of his wish to find some purpose for the deep misery of his worst depression. He was strongly urged to stop drinking alcohol and occasionally managed short periods of abstinence. Yet he never really wanted long-term abstinence enough to make any real success of this. He was as a whole capable of great self-discipline, but needed to want his objectives with intense singular-mindedness in order to achieve them. The two journal books were entitled Part of a Journey (covering 1977 to 1979) and End of a Journey (1979 to 1981). They were generally well received. For many readers, his best writing style shone throughout those pages, with its ready humility and gentle self-mockery. He died at his home in St Briavels, Gloucestershire, with most of his family (he had five children altogether) at his bedside. Toynbee genealogy The Toynbees have been prominent in British intellectual society for several generations (note that this diagram is not a comprehensive Toynbee family tree): Works The Savage Days (1937) A School in Private (1941) The Barricades (1943) Tea with Mrs. Goodman (1947) (U.S. edition title: Prothalamium: A Cycle of the Holy Graal) The Garden to the Sea (1953) Friends Apart: A Memoir of Esmond Romilly & Jasper Ridley in the Thirties (1954) re-published in (1980) The Fearful Choice: a debate on nuclear policy (1958) Pantaloon or the Valediction (1961) verse novel Underdogs: Anguish and Anxiety, Eighteen Men and Women Write Their Own Case-Histories (1962) editor Comparing Notes: A Dialogue Across a Generation (1963) with Arnold J. Toynbee Thanatos, a Modern Symposium at which Nine Characters Argue at Quarles (1963) with Maurice Richardson Two Brothers: the fifth day of the Valediction of Pantaloon (1964) Pantaloon verse novel A Learned City: the sixth day of the valediction of pantaloon (1966) Pantaloon verse novel Views from a Lake: the seventh day of the Valediction of Pantaloon (1968) Pantaloon verse novel Age of the Spirit: Religion as Experience (1973) Distant Drum: Reflections on the Spanish Civil War (1976) editor Part of a Journey: An Autobiographical Journal, 1977-79 (1981) End of a Journey An Autobiographical Journal 1979-81 (1982) Towards the Holy Spirit: A Tract for the Times (1982) Notes References Faces of Philip; a memoir of Philip Toynbee (1984) Jessica Mitford 1916 births 1981 deaths British communists Deaths from cancer in England Converts to Anglicanism from atheism or agnosticism English Anglicans English non-fiction writers People from Oxford The Guardian