| Description | Identifying some of the correspondents to be found in 982/83-177 who either do not feature in the list of 'Characters' described in the 'Related Material' field, or who sign only with their first name, a nickname or a single letter.
'ALPHONSO', see under HIRTH, Walter
BAILEY, Lady Janet. Mill Cottage, Lake, Salisbury. 1943
BEATON, Sir [1972] Cecil Walter Hardy. Signs as 'C.' Born 14.1.1904. Died 18.1.1980. London address in the 1920's 61 Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park and later [1944] 8 Pelham Place, SW7. Took a 15 year lease of Ashcombe House in the parish of Berwick St John, Wiltshire, as from April 1930 and gave up the tenancy in September 1945. Lived at Reddish House, Broadchalke, Salisbury, Wiltshire from 1947.
BEERE, Mrs Bernard ['Bernie']. Actress. 1913 living at 247 Lauderdale Mansions, London. Died 1915. Wife of Alfred Charles Seymour Olivier.
BENET, William Rose. Married Elinor Wylie in 1923. She died 1928. They do not spend much time together. Living at 36 West Ninth Street, New York, 1929
'BERNIE', see under BEERE, Mrs Bernard
BETJEMAN, Sir [1969] John. Born 1906. Died 19.5.1984. Married Penelope Valentine Hester Chetwode, daughter of Field Marshal Lord Chetwode, in 1933
'BH', see under HOWARD, Brian Christian de Claiborne
BIRKIN, Captain Sir [5th bart. 1942]. Died 8.11.1985. Signs 'Charlie'. Author. Married Janet Johnson. Address: West Kella, Sulby, Isle of Man
BLAND, Sir [1937] George Nevile Maltby. Born 1886. Died 19.8.1972. Married Portia Ottley in 1919. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands, 1938-1942. Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1942-1948
BRETT, Major TOT. Royal Signals, India. 1944
'BRIAN', see under HOWARD, Brian Christian de Claiborne
BYRON, Robert. Born 26.2.1905. Died September 1941. Author, including 'First Russia, then Tibet', 1933. Address: Overton House, Marlborough, Wiltshire, and also Savernake Lodge, Marlborough [1932]
'C', see under BEATON, Sir [1972] Cecil Walter Hardy
CARTER, Sir [1919] Frank Willington. Born 1865. Died 1945? 1912 married Mary ['Mamie'] elder daughter of the Revd. Canon Dacres Olivier and widow of Commander Charles Collins RN. 1939 address: Hubra, Crazies Hill, Wargrave, Berkshire
'CHARLEY', see under PAGET, Sir Charles Henry Alexander. 6th marquess of Anglesey
'CHARLIE', see under OLIVIER, Major CHA
'CHARLIE', see under BIRKIN, Captain Sir Charles Lloyd
CHETWODE, Field Marshal Sir Philip Walhouse. 1st baron 1945. Died 6.7 1950. Married 1899 Hester Alice Camilla Stapleton- Cotton [died 1946]. 1933 London address: 44 Grove End Road, NW8
CLANWILLIAM, Lady Muriel. Married to Arthur, Lord Clanwilliam. He lives in London, virtually separated from his wife. 1944 address: Montaldo, Ballynachinch, Co. Down
CUSSANS, Anthony. 1947 Officers' Mess, The Green Jackets ITC, 'A' Camp, Barton Stacey, Hampshire. 1947 London address: 21 Redesdale Street, Chelsea, SW3
DALY, Diana. A very witty writer. Prior to August 1945 she and her husband, Bowes, lived at Drumlanrig Castle, Thornhill, Dumfrieshire. From August 1945 they moved to Dunsaville, Athenry, Co. Galway. The house and grounds were completely dilapidated
DAY-LEWIS, Cecil. Died 22.5.1972. Author. Editor of books and pamphlets, Ministry of Information, 1941-1946
DE SELINCOURT, Anne Douglas, nee Sedgwick. Novelist. Born USA 1873. Died 19.7.1935. Married Basil de Selincourt in 1908. Address: Far End, Kingham, Oxfordshire
'DIANA', see under DALY, Diana
