[22 Paradise Rd., Northampton, Mass.]

T. S.Eliot
EmilyHale
TS
The Criterion
All Souls: 1937.
[2 November]
My dearest Lady,

I have two letters for which to thank you, and tomorrow sails the first boat since my return on Saturday. One letter was waiting my return and the other arrived this evening by the Bremen. Edinburgh'Development of Shakespeare's Verse, The'as lectured;a4 wasScotlandEdinburgh;b5TSE's lecture in;a1 a very busy and tiring visit, but I believe satisfactory. IMaitlands, theas TSE's Edinburgh hosts;a1 arrived on Tuesday morning and drove to the Maitlands, whom I had never seen before. They are evidently wealthy people, and both very attractive, especially Mrs. Maitland.1 Immediately I felt that I was back in South Kensington – one would hardly know that they were Scotch – and indeed it transpired that they had both lived in South Kensington. MrsTovey, Sir Donald;a1. M. is very musical, and is said to play very well – she was the first pupil of Sir Donald Tovey,2 whoRichmond, Oliffe Legh;a1 was the chief guest at lunch on the first day – the others Oliver [sc. Oliffe] Richmond3 and his wife – a brother of Bruce Richmond who is Professor of Latin. A nap after lunch; then hurried tea and gave my first lecture to a packed, but not very large hall at the University. AfterCursiter, Stanley;a1 thatCursiter, Phyllis Eda;a1 back to the Maitlands to dress for a large dinner party there: LordNormand, Wilfrid;a1 & Lady Normand (A judge); 4 Mr. & Mrs. Cursiter (Director of the National Gallery); 5 MrPeck, James Wallace;a1. & MrsPeck, Winifred (née Knox);a1. PeckKnox, E. V.;a2 (official of the Board of Education – his wife turned out to be one of our novelists whom I have never read, and a sister of Ronald and E. V. Knox); 6 aFindlay, Dame Harriet;a1 Lady Finlay, said to own ‘The Scotsman’, or her husband did; 7 and a Mr. & Mrs. Blair, who were invited because they were just young people. The next day I had to go to [a] lunch at the Union given for the above-mentioned Peck, who made a speech – I have quite forgotten where I had tea; butSmith, Norman Kemp;a1 after my lecture I dressed and went to Professor Kemp Smith’s to dinner,8 and thence on to a ‘reception’ (men only) at the University. ThursdayWilson, John Doveras TSE's host in Edinburgh;a3 Dover Wilson had a lunch party at a hotel; we had tea with the English Association at the North British Hotel, after which I gave a poetry reading – then I moved from the Maitlands, as Dover Wilson wanted me to spend a night with him at his house in Balerno, so that night I had a quiet dinner. On Friday morning (rainy) I took a walk with Dover Wilson over the Pentland Hills, wentAdam Smiths, the;a1 toSmith, (Alice) Lilian;a1 lunchSmith, Sir George Adam;a1 with the Adam Smiths (who spoke warmly of you) and wondered how on earth you found their house; 9 went back to the Dover Wilsons, dressed, packed, and spent my last evening with a dining club, the ‘Common Room Club’, where all theBaillie, Very Revd John;a8 same menSmith, James Cruickshank;a1 turnedGrieg, Sir Robert;a1 up again – Kemp Smith, Lord Normand, John Baillie (oh yes, that was where I had tea on Wednesday), Sir Donald Tovey, J. C. Smith10 and Sir Robert Greig,11 Dr. Moray Mackenzie etc. etc. And was very glad to get into my sleeping car – did not sleep very well, and dozed most of Saturday. SundayCheetham, Revd Eric;d1 aPhillimore, Stephen, Archdeacon of Middlesex;a1 lunch party at the Vicar’s at the Kensington Palace Hotel, in honour of Archdeacon Phillimore,12 and I had to sit between two ladies whom I knew nothing about, and had also to talk to an earnest student from Ceylon. AndCooper, (Alfred) Duff, 1st Viscount Norwichat The Literary Society;a3 lastLascelles, Alan ('Tommy')seated next to TSE;a1 night a small dinner of the Literary Society, where I found myself between Duff Cooper and somebody named Tommy Lascelles who was not bad company.13 And I have tonight and tomorrow night at home; andPerkinses, the;g4 ThursdaySeaverns, Helenhosts TSE and the Perkinses;b6 to Mrs. Seaverns to meet Dr. & Mrs Perkins, onHayward, Johnand TSE drive to Tandys;h4 FridayTandys, thehost TSE for Guy Fawkes night;a7 with John Hayward (sharing a car with him) to the Tandys Guy Faux’ [sc. Fawkes’] Day fireworks party – andAiken, ConradTSE dreads seeing;a1 on Saturday to Conrad Aiken’s (I shall be glad when that is over). AndMorrell, Lady Ottoline;g8 to-dayHuxley, Juliette (née Baillot)at OM's;a2 IBarnes, Djunasurprises TSE at OM's;a4 had to look in on Ottoline, and to my vexation found it a tea-party, and a young Italian, and Juliette Huxley, and Djuna Barnes! who had turned up in London,14 and I suppose I shall have to take her out to dinner.

I enjoyed Edinburgh nevertheless – one of the pleasant places to visit. My lectures were well received, and my reading still more so. I read what I wanted to – nothing choral or dramatic, because that is intended for other voices than mine – butBurnt NortonTSE closes Edinburgh reading with;b6 some of the poems that are more difficult to read, ending with ‘Burnt Norton’. IGrierson, Sir Herberthis Rectorial address;a2 also attended Sir Herbert Grierson’s Rectorial address in the same McEuen Hall that you remember.15 There was considerable apprehension lest the students would be up to their traditional tricks of throwing tomatoes and bags of flour about: and as Lady Grierson only died the week before, the old man was very shaky. Fortunately, the students minded their manners; gave him a warm welcome, and sat through his address as if it were a sermon. It was the first rectorial address in the history of the university, that has been audible – and would have been more so if the microphone in front of Grierson had communicated with the hall, as it should have done, instead of merely with the B.B.C. IGrierson, Sir Herbertdescribed for EH;a3 hope that you will meet Grierson when he comes to Smith, and give him my love: he is quite a grand old man, and a great scholar. You should get him to read from Burns – but remember that he is not a Scot – but a Shetlander, which is quite a different thing, because the people from Orkney and Shetland are pure Norwegian in blood.

I am very sorry about the 86c! WAS that parcel left open at the ends, or not – because I gave careful instructions that the last parcel should be left open at the ends, and I want to know whether you are summoned to the post office to pay duty on open-ended books. IHale, Emilybirthdays, presents and love-tokens;w2furs sought for EH;d3 wait to hear about furs, or furbelows. I am glad you are going to concerts – even if no better than what you have just reported on – and hope that you are really seeing more people this year, and that your work, in the second year, can be taken more easily.

IFamily Reunion, TheTSE on writing;b4 am starting to get down to the play – this morning typed out a fair copy of as much of the second part as is written – and must quickly do another copy of the first part, becauseBrowne, Elliott Martin1939 production of The Family Reunion;c1weighing TSE's proposal that he produce;a2 Martin Browne is wondering whether he should go to America or not (letter enclosed); and I can only say to him that I do want him here to produce The Family Reunion, only I don’t want him to decide without having seen what there is of the play – and he can make up his mind whether the text is promising enough – allowing for an indefinite amount of rewriting – to justify his waiting at home for it. The play is announced for the spring, so I do hope I can finish it! But a devil of a lot has got to happen in the last half of the second act – and the latent hostilities between Amy, Agatha and Mary have got to come to the surface with all the fury that Racine could give them – if I am to get away with the slowness of the action so far. Suspense there is – but there is a point beyond which suspense can be abused.

