, 200, 201, 219, 220
Brocas Lawsuit, 173
Brockenhurst, Hants, 132
Brooke, A.E., 137
Brooke, Rupert, 54-55
Browning, Oscar ("O.B."), 194
Brumwell, C.E., 220
Brussels, Belgium, 10, 213
Bruton, Somerset, 129
Buildwas, Salop, 129
Bulbul and the Cuckoo, Indian folk tale of, 65-66
Bumpus, 204
Bure (river), Norfolk, Mill on the, 45
Burge, Hubert Murray (Bishop of Oxford), 105
"Burka" (Erckmann-Chatrian), 15
Burnham Beeches, Bucks, 91, 93, 189
Burrell's Field, Cambridge, 33
Burroughs family, 196
Burroughs, Edward Arthur (Dean of Bristol), 133
Burrows (Eton boy), 155
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 31, 80, 162, 174, 176-177, 182; Abbey Church, lecture by MRJ on, 180, 181, 182, 183; Angel Hotel, 90, 173
Butler, Edward ("Ted"), 211
Butler, H. Montagu (Master of Trinity), 76
Butts, Mary ["Butt"], 201

*C*

Caerleon, Mon, monkey at, 163
Caerwent, Mon, Roman remains at, 195, 196
Cahors, France, 101
Calais, France, 100
Cambridge Medieval History, chapter by MRJ in, 43, 44, 45
Cambridge: election of professors at, 140, 144; MRJ becomes Vice-Chancellor of, 46; University Library, MSS, 141, 143, 147, 148, 152, 161, 164, 167; see also individual locations
Canterbury Psalter (intr. MRJ), 200, 206, 208, 209, 210, 211
Canterbury, Kent, 43, 58, 110, 114, 117, 118, 127-128, 132, 133, 137-138; Cathedral, 114, 127, 132, 137, 138; County Hotel, 126, 127, 132, 137-138, 142; St Augustine's Abbey, 127
card games, 14, 100, 132, 138, 180, 188
Carew MSS, Lambeth, 110
Carey family, 113, 202
Carey, Clive, 98, 141
Carey, Gordon, 60, 161
Carlisle, Cumbria, 164
"Carmilla" (Le Fanu) ["Camilla"], 112
[Cartier's Flight] [?], 85
Castera-Verduzan, France, 100
Castle Eden, County Durham, The Dene at, 196
Cat and Fiddle, Presteigne, Radnorshire (Grace James's house), 62, 64, 82, 83
cats, 9, 10, 13, 23, 36, 59, 74, 75, 82, 84, 85, 87, 90, 130, 146, 161, 166, 201, 206, 212; at Aldeburgh, 181, 211; comments and complaints of, 40, 41-42, 54, 55, 57, 60-61, 62, 70, 73, 77, 86; comments on MRJ's physique, 41; complaints about the German Spy, 51-52, 55-56; cowberries, dislike of, 83; Daniel (MRJ's), 189, 197, 203, 213, 217, 220, 222; Grace James's (Artos), and its series of addresses on hay, 83; Grace James's black cat (the German Spy), 51-52, 53, 55-56, 64; Job (MRJ's), 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 102, 103, 115, 120; kittens, 41, 45, 49, 56, 60, 67, 85, 86, 91, 92, 150, 167, 184, 185, 186, 187, 203-204, 220; McBrydes', 10, 49, 54, 56-57, 60, 64, 92, 149, 150, 170, 173, 201; Ramsays', 151, 217; registering with Foreign Office for mouse duty, 57; Siamese, in King's College, 78-79
Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 131
Cezanne, Paul, 177
Chalfont, Bucks, 102
Chamberlain family, 152
Chamberlayne Scholarship (Eton), 213
Channon, F.G., 158
Chapelizod, Dublin, 144
Charente (river), France, 116
Charles I, King, 133
Charroux, France, 116
Chartres, France, 204
Chatwin, Philip B., 141
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 114
Chaumont, France, 43
Cheltenham, Glos, 196; Ladies' College, 150
Chepstow, Mon, Park Hotel, 195
Chester, 168
Chester Beatty MS (of the Book of Enoch), 181
Chicago World's Fair (1933), 190
Chigwell, Essex, 92
"Child that went with the Fairies, The" (Le Fanu), 17
Chippenham Park, Cambs, 187
Chippenham, Wilts, 122
Chitty, G.J., 174
Christ before Pilate (painting) (Honthorst), 111
Christchurch, Dorset, 39, 132
Christmas, at King's College, 8, 10, 34, 47, 52, 59, 60, 75, 86, 87, 151, 168
Church Congress (1910), 37
Church Stretton, Salop, 187, 188
"Church's One Foundation, The" (hymn), 85
Chute, J.C., 209
Cinderella (pantomime), 120
cinema, open air, at St Antonin, 106
Civray, France, 116
Clapham, Alfred W., 21, 139, 142
Clapham, J.H., 59, 76
Clare College, Cambridge, 185
Clark, Frances Matilda, death of, 35
Clark, John Willis ('J'), 35, 36, 37, 149
Clark, Will, 97, 117
Clarke, Dora, 209
Classics in Education, talk by MRJ on, 160
Clementine Recognitions/Homilies, 177
Clermont-Ferrand, France, 45
Clive family, 145, 173, 194
Clive, Lewis, 150, 155, 194
clocks, change of, 62
Clouds of Witness (Sayers), 217
Cluny Problem, The (Fielding), 150
Cobham (Lyttleton) family, of Hagley Hall, 47
Cockerell, Sydney C., 142, 201, 209, 218
Coggeshall, Essex, 133
Colchester, Essex, 133
Coles Tump, Herefs, 25
Collected Ghost Stories (MRJ), 170, 173
Coltishall, Norfolk, 45
Commination Service, MRJ's revision of, 126
Commission of Inquiry into the Constitution and Revenues of Cathedrals, 134-135, 136, 137
Commons, House of, 112, 183
Comus (Milton), 32
Condom, France, 100
Conques, France, 106
Contes de la Gascogne (Bladé), 101
Conybeare, Alfred E., 39, 99, 100, 101, 125, 161, 174, 194
Cook, Herbert, 189
Copenhagen, Denmark, 121-122
Copford, Essex, 133
Corbett, R.W. (Junior Bursar of Eton), 213, 215, 220
Cordes, France, 106
Cornwall, Geoffrey, 156
Coronation of George V, 40
Corpus Christi College, MSS, 33
Correspondence of Thomas Gray (Gray), 218
Coster, Howard, 159
Coué, Emile, 113
Country Life, 21
Country of the Pointed Firs, The (Jewett), 18
Coventry Cathedral, Warwks, 135
Cowper, William, 192
Craig(s) (Eton boys), 125
Cranford (Gaskell), 16
cricket, 11, 23, 138, 148, 156, 175, 214; Eton and Harrow Match (Lord's), 12, 32, 36-37, 49, 115, 129, 144, 157, 164, 185, 186, 213, 214; Eton and Winchester Match, 92, 98, 105, 128, 144, 157, 164, 185, 212, 213; Eton Matches, 103, 105, 168, 174, 186, 203, 214
Crippen, Hawley Harvey, trial of, 180
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Revelation of St John, A (Charles), MRJ's review of ["Chorley"], 104
Cromer, Norfolk, Newhaven Court Hotel, 79, 139
Cropper family, 168; see also Maisie Fletcher
croquet (and golf croquet), 14, 132, 147, 176
Crossraguel Abbey, Ayrshire, 165
crossword puzzles, 14, 161, 164, 201, 211, 215
Croughton church, Northants, wall paintings in, 130
Croydon, Surrey, 167
Curzon of Kedleston, Lord (George Nathaniel Curzon), 132
Cymbeline (Shakespeare), 197
Cyprus, 210

