Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami (recommended books to read TXT) 📕

is a rather nice

Violet to Vita, 8 June 1912 (Beinecke Library)

He lays down

Vita to Harold, 6 June 1913 (Lilly Library)

Isn’t it funny

Harold to Vita, 28 July 1913 (Lilly Library)

Accepté mes félicitations

Violet to Vita, 5 August 1913 (Beinecke Library)

Dear Mr Smith

quoted in Susan Mary Alsop, Lady Sackville (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1978)

How she flung

Portrait of a Marriage

I remember

ibid

Everything in me

Harold to Vita, 11 September 1914 (Lilly Library)

not very attractive

Edwardian Daughter

It required

Don’t Look Round

He would arrive

Edwardian Daughter

His courtship was too

Don’t Look Round

It was tacitly

ibid

Even Mama

Edwardian Daughter

You and your dog

ibid

There’s a war

ibid

Poor Archie

ibid

The idea of matrimony

Don’t Look Round

I think perhaps

Pepita

Damn that little too too

Harold to Vita, 7 June 1917 (Lilly Library)

I used to invent

Pat Dansey to Vita, 4 September 1922 (Nigel Nicolson)

Part Two: Portrait of a Lesbian Affair

TEN

I simply cant

Violet to Vita, 29 October 1917

bloody time

Harold to Vita, 6 November 1917 (Lilly Library)

untidy or crawly

ibid, 6 November 1917

like a searchlight

ibid, 7 November 1917

And I shall be

ibid, 7 November 1917

my whole soul

ibid, 7 November 1917

frightfully opty

ibid, 15 March 1918

We were in fact

Portrait of a Marriage

in the unaccustomed

ibid

I was infinitely

ibid

I am young

Violet to Vita, undated 1918

I felt like a person

Portrait of a Marriage

How triumphant we were

Violet to Vita, 20 July 1919

I wish I was more

Harold to Vita, 9 May 1918 (Lilly Library)

where no one will want me

Vita to Harold, 11 May 1918 Vita and Harold

Darling one day

ibid

God Mitya do you wonder

Violet to Vita, undated May 1918 (Beinecke Library)

I am drunk with the beauty

Violet to Vita, undated 1918

she looks so charming

Victoria Sackville, unpublished diary, 18 May 1918 (Lilly Library)

God knows it is

Violet to Vita, 23 January 1918

O Mitya come

ibid, 14 August 1918

How happy we were

ibid, 20 July 1919

I adore you

ibid, 22 July 1919

Married life under

Victoria Sackville, Lady Sackville

What sort of life

Violet to Vita, 22 July 1918

all things seductive

Vita Sackville-West, Challenge (Collins 1974)

Her humour

ibid

so marvellously

Violet to Vita, 27 August 1918

God knows

ibid, 19 August 1918

I hate lies

ibid, 26 August 1918

How right you were

ibid, 23 July 1918

I want you for

ibid, 25 August 1918

I have greatly dared

ibid, 26 August 1918

O Vita get away

Violet to Vita, 15 September 1918 (Beinecke Library)

What is the good

Violet to Vita, 23 September 1918

Mitya, even you

ibid

This is the best

Vita and Portrait of a Marriage

It does seem unfair

Violet to Vita, October 1918 (Beinecke Library)

Chinday was at her worst

Violet to Vita, October 1918

As Mrs Nicolson

Sidney Russell Cooke to Violet, 31 October 1918 (Lilly Library)

ELEVEN

Mitya will never leave

Violet to Vita, 21 March 1919

that swine Violet

Harold to Vita, 5 December 1918 Vita and Harold

She flatters you

Vita

It is nobody’s business

Victoria Sackville, Book of Reminiscences, 1922, published in Susan Mary Alsop, Lady Sackville

You say Violet

Harold to Vita, 14 February 1919 (Lilly Library)

I have destroyed

Harold to Vita, February 1919 (Lilly Library)

I’m glad

Violet to Vita, 16 March 1919 (Beinecke Library)

She talks in a voice

Vita to Harold, 20 March 1919 (Lilly Library)

Mitya I can’t face

Violet to Vita, March 1919

You know how I loathe

ibid, 21 March 1919

hell of having to endure

Violet to Vita, March 1919 (Beinecke Library)

What’s going to happen?

Violet to Vita, March 1919

I feel really

Harold to Vita, 29 March 1919 (Lilly Library)

Poor Denys

Vita to Harold, ibid, 30 March 1919

I certainly told

Violet to Vita, 8 May 1919

his word of honour

ibid, 30 March 1919

specialise in Russian

Denys to John Schomberg Trefusis, 1910 (Phyllida Ellis)

You look as though

ibid, April 1919

very county

Phyllida Ellis to author, April 1994

caged up

Denys to his sister Betty, 1911 (Phyllida Ellis)

I hate them, Mitya

Violet to Vita, 2 May 1919

Living permanently

Portrait of a Marriage

You simply can’t

Harold to Vita, 29 March 1919 Vita and Harold (Lilly Library)

he will say

Violet to Vita, undated March 1919

Hadji this

ibid, 19 April 1919

O darling

All I can do

Harold to Vita, 22 May 1919 (Lilly Library)

She says I would

Violet to Vita, 29 April 1919 (Beinecke Library)

I don’t absolutely

Portrait of a Marriage

My dear Vita

Denys Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 3 May 1919 (Lilly Library)

rigidly suppressed

Denys Trefusis to his sister Betty, 1911 (Pyllida Ellis)

ought to be confined

Violet to Vita, 5 May 1919

Really, how nice

ibid, 6 May 1919

I don’t think any

Pat Dansey, to Vita, May 1919

We are making

Violet to Vita, undated 1919

When I say care

ibid, 23 September 1918

I nearly struck

ibid, 6 May 1919

I can’t, can’t have one

ibid, 9 May 1919

Unless you make

Pat Dansey to Vita, undated 1919

I should like to

Harold to Vita, 24 May 1919 (Lilly Library)

I think he will

Violet to Vita, June 1919

V’s wedding

Vita to Harold, 1 June 1919 (Lilly Library)

you must come

Harold to Vita, 3 June 1919 (Lilly Library)

Violet thinks I will

Vita to Harold, 9 June 1919 (Lilly Library)

All that time

Portrait of a Marriage

TWELVE

I treated her savagely

Portrait of a Marriage

Don’t you know

ibid

What are you thinking

Violet to Vita, July 1919

If only I knew

ibid, 26 June 1919

O God another

ibid, 8 July 1919

All this will

ibid, 21 July 1919

Will the young

Edwardian Daughter

I see no one

Violet to Vita, September 1919 (Beinecke Library)

when you are not with me

Vita to Violet, fragment, 1919 (Beinecke Library)

Tomorrow you will go

Violet to Vita, September 1919 (Beinecke Library)

I had another frightful

ibid

I can’t impress

Violet to Vita, 17 October 1919

I said nothing

Victoria Sackville, unpublished diary, 18 December 1919 (Lilly Library)

I feel I ought

Violet to Vita, 6 January 1920

I felt blackened

Portrait of a Marriage

I know you can

Vita to Harold, 1 February 1920, Vita and Harold

It was a sort

Violet to Vita, 16 February, 1920 (Beinecke Library)

she refused so positively

Vita to Harold, 9 February 1920. Vita and Harold

He was pompous

Portrait of a Marriage

Denys was very cool

Victoria Sackville, unpublished diary, February 1920 (Lilly Library)

This must