Category Archives: Letters

Waugh’s Advice on Writing

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Terry Teachout, drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and critic-at-large of Commentary, has posted on his artsblog a quote from Waugh on the practice of writing: Never send off any piece of writing the moment it is finished. Put it … Continue reading →

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Mrs. Luce’s Dinner Party

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The Spectator’s gossip columnist Taki Theodoracopulos recalls descriptions of a dinner party given by Waugh for Clare Boothe Luce. The column (“On the consolations of old age”) appears in the latest issue of a publication entitled Spectator Life which is available … Continue reading →

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Waugh Letters Discovered at Maggs Bros

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Financial Times reports the closure of Maggs Bros. bookstore in Berkeley Square where it has been located for about 80 years. The plan is to move to new premises yet to be located. One advantage of the move has … Continue reading →

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Waugh Novel Recommended in Gift List

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A Waugh novel has been selected for a list of potential gifts to be given to “conservative gentlemen.” The list appears on the weblog The Imaginative Conservative. The criteria for inclusion provide that the gift must be “quality if not…costly” (avoiding ties, … Continue reading →

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Waugh Included in “More Letters of Note”

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh’s 1942 letter to his wife recounting the disastrous results of his army unit’s attempt to remove a tree stump from the garden of a Scottish aristocrat has now been included in a collection entitled More Letters of Note, edited by Shaun … Continue reading →

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Fitzroy Maclean Commemorated on St. Andrew’s Day

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Fitzroy Maclean, Waugh’s commanding officer in Yugoslavia, was commemorated yesterday in an editorial on the Foreign and Colonial Office weblog. The occasion was St. Andrew’s Day. Maclean was, needless to say, Scottish. Here’s the opening paragraph: ‘A man of daring … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Mr. Toad

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Novelist Andrew Martin has written a column in the Financial Times in which he confesses to enjoy reading fiction about the very rich. His favorite hero is Mr. Toad not because he was, as he characterised himself, “handsome” and “clever”, but … Continue reading →

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Independent Includes Waugh Novel in Weekend Reads

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Independent newspaper has published a list of its top 23 recommendations for a book to be read conveniently in a single weekend. It has included Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited in its selections. This seems odd, given that it is one of … Continue reading →

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Hetton Abbey Cited in Gilbert Scott Article

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Architectural historian and critic Gavin Stamp refers to Hetton Abbey in his recent Spectator review of a biography of George Gilbert Scott: Briefing his illustrator for the jacket of A Handful of Dust (1934), Evelyn Waugh asked for a country house in … Continue reading →

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BBC Does Longleat

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The BBC has produced a documentary series on Longleat House and its owners. This is All Change at Longleat and it focuses on the current Marquess of Bath and his son, Ceawlin (aka Viscount Weymouth). Lord Bath is not a newcomer to publicity having … Continue reading →

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