EVELYN WAUGH NEWSLETTER

Volume 8 Number 2 - Autumn 1974

THE EVELYN WAUGH - DUDLEY CAREW CORRESPONDENCE

At the Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin

Alain Blayac (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France)

"In the role of iconoclast which I assumed, I fascinated and dominated a boy of my own age in another House, who had previously enjoyed all the enthusiasms proper to his condition. I set out to ridicule his loyalties. . . He was warmly confidential; I patronizing and sardonic. He addressed an ode to me . . . it concluded:

For you I've given up all that I cherish
Curses I find where once friendship grew.
Give me then freely of your knowledge.
Be fair, my friend, 'tis all I ask of you.

... I do not believe that I ever called down curses on the devotee's head. Some of his former associates in his House may have looked askance at him He was a natural heroworshipper and in a year or two transferred his homage to (Sir) J.C. Squire, who encouraged his interest in cricket, introduced him to whiskey and was altogether a kinder and more fortifying mentor than I." (1)

Dudley Carew was the name of the boy; and he, in his own autobiography, also speaks of the friendship that existed between him and Waugh:

Of more influence than 'Praeters' [Hugh Molson] however … was a growing friendship with a boy outside his [Carew's] House, but in the same form, the Upper V . . . Evelyn Waugh was the brother of Alec, but he was not the kind of person to rely for his importance on the accident of relationship. . . and the boy [Carew] had never yet come across a mind whose natural bent was towards satire and criticism. . . Evelyn was a debunker, and his fearful delight in Evelyn's iconoclastic attacks on established reputations was only equalled by his awe … and Evelyn's abrupt 'Soul on the hearth rug, Carey' and its implied criticism was a most healthy corrective. (2)

The Waugh-Carew correspondence, acquired by the University of Texas, Austin, has thrown considerable new light on their relationship. The collection, in all some fifty letters and poems from Evelyn to his friend, covers a period ranging from February 1921 when both adolescents were still pupils at Lancing College, to the summer of 1924 at which time Evelyn left Oxford, without having qualified for his degree in Modern History. From the correspondence it can be seen that this was indubitably the most formative period of Waugh's life, a time of ardent activity and not one of idleness and dissipation as has been commonly believed until now.

At Lancing Evelyn became Captain of Head's House, (3) editor of the College Magazine and president of the Debating Society. Later, at Oxford, he again took part in debates and delivered his maiden speech at the Union less than two months after his arrival in that city. (4) During the Fall Term of 1922 his name appeared on the cover of the Oxford Fortnightly Review, and in the following year he was elected to the Library Committee. He wrote many articles for contemporary student magazines especially the Isis, the Cherwell and the Oxford Fortnightly Review, and under the pseudonym of Scaramel contributed humorous cartoons to them. In addition he kept in close touch at all times with the leading literary groups which undeniably became the stepping stones to his eventual literary and artistic career.

Very little time and energy was given to the study of Modern History which was his reason for being at the University, but Lancing and Oxford certainly showed him paths that he had never hitherto explored, gave full scope to his wide talents and provided him with the opportunity to form his theories and perfect his techniques.

Much valuable information as to the characters of the two boys at a crucial stage in their development and the kind of life they were leading is to be gained from a reading of the correspondence. There is evidence of a manifold variety of occupations in a very hectic existence, and many insights are gained into the private and 'public' lives of the two friends.

Apart from the few letters of a more or less official nature from a former editor of the Lancing College Magazine to his successor, the rest are private and refer to personal, literary or technical matters, and Waugh adopts in them the somewhat patronizing tone of the expert talking down to an ignoramus.

