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Macready s entry in the Oxford DNB states that he destroyed his diary and personal papers after the publication of his memoirs in 1924. If the present gossipy specimen is anything to go by, the loss of this material is most regrettable. (The ODNB entry for his father notes that he dealt with William Charles Macready's copious and uninhibited diaries in similar fashion in 1914 - two years after the appearance of Toynbee s edition.) See also the entry for Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland (1867-1955). 2pp, 4to. In good condition, lightly aged and folded for postage. Signed 'C F N Macready' and addressed to 'My dear Toynbee'. He begins by explaining that he has been confined to his room since a sharp attack of Bronchial Influenza : The bore of it is that it touches up the lungs & that entails care for some weeks. Turning to the English papers he writes: I see by this mornings Daily Mail that Almeric Fitzroy has apparently disturbed the Empire with his book! (Fitzroy s memoirs were published in 1925, and quickly went through a further five editions.) There follows a long assessment of Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland and her three marriages (she had divorced the third, Col. George Ernest Hawes, as a result of his homosexuality earlier in the year), prompted by her book That Fool of a Woman, and four other Sombre Tales (1925), which, according to the Oxford DNB, revealed much about her marital misadventures . I saw a notice of Millicent Sutherland s book but that is all. I knew the lady well. She has traces of great beauty and during the War ran a hospital first at La Panne for the [?] Belges & later as an annexe to one of our hospitals at Calais. She tried to work old Johnnie French to let her & her nurses roam about the battle front, and I was called in to anchor her which I did effectually at Calais. Her husband the Duke was much older than her & in love with his library, & it is well known that she "kept" the FitzGerald man & gave him a good allowance. No one could understand why she married him on the Duke s death as he drank like a fish & was a notorious waster. Having divorced him it was equally incomprehensible why she married Hawes. Of course her stock - the Rosslyn - is queer, & may account for much! I don t know Hawes but did hear that he had a tendency towards the Dead Sea fruits. He ends by asking Toynbee s opinion of Sinclair Lewis, and by explaining that this grippe of mine will delay my trip to London for a bit. If we get a St. Martin s summer I may venture .

Macready's entry in the Oxford DNB states that he destroyed his diary and personal papers after the publication of his memoirs in 1924, and that of his father notes that he dealt with William Charles Macready's copious and uninhibited diaries in similar fashion in 1914 - two years after the appearance of Toynbee s edition. The present collection of eighteen items is in good condition, lightly aged, and folded for postage. All signed 'C F N Macready' and addressed to 'My dear Toynbee'. The text of the letters totals 35pp (compising 1p, 8vo; 25pp, 12mo; 9pp, 16mo). No dates are given, but a card from the Victoria Hotel, Manchester is in its envelope, postmarked 6 July 1911 and addressed to W. Toynbee Esq / 30. South Eaton Place / London S.W. In it Macready complains that he has been bundled off here to stop the strikers at two hours untill [sic] last night . (In November of 1910, according to the Oxford DNB, he had been sent to command troops in support of police dealing with possible disorders arising from a miners strike . The three longest and most interesting letters, from 16, 22 and 28 November [1924], with the letterhead of the Grand Hotel des Lecques, Plage des Lecques, St Cyr-sur-Mer, all refer to the recent publication of his autobiography. In the first he writes that The agents say it is well turned out. Personally I think the price to high for a big sale but that of course is Hutchinson s [the publisher] affair. He was rather amused at the review in Times of 14th. The writer I should say is rather more of a purely litterary [sic] stamp than of military habits. As the galley proofs are destroyed he asks Toynbee s advice on the charge of £14 from King Hall & Arbuthnot , for the alterations you & I made apart from printers errors . He complains that his hotel has been invaded by a party of Americans , and comments on his recent reading: He mauls Randolph Churchill badly, & legitimacy in royal & upper circles seems rather the exception than the rule! In the second of the three he comments on reviews and complains of printers errors. Your praise of the work is very gratifying as from "one who knows", & you have made a friend for life of the lady who slaved at the typing, who, I always tell her, is prejudiced. There is reference to a wed. ding at St Maur and Letty , and there are further complaints about Americans at the hotel. He concludes, with reference to a London scandal known as the Robinson Cheque Case : That Robinson case is pretty lurid - I presume the potentate is the Shah of Persia - It should make a good plot for the next Empire Review. Lady Diana Duff Cooper (Manners) in the role of Mrs. Robinson and Angela Forbes as Mrs. Bevan! He returns to the scandal in the third letter: I am wondering if the "Rajah" in the Robinson case could be Rhanjitsinghi - the cricketer. It looked at first rather like the Shah. No doubt he followed the practices of "the cities of the plain". Elsewhere in the letter he expresses satisfaction with Hutchinson s advertising, and the reviews he is receiving: I am having all the Press notices suck in my m.ss. books . Regarding the printing costs Arbuthnot wrote me that he had received your note & was fighting H., whom he had got the better of on a former occasion for an extortionate charge. Regarding Dougherty s effusion yesterday he writes: No I am quite sure I had not confused him with anyone else - I can see him before me now "screaming" & waving his arms. My difficulty is that I am away from all my notes, especially the Royal Com[missio]n. proceedings on the Howth incident, which I had written for. In an earlier letter, evidently written after the 1912 publication of his father s diaries, he refers to a Miss Hogarth , who mentions one slip, probably the result of the handwriting in the diaries . In another letter, with a reference to the recent death of the actor Laurence Irving which dates it to 1914, Macready announces his return to London (from Ireland), for how long - only Providence & the Cabinet know! & I doubt they do. I am fairly tired of it all & the impossibility of seeing a yard ahead. [.] I was quite shaken by the news of poor Laurence Irving s death - a very great loss to the stage. Just before Christmas of 1913 he expresses a fear of what - politically - [1914] may bring us, so let us hope we may find compensation in our private lives! In the same letter he suggests that the Marquis Cornwallis s correspondence throws a shadow before on what may happen, though I still maintain that means will be found to prick the bladder & let the noxious gas out before an explosion occurs . A letter of 7 October [1923] begins, with a reference to his autobiography: Here I am having done the last paged proof & handed in the Index wh. Hutchinson [the book s publisher] is screaming for. Directly I get the proof of it I will send you a wire in case you may be able to run up & have a look at it. It has been a Tough job but I think it pretty full, though I had absolutely refused to check the pages again. Someone else can do that! He concludes with the query: I wonder who the next lot of political place warmers will be? There is not much change between any of them. On 8 March [1927] he thanks Toynbee for the gift of his book Phases of the Thirties .