Just got around to reading Harry Mount's article in the New Statesman about the death of Bohemia. Puzzling. For while the proposition that chain retail has...
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Feb 1, 2009 10:49 am
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OK, I have about 8 expressions of interest for a tour of Whitechapel Bell Foundry. I propose to arrange a tour for a Saturday (morning if possible) for the...
The news about heavy snow affecting London tube and bus service leads one to ask: are there any mentions in Dance or in AP journals of events on London busses...
Edwin Bock
eabock@...
Feb 2, 2009 2:47 pm
15244
Mentions in Dance or in AP journals of events on London busses or on the Underground. ... In HSH (p.80 et seq) Nicholas recalls the moment, a few years...
TEm8994907@...
Feb 2, 2009 4:19 pm
15245
In an article about John Updike in The Economist (Jan. 31st/Feb. 6th): He liked to say that he was taught by Henry Green, the greatest of English Modernists,...
Jeanne Reed
jjr@...
Feb 2, 2009 6:58 pm
15246
Nick meets Sunny Farebrother when he gets on the Underground (?Baker Street) early on in HSH. Sunny is returning from Kensal Green Cemetary, so presumably...
Nick Jenkins first met Bagshaw on a London bus where they were introduced by Moreland. It may have been on the top of the bus. I don't think the bus route...
I seem to recall from the Newsletter that one of our anoraked members computed that it was the number 8 bus that Nick took from Victoria to Green Park stop...
Richard Ingrams in 'The Independent' has a catty dig at Powell's lack of horticultural knowledge: ...
Stephen Holden
s.holden@...
Feb 3, 2009 12:12 pm
15250
When AP worked at the TLS he would have had to travel from Regents Park to Printing House Lane (assuming that was where TLS had its offices in Fleet St days)....
One interest Updike and Powell did share was painting. Updike wrote painting criticism and AP also wrote extensively on painting and was a trustee of the...
Could have been a 38 - it goes that way. However, not anoraked enough to know if the 38 was going then. N To: aplist@...:...
Nick Booth
sheepdoctor@...
Feb 3, 2009 3:22 pm
15253
Keith - I'm not sure if I have expressed interest. If I haven't, I do now! Prue [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
pmfraper@...
Feb 3, 2009 10:39 pm
15254
--Try your local library. Here in the U.S. I got it through inter- library loan, and very glad I did not spend money on it as to me it was a travesty....
--Try your local library. Here in the U.S. I got it through inter- library loan, and very glad I did not spend money on it as to me it was a travesty....
One I don't think anyone else has mentioned occurs in "Books Do Furnish A Room." Nick, encountering Moreland in Bloomsbury, gets on to mentioning Bagshaw....
Funnily enough I had a slightly different AP moment by Russell Square Tube station the other night. I was sheltering from the snow in a nearby pub, staring out...
Stephen Holden
s.holden@...
Feb 6, 2009 9:18 am
15261
Did you have a strong urge to bring him inside to hide him from Tuffy/dash outdoors and help him to bed ?! Jeanne ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
Jeanne Reed
jjr@...
Feb 6, 2009 12:43 pm
15262
There is a review in this week's print edition of LRB of a biography of Maurice Bowra by Leslie Mitchell. AP much admired Bowra both as a friend and a sort of...
I'll try to get hold of the Bowra biography and review it in the next Newsletter. DJ Taylor has "reviewed" it in the latest 'Private Eye', implying it goes on...
Stephen Holden
s.holden@...
Feb 6, 2009 2:56 pm
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Bowra wrote his own "Memories 1898-1939" published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, in 1966. In, I think, the only reference to AP, he writes " At times Lady...
colneis@...
Feb 6, 2009 3:07 pm
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Bertran Russell gives her credit for great tact and forbearance (if not chastity or marital fidelity, because she went for months without complaining about her...
Mark Hall
mhall@...
Feb 6, 2009 3:15 pm
15267
There is a review by Michael Barber in Hudson Review (more of an article really) of D J Taylor's Bright Young People. He makes several references to AP...
In BM (264-5) Janet Walpole-Wilson "excused her lateness" arriving to dine at the Widmerpools with Nick "on the grounds of the chronic irregularity of the bus...
For everyone's information, I have finally been able to book the tour of Whitechapel Bell Foundry. However the best I can get (indeed the only date I can get...
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