Evelyn's letters to Carew reveal the writer's twofold personality - on the one hand the boy-leader, on the other the thinker and potential artist. The young boy goes all out to obtain a scholarship to Oxford which he gains by his hard work. But once there he neglects his studies, not from motives of idleness or disinclination to exertion but from a desire to spend his time in more varied, creative occupations. The Oxford letters reveal the diversity of his activities, the responsibilities he shoulders, and show how the man and the leader begin to emerge, whereas the diaries leave the reader with the impression of a young man, timid, full of mistrust in himself and often a prey to gnawing anguish at the possibility of failure. The climate of the letters, especially of those written in the period prior to the last weeks of his time at Oxford, is one of confidence in his own powers, of self-assurance, of a feeling of superiority even. There is great depth of thought but also an equal fastidiousness and the exacting harshness of a master towards his disciple. Yet a great feeling of friendship (5) and involvement (6) underlies the rather painstaking advice given by the future author to the new editor of the Lancing College Magazine, and in his detailed criticisms of Carew's poems and novels, (7) where compliments alternate with reproaches and apologies, Evelyn appears as completely sincere.(8) The old image of the irresponsible, devil-may-care student is giving way to that of the serious thinker and artist of the years to come.

Among the intellectual circles he haunted, the clubs he belonged to, there are mentioned(9) here the Corpse Club, whose aim was to demonstrate the members' boredom with life, the Dilettanti Society and the Hypocrites' Club, which "became notorious not only for drunkenness but for flamboyance of dress and manners." (10) There is comment elsewhere in the letters upon his entry into the various debating societies, but for the rest, he talks mainly about the magazines he has edited, especially in view of the fact that Carew had succeeded him on the Lancing College Magazine.' (11)

The collection gives the picture of an intelligent adolescent who early showed evidence of his ability to pursue a successful artistic or journalistic career, and was already accepted as a born leader and organizer. Yet though actively engaged in literary and creative writing, Waugh found time to design book covers, do sketches for magazines, and study with Francis Crease. (12) He also tried his hand at the theory and criticism of poetry and fiction, (13) but his genius showed at his best in his own poetry and novels. (14) At one time he was even a competitor for the Newdigate Prize.

The main interest of the letters lies in the new light they shed on the young Waugh in his deep-rooted conviction that he would become a name in the world of literature and his strong determination to succeed. Against a background of the obvious sincerity of the 'live' document stands out the picture of another man completely sure of himself and of the mastery of his art. The two aspects of his character are brought into relief - the anguished timidity and hidden doubts of the private diaries contrasting strangely with the pugnacity and self-assurance displayed in his public life.

I - Lancing Letters - (February-November 1921) (15)

1 - Feb. 11, 1921 - Dudley Carew president of UVB debating society - Evelyn's decision to resign (Two reasons: personal work - Satiated with hearing his own voice).

2 - April 6, 1921 (postmark) - Postcard - Evelyn penniless - Meeting with Carew and cousin impossible.

3 - (ruled leaf) - nd - Evelyn writing in chapel quad - Mistake in covers (presumably covers of Lancing Magazine) - Carew's essay more interesting than his novel - Incredible development in boy within a year - Carew now ready to discard Evelyn's influence - Too individual to remain a disciple - Evelyn a little sad.

4 - (ruled leaf) - nd - To editor of Lancing College Magazine - Last editorial needs reply - Public school friendship: not sacred - Often changing - Restricted choice of friends inevitable and desirable - House captains should drop their friends - Conscientious or not, house captains must be detested - Caste system in Public Schools destroys friendship and favours casual acquaintanceship - Further correspondence on subject welcomed by Evelyn.

5 - (ruled leaf) - nd - About one of Carew's poems - Extremely modern - Carew's style will develop towards new craft away from poetry - Promotes intellectual comfort (Detailed study) - Avoid vagueness - Express ideas materially.

6 - (ruled leaf) - nd - Carew's feminine gracefulness in conveying bad news - Evelyn reading Hugo - Exasperated by Carew's love for Dick (Dick Harris, a tutor in Head's House) - Carew's lack of inclination to wickedness - Release into virtue when Evelyn absent - Too bad - Should strive for higher things - Carew a hopeless case.

7 - June 19 (1921) - Invitation to Conversion, a play by Evelyn Waugh performed at Lancing College.