*D*

Da Forli, Melozzo, 31-32
Damrong, Prince of Siam, 164
D'aranyi, Jelly, 200
Darling, Lord (Charles John Darling), 185
"Dauntless Tin Soldier, The" (Andersen), 128
Davidson, Randall (Archbishop of Canterbury), 56
Davies, Nicholas Llewellyn, 112
De Bury, Richard, 80
De Coverley, Roger, 145
De Havilland family, 209
De Havilland, R.S., 107
De Hooch, Pieter, 32, 151
De Lotbiniere, Seymour, and family, 154, 155, 159, 168, 187, 191
De Nugus Curialium (Map), 116, 119
Deane, Anthony (Vicar of Malvern), 37
Denmark, holidays in, 8, 19, 121-122
Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Hereford Cathedral Library, A (Bannister), 135, 136
Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Lambeth Palace (MRJ & Jenkins), 157
detective stories, 15, 126, 130, 132, 142, 159, 176, 179, 199, 217
detonator, accident at Eton with, 119
Dickens (Darwin), 193
Dickens, Charles, 17, 19, 129, 193, 199, 216; characters and quotations from, 17, 34, 74, 84, 92, 97, 141, 151, 173, 182, 193, 222
Dickens, Henry, 199
Didlington, Norfolk, 187
Dijon, France, 42, 85, 204
Dimsdale, Marcus, 59
Dinemore Manor, Herefs, 64
Dippersmoor Manor, Herefs ("Dippers", G. McBryde's house), 21, 25, 146, 148-149, 155, 156, 158, 160, 164, 177, 215; MRJ's opinion of move from Woodlands to Dippersmoor, 20, 142
Dixton, Glos, 200
Doctor, The (Southey), 222
dogs, 116, 146, 148, 156, 170, 181, 189, 192, 205; Desmond the dalmatian, 200, 216
Dog's Nose (drink), 216
Dôle, France, 42
Dolls' House, Queen Mary's, Windsor, 193
Dombey & Son (Dickens), 74
Donal Grant (Macdonald), 19
Donaldson, St Clair (Bishop of Salisbury), 108, 188, 221
Dorchester, Oxon, 129
Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, 189
Douglas-Howe (Eton boy), 175
Dover, Kent, 128
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 138
Drapers' Company, London, 113
dreams, MRJ's: of a murderer's ghost and 'Hay Stephens', 149; of Nixon and a ham, 143
Droitwich Spa, Worcs, 146, 215
Drover, Mr, 110
Du Maurier, Daphne, 208
Du Maurier, Gerald, 208
Dublin Apocalypse, The (ed. MRJ), 167
Dublin University Magazine, 112, 121
Dublin, Ireland, 144
Duckworth family, 123, 160
Duckworth, George, 21, 123, 143, 145, 185, 202
Duckworth, Henry, 123
Dugdale family, 165
Dumas, Alexandre, 145
Dundrennan Abbey, Dumfries & Galloway, 165
Dunmow Priory, Essex, 133
Dunstan, St, 127
Durham, 181, 192, 196, 215, 222
Durnford, Walter (Provost of King's), 49, 85, 107, 113, 123, 137
Dutch Picture Exhibition (1929), 151

*E*

Eager Heart (play) (Buckton), 95
Earl's Terrace, London, 8, 29
earth nuts, digging for, 25
Easby Abbey, Yorks, 134
East Anglian Magazine, 213
Eastbourne, Sussex, 161
eclipses of the sun, 42, 144
Ede, William Moore (Dean of Worcester), 152
Edinburgh Castle, War Memorial at, 107
Edward, Prince of Wales, 95, 168
Edwards, Alfred George (Archbishop of Wales), 130
"Elegy in a Country Churchyard" (Gray), 214
Elenchus Scriptorum Montacutii Rhodes James (Scholfield), 221
"Eleven Wild Swans, The" (Andersen), 142
"Elf Hill, The" (Andersen), 133
Elijah (Handel), 112, 121
Eliot, T.S., 217
Elizabeth I, Queen, 68
Elliott, Claude (Headmaster of Eton, later Provost), 26, 194, 195, 204
Eltham, Kent, 137
Ely, Cambs, 182
"Emperor's New Clothes, The" (Andersen), 128
Empire Review, 140
Enoch, Book of (1 Enoch), 180, 181
Enquiry into the Nature of certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, An (Carter & Pollard), 207
Epsom Derby (horse race), 128
Erckmann-Chatrian (E. Erckmann & P.A. Chatrian), 15, 131
Estoire De Seint Aedward Le Rei, La: The Life of Edward the Confessor (ed. MRJ), 70
Eton and Kings (MRJ), 135, 136, 139
Eton College Chronicle, 84, 171, 216
Eton, Bucks: Cottage Gardens Competition, 203, 214; Fire Brigade, 102, 204; Scientific Society, 115; resignation of vicar of (1934), and consequences, 200, 209
Eton College: Accounts Books and Rolls, 89, 123, 153; Boy Scouts and their camps, 11, 99, 144, 172; Boys' Essay Society, 69; boys, MRJ's conversations with, 11, 23, 87, 125; Chapel, fabric of, 122, 123, 124, 125, 146, 148, 152, 159, 193; Chapel (Lower), fabric of, 70, 107, 118, 119, 126, 146; Clock and Clock Tower, 23, 87, 166, 198; Concerts, School, 94, 121, 129, 155, 191, 208; Election Hall, 11, 12, 16, 22, 83, 93, 94, 136; floodlighting of, 212; Headmaster, selection of, 189-192, 194; Libraries, 11, 23, 69, 84, 184, 185, 200, 201, 213, 219, 220; Luxmoore's Garden, 140, 158, 161, 192, 193, 194, 195, 212; Officers' Training Corps, 119, 213; Old Choristers' Association, 168; Old Etonians/Collegers Dinners, 144, 154, 157; organs, 22, 72, 118, 119, 136, 166; prints of, in School Library, 184, 185; Provost's Lodge, MRJ's move into, 11, 81-83, 84, 85, 87, 88; Reading Room, 107; Royal Visits, historical, 129
Eton Mission (Hackney Wick), 105, 164
"Eton Wall Paintings: The Hand of a Master" (MRJ), 123
Etonian MPs, MRJ at Dinner of, 112, 183
Evans, Mrs M.S., funeral of, 218
"Excursion, The" (Wordsworth), 191

