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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Man | |
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| Forebears | |
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| [The Aldridge Saga Begins] (1933) | |
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| [Aldridge Family Strengths] (1933) | |
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| [Aldridge Family Weaknesses] (1933) | |
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| [Frank and Clara Aldridge] (1933) | |
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| Father | |
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| John H. Grainger (1956) | |
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| [John H. Grainger in Adelaide] (ca. 1933) | |
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| My Father's Comment on Cyril Scott's Magnificat (1953) | |
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| Mother's Experience with Scotch & Irish (1953) | |
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| How Would We Ordinary Men Get On If the Clever Ones Did Not Destroy Themselves? (1953) | |
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| My Father in My Childhood (1954) | |
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| Mother | |
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| Dates of Important Events and Movements in the Life of Rose Grainger (1923) | |
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| [How I Have Loved Her, How I Love Her Now] (1922) | |
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| Thought Mother Was 'God'. Something of This Still Remains (1923) | |
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| Arguments with Beloved Mother (1926) | |
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| Mother's Neuralgia in Australia (1926) | |
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| Mother on My Love of Being Pitied (1926) | |
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| Beloved Mother's Swear-Words (1926) | |
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| Mother a Nietzschean? (1926) | |
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| Thots of Mother while Scoring To a Nordic Princess (1928) | |
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| Bird's-Eye View of the Together-Life of Rose Grainger and Percy Grainger (1947) | |
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| Friends | |
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| [Dr Henry O'Hara] (1933) | |
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| Dr Hamilton Russell Called Me 'A Tiger for Work' (1953) | |
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| A Day of Motoring with Dr Russell (1953) | |
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| Karl Klimsch's Purse of Money, for Mother to Get Well On (1945) | |
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| The English Are Fickle Friends, Tho Never Vicious in Their Fickleness (1954) | |
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| My First Meeting with Cyril Scott (1944) | |
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| Walter Creighton & Cyril Scott (1944) | |
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| Walter Creighton on Roger Quilter's Hide-Fain-th ((Secretiveness)) (1944) | |
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| Roger Quilter Failed Me at Harrogate (1944) | |
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| Balfour Gardiner Disliked What He Considered Political Falsification in Busoni & Harold Bauer (1953) | |
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| Balfour Gardiner with Me in Norway, 1922 (1953) | |
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| Mrs L[owrey] and My Early London Days (1945) | |
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| Frau Kwast-Hiller, Evchen, Mrs Lowrey in Berlin (1953) | |
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| Miss Devlin's Sweet Australian Ways (1953) | |
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| Jacques Jacobs on First Ada Crossley Tour (1953) | |
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| Eliza Wedgewood, Out to Buy Old Furniture from Folksingers (1953) | |
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| Sargent's and His Set's Set-of-Mind toward My Betrothal to Margot (1944) | |
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| Wife | |
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| On Board the 'Aorangi' (1927) | |
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| The Nordic Nature of My Love for Her (1927) | |
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| My Joy in Forming a Two-Some with Her (1927) | |
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| Pevensey (1928) | |
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| [Sex-Life] (1928) | |
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| Ella's Rime-Piece 'In Search of Gold' (1937) | |
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| Read This If Ella Grainger or Percy Grainger Are Found Dead Covered with Whip Marks (1932) | |
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| Self | |
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| [George Percy] (1933) | |
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| [For My Autobiography] (1902) | |
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| [Art and Craft] (1902) | |
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| The London Gramophone Co. (Now 'His Master's Voice') & the Joseph Taylor Folksong Records (1932) | |
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| Money Spent on Ideals, Friends, Etc., 1920-End 1923 (ca. 1924) | |
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| [The Centrality of Race] (1933) | |
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| [Pure-Nordic Beauty] (1933) | |
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| [A Flawlessly Nordic Way of Living] (1933) | |
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| [The Truly Nordic Life] (1933) | |
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| The Thots I Think as I Grow Old (1937) | |
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| [Fraud with Food, Fraud with Hair] (1938) | |
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| Growing Nasty-Spoken as I Near My Sixties (1940) | |
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| Put-Upon Percy (1945) | |
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| The Things I Dislike (1954) | |
