Straight on Till Morning: The Life of Beryl Markham
by Mary S. Lovell · 1 Jan 1983 · 557pp · 159,434 words
the Course of World War II A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby The Splendid Outcast: The African Short Stories of Beryl Markham STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING The Biography of Beryl Markham Mary S. Lovell Copyright © 2011, 1987 by Mary S. Lovell All rights reserved First published as a Norton paperback 2011 For
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, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lovell, Mary S. Straight on 'till morning: the biography of Beryl Markham / Mary S. Lovell. p. cm. Previously published: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 978-0-393-33915-4
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accomplished their flight to London in eight days, a record time for the journey which lasted only briefly. Tom broke it later that same year. Beryl Markham, July 1936. Charles Clutterbuck in the uniform of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers Regiment, circa 1895. (Neil Potts) Paddy (the lion who attacked
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. An unsigned memo dated 17 October in the Houghton Mifflin files has an interesting addendum. The original typewritten script reads: ‘Mr Linscott would like the Beryl Markham blank back before next Tuesday.’ Scrawled on this memo are two short handwritten notes. The first: ‘Drawing prepared. Author wants money’, is capped by a
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TO FINISH EARLIER STOP STILL THINKING ABOUT TITLE MEANWHILE FOLLOWING MIGHT BE CONSIDERED STOP NO OTHER AFRICA = BERYL MARKHAM22 PAID TELEGRAM DECEMBER 5 1941 BOSTON BERYL MARKHAM. FEEL CERTAIN WE HAVE FINALLY DISCOVERED PERFECT TITLE QUOTE I SPEAK OF AFRICA UNQUOTE USING TITLE PAGE LINE FROM SHAKESPEARES HENRY FOUR QUOTE I SPEAK
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5TH. NORTH HOLLYWOOD PAUL BROOKS. DELIGHTED WITH YOUR TITLE AND LINE FOR TITLE PAGE FULL MARKS TO YOU AND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE REGARDS BERYL MARKHAM.24 PAID TELEGRAM DEC 22 1941 BERYL MARKHAM. GLAD TO HAVE FOUR MORE CHAPTERS AND EAGER FOR BALANCE WHEN MAY WE EXPECT TOTAL. PAUL BROOKS25 COLLECT NIGHT TELEGRAM DEC 23
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’, along with Beryl. The work also gave Beryl something with which to occupy her mind, but her health continued to deteriorate. The ‘famous’ picture of Beryl Markham. (B.M.E) Beryl’s Vega Gull The Messenger outside the Percival Aircraft factory’s hangar at Gravesend, Kent, August, 1936. (B.M.E)
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is, is a happier and more interesting place because of her presence…Kwaheri, Beryl; God bless you and God speed.’ APPENDIX I Published works by Beryl Markham West with the Night 1942 Houghton Mifflin (USA) 1943 Harrap & Co Ltd (UK) West with the Night 1983 North Point Press (USA) 1984 Virago
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’ (first published 24 February 1945, Collier’s Magazine) ‘The Transformation’ (first published January 1946, Ladies’ Home Journal) ‘The Quitter’ (first published June 1946, Cosmopolitan) Note: Beryl Markham’s short stories have now been compiled into an anthology for publication in 1987 under the title The Splendid Outcast, by Century Hutchinson (UK) and
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North Point Press (USA). APPENDIX II CLASSIC WINNERS TRAINED BY BERYL MARKHAM Note: Beryl’s best season was 1963/64 when she achieved a total of forty-six winners (including the above classics). This represented a major
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’s Country by Elspeth Huxley (Chatto & Windus 1935) is the authorised biography of Lord Delamere and the standard work on white settlement in Kenya. 25 Beryl Markham, during interview March 1986, Nairobi. 26 White Man’s Country, Elspeth Huxley, Chatto & Windus, 1935. 27 Rhodes House library; Elspeth Huxley interview with C.B
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, Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. 13 Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen, Judith Thurman, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980 (p 153). 14 Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, March 1986. 15 ‘Something I Remember’, by Beryl Markham (c. 1944). 16 My African Journey, Winston S. Churchill, Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. 17 Interview with Doreen Bathurst Norman, Jersey, 1986. 18
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made this statement to Associated Press journalist Barry Schlachter during an interview in 1983. 24 Interview with Langley Morris, Herefordshire, April 1986. 25 Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, March 1986. 26 Interview with Langley Morris, Herefordshire, April 1986. Mr Morris explained that it became customary to dose any farm animal which was
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kill any animal ‘in milk’. 35 Unpublished memoir by Miss Margaret Elkington, Rhodes House Library, Oxford, ref. AFR s.1558. 36 West with the Night, Beryl Markham, Harrap, 1943 and Virago Press, 1986 (UK). 37 Unpublished memoir by Miss Margaret Elkington, Rhodes House Library, Oxford, ref. AFR s.1558. 38 ibid.