DidCriterion, TheJanuary 1938;d5'Commentary' on Nuffield endowments;a1 IOxford Universityand the Nuffield endowments;a9 tell you that I did write my commentary about the Nuffield gifts to Oxford? andNational Theatre, Theand TSE's January 1938 'Commentary';a2 somewhat about the National Theatre.16 I do hope that you will like what I have written about Oxford, because I feel strongly about that, andWood, Edward, 3rd Viscount Halifax (later 1st Earl of Halifax)'wooden';a2 I should like to send a copy to that wooden Halifax (who sat across the table last night) andLindsay, Sir Ronald;a1 that wooly Lindsay.17 SpeakingCaetani, Marguerite (née Chapin)saga of unsettled debts;a8 of Lindsay reminds me that Marguerite de Bassiano has turned up! still owing about thirty pounds to the bookseller – her daughter is having her exhibition of pictures – and wrote to me, yrs affectionately, bold as brass. SpeakingLewis, WyndhamBlasting and Bombadiering;c5 ofLewis, Wyndhamvisiting Joyce in 1920 with;a8 pictures reminds me that Wyndham Lewis (with whom I am at the moment on very friendly terms) has written a most amusing book of reminiscences, ‘Blasting and Bombadiering’, which I must send you, becauseJoyce, Jamesand EP's gift of shoes;d4 itPound, Ezrahis strange gift to Joyce recalled;c1 has quite an hilarious account of an incident which I had forgotten, when he and I went to Paris in 1920 carrying a parcel from Ezra Pound for James Joyce, which proved to contain a pair of old shoes.18

Here is a letter which is nothing but chatter – like too many of my letters, I fear – but when one has been away for a week without writing, one feels impelled to account for one’s actions. I shan’t be able to write again till Monday or Tuesday – but I hope that this NOTE will do until then – and after that, exceptSociety of the Sacred Mission, Kelham Hall, NottinghamshireTSE's November 1938 weekend at;b6 for a weekend at Kelham andMorleys, thetheir Thanksgiving parties;b2 a ‘Thanksgiving’ weekend at the Morleys, I hope to have a quiet winter – enough to write you many of a different and more serious kind of letter than this [sic]. So I remain, dear madam, your devoted and obedient servant and adoring

T. possum

Andflowers and floraroses;c7for EH's birthday;a7 IHale, Emilybirthdays, presents and love-tokens;w2roses sent to EH on birthday;d5 hope they sent you nice roses for your birthday, my dear, as I ordered them.

1.TheMaitlands, the Maitlands lived at 6 Heriot Row, Edinburgh. John Dover Wilson to TSE, 2 Mar. 1937: ‘[Maitland] is a K.C. with literary interests, and she is a first-rate musician … They have heaps of money and their house is one of the old houses in Edinburgh which they have filled with beautiful pictures. They are charming people.’

2.SirTovey, Sir Donald Donald Tovey (1875–1940), musicologist, composer, conductor, and pianist; Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh; noted for his Essays in Musical Analysis as well as editions of works by Bach and Beethoven.

3.OliffeRichmond, Oliffe Legh Legh Richmond (1881–1977), Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; from 1919, Professor of Humanity (Latin), Edinburgh University.

4.WilfridNormand, Wilfrid Normand – Baron Normand, PC, KC (1884–1962) – Scottish Unionist Party politician (MP, 1931–5) and judge: from 1935, Lord President of the Court of Session; appointed Law Lord in 1947.

5.StanleyCursiter, Stanley Cursiter (1887–1976), Orcadian artist; Director of National Galleries of Scotland, 1930–48. HisCursiter, Phyllis Eda wife was the Scottish violinist Phyllis Eda Hourston (1888–1974).

6.JamesPeck, James Wallace Wallace Peck (1875–1964), civil servant and local government officer; from 1936, Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Education Department. Knighted in 1938. HisPeck, Winifred (née Knox) wife Winifred Peck, née Knox (1882–1962), novelist and biographer; her siblings included E. V. Knox, editor of Punch, and the theologian Ronald Knox. Her Faber publications included The Warrielaw Jewel (1933) and They Come, They Go: The story of an English Rectory (1937).

7.DameFindlay, Dame Harriet Harriet Findlay (1880–1954) was a political activist and philanthropist; widow of Sir John Findlay, 1st Baronet (1866–1930), who was the principal partner in Messrs John Ritchie & Co., proprietors and publishers of The Scotsman.

8.NormanSmith, Norman Kemp Kemp Smith (1872–1958), Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh, 1919–45. Noted for his translation of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (1929).

9.(AliceSmith, (Alice) Lilian) Lilian Smith (ca. 1867–1949), daughter of Sir George Buchanan, wasSmith, Sir George Adam wife of Sir George Adam Smith (1856–1942), Hebrew and Old Testament scholar, and Principal of the University of Aberdeen, 1909–35. As well as their house in Balerno, their main home was at Barcaldine Castle, Connel, Argyll.

10.JamesSmith, James Cruickshank Cruickshank Smith (1867–1946), Chief Inspector of Schools in Scotland, 1927–32; acting Chair of English Literature, Edinburgh, 1932–3. Author of editions of Shakespeare and of Spenser; as well as A Critical History of English Poetry (with H. J. C. Grierson, 1944).

11.SirGrieg, Sir Robert Robert Greig, MC (1874–1947), Scottish agriculturalist; Chair of the Scottish Board of Agriculture, 1921–8; Secretary to the UK Department of Agriculture, 1928–34.

12.ThePhillimore, Stephen, Archdeacon of Middlesex Hon. Stephen Phillimore, MC (1881–1956), Archdeacon of Middlesex, 1933–53.

13.AlanLascelles, Alan ('Tommy') ‘Tommy’ Lascelles (1887–1981), courtier and civil servant; Assistant Private Secretary to George V, 1935–6; to Edward VII; and to George VI (by whom he was to be knighted in 1939); Private Secretary from 1943; Private Secretary to Elizabeth II, 1952–3.

14.Morrell’s diary, Friday 5 Nov. 1937: ‘On Tues. T. S. Eliot came to see me, Guglielmo degli Alberti & Julette [sc. Juliette] Huxley & Djuna Barnes. It was ashey. Djuna B. is very attractive to look at, but Oh! so American. So far-far away .. & ignorant of England & History -- & all the things that makes up ones life, -- this separateness from ordinary cultivated Life that I suppose makes their queer Degenerate Life fruitful – […] T.S.E. came & these two talked together without any reference to me – which I consider Rude … & Juliette would carry on a silly Twittering conversation with Tom all tea time – ignoring us all. – Degli A. not much use – So I simply groaned after they had left. – Of course T. S. E. has never learnt English Good Manners …. as for instance Getting up if Ladies are standing -- & such little “Politesse” … I felt annoyed with him, & impatient with his High Church Dogmatism …. It means a man is cruel when he is against Divorce – No one who is against Divorce – can be kind hearted or Imaginative … I shan’t worry to see him again for a long time, -- He isn’t worth it – Not as a friend -- … He may be worth it as a Poet.’

15.SirGrierson, Sir Herbert Herbert Grierson (1866–1960), Knight Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University, was elected Rector in 1936; knighted in 1936; celebrated for his edition of The Poems of John Donne (2 vols., 1912) and Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century (1921) – which TSE reviewed in the TLS, 21 Oct. 1921. TSE’s address was delivered on Fri. 29 Oct.

16.In his Criterion ‘Commentary’, Jan. 1938, 254–9, TSE expressed misgivings about the implications of Lord Nuffield’s benefactions (which, as it was said by the Vice-Chancellor, were intended to meet the needs of ‘humanistic studies’ as much as the sciences), including the endowment of a new Nuffield College: ‘The increase of University machinery and activity, as distinct from that of the Colleges, may lead to the necessity of greater centralization of authority, and greater continuity of direction. The universities will thus tend to assimilate themselves to the provincial universities, and ultimately to the megalopolitan American universities … The finger points towards centralization, towards the further Americanization of Oxford, and perhaps further still: to the ultimate incorporation of Oxford, with Cambridge and the Scottish universities, into one vast system manipulated from Whitehall.’

17.SirLindsay, Sir Ronald Ronald Lindsay (1877–1945), British diplomat; Ambassador to the USA, 1930–9.

18.See Wyndham Lewis, Blasting and Bombardiering (1937), 270–6.

Adam Smiths, the,
Aiken, Conrad, TSE dreads seeing, his depressing bohemian existence,

1.ConradAiken, Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), American poet and critic: see Biographical Register.

Baillie, Very Revd John, and Union Theological Seminary discussion, inspects Revelation contribution, as Edinburgh host, TSE leaves pyjamas with, at inaugural Moot meeting, Our Knowledge of God,

3.VeryBaillie, Very Revd John Revd John Baillie (1886–1960), distinguished Scottish theologian; minister of the Church of Scotland; Roosevelt Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Seminary, New York, 1930–4; and was Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh University, 1934–59. In 1919 he married Florence Jewel Fowler (1893–1969), whom he met in service in France during WW1. Author of What is Christian Civilization? (lectures, 1945). See Keith Clements, ‘John Baillie and “the Moot”’, in Christ, Church and Society: Essays on John Baillie and Donald Baillie, ed. D. Fergusson (Edinburgh, 1993); Clements, ‘Oldham and Baillie: A Creative Relationship’, in God’s Will in a Time of Crisis: A Colloquium Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Baillie Commission, ed. A. R. Morton (Edinburgh, 1994).