*F*

Fairchild family, 210
Fairfax Lucy, 147
Fairford, Glos, Bell Hotel, 215
Fairweather (Army Officer), 74, 75, 76, 78, 79
Fairy Queen, The (Purcell), 95, 170, 171
Fairy Wood, near Woodlands, Herefs, 20
Falstaff, Sir John, MRJ reading part of, 12
Family, The (Cambridge Dining Club), 149
Farmer, Mrs (MRJ's housekeeper at King's), 9
Faulkbourne House, Essex, 103
Faversham, Kent, 113
Felixstowe, Suffolk, 34
Fergusson, Alice, 165
Fergusson, Bernard (Lord Ballantrae), and family, 19, 164, 165, 166, 171, 175, 197, 217
Fergusson, Charles, 165
Fergusson, James, 165
Fergusson, Simon, 165
Festus (Bailey), 208
"Fifty Years. New and Old at Cambridge" (MRJ), 176
Figeac, France, 106
Finchale Priory, County Durham, 196
Fire Raisers, The (Dearden), 15
Fireworks, on June 4th at Eton, 115, 202
Fish, Mr and Mrs (Fisher?), 164
fish-slice, as wedding gift, 217
Fisher of Kilverstone, Lord (Cecil Vavasseur Fisher), 187
Fisher, J., 158, 167, 176, 187
fishing, at Fairford, 215
Five Jars, The (MRJ), 14-15, 64, 68, 107, 109, 116, 118, 119, 123, 221; see also under illustrations and drawings
Flemish Exhibition, Royal Academy (1927), 141, 151
Fletcher family, 31, 36, 90, 194
Fletcher, Anne, 194
Fletcher, Charles, 90, 163, 172, 182, 194, 209
Fletcher (née Cropper), Maisie, 8, 31, 36, 46, 194, 201, 209
Fletcher, Michael, 121
Fletcher, Walter Morley, 8, 33, 39, 62, 79, 85, 90, 97, 102, 105, 109, 113, 115, 119, 122, 124, 138, 143, 149, 153, 163, 168, 172, 176, 184, 200, 209, 215, 216; death and funeral of, 194, 195; as Jane McBryde's godfather, 8; on MRJ and bad language, 20
Fleurance, France, 101
Flint, W. Russell, MRJ's comments on the illustrations of, 153
flooding, at Eton, 125, 160, 161
Florence, Italy, 113
flowers and trees, 8, 20, 25, 43, 100, 114, 182, 184, 189; at Cambridge, 67-68, 78, 80; in and around Eton, 91, 96, 97, 112, 128, 156, 161, 202, 212, 219; foreign names of, 38; magnolia tree at Eton, 11, 97, 148, 156, 163, 182, 212; MRJ's love of, 13
Folk Lore books, Danish, 122
Folk Stories, old Danish and Breton, 15
Fontaine Polenire, La, France, 101
Ford family, 97, 152, 155
Ford, Edward, 155, 157
Ford, Henry J., 44
Ford, Lionel (Headmaster of Harrow), 69, 81, 157
Forthampton Court, Tewkesbury, Glos, 92, 117, 140, 146, 166, 196
Foster, Raymond, 54
Founder's Day, at Eton and King's, 35, 75, 86, 94, 103, 128, 136, 150, 160, 163, 168, 198, 207
Fountains Abbey, Yorks, 175
Fouquet, Jean, 177
Fragonard, Jean-Honore, 177
France, holidays in, 19-20, 37-38, 41, 42-43, 44, 45, 65, 80, 90, 99-101, 106-107, 116-118
French Exhibition, Royal Academy (1932), 177, 178
French language, MRJ's problems with speaking, 183
freshets (in Wild Wales), 19
Fribourg, Switzerland, 42, 43
Frome, Somerset, George Hotel, 130
Futurist Exhibition, London (1912), 43

*G*

Gaffney, James Edward, 104
Gaillac, France, 106
Galli-Curci, Amelita, 10
Gallina, London (restaurant?), 87
Gallipoli, Turkey, 183
Galsworthy, John, 88
Gammon, story by, 170, 176
Garonne (river), France, 100, 101
Garway, Herefs, 71-72, 146
Garway Hills, Herefs, 25
Gascoigne, Mrs, 173
gear box, article on, in motoring magazine, 121
General Election (1935), 219
George III, King, 136; Birthday Celebrations (June 4th) at Eton, 23, 91, 105, 115, 128, 163, 174, 201, 202, 212
George V, King, 92, 112, 129, 143, 161-163, 184, 193, 194, 212
Gerald: A Portrait (Du Maurier), 208
Germany, holidays in, 39, 40
ghost stories, 73, 123, 131, 132, 221; by MRJ, 8, 11, 14, 15, 114, 118, 126, 132, 134, 135, 144, 152, 170, 173, 179, 220; see also Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (MRJ), 8
ghost, MRJ's dream of a murderer's, 149
Giant-Land ('Quiz'/Quittenton), 152
Giblin, Lyndhurst Falkener, 69, 85
"Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, The" (Andersen), 132, 133
Glasgow, 34
Glastonbury Tor, Somerset, 122
Gloucester, 43, 122; The Bell Hotel, 130
Gloucester, Henry, Duke of, wedding of, 217
goats, Grace James's, 82, 83
godchildren, MRJ's, 56, 79, 97
Godmanchester, Hunts, 90
Golden Days of the Early English Church, The (Howorth), 70
Golden Valley, Herefs, 21, 25
golf, 173, 176, 181
Golfech, France, 101
Good Companions, The (Priestley), 159, 167
Goodnestone Next Wingham, Kent, 114, 118, 166
Gouraud, Henri Joseph Etienne, 182, 183
Gow, A.S.F, 68, 69, 125, 180, 181, 182, 191, 192, 211
Gower, Leveson, 118
Gozzoli, Benozzo, 113
Grace (Eton Master), 68
Gramat, France, 106
gramophones, 10, 90
"Grateful Dead, The" (version of "The Travelling Companion"), 15, 150
Gray, Thomas, 136, 218
Great Eastern Railway, 147
Great Western Railway, 129
Greek Testament, MRJ reading during sermon, 18
"Green Silk Boy, The" (version of "The Travelling Companion"), 15
"Green Tea" (Le Fanu), 159
Greenford, Middlesex ["Greasford"], 109
Greenwich, Kent, 137
Gregory Bible, letters from eccentric on, 198
Gregory I, Pope, 198
Grey of Falloden, Lord (Edward Grey), 88, 185
Grillion's Club, London, 184, 185
Grimond, Jo, 216
Grotrian, Brent (G. McBryde's nephew), and brother, 68, 69, 91, 96
Grotrian, Harold (G. McBryde's brother), 86
Guardian, The (Church Newspaper), 126, 127
guardianship of Jane McBryde, MRJ's, 8, 29
Gueret, France, 37
Guthrie, Thomas Anstey (F. Anstey), 15, 19, 37, 39, 43, 93, 106, 117, 118