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March 1986 and letter from Doreen Bathurst Norman to author, April 1986. 45 Interview with Mr Ryan ‘Buster’ Parnell, Copenhagen, June 1986. 46 Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, March 1986. ‘I loved running about barefoot. The worst part about it was the jiggers, but the boys were very good about digging them
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saying that she ‘always kept her lower body covered with a lungi’. 50 Interview with Countess of Enniskillen, London, 1986. 51 West with the Night, Beryl Markham, Harrap, 1943 and Virago Press, 1986 (UK). 52 Interview with Mr Ryan ‘Buster’ Parnell, Copenhagen, June 1986. 53 Ernest Hemingway – Selected Letters, ed. Carlos Baker
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was shipped to Kenya in 1928 where he became a significant sire. Ref: The Stud Book. 18 Short story entitled ‘The Splendid Outcast’, written by Beryl Markham in 1944. 19 Interview with Sir Charles Markham, Nairobi, March 1986. 20 Interview with Mrs Doreen Bathurst Norman, Jersey, May 1986. 21 Extract from
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. 46 Prince Henry: Duke of Gloucester, Noble Frankland, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980. 47 Private correspondence with the General Register Office, 1986. 48 When this writer asked Beryl Markham why she had not denied the rumours surrounding Gervase’s birth, though she knew they were widely believed, she said, ‘I didn’t think it
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1933. 52 Prince Henry: Duke of Gloucester, Noble Frankland, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980. 53 Obituary for Prince Henry, The Times, 11 June 1974. 54 ‘Who is Beryl Markham?’, James Fox, Observer Magazine, 30 September 1984. 55 This silver cigarette box was returned to Beryl by Prince Henry. She kept it with her until
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fact. 57 Interview with Mrs Doreen Bathurst Norman, Jersey, May 1986. 58 Prince Henry: Duke of Gloucester, Noble Frankland, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980. 59 ‘Who is Beryl Markham?’, James Fox, Observer Magazine, 30 September 1984. In this article James Fox refers to the RAF Club in Piccadilly as the place where Beryl was
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Nottingham. 2 Doreen Bathurst Norman, telephone conversation, October 1986. 3 Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen, Judith Thurman, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982. 4 Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, April 1986. Beryl also hinted at a characteristic which other informants (among them Sir Charles Markham) had mentioned. ‘He was something you wouldn’t
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8 African Hunter, Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Cassell, 1937. 9 Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen, Judith Thurman, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982. 10 Interview with Beryl Markham in Nairobi, April 1986. Asked for her opinion of the theory that Bror had infected Tania with syphilis, in view of Cockie Hoogterp’s claims
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Laughter, Llewelyn Powys, Macdonald, 1953. 16 East African Standard, 17 May 1931. 17 Out of Africa, Karen Blixen, Penguin, 1984. 18 James Fox, ‘Who is Beryl Markham?’, Observer Magazine, 30 September 1984. 19 Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen, Judith Thurman, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982. 20 ibid. 21 ibid. 22 Silence Will
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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
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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
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chose to omit any original endearments. 12 Letter to the author from Gustaf ‘Romulus’ Kleen, September 1986. 13 ibid. 14 ‘Your 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
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. 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
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, 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
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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 ‘Beryl Markham’. Mervyn F. Hill 1964 (Kenya). 41 Interview with Mr Ryan ‘Buster’ Parnell, Copenhagen, June 1986. 42 East African Standard, 27 November and 4 December 1936
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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
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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
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. 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.