DOERNBERG, Imma. Died of an incurable disease at Wilton, Wiltshire, 14?.3.1947 and buried in Netherhampton churchyard 19.3.1947. Her relationship with the composer William Walton ended in August 1934. On 1.7.1940 she married Neil McEacharn in London and on 17.8.1940 the couple left for Australia, via Canada, and lived in Sydney for the duration of the war. The marriage did not last as her husband was a homosexual and an alchoholic. She had her Dutch lover, Kees, to stay at The Daye House, Edith Olivier's home, in early 1946
'DOLLY', see under PONSONBY, Lady Dorothea
EDEN, Rose. Daughter of Sir Timothy Calvert Eden, 8th bart, and his wife Patricia. 1946 address: Fritham House, Lyndhurst, Hampshire
EDEN, Sir Timothy Calvert, 8th bart 1915. Married Edith Mary [Patricia] Prendergast in 1923. Address: Fritham House, Lyndhurst, Hampshire and 48 Brompton Road, London, SW3
'ELINOR', see under WYLIE, Elinor
ENTHOREN, Captain RE. HQ Allied Military Government, Italy, 1944-1945
'ESTHER', see under HARVEY, Mrs Richard
'ETHEL', a soldier's wife. She arrives at The Daye House in early December 1940 as a replacement for Edith Olivier's cook/housekeeper, Phyllis. She brings with her her baby, Margaret Joan, who screams continually. She leaves in October 1944 and moves to 124 High Street, Broadstairs, Kent. Divorced in 1947
'FRANK', see under CARTER, Sir [1919] Frank Willington
FRY, Captain Malcolm. Prisoner of war, Germany. December 1946 offered a post at the Central Institute of Art and Design, 41-42 Dover Street, London, W1. 1947 address: 7 Highmore Road, Blackheath, London, SE3
FURSE, Celia. Mother of Jill Furse. London address in March 1930: 18 Hanover Terrace, Holland Park
FURSE, Jill. Actress. Granddaughter of Sir Henry Newbolt. Married to Laurence Whistler. She died in childbirth in hospital at Torrington, Devon, on 27th November 1944
GATTY, Lady Katharine. Address: The Manor House, Winterbourne Dauntsey, near Salisbury. Mother of Siegfried Sassoon's wife, Hester, who frequently stayed with her when not at her husband's Wiltshire residence, Heytesbury House.
'GERRY', see under WELLESLEY, Major Lord Gerald
'GM', see under YOUNG, George Malcolm
'GRACE CR', see under ROBINSON, Grace Avery
GREY, Lady Pamela. Widow of the 1st baron Glenconner. Married Sir Edward Grey, 1st viscount Grey of Falloden 4.6.1922. She was his second wife. He died 7.9.1933 and she died 18.11.1928. London address: Mulberry House, Smith Square, Westminster
GRIMOND, Joseph. Born 29.7.1913. Called to the bar 1937. Married Hon Laura Miranda Bonham Carter 1938. Leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party 1956-1967
'GWEN' or 'GWENDOLENE', see under PLUNKET-GREENE, Gwendolene
HARCOURT-SMITH, Simon. Employed by the Foreign Office 1934-1936. Wife Rosamond
HARVEY, Mrs Richard. Address: The Cottage, Shrubs Wood, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
HASSALL, Christopher Vernon. Author, actor and composer. Born 1912. Died 1963
HEAD, Sir [1927] Henry. Physician. Died 8.10.1940. His wife Ruth dies in 1939. Address: Hartley Court, near Reading
'HELEN', see under TURNER, Helen
HENN, Thomas Rice. Born 10.11.1901. Died 10.12.1974. Scholar. A tutor in english literature at Cambridge University. Served 1939-1945, French and Italian campaigns. The Welsh Regiment, Second Lieutenant 1940. Brigadier, General Staff 1945. Very interested in fishing
'HENRY', see under PAGET, George Charles Henry Victor, 6th marquess of Anglesey
'HERBERT', Lord Sidney Charles HERBERT. Born 9.1.1906. Married Lady Mary Dorothea Hope 27.7.1936
HIRTH, Walther and Johanna. Husband and wife joint proprietors of a sanatorium called Haus Hirth at Untergrainau, Garmisch, Bavaria. She refers to Edith Olivier as 'Dolores' and Edith Olivier refers to Walther as 'Alphonso'
