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Authors: Mary S. Lovell
Straight on Till Morning (55 page)
26
Famous Flights
, John Frayn Turner, Arthur Barker, 1978.
27
East African Standard
, May and October 1936.
28
Little Gloria, Happy at Last
, Barbara Goldsmith, Macmillan, 1980.
29
The Heart Has its Reasons
, Duchess of Windsor, Michael Joseph, 1969.
30
Little Gloria, Happy at Last
, Barbara Goldsmith, Macmillan, 1980.
31
Letter from Tom Campbell Black to Beryl Markham, July 1934.
32
East African Standard
, October 1936. The Waco belonged to East African Airways, a company jointly owned by John Carberry.
33
Daily Sketch
, May 1932.
34
East African Standard
, May 1932.
35
Standard instrumentation in the Avro Avian Sports model.
36
Log Book entries July 1932.
37
Interview with Sir Charles Markham, Nairobi, March 1986.
38
Daily Express
, 13 August 1932.
39
The Flying Duchess
, John Duke of Bedford, Macdonald, 1982.
40
East African Standard
, âMrs Markham's return'; and extract from private diary of Lady Moore provided by Mrs Elspeth Huxley.
41
Extracts from Beryl Markham's log books, December 1932.
42
Out in the Midday Sun
, Elspeth Huxley, Chatto & Windus, 1985.
43
White Mischief
, James Fox, Jonathan Cape, 1982.
44
Out in the Midday Sun
, Elspeth Huxley, Chatto & Windus, 1985.
45
The Spotted Lion
, Kenneth Gandar Dower, Heinemann, 1937.
46
Out in the Midday Sun
, Elspeth Huxley, Chatto & Windus, 1985.
47
Letter from Mr Bunny Allen to the author, 1986.
48
Private correspondence between the author and Miss Juanita Carberry, July 1986.
49
Log book entries and interview with Beryl Markham, April 1986.
50
Interview with Beryl Markham, April 1986.
51
Alone in the Sky
, Jean Batten, Airlife Books, 1979.
52
Article by Beryl Markham,
Daily Express
, September 1936.
53
Mr John Dawson of Melton Mowbray in private correspondence with the author, 1986.
54
Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, March 1986.
55
Article by Beryl Markham,
Daily Express
, September 1936.
56
Out in the Midday Sun
, Elspeth Huxley, Chatto & Windus, 1985.
57
âFlying Luck', G.D. Fleming (RAFO),
Popular Flying
, July 1936.
58
Interview with Mr Jack Trench by production team of
World without Walls
, Kenya, 1984.
59
Pioneers' Scrapbook
, ed. Elspeth Huxley and Arnold Curtis, Evans Bros, 1980. There are twenty Kenya shillings to the Kenya pound.
60
Blue is the Sky
, G.D. Fleming, William Earl & Co, 1945.
CHAPTER 7
1
Mr Muraguri, Jockey Club, Nairobi, April 1986.
2
Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, March 1986.
3
London Evening Standard
, 9 December 1933.
4
Transcript of filmed interview with Bunny Allen,
World without Walls
, Kenya, 1984. Beryl still had one of these message bags in her trunk in 1986.
5
ibid.
6
The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber
, Ernest Hemingway, Jonathan Cape, 1944.
7
Ernest Hemingway
, Carlos Baker, Collins, 1969.
8
Ernest Hemingway
â
Selected Letters
, ed. Carlos Baker, Granada Publishing, 1981.
9
East African Standard
, 28 August 1934.
10
Florence Desmond stated that Tom changed his mind about Hitler in 1935 when stories of the dictator's excesses started to filter through. However prior to this Tom, in common with many others, thought that Hitler was a good strong leader for the German people.
11
Beryl had retyped this letter heading it âextracts from a letter from Tom', probably because she intended to use part of it in
West with the Night
. It is therefore not possible to say whether she deliberately chose to omit any original endearments.
12
Letter to the author from Gustaf âRomulus' Kleen, September 1986.
13
ibid.
14
âYour Heart Will Tell You', Beryl Markham,
Ladies' Home Journal
, January 1944. Despite the unreliablity of the Pobjoy engine, two heroic flights were made using these tiny radial engines; one to Australia and the other across the Andes.
15
Log book entries, 1934.
16
After-dinner conversation with David Allen, Nairobi, April 1986.
17
Florence Desmond
, Florence Desmond, Harrap, 1953; and personal interviews with Miss Desmond. Surrey, March and June 1986.