Barnes, Djuna, GCF against publishing Nightwood, calls on TSE, Nightwood prepared for press, surprises TSE at OM's, TSE's exhausting lunch with, introduced to JDH, sends TSE ribs of beef,

1.DjunaBarnes, Djuna Barnes (1892–1982): American novelist, journalist, poet, playwright; author of Ryder (1928); Nightwood (her masterpiece, 1936); Antiphon (play, 1958). See ‘A Rational Exchange’, New Yorker, 24 June and 1 July 1996, 107–9; Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts, ed. Cheryl J. Plumb (1995); Miriam Fuchs, ‘Djuna Barnes and T. S. Eliot: Authority, Resistance, and Acquiescence’, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 12: 2 (Fall 1993), 289–313. Andrew Field, Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnes (1983, 1985), 218: ‘Willa Muir was struck by the difference that came over Eliot when he was with Barnes. She thought that the way Barnes had of treating him with an easy affectionate camaraderie caused him to respond with an equally easy gaiety that she had never seen in Eliot before.’ See Letters 8 for correspondence relating to TSE’s friendship with Barnes, and with her friend, the sassy, irresistible Emily Holmes Coleman, and the brilliant editing of Nightwood.

Browne, Elliott Martin, meets TSE at Chichester, production of The Rock, meets TSE over possible collaboration, talks over outline of play, meets TSE with Martin Shaw, delighted with Rock choruses, discusses unwritten pageant scenes with TSE, predicament as The Rock's director, well connected in amateur circles, revising into the night with TSE, argues with Shaw at dress-rehearsal, presented to Prince Arthur, honoured by Rock cast-supper, producing Gordon Bottomley's play, speaks at Londonderry House with TSE, 1935 Canterbury Murder in the Cathedral, approached by TSE to 'produce', consulted throughout composition, goes silent, lunches with TSE and Speaight, directs and acts despite illness, pursues London Murder revival, 1935–6 Mercury Theatre Murder revival, engaged as producer by Dukes, keen that EH attend rehearsals, simultaneously part of BBC production, agrees about Speaight's decline, preferred as producer for TSE's next play, and Charles Williams's Cranmer, in which he plays 'the Skeleton', and TSE attend Tenebrae, taken to Cambridge after-feast, producing York Nativity Play, which TSE thinks Giottoesque, at Savile Club Murder dinner, producing Shakespeare's Dream, and Ascent of F6, and Tewkesbury Festival Murder confusion, 1939 production of The Family Reunion, due to be sent script, weighing TSE's proposal that he produce, enthused by script, suggests TSE see Mourning Becomes Electra, against Family Reunion as title, pleased with draft, quizzed on fire-safety, typescript prepared for, new draft submitted to, rewrite waits on, receives new draft, criticisms thereof, reports John Gielgud interest, mediates between Gielgud and TSE, TSE throws over Gielgud for, secures Westminster Theatre production, steps into company breach, then into still-greater breach, and the play's weaknesses, direction of Family Reunion, receives TSE's Shakespeare lectures, 1938 American Murder tour, re-rehearsing actors for, suffers fit of pre-tour gloom, yet to report from Boston, and Tewkesbury pageant, accompanies TSE to La Mandragola, on Family Reunion's future prospects, and possible Orson Welles interest, war leaves at loose end, advises TSE over next play, war work with Pilgrim Players, unavailable for modern-dress Murder, compared to tempter/knight successor, requests Pilgrim Players' play from TSE, New Plays by Poets series, as director, and This Way to the Tomb, and Family Reunion revival, urges TSE to concentrate on theatre, 1946 Mercury Family Reunion revival, in rehearsal, possible revue for Mercury Theatre, and The Lady's Not for Burning, Chairman of the Drama League, 1949 Edinburgh Cocktail Party, to produce, TSE's intended first reader for, receives beginning, approves first act, receives TSE's revisions, communciates Alec Guinness's enthusiasm, arranges reading, surpasses himself with production, in Florence, EH suggests moving on from, and the Poets' Theatre Guild, 1950 Cocktail Party New York transfer, compares Rex Harrison and Alec Guinness, TSE debates whether to continue collaboration with, suggests three-play TSE repertory, 1953 Edinburgh Confidential Clerk, receives first two acts, designing sets, 1953 Lyric Theatre Confidential Clerk, attends with TSE, 1954 American Confidential Clerk, 1954 touring Confidential Clerk, TSE and Martin Browne catch in Golders Green, seeks Family Reunion MS from EH,
see also Brownes, the Martin

4.E. MartinBrowne, Elliott Martin Browne (1900–80), English director and producer, was to direct the first production of Murder in the Cathedral: see Biographical Register.

Burnt Norton, its Kensington origins, the moment in the rose-garden, opening sent to EH, TSE too moved to write, its composition a form of communion with EH, epigraphs from Heraclitus, 'our' first poem, as 'quartet', all but final lines please TSE, obscurity of, 'Garlic and sapphires' explained, 'about' EH, TSE forced into after-dinner reading of, TSE closes Edinburgh reading with, reprinted in shilling form, as 'Cotswolds poem', sales, most difficult quartet to record, and Alice in Wonderland,
Caetani, Marguerite (née Chapin), described for EH, potential guardian for VHE, and TSE's 1933 Paris trip, saga of unsettled debts, pedigree, and EH's trip to Rome, lacks definite nationality, and TSE's abortive Italian mission,

4.MargueriteCaetani, Marguerite (née Chapin) Caetani, née Chapin (1880–1963) – Princesse di Bassiano – literary patron and editor: see Biographical Register. LéliaCaetani, Lélia Caetani (1913–77), sole daughter, was to marry Hubert Howard (1908–87), a scion of the English Catholic House of Howard, who worked to preserve the Caetani heritage at Rome and at the castle of Sermoneta.

Cheetham, Revd Eric, TSE's rent to, as landlord at 9 Grenville Place, asks TSE to be churchwarden, to which TSE agrees, invited to Sweeney Agonistes, taken ill, offers prayers for EH's passage, his pageant for Mothers' Union, on London colds, given wine for Christmas, possible flatmate, pleased to welcome EH, advice in case of fire, unfolds tale of French holiday, and St. Stephen's wartime finances, remembers TSE's birthday, indifferent to rationing, during Blitz, paid to house TSE's books, starts lending library in tube, living in modern penthouse, TSE drafts testimonial letter for, hosts TSE in penthouse, his testimonial, requests TSE's presence for Bishop of London, by whom he is chastened, and Elvaston Place, exhausted by war, prevented from giving TSE customary birthday greeting, one of TSE's few intimates, TSE on, hounded by Time, and the Bishop of Tokyo, retires under doctor's orders, TSE's outgoing tribute and succession, apparently in Hong Kong, leaves affairs in a mess, insouciant letter to parishioners,

4.RevdCheetham, Revd Eric Eric Cheetham (1892–1957): vicar of St Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Road, London, 1929–56 – ‘a fine ecclesiastical showman’, as E. W. F. Tomlin dubbed him. TSE’s landlord and friend at presbytery-houses in S. Kensington, 1934–9. See Letters 7, 34–8.

Cooper, (Alfred) Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich, gets TSE's bye-election vote, and Lady Haig, at The Literary Society, his resignation, his resignation, for which TSE congratulates him, and wife at Meurtre gala,

6.AlfredCooper, (Alfred) Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick (1890–1954), since 1937, First Lord of the Admiralty.

Criterion, The, its monthly meetings fatigue TSE, introduced TSE to Whibley, arrangements in TSE's absence, first contributors' meeting since Monro's death, 1932 contributors' gathering, first contributors' gathering of 1934, Russell Square gathering for, particularly heavy gathering, its gatherings dreaded, to be wound up, reflections on ending, shut up against contributions, lamented even in Brno, letters of condolence, reading poetry submissions for, July 1931, 'Commentary', April 1932, laborious 'Commentary', July 1932, 'Commentary', October 1932, 'Commentary', October 1933, 'Commentary' on Irving Babbitt, prepared on holiday, July 1934, 'Commentary', January 1935, TSE ordering, October 1935, 'Commentary', 'Commentary', which TSE regrets as too personal, July 1936, possibilities for 'Commentary', October 1936, being made up, being finalised, to be ordered, January 1937, prepared in August 1936, April 1937, 'Commentary', July 1937, 'Commentary', January 1938, 'Commentary' on Nuffield endowments, which is sparsely well received, April 1938, 'Commentary', July 1938, 'Commentary', January 1939, to be final issue, 'Last Words',
Cursiter, Phyllis Eda,

5.StanleyCursiter, Stanley Cursiter (1887–1976), Orcadian artist; Director of National Galleries of Scotland, 1930–48. HisCursiter, Phyllis Eda wife was the Scottish violinist Phyllis Eda Hourston (1888–1974).

