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Prologue. Genesis of 'Impressions that remained' ; Deafness, Argentina, and philosophy ; Old age ; 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' -- 1877-1885. Synopsis of story told in 'Impressions' from 1877 to 1885 begins. Life in Leipzig ; The Herzogenbergs ; The story of myself and the Brewsters ; Lisl Herzogenberg breaks with me and I with Harry Brewster ; A projected collating of the correspondence of the three protagonists in the Brewster story never completed -- 1885-1891. Synopsis of past continued. My mother at Leipzig before the breach ; An English winter after the breach ; Two winters at Leipzig and the following one spent at home ; Return to Munich in the autumn of 1889 ; Illness and return to Frimhurst ; Friendship with Mrs. Benson ; H. B. and I meet again and decide to correspond ; Portrait of H. B. ; He and Mrs. Benson meet ; Attempts at starting a musical career ; The Norwich festival ; The death of my mother (January 1891) ; Drama at Addington ; My sister takes me to Algeria -- Spring and summer 1891. 'The Smyth family Robinson' ; Alice Davidson, Mary Hunter, Nina Hollings, Violet Hippisley, Nellie Eastwood, Bob Smyth ; The empress Eugenie ; Adventures in Algiers ; Visit to Ben Ali Cherif ; I get dysentery ; H. B. and religion ; I stay at Cap Martin and begin writing the Mass ; The empress and French fleet ; A cruise with the empress ; Friction between me and H. B. -- Autumn 1891 to Spring 1892. Mass finished ; The Brewsters at Nyon ; Death of Lisl ; I defy Julia ; Mrs. Benson and I decide on a pause ; Visit to the Fiedlers in Munich and details of Lisl's death ; Levi hears mass and urges me to write an opera ; Fantasio planned ; Kindness of the royal family and German court theatres ; Cumberland lodge ; Royalty and Royal Culte -- Spring and summer 1892. Arthur Benson to the rescue ; H. B. and I meet in London and Paris ; He meets Mary Hunter at Aix ; Life at Frimhurst ; Pauline Trevelyan ; Endeavours to get the mass performed ; Bayreuth -- Letter section I. Easter to August 1892. Concerning the correspondence between E. S. and Mrs. Benson ; Letters from Arthur Benson (Easter to the summer of 1892) ; Correspondence between H. Brewster and E. S. (December 14, 1891, to August 26, 1892) -- 1890-1916. The honble ; Lady Ponsoby ; A study ; In memoriam Frederick Ponsonby (Lord Sysonby) -- Autumn 1892. Interviews ; Visits at Bournemouth and Highcliffe ; Lili Wach and the Assyrian church at Lambeth ; Maggie Ponsonby at Frimhurst ; 'Drino' ; Sir Evelyn Wood and our reported engagement ; Farnborough Hill and its guests ; The duchess of Alba -- Autumn 1892. H. B. on autobiography ; A perennial dispute ; Evening parties and Henry James ; The French home rule song -- Autumn to Christmas 1892. Friendship with Lady Ponsonby ; The Baynham Badgers ; The Eastern carpet ; The empress and Lady Ponsonby and Farnborough station ; Our Christmas party ; Meals in olden times at Addiscombe college ; Henschel's anecdotes -- Letter section II. September to Christmas 1892. Correspondence between Mrs. Benson and E. S. (October 16 to October 28, 1892) ; Correspondence between H. Brewster and E. S. (September 23 to December 28, 1892) -- January 1893. Mass rehearsing begins ; Side issues ; Henschel's dinner party ; 'The mass meeting' ; Performance of the mass and the aftermath ; Second performance of the mass thirty years later and letter from Messrs. Novello concerning their year long efforts to push it, date July 17, 1924 -- Spring 1893. H. B. returns to Rome and I hunt ; Charlie Hunter ; I dislocate my shoulder ; Golf passion begins ; The drawing room ; I meet the empress Frederick ; East wind at Cumberland lodge ; Post-war reflections -- Spring and summer 1893. Osborne cottage, John