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Authors: Mary S. Lovell
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CHAPTER 9
1
Sunday Dispatch
, 6 September 1936.
2
New York Times
, 6 September 1936.
3
Reuter syndicated to many newspapers, 5 September 1936.
4
New York Times
, 6 September 1936.
5
Daily Express
, 7 September 1936.
6
Alone in the Sky
, Jean Batten, Airlife, 1979.
7
Daily Express
; many other daily newspapers, 7 September 1936.
East African Standard
, 16 October 1936. Note minor variations in each version.
8
Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, April 1986.
9
New York Times
, 7 September 1936.
10
Sunday Dispatch
, 6 September 1936.
11
Daily Express
, 7 September 1936.
12
ibid.
13
Sunday Dispatch
, 6 September 1936.
14
ibid.
15
ibid.
16
East African Standard
, 11 September 1936.
17
New York Times
, 6 September 1936.
18
ibid.
19
East African Standard
, 18 September 1936.
20
New York Times
, 6 September 1936.
21
Daily Mail
, 8 September 1936 and
New York Times
, 9 September 1936.
22
Daily Telegraph
, 8 September 1936.
23
New York Times
, 10 September 1936.
24
Daily Mail
, 10 September 1936.
25
New York Times
, 23 September 1936.
26
ibid., 7 October 1936.
27
ibid., 5 November 1936.
28
The Times
; report on accident also in other British national newspapers;
Liverpool Echo
, 19 September 1936.
29
Interview with Miss Florence Desmond, Surrey, March 1986.
30
Florence Desmond
, Florence Desmond, Harrap, 1953; and personal interviews with Miss Desmond, Surrey, March and June 1986.
31
Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, March 1986.
32
New York Times
, 23 September 1936.
33
Cape Times
, 17 November 1936.
34
Interview with Miss Florence Desmond, Surrey, March 1936.
35
New York Times
, 4 October 1936.
36
ibid.
CHAPTER 10
1
âYour Heart Will Tell You', Beryl Markham,
Ladies' Home Journal
, 1944.
2
Daily Express
, 28 September 1936.
3
Florence Desmond
, Florence Desmond, Harrap, 1953; and personal interviews with Miss Desmond, Surrey, March and June 1986.
4
Florence Desmond
, Florence Desmond, Harrap, 1953.
5
East African Standard
, 9 October 1936.
6
ibid., 16 October 1936.
7
ibid., Tommy Rose, 9 October 1936.
8
Contemporary newspaper reports;
The Dangerous Skies
, A.E. Clouston, Cassell, 1954; and
The Story of the British Light Aeroplane
, Terence Boughton, John Murray, 1963.
9
Interviews with Miss Florence Desmond, Surrey, March and June 1986.
10
East African Standard
, 16 October 1936;
Theatre World
, September 1936.
11
Daily Telegraph
, 16 October 1936.
12
East African Standard
, 16 October 1936.
13
New York Times
, 4 October 1936.
14
ibid., 9 October 1936.
15
Transcript of interview with Mr Jack Trench by film crew of television documentary
World without Walls
, Kenya, 1984.
16
Daily Express
, 11 November 1936.
17
Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, April 1986.
18
Interviews with Miss Florence Desmond, Surrey, March and June 1986.
19
ibid.; and
Florence Desmond
, Florence Desmond, Harrap, 1953.
20
Interviews with Miss Florence Desmond, Surrey, March and June 1986.
21
ibid.
22
Daily Express
, 21 February 1937.
23
The Dangerous Skies
, A.E. Clouston, Cassell, 1954.
24
I.W. Schlesinger â a wealthy South African with a flair for publicity and money making. In 1936 he bought a property in the centre of Maritzburg for £25,000. When the city council refused permission for development as a department store he turned the building into a rest home for down and outs, saying, âI am sure that the City Council will be glad to cooperate in my scheme for social uplift and as the property is to be used for charitable purposes no doubt they will be willing to remit part of the rates.'
25
Los Angeles Times
, 6 July 1937.
26
Women of the Air
, Judy Lomax, John Murray, 1986.
27
The Sky's the Limit
, Wendy Boase, Osprey, 1979.
28
Women of the Air
, Judy Lomax, John Murray, 1986; and
Biography of Jackie Cochrane,
Katherine Moore, unfinished manuscript (1986).
29
The Stars at Noon
, Jacqueline Cochran, Robert Hale, 1955.