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| To Whoever Opens the Package Marked 'Do Not Open until 10 Years after My Death' (1956) | |
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| The Musician | |
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| Composer | |
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| [The Goal of My Art] (1922) | |
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| Notes on Whip-Lust (1948) | |
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| What Is Behind My Music (1954) | |
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| Why 'My Wretched Tone Life? (1953) | |
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| Length (Size) in Tone-Art & Other Art (1935) | |
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| The Strange Idea That I Compose for Piano & Then 'Arrange' for Strings, Orchestra, Etc. (1937) | |
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| 'The Inuit' at La Crosse, Wis[consin] (1923) | |
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| My Dealings with Stanford anent His 'Four Irish Dances' (1949?) | |
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| Stanford Deemed My 'Irish Tune' Un-Irish & My 'Brigg Fair' Un-English. His Disapproval of Vaughan Williams's Norfolk Rhapsodies (1949?) | |
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| Beecham's Cheek about 'Colonial Song' (1945) | |
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| Balfour Gardiner's Criticisms of Sparre Olsen, Ravel, My 'Colonial Song' (1952) | |
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| Grieg's Growing Fretfulness at My Tone-Works (1949/52) | |
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| Sargent & Rathbone Lost Interest in My Compositions When Publicly Performed (1953) | |
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| Vaughan Williams's Praise of a Detail in 'Irish Tune from County Derry' (1953) | |
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| Delius Hostile to Harmonium Parts in My Chamber-Music Scores (1953) | |
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| Mother Thought My Music Sounded Like Hymn-Tunes (1953) | |
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| Anent 'Elastic Scoring (1929) | |
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| [Letter to Roy Harris] (1937) | |
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| A World-Wide Tone-Wright ((Composer)) Guild (1945) | |
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| Perfomer | |
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| [Letter to Mabel Gardner] (1901) | |
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| P.G.'s Powers during Australian Tour of 1926 (1926) | |
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| Native Art and Stage Fright (1938) | |
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| Call-to-Mindments about Delius Piano Concerto (1941) | |
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| The Lower the Fee, the Better I Play (1941) | |
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| Memories of Tchaikovsky Concertos (1943) | |
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| Percy Grainger on Ideals (mid-1920s) | |
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| Grieg on Busoni's Lightning Octaves in Grieg Concerto (1949) | |
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| Stanford Wanted to Take Me to the Norfolk, Conn. Festival, to Play His 'Down Among the Dead Men' Variations (1949?) | |
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| Nina Grieg Thought Sostenuto Pedal Sounded 'Unclear' in 'Jeg gar i tusen tanker' (1949) | |
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| H. Allerdale Grainger (1953) | |
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| Cyril Scott's 1st Sonata at Bexhill (Suicidal Mood) (1953) | |
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| P.G. Rehearses 'Song of the High Hills' with Frankfurt Ruhlscher Gesangverein (1953) | |
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| 'The Bit You Played to Mark Hambourg' (Chopin Polonaise) (1953) | |
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| Commentator | |
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| [The Expressive Potential of Music] (1901) | |
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| After Reading Parry (1902) | |
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| Donald Francis Tovey's Aunt (1953) | |
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| Dr Russell's Statement: 'It's Too Early. You Must Wait Till You're Dead' (1941) | |
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| Facts about Percy Grainger's Year in Europe (1923) | |
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| ['The King Is Dead, Long Live the King': World, Racial and Tone-Art Loyalties] (1933) | |
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| [Parry's 'Judith'] (1935) | |
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| [The Gifted and Half-Gifted] (1935) | |
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| Balfour Gardiner's Judgement on Vaughan Williams [Holst and Bax] (1949/52) | |
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| Grieg on His Romanticism, My Scientificness, re Folksong (1952) | |
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| Mother Liked Sibelius. P.G.'s Estimate of Him & Other Nordic Music (1953) | |
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| The Cheek of Band-Bosses ((Conductors)) (1945) | |
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| Rudolf Ganz Praised Reger & Mahler to Busoni (1953) | |
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| Busoni & P.G. (1953) | |
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| My First Hearing of Fritz Kreisler, with Mrs Lowrey (1945) | |
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| Melbourne Miss Rowe and Erno Rappe's Stolen Music (1953) | |
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| Balfour Gardiner: 'Obscure Successes' (1953 | |
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| Tonery (Japanese Singer, Javanese Tone-Tool, Pablo Casals) (1945) | |
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| Intelligence versus Education (1943) | |
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| List of Sources | |
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| Select Grainger Bibliography | |
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| Index | |