8 - (ruled paper - Autumn 1921) - Evelyn sorry for condemning verse so late - Technique horrid - Theme with no thought - Friends and poetry forgotten in five weeks - Carew an intellectual chameleon.

9 - (ruled paper) - nd - Appointment 4 o'clock - Everything nearly ready.

10 - (ruled paper) - nd - Sharp criticism of a sonnet by Carew - Matter and manner considered.

11 - About a novel by Carew - Good on the whole, excellent in patches - More restrained style preferable - Cut out chapter quite good - Evelyn proud to be of help.

12 - (unmarked paper - nd) - About Carew's novel - Excellent conception of character and plot - Too frail for theme though - Thoughts should be revealed by actions and incidents - Cinema valuable to novelists - 'Make things happen' - Go to the cinema [Tone patronizing, almost unreadable] - (Letter ends with portrait entitled 'Ralph').

13 - Nov. 8 (1921) - Invitation to tea at Corpse Club.

Christmas: 1921 - New Year 1922

14 - Waugh's writing paper (London address) - nd - (just after Christmas 1921) Christmas greetings - Happy to reach Hertford next term - Bitterest curse upon Lancing - Carew must take care of magazine and debating society - Hectic period at home - Parties and theatre.

15 - (Same paper) - nd - Reproaches Carew for not writing - Review of personal activities in London - Advice about magazine.

16 - (Same paper) - nd - Carew drunk when writing last letter - Evelyn invites him to party on December 31 - Impossible to put him up - Evelyn an educated man after reading Havelock Ellis - Jokes about leaving for Uganda 'for solitary thinking.'

17 - (Same paper) - nd (presumably just after New Year's Eve) - About Carew's telephone call to invite women to party - Evelyn rather severe at discourtesy - Alec and he enjoyed Carew's party - Many quite unpresentable people though - Improper to ask three Girls (the Kitties (?) and Miss Barnes) to their party - Carew welcome, his friends not - No harshness intended, only friendly advice.

18 - (Same paper) - nd (early January 1922) - Thanks for New Year's Eve - Apologies for misunderstanding about Miss Barnes - New invitation - Bring three girls at precise time, 8:30.

19 - (Same paper) - nd (January 1922) - Invitation to 'Children's party' on January 5 - Over 18 - Evening dress - Unable to put Carew up for the night - 1922 - Evelyn's First Year at Oxford.

20 - College writing paper - nd (Very soon after reaching Oxford) Fondest regards to Lancing friends - About magazine - Advice to Carew: Stay a little wicked - Oxford somewhat lonely - No congenial friend yet but bright and happy future in store - Hertford and Oxford: too much religion, too little brains - Wants Lancing news.

21 - College writing paper - February 10 - (Official letter to LCM editor) - About former instructions to editor - University letters included at discretion of editor - Defy the censor - Wish to be sent a copy of magazine.

22 - Unmarked paper - (circa 15 February as Waugh's maiden speech at OUDS reported in Isis Feb. 8, 1922) - Official acknowledgement of vote of thanks by Lancing Debating Society - Advice to Carew in choice of friends - 'Sic itur ad astra' Evelyn too new at Oxford - first impressions beautiful and different - Most students clever but earnest - Already on the fringe of many groups - First tiff with tutor - Writing unsatisfactory poem for Newdigate prize - First speech at Union - Interested in people's opinion about him at Lancing.

23 - College writing paper - nd - About Lancing magazine - Ready to allow publication of own reply to 'Athlete scholar and soldier.'

24 - College writing paper - nd - Do not publish letter - 'Silence is fitter.'

25 - College writing paper - nd (first term at Oxford) Refusal to keep up with past - Ready to defend Oxford and forget Lancing - Best verse Carew has ever written - Wishes for successful career - Do not change!

26 - College writing paper - nd - Sorry about Carew's sadness - Looking forward to reading novel - Good Kittie dedication - Not able to explain Oxford yet - Does not know how it will all end.

