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14 Alexander Street, Princeton, New Jersey, engaged for TSE, later inhabited by Randall Jarrell, TSE's first impressions of,
14 Elvaston Place, London, TSE takes furnished room at, described, TSE removing himself from,
19 Carlyle Mansions, London, TSE's tour of no. 14, its Chelsea environs, TSE on settling down at, its post-war condition, refurbishments to, described, almost habitable, TSE installed at, joined by JDH, TSE's first home for years, servant problems, redecorated, TSE's possessions remain at, no longer TSE's address,
22 Paradise Road, Northampton, Massachusetts, EH moves to,
23 Russell Square, London, TSE thinks of moving to, unready for occupation, TSE and Fabers move into, too cramped for permanent residence, temperature of, home to Cat Morgan, following explosion,
24 Russell Square, London, TSE's stay at,
2635 Locust Street, St. Louis, TSE's childhood in, remembered,
3 Kensington Court Gardens, London, TSE and EVE take residence at,
35 School Street, Andover, Massachusetts, set aside for EH, not yet ready,
51 Gordon Square, London, the Eliots nearly move to, the heart of Bloomsbury society,
57 Chester Terrace, London, as a financial burden, TSE hopes to be divested of,
68 Clarence Gate Gardens, London, potential swap for 51 Gordon Square, compared to Gordon Square, and St. Cyprian's Church, VHE leases for herself,
83 Crescent Street, Northampton, Massachusetts, EH resident at,
9 Church Green, Concord, Massachusetts, EH's address,
9 Grenville Place, London, compared to Courtfield Road, TSE's rent for, described for EH, delights TSE, as refuge, and Burnt Norton, tea-party for Perkinses at, TSE's practical jokes at, in winter, as repository for TSE's books, EH's sojourns at, described by Virginia Woolf, sanctified by EH's presence, offered to Jeanie, adorned with photos of EH, evokes memories of childhood homecomings, likely to be sold,
9 Lexington Road, Concord, Massachusetts, EH moves to, EH's daily existence at, EH removing from,
Abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Burnham, TSE's stay at,
Abbot Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, offers EH short-term employment, EH's career at, EH on her situation at, offers EH permanent position, EH on joining, TSE offers signed books to, EH's wish to leave, EH on leaving, Eleanor Hinkley on EH at, EH's retirement from,
Abbott, Charles D.,

2.CharlesAbbott, Charles D. D. Abbott (1900–61), Director of Libraries at the University of Buffalo, 1935–60.
Abbott, Senda Berenson,

2.SendaAbbott, Senda Berenson Berenson Abbott, née Valvrojenski (1868–1954), a Lithuanian Jew by origin, was a sister of the art connoisseur and historian Bernard Berenson. At Smith College she was Director of the Gymnasium and Instructor of Physical Culture, introducing the first rules of women’s basketball and organising the first women’s college basketball game. In 1911 she married Herbert Vaughan Abbott, Professor of English at Smith College.
Abrahams, Harold,

4.HaroldAbrahams, Harold Abrahams (1899–1978), track and field athlete, won gold in the 100 metres sprint at the Paris Olympic Games 1924 (as depicted in the film Chariots of Fire, 1981); later a practising lawyer. While at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, 1919–23, he had been romantically involved with Christina Innes – who went on to marry Frank Morley.

 meets TSE at the Morleys,
Abyssinia Crisis, TSE asks EH for news of, TSE's opinion of Abyssinians, English public opinion on, debated by Keynes and Leonard Woolf, eventuates in war, and the League of Nations, Italian atrocities during,
Acheson, Dean,

11.DeanAcheson, Dean Acheson (1893–1971): Democrat politician; appointed by Harry S. Truman in 1945 as Undersecretary of the US Department of State, he was to be Secretary of State, 1949–53.
Acton, Sir Harold,

3.HaroldActon, Sir Harold Acton (1904–94), British historian, writer, poetaster and aesthete; son of a successful British art dealer and an American heiress; was educated at Eton College (where contemporaries included Cyril Connolly, Robert Byron, Ian Fleming, Anthony Powell, Steven Runciman, and Henry York (the novelist Henry Green) and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a friend of Evelyn Waugh. He lived for some time in Paris and in Beijing, and for many years at his childhood home, ‘La Pietra’ (just outside Florence). His writings include Peonies and Ponies (verse, 1941); Memoirs of an Aesthete (1948); The Bourbons of Naples (1734–1825) (1956); Nancy Mitford: A Memoir (1975); and The Last Medici (F&F, 1932).

 totem of expatriate decadence, dismissed,
actors and actresses, to be pitied, TSE on thespian withdrawal symptoms, enjoyable company of, English and German actresses compared, and the benefits of repertory, as readers of poetry, in Sweden,
Adam Smiths, the,
Adams, Fr Walter Frederick, SSJE,

2.FatherAdams, Fr Walter Frederick, SSJE Walter Frederick Adams, SSJE (1871–1952), of the Cowley Fathers, was for twelve years the confessor and spiritual director of C. S. Lewis.
Adams, James Luther,

12.JamesAdams, James Luther Luther Adams (1901–94), influential theologian and scholar, was minister of the Second Church, Unitarian, in Salem, Massachusetts, 1927–34. After a number of years with the faculty of the Unitarian and Universalist Meanville/Lombard Theological School, Chicago, he was appointed Professor of Christian Ethics at Harvard Divinity School, 1956–68.
Adams, John Quincy, letters censored by Eliot family member,
'Address to Members of the London Library, An',
Adrian, Max,

