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members of the London Library staff, and I thank each of them for their dogged professionalism. Tim Hilton methodically read for errors. Christopher Phipps contributed not only research assistance but also his sense of order and completeness in creating another fine index.
    The list of those who have answered other questions is very long. Each person on it has made at least one trip to an attic or cellar to rummage through a box of old photographs or papers, even if only figuratively, and each has reported to me thoughtfully, on occasion hilariously, by phone, email, letter, or in person: Marie Mériaux Allemann, International Committee of the Red Cross Archives; Julian Barnes; Keith Berwick; the late Thomas Braun; Jude Brimmer, Archivist, Britten-Pears Foundation; John Byrne; Lucy Bucknell; Leslie Caron; Patrick Cockburn; Camilla Chandon; Tchaik Chassay; Jim Clark; Mary Clow; Anna O’Reilly Cottle; Paul Cox, Assistant Curator (Archive and Library), National Portrait Gallery, London; Robert Craft; Linda Crawford; Stephen Crook, Librarian, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, New York Public Library; Evan Cruikshank; Santanu Das; Marie-Pierre de Lassus; Jane Dorrell; David Dougill; Chris Freeman; Robin French; Bella Freud; Jonathan Fryer; P.N. Furbank; Christopher Gibbs; Christian-Albrecht Gollub; the late John Gross; Joseph Hacker; Donald Hall; Nicky Haslam; Selina Hastings; Nancy Hereford, Press Director, Center Theater Group; Samuel Hynes; David Jenkins; Jim Kelly; the late Frank Kermode; Jane Klain, The Paley Center for Media; Mark Lancaster; John Lahr; George Lawson; Kristen Leipert, Assistant Archivist, Whitney Museum of American Art; Richard Le Page; Michael McDonagh; Lucy Maguire; Ian Massey; Edward Mendelson; Young Hoon Moon; Robin Muir; Melissa North; Annie Ochmanek, Art Forum ; Richard W. Oram; Peter Parker; Michael Peppiatt; Philip Ramey; Andreas Reyneke; Rodrigo Rey Rosa; Giovanna Salini, Embassy of Peru, London; Peter Schlesinger; Howard Schuman; W.I. Scobie; Alexandra Shulman; Richard Simon; Wayne Sleep; Geoffrey Strachan; Leslie Kay Swigart, Librarian, California State University at Long Beach; Daniel Topolski; Jeremy Treglown; Gloria Vanderbilt; Hugo Vickers; Barney Wan; Edmund White; Deepti Zaremba.
    For permission to publish excerpts from unpublished letters of Edward Upward, I would like to thank Kathy and Jeff Allinson, from an unpublished letter of John Lehmann, Georgina Glover at the David Higham Agency and for lyrics from his song “Honky Cat,” Bernie Taupin.
    My agent, Sarah Chalfant, has altogether changed my working life and made these diaries part of a new beginning for me. Thanks also to Luke Ingram, Kristina Moore, and Matthew McLean at the Wylie Agency. I remain forever grateful to Stephanie Cabot for her willing ear and good sense and to Caroline Dawnay for negotiating my role in this project. To the publishers of Liberation , Clara Farmer and Terry Karten, my warmest thanks for your conviction and your follow-through. In addition, I would like to thank Alison Samuel and the others at Chatto who have been such stalwart friends and hard workers in completing this long project, Sue Amaradivakara, Juliet Brooke, Anthony Hippisley, Alison Tulett and especially Rowena Skelton-Wallace.
    Thank you once again, my dear friends, Richard Davenport-Hines, Isabel Fonseca, John Fuller, Bobby Maguire, and Robert McCrum for wading through and commenting on the parts of this book that Isherwood did not write.
    To Jackie Edgar, Vilma Catbagan, Felisberta Rodrigues, Katrina Johnston, Elizabeth Jones, Susan Mellett, I have said thank you before, and I hope you know how much I have benefited from your help. And to Bob, Bobby, Lucy, and Jack: No kidding, I really am done now. It’s all over but the reading.

May 27, 1970–August 26, 1972
    May 27. This is to launch another volume of diary. It’s exactly four weeks since I got home from England. During my time alone there, after Don had