27 - College writing paper - ad VI Id. Mart. MCMXXII (15 March 1922) - (Long poem by Evelyn in rhymed pentameters) - Entitled 'legend; a Sequel to Twelve Years On' - Poem about Carew written in less than an hour.
Letter to Carew - Greek-like address from Oxford - Forgives him for not writing - Criticizes Carew's poem although far better than usual - Sends him sequel to 'Twelve Years On' - Explains allusions to common friends - Most happy at Oxford - Feels a prig with his advice to Carew - About art, character and conventionality - 'Stick to your nature, don't be a Laertes' - Refuse Waugh spirit to be kept up at Lancing - Now 'Carey touch' necessary - Same interest in Lancing although he is changing.

28 - Hypocrites' Club paper - nd - Last poems admirable - Stick to gin.

29 - College writing paper - nd - Sonnet well conceived but ill-written - No consistent verse - No scansion - Errors of taste - Literary bad manners - About Shakespeare - Uncertain whether will be in London for vac.

30 - Unmarked paper - nd - About Lancing magazine: interesting but a little disappointing - Fishy book excellent - Discussion of correspondence Waugh's chief interest - Congratulates Carew for promotion - Mock irritation at his progress - Threatens to fly to Philippines for vac - Best regards to all friends.

31 - College writing paper - nd - Carew's last letter inadequate - Threatens to stop writing.

1923

32 - Oxford Carlton Club paper - nd (winter term 1923, as Evelyn was editor of Oxford Fortnightly Review published under auspices of Carlton Club, October - December l922). Sorry to hear about Carew's expulsion - Can become a prep school master or migrate to Nigeria - Evelyn's life in 'instable equilibrium' - Possible partnership with Carew later.

33 - London address - nd - About style and writing - University Sports a sad show - Questions about friends - Who will take magazine - Will be in town whole week - Invites Carew to visit him with Peter Fremlin, Pollock and Jonslow.

34 - London address - nd - (Ironical letter): Examinational form about Carew's departure from Lancing - Various questions about present and future - Send magazine (Letter ends with caricature of Carew's triumphantly marching out of the college, leaving behind hosts of disconsolate friends).

35 - Unmarked paper - nd - Does not remember questions of previous letter - Cannot follow Carew's answers - Received bad issue of magazine - Hertford and Corpus good colleges - Can Carew finance him? - Send Easter egg to successor - Various questions.

36 - Chapman & Hall postcard - Sept. 10, 1923 (postmark) Did you receive my wood engraving?

37 - College paper - nd - Sorry not to have written - Verses on 'Smell' good - Father reluctant to publish them - Waugh now working to keep scholarship - Elected secretary of Hertford Debating Society.

38 - College paper - nd - Tries to have Carew's verse accepted - No money in poetry - Envying him for freedom and possibility to get on - Evelyn stuck in 'statu pupilaris' Carew lost nothing by missing Oxford - Life at Oxford solitary and quiet - Dreams a lot - Utterly penniless - Hertford's poor sports results - Heard American revivalist, typical Oxford audience - Anecdotes of daily life - Secretary of Hertford Debating Society - About Matthew's adultery.

39 - College paper - nd - Sorry not to have written - Fits of melancholy - Sorry to have missed Carew on his visit to Oxford - Aquarium high reputation - Feeling depraved, broke and depressed.

1924

40 - London paper - nd - About Carew's illness - Probable visit on Sunday - Evelyn's dancing lessons with Elsa Lanchester - Drawing Cubist Christmas cards.

41 - College paper - nd - Evelyn a wreck - Diary destroyed - Impossible to tell what is happening - Impending speech to the Union - Wishes to leave Oxford - Parents cannot understand - All self-respect lost - Just tried aeroplane.

42 - Oxford Union paper - nd - Late congratulations for success of novel - Now working hard - Caffeine and whiskey.