2.MaxAdrian, Max Adrian (1903–73), Irish stage, film and TV actor; founding member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. He became better known than Harris.
Ady, Cecilia,

1.CeciliaAdy, Cecilia Ady (1881–1958), an Oxford don, was to write, with TSE’s encouragement, The English Church and How It Works (F&F, 1940).
Afinogenov, Alexander, Distant Point: A Soviet Play,
Agar, Herbert,

3.HerbertAgar, Herbert Agar (1897–1980), eminent conservative American journalist and author. Educated at Columbia and Princeton (PhD, 1922), he spent the years 1929–35 in England, where he was literary editor of Douglas Jerrold’s English Review (he also wrote for Chesterton’s periodical G. K.’s Weekly). On returning to the USA, where he edited the Louisville Courier-Journal, he won distinction as an author. The People’s Choice, From Washington to Harding: A Study of Politics (1933) won the Pulitzer Prize 1934; and he edited (with Allen Tate) Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence (1936). Other major publications include Land of the Free (1935) and The Price of Union: The Influence of the American Temper on the Course of History (1950).

 frightens TSE,
Aiken, Conrad,

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

 TSE dreads seeing, his depressing bohemian existence,
Aiken, Mary Hoover,

4.MaryAiken, Mary Hoover Hoover Aiken, his third wife.

 wants TSE to sit for her, which he does,
'Aims of Education, The', finished, first lecture, second lecture, candidate for Reith Lectures, TSE rewriting,
Aims of Poetic Drama: The Presidential Address to the Poets’ Theatre Guild, The,
Ainley, Richard,

6.RichardAinley, Richard Ainley (1910–67), theatre and film actor; son of actor Henry Ainley (1879–1945).
Albert, Heinrich,

2.HeinrichAlbert, Heinrich Albert (1874–1960), German civil servant, businessman and diplomat (as Commercial Attaché to the USA in 1914–17, he was accused of espionage and sabotage). He opened his own law firm in 1924; and it was perhaps in his capacity as lawyer that he came to discuss with TSE Erich Alport’s claim that Stephen Spender was on the brink of libelling him in his novel ‘The Temple’, which Geoffrey Faber and TSE were interested in publishing with F&F.

 visits TSE,
alcohol, as pleasure, as temptation, as weakness, whisky as necessity, whisky as suppressant, as aid to sleep, and American Prohibition, the 'bedtime Guinness', too much sherry, whisky as medicine, at The Swan, Commercial Road, GCF's pillaged whisky, and buying cheap delicious wine, 'whisky' vs 'whiskey', erroneous belief about brandy, Guinness before Mass, asperity on port, at JDH and TSE's dinner, Château Latour 1874, Château Leoville-Poyferré 1915, fine wines at JDH's, wartime whisky, bottle of beer with wireless, 'dry sherry' and rationing,
Aldington, Richard,

3.RichardAldington, Richard Aldington (1892–1962), poet and critic; friend of TSE in the years immediately after WW1. Aldington’s Stepping Heavenward, with its caricatures of TSE and Vivien Eliot, Ottoline Morrell and Virginia Woolf, had been published on 12 Nov. 1931. See further Vivien Whelpton, Richard Aldington, vol. 1: Poet, Soldier and Lover 1911–1929; vol 2: Novelist, Biographer and Exile 1930–1962 (Cambridge, 2019).

 TSE on, 'Farewell to Europe', Stepping Heavenward,
Alexander, Field Marshal Harold, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis,

4.FieldAlexander, Field Marshal Harold, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891–1969): distinguished British Army officer; Governor General of Canada, 1946–52.
Alice, Princess, Countess of Athlone,

4.PrincessAlice, Princess, Countess of Athlone Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883–1981): last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria. Her husband was Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874–1957), Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, 1923–30; Governor-General of Canada, 1940–6.
All Souls Club, The, TSE joins, first dinner with, discussion vague at second dinner, even vaguer at third, to discuss 'Church, Community and State', discusses adult baptism, discusses the Edinburgh Conference, discusses church music, discusses war policy, discusses Encyclical, and Revd Duncan-Jones,
All Souls College, Oxford, and Isaiah Berlin's election to, evening with GCF at, over-represented in the Literary Society, lodges TSE, and the Fabers' property dealings, festivities at,
Allgood, Sara,

1.SaraAllgood, Sara Allgood (1879–1950), Irish actor.
Alliance Française, TSE British Federation council for, TSE gives lecture to, Maison Française opened in Oxford, where TSE stays, honours TSE with dinner, Annual Meeting in Birmingham, reception for French president, Annual Meeting in Newcastle, Annual Meeting at Brighton, TSE addresses in Edinburgh, council meeting of, Annual Meeting in Bristol,
Alport, Dr Erich,

1.DrAlport, Dr Erich Erich Alport (b. 1903), educated in Germany and at Oxford, was author of Nation und Reich in der politischen Willenbildung des britischen Weltreiches (Berlin, 1933). In the early 1930s Geoffrey Faber often sought his advice about German books suitable for translation into English.

 described, lunches with TSE, Cattaui and Roditi, calls on TSE, at the Eliots' tea-party,
Ament, William Sheffield,

2.WilliamAment, William Sheffield Sheffield Ament (1997–51), Professor of English, Scripps College.