30
ibid.
31
Los Angeles Times
, 6 July 1937.
32
Kiss Hollywood Goodbye
, Anita Loos, W.H. Allen, 1974.
33
ibid.
34
Truth
(Australia), 2 January 1938.
35
ibid.
36
Telephone interview with Scott O'Dell, February 1987.
CHAPTER 11
The collection of letters between Houghton Mifflin and their authors, referred to in Chapters 11 and 12 and indicated by the symbol âHL', is lodged at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, by whose generous permission they are included in this book.
1
Truth
(Australia), 2 January 1938.
2
New York Times
, 23 June 1939.
3
East African Standard
, 20 May 1938.
4
Letters from Africa
, Bror Blixen, trans. Gustaf Kleen.
5
ibid.
6
Letter to the author from Sir Charles Markham, 1986.
7
English newspaper cutting (source unknown), 26 February 1938.
8
East African Standard
, March 1939.
9
Interview with Mme Viviane Markham, London, June 1986.
10
Josslyn Hay Erroll (Earl of), whose murder at Nairobi in 1941 caused a sensation.
11
Lady Idina, formerly the Countess of Erroll. A woman of great beauty and charm, whose hobby was collecting husbands.
12
Captain Roger A.F. Hurt (later Lieutenant Colonel Hurt
DSO
, CO of the 5th KAR), known variously by the nicknames Raf and Roddy.
13
New York Times
, 23 June 1939.
14
From photographs among Beryl's papers apparently taken on different days (according to clothes, weather conditions, locations etc.).
15
There is no record of an American licence issued to Beryl Markham or Beryl Schumacher. The Countess of Enniskillen states that Beryl told her she gave up flying âbecause of her heart'. This could mean that she failed the medical examination, although there is no evidence that Beryl was ever anything other than superbly fit.
16
Programme distributed by studio for the premiere of
Safari
; and various reviews by film critics.
17
ibid.
18
ibid.
19
Paramount Studios PR material.
20
ibid.; and interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, March 1986.
21
Statement by Mr Douglas Fairbanks Jr in a letter to the author.
22
Daily Mirror
, 16 January 1940.
23
The Moon's a Balloon
, David Niven, Hamish Hamilton.
24
Signed picture among Beryl's papers: âTo Beryl, from your lovingâ¦Harry Richman (with my flaps down, Toots).'
25
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry â His Life and Times
, Curtis Cate, Heinemann.
26
ibid.
27
ibid.
28
Letter from Mrs Tiny Cloete, South Africa, to the author, September 1986.
29
Wind, Sand and Stars
, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Heinemann (London), p. 260.
30
West with the Night
, Beryl Markham, North Point Press (USA); Virago (London), p. 267.
31
Interviews with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, April 1986.
32
ibid., confirmed in interviews with Dr Warren Austin.
33
The Duke of Windsor's War
, Michael Bloch, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982.
34
ibid.
35
Appointment with Destiny
, Rosita Forbes, Cassell, 1946.
36
Interview with Dr Warren Austin, October 1986.
37
Appointment with Destiny
, Rosita Forbes, Cassell, 1946.
38
HL. Paul Brooks to LeBaron Barker, 26 June 1941.
39
HL. LeBaron Barker to Paul Brooks, 2 July 1941.
40
HL. Beryl Markham to LeBaron Barker, 29 June 1941.
41
HL. Beryl Markham to LeBaron Barker, 23 July 1941.
42
The name of this man is not known, but Mr Jørgen Thrane remembers Beryl telling him about the matter and showing him a photograph of the man. Letter from Mr Jørgen Thrane, Kenya, to the author, September 1986.
43
United States emigration department stamp in Beryl's passport.
CHAPTER 12
1
Telephone interview with Scott O'Dell, February 1987.
2
Letter to the author from E.D. Baring-Gould, September 1986.
3
Although Beryl's first flying licence bears the correct date, subsequent renewals and two passports give Beryl's date of birth as 26 October 1904. In several interviews she gave incorrect dates of birth, inconsistently dropping two or four years.
4
In his letter to
Vanity Fair
in March 1987, Scott O'Dell stated that Beryl and Raoul met in the summer of 1940. But subsequently in two lengthy telephone interviews Mr O'Dell (and his wife) explained that the date was open to question. âI am two months short of my eighty-ninth birthday,' he told me. âYou get to forget that sort of detail at my age.'