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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
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. 35 New York Times, 4 October 1936. 36 ibid. CHAPTER 10 1 ‘Your 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
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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
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Scott O’Dell, February 1987. 8 Letter to the author from Mrs Doreen Bathurst Norman, June 1986. 9 HL. Paul Brooks to Beryl Markham, 19 September 1941. 10 HL. Beryl Markham to Paul Brooks, 23 September 1941. 11 This house no longer exists but in July 1986 I visited the site and spoke to
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. 16 HL. Paul Brooks to Beryl Markham, 27 October 1941. 17 HL. Beryl Markham to Paul Brooks, 31 October 1941. 18 HL. R.N. Linscott to Beryl Markham, 4 November 1941. 19 HL. Beryl Markham to R.N. Linscott, 12 November 1941. 20 HL. Paul Brooks to Beryl Markham, 18 November 1941. 21 HL. Beryl Markham to Paul Brooks, 22 November 1941
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. 22 HL. Beryl Markham to Paul Brooks, 29 November 1941. 23 HL. Paul Brooks
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to Beryl Markham, 5 December 1941. 24 HL. Beryl Markham to Paul Brooks, 5 December 1941. 25 HL. Paul Brooks to
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February 1943’. 40 Letter to the author from Mrs Doreen Bathurst Norman, June 1986. 41 Interview with Doreen Bathurst Norman, June 1986. 42 Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, 1986, and transcript on television documentary World without Walls, filmed in Kenya, 1984, in which Beryl makes the same statement. 43 Telephone interview with
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Carberry caused her to volunteer the information, ‘I’ve got that story tucked into my copy of West with the Night!’ 26 ‘The Quitter’ by Beryl Markham, written 1946, first published by Cosmopolitan, June 1946. 27 Cosmopolitan, June 1946, p. 48. 28 Interview with Barry Schlachter, Boston, July 1986. 29 Mombasa
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Mr G. ‘Romulus’ Kleen, Sweden, September 1986. 18 Interview with Mrs Doreen Bathurst Norman, Jersey, April 1986. 19 East African Standard, 3 February 1964. 20 ‘Beryl Markham’, Mervyn F. Hill, Kenya, 1964. 21 Letter from Mrs Doreen Bathurst Norman, Jersey, September 1986. CHAPTER 16 1 Telephone conversation with Mrs Patricia O’Neill
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1986. 16 Interview with Mr Ryan ‘Buster’ Parnell, Malmo, Sweden, June 1986. 17 ibid. 18 Interview with Mrs Anna Parnell, September 1986. 19 Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, April 1986. 20 Interview with Mrs Patricial O’Neill, September 1986. 21 Interview with Mrs Doris Smart, Sussex, May 1986. 22 Interview with Mrs
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. 5 Interviews with Paddy Migdoll, Nairobi, March and April 1986; and transcript of interviews by the crew of World without Walls, 1984. 6 Interview with Beryl Markham, Nairobi, April 1986. 7 Interview with Sir Charles Markham, Nairobi, March 1986. 8 Telephone conversation with David Sugden, September 1986; and transcript of interviews by
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from the original Danish. Grateful thanks are also extended to the Houghton Library, Harvard University for permission to quote from the collection of letters between Beryl Markham and her publishers Houghton Mifflin. In addition the following publishers, authors and literary executors generously gave permission to quote from copyrighted materials: The Lunatic Express
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West With The Night Beryl Markham For MY FATHER I wish to express my gratitude to Raoul Schumacher for his constant encouragement and his assistance in the preparations for this book.
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or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher. copyright © 1942, 1983 by Beryl Markham cover design by Mimi Bark 978-1-4532-3791-5 Published in 2012 by MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Integrated Media 180 Varick Street New York
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