*H*

H, Miss (demented second cousin of MRJ), 47
Hagley, Worcs, 47
Hailsham, Lord (Quintin Hogg), 185
Haltemprice, Prior of, 178
Hamlet (Cambridge New Shakespeare, ed. Dover Wilson), 206, 207
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 217
Hampton Court, Surrey, 105, 120
Handel Festival (1920), 98
Handel, played by MRJ on the piano, 10, 114
handwriting, MRJ's, 59, 61, 81, 133
Hans Andersen: Forty Stories (ed. MRJ), 14-15, 142, 157, 158, 163, 166
Hare (Eton boy), 150, 155
Hare, Augustus, 43
Harris, Mr, 204
Harrison, Frederick (York Minster Librarian), 136
Harrow, Middlesex, 76, 136
Harrowing of Hell, Anglo-Saxon carved tablet of, 47
Hartland Quay, Devon, 97
Harvey, B.W., 209
Haughmond, Salop, 129
"Haunted Dolls' House, The" (MRJ), 118
Haviland, Helen, 165
Hawbuck Grange (Surtees), 159
Hawbucks, The (Masefield), 159
"Hay: What it is and what it stands for", cat's course of addresses, 83
Headlam, A.C. (Bishop of Gloucester), 140
Headmasters' Conference, 160
Hedingham, Essex, 133
Hedley, David, 155
Henley Regatta, 92, 116, 157, 185
Henry VI, King, 75, 94, 114
Henry VIII, King, 129
hens, gullibility of, 83
Henschel, George, 141
Henson, Herbert Hensley (Bishop of Durham), 185, 190, 191, 192
Hereford, 19, 57, 145, 168; Cathedral, MSS, 134-135, 136, 139; Green Dragon Hotel, 82, 139
Herefordshire, MRJ's opinion of, 29, 30
Herne Hill, Greater London, 128
Herodotus, 161
Hibbert, Thurston Holland, 33
High Elms, Kent, 126, 127
Hill, Arthur W., 65, 120, 174
Hippodrome Theatre, London, 120
Hirohito (Crown Prince of Japan), 115
History of England under Henry the Fourth (Wylie), 132
History of France, A (Kitchin), 145
HMS Iron Duke, 152
Holberg, Ludvig, 132, 133
Holkham Hall, Norfolk, MSS, 97
Hollway-Calthrop, H.C. (ex-Bursar of Eton), 89, 90
Honingham, Norfolk, 36
Honthorst, Gerrit Van ["Houthorst"], 111
horses, MRJ and, 124, 163
House by the Churchyard, The (Le Fanu), 16-17, 78, 105, 144
"House on the Hill, The" (story by Jane McBryde), 55
Housman, A.E., 17, 18, 68
Howorth, Henry Hoyle, 70
Howson, Hugh Edmund Elliot, 167, 195
Hull, Yorks, 178
Hullavington, Wilts, 215
Hunstanton, Norfolk, 70
Hunter Blair, Oswald, 218
Huntingdon, 90
Hurley, Berks, 129
Hutton, Wlliam Holden (Dean of Winchester), 122
Huxley, Aldous, 200

*I*

Ickenham, Bucks, 192
"Iconography of Buckinghamshire", talk on by MRJ, 179
illnesses suffered by MRJ: leg problems, 147; lumbago, 61; shingles, 67, 68; teeth problems, 44, 131
illustrations and drawings: 17, 44, 89, 153, 159, 163, 169; for The Five Jars, 14-15, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114, 118, 123; by Gwendolen McBryde, 14, 17, 22, 36, 126, 171, 220; by James McBryde, 8; by Jane McBryde, 14-15, 21, 43, 44, 52, 55, 59, 71, 73, 74, 75, 86, 87
Illustrations of the Book of Genesis (MRJ), 110
In A Glass Darkly (Le Fanu), 112, 159
In Brief Authority (Anstey), 93
"In Memoriam: The Right Hon. Viscount Bridgeman of Leigh" (MRJ), 216
Incredible Crime, The (Austen Leigh), 171
Indian Fairy Tales (Stokes), 65
Infancy Gospel, Latin, 139-140
Inge, William Ralph (Dean of St Paul's), 55, 140
Ingmanthorpe Hall, Yorks, 30
Inkpen Beacon, Berks, 205
Inner Temple, London, 121
Ipswich, Suffolk, 169, 189
Italian Exhibition, Royal Academy (1930), 162
Italy, holidays in, 19
Iver, Bucks, 165

*J*

James I, King, 129
James (née Hoare), Linda (MRJ's sister-in-law), 68
James, Caroline Pope (MRJ's grandmother), diaries of, 209
James, Gilbert, 114
James, Grace Caroline Rhodes (MRJ's sister) - see Grace Woodhouse
James, Herbert (MRJ's father), 31, 35
James, Herbert Ellison Rhodes (MRJ's brother), 86, 89, 178, 207
James, Philip (MRJ's nephew), 91, 94, 195
James, Sydney ("Peter", MRJ's nephew), 94
James, Sydney Rhodes (MRJ's brother), and family, 44, 91, 95, 126; as Army Chaplain in Essex, 56; at Bembridge, 52, 53, 132; at Malvern, 30, 47; at Worcester, 60, 61, 63, 88, 96, 166; see also under Worcester
Jelf, Arthur, 174
Jenkins, Claude (Lambeth Palace Librarian), 56
Jenkinson, Francis, 123
Jerusalem, Jane McBryde's plan of, 71
John the Divine, St, 21-22
Johnson, Samuel, 47, 76, 88
Jonson, Ben, 109
Journal of Theological Studies, 170
Journal to Stella (Swift), 150
Joyce, Gilbert Cunningham (Bishop of Monmouth/"Newport & Brecon"), 177
Joyce, James, 201
Jubilee, Silver, of King George V, 210, 212
Jude, Epistle of, 34
Judith (Book of, intr. MRJ), 153
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 148, 199
Jutland, Battle of, 152

*K*

Keldy, Yorks, 56, 117, 175
Kelly, Gerald, 202, 207, 208, 210, 212, 213
Kempthorne, John Augustine (Bishop of Lichfield), 115
Kenilworth, Warwks, 129
Kenyon, Frederick, 181
Kew, Surrey, visits to and from A.W. Hill of, 65, 120, 141, 152, 160, 161, 173, 174, 177, 189, 199, 209
Kewley, Mr, 82
Keynes, John Maynard, 137
Kilkerran, Maybole, Ayrshire, 164-165, 166, 175
Killanin, Lord (Michael Morris), of Chippenham Park [Killairns], 187
Killerton, Devon, 134
Kilpeck, Herefs, 22, 176
Kilverstone, Norfolk, 187
King Alfred's Tower, Stourhead, Wiltshire, 122
King John (Shakespeare), 143, 178
King Lear (Shakespeare), 147
King's College: Audit of Accounts, 32; Carol Service, 10, 151; MRJ becomes Honorary Fellow of, 86; MRJ's leaving of, 81-82
King's Royal Rifle Corps, Memorial at Eton, 98
Kintbury Tower, Berks, 187
Kipling, Rudyard, 185
Kirkennan, Ayrshire, 165, 166
Kitchener, Horatio, 132
Knapp, William Ireland, 131
Knights of St John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitallers), 64
Kristensen, E.T., 142