 and TSE's UCLA lecture, earns TSE's gratitude,
America, TSE on not returning in 1915, and TSE as transatlantic cultural conduit, dependence on Europe, TSE's sense of deracination from, and the Great Depression, TSE a self-styled 'Missourian', as depicted in Henry Eliot's Rumble Murders, its national coherence questioned, its religious and educational future, versus Canadian and colonial society, where age is not antiquity, drinks Scotland's whisky, and FDR's example to England, underrates Europe's influence on England, redeemed by experience with G. I.'s, TSE nervous at readjusting to, and post-war cost of living, more alien to TSE post-war, its glories, landscape, cheap shoes, its horrors, Hollywood, climate, lack of tea, overheated trains, over-social clubs, overheating in general, perplexities of dress code, food, especially salad-dressing, New England Gothic, earthquakes, heat, the whistle of its locomotives, 'Easter holidays' not including Easter, the cut of American shirts, television, Andover, Massachusetts, EH moves to, Ann Arbor, Michigan, TSE on visiting, Augusta, Maine, EH stops in, Baltimore, Maryland, and TSE's niece, TSE engaged to lecture in, TSE on visiting, Bangor, Maine, EH visits, Bay of Fundy, EH sailing in, Bedford, Massachusetts, its Stearns connections, Boston, Massachusetts, TSE tries to recollect society there, its influence on TSE, its Museum collection remembered, inspires homesickness, TSE and EH's experience of contrasted, described by Maclagan, suspected of dissipating EH's energies, EH's loneliness in, Scripps as EH's release from, possibly conducive to TSE's spiritual development, restores TSE's health, its society, TSE's relations preponderate, TSE's happiness in, as a substitute for EH's company, TSE's celebrity in, if TSE were there in EH's company, its theatregoing public, The Times on, on Labour Day, Brunswick, Maine, TSE to lecture in, TSE on visiting, California, as imagined by TSE, TSE's wish to visit, EH suggests trip to Yosemite, swimming in the Pacific, horrifies TSE, TSE finds soulless, land of earthquakes, TSE dreads its effect on EH, Wales's resemblance to, as inferno, and Californians, surfeit of oranges and films in, TSE's delight at EH leaving, land of kidnappings, Aldous Huxley seconds TSE's horror, the lesser of two evils, Cannes reminiscent of, TSE masters dislike of, land of monstrous churches, TSE regrets EH leaving, winterless, its southern suburbs like Cape Town, land of fabricated antiquities, Cambridge, Massachusetts, TSE's student days in, socially similar to Bloomsbury, TSE lonely there but for Ada, TSE's happiness in, exhausting, EH's 'group' in, road safety in, Casco Bay, Maine, TSE remembers, Castine, Maine, EH holidays in, Cataumet, Massachusetts, EH holidays in, Chicago, Illinois, EH visits, reportedly bankrupt, TSE on, TSE takes up lectureship in, its climate, land of fabricated antiquities, Chocurua, New Hampshire, EH stays in, Concord, Massachusetts, EH's househunting in, EH moves from, Connecticut, its countryside, and Boerre, TSE's end-of-tour stay in, Dorset, Vermont, EH holidays in, and the Dorset Players, Elizabeth, New Jersey, TSE on visiting, Farmington, Connecticut, place of EH's schooling, which TSE passes by, EH holidays in, Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, EH recuperates in, Gerrish Island, Maine, TSE revisits, Hollywood, perceived debauchery of its movies, TSE's dream of walk-on part, condemned by TSE to destruction, TSE trusts Murder will be safe from, Iowa City, Iowa, TSE invited to, Jonesport, Maine, remembered, Kittery, Maine, described, Lexington, Massachusetts, and the Stearns family home, Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, visited by EH, Madison, Wisconsin, Aurelia Bolliger hails from, Ralph Hodgson sails for, EH summers in, as conceived by TSE, who eventually visits, Maine, its coast remembered by TSE, TSE recalls swimming off, Minneapolis, on EH's 1952 itinerary, TSE lectures in, New Bedford, Massachusetts, EH's holidays in, TSE's family ties to, New England, and Unitarianism, more real to TSE than England, TSE homesick for, in TSE's holiday plans, architecturally, compared to California, and the New England conscience, TSE and EH's common inheritance, springless, TSE remembers returning from childhood holidays in, its countryside distinguished, and The Dry Salvages, New York (N.Y.C.), TSE's visits to, TSE encouraged to write play for, prospect of visiting appals TSE, as cultural influence, New York theatres, Newburyport, Maine, delights TSE, Northampton, Massachusetts, TSE on, EH settles in, TSE's 1936 visit to, autumn weather in, its spiritual atmosphere, EH moves house within, its elms, the Perkinses descend on, Aunt Irene visits, Boerre's imagined life in, TSE on hypothetical residence in, EH returns to, Peterborough, New Hampshire, visited by EH, TSE's vision of life at, Petersham, Massachusetts, EH holidays in, TSE visits with the Perkinses, EH spends birthday in, Edith Perkins gives lecture at, the Perkinses cease to visit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, TSE on, and TSE's private Barnes Foundation tour, Independence Hall, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, surrounding countryside, Portsmouth, Maine, delights TSE, Randolph, New Hampshire, 1933 Eliot family holiday in, the Eliot siblings return to, Seattle, Washington State, EH summers in, EH's situation at, TSE prefers to California, EH repairs to post-Christmas, EH visits on 1952 tour, EH returns to, Sebasco, Maine, EH visits, South, the, TSE's first taste of, TSE's prejudices concerning, St. Louis, Missouri, TSE's childhood in, TSE's homesickness for, TSE styling himself a 'Missourian', possible destination for TSE's ashes, resting-place of TSE's parents, TSE on his return to, the Mississippi, compared to TSE's memory, TSE again revisits, TSE takes EVE to, St. Paul, Minnesota, TSE on visiting, the Furness house in, Tryon, North Carolina, EH's interest in, EH staying in, Virginia, scene of David Garnett's escapade, and the Page-Barbour Lectures, TSE on visiting, and the South, Washington, Connecticut, EH recuperates in, West Rindge, New Hampshire, EH holidays at, White Mountains, New Hampshire, possible TSE and EH excursion to, Woods Hole, Falmouth, Massachusetts, TSE and EH arrange holiday at, TSE and EH's holiday in recalled, and The Dry Salvages, TSE invited to, EH and TSE's 1947 stay in, EH learns of TSE's death at,
see also American Presidential Election
American Embassy in London,
'American Literature and the American Language',
American Presidential Election, 1936, TSE favours Roosevelt, 1944, 1952, TSE's English perspective on, 1956, and American foreign policy,
American Women's Club of London,
Amery, Leo,