18
C.W.A. Scott. Aviation editor of the
News Chronicle
and a pilot with great experience dating from World War One. Broke the Englandâ Australia record three times and was a renowned long-distance pilot.
19
Florence Desmond
:, Florence Desmond, Harrap, 1953.
20
ibid.; and personal interviews with Miss Desmond, Surrey, March and June 1986.
21
ibid.
22
ibid.
23
East African Standard
, 27 October 1934.
24
ibid.
25
Interviews with Miss Florence Desmond, Surrey, March and June 1986.
26
Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, April 1986.
27
Interview with Buster Parnell, Copenhagen, June 1986.
28
Interview with Mrs P. Barclay, Nairobi, April 1986.
29
Florence Desmond
:, Florence Desmond, Harrap, 1953; and personal interviews with Miss Desmond, Surrey, March and June 1986.
30
ibid.
31
Log book entries, 1934.
32
Interviews with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, April 1986.
33
Interview with Cockie Hoogterp, June 1986.
34
Out in the Midday Sun
, Elspeth Huxley, Chatto & Windus, 1985.
35
ibid.
36
ibid.
37
A wealthy American sportsman whose winning temperament and prowess in sporting and sexual achievements won the friendship and admiration of Ernest Hemingway and Bror Blixen. A well-known polo player, Guest kept a string of ponies in Kenya to ride down buffalo. Blixen worked for Guest in the late 1930s as a huntsman. According to Judith Thurman (see
Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen
): âGuest found it difficult to believe that Blicky suffered from tertiary syphilis and described him at fifty as a man of undiminished appetite, stamina and extravagance.'
38
Brev Fran Afrika
, Bror Blixen, trans. Gustaf Kleen (Bror's nephew).
39
ibid.
40
âBeryl Markham'. Mervyn F. Hill 1964 (Kenya).
41
Interview with Mr Ryan âBuster' Parnell, Copenhagen, June 1986.
42
East African Standard
, 27 November and 4 December 1936.
CHAPTER 8
1
English translation of
Letters from Africa
(published in Sweden 1942 as
Brev fran Afrika
) by Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, trans. Gustaf Kleen, Sweden, 1986.
2
ibid.; and interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, April 1986.
3
ibid.
4
ibid.
5
Interviews with Miss Florence Desmond, Surrey, 1986.
6
Florence Desmond
, Florence Desmond, Harrap, 1953; and personal interviews with Miss Desmond, Surrey, March and June 1986.
7
ibid.
8
Interview with Mme Viviane Markham, June 1986.
9
Beryl with Sir Charles Markham Bt, Nairobi, March 1986.
10
Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, April 1986. I asked Beryl whether she had met the king and Wallis Simpson. âYes, I saw them both, at dinners and dances and things like that, you know.'
11
Daily Express
, 8 July 1937.
12
Daily Telegraph
, 4 December 1936.
13
Daily Express
, 24 September 1936.
14
Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage 1929
.
15
White Mischief
, James Fox, Jonathan Cape, 1982.
16
Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage 1929
.
17
East African Standard
, 17 March 1928.
18
Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, March 1986.
19
Playboy of the Air
, Jim Mollison, Michael Joseph, 1937.
20
Flight Magazine
, July, August and September 1934.
21
New York Times
, 6 September 1936. Jean Batten had flown the South Atlantic in the previous November but this was considered a much easier flight.
22
Daily Mail
, 7 September 1936.
23
Flight Magazine
, 10 September 1936.
24
Playboy of the Air
, Jim Mollison, Michael Joseph, 1937.
25
News of the World
, 9 August 1936.
26
Reuter syndicated article, 19 September 1936 (see
Daily Express
;
East African Standard
; others).
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Daily Express
, 19 August 1936.
28
East African Standard
, 18 September 1936.
29
Interview with Mrs Rose Cartwright, Nairobi, March 1986.
30
East African Standard
, 18 September 1936.
31
Daily Express
, 2 September 1936.
32
ibid., 5 September 1936.
33
Daily Express
;
Daily Mirror
; other English national dailies, 5 September 1936.
34
Interview with Ryan âBuster' Parnell, Copenhagen, June 1986.
35
Daily Express
;
Daily Mirror
; other English national dailies, 5 September 1936.
36
ibid.
37
Sunday Dispatch
, 6 September 1936.
38
Daily Express
, 5 September 1936.
39
Interviews with Miss Florence Desmond, Surrey, March and June 1986.