The last day he lost his logic and pronounced a lot of words in English…He died as poor as he always was. Here is how Lillis, his son, put it in his letter: “My poor father died with your name in his mouth which closed forever. Only the other day I received a letter from his son telling me that Spiro’s last words were: “New York! New York! I want to find Henry Miller’s house!”. I didn’t realize it then, but Spiro was getting ready to die. There was one other person whose presence I missed and that was Spiro of Corfu. Here Miller quotes from a letter Lillis wrote about the dying Spiro: Miller also remarks on some of the Durrell family‘s friends familiar to readers of Gerald’s autobiographies – notably Spiro Amerikanos (Miller mentions Spiro’s son, Lillis – Gerald does not mention Spiro’s family at all) and Theodore Stephanides, both of whom seem to have made quite an impression on Miller. Durrell was saying, as he usually did when Nancy proffered her advice, ‘Why don’t you shut up?” “Why don’t you try to do something?’ said Nancy.
(In Prospero’s Cell, Durrell describes Nancy as being like “an otter”, another water animal).Īnd later, during a trip to the Greek mainland, Miller records an exchange between the couple when their car breaks down, stranding them: In 1941, he published a book about his travels, The Colossus of Maroussi, in which he mentions Lawrence and Nancy frequently, offering some interesting glimpses into Nancy and Lawrence’s relationship and life on Corfu:ĭurrell, and Nancy his wife, were like a couple of dolphins they practically lived in the water.
In 1939, Henry Miller visited Lawrence and Nancy Durrell in Corfu, and stayed with them in the ‘White House’ at Kalami (oddly, the house today is erroneously billed as the place where Gerald Durrell wrote My Family and Other Animals). The 'White House' in Kalami, now available for rent as a holiday home, and inaccurately dubbed 'the Corfu residence of Authors Gerald and Lawrence Durrell'
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