43 - College paper - nd - Brutal lethargy for weeks past - Happy about Carew's novel - About to begin writing Temple At Thatch - Drawing bookplates - Plan to go to Ireland with Alastair - Will leave in caravan outside Oxford - [Temple At Thatch begun July 21 according to Diary].

44 - Unmarked paper - nd - Congratulations for novel - Evelyn a little envious - Caves of Harmony closed - Introduced into 'artistic' club 'the Harlequin' - Looking for a Bohemia independent of Alec's.

45 - College paper - nd - Delighted to hear from Carew - Proud and pleased for two jobs given him by Carew - About Jack Squire, Carew's employer - Acton detests Squire.

46 - College paper - nd - Angry question about Carew's relationship with Squire.

47 - Waugh's writing paper (London Address) - dated July 4, 1924 from the diary. Thanks for last night's party - A triumph of hospitality - Squire hateful though.

48 - Unmarked paper - nd - [July 1924] Gives his successive addresses at Barford, then in Ireland - Worried about book cover ordered for Carew's novel - Description of cover and difficulties.

49 - Unmarked paper - nd - [July 1924 as written in Barford House] - Cover now excellent - Apologies for taking so much time - His usual prices - Purposes to send own printed work to Carey's editor on return (from Ireland).

End of Correspondence with Carew

NB: The file also contains miscellaneous items by Evelyn:

1 - Two poems: "Lancing Chapel" and an untitled one.

2 - A speech: "The Twilight of Language" for the Dilettanti, delivered on Sunday February 13, 1921.

3 - Two school essays: "The House - an anticlimax" and an untitled one.

4 - An ink sketch of a bald man on ruled paper (Alec?) with caption "and he did live in the sight of the Lord according to all that his fathers had done."

5 - Jacket design for Dudley Carew's novel The Next Corner.

6 - Line drawing in ink entitled "Fires of Youth," September, 1923, representing an adolescent under starry sky with one foot in a cradle and the other in a tomb.

NOTES

1 - Evelyn Waugh, A Little Learning, London: Chapman and Hall, 1964, pp. 129-130.

2 - Dudley Carew, The House is Gone, London: Robert Hale Ltd., 1949, pp. 92-93.

3 - Arthur Waugh, One Man's Road, London: Chapman and Hall, Chap. XIV and passim.

4 - Charles E. Linck in his excellent thesis (The Development of EW's Career, 1903-1939) dates it Feb. 8, 1922.

5 - Cf. Letters 17, 18, 48.

6 - Cf. Letters 21, 22, 24, 31, 36.

7 - Cf. Letters 23, 26, 28, 29, 30, 38, 39.

8 - Cf. Letters 3, 6, 8, 11, 15, 17, 18, 19, 27, 32, 40, 46, 47.

9 - Cf. Letters 1, 13, 29, 33, 41, 45.

10 - Waugh, op. cit., p. 179.

11 - Cf. Letters 3, 4, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 31, 33.

12 - Cf. Letters 35, 37, 41.

13 - Cf. Letters 5, 8, 11, 12, 28, 30, 34.

14 - Cf. Letters 7, 23, 28, 44.

15 - The correspondence at the University of Texas was not organized by dates. It has been here set in order both according to internal and external evidence and should be accurate except for a few letters whose condition prevents an absolute time identification.

EVELYN WAUGH: A SUPPLEMENTARY CHECKLIST OF CRITICISM

Hans Otto Thieme (University of Wuppertal, Germany)

This is a continuation of the earlier checklists, published in Evelyn Waugh Newsletter (EWN), II,i; III,i; IV,i; V,i; VI,i; and VII,i. It includes books and articles published since 1971, as well as some items omitted from the previous lists.

Anžaparidze, G.A., "Rannie romany Evelina Vo," Filologiceskie Nanki, XIV,i (1971), 14-25.

Bogaards, Winnifred M., "Evelyn Waugh, Oscar Wilde and Irish Folklore," EWN, VII,i (1973), 1-5.

