1
The National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Division, Cunninghame Graham Collection, Inventory Acc 11335, Item 135: Letters c. 1890-1898 to Gabrielle Cunninghame Graham from her friend Emilia de [sic] Prado [sic] Bazán. The earliest datable letters written by Pardo Bazán are from 1890, while the last bears the date 1898. I am grateful to the National Library of Scotland for permission to quote from the letters.
2
Maurice Hemingway, 'Emilia Pardo Bazán, Luis Vidart and Other Friends: Eight Unpublished Letters and Two Cards', Anales Galdosianos, 21 (1986), 263-73 (p. 263).
3
Dolores Thion Soriano-Mollá, 'El epistolario de Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán, estado de la cuestión', in Emilia Pardo Bazán: estado de la cuestión, ed. José Manuel González Herrán, et al. (A Coruña: Casa-Museo Emilia Pardo Bazán/Fundación Caixa Galicia, 2005), 181-217 (pp. 196-98, 185-86).
4
Carmen Bravo-Villasante, Vida y obra de Emilia Pardo Bazán (Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1962).
5
Anne Taylor, The People's Laird: A Life of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (Easingwold, York: Tobias Press, 2005), 87.
6
Taylor, The People's Laird, 85, 240.
7
Taylor, The People's Laird, 105. Taylor was the first to check the Scottish Records Office for Cunninghame Graham's will (109 n. 55). She died on 22 January 1906; Pardo Bazán died in 1921.
8
Taylor, The People's Laird, 87.
9
A. F. Tschiffely, Don Roberto: Being the Account of the Life and Works of R. B. Cunninghame Graham, 1852-1936 (London: William Heinemann, 1937), 138. If she was a convent girl, the obvious question is, what she was doing alone in a Parisian park when Robert, on horseback, met her?
10
Jean Cunninghame Graham, Gaucho Laird: The Life of R. B. 'Don Roberto' Cunninghame Graham (Glasgow, KY: The Long Riders' Guild, 2004), 190-91.