7.LeoAmery, Leo Amery (1873–1955), distinguished Conservative Party politician and journalist.

 in English Review, friend of F. W. Bain,
Amherst College, hosts TSE's poetry-recital,
Anabasis, JDH's help with,
Anderson, John,

2.JohnAnderson, John Anderson (1882–1958): British civil servant and politician; independent Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities, 1939–40; Lord President of the Council, 1940–3; and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1939–45. Created 1st Viscount Waverley in 1952.
Anderson, Mary,

4.MaryAnderson, Mary Anderson (1859–1940), successful American stage actor who married in 1890 an American sportsman and barrister named Antonio Fernando de Navarro (1860–1932); they settled in Broadway, Worcs. (near Chipping Campden). Anderson published two volumes of memoirs, neither published by F&F.

 F&F offered memoir of,
Anderson, Maxwell,

2.MaxwellAnderson, Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959), American playwright, author and journalist; winner of the Pulitzer Prize 1933 for the satire Both Your Houses. Some of his plays are written in blank verse, including Mary of Scotland (1933); Winterset (1935); The Wingless Victory (1936). Wingless Victory was the play EH was to act in.

 The Wingless Victory,
Andrewes, Katharine Day,

Little’sAndrewes, Katharine Day first wife (m. 1911), was Katharine Day Andrews, who bore three children: the couple divorced in 1929. In 1930, Little married Beatrice Winifred Johnson (1899–1973), a scientific researcher who worked as his laboratory assistant: they had two children.
Andrewes, Lancelot, TSE examines PhD on,
Angioletti, Giovanni Battista,

6.GiovanniAngioletti, Giovanni Battista Battista Angioletti (1896–1961), novelist and journalist; editor from 1929 of Italia letteraria; correspondent for Corriere della Sera; founder-editor of Trifalco, 1930. Novels include Il giorno del giudizio (1928, Bagutta Prize); La memoria (1949; Strega Prize); I grandi ospiti (1960; Viareggio Prize). Founder of the European Community of Writers.

 dinner-party for,
Anglican Club of the University of London, TSE's speech to,
Anglo-Catholic Congress, Elizabeth, New Jersey, TSE speaks at,
Anglo-Catholic Summer School of Sociology, TSE addresses,
Anglo-Swedish Society, addressed in Sweden, then in London, prints TSE London speech, Strindberg Centenary formalities at,
'Animula', and TSE's childhood,
Annie (the Fabers' housemaid), plays prank on TSE,
Anouilh, Jean, quoted, as playwright, Antigone, Medée,
Anrep, Helen,

11.BorisAnrep, Helen Anrep 1883–1969), Russian mosaicist. Helen Anrep, 48 Bernard Street, Russell Square, W.C.1., whose marriage to Anrep had failed, became Fry’s companion for life.
Anschluss, the, response to,
anti-Semitism, and Marie von Moritz, and Mosley, within TSE's racial hierarchy, in After Strange Gods, and Mosley's Albert Hall rally, and Nazi persecution in Vienna, and the prospect of immigration, and EP, in South Africa,
Apollinaire, Guillaume, TSE chairs lecture on,
appearance (TSE's), 'pudding-faced', TSE remembers wearing make-up, of a third-rate actor, likened to a crook, of a Chicago magnate, of a dissipated movie actor, of a debauched British statesman, hair-style, lobster-skinned, of a brutal Roman emperor, of a superior comic actor, of Maurice Evans, proud of his legs, wart on scalp, baldness, 'in spots', unlikely treatment for, 'as a bat', worsened by travel, due to worry, may require wig, in retreat, reasserts itself, confines TSE to single barber, eyes, dark, damaged by teeth-poisoning, figure, 'obese', altered by war, hernia, described, deferred operation for, recovery from, nose, the Eliot nostril, a Norman nose, too thin for pince-nez, teeth, 'nothing but chalk', EH severe on the state of, 'stumps', blamed for hair-loss, liable to be removed, blamed for rheumatism, false upper plate, plate reconstructed, state of, new false teeth, keystone tooth removed, remaining upper teeth removed, new plate,
'Approach to James Joyce, The', written for Indian audience, admired by EH,
Apthorp, Harrison Otis,

