Notes

These were transcribed from pen and ink notes taken while reading the book the first time.

Page 1:

Buick
January 24, 1941: death
Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll
outside Nairobi
bullet to the head
the hereditary High Constable of Scotland; by precedence, the first subject in Scotland after the Royal Family

39 y/o

a playboy; turned his life around in last five (50 years; exploits with married women.

Connection with Eton.


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Brits had just survived the Blitz; now the Italian Campaign was beginning

Aristocratic white community in Kenya.

Campaign to remove Mussolini's army from Abyssinia (Ethiopian Empire).

Erroll: the military secretary.

Dunkirk evacuation: May / June 1940.

Page 3:

The Colony image -- Happy Valley -- an area in the White Highlands.

Lady Idina Gordon: married Errol, 1924.

Aberdares: park north of Nairobi.

Happy Valley: byword for permanent dissipation and sensuous pleasure.

Wanjohi River.

Happy Valley: 3 decades; ended with the death of Erroll.

Page 4:

"Christmas at Karen."

memsahibs -- p. 5 in the book.

The three A's: altitude, alcohol, adultery.

Hugh Cholmondeley: 3rd Baron Delamere

Njoro, NW of Nakkura

Norfolk Hotel -- "House of Lords"

no word for "thank you" in Kikuyu

double terai: p. 14

siafu -- safaicants: p. 14

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Karen Blixen/ Kenya: 1914 - 1931

Gilgil and Nakura: cattle

Thika: coffee

Njoro: wheat

Naivasha: sheep and cattle

Londiani: flax

Happy Valley: any place between the Aberdares and the town of Gilgil.

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1928: Josslyn Hay's father died

Josslyn became the Earl of Erroll and High Constable of Scotland -- had been in Kenya for four years -- in the heart of Happy Valley -- p. 28

Idina divorces

1930: Erroll marries Molly

Djinn Palace ("Gin" Palace)

Molly: addict, dies 1939

droit de seigneur -- p. 51

1940: Erroll -- 39 y/o

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Nancy Wirewater, 1940 -- p. 52

first meniton Gare du Norde, p. 54

Lizzy Lezard, p. 54+++

Chapter 5: again, Eton

Hemingway, first trip to Kenya, 1933 with Pauline.

Diana Caldwell, p. 63: aviator / Broughton

famous aviator: Amy Mollison

Burke's peerage: p. 65

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1940 -- Diana / Broughton married -- p. 71
Broughton divorced first wife, Vera
Diana: moved to Kenya with Broughton

Chapter 6: end of notes