*L*

Lady Day, at Eton, 172, 190
Lambeth Palace, 199; MSS, 56, 58, 63, 110, 157, 170
Langbourne, Rutland, 90, 114, 127, 140
Lascelles Wedding (Princess Mary & Viscount Lascelles, 1922), 206
"Last Tournament" (Tennyson), 134
Laud Fund, 164
Laud, William, 110
Lawson, trial of, 180
Layard, Henry Austen, 83
Layer Marney, Essex, 133
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 16-17, 78, 105, 112, 121, 124, 138, 144, 159
Le Mans Cathedral, France, 205
Lectoure, France, 100, 101
Ledbury, Herefs, 118, 196
"Legend of St Nicholas and the Three Boys, The" (Boy Bishop's Play, by MRJ), 94
Leicester Abbey, Catalogue of Library at, 142
Leighs Priory, Essex, 103
Lens tapestries (in French Exhibition, 1932), 177
Leopold III, King of the Belgians, 213, 216
Les Laumes, France, 42
Lesse (Eton boy), 125
letter-writing, MRJ and, 13-14, 222
Letters of H.E. Luxmoore (ed. MRJ & Ramsay), 158
Levenwater, Kent, 137
Ley, Henry G., 155, 183, 190, 195, 214
Leys School, Cambridge, 46
Lichfield Cathedral, Staffs, 134
Lilleshall, Salop, 129
Limoges, France, 45
Lincoln, 107
Lister Harrison, Arthur(?), 177, 189
"Little Mermaid, The" (Andersen), 142
Little Thornham (Thornham Parva), Suffolk, 182
Livermere, Suffolk, 34, 35, 39, 42, 45, 50, 90, 174
Liverpool, 104
Lives of the Poets (Johnson), 47
Lives of Twelve Good Men (Burgon), 122
Llandudno, Caerns, 130
Llanthony Abbey, Monmouthshire, 22
Lloyd George, David, 9, 115
Lloyd George, Megan, 115
Lloyd, Mr (of Christie's), 161
Loch Ness Monster, photograph of, 218
Locker-Lampson, Godfrey, 79
Locker-Lampson, Oliver, 79, 90, 139
Lohr, Marie, 120
Lomax, Derek, 141, 147, 153, 154, 159, 164, 169, 183
London Bridge, 44
London Mercury, 132, 200
London Orphan Schools, 150
London School of Economics, 153
London University, 36
London: Lord Mayor of, 154, 200; MRJ's view of the City on a Sunday, 44; see also individual locations
Lope Da Vega, Felix, 131, 132
Lorimer, Robert, 107
"Lost Hearts" (MRJ), 15
Lotto, Lorenzo, 32
Louis XIII And XIV, Kings of France, 145
Love of Books, The (De Bury), 80
Lubbock family, 56, 79, 97
Lubbock, Harold, 79, 109
Lubbock, Ian, 176
Lubbock (née Scharrer), Irene, 176
Lubbock, Maurice, 126, 127
Lubbock, Rachel Gurney, 170
Lubbock, Samuel Gurney ("Jimbo"), 170, 174, 194, 195, 213
Lubersac, France, 117
Lucas, E.V., 80
Ludlow, Salop, The Feathers Hotel, 130
Luxmoore, Henry Elford, 13, 14, 60, 104, 107, 109, 140, 158; 'Ghost' of, 195; Luxmoore's Garden, 140, 158, 161, 192, 193, 194, 195, 212
Lyme Regis, Dorset, 162
Lyons, France, 45
Lyttleton (Cobham) family, of Hagley Hall, 47
Lyttleton, George, 119
Lyttleton, Richard G. ("Dick"), 119, 145, 172

*M*

Macbeth (Shakespeare), 110, 212, 213, 214
McBryde, James, 7, 8, 54, 109
Macdonald, George, 18-19, 93
Macindoe, P.A. (Bursar of Eton), 63, 69, 80, 158, 187, 203, 220
McKenna, David, and brother, 155, 163, 182
Mackeson, G., 169
Maclean, 124
Macnaghten, Eva Mary, 113
Macnaghten, Hugh (Vice-Provost of Eton), 113, 128, 150, 158
mad woman, in Eton College Accounts, 89
Madam Crowl's Ghost (Le Fanu), 124
Madan, Falconer (Bodleian Librarian), 80
Madley, Herefs, 72
Mafeking, Armistice at, 206
Magdalene College, Cambridge, 37, 112, 136, 168
Magnetic Hill (The Electric Brae, optical illusion), near Dunure, Ayrshire, 165
"Maison Forestière, La" (Erckmann-Chatrian), 15
Malmesbury, Wilts, 130, 215
Malvern, Worcs, 29-30, 43, 44, 46, 47, 156; Priory, stained glass at, 37
Malvern Hills, Worcs, 25, 63
mammoth, Henry Howorth on the history of the, 70
Mann, Arthur Henry, 151
Mansle, France, 116
Many Cargoes (Jacobs), 31
Map, Walter, 116, 119
Mapledurham, Oxon, 208, 209
Maplethorpe, George, 161
Maplethorpe, Mrs (MRJ's housekeeper at Eton), 85, 97, 108, 158, 161, 216
Margaretting, Essex, 133
Margate, Kent, 56, 128
Marindin, George Eden [Masindin], 154
Mariner's Hill, Blakeney, Norfolk, 164
Marlborough College, Wilts, 94
Marsden, Reginald Edward, 209
Marsh, Howard (Master of Downing), funeral of, 56
Marshalsea Prison, London, 216
Martel, France, 101
Martello Tower, at Aldeburgh, 127
Marten family, 209, 218
Marten, C.H.K. (Lower Master of Eton, later Vice-Provost), 150, 166, 168, 169, 170, 174, 179, 203, 218, 220
Martin Chuzzlewit (Dickens), 193
Mary, Queen (wife of George V), 92, 112, 143, 162-163, 184, 193, 194
Mary, Princess (daughter of George V), 92
Mary (MRJ's parlourmaid), 161
Mason, William, 136
Masonic Festival, 19th Annual Public Schools, at Eton (1935), 212
Maud, John, 128
Maxstoke, Warwks, 129
Maxwell family, of Kirkennan, 165
May Week Balls, Cambridge, 7
Mazarin, Jules (Cardinal), 101, 145
maze, at Breamore, 167
Meath, Lord (Reginald Brabazon), 154
Medieval France (Tilley), MRJ's chapters for, 102
Melrose, Borders, 204
Memoirs of the Danby Family (Anon), 134
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), 185
Merevale, Warwks, 129
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare), 12, 95, 177, 221
Merton ("Young Merton"), 188
Messiah (Handel), 190
Metaxakis, Meletius (Metropolitan of Athens), 85
Metsu, Gabriel, 151
Mexico, accident to the Yorkes in, 112
Middleton (on the Cathedrals Commission), 135
Midleton, Earl of (St John Fremantle Brodrick), 148
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (Shakespeare), 14, 88
Midsummer, at Eton, things that go about in the night at, 98
Milestones (play) (Bennett & Knoblauch), 44
Millar, Eric, 123, 172, 196, 199, 200
Milligan, 164
Mind of Mr J.G. Reeder, The (Wallace) ["E.J. Reeder"], 176
Mirande, France, 100
Mitchison, Naomi, 206
Moccas, Herefs, 146
Moissac, France, 100, 101
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), 147
Mongols, Henry Howorth on the history of the, 70
monkey, at Caerleon, 163
Monson, Alfred John, trial of, 180
Montauban, France, 106
Montgomery, 188
Montmorency, Paris, France, 204
Morgan, J. Pierpont, 142, 197, 200
Morin, Germain, 184
Morning Post, interview with MRJ on ghost stories for, 123
Morshead, Miss (daughter of Owen Morshead), confusion over the sex of, 182
Morshead, Owen Frederick (Windsor Castle Librarian), 143, 182, 217
Morton, Harold Swithun (Assistant Bursar of King's), funeral of, 90
Moulins triptych (in French Exhibition, 1932), 177
mountaineering accident in Switzerland, Eton Masters killed in, 195; Memorial Service, 196, 197
Mouse (Blackmouse), Jane McBryde's name for MRJ, 9-10, 15, 21, 40
Mozart, played by MRJ on the piano, 10
"Mr Justice Harbottle" (Le Fanu), 112
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare), 214
Much Dewchurch, Herefs, 31; reading of lessons by MRJ at, 18
Much Hadham, Herts, 162, 176
Much Marcle, Herefs, 117-118
Munich, Germany, 163, 184
Murder at the Nook (Fielding), 159
Murder Must Advertise (Sayers), 217
Mussolini, Benito, 217
"My brethren, be not many masters" (MRJ's lesson reading in Eton College Chapel), 159
Myers, Charles, 106, 147, 166, 196-197
Mynde, The, Herefs, 171
Mynors family, 188