5.RichardCobb, Richard Cobb was Head of Milton Academy, 1904–10. HisApthorp, Harrison Otis immediate predecessor was Harrison Otis Apthorp (1857–1905), Head of Milton, 1887–1904.
Aquinas Society,
Ara Vos Prec, inscribed to EH in 1923, inscription from Dante explained,
Arab–Israeli War, 1948,
Archbishop of York's Conference, Malvern 1941, paper prepared for, occasion recounted, proceedings to be published,
Ardrey, Robert, Thunder Rock,
Ariel Poems, recited at Wellesley,
Aristophanes, Eirene, Frogs, Lysistrata,
Aristotle, on character versus plot,
Arlen, Michael,

6.MichaelArlen, Michael Arlen (1895–1956) – born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, in Armenia – was a naturalised British writer of novels, short stories, plays, screenplays. For some reason, TSE disliked him.
Arlington St. Church, Boston, TSE's student place of worship, versus Unitarianism in St. Louis,
Armstrong, Profressor A. J.,

1.TSEArmstrong, Profressor A. J. had been approached out of the blue on 17 Oct. by Professor A. J. Armstrong, of the Dept of English Language and Literature at Baylor University (a Baptist foundation) of Waco, Texas, with the request that he undertake to place a wreath on the tomb of Robert Browning in Westminster Abbey at 12.30 on 12 Dec. 1951, the anniversary of the poet’s death. Armstrong (1873–1954) had taught at Baylor since 1908, serving for forty years (1912–52) as Head of the Department of English Language and Literature. Having become friendly with Browning’s son, Robert Barrett (Pen) Browning in Italy in 1909, he aspired to gather together a world-beating collection of the poet’s works, manuscripts, letters and related materials: and he fulfilled this obsessive self-imposed task with such indefatigable passion that by the 1940s he had assembled the best Browning collection in the world. The President of Baylor University nominated $1.75 million towards a building to house the collection on campus, on the understanding that Armstrong would raise the huge balance required for the completion of the project. The Armstrong Browning Library was ultimately opened in 1951. See further Scott Lewis, Boundless Life: A Biography of Andrew Joseph Armstrong (2014).
Arnold, Matthew, discussed with student, poets' symposium on, TSE regrets attacking, recommended for EH's 'criticism' course,
Arnold, Revd Harold G.,

9.RevdArnold, Revd Harold G. Harold G. Arnold, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, invited TSE on 20 Feb. to speak to the Boston Association of Ministers. TSE responded, ‘I should be very glad to oblige the Boston Association of Ministers in any way that I can. I confess, however, that my real difficulty, as, if I may say so, a rather fanatical Catholic, is what subject I could talk about to such an Association.’ TSE delivered his address, ‘The Modern Dilemma’, on 3 Apr. – ‘the Unitarians … did not discuss my paper at all,’ he told Paul Elmer More (18 May), ‘but attacked me for not being a Papist’ – and repeated it on 10 Apr. for the Clerical Association of Massachusetts in Jamaica Plain (‘who behaved like a very amiable tar-baby’): CProse 4, 810–16.
Arthur, Prince, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn,

3.PrinceArthur, Prince, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850–1942), seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

 TSE presented to,
Arts Theatre, Cambridge, stages On the Frontier,
Ash Wednesday, inspired by EH, TSE recites after dinner, OM compares to Anna Livia Plurabelle, recited at Wellesley, inscribed to Scott Fitzgerald, its imperatives self-directed, TSE explains, TSE's last uncommissioned poem, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields recital, which TSE gives from pulpit, TSE cross-examined by child on, recorded for BBC,
Ashbee, C. R.,

1.C. R. AshbeeAshbee, C. R. (1863–1942), architect and designer; charismatic leader of the Arts and Crafts movement that took inspiration from the works of John Ruskin and the socialism of William Morris. The ‘Ashbee Memoirs’ (which were too enormous for F&F to contemplate publishing at this time) are now housed in the Library of King’s College, Cambridge.

 courted by TSE over memoirs,
Ashcroft, Peggy,

3.PeggyAshcroft, Peggy Ashcroft (1907–91), celebrated British stage actor, was at this time married to the barrister Jeremy Hutchinson (son of TSE’s old friends St John and Mary Hutchinson).

 in line to play Mary, at Merton Hall supper, in The Duchess of Malfi, and The Cocktail Party,
Ashton, Frederick,

5.FrederickAshton, Frederick Ashton (1904–88), British ballet dancer and choreographer; trained by Léonide Massine and Marie Rambert, he was chief choreographer for Ninette de Valois at the Vic-Wells Ballet, Sadler’s Wells and the Royal Ballet. Works include Façade (1931), Symphonic Variations (1946) and Enigma Variations (1968). Knighted in 1962; CH, 1970; OM, 1977.

 to produce Yeats,
Asquith, Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn,
Association of Bookmen of Swansea and West Wales, paper prepared for, itinerary for TSE's address to, engagement undertaken at GCF's instance, lecture recounted,
Astor family, rumoured to be pro-German,
Astor, Nancy, Viscountess, invites TSE to Bernard Shaw lunch, reputedly pro-German, and the Abdication Crisis,
Athenaeum, The, TSE's decision not to assist Murry, stepping stone to TLS, TSE's experience of weekly reviewing,
Attlee, Clement,