HOWARD, Brian Christian de Claireborne. Only son of Francis and Lura
HOWARD, Mrs Lura Chess. Wife of Francis Howard, known as 'Tudie'. They have one son, Brian
'HYACINTH', see under WILDE, Hyacinth
'IMMA', see under DOERNBERG, Imma
'JIMMIE', see under SMITH, Lt Col James Frederick Arthur
'JOHN', see under BETJEMAN, Sir [1969] John
JUNGMAN, Zita. She marries Arthur James 29.1.1929. The marriage does not last
'KATHARINE', see under GATTY, Lady Katharine
'KEES', see under WARNERS, Col CJ
'LAURENCE', see under WHISTLER, Sir [2000] Alan Charles Laurence
'LAURIE', see under WHISTLER, Sir [2000] Alan Charles Laurence
'LEONARD', see under WOOLLEY, Sir [1935] Charles Leonard
LUBBOCK, Peter. Government House, Canberra, Australia, 1942-1945
'LURA', see under HOWARD, Mrs Lura Chess
'MAMIE', see under OLIVIER, Mary
MARAINI, Yoi. An old friend of Edith Olivier's. Born at Tallya in Hungary. Half English, half Polish. Died November 1944. A long term resident of Florence, Italy. Married to Antonio ['Nello'], a sculptor. A fascist sympathiser. Published a book called 'A Child Went Forth' in 1930
'MARCIE', see under RICE, Miss Marcia Alice
McEACHARN, Imma see under DOERNBERG, Imma
MOBERLY, C Anne E. 1927 address: 4 Norham Road, Oxford
'MONA', see under WILSON, Mona
MOORE, Richard or Richmond. 1930 London address: 39 Middleway, NW11
MOORE, Robert. Son of Richard or Richmond Moore. 1930 at Royal Artillery Mess, Shorncliffe Camp, Kent. 1939 at AA Practice Camp, Stiffkey, Norfolk. 1940 at Stoke sub Hamdon, Somerset, with the 57th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
MORRELL, Philip. Born 4.6.1870. Died 5.2.1943. Married Lady Ottoline Bentinck, died April 1938. Liberal MP for South Oxfordshire 1906-1910 and Burnley 1910-1918. London address: 10 Gower Street, WC1
'MURIEL', see under CLANWILLIAM, Lady
'NAN', see under BAILEY, Lady Janet
'NELSON', Edward Agar Horatio, 5th earl Nelson. Died 1951
NEWBOLT, Sir [1915] Henry John. Born 6.6.1862. Died 19.4.1938. Barrister and author. Married 1889 Margaret Edina Duckworth. One son, one daughter. Addresses: Old School House, Aisholt, Bridgwater, Somerset and 29 Campden Hill Road, London, W8
OLIVIER, Alfred Charles Seymour. Known as Alfred C Seymour. Actor. Born 4.6.1867. Died 22.5.1922 at Miller General Hospital, Greenwich, London. Buried at Marylebone Cemetery where his late wife was buried. Married Mrs Bernard ['Bernie'] Beere 17.4. 1900. This was her third marriage
OLIVIER, Arthur Frank. Baptised December 1868. Died April 1928. Banker. Taken very ill in late November 1912 at Grasmere, Westmoreland. Sells up, leaves Grasmere and plans to move south with his mistress, Katie Bramley. Very interested in painting
OLIVIER, [1943] Major CHA, Royal Artillery, later Lt Colonel. Married to Lois. Son of Robert Harold Olivier, killed 14.9.1914
OLIVIER, Emma Mildred. Born 21.4.1875. Died at The Daye House 19.11.1924. Buried Wilton churchyard 22.11.1924. Edith Olivier's younger sister
OLIVIER, Emma Selina. Born 5.4.1835. Died 10.9.1908. Second wife of the Revd Dacres Olivier of Wilton
OLIVIER, Esther. 1914 living at 48A Cambridge Street, Hyde Park, London. Wife of Reginald Ernest Olivier. Ran a fashionable dress design shop in Grafton Street, London. Only returned to her husband's country home at weekends
OLIVIER, Flying Officer HA. Son of Reginald Ernest Olivier and his wife Esther. November 1932 a pupil at Bruce House, Stowe School, Buckinghamshire. May 1940 with 263 Squadron, RAF, Norway
OLIVIER, Revd Canon Henry Eden. Baptised May 1866. Died December 1936. 1919 living at St James Vicarage, Croydon. 1920 living at The Vicarage, Epping, Essex. 1935 living at 2 Seafield, Seaton, Devon