*N*

Najac, France, 106
Nancy, France, 113
National Art Collections Fund, 189
National Club, London, 43, 44, 49, 108
National Gallery, London, 31, 111, 189
Natural History of Selborne (White), 161
Naval Review (1911), 39
Neaves, Misses, of Edinburgh, 187
Nerac, France, 100
Neswick Hall, Yorks ["Naswick"], 178
Neuchatel, Switzerland, 42, 43
"New Paintings for Old. A Master Restorer" (MRJ), 188
"New Piece of an Old Gospel, A" (MRJ), 140
New York, USA, 197
Newcastle Scholarship (Eton), 92, 97, 102, 155, 172, 180, 190, 191
Newent, Glos, Anglo-Saxon carved tablet at, 47
"Nightingale, The" (Andersen), 142
Nine Tailors, The (Sayers), 15, 199, 217
Nineveh, bas-reliefs from, in Provost's Lodge at Eton, 82-83
Nixon(s) (Eton boys), 127
Nixon, John Edwin, 143
Nobody's Friends (London Dining Club), 119, 136
Norman family, 162, 172, 173, 176, 198, 200
Norman, Dick, 172, 200, 205, 214
Norman, Mark, and wife, 198
Norman, Mary ("Maria"), and husband, 188, 196, 200, 214, 216, 218
Norman, Ronald C., 134, 205, 211, 218
Norris, William Foxley (Dean of York), 116
North family, 187
Northleach, Glos, 150
Norwich, 155
Nugent Hicks, Frederick Cyril (Bishop of Lincoln), 197, 209

*O*

Ogilvie Grant, Mark, 98, 126, 155, 159, 160, 169, 198
Old Man's Youth (De Morgan), 115
Old Testament Legends (MRJ), 44, 45
Oppidan, The (Leslie), 118
Orchard Wyndham, near Taunton, Somerset, 166
Order of Merit, MRJ awarded, 163, 164
Orford Castle, Suffolk, 127
Original Chants by English Composers (Boyle), 10
Ospedale of the Innocents, Florence, 113
Othello (Shakespeare), 185, 213
Owen, Henry, 56
owls, 17, 21, 63, 156, 161, 186, 220; in the 'dessert', 20; in The Five Jars, 64
Oxford, 31, 80, 102, 144, 150, 164, 202; Clarendon Hotel, 31; Magdalen College, History Prize examiner from, 156; honorary degree, given to MRJ at, 144; MSS, 94, 95, 128, 147; New College, 135; see also Bodleian Library
Oxford English Dictionary, 148
Oxford University Press (and World's Classics), 116, 119, 125, 138, 145, 188

*P*

Paardeberg, Germany, 132
Palazzo Riccardi, Florence, 113, 114
Pandemonium Harp, 81
Pariah (Anstey), 15
Paris, France, 43, 99, 100, 107, 204; Notre-Dame, 99
Parkeston Quay, Essex, Great Eastern Hotel, 121
Parry, Hubert, 84
Patricio, Breconshire, 22, 37
Paul, Epistles of St, 215, 216
Pavy, Salathiel, 109
Payne (Eton boy), 175
Peace Celebration at Eton, 93
Peacock, Ralph, portrait of Jane McBryde by, 47, 48, 49, 50
Pearson family, 140
Pearson's Magazine, 179
Peile, John (Master of Christ's), funeral of, 37
Pemberton family, of Trumpington Hall, 35
Pembroke College, Cambridge, 178, 205
Penguin Books, 220
Pepys, Samuel, Commemoration at Cambridge (1922), 112
"Peregrino en su Partia, El" (De Vega), 131, 132
Perfect Hunter and Saddle Horse, The (Jane McBryde), 21
Peril at End House (Christie), 179
Persian Exhibition (1931), 171
Peter, Apocalypse (Revelation) of, 38, 168
Peter, Gospel of, 139-140
Peter, Second Epistle of (2 Peter), 34
Peterborough Cathedral, 127, 134
Peveril of the Peak (Scott), 47
Phantastes (Macdonald), 19, 93
Phillpotts, Septimus Buller, 58
piano-playing, MRJ's, 10, 114
Piccadilly Murder (Berkeley), 159
Pickwick (play), 151
pigs: postcard of pig hunting for truffles, 19, 118; wisdom of, 83
Pilkington (ex-Eton boy), 128
Pilkington family, of St Helens, 167
Playing Fields (Parker), 118
Pliny the Younger, 209
Plumer, Herbert Charles Onslow, 91
poetry, sent to MRJ, 164
Poitiers, France, 37, 116
Polesworth, Warwks, 129
Pollock, David, 191
Ponsonby, Granville, 22
Pontarlier, France, 42, 43
Poor Man's Wood, near Woodlands, Herefs, 20
Porte Ste Marie, France, 100
Porter, T.C., 191
portraits: of Jane McBryde, 47, 48, 49, 50; of MRJ, 44, 174, 202, 207, 208, 210, 212, 213
Potter, Beatrix, 34
Poyston, Haverfordwest, Pembs, 82
Prayer Book, Revised, 126
"Prelude, The" (Wordsworth), 191
Prescott Hedley, John, 186
Press Syndicate, Cambridge University, 38
Pressburg (Bratislava), Hungary, 39
Presteigne, Radnorshire, 62, 64, 82, 83
Prosdocimus of Padua, St, 162
Puits de Moise, Dijon, France, 204
Punch, 198
Punch and Judy Show (at Eton), 94
Purcell, Henry, 155
purl (drink), 216

*Q*

Quatford, Salop ["Greatford"], 188
Quatt, Salop, 188

*R*

railway: accidents 48, 112; vandalism by Eton boys 185
Raleigh, Walter, 74
Rambler, The, Samuel Johnson in, 76
Ramsay, Allen Beville ("Ram", "R"), 56, 58, 67, 68, 69, 80, 81, 95, 98, 120, 151, 160, 167, 171, 172, 175, 176, 180, 182, 185, 196, 205, 213, 214; British travels with MRJ, 57, 64, 82, 96, 97, 99, 112, 121, 122, 130, 137, 140, 147, 155, 167, 175, 176, 187-188, 195, 196, 198, 215; Christmas at King's College with MRJ, 59, 60, 75, 86; death of married sister, 68; foreign travels with MRJ, 37, 39, 43, 99, 101; installation as Master of Magdalene College, 136; MRJ's friendship with, 109; puts on Punch and Judy show and ventriloquist for his choristers, 94
Ramsay, Eva ("Miss Ram", "Miss R"), 81, 98, 112, 151, 171, 205, 209, 213, 217
Ramsbury, Wilts, 146
Ramsey, Agnes Mary, death of, in car accident, 145
Ramsey, Arthur Stanley, 145
Ramsgate, Kent, 118, 128
Ratisbon, Germany, 39
Rawlins, Francis Hay (Vice-Provost of Eton), 96
Rawlinson, John, 137
Reading Abbey, Berks, 129; MSS, 131
Religious Life of King Henry VI (Gasquet), 114
Rennes, France, 40
"Return, The" (ghost story), 15
Revelation, Book of, 34, 70, 104, 110
Reynolds, Joshua, 11
Rheims, France, 50-51
Rhyl, Flintshire, 130
Richard III, King, 85
Richard III (Shakespeare), 216
Richelieu, Cardinal (Armand-Jean de Plessis), 145
Richmond, Surrey, 189
Richmond, Yorks, 133
Ridley family, 181
Rieupeyroux, France, 106
Right Ho Jeeves (Wodehouse), 209
Ripon, Yorks, Spa Hotel, 175, 196
Roanne, France, 45
Roberts (in Eton Chapel), 148
Roberts, Frederick Sleigh, 132
Robinson, J. Armitage (Dean of Westminster/Dean of Wells), 31, 38, 43, 79, 98, 144, 164
Rocamadour, France, 106, 107
Rochester, Kent, 137
Rodez, France, 106
Roehampton, Surrey, 49
Romance of Alexander, The, (intr. MRJ), 153, 188
Rome, 38
Romney Marsh, Kent, 137
Romney, George, 11
Romsey, Hants, 39
Roscoe, Henry, 36, 56
"Rose and the Nightingale, The" (song) (Bailey), 208
Rose and the Ring, The (Thackeray), 76
Ross-on-Wye, Herefs, 117
Rothenburg, Germany, 39
Rouse, Alfred Arthur, trial of, 180
Roxburghe Club, 34, 49, 70, 92, 98, 104, 116, 138, 167, 207, 208
Royal Academy, 47, 49, 148
Royal Albert Hall, London, 178
Royal Army Medical Corps, 86
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, 21, 102, 133, 142, 143, 145, 146, 184-185, 188, 202; Westminster Abbey volume (intr. MRJ), 126, 127
Royal Commission on Oxford & Cambridge, 98, 99, 102, 103, 110
Royal Commission on Public Records, 41
Royal Institution, London, MRJ's Le Fanu talk at, 112
Roydon, Maud, 206
Ruffec, France, 116
Rutland, Duke of (Charles John Robert Manners), 172

