30. Ibid.
31. Letter from Dermot Morrah to Frank Sheed, 7 October 1956 (Sheed and Ward Family Papers, Box 12, Folder 12, University of Notre Dame Archives, Indiana, USA).
32. Letter from Caryll Houselander to Wilfred Sheed, 12 October 1950 (Sheed and Ward Family Papers, Box 12, Folder 12, University of Notre Dame Archives, Indiana, USA).
33. Caryll Houselander: That Divine Eccentric, Maisie Ward, p.61.
34. The Diaries of Robert Bruce Lockhart, Kenneth Young (ed.), p.183.
35. Letter from Winston Churchill to Stewart Menzies, 29 October 1920, CHAR 16/49, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
36. Parmi les maitres rouges by Georgi Solomon (Paris, 1930), p248-250.
37. Memorandum from Naval Intelligence Division to SIS, 3 September 1920 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
38. Memorandum from C to Naval Intelligence Division, 7 September 1920 (Reilly Papers CX 2616)
39. Memorandum from Naval Intelligence Division to SIS, 10 September 1920 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
40. Ibid., handwritten note by C at foot of memorandum.
41. Memorandum dated 20 October 1920 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
42. Telegram No. 983, dated 29 October 1920 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
43. Memorandum from Section V to Production, 3 November 1920 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
44. Telegram from Section G2 to Sidney Reilly, 8 November 1920 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
45. ‘Trust’ File No. 302330, Vol. 37 (Archive of the Federal Security Service, Moscow).
46. New York Times, 1 May 1921, p.8.
47. Box 6, Robert Bruce Lockhart Collection (Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California).
48. Letter from H.F. Pougher to Air Board, received by SIS 12 October 1921 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
49. Ibid. Note appended to foot of letter by Sidney Reilly.
50. Letter from Sidney Reilly to SIS, 19 September 1921 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
51. Letter from Sir Eyre Crowe (permanent under-secretary, Foreign Office) to Lord Curzon (Foreign Secretary), 28 December 1921 (Curzon Papers), reproduced in Winston S. Churchill, Vol. IV. 1917–1922, Martin Gilbert, companion volume III, pp.1703–05).
52. Ibid.
53. Letter from Sidney Reilly to SIS, 23 January 1922 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
54. From SIS (Vienna), 1 February 1922 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
55. From G7 (London) to SIS New York, 24 July 1923 (Reilly Papers CX 2616).
TWELVE – A CHANGE OF BAIT
1. Letter from Edward Spears to Robin Bruce Lockhart, 2 January 1967, Robert Bruce Lockhart Collection, Box 6, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California.
2. Diary of Edward Spears, 1 April 1921 (Spears MSS SPRS 2/4 Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge).
3. Diaries of Robert Bruce Lockhart, Kenneth Young (ed.), p.17.
4. Diary of Edward Spears, 17 July 1921 (Spears MSS SPRS 2/4 Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge).
5. Herbert Guedalla, a pre-war director of the Russo-English Bank. As a director of the Imperial and Foreign Company, along with Edward Spears, he was also involved in Reilly/Spears Czech Radium deal.
6. Lt-Col. Robert Guy (1878–1927), a war-time acquaintance of Spears (see Who Was Who, 1916–1928)
7. Reilly had recently moved from 11 Park Place, St James’s, to Flat D3, the Albany, Piccadilly, an exclusive London address popular with peers, members of the government and upper-class society generally.
8. Reilly always liked to make out that he was a close confidant of Churchill’s. While close to Sir Archibald Sinclair, it is most unlikely that Reilly was ever more than the briefest of acquaintances with Churchill. In Churchill’s entire correspondence for the years 1919–25 there are but two letters written to Reilly, both in response to letters from Reilly. Both address him very formally as Mr Reilly. Anyone who was close or on personal terms with Churchill would have been addressed as ‘My dear Sinclair’ or ‘Dear Spears’, not as ‘Dear Mr’.
9. Diary of Edward Spears, 17 August 1921 (Spears MSS SPRS 2/4 Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge).
10. Ibid., 21–25 October 1921.
11. Ibid., 25 October 1921.
12. Ibid., 23 November 1921.
13. Diary of Edward Spears, 20 April 1922 (Spears MSS SPRS 2/5 Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge).
14. Ibid., 30 June 1922.
15. The Tatler, No. 905, 30 October 1918, p.133.
16. Letter from Sidney Reilly to Boris Savinkov, dated 7 May 1923, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow (Fond R-5831, Inventory 1, File 177).
17. Entry 462, Register of Births in the Registration District of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster, 4 May 1862. Isobel Burton died at the age of eighty-six (Entry 463, Register of Deaths in the Sub-district of Hythe in the Registration District of Folkestone in the County of Kent, 20 June 1948).
18. Letter to British Consulate, Hamburg, from Isabel Burton, 5 June 1888 (A6 Vol 33, Alphabetisches Register weiblicher Fremder 1868–1890).
19. Franz Kurt Burton, born 5 July 1888, Hamburg, Germany (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Standesamt).
20. Nelly Louise Burton, born 20 January 1891, Hamburg, Germany (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Standesamt).
21. ‘Card File of inhabitants who left or died between 1892 and 1925’ (K44320, Fotoarchiv, Hamburg).
22. No record of Alice Burton’s birth has been found in Britain. She may have been born on the continent or registered in Britain under a name other than Burton. On her Marriage Certificate (Entry 124, Register of Marriages in the Registration District of St George Hanover Square in the County of London, 18 January 1918) column 7 – ‘Father’s name and Surname’ has been left blank. Unusually, column 6 of her Death Certificate – ‘Date and place of birth’ (Entry 87, Register of Deaths in the Registration District of Westminster in the City of Westminster, 5 February 1972) simply states ‘about 1894’
23. Programme of show ‘Cache ton nu’, 20 April 1914 (Ro 15743, Arsenal Library, Paris).
24. ‘Pepa’ is a shortened version of Josephina and ‘ita’ is a diminutive form, so Pepita literally means ‘small Josephina’. Bobadilla is a town in the province of Jaen in the south of Spain and derives from the Arabic Boab’dil. Nelly first adopted the stage name Bobadilla in the summer of 1914. In 1916 her mother Isobel was interviewed by MI5, who were interested in her liaison with a Dutch merchant seaman. In a statement she explained that Pete Reyers was her intended second husband and that her first husband’s name was Bobadilla. She never married Reyers and in fact never married anyone any time during her life. When she died in 1948 her death certificate claimed she was the widow of ‘Frank Burton’.
25. The Sketch, 29 November 1916, p.6.
26. US Bureau of Investigation/ONI, memorandum to H. Hunnewell and A. Smith, 6 September 1918.
27. 1924 Electoral Register, City of Westminster, Knightsbridge St George’s Ward.
28. Entry 96, Register of Marriages in the Regis-tration District of St George Hanover Square in the County of London, 29 October 1920.
29. This story is contained in a letter from Dame Rebecca West to Robin Bruce Lockhart, 29 February 1968 (Robert Bruce Lockhart Collection, Box 6, Hoover Institution Archive, Stanford, California).
30. The London Directory 1921.