11.ClementAttlee, Clement Attlee (1883–1967), distinguished British politician, served as Leader of the Labour Party from 1935, and took part in Winston Churchill’s wartime coalition government, 1940–5, serving in Cabinet first as Lord Privy Seal and from 1942 as Deputy Prime Minister. After winning a landslide victory for Labour in July 1945, Attlee was Prime Minister until 1951. With the British economy being virtually bankrupt in the postwar era, he set about trying to generate a massive recovery of the economy, as well as introducing social and public services reforms. His major achievements included the passing of the National Insurance Act (1946), the introduction of the National Health Service (1948), and the nationalisation of public utilities including coal and electricity: his vision of the state supporting people from cradle to grave came to be realised, along with significant steps towards decolonisation of countries including India and Pakistan.

 Leonard Woolf situates within Labour, compared to Churchill as orator,
Auden, Wystan Hugh ('W. H.'),

10.W. H. AudenAuden, Wystan Hugh ('W. H.') (1907–73), poet, playwright, librettist, translator, essayist, editor: see Biographical Register.

 and EP's 'Seafarer', TSE sends EH Poems, TSE recites 'To Gabriel Carritt', remembered by Ethel Swan, as dramatist, and Yeats's Mercury Theatre plans, Holmesian prank devised for, Doone wants for Westminster Theatre, collaborative efforts lamented by TSE, talks films at JDH's, strays from F&F, preoccupied with Byron and Barcelona, TSE on 'Letter to Lord Byron', as verse dramatist, away in Aragon for premiere, and Isherwood's plays versus Spender's, forgets to thank Keynes, TSE on his Isherwood plays, condoles TSE over Sandburg accusation, in bad odour, in America, circulating drollery on latest book-title, as pictured by TSE in America, Journey to a War (with Isherwood), Letters from Iceland (with MacNeice), New Year Letter, On the Frontier (with Isherwood), Paid on Both Sides, The Ascent of F6 (with Isherwood), The Dance of Death, The Dog Beneath the Skin (with Isherwood),
Aulén, Gustaf,

8.Gustaf AulénAulén, Gustaf (1879–1977), Lutheran theologian; Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden; author of influential works including The Faith of the Christian Church (1923; trans. into English, 1948) and Christus Victor: A Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of Atonement (1930; English, 1931). His wife (m. 1907) was Kristine Björnstad. TSE to George Every, 27 May 1942: ‘I had a very happy day at Strangnass with Bishop Aulen and his family and liked them almost more than anyone I met in Sweden.’

 TSE visits in Sweden, at Nobel Prize ceremony,
Austen, Jane, buried at Winchester,
Austin, Charles,

4.CharlesAustin, Charles Austin (1878–1944), celebrated music hall comedian.
Austin, Henry Wilfred ('Bunny'),

12.HenryAustin, Henry Wilfred ('Bunny') Wilfred (‘Bunny’) Austin (1906–2000), British tennis player.

 TSE watches at Wimbledon,
'Author and Critic',
Authors' Club, The, addressed at Howson's instance, 'Author and Critic',
autumn, quickens, disturbs, irritates, at Pike's Farm, in Kensington versus Massachusetts, at Shamley,
Aydelotte, Frank,
Ayer, A. J. ('Freddie'),

5.A. J. ‘FreddieAyer, A. J. ('Freddie')’ Ayer (1910–89), philosopher, logical positivist, humanist, atheist; Lecturer in Philosophy, Christ Church, Oxford, 1933–40; Grote Professor of Mind and Logic, University College London, 1946–59; Wykeham Professor of Logic, New College, Oxford, 1959–78. His influential works include Language, Truth and Logic (1936) and The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge (1940). Knighted 1970.

 at Elizabeth Bowen's,
Aylward, James de Vine,

1.JamesAylward, James de Vine de Vine Aylward (1870–1966) had been a colleague at Lloyds Bank; author of The Small-Sword in England: Its History, its Forms, Its Makers, and its Masters (1946); The House of Angelo: A dynasty of swordsmen, with special reference to Domenica Angelo and his son Henry (1953). TSEAylward, James de VineTSE on;a1 to Hayward, 29 Nov. 1939: ‘J. de V., up to August 1914, was a fairly successful portrait painter of horses, though of course not in the runnings with Munnings … [He] became my second in the Foreign Intelligence Bureau, because he was the only man in the Colonial and Foreign Department who could read French and German except myself.’

 TSE on, TSE on Order of Merit to, retires to Cheshire,
Aymé, Marcel, Lucienne et le Boucher,
Babbitt, Dora D.,

1.DoraBabbitt, Dora D. D. Babbitt (1877–1944), wife of Irving Babbitt (1865–1933).