Cursiter, Stanley,

5.StanleyCursiter, Stanley Cursiter (1887–1976), Orcadian artist; Director of National Galleries of Scotland, 1930–48. HisCursiter, Phyllis Eda wife was the Scottish violinist Phyllis Eda Hourston (1888–1974).

'Development of Shakespeare's Verse, The', TSE reading Shakespeare in preparation, composition and revision, as lectured, Morley comments on, Granville-Barker, Wilson and Martin Browne sent, sent to EH, who seeks permission to recite, revised again for Bristol, refashioned for Stockholm, bibliographic details of,
Family Reunion, The, and TSE as Orestes, plot sought for, progress stalled, referred to as 'Orestes play', written against countdown to war, should be artistically a stretch, plot still not settled on, begun, compared to Murder, TSE on writing, described (mid-composition), and Gunn's Carmina Gadelica, described to GCF, EH questions Harry's entrance, draft read to Martin Brownes, projected autumn 1938 production, depletes TSE, and Mourning Becomes Electra, its Greek inheritance, alternatively 'Follow the Furies', first draft promised to EH, as inspired by Tenebrae, being rewritten, work suspended till summer, fair copy being typed, waiting on Browne and Dukes, 'Follow the Furies' quashed by EH, aspires to be Chekhovian, Dukes keen to produce, criticised by Martin Browne, under revision, submitted to EH's theatrical wisdom, for which TSE credits her, possible John Gielgud production, Gielgud-level casting, Browne's final revisions, with the printers, Henry loaned draft, Donat and Saint-Denis interested, in proof, progress towards staging stalled, Saint-Denis interest tempered, possible Tyrone Guthrie production, possible limited Mercury run, its defects, publication scheduled, first draft sent to EH, Michael Redgrave interested in, March 1939 Westminster Theatre production, waits on terms, rehearsals for, which are photographed, opening night contemplated without EH, last-minute flutters, opening night, reception, coming off, TSE's final visit to, Dukes bullish on New York transfer, EH spurs TSE's reflections on, and Otway's Venice Preserv'd, American reception, and Orson Welles, F&F's sales, 1940 American production, Henry harps on the personal aspect, its cheerfulness, EH acknowledges part in, 1943 ADC production, in Dadie Rylands's hands, described, certain lines expressing TSE's frustrations, EH discusses with pupils, plays in Zurich, 1946 Birmingham production, 1946 Mercury revival, rehearsals for, opening night, TSE attends again in company, Spanish translation of, VHE's death calls to mind, its deficiencies, BBC Gielgud broadcast version, first aired, to be repeated, goes nominally with The Cocktail Party, Swedish National Theatre production, compared to Cocktail Party, EH's response to, more 'personal' than Cocktail Party, performed in Göttingen, 1950 Düsseldorf production, 1953 New York production vetoed, 1956 Phoenix Theatre revival, described, Peter Brook congratulated on, Martin Browne seeks MS of,
Findlay, Dame Harriet,

7.DameFindlay, Dame Harriet Harriet Findlay (1880–1954) was a political activist and philanthropist; widow of Sir John Findlay, 1st Baronet (1866–1930), who was the principal partner in Messrs John Ritchie & Co., proprietors and publishers of The Scotsman.

flowers and flora, aconite, at Shamley, imagined in Cambridge, azaleas, summon memories of EH, bamboo, imagined by TSE in California, bluebells, in Shamley Wood, bourgainvillea, imagined by TSE in California, cactus, imagined by TSE in California, carnations, from Chipping Campden, catkins, at Shamley, celandine, spotted at Shamley, chrysanthemums, TSE prefers to roses, cowslips, at Shamley, crocuses, at Shamley, imagined in Cambridge, gladioli, sent to EH in TSE's name, hawthorn ('may'), summons memories of EH, heliotrope, enclosed in letter from Christine Galitzi, hibiscus, imagined by TSE in California, laburnum, summons memories of EH, lilacs, in Russell and Woburn Squares, summon memories of EH, lilies-of-the-valley, delivered to EH on the Samaria, Michaelmas daisies, around Pike's Farm, palms, imagined by TSE in California, primroses, and the English spring, at Shamley, pussy-willow, at Shamley, rhododendrons, summon memories of EH, roses, in autumn, sent to EH on birthday, from Chipping Campden, left by EH in TSE's Grenville rooms, their emotionally disturbing scent, given to TSE as EH's parting gift, for EH's birthday, snowdrops, at Shamley, sweet peas, and EH's performance in Hay Fever, effect of their scent on TSE, no longer painful to TSE, delivered to EH, TSE buys himself at Gloucester Road, cheer TSE up, the essence of summer, sent to Aunt Edith, violets, EH gives TSE as buttonhole, emotionally disturbing, left by departing EH, wisteria, summons memories of EH, Wood anemone, at Shamley, yew, sprig picked for TSE by EH, zinnias, TSE prefers over roses,
Grieg, Sir Robert,

11.SirGrieg, Sir Robert Robert Greig, MC (1874–1947), Scottish agriculturalist; Chair of the Scottish Board of Agriculture, 1921–8; Secretary to the UK Department of Agriculture, 1928–34.

Grierson, Sir Herbert, Festschrift essay for, his Rectorial address, described for EH, remarries, evening in Edinburgh with, in TSE's reckoning,

15.SirGrierson, Sir Herbert Herbert Grierson (1866–1960), Knight Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University, was elected Rector in 1936; knighted in 1936; celebrated for his edition of The Poems of John Donne (2 vols., 1912) and Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century (1921) – which TSE reviewed in the TLS, 21 Oct. 1921. TSE’s address was delivered on Fri. 29 Oct.