Ponsonby and 'The souls' ; Meetings with Mrs. Benson ; Bob returns from India ; Financial difficulties ; Visit to Ston Easton ; Herzogenberg makes a friendly gesture ; H. B. on implacability -- Spring and summer 1893. Lady Ponsonby at Venice ; Baring sale and friendship with Elizabeth Castlerosse ; 'Dodo' at Lambeth ; Clotilde Brewster goes to Newnham and learns our story ; H. B. and I meet much ; Lady Ponsonby and H. B. meet ; Her predilection for the estate of matrimony -- Summer 1893. Universal aunt-dom ; Discussion on opera at Farnborough Hill ; The empress on homosexuality ; Luncheon party at Norman tower ; Kitty and I do a little continental tour ; Two happenings at Heidelberg ; Wagner festival at Munich ; Meeting with H. B. and E. Rod ; Levi hears the libretto of Fantasio ; The lake in the Bavarian Alps ; Levi hears the music of Fantasio and advises entering it for an anonymous international competition ; We go to Leipzig, I play the mass to the old Rontgens, deposit Kitty with a family, and go home -- Letter section III. January to August 1893. Correspondence between Mrs. Benson and E. S. (July 13 to August 24, 1893) ; Correspondence between Lady Ponsonby and E. S. (June 25 and July 10, 1893), P.S. concerning my friendship with Mrs. Benson ; Correspondence between H. Brewster and E. S. (January 13 to July 20, 1892) -- Summer 1893. Vernon Lee, a study ; Her letters to Maurice Baring ; My father in haunts of his youth ; Bob's success at manoeuvres ; Study of him ; Visit to Farnham castle ; The Hildebrands catch sight of me and H. B. at Munich ; My impracticable advice to H. B. -- Autumn 1893. Stay at Abergeldie ; The grand duke and duchess Serge ; I lay out lawn golf course at Balmoral ; Introduction of golf into the United States five months previously ; Journey to Edinburgh and Muirhouse ; Alice Davidson described ; Toboggan run at Muirhouse ; Golf lessons at North Berwick ; Frump tea party ; Visit to the Willie Mures ; H. B. comes to North Berwick ; Montaigne on persistent wooers, and Lady Ponsonby on 'the hour' -- Autumn 1893 to Spring 1894. Stay at Selaby ; My father unwell ; I go home ; House-hunting ; Goodness of the empress ; A last dinner at Bagshot park ; My father's illness begins ; Kitty learns the story of H. B. and me ; Servants' ball at Farnborough Hill ; Kitty comes home for Christmas transformed by Johanna Rontgen's austerity ; I take her back to Leipzig (January 1894) via Amsterdam, play Mass to 'the Elders' there, also elsewhere, and return home ; Fluctuations in my father's illness ; Fantasio finished ; Norman Tower and Mrs. Willie Grenfell ; My father dies ; His death reminds me of the death of Socrates (the close of a beautifully lived life) -- Epilogue. Migration to 'One oak,' my home for the next nine years. The Jubilee Jamboree. Festival project ; Prologue on golf course ; Albert Hall, the Royal box and Queen Mary ; The mad tea party -- Whys and wherefores (a review of the past). Notoriety ; Why I went back to Germany ; 'The machine' and collective responsibility ; Fate of outsiders ; One's own blunders ; Main difficulty lies in sex ; B.B.C. Politeness and a dream letter -- Two estimates. One foreign, one English ; Philosophy and regrets -- The prison. The Vita Nuova and the musical setting of The Prison ; Edinburgh acclaims but London kills my Prison music ; Its resurrection at the festival ; Concerning H. B.'s Prison ; Passages quoted ; The diggers and the last post -- Letter section IV. July 1893 to March 1894. Correspondence between Lady Ponsonby and E. S. (July 26, 1893, to January 20, 1894) ; Correspondence between Vernon Lee and Maurice Baring (November 15, 1907, January 16, 1908, June 20, 1909) ; Correspondence between H. Brewster and E. S. (September 10, 1893, to March 26, 1894). |
