evelyn waugh’s last blog entry

dated easter 1965 (aged 62)

On Maundy Thursday appeared a notice in the paper under the heading ‘Death of former unionist MP’. I did not recognize this as Phil Dunne until Christopher Sykes told me on Saturday. He was my age. I last saw him just before Christmas, elegant, gay, and I thought how little he had aged compared with myself. He was completely selfish without an element of conceit or self-assertion, debonair, never boring, never morose; a finely controlled temptation to malice; chivalrous, with a sense of private hounour uncommon nowadays. Though I saw him seldom in late years, a deeply valued friend whom i shall miss bitterly.

evelyn died after easter mass, 1 year later.

his first blog entry is here.