Hale, Emily, visits the Eliots for tea, returns to Boston, likened to TSE's mother, TSE identifies with her 'reserve', encouraged to write for periodicals, visits West Rindge, summers in Seattle, presents herself as cossetted, blames herself for an unfulfilled life, returns to Boston, consulted over TSE's Norton Professorship, holidays in Castine, vacations in New Bedford, TSE fears accident befalling, travels to stay in Seattle, Frank Morley on Ada on, arrives in California, brought to tears by music, goes horse-riding, baited over how to boil an egg, TSE passes old school of, takes motoring holiday via San Francisco, summers in Seattle, TSE composes squib for, takes TSE's hand in dream, returned to California, TSE sends Harvard Vocarium record, holidays in West Rindge, returns to Boston before embarking for England, arrives in England, to travel to Paris, returns to London, feels inferior to 'brilliant society', invited to Sweeney Agonistes rehearsal, attends Richard II with TSE, attends Sweeney Agonistes, takes TSE to Gielgud's Hamlet, taken to see Stravinsky conducting, leaves for Italy, takes tea at OM's before leaving, mistaken for TSE's sister, returns to Florence, sails for the Riviera, returns from France, returns to Chipping Campden, to Guernsey with Jeanie McPherrin, taken to Henry IV on return, shares open taxi with TSE through Parks and Whitehall, and TSE attend The Gondoliers, visit to the Russian ballet, invited to Murder in Canterbury, and TSE attend 1066 And All That, taken to Tovaritch, and Morleys set for ballet, which she excuses herself from, criticised for flower-arranging, and TSE walk in the Cotswolds, feels inferior to Margaret Thorp, and TSE theatre-going with Thorps, taken to Timon of Athens, taken to Peer Gynt, visited at Campden for TSE's birthday, takes lodgings in Oxford, lodges at 19 Rosary Gardens, watches TSE read to Student Christian Movement, and TSE visit Kenwood House, dines with the Maritains, describes tea with the Woolfs, returns to America, visits Ada on Boston homecoming, possible career-move into politics, pays winter visit to Rindge, and Eleanor Hinkley attend New York Murder, moves to 154 Riverway with Perkinses, considers volunteering for charity, living at 5 Clement Circle, holidays in Cataumet, returns abruptly to Cambridge, recuperates in New Hampshire, moves to 240 Crescent St., Northampton, Mass., lectures at Concord, returns to Brimmer Street, returns to Boston during vacation, sails for England, in residence at Chipping Campden, travels to Yorkshire, returned to Chipping Campden, returns and moves to 22 Paradise Road, Northampton, Mass., spends Thanksgiving in Boston, stays at Hotel Lincolnshire with the Perkinses, vacations at New Bedford, visits New York, holidays in Charleston, as patron of school, returns to Northampton, sails for England, day at Windsor with TSE, fortnight at Campden with TSE, at Campden with TSE again, returns to America with 'Boerre', ordered to stay in America in case of war, given Family Reunion draft with her comments, encouraged to write drama criticism, vacations in New Bedford, advises TSE against Tewkesbury choruses, holidays with the Havenses, sails for England, at Chipping Campden, stays with the Adam Smiths in Scotland, returns to America with Perkinses, safely returned, sent copy of TSE's daily prayers, sent first CNL, sends TSE selected American plays, holidays in New Bedford, spends Easter in Harwichport, holiday destinations, holidays in Cape Cod, returns to the Perkinses at 90 Commonwealth Avenue, stays with Elsmiths in Woods Hole, holidays on Grand Manan, visits Perkinses in Boston, returns to 90 Commonwealth Avenue, holidays in Madison, Wisc., travels on to Maine, holidays on Grand Manan, holidays in Bangor, Maine, as president of S. P. C. A., spends Christmas holiday in New Bedford, holidays in Woods Hole, loans out her Eliotana, removes from Smith to the Perkinses, spends time in Maine, repairs to New Bedford, spends time in Tryon, N. C., returned to Boston, spends three days in New York, shares details of will, holidays on Grand Manan, leaves TSE portrait in event of predeceasing him, late summer in New Brunswick, vacations in New Bedford, repairs to New Bedford, resident in Millbrook, takes short holiday at 'Bleak House', holidays on Grand Manan, visits Woods Hole, visits New Bedford, holidays in New Bedford, spends holiday at Sylvia Knowles's, holidays in Dorset, Vt., holidays briefly in Farmington, holidaying on Grand Manan, TSE seeks Trojan Women translation for, moves to 9 Lexington Road, gives Christmas readings, congratulates TSE on OM, urges TSE not to despair at honours, spends Easter in Boston, race-relations and the WPA, sings Bach's B Minor Mass, removes from Concord to Andover, on life in Grand Manan, congratulates TSE on Nobel Prize, resident at 35 School Street, Andover, summers between Boston, Woods Hole, New Bedford and Grand Manan, recounts journey to Grand Manan, takes The Cocktail Party personally, then repents of doing so, post-Christmas stay in New Bedford, reports on Cocktail Party's opening, summers between Chocorua and Campobello, tours westward to California during summer holiday, attends British Drama League summer school, holidays in Grand Manan, asks TSE for occasional poem, week in the Virgin Islands, summers between Mount Desert and California, spends holidays in New Bedford, recuperates in New Bedford, returns, briefly to Chipping Campden, Eleanor Hinkley reports on, writes to EVE, sends EVE photograph of TSE, makes tour of Scandinavia, approaches TSE on Smith's behalf, which approach TSE declines, writes to TSE on GCF's death, moves back to Concord, pays visit to Seattle, reacts to TSE's death, writes to EVE, meets EVE, dies, appearance and characteristics, her shapely neck, TSE's memory for certain of her old dresses, particularly four dresses, which TSE then describes, TSE begs EH to describe her clothing, in silk, autumn 1930, costumed in a 'Titian wig', EH encouraged to gain weight, EH encouraged to tan, her Jantzen suit, TSE begs a slip of hair from, her gold-and-green tea gown, her Praxitelean nose, EH congratulated on 'perm', EH refuses TSE lock of hair, her voice, Guardsman dress, as a Botticelli Madonna, her hands, recommended skin-cream, 'new goldy dress', TSE inquires after, in TSE's dreams, 'new and nuder' swimsuit demanded, her black dress/red jacket outfit, dressed in blue, in charming black dress, her sense of humour, her New England conscience, the famous apricot dress, her hair, various dresses, EH's idea of new dresses, EH hair cut in the new style, blue dress worn following masque, as actor, as Olivia in Twelfth Night, in the Cambridge Dramatic club, as Roxane in Cyrano in 1915/16, as Judith Bliss in Hay Fever, EH considers giving up for teaching, in the 'stunt show' with TSE, as Beatrice, TSE hopes, in The Footlight Club, in Berkeley Square, in The Yellow Jacket, EH praised over Ruth Draper, under Ellen van Volkenburg, cast as an octogenarian, in The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, TSE speculates as to her future in, and teaching, as Lady Bracknell, TSE begs to write part for, in The Footlight Club, potentially in summer theatre company, as the Duchess of Devonshire, potentially in The Family Reunion, Cambridge Dramatic club reunion, The Wingless Victory, in masque with TSE, in a Van Druten play, as Lodovico Sforza, in play by Laurence Housman, as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, with Paul Stephenson, in Kind Lady, joins the Dorset Players, as director ('producer'), La Locandiera, Lady Gregory's The Dragon, Dust of the Road, Comus, possibly temporarily at St. Catherine's, Va., chorus work at Smith, Electra, Quality Street, The Merchant of Venice, Dear Brutus, Christmas play, Richard II, Hay Fever, Christmas pantomime, The Dorset Players, a reading of Outward Bound, Molnár's The Swan, Dulcy, The School for Scandal, Fanny and the Servant Problem, Dear Brutus again, Twelfth Night, Prunella, Christmas play, Antigone, The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, The Admirable Crichton, Holy Night, The Tempest, as teacher, EH lectures on 'Modern British Verse', as a career, at Milwaukee-Downer College, Mich., at Simmons College, Boston, EH considers post at Scripps, which she accepts, arrives at Scripps, establishes drama workshop at Scripps, EH lectures on TSE, EH's advice that TSE lecture less slowly, as described by Scripps student, and being admired by students, TSE sees her teaching as a kind of acting, requests year's leave from Scripps, resigns position at Scripps, declares intention to teach again, possibly, temporarily, at St. Catherine's, Va., possibly at Smith, post at St. Catherine's rejected, appointed to position at Smith, is installed at Smith, reappointed with pay-rise, reappointed again for two years, her work at Smith, unsettled at Smith, in time of war, insecure over job at Smith, from which EH takes 'sabbatical', let go by Smith, takes job at Concord Academy, appointed to post at Bennett Junior College, Millbrook, appointment to permanent Concord position, EH thinks of giving up, lectures on Family Reunion, her work at Concord Academy, resignation from Concord Academy, takes permanent position at Abbot, EH admits to being sheltered by, retirement from Abbot, according to Abbot Academy tribute, birthdays, presents and love-tokens, EH's birthday compared to TSE's, TSE sends Terry–Shaw correspondence for EH's birthday, EH sends TSE pomme purée, present from EH, flowers for EH's birthday arrive too soon, EH wearing TSE's ring, two rings bought for EH, EH bought typewriter, TSE 'cables' EH roses, TSE consults EH over potential present, TSE's second 'sapphire' ring for, EH refits new rings from TSE, TSE receives flowers for Christmas, EH given 'powder box' for Christmas, EH's present to TSE goes amiss, missing present (calendar) explained, EH left cigarettes by TSE, EH gives TSE cigarette case, TSE necklace-hunting for EH, pearls suggested for EH, EH bought sapphire bracelet, EH gives TSE a signet ring, EH bought blue-gray scarf, EH gives TSE silk handkerchiefs, TSE has signet ring engraved, further ring sought for EH, EH with TSE on his birthday, EH gives TSE initialled leather portfolio, TSE given ashtrays and matchbox, furs sought for EH, EH gives TSE stool, roses sent to EH on birthday, TSE given diary and hairbrush box, TSE given rosary and print, EH buys TSE towel rails, TSE receives diary for Christmas, 1810 ring bought for EH, EH buys TSE various ties, war means no flowers, EH's lapis lazuli ring, TSE neglects to cable EH, EH knits socks for TSE, which turn out large, EH sends TSE 'snowflake' socks, EH remembers TSE's birthday with reference to Shakespeare, TSE sent marmalade and liver-paste, EH writes poem for TSE's birthday, EH sends TSE provisions, EH loses sapphire from ring, diamond circlet given to EH in 1939, EH gives TSE socks for Christmas, TSE gives EH 'evening bag', EH unthanked for Christmas present, correspondence with TSE, TSE petitions EH to bestow on the Bodleian, TSE exalts as authoritative, TSE envisions as reading-group, the only writing TSE enjoys, TSE as Cyrano to EH's Roxane, TSE's dependence on, TSE's nights spent planning, TSE rereads with pleasure, the strain of interruption, switches to Air Mail, TSE on his decision to renew, TSE marks first anniversary of, keeps TSE sane, TSE hopes to telephone, TSE wishes to maintain when in America, EH would withhold from the Bodleian bequest, from which TSE tries to dissuade her, TSE violently dependent on, TSE begs EH that it be preserved, less exciting to EH than at first, TSE's