OLIVIER, Joan. Daughter of Captain Sidney Richard Olivier RN and his wife Etheldred. 15.6.1936 married in Nyasaland a Ken [?], serving in the Kings African Rifles
OLIVIER, L Rosemary. Daughter of Captain Sidney Richard Olivier RN and his wife Etheldred. Edith Olivier's niece
OLIVIER, Mary. Known as 'Mamie'. Sister to Emma Mildred Olivier and Edith Olivier. Widow of Charles James Collins RN. 1914[?] married Frank Carter. 1916 separated from Frank Carter. 1926 living at 20 Embankment Gardens, Chelsea, London. Dies in late October 1947 at the Royal Waterloo Hospital, Waterloo Road, London SE1
OLIVIER, Mary Elizabeth. Widow of the Revd Alfred Olivier, 1833-1892
OLIVIER, Reginald Ernest. Baptised September 1871. Died 1.11.1931. 1914 working for Spencer Thornton & Company, stock and share brokers of London. 1920 living at 3 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1. 1931 living at 32 Davies Street, London, W1
OLIVIER, Captain Sidney Richard RN. Baptised April 1870. Died 21.1.1932. Brother of Edith Olivier. 1927 living at The Old Hall, Ramsden, Charlbury, Oxfordshire
OLIVIER, Sydney Haldane. 1st baron 1924. Born 16.4.1859. Married Margaret Cox in 1885. Colonial civil service career.
PAGET, Sir Charles Henry Alexander. 6th marquess of Anglesey. Signs as 'Charley'. Born 14.4. 1885. Married 3.8.1912 Lady Victoria Marjorie Harriet Manners who died 3.11.1946. Lord Chamberlain to HM Queen Mary 1922-1947
PAGET, Sir George Charles Henry Victor. Earl of Uxbridge. Succeeded his father as 7th marquess of Anglesey 21.2 1947. Signs as 'Henry'. Born 8.10.1922. 16.10.1948 married Elizabeth Shirley Vaughan Morgan. Major, Royal Horse Guards 1941-1945. Private Secretary to HBM Ambassador to USA 1947
'PETER', see under LUBBOCK, Peter
PLUNKET-GREENE, Gwendolene. London addresses: in 1927, 36 Bourdon Street, Berkeley Square; in 1931, 3 Alexander Street, SW3; in 1933, 12A Alfred Place, SW7. Had a son, David, an alchoholic and drug addict who drowned in a lake at Longleat, Wiltshire, in February 1941
PONSONBY, Arthur Augustus William Harry. 1st baron 1930. Born 16.2.1871. Died 23.3.1946 in a nursing home. Married 1898 Dorothea, daughter of Sir Hubert Parry. Address: Shulbrede Priory, Haslemere, Sussex. Labour MP for Brightside Division of Sheffield 1922-1930. Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1924. Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Dominions June-December 1929. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport 1929-1931. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1931. Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords 1931-1935
PONSONBY, Lady Dorothea. Address: Shulbrede Priory, Haslemere, Sussex
'REX', see under WHISTLER, Rex
RICE, Miss Marcia Alice. Address: 4 Moreton Road, Oxford
'ROBBIE', see under MOORE, Robert
ROBERTS, R Ellis. Writer and broadcaster. Married to Harriet. July 1938 living at Highcroft, The Edge, Stroud, Gloucestershire
ROBINSON, Grace Avery. Address: 111 East 80th Street, New York City
'RODDY', see under ENTHOREN, Captain RE
'ROSE', see under EDEN, Rose
'ROSEMARY' or 'OSE', see under OLIVIER, L Rosemary
RUSSELL, Maud. Address in 1944: Mottisfont Abbey, Romsey, Hampshire
SACKVILLE-WEST, Hon Victoria ['Vita'] Mary. Born 1892. Died 2.6.1962. Author and poet. 1913 married Hon Sir Harold Nicolson. Address: Sissinghurst Castle, Kent
SASSOON, Siegfried. Born 1886. Died 1.9.1967. Author and poet. Married 18.12.1933 Hester, daughter of the late Sir Stephen Herbert Gatty. He bought Heytesbury House in Wiltshire in April 1934. His parents address in 1929: Weirleigh, Matfield Green, Kent
