22 tense, self-conscious . . . that of the human – T. H. White, unpublished manuscript ‘Hunting Journal 1931–1933’, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
23 boiling with a strange unrest – T. H. White, unpublished manuscript ‘A Sort of Mania’, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
24 This party has no racial – Harriet Hall, Bill and Patience: An Eccentric Marriage at Stowe and Beyond, Book Guild Ltd., 2000, p. 53.
25 I was like that unfortunate man – T. H. White, unpublished manuscript ‘A Sort of Mania’, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
26 It needed courage . . . a complete write-off – T. H. White, letter to Leonard Potts, 16 May 1936, in Letters to a Friend, p. 70.
27 We all stand in the shadow – Denis Brogan, ‘Omens of 1936’, Fortnightly Review, 139 (Jan–June 1936), pp. 1–2.
28 masters of men, everywhere – T. H. White, unpublished manuscript ‘A Sort of Mania’, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
29 From being on the day – Gilbert Blaine, Falconry, Philip Allan, 1936, p. 181.
30 The sentence was: ‘She reverted – T. H. White, unpublished manuscript ‘A Sort of Mania’, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
6: The box of stars
1 Of all Hawks, she is doubtless – Richard Blome, Hawking or Faulconry, The Cresset Press, 1929, p. 28.
2 You’re a good watcher – John Le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Hodder and Stoughton, 2001, (first published 1974) p. 16.
3 It must have been like death – The Goshawk, pp. 11–12.
4 All that time was too beautiful . . . sent us to schools – T. H. White, unpublished manuscript fragment ‘A Valentine’, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
5 Please God, don’t let me be beaten tonight . . . that charge – T. H. White, unpublished manuscript ‘Journals, Volume 6’, entry dated 28 November 1957, T. H. White collection, Queens’ College Library, Queens’ College, Cambridge.
7: Invisibility
1 A headlong dive of rage – The Goshawk, p. 15.
2 Your eye must see a composition – Henri Cartier Bresson, 1957, in Adam Bernstein, ‘The Acknowledged Master of the Moment’, The Washington Post, Thursday 5 August, 2004, p. A01.
8: The Rembrandt interior
1 Days of attack – The Goshawk, p. 36.
2 I had only just escaped – T. H. White, in Sylvia Townsend Warner, T. H. White: A Biography, p. 90.
3 I had been a schoolmaster – T. H. White, unpublished manuscript ‘A Sort of Mania’, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
4 patient excursion into the fields – The Goshawk, p. 27.
5 dropped out of the curious . . . monastic boy – T. H. White, entry for 20 January 1938 in unpublished manuscript notebook ‘Horse’, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
6 a velvet stoole – Edmund Bert, An Approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking. 1619, repr. Thames Valley Press, Maidenhead, 1972, p. 22.
7 I had a sort of schoolgirlish ‘pash’ – T. H. White, unpublished manuscript ‘A Sort of Mania’, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
8 The old hawk masters had invented a means – The Goshawk, p. 16.
9 Man against bird – ibid, p. 28.
10 but the tragedy had to be kept out – ibid, p. 64.
9: The rite of passage
1 tolerate a loss of self – A. D. Hutter, ‘Poetry in psychoanalysis: Hopkins, Rossetti, Winnicott’, International Review of PsychoAnalysis, vol. 9, 1982, pp. 303–16, p. 305. See: John Keats, letter to Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818, in John Keats, Selected Letters, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002, pp. 147–9.
10: Darkness
1 6.15–6.45 walked round + round Gos – T. H. White, unpublished manuscript notebook ‘Flying Supplement’, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
2 It was not that one drank enough – The Goshawk, p. 68.
3 The key to her management – Gilbert Blaine, Falconry, Philip Allan, 1936, p. 181.
4 the grand secret of discipline – Edward Michell, The Art and Practice of Hawking, Methuen, 1900, p. 83.
5 her eye doth still behold . . . acquainted with any thing – Edmund Bert, An Approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking, p. 16.
11: Leaving home
1 For the goshawk, the necessity – The Goshawk, p. 52.
2 all the family . . . He bates repeatedly on these trips – T. H. White, entry for Thursday 30 July, unpublished manuscript notebook ‘Flying Supplement’, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
3 He had to learn to stand that bustle – The Goshawk, p. 101.
4 the red moon . . . had seen to sink as a yellow one at dawn – ibid, p. 53.
5On the pastoral craze as cultural salvage, see Jed Esty, A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England, Princeton University Press, 2003.
6 I thought of the small race – The Goshawk, p. 81.
12: Outlaws