 TSE has sombre lunch with, obliged with note on late husband, ruled by late husband's tastes, EH attends reading-party of,
see also Babbitts, the
Babbitt, Irving,

2.IrvingBabbitt, Irving Babbitt (1865–1933), American academic and literary and cultural critic; Harvard University Professor of French Literature (TSE had taken his course on literary criticism in France); antagonist of Rousseau and romanticism; promulgator (with Paul Elmer More) of ‘New Humanism’. His publications include Literature and the American College (1908); Rousseau and Romanticism (1919); Democracy and Leadership (1924). See TSE, ‘The Humanism of Irving Babbitt’ (1928), in Selected Essays (1950); ‘XIII by T. S. Eliot’, in Irving Babbitt: Man and Teacher, ed. F. Manchester and Odell Shepard (1941): CProse 6, 186–9.

 compared to Paul More, 'considerably mellowed', ailing in bed, dies, More and TSE elegise, commemorated in Criterion, posthumous note on, likened to Reinhold Niebuhr, his attitude to TSE's poetry, compared to Maurras,
see also Babbitts, the
Babbitts, the, lunch with,
Babington, Margaret A.,

1.MargaretBabington, Margaret A. A. Babington was from 1928 Hon. Steward and Treasurer, Friends of Canterbury Cathedral; Hon. Festival Manager for the Festival of Music and Drama, 15–22 June 1935. See The Canterbury Adventure: An Account of the Inception and Growth of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral 1928–1959 (1960): Canterbury Papers no. 10. She negotiated with F&F the terms of the production of the first (abbreviated) performance of Murder in the Cathedral in the Chapter House, June 1935, and the publication of the theatre edition.

 and pre-Canterbury Murder negotiations, officiates at Canterbury Cathedral Festival, greets TSE as of old,
Bach, Johann Sebastian, at Chamber Music Club, Busch Quartet's Brandenburg, EH sings in B Minor Mass,
Bacon, Fr Philip G.,

2.FatherBacon, Fr Philip G. Philip G. Bacon, then of the Society of Retreat Conductors. Father Bacon (St Simon’s, Kentish Town, London) was to be quoted at the Requiem Mass for TSE at St Stephen’s, 17 Feb. 1965: ‘Eliot had, along with that full grown stature of mind, a truly child-like heart – the result of his sense of dependence on GOD. And along with it he had the sense of responsibility to GOD for the use of his talents. To his refinedness of character is due the fact that like his poetry he himself was not easily understood – but unbelievers always recognized his faith’ (St Stephen’s Church Magazine, Apr. 1965, 9).

 stands in as TSE's confessor, receives TSE's confession,
Badel, Paul Annet,

3.PaulBadel, Paul Annet Annet Badel (1900–85), a French businessman, purchased the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, proposing to use the venue as a jazz club. Yet he arranged the première at his theatre of Huis-Clos, by Jean-Paul Sartre (May 1944), and of Murder in the Cathedral (June 1945). His wife was Gaby Sylvia, née Gabrielle Zignani (1920–80), film and TV actor. See Marie-Françoise Christout, Noëll Guibert and Danièle Pauly, Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier 1913–93 (1993).
Badoglio, Pietro,

3.PietroBadoglio, Pietro Badoglio (1871–1956), Italian general and politician. Badoglio was the Italian Army chief of staff at the start of WW2 but was dismissed during the unsuccessful Italian invasion of Greece in 1940. In 1943, when Mussolini was deposed and Italy changed sides in the war, Badoglio became Italy’s Prime Minister and held office until mid-1944. Badoglio, a loyal fascist, had been responsible for atrocities in Italian Libya and during Italy’s conquest of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in the 1930s but never faced trial.
Bailiffscourt Hotel, TSE convalesces at,
Baillie, Very Revd John,

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).

 and Union Theological Seminary discussion, inspects Revelation contribution, as Edinburgh host, TSE leaves pyjamas with, at inaugural Moot meeting, Our Knowledge of God,
Bain, Francis William ('F. W.'),

1.F. W. BainBain, Francis William ('F. W.') (1863–1940), Fellow of All Souls, 1889–97; Professor of History and Political Economy at the Deccan College at Poona, India, where he was esteemed ‘not only as a professor but also as a prophet and a philosopher’, 1892–1919. An old-style High Tory, enthused by the writings of Bolingbroke and Disraeli, his works include The English Monarchy and its Revolutions (1894), On the Realisation of the Possible and the Spirit of Aristotle (1897), and a series of ‘Hindu love stories’ purportedly translated from Sanskrit originals. See K. Mutalik, Francis William Bain (Bombay, 1963).

 politically sympathetic, described for EH, relates his daughter's suicide,
Baker, George Pierce,

3.GeorgeBaker, George Pierce Pierce Baker (1866–1935) taught English at Harvard, where from 1905 he developed a pioneering playwriting course known as ‘Workshop 47’ that concentrated on performance and production rather than the literary text. This course extended, from 1914 to 1924, to an extracurricular practical workshop for playwrights called ‘47 Workshop’. From 1925 to 1933, he taught at Yale as professor of the history and technique of drama. Students included Hallie Flanagan, Eugene O’Neill and Thomas Wolfe. His influential publications include The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist (1907) and Dramatic Technique (1919). See Wisner Payne Kinne, George Pierce Baker and the American Theatre (1954).

 his Yale theatre-group,
Baker, Harold,

6.OnBaker, Harold Monday 25 July, TSE attended the ‘Domum Dinner’ at Winchester College, at the invitation of the Warden, Harold Baker. He spoke for less than ten minutes.
Baker, Josephine, pointed out to TSE,
Baldwin, Stanley,

4.StanleyBaldwin, Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947), Conservative Party politician; Prime Minister, 1923–4; 1924–9; 1935–7.

 and Whibley's memorial, parodied by Robert Nichols, friend to F. W. Bain, his retirement concerns TSE, responsibility for Munich, reminisces with TSE,
Balfour, Lady Rhoda,
Balfour, Sir Graham,
Bandler, Bernard,

5.BernardBandler, Bernard Bandler II (1905–93), co-editor of Hound & Horn. Born in New York, he gained an MA in philosophy from Harvard University, where he taught for two years before enrolling in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University: he was in practice for many years as psychiatrist and was a Professor at Boston University. His wife was Doris Kate Ransohoff (1911–96).
Bankhead, Tallulah,

4.TallulahBankhead, Tallulah Bankhead (1902–68), celebrated actor of stage and screen; had appeared to date in Tarnished Lady (1931), dir. George Cukor; Devil and the Deep (1932), with Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton and Cary Grant; and Faithless (1932), with Robert Montgomery.