SEYMOUR, Alfred Charles, see under OLIVIER, Alfred Charles Seymour
'SIDNEY', see under HERBERT, Lord Sidney Charles
'SIEGFRIED', see under SASSOON, Siegfried
'SIMON', see under HARCOURT-SMITH
SITWELL, Osbert. Address: Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire
SMITH, Lt Colonel James Frederick Arthur. Born 27.1.1906. November 1944 in the Low Countries, Headquarters Second Army. Assistant Military Secretary to the commander of the Second Army, General Sir Miles Dempsey, 1944-1945
'STEPHEN', see under TENNANT, Stephen James Napier
TENNANT, Stephen James Napier. Born 21.4.1906. Fourth and youngest son of Edward Priaulx Tennant, 1st baron Glenconner [died 21.11.1920] and Pamela Adelaide Genevieve Wyndham, married 11.7.1895. A fellow pupil with Rex Whistler at the Slade School of Art, London
'TONY', see under CUSSANS, Anthony
'TONY', see under OLIVIER, Flying Officer HA
TROTTER, Alexander Pelham. Born 1857. Died 23.7.1947. Married 1886 Alys Fane Keatinge. Electrical Adviser to the Board of Trade 1899-1917. Address:
Greystones, Teffont, Salisbury, Wiltshire
TURNER, Helen. Mother of Rex and Laurence Whistler. 1945 living at Longwood Cottage, Lassell Gardens, Bridge Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire
'VITA', see under SACKVILLE -WEST, Hon Victoria ['Vita'] Mary
WALTON, Sir [1951] William Turner. Born 29.3.1902. Died 8.3.1983. Composer. Married 1949 Susana Gil Passo. London address: 37 Dover Street, W1. 1943 address: Ashby St Ledgers, Rugby, Warwickshire
WARNERS, Colonel CJ. Known as 'Kees'. Signs as 'K'. A Dutchman who spent part of his career in the Dutch East Indies. Lover of Imma Doernberg.
WELLESLEY, Major Lord Gerald. In the 1940's he was living at Stratfield Saye House, Reading, and at 3 Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, London, NW1
WHISTLER, Sir [2000] Alan Charles Laurence. Born 21.1.1912. Died 19.12.2000. Engraver on glass and writer. Educated at Stowe School and Balliol College, Oxford. Commissioned in the Rifle Brigade 1941. Captain 1942. 1939 married his first wife Jill, daughter of Sir Ralph Furse. She died in childbirth on 27.11.1944. They had two children, Simon and Caroline Jill. Younger brother of the late Rex Whistler.
WHISTLER, Helen. Mother of Rex and Laurence. 1944 living at Longwood Cottage, Bridge Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire.
WHISTLER, Rex. Artist. 1932 living at 20 Fitzroy Street, London, WI. Killed in France 18.7.1944. The Daily Telegraph carried news of his death on 27.7.1944 but his mother was not officially informed until 28.7.1944. Tenant of 69 The Close, Salisbury, at the time of his death. Memorial service at Salisbury Cathedral 4.8.1944
WILDE, Hyacinth. Niece of Oscar Wilde
WILSON, Mona. Born 1872. Died 26.10.1954. Biographer. Address: The Old Oxyard, Oare, Marlborough, Wiltshire.
WOOLLEY, Sir [1935] Charles Leonard. Born 17.4.1880. Died 20.2.1960. Signs as 'Leonard'. Archaeologist and scholar.
WYLIE, Elinor. Died of a stroke 16.12.1928. American poet and novelist. 1923 married William Rose Benet. They spend little time together.
'YOI', see under MARAINI, Yoi.
YOUNG, George Malcolm. Born 1882. Died 18.11.1959. Usually signs as 'GM'. Author. Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1937. Member of the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries from 1938. Member of the Historical Manuscripts Commission from 1948. Address: The Old Oxyard, Oare, Marlborough, Wiltshire.
'ZITA', see under JUNGMAN, Zita
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