Bogaards, Winnifred M., "Ideas and Values in the Work of Evelyn Waugh," Dissertation Abstracts International, XXXI (1971), 4l51A (Saskatchewan).

Burzynska, Joanna, "Funkcje paszczyzn czasowych w 'Brideshead Revisited' Evelyna Waugh," Kwartalnik neofilologiczny, XX,iii (1973), 265-275.

Canney, Daniel J., "The Kingfisher Image in Brideshead," EWN, VII,iii (1973), 6-7.

Clark, John R., "Verboten Passage: Strategy in the Early Waugh," EWN, VII,ii (1973), 5-9.

Cockburn, Claud, "Evelyn Waugh's Lost Rabbit," Atlantic, 232 (December, 1973), 53-59.

Coppieters, R., "A Linguistic Analysis of a Corpus of Quoted Speech in Evelyn Waugh's Novel The Sword of Honour," Studia Germanica Gandensia, XI (1969), 87-153.

Davie, Michael, "The Diary of a Somebody," Observer Review (25 March, 1973), 29. Introductory essay to "The Private Diaries of Evelyn Waugh" The Observer Colour Magazine. Excerpts from the Diaries were printed in 8 weekly installments from March 25 to May 13, 1973 with a follow-up article by Tom Driberg in the May 20 issue. Shortened version: Esquire (Sep., 1973), pp. 77-88, 190, 192, 194-202. - Cf. Jeffrey M. Heath, "A Note on the Waugh Diaries," EWN, VII,iii (1973), 7-8.

Davis, Robert Murray, "How Waugh Cut Merton," The Month, N.S. VI (April, 1973), 150-153.

Davis, Robert Murray, "The Loved One: Text and Context," Texas Quarterly, XV (Winter, 1972), 100-107.

Davis, Robert Murray, "Social History in a Black Mischief Revision," EWN, VII,iii (1973), 8-9.

Davis, Robert Murray, "Waugh's Mulled Claret - Formula 1," EWN, VII,iii (1973), 9.

Dobie, Ann B., and Carl Wooton, "Spark and Waugh: Similarities by Coincidence," Midwest Quarterly, XIII,iv (July 1972), 423-434.

Farino, Piera, "Waugh in Italy," EWN, VII,iii (1973), 4-5.

Gill, Richard, Happy Rural Seat (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972), including Waugh.

Greene, Donald, "The Wicked Marquess: Disraeli to Thackeray to Waugh," EWN, VII,ii (1973), 1-5.

Heath, Jeffrey M., "Waugh Notes," EWN, VII,i (1973), 9-10.

Heath, Jeffrey M., "Waugh and Rossetti," EWN, VII,iii (1973), 5-6.

Heath, Jeffrey M., "A Note on the Waugh Diaries," EWN, VII,iii (1973), 7-8.

LaFrance, Marston, "The Year's Work in Waugh Studies," EWN, VII,i (1973), 5-7.

Lodge, David, "The Arrogance of Evelyn Waugh," The Critic, XXX (May-June, 1972), 62-70.

McAleer, Edward C., "Decline and Fall as Imitation," EWN, VII,iii (1973), 1-4.

Meckier, Jerome, "Evelyn Waugh: Satire and Symbol," The Georgia Review, XXVII,ii (1973), 166-174.

Novelli, Martin A., "Witness to the Times: The War Novels of Ford Madox Ford and Evelyn Waugh," Dissertation Abstracts International, XXXII (1971), 3321A (Temple).

Palmer, Helen H., and Anne Jane Dyson (compil.), English Novel Explication: Criticism to 1972 (London, 1973), including Waugh, pp. 260-264.

Phillips, Gene D., "The Christian Vision of Evelyn Waugh," Dissertation Abstracts International, XXXI (1971), 6068A (Fordham).

Pryce-Jones, David (ed.), Evelyn Waugh and His World (London: Weidenfe1d & Nicolson, 1973; Boston: Little, Brown, 1973).