*S*

Saddlebow, Herefs, 25
Saffron Walden, Essex, 133
St Albans, Herts, 103, 135, 136
St Amant de Boixe, France, 116
St Andrew's Day, at Eton, 86, 103, 107, 124, 136, 150, 168, 198
St Andrews, Fife, 39
St Antonin, France, 106
St Asaph, Flintshire, 129, 130
St Helens, Lancs, 167
St Ives, Cornwall, Tregenna Castle Hotel, 198
St J. Hornby, C.H., 206
St John family, of Dinemore Manor, 64
St John's Cadets, Cambridge, 67
St Luke's Day, at Eton, 84-85, 118
St Mary's Well, near Dippersmoor, Herefs, 14, 20
St Matthias' Day, at Eton, 179
St Neot, Cornwall, 121
St Osyth, Essex, 133
St Paul's Cathedral, London, 44, 84, 135, 211
St Thomas's Hospital, London, 207
St Yrieix, France, 117
Saints and Legends, MRJ's collecting of, 24
Salisbury, Wilts, 57, 82, 106, 108, 117, 122, 138, 140, 147, 165, 166, 167, 176, 196, 204, 205, 221; County Hotel, 57; MRJ's Cathedral address at (on country church services), 76-77
Salome and the Maries, MS about, by Maurice of Kirkham, 218, 219
Salonika, Greece, 86
San Michele, Florence, 113
Sarlat, France, 101
"Satanist Picture, A" (letter in The Times by MRJ), 178
Saulieu, France, 42
Saumarez family, 92, 173
Saumur, France, 37
Saundersfoot, Pembs, 70
Sayers, Dorothy L. ["Dorothy M. Sayers"], 15, 199, 217
Scarlett, P., 160
Scholfield, A.F., 98, 148, 172, 173, 177, 180, 181, 182, 189, 190, 191, 214, 222; Elenchus Scriptorum Montacutii Rhodes James, 221
Scott, Giles Gilbert, 130
Scroggs, Miss (of the London School of Economics), 153
Scroope House, Cambridge, 37
Seaman, Owen, 185
Sedgeford Hall, Norfolk, 142
Semur, France, 42
Sens, France, 37, 43
sermons, by MRJ, 78, 79, 86, 94, 107, 119, 126, 154, 160, 161, 164, 177, 185, 207, 215; MRJ's struggles with writing, 68, 73, 77, 98, 103, 129, 131, 172, 185, 210, 216
Shadow on the Moor, The (8th Duke of Northumberland), 19
Shakespeare, William, 14, 17, 113, 141, 178, 193, 206, 216, 217, 221; see also Shakespeare Society, Eton, and individual plays,
Shakespeare (Drinkwater), 193
Shakespeare Society, Eton, 12, 88, 141, 147, 170, 177, 178, 179, 180, 185, 199, 203, 205, 206, 212, 213, 214, 216, 217; Cymbeline, gender confusion over, 197; Falstaff, MRJ's arguments about, 221; taken over by MRJ on the death of Luxmoore, 140; Tattersall sleeping during, 157, 185
Shall We Join the Ladies (play) (Barrie), 203
Sheepshanks, A.C., 196
Sheldon, Gilbert, 110
Sheppard, J.T. (Provost of King's), 214, 215
Sherborne, Dorset, 98
Shipley, Arthur (Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge), 71, 72
Shobdon, Herefs, 166, 173
Short, Lionel, 123
Shrewsbury, Salop, 92, 129
Siam, King and Queen of, 201
Silbury Hill, Wilts, 147
Silchester, Hants, 143
Simon, John, 139
Simon, Mark, 164
Sinaiticus, Codex, 199, 200
skating, on Virginia Water, 153
Skirrid, Monmouthshire, 25
Slade School of Art, London, 8, 92
Sledmere, Yorks, 73
Slough, Bucks, 131
Smith, Henry Babington, 123
Smith, Naomi Royde, 206
Smith, Owen Hugh, 49, 60, 90, 114, 124, 126, 127, 140, 147, 151, 186, 214
Snetzler, John, 136
Society of Chemical Industry, 36
Solway Firth, 165
"Some Reflections on Dickens", lecture on, by MRJ, 129
"Some Remarks on Ghost Stories" (MRJ), 159
Songs of a Sub-Man (Barrington) ["Tubman"], 198
Souillac, France, 101
South Kensington Museum (V&A), London, 111, 167
Southwell, Notts: Minster, 134; Saracen's Head Hotel, 133
Sphinx and Pyramids, Egypt, Jane McBryde's visit to, 199
spiders, MRJ's dislike of, 13
"Spring! Spring! Gentle Spring!" (poem), 77
Spring-Rice, Cecil, 84
stained (and painted) glass, 13, 24, 31, 37, 66, 72, 121, 137, 141, 215; at Aldeburgh, 209; at Eton, 70, 83, 85, 119; in France, 116, 204, 205
stamps, postage, on ceiling, 10
State Trials, 15, 24
Stationers' Company, London, 108
Stewart, Hugh Fraser, 172, 203, 215
Stirling-Maxwell, John, 40, 114
Stirling-Maxwell, Lady Ann, 82
Stogdon, Edgar (Dean of Harrow), 136
Stoke Poges, Bucks, 205, 213
Stone, Will, 8
Stoneleigh, Warwks, 129
Story of a Troll-Hunt, The (James McBryde), 8, 29
"Story of the Year, The" (Andersen), 14
Stourhead, Wilts, 122
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwks, 113
Stricken Deer, The (Cecil), 191-192
Strike, General (1926), 138
Strong, Thomas Banks (Bishop of Oxford), 207
Studley Church, Yorks, 175
Stukeley, William, MSS and books of, 64
Suffolk and Norfolk (MRJ), 147, 153, 154, 155, 157, 158, 159, 160, 163
Sunningdale, Berks, 91
Susanna, Book of, 153, 162
Sutton, Lady, of Brinsop Court, 66
Swain, Edmund Gill, 34, 74, 90, 109, 127, 134, 185, 216
Sweet Heart Abbey, Dumfries & Galloway, 165
Swindon, Wilts, 122
Switzerland, 42-43, 46, 161, 195, 204
Sykes, Mark, and family, 9, 73, 74, 76, 77, 89

