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Rudyard Kipling : Only a subaltern
'I was eighteen when I first read those words. My train was running into Rye station and I was knocked out the ashes of my first pipe of shag tobacco... My first book had just been published. I was going courting. My book had earned ten pounds. I desired to be a subaltern in H. B. M's army. The story was Mr Kipling's "Only a subaltern". The next station would be Winchelsea, where I was to descend.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
Stephen Crane : The Red badge of courage
'That same night, in a perfect, clear, still moonlight, I lay in a tent, obsessed by insomnia... And I will interpolate that, for myself, I had been reading, actually, "The Red Badge of Courage" by the light of a candle stuck onto a bully-beef case at my camp-bed head.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
Ivan Turgenev : A Sportsman's Sketches
'Did you ever read Turgenev's "Letters of a Sportsman?" If you never did, do so at once: they are the finest things that were ever written. I would rather have written "Bielshin Prairie" than have done anything else in the realm of human achievements'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
Pierre de Ronsard : Sonnets pour Helene
'In years away from this when I am quite forgotten, maybe you will turn up some of these old letters & feel a little like saying "Ronsard m'a celebree Du temps que j'etais jeune!" But then i am not Ronsard! I never, indeed, remember to have read anything of R's, except that...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
[n/a] : [newspapers]
'It is very exciting to read about the B'sh troops in Spa & Malmedy, bits of land that I know as well as the top of Campden Hill.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Newspaper
Ford Madox Ford : [unknown article in French]
'I have just got my French article in print: it reads quite nicely'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : [newspaper classifieds]
'I wish you were down here, darling so that we cd. consult - about ads in the paper. Just look at this [presumably an advertisement enclosed with the letter]. I don't know where Fulking is - but I have written to the owner to ask & if it is not too far I shall run over to see it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
Herbert George Wells : Outline of History, The
As for me I am reading Wells on history! I think it wickeder than I did: but it's an amazing piece of book-making. When he gets past clerical & medieval times he's quite sound from a Left point of view till he gets to Napoleon! But [underlined] how [end underlining] jealous he is of all great men from Pericles and J. Caesar to everyone else. You see him saying: "No! I couldn't do what Alexander did. So I'll do for [underlined] his [end underlining] reputation!" And the joke of it is that he damns every one of them - Solomon, Mahomet, Alexander, Julius Caesar & the rest for being untrustworthy with women! I've never seen Satan so splendidly reprove sin.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
Ford Madox Ford : Mr Bosphorus and the Muses
'I have been interrupted [in finishing a play] by getting back the m.s. of [underlined] Mr. Bosphorus [end underlining] which I have just gone through again, cutting it a little. I shall send it off again this afternoon.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Manuscript: Unknown
Ford Madox Ford : Marsden Case, The: A Romance
'I am rather dithered after writing nearly all night & [underlined] then [end underlining] reading the [underlined] Marsden Case [end underlining] - not without satisfaction.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford
[n/a] : World, The
'I see there is a little reference to him [Drake] in a rude interview with me in the [underlined] World [end underlining] that I send you.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical
Violet Hunt : Flurried Years, The
'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Ford's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...] In the meantime Rebecca [West] naturally has sailed in & made matters excruciatingly more disagreeable. She has told several people that V.H. is an admirable and martyred saint & that every word in the book is true.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
Ford Madox Ford : [several poems]
'I read "The Old Houses of Flanders" & "Clair de Lune", first half, & "Thank Goodness the Moving is Over" last night after my speech... & I was signing copies of my books for an hour an a half afterwards!'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford
Jessie Conrad : Times Literary Supplement
'What really [underlined] has [end underlining] harmed me here [as opposed to Violet Hunt's memoirs]- oddly enough -is Jessie's letter to the [underlined] Times [end underlining]'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical
[unknown] : review of Violet Hunt's 'The Flurried Years' in the New York Times]
'The only thing S.L. [Violet Hunt's memoirs] says about you, by the bye, is that I am now wandering homeless over Europe with a younger and more robust Egeria. I meant to send you the review in the N.Y. Times which contained those phrases, but I forgot it and it is impossible to get back issues of papers here.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Newspaper
Jessie Conrad : Joseph Conrad as I Knew Him
'Mrs van Doren told me yesterday that Macfee - one of her reviewers- had received a letter full of the most incredible Billingsgate from Jessie because he had mentioned my book about C. more favourably than hers. I've read hers. It's really quite good and not [underlined] very [end underlining] offensive to me.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
Elizabeth Madox Roberts : Time of Man, The
'I am a little tired of writing eulogies. I wrote one of Asch the other day, and I am writing one of Lucy Madox Roberts whose book I immensely admire.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
Ford Madox Ford : Good Soldier, The
'I was lately forced into the rather close examination of this book, for I had to translate it into French, that forcing me to give it much closer attention than would be the case in any reading however minute. And I will permit myself to say that I was astounded at the work I must have put into the construction of the book, at the intricate tangle of references and cross-references.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
[n/a] : New York Times
'I have just bought the New York Times - wh. feels relatively home-like & read that the AMERICAN CHORUS GIRL IS BEAUTIFUL BUT SHE IS KNOCK-KNEED SAYS FLORENCE SIEGFIELDJUN'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Newspaper