Russell, John, "The War Trilogies of Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh," Modern Age, XVI,iii (1972), 289-300.

Schulz, Max F., Black Humor Fiction of the Sixties: A Pluralistic Definition of Man and his World (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1973), including Waugh, pp. 12, 17.

Sissman, L.E., "Evelyn Waugh: The Height of His Powers," Atlantic Monthly, 229 (March, 1972), 24, 26.

Spatz, Jonas, Hollywood in Fiction: Some Versions of the American Myth (The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1969); pp. 105-109, 125-128 : The Loved One and Love Among the Ruins.

St. John, John, To the War with Waugh (London: Whittington, 1973); reviewed by Paul A. Doyle, EWN, VIl,ii (1973), 11.

Van Zeller, Dom Hubert, "Evelyn Waugh," The Month, 36 (July-August, 1966), 69-71.

THE CONFESSION OF AN ENGLISH MAJOR

Fallon Evans

I don't know if it is to the purpose of EWN to record the fact that at least once in his life Waugh used an old and hoary joke, but I submit documentation.

I encountered Waugh in the winter of 1948; he was on a lecture-tour of American Catholic colleges, speaking of convert-writers, but also settling as he saw it. the debate then raging on those campuses as to the ultimate fate of Scobie, the hero of Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter. "Why, Scobie is in hell," he said, "Where he deserves to be." At the University of Notre Dame Waugh had agreed to meet informally with a few of the English Majors on the afternoon before his speech.

I was then an English Major at Notre Dame, a vet, one of the selected few who were to meet with him. At that time I idolized him; no critical perception (as will appear) shaded that idolatry. Even now I cannot say what it meant to me then to be chosen to share a room with him.

It was a very dark and threatening winter afternoon in Indiana, and a gloomy room chosen for the meeting, one in the upper reaches of the Notre Dame Dining Hall that was normally off-limits to undergraduates. I arrived late and breathless, to plunge into a circle of Stygian gloom and almost palpable boredom. Waugh, a few professors and some twenty students sat in anguished silence. (I don't think that Waugh shared the anguish.)

I found a seat and stared at him a while, amidst the darkness and silence; indeed, there was little to be seen in the gloaming. Then I roused myself to ask him a question, but really to direct his attention towards me.

"Which ending of Handful of Dust did you write first?" I asked him in a strangulated voice. This question provoked admiration from my peers and professors, for they had no idea that there were two endings to the novel, but even as I asked the question, the truth was revealed to Waugh and myself. Anyone who knows that there are two endings to Handful of Dust knows the circumstances of their composition, and hence knew that the question was proposed only to call attention to me.

He did look at me briefly, I think, before he replied. "I wrote the better ending first." His interest was clearly elsewhere. I couldn't stand that rejection, and I asked quite levelly, "Which is the better?"

He did not reply, and all there in that room lapsed back into boredom and the gloom of an Indiana winter. But when the meeting had broken up, dematerialized actually, Evelyn Waugh and I chanced to meet at the door.

"Are you an English Major?" he said.

"Yes, sir."

And then he sighed. "And I was only a Captain," he said.

THE WHITSTON WAUGH CHECKLIST: ERRATA AND ADDENDA I

Winnifred M. Bogaards (University of New Brunswick in St. John)

[Professor Bogaards has thoroughly examined the Evelyn Waugh: A Checklist of Primary and Second Material volume and has supplemented and corrected various entries. EWN commences a serialization, which we expect to run for several years, of her findings. Her work is an indispensable contribution toward the goal of a definitive Waugh bibliography. In the process the editors have also checked the material. -- Ed.

Professor Bogaards expresses her gratitude to Mr. William Kerr, periodicals librarian at the University of New Brunswick in St. John, who has ordered "over 1000 photocopies for me, and always with the greatest patience and enthusiasm. I would like to see his service to Waugh recognized publically."]

PART I: WORKS BY EVELYN WAUGH

A. Books and Monographs

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