horror of sounding sermonic, if such a correspondence were profitable, and TSE's respectful reticence, EH suggests entrusting to Willard Thorp, but subsequently explains she meant Margaret Thorp, EH's to do with as pleases, and the prospect of TSE writing every night, TSE still rereads with pleasure, excites TSE too much to write smoothly, compared with talking, phone call finally arranged, which finally takes place, EH importuned to write more, TSE promises three letters a week, EH refuses more than one, a solitude within a solitude, EH switches to typewriter, which TSE offers to buy, observed weekly by EH's students, flatters TSE most when EH writes undutifully, TSE's dread of EH rationing, TSE's efforts to moderate himself within, TSE imagines the unsealing of, TSE offers to cease, a place to vent one's feelings, TSE rebuked for 'intolerance' within, EH learns to type, hinders TSE from work, TSE on life before, third anniversary marked, thwarted by TSE's self-loathing, TSE doubts having pursued, restraints on TSE's ardour lifted, more constrained by day, TSE worries about burdening EH with, worth TSE getting home early for, by day, by night, TSE specially treasures recent 'love letters', more delightful since EH's reciprocation, and TSE's diminished ardour, switches to transatlantic airmail, constrained by war, opened by censor, and Shamley Green post-office, TSE apologises for, EH free to dispose of, within limits, particularly constrained by EH's letter of 1939, and the experience of delay, TSE equivocates on preserving, varied with airgraph, again, EH's to do with as she pleases, still intended for Bodleian, TSE chastened for short cables, TSE's letters 'undemonstrative and impersonal', post-war frequency, being and not being loving by letter, EH asks TSE to reduce, TSE criticised for following monthly injunction, TSE rebuked for impersonality, EH formally bequeaths to Princeton, TSE unfussed as to repository, TSE reiterates 50-year prohibition, TSE's worries as to future appearances, EH promises Princeton her statement on, promises letters with ten-year seal, attempts to shorten TSE's moratorium, which TSE refuses, which forces EH to relent, TSE encouraged to return EH's letters, EH deposits further material with Princeton, EH makes 'recording' for Princeton, EH renews plea to shorten moratorium, and is again refused, TSE destroys EH's letters, TSE repents of severe letter, which EH never receives, EH suspects TSE of destroying her letters, EH instructs Princeton to discard 'recording', EH ultimately respects TSE's wishes, EH on TSE's destruction of her letters, family, her father, her childhood compared to TSE's, TSE desires family history of, EH encouraged to keep younger company, EH's unity with parents, EH's relations with aunt and uncle, EH's relations with aunt and uncle, EH photographed with parents, and EH's obligations to, finances, health, physical and mental, admits to breakdown, TSE compares 'nightmares' with, TSE's desire to nurse, suffers neuritis, then neuralgia, recommended suncream, suffers arthritis, suffers with sinuses, her teeth, experiences insomnia, suffers 'hives', suffers crisis body and soul, feels depressed over Christmas, suffers neuralgia, suffers intestinal flu, has shingles, admitted to hospital, convalesces on Grand Manan, recuperates in Washington, Conn., photographs of, as a child, Edith Sitwellesque photograph, in 18th-century costume, in 18th-century French costume, in broad-brimmed 'picture' hat, TSE buys Kodak, in deck-chair, eating sandwich, in a car, 'the Beautiful one', which TSE has enlarged for his dressing-table, painful, because taken in the 'interim', in bacchanalian pose, 'Semitic', among young people, set 'Elizabeth' giggling, Diana Mannersesque, are mnemonic aids to TSE, kneeling beside can of flowers, TSE's favourite, with ordinarily sized hands, smoking in chair, as child with big ears, taken on TSE's arrival in Claremont, in Jane Austen fashion, in unfamiliar jacket, taken in autumn, with mother and father, as a child, in TSE's note-case throughout Blitz, in Wingless Victory, as child, in gold frame, in familiar jacket, taken with Boerre, surround TSE at Shamley, with baby, in a group, of EH's portrait, in sailor suit, all inadequate, carrying lamp, with Rag Doll, at Campobello, reading, Henry James, Letters from Baron Friedrich von Hügel to a Niece, All Passion Spent, Bubu de Montparnasse, F&F thriller, Eyeless in Gaza, Dante, Hopkins and Roosevelt, Henry Irving: The Actor and His World, relationship with TSE, TSE's first acquaintance with, its abnormality, runs to admiration from EH, and TSE's habitual reserve, its morality under examination, defended by TSE, its susceptibilities envisaged by TSE, EH admits estrangement within, and TSE's desire for intimacies, provokes sorrow and fury in TSE, confided to the Perkinses, Miss Ware and Father Underhill, TSE's chance to be frivolous, and the prospect of TSE's Harvard year, TSE dates first meeting to 1905, whereas EH dates to 1915, TSE's terror of renewing in California, teaches TSE true companionship, runs to a 'kiss', as perpetual progress and revelation, EH offered manumission from, if TSE were not married, seems more real for TSE's American year, TSE's reasons against marrying, TSE fears having misled over, EH again offered manumission from, EH writes to Ada concerning, EH blames TSE for his ardour, then apologises for blaming TSE, leads to unhappiness in EH, possible drain on EH's health, its perceived inequalities, pity and gratitude would corrupt, TSE conditionally promises marriage, TSE sees as an imposition on EH, potentially richer for meeting TSE's friends, EH 'kisses' TSE, EH rests head on TSE's shoulder, EH strokes TSE's face, as consubstantial union, TSE's love finally reciprocated, mutual embraces, EH kissed on the right foot, TSE favoured with birthday kiss, exhausting, should proceed without hope of marriage, TSE again regrets misleading EH, as one of mutual dependence, its unsatisfactions, its seasonal rhythm, but for VHE would be marriage, EH seeks post-war clarity on, and the prospect of VHE's death, following VHE's death, TSE reflects on the deterioration of, TSE reflects generally on, and men and women generally, according to Theresa Eliot, EH reflects on, since TSE discounted marriage, had TSE behaved differently in 1914, its new dispensation, source of mutual anguish, apropos of TSE's second marriage, EH's marriage regret, EH recoils from publicising, TSE re-evaluates, EH writes to EVE about, religious beliefs and practices, claims experience of 'vision', admits suffering spiritual crisis, goes on retreat, and TSE's definition of sainthood, compared to TSE's, professes to resent the Church, makes retreat to Senexet, the issue of communion, the possibility of confirmation, source of worry to EH, confronts TSE on religious differences, TSE on her 'Christian spirit', fears TSE considers her damned, TSE pointedly refrains from criticising, unclear to TSE, TSE's love for, and their conversation in Eccleston Square, declared, in 1915, and TSE's desire to be EH's spiritual possession, source of serenity to TSE, the strangeness of not broadcasting, first felt in 1913, recognised by TSE the night of Tristan und Isolde, TSE's reasons for not declaring in 1913, what TSE said instead of declaring, a pain of sorts, unconfided to friends, not immune to jealousy of EH's male friends, its passion tempered by religion, and the torment of resignation, defiled by possessiveness and anger, and a particular journey back from Pasadena, in light of California stay, increases his desire to quarrel with EH, TSE doubts decision to declare, eternally unconditional, shows TSE true meaning of tenderness, defined by TSE, violent, clarified and strengthened by Chipping Campden reunion, disquiets EH, obstructive to EH loving another, TSE initially relieved to find unrequited, queered by inexperience, TSE repents of over-prizing, startles TSE, like 'a burglar', strengthened and deepened, irrespective of physical beauty, finally reciprocated, ideal when unreciprocated, relieved only by poetry, as against love's travesties, as expressed in Burnt Norton, over time, apparently undimmed but dwarfed by war, and the first time TSE spoke EH's name, thwarted by question of divorce, EH questions, now better adjusted to reality, argument over communion challenges, would run to jealously but not marriage, as expressed in 1914 on Chestnut Hill, TSE's names, nicknames and terms of endearment for, 'Lady', 'Dove', 'My saint', 'Bienaimée', TSE's reason for calling her 'Dove', 'Isolde', 'My Lady', 'Emilie', 'Princess', 'Lady bird', 'Birdie', 'riperaspberrymouth', 'Emily of Fire & Violence', 'Bouche-de-Fraise', 'Bouch-de-Framboise', 'Raspberrymouth', not 'Wendy', 'Nightingale', 'Mocking Bird', 'Love', 'My true love', 'my Self', 'Emilia' and Shelley's Epipsychidion, 'my Own', 'Girl', 'Western Star', 'Darling', 'My Life', 'My Lamb', 'Beloved my Female', 'My own Woman', writings, an article on 'Weimar', letter to The Times about King's jubilee, account of communion at Beaulieu, EH asks to write about TSE, review of La Machine infernale, review of Dangerous Corner, a note for S. P. C. A., an 'epigram', 'Actors at Alnwick', 'An Etching', 'The Giocanda Smile', 'The Personal Equation in Spoken English', 'A Play from Both Sides of the Footlights', 'Summer Sunshine: A Memory of Miss Minna Hall', 'They flash upon the inward eye',
Hayward, John, in TSE's thumbnail description, his condition and character, what TSE represents to, VHE complains about TSE to, TSE's new chess-playing neighbour, meets EH over tea, hosts TSE, GCF and de la Mare, on EH, on EH (to TSE), gives TSE cigars for Christmas, calls EH TSE's 'sister', and the Dobrées on Boxing Day, and TSE play a prank on guests, backstage at The Times, taken for walk, on Jenny de Margerie, Empson, TSE and Sansoms call on, evening with Spender, Jennings and, exchanges Christmas presents with TSE, exchanges rare books with TSE, sends luxuries to convalescent TSE, TSE's only regular acquaintance, dines with TSE and Camerons, lent Williams's Cranmer, accompanied to the Fabers' party, hosts discussion about Parisian Murder, inspects French translation of Murder, and TSE's Old Buffers' Dinner, gives TSE bath-mitts, given wine for Christmas, one of TSE's dependents, at Savile Club Murder dinner, Empson takes TSE on to see, possible housemate, in second line of play-readers, walked round Earl's Court, and Bradfield Greek play, and TSE drive to Tandys, and TSE give another party, corrects TSE's Anabase translation, watches television with TSE, Christmas Day with, introduced to Djuna Barnes, meets Christina Morley, walk round Brompton Cemetery with, Hyde Park excursion with, moving house, at his birthday-party, honoured at F&F, displaced to the Rothschilds, where TSE visits him, among TSE's closest friends, his conversation missed, the prospect of Christmas without, excursions to Cambridge to visit, 'my best critic', gives TSE American toilet-paper, helps TSE finish Little Gidding, possible post-war housemate, protector of TSE's literary remains, foreseeably at Merton Hall, discusses plays with TSE, flat-hunting with, and Carlyle Mansions, his furniture, installed at Carlyle Mansions, further handicapped without telephone, undermines TSE's aura of poetic facility, irritates except in small doses, helps with adjustment of TSE's OM medal, at the Brighton Cocktail Party, hounded by Time, quid pro quo with TSE, arranges first-night party for Cocktail Party, arranges Confidential Clerk cast dinner, and TSE's Selected Prose, and TSE entertained by Yehudi Menuhin,