Isabel Paterson : [manuscripts]
'I was out like a lark at nine this morning to breakfast with Isabel Paterson - who did not expect me till one, Sunday breakfast here being alleesamee lunch. So she was not up and I sat and read manuscripts of hers till twelve and at one I had to go and give Capes lunch at the Nat Arts Club'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Manuscript: Unknown
Ford Madox Ford : New York is Not America
'I am not half so pleased [as with "The Last Post"] with "New York is not America", the American proofs of which I am now wading through. The sentences seem to be so dreadfully long.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: page proofs for American edition
Ford Madox Ford : Last Post, The
'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Monday night. That however was impossible, but I got them finished yesterday and then was too exhausted to do anything. In addition I have any amount of reading to do for the Collier's serial'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: page proofs for American edition
Ford Madox Ford : Last Post, The
'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Monday night. That however was impossible, but I got them finished yesterday and then was too exhausted to do anything. In addition I have any amount of reading to do for the Collier's serial'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: page proofs for English edition
[unknown] : [research for a tale to be serialised in 'Collier's Weekly']
'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Monday night. That however was impossible, but I got them finished yesterday and then was too exhausted to do anything. In addition I have any amount of reading to do for the Collier's serial'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
[unknown] : [research for the book that became 'A little Less than Gods']
'I have begun DEMIGODS which is the provisional title of the Ney book and what with reading up for it and worrying over it I am fair moidert'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
Ezra Pound : [early poems]
'[At his parents' house] We saw photos of Ezra as a baby and his first poems in an Idaho paper and no end of things that wd make poor Ezra squirm'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Newspaper
[unknown] : [article presumably praising Stella Bowen's exhibition of paintings]
'I was so delighted with your cutting from the Crapouillot: I am sure I must seem quite fatuous, I shew it to so many people'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Newspaper
Edward Morgan Forster : Aspects of the Novel
'[After lunch] I shall come back and begin an article I am to write about the technique of the novel for Canby - suggested by a book of E.M. Forster's, which is pretty bad'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
[n/a] : Saturday Review
'I am sending you a copy of the [underlined] Saturday Review [end underlining] with an article of mine & your Lavigne picture.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical
[unknown] : [research for 'A Little Less than Gods']
'I have been doing a good deal of reading for the Ney book, though it is difficult to get all the books I want'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
[n/a] : Saturday Review
'Almost every day there is some reference to it [Ford's book on Conrad] here or there. I am sending you a copy of the Saturday Review which has one.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : New York Times Book Review
'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in the [underlined] Times [end underlining] last Sunday, for no discoverable reason, and the [underlined] Herald-Tribune [end underlining] was not very good. I have written nice things on everbody on that paper, so they can't very well employ their staff to write about me. So Irita - rather at my suggestion - got an English novelist called Macfee to do it, a sort of blighted person I wanted to give a job to. However, as a set off Harry Hensen of the World which has hitherto not liked me, gave it his column and as he is one of the most celebrated column-writers in the States that is not so bad.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical
William McFee : New York Herald Tribune Books
'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in the [underlined] Times [end underlining] last Sunday, for no discoverable reason, and the [underlined] Herald-Tribune [end underlining] was not very good. I have written nice things on everbody on that paper, so they can't very well employ their staff to write about me. So Irita - rather at my suggestion - got an English novelist called Macfee to do it, a sort of blighted person I wanted to give a job to. However, as a set off Harry Hensen of the World which has hitherto not liked me, gave it his column and as he is one of the most celebrated column-writers in the States that is not so bad.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical
Harry Hensen : [untraced review of Ford's 'The Last Post']
'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in the [underlined] Times [end underlining] last Sunday, for no discoverable reason, and the [underlined] Herald-Tribune [end underlining] was not very good. I have written nice things on everbody on that paper, so they can't very well employ their staff to write about me. So Irita - rather at my suggestion - got an English novelist called Macfee to do it, a sort of blighted person I wanted to give a job to. However, as a set off Harry Hensen of the World which has hitherto not liked me, gave it his column and as he is one of the most celebrated column-writers in the States that is not so bad.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical
Esther Julia Ford : [a short story]
'And you know she [Ford's daughter, Julie] acted about her story just like a grown-up I know: No, it was not good enough for me to see. She had not had enough experience. Perhaps one day when she had had experience. And she supposed no-one would print her silly story. And she went and read it to Fannie, and then to Mlle Renee and at last she let me see it and explained that it would look much better when she had made a clean copy.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Manuscript: Unknown
[n/a] : [articles on Pacific politics]
'I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocean - but it was rather difficult because Janice insisted on reading aloud passages from the life and letters of Gauguin, the artist.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical
[unknown] : [unknown]
'Now half Paris is wanting to take my likeness & indeed a Spanish painter is doing it all the time while I am writing this. He sits about doing me while I work or read or play patience'.