*T*

Takamatsu, Prince and Princess ["Takamateu"], 172
Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare), 109, 206
Tanmor Wood, Herefs, 20
"Tantum Ergo" (choral music) (Henschel), 141
Tattersall, Somerville, 157, 184, 185, 195, 201, 210
Tauchnitz Library, 220
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 206
Temple Church, London, 44, 109
Temple Grove School, East Sheen, Surrey, 120
Temple, William (Archbishop of York), 202
Tenbury Wells, Worcs, Swan Hotel, 187-188
Tenby, Pembs, 70
Tenison, Thomas, 110
Tennyson, Life of, 134
Terry, Ellen and Fred, 120
Testament of Beauty (Bridges), 159, 160
Thaxted, Essex, 133
Thirteen Ghost Stories (Albatross paperback edition of MRJ's ghost stories), 220
Thomson, Joseph John (Master of Trinity), 195
Tibet, 218
Tilbury, Essex, 160
Tilley, Arthur A., 115
Tilty, Essex, 133
Times, The, 14, 110, 123, 176, 178, 188, 194, 221
Tintagel, Cornwall, 112, 121
Tintern, Mon, 196
Tintinnabulum (Barrie), 19
Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, 122
toads, 24, 159
Tobias and Raphael (from the Book of Tobit), 73
Tobit, Book of, 73, 153
Torquay, Devon, Torbay Hotel, 209
Toulet, Henri, 10
Tower of London, 44
Toynbee, Paget, 136
"Travelling Companion, The" (Andersen), 14, 15, 150
Trinity College Apocalypse, The (ed. MRJ), 34
Trinity College, Cambridge, 8, 33, 180, 209
Tristram, E.W., 130, 146, 148, 188
"Trivial Reminiscences, Early And Late" (MRJ, in Arthur Christopher Benson as seen by some friends, ed. Ryle) 134
Trowbridge, Wilts, 122
Troyes, France, 43
Tulle, France, 106, 107, 117
Turenne, France, 101
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), 120, 170
Twins, The (G. McBryde), 220

*U*

Uncle Silas (Le Fanu, intr. MRJ), 138
Universities in the Eighteenth Century (book about), 67
Unnatural Death (Sayers), 217
Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, The (Sayers), 217
Uzerche, France, 117, 118

*V*

Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire, 129
Van Eyck, Hubert, 189
Van Eyck, Jan, 32
Vanbrugh, Violet, 120
Vaughan, Edward Littleton, 176, 187, 197, 205, 206
Vermeer, Jan, 32, 151
Victoria County History, 47
"View from a Hill, A" (MRJ), reprinted in Pearson's Magazine, 179
Villefranche, France, 106
Villiers (Eton boy), 170, 175
Vincent (butler at King's), 9
Virginia Water, Surrey, 153
Vlore, Albania ["Vloüe"], 210
Vyvyan, Wilmot Lushington (Bishop of Zululand), 103

*W*

"Wailing Well" (MRJ), 144
Wain, Louis, 86
Walker, Emery, 14
wall paintings and frescoes: in churches, 95, 113, 114, 122, 130, 134, 138, 185, 188; at Eton, 122, 123, 124, 130, 146, 148, 159
Wall Paintings in Eton College Chapel and in the Lady Chapel of Winchester Cathedral (MRJ & Tristram), 159
Walsingham, Lord ["Wokingham"], 63
Walsingham, Norfolk ["Wokingham"], 165
Wapley Hill, Herefs, 83
War Memorials: Eton College, 67, 70, 98; Eton Town, 103
War, The Great (World War 1), 25-26, 50-51, 53, 54-55, 63, 85, 104, 206; Eton Generals, 91; hospitals at Cambridge, 10, 50, 74; Peace Celebration, 93; Sydney James as Army Chaplain in Essex, 56; wounded officers billeted with MRJ - see Briscoe and Fairweather
Wareham, Dorset, Red Lion Hotel, 57
"Warning to the Curious, A" (MRJ), 135
Warre family, 81, 84
Warre, Edmond (Provost of Eton), 49, 58, 79, 95
Warre, Harry, 205
Waterfield, Reginald (Dean of Hereford), 140
Watteau, Jean-Antoine, 177
Weddings, Royal, 206, 217
Wells, Somerset: Cathedral, 137; The Swan Hotel, 130
Welshmen, degeneration of, 163
Wenlock Abbey, Salop, 129
Weonard, St, in stained glass at Madley, 72
Westminster, London: Abbey, 31, 111, 125, 126, 127, 129, 185; House of Commons, 112, 183; School, 12; St Margaret's, 137
Westwood, Worcs, 145
When Ghost Meets Ghost (De Morgan), 79
"Where the Bee Sucks" (song) (Shakespeare), 206
Where the Rainbow Ends (play) (Mills & Ramsey), 43-44
Whitbread, Humphrey, 182
White-Thomson family, 114
White-Thomson, Leonard Jauncey (Bishop of Ely), 125, 195
"White Silk Boy, The" (version of "The Travelling Companion"), 15
Whitfield, books on Shakespeare by, 206
Whitfield, Glos, 152
Whyte-Melville, George John, 159
Wigham, Mr, 151
Wild Wales (Borrow), 19, 131, 222
Wilkins, David, 201
Wimbledon, Surrey, 153
Wimborne Minster, Dorset, 39, 197
Winchester, Hants, 39, 99, 116, 128, 129, 155; Cathedral, wall paintings in, 122
Windsor, Berks, 110, 118; County Girls' School, 169, 170; Theatre, 95, 98, 110
Windsor Castle, Berks: Library, MSS, 131; MRJ dining at, 92, 98, 121, 143, 163, 173, 183, 192, 193, 195; Norman Tower, radio broadcast from, 221; St George's Chapel, 69, 185
Winforton, Herefs ["Winfarton"], 188
Winter's Tale, A (Shakespeare), 179
wireless, MRJ's opinion of, 10-11, 221
Wisbech Corporation, MSS, 169, 170
Wise, T.J., 207-208
witches, vampires and gaping tombs, Jane McBryde's drawings of, 15
Witham, Essex, 102
Wodehouse, P.G., 16, 222
Wollaston, Alexander (Sandy), 108
women, MRJ's attitude to, 7, 22
Woodbridge, Suffolk, 126
Woodhouse (James), Grace Caroline Rhodes ("Gracie", MRJ's sister), 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 62, 83, 93, 94, 105, 107, 115, 138, 165, 166, 178; at Cat and Fiddle, 62, 82; at Livermere, 35, 36, 43, 50; suffers from measles, 140
Woodlands, Herefs (G. McBryde's house), 8, 13, 30, 35, 36, 46, 49, 50, 56, 57, 58, 61, 80, 82, 86, 87, 94, 95, 99, 104, 117, 130, 134, 135, 145, 148; MRJ's opinion of move from Woodlands to Dippersmoor, 20, 142
Worbarrow Bay, Dorset, Scout Camp, 144
Worcester, 31, 43; Cathedral, 134; MRJ's visits to brother and family at, 60, 61, 63, 86, 87, 94, 102, 103, 108, 117, 139, 145, 150, 151, 160, 165, 166; wedding at, 96
Wordsworth, Christopher, 122
Wordsworth, William, 61, 191
World Fellowship of Faiths, 190
Wrangham, Digby Francis ["Wrougham"], 178
Wren, Christopher, 111
Wyndham, William, and family, 166

*Y*

York, 36, 107
York, Duchess of (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), 206
Yorke family, 92, 112, 140, 165, 166, 188, 196, 215
Yorke, Vincent Wodehouse, 56, 92

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