11.JohnHayward, John Davy Hayward (1905–65), editor and critic: see Biographical Register.

Huxley, Juliette (née Baillot), at the Eliots' tea-party, at OM's,
Joyce, James, appears suddenly in London, admired and esteemed by TSE, takes flat in Kensington, lunches with TSE at fish shop, gets on with Osbert Sitwell, GCF on, consumes TSE's morning, dines in company chez Eliot, obstinately unbusinesslike, bank-draft ordered for, indebted to Harriet Weaver, writes to TSE about daughter, his place in history, evening with Lewis, Vanderpyl and, TSE appreciates loneliness of, TSE's excuse for visiting Paris, insists on lavish Parisian dinner, on the phone to the F&F receptionist, TSE's hairdresser asks after, defended by TSE at UCD, for which TSE is attacked, qua poet, his Miltonic ear, requires two F&F directors' attention, anecdotalised by Jane Heap, part of TSE's Paris itinerary, in Paris, strolls with TSE, and David Jones, and EP's gift of shoes, his death lamented, insufficiently commemorated, esteemed by Hugh Walpole, TSE's prose selection of, Indian audience addressed on, TSE opens exhibition dedicated to, TSE on the Joyce corpus, TSE on his letters to, Anna Livia Plurabelle, Joyce's recording of, Dubliners, taught in English 26, Ulysses, modern literature undiscussable without, Harold Monro's funeral calls to mind, its true perversity, likened to Gulliver's Travels, F&F negotiating for, 'Work in Progress' (afterwards Finnegans Wake), negotiations over, conveyed to London by Jolas, 'very troublesome', new MS delivered by Madame Léon,
see also Joyces, the

1.JamesJoyce, James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish novelist, playwright, poet; author of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), Finnegans Wake (1939).

Knox, E. V., dinner in company with, and wife at Fabers' dinner, at Literary Society, and the Scottish spelling of 'Eliot',

2.E. V. KnoxKnox, E. V. (1881–1971), poet and satirist; editor of Punch, 1932–49.

Lascelles, Alan ('Tommy'), seated next to TSE, at TSE's investiture,

13.AlanLascelles, Alan ('Tommy') ‘Tommy’ Lascelles (1887–1981), courtier and civil servant; Assistant Private Secretary to George V, 1935–6; to Edward VII; and to George VI (by whom he was to be knighted in 1939); Private Secretary from 1943; Private Secretary to Elizabeth II, 1952–3.

Lewis, Wyndham, EH promised copy of portrait by, indebted to Harriet Weaver, famous evening with Joyce and, remembered in Paris, apparently numbers TSE among enemies, visiting Joyce in 1920 with, asks to paint TSE, TSE sitting for, portrait shown to EH, departed for America, and the fate of TSE's portrait, one of TSE's 'group', his sketch of TSE loaned to Henry, importunes another portrait, his portraits of TSE, second portrait acquired by Magdalene, TSE views first portrait in Durban, Blasting and Bombadiering, The Lion and the Fox,

7.WyndhamLewis, Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957), painter, novelist, philosopher, critic: see Biographical Register.

Lindsay, Sir Ronald,

17.SirLindsay, Sir Ronald Ronald Lindsay (1877–1945), British diplomat; Ambassador to the USA, 1930–9.

Maitlands, the, as TSE's Edinburgh hosts,
Morleys, the, join the Eliots in Eastbourne, TSE fears overburdening, go on holiday to Norway, more TSE's friend than VHE's, return from Norway, life at Pike's Farm among, reading Dickens aloud to, their Thanksgiving parties, suitable companions to Varsity Cricket Match, and TSE to Laughton's Macbeth, TSE's June 1934 fortnight with, and certain 'bathers' photographs', and TSE play 'GO', attend Richard II with EH, TSE's New Years celebrated with, take TSE to Evelyn Prentice and Laurel & Hardy, TSE's return from Wales with, TSE's September 1935 week with, leave for New York, one of two regular ports-of-call, see EH in Boston, safely returned from New York, TSE reads Dr Johnson to, compared to the Tandys, add to their menagerie, reiterate gratitude for EH's peppermints, in Paris with TSE, give TSE copy of Don Quixote, and Fabers take TSE to pantomime, and TSE's Salzburg expedition, join Dorothy Pound dinner, visit Hamburg, have Labrador puppies, dinner at Much Hadham for, TSE to see them off at Kings Cross, seem unhappy in America, Thanksgiving without, in New Canaan, return to Lingfield, remember TSE's birthday, difficulties of renewing friendship with,
Morrell, Lady Ottoline, on Dr Roger Vittoz, chez Eliot to meet Nora Joyce, on tea with the Eliots, first impression of Joyce, on TSE as 'modern', on the Eliots and the Hinkleys, the Eliots to tea with, which she records, invited to dinner chez Eliot, which she describes, religion debated at tea given by, where Ralph Hodgson meets TSE, on the Eliots' old-fashioned party, described, by request, for EH, met TSE through Bertrand Russell, invites the Eliots to meet Walter de la Mare, gives tea-party for Yeats, at which the Eliots are described, dines chez Eliot, at the Eliots' tea party, lightning rod for VHE's misinformation, stirred up by Gordon George, attacks After Strange Gods, on the gralloching of After Strange Gods, on TSE as friend, gives TSE vintage jewellery tips, invites EH and TSE to tea, on EH, discusses Yeats with TSE, at Sweeney Agonistes, gives tea-party attended by EH, requests tête-à-tête with TSE, and the Group Theatre, to visit Viceroy of India, departs for India, pushiness in medical matters, dressing Indian on her return, intimidates GCF, EH invited to tea with, petitioned on Barker's behalf, issues TSE with Irish introductions, debriefed on Ireland, gives TSE customary diary, complains of Yeats over tea, between convalescence and Italy, and Dr Karl Martin, dies, TSE her final guest,
see also Morrells, the

4.LadyMorrell, Lady Ottoline Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938), hostess and patron: see Biographical Register.

