Roald Dahl by Jeremy Treglown Page B

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    Others, however, were too helpful to go unnamed.
    Kaare Hesselberg kindly corresponded with me about the family of his kinswoman, Sofie Dahl, Roald’s mother.
    The Secretary of the Old Reptonian Society, J.F.M. Walker, helped in various ways, particularly by putting me in touch with the following contemporaries of Dahl’s at the school (other than those named on pp. vii–x), who wrote to me or talked to me about their memories: R. R. Acheson, John F. Barclay, J.T.J. Dobie, T. B. Ellis, Jim Furse, I. B. Mackay, J. F. Mendl, A.P.D. Montgomery, B.L.L. Reuss. I must also thank Michael Stones, currently Housemaster of Priory House; J. C. Knapp, Headmaster of The Cathedral School, Llandaff; and Col.W. J. Hotblack, whose grandfather founded St. Peter’s School, Weston-super-Mare.
    The following people associated with 80 Squadron, RAF, provided useful information: Alex Angus, Roy Ballantyne, Squadron Leader C. J. Bartle, Gregory F. Graham, Air Marshal Sir Edward Gordon Jones, Wing Commander G.V.W. Kettlewell.
    Many others who knew Dahl or came into contact with him gave assistance, other than those mentioned in the Preface. I am especially grateful to: Jane Adams, Martin Amis, Roger Angell, Maarten Asscher, Lynn Barber, Patrick Benson, Solveig Bøhle, Mrs. Butler (of Great Missenden), Michael di Capua, Peter Carson, Emma Chichester Clark, Fabio Coen, Brian Cox, Carl Djerassi, R. T. Fisher, Michael Foreman, Brendan Gill, Charles Gray, Richard Hough, Stephen Koch, William Koshland, Hermione Lee, Mark Lefanu, Helen Lillie, Penelope Lively, Anne Lømo, Koukla MacLehose, Susan Mayes, Arthur Miller, Peggy Miller, Caroline Moorehead, John Mortimer, Anthony Page, Murray Pollinger, Michael Rosen, Salman Rushdie, Caroline Seebohm, Gitta Sereny, Brian Sibley, Elizabeth Stewart-Liberty, Bing Taylor, Judy Taylor, Ann Thwaite, Alice K. Turner, Claudia Warner, David Wolton, and Sebastian Yorke.
    For making suggestions or answering inquiries of various kinds, I must also thank the following: Erik Arthur, Margaret Baxter, Graham Binns, Nick Collins, Saul Cooper, Mrs. Ferris (of Llandaff), Colin Greenland, Sir Stuart Hampshire, Hans Georg Heepe, Carolyn Hemmings, Katherine Nouri Hughes, Angela Huth, Marjut Karasmaa, Daniel J. Kevles, Eric Korn, John Lawrence, Blake Morrison, J. R. Prawer, Tony Ross, Ben Sonnenberg, Jean Stein, Dinah Stroe, Vavi Toran, Jessica Warner, Marina Warner, Auberon Waugh, Tony Wilmot.
    I had invaluable help from the staff of various libraries and institutional archives, particularly the BBC Written Archives in Reading; the TV Archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; the Glamorgan Archive Service and South Glamorgan County Library, Cardiff; the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin; the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles; the Ministry of Defence RAF Personnel Management Centre; the Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books, Toronto Public Library; the Police Complaints Authority; the Public Record Office; the publishers’ archives collection in the Reading University Library; the library of the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon; the archives of Shell Centre, London; the Principal Registry of the Family Division, Somerset House; the Department of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles; the Walt Disney Archives, Burbank; the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum, Cardiff; and Woodspring Central Library, Weston-super-Mare.
    In the course of researching the book, I enjoyed the hospitality of Keith Brown and of Peter Christophersen in Norway, of John Sutherland in Pasadena, of Mimi Summerskill and her family in New Jersey, and of Mrs. Charles Marsh in Washington, D.C.
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