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Acknowledgements Among the living and the dead, special thanks are due to Bruno Bayley, Rusi Dalal, James Loader, Dolores Maclaine-Clarke, Maruma, Steven Runciman, and Lincoln Townsend; to Jane Davidson for her encouragement and for permission to quote from her and Alastair Graham ’s letters; to Auberon Waugh for his encouragement and for permission to quote from the work of his father, Evelyn Waugh; to Bishop Crispian Hollis for permission to quote from Oxford in the Twenties by his father, Christopher Hollis; to Mrs Brisbane, archivist of Winchester City Council, for assistance with the Bapsy Pavry material; to Peters Fraser & Dunlop on behalf of the Estate of Mervyn Peake for permission to quote briefly from Titus Groan; and to David Higham Ltd. and New Directions Publishing Corp. for permission to quote briefly from Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas. ...

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