National Theatre, The, questioned in principle, and TSE's January 1938 'Commentary', and their Public Relations Committee, TSE resists overtures from,
Normand, Wilfrid,

4.WilfridNormand, Wilfrid Normand – Baron Normand, PC, KC (1884–1962) – Scottish Unionist Party politician (MP, 1931–5) and judge: from 1935, Lord President of the Court of Session; appointed Law Lord in 1947.

Oxford University, TSE's time at, and English intellectual hierarchy, TSE dreams of professorship at, refreshingly austere, how it miseducates, in TSE's memory, TSE's student literary club at, and the Nuffield endowments, TSE's Romanes Lectures nomination, awards TSE honorary degree,
Peck, James Wallace,

6.JamesPeck, James Wallace Wallace Peck (1875–1964), civil servant and local government officer; from 1936, Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Education Department. Knighted in 1938. HisPeck, Winifred (née Knox) wife Winifred Peck, née Knox (1882–1962), novelist and biographer; her siblings included E. V. Knox, editor of Punch, and the theologian Ronald Knox. Her Faber publications included The Warrielaw Jewel (1933) and They Come, They Go: The story of an English Rectory (1937).

Peck, Winifred (née Knox),

6.JamesPeck, James Wallace Wallace Peck (1875–1964), civil servant and local government officer; from 1936, Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Education Department. Knighted in 1938. HisPeck, Winifred (née Knox) wife Winifred Peck, née Knox (1882–1962), novelist and biographer; her siblings included E. V. Knox, editor of Punch, and the theologian Ronald Knox. Her Faber publications included The Warrielaw Jewel (1933) and They Come, They Go: The story of an English Rectory (1937).

Perkinses, the, likely to be interested in An Adventure, compared to Mary Ware, enjoyable dinner at the Ludlow with, take to TSE, TSE desires parental intimacy with, their dinner-guests dismissed by TSE, who repents of seeming ingratitude, TSE confides separation plans to, too polite, questioned as companions for EH, offered English introductions, entertained on arrival in London, seek residence in Chichester, given introduction to G. C. Coulton, take house at Chipping Camden, as Chipping Campden hosts, given introduction to Bishop Bell, TSE entertains at Oxford and Cambridge Club, TSE's private opinion on, TSE encourages EH's independence from, their repressive influence on EH, buy TSE gloves for Christmas, sent Lapsang Souchong on arrival in England, invite TSE to Campden, move apartment, anticipate 1938 English summer, descend on EH in Northampton, and EH's wartime return to America, temporarily homeless, enfeebled, EH forwards TSE teenage letter to, their health, which is a burden, approve EH's permanent Abbot position,
Phillimore, Stephen, Archdeacon of Middlesex,

12.ThePhillimore, Stephen, Archdeacon of Middlesex Hon. Stephen Phillimore, MC (1881–1956), Archdeacon of Middlesex, 1933–53.

Pound, Ezra, within Hulme's circle, at The Egoist, indebted to Harriet Weaver, epistolary style, on President Lowell, TSE recites for Boston audience, distinguished from Joyce and Lawrence, TSE's reasons for disliking, attacks After Strange Gods, as correspondent, needs pacification, and TSE's possible visit to Rapallo, recommended to NEW editorial committee, anecdotalised by Jane Heap, of TSE and David Jones's generation, his strange gift to Joyce recalled, delicacies of his ego, Morley halves burden of, lacks religion, his letters from Italy censored, one of TSE's 'group', indicted for treason, TSE on his indictment, his legal situation, correspondence between TSE and Bernard Shaw concerning, visited by TSE in Washington, defended by TSE in Poetry, Osbert Sitwell on, his treatment in hospital protested, his insanity, TSE's BBC broadcast on, The Pisan Cantos, TSE writes introduction for, TSE chairs evening devoted to, further efforts on behalf of, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, 'The Seafarer',
see also Pounds, the

3.Ezra PoundPound, Ezra (1885–1972), American poet and critic: see Biographical Register.

Richmond, Oliffe Legh,

3.OliffeRichmond, Oliffe Legh Legh Richmond (1881–1977), Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; from 1919, Professor of Humanity (Latin), Edinburgh University.

Scotland, and Scottish architecture, its peoples more diverse than England's, TSE hopes to visit again, TSE on haggis, compared to Wales and the Welsh, Scottish food, TSE on, the Scottish, dominate life on Laetitia, Highlanders versus Lowlanders, Ayrshire, Ballachulish, Culloden, Dollar, Clackmannshire, Dumfries, Edinburgh, TSE's lecture in, Galloway, Glasgow, obscurely glimpsed, TSE's 1942 trip to, Inverary, Inverness, Kirkudbright, Stirling, the Borders, the Highlands, TSE's 1933 journey through, the Lowlands,
Seaverns, Helen, finally dines with TSE, teaches TSE card games, bearer of EH's Christmas present, charms TSE, hosts TSE and the Perkinses, entertained by TSE, TSE hesitates to confide in, and Perkinses dine with TSE, to tea with TSE, seeks advice from TSE on transatlantic tourism, her comforts equivalent to Mappie's, houses EH on 1939 arrival, an old spoiled child, disburdens herself over tea, laments life in Hove, removed from grandchildren,

3.HelenSeaverns, Helen Seaverns, widow of the American-born businessman and Liberal MP, Joel Herbert Seaverns: see Biographical Register.

Smith, (Alice) Lilian,

9.(AliceSmith, (Alice) Lilian) Lilian Smith (ca. 1867–1949), daughter of Sir George Buchanan, wasSmith, Sir George Adam wife of Sir George Adam Smith (1856–1942), Hebrew and Old Testament scholar, and Principal of the University of Aberdeen, 1909–35. As well as their house in Balerno, their main home was at Barcaldine Castle, Connel, Argyll.

Smith, James Cruickshank,

10.JamesSmith, James Cruickshank Cruickshank Smith (1867–1946), Chief Inspector of Schools in Scotland, 1927–32; acting Chair of English Literature, Edinburgh, 1932–3. Author of editions of Shakespeare and of Spenser; as well as A Critical History of English Poetry (with H. J. C. Grierson, 1944).

Smith, Norman Kemp,

8.NormanSmith, Norman Kemp Kemp Smith (1872–1958), Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh, 1919–45. Noted for his translation of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (1929).

Smith, Sir George Adam,

9.(AliceSmith, (Alice) Lilian) Lilian Smith (ca. 1867–1949), daughter of Sir George Buchanan, wasSmith, Sir George Adam wife of Sir George Adam Smith (1856–1942), Hebrew and Old Testament scholar, and Principal of the University of Aberdeen, 1909–35. As well as their house in Balerno, their main home was at Barcaldine Castle, Connel, Argyll.

Society of the Sacred Mission, Kelham Hall, Nottinghamshire, TSE's September 1933 stay with, TSE's January 1934 weekend at, TSE invited to annual festivities, TSE's June–July 1935 stay, TSE spends night at, TSE's November 1938 weekend at, compared to Mirfield, October 1939 visit, compared to weekend in Sussex,
Tandys, the, TSE's Hampton weekends with, TSE's weekend in Newhaven with, as family, welcome baby daughter, compared to the Morleys, move to new Hampton home, host TSE for Guy Fawkes night, give TSE pipes for Christmas, versus the de la Mares, take large Dorset cottage, host TSE in Dorset, their situation in Dorset, accompanied to Alice in Wonderland,
Tovey, Sir Donald,

2.SirTovey, Sir Donald Donald Tovey (1875–1940), musicologist, composer, conductor, and pianist; Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh; noted for his Essays in Musical Analysis as well as editions of works by Bach and Beethoven.

Wilson, John Dover, TSE bones up on, as TSE's host in Edinburgh, receives TSE's Shakespeare lectures,

4.JohnWilson, John Dover Dover Wilson (1881–1969), literary and textual scholar; Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, Edinburgh, 1935–45. Renowned as editor of the New Cambridge Shakespeare, 1921–66. His writings include The Essential Shakespeare (1932); The Fortunes of Falstaff (1943); and Shakespeare’s Happy Comedies (1962).

Wood, Edward, 3rd Viscount Halifax (later 1st Earl of Halifax), at The Literary Society, 'wooden', rumoured to be pro-German, his position post-Anschluss, subtler than Churchill, references The Waste Land,

5.EdwardWood, Edward, 3rd Viscount Halifax (later 1st Earl of Halifax) Wood, 3rd Viscount and later 1st Earl of Halifax (1881–1959), distinguished Conservative politician; Viceroy of India, 1926–31; Foreign Secretary, 1938–40; British Ambassador in Washington, 1941–6. See Andrew Roberts, The Holy Fox: The Life of Lord Halifax (1991, 2019).