 TSE invited to meet,
'Banquet Speech', in amongst Nobel proceedings,
Barclay, Sir Colville,

4.SirBarclay, Sir Colville Colville Barclay (1913–2010), diplomat, naval officer (WW2), artist and botanist.
Barea, Arturo, The Clash,
Barker, Ernest,

4.ErnestBarker, Ernest Barker (1874–1960), political scientist and author; Principal of King’s College, London, 1920–7; Professor of Political Science, Cambridge, from 1928. Knighted in 1944. See J. Stapleton, Englishness and the Study of Politics: The Social and Political Thought of Ernest Barker (Cambridge, 1994).
Barker, George,

1.GeorgeBarker, George Barker (1913–91), poet and author: see Biographical Register.

 OM importuned to support,
Barnard College, New York, TSE makes recording at,
Barnes, Albert C.,

10.AlbertBarnes, Albert C. C. Barnes (1872–1951), chemist, businessman, art collector and educator, made his fortune after developing, with a German colleague, a silver nitrate antiseptic called Argyrol, and then fortuitously selling his company at a profit in July 1929, a few months before the stock market crash. Thereafter he dedicated his energies to purchasing works of art – his collection eventually included some of the best works of Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso and Modigliani, as well as African-American art – and setting up the Barnes Foundation.

 confounds TSE's expectations,
Barnes, Djuna,

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.

 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,
Barnes, Ernest, Bishop of Birmingham,

3.ErnestBarnes, Ernest, Bishop of Birmingham Barnes (1874–1953), controversially liberal Bishop of Birmingham, 1924–53. An extreme modernist, he was later criticised for doubting the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection.

 too liberal for All Souls Club, and the Abdication Crisis,
Barnes, George,

2.EducatedBarnes, George at King’s College, Cambridge, George Barnes (1904–60) was assistant secretary at Cambridge University Press, 1930–5. In 1935 he joined the Talks Department of the BBC, becoming Director of Talks in 1941. Head of the Third Programme, 1946–8; Director of TV, 1950–6. From 1956 he was Principal of the University College of North Staffordshire. He was brother-in-law of Mary Hutchinson. Knighted 1953.

 dines with TSE on Christmas Eve, fusses over Metaphysical broadcast,
Barnes, James Stratchey,

9.JamesBarnes, James Stratchey Strachey Barnes (1890–1955), son of Sir Hugh Barnes. Brought up in Florence by his grandparents, Sir John and Lady Strachey, he went on to Eton and King’s College, Cambridge. During WW1 he served in the Guards and Royal Flying Corps. TSE to Sir Robert Vansittart, 12 Jan. 1939 (Letters 9, 16–17): ‘Barnes is the younger brother of an old friend of mine, Mrs St John Hutchinson … He wrote two books on Fascism … and was one of its earliest champions in this country. He was brought up in Italy (before going to Eton: he was subsequently in the Blues, then a Major in the Air Force, and at King’s after the War), has an Italian wife, and is the most convinced pro-Italian and pro-Fascist that I know. He is a Roman Catholic convert, and has or had some honorary appointment at the Vatican; but manages to combine this with a warm admiration for Mussolini, from which it follows that he has disapproved of British policy whenever that policy did not favour Italian policy … In private life he is rather a bore, and talks more than he listens, somewhat failing to appreciate that the person to whom he is talking may have other interests and other engagements.’ See too David Bradshaw and James Smith, ‘Ezra Pound, James Strachey Barnes (“the Italian Lord Haw-Haw”) and Italian Fascism’, Review of English Studies 64 (2013), 672–93.

 to dine chez Eliot, discussing Mosley with TSE,
Barrault, Jean-Louis,

4.Jean-LouisBarrault, Jean-Louis Barrault (1910–94): celebrated French stage and screen actor, director and mime; his triumphs include roles in classic and contemporary plays, and in the film Les Enfants du Paradis (1945). He starred at the St James’ Theatre in a five-week run of the comedy Les Fausses Confidences (‘False Confidences’, 1737), by Pierre de Marivaux (1688–1763).

 the Oliviers give party for,
Barrés, Maurice,
Barrés, Philippe,
Barrie, Sir James Matthew ('J. M.'),

5.SirBarrie, Sir James Matthew ('J. M.') James Barrie, Bt, OM (1860–1937), Scottish novelist and dramatist; world-renowned for Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up (1904).

 attends Whibley memorial lecture, and Whibley, and the original Peter Pan, described for EH, EH in play by, likened to John Buchan, his estate, Dear Brutus, Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals,
Barrington-Ward, Robert,

1.RobertBarrington-Ward, Robert Barrington-Ward (1891–1948), barrister and journalist; assistant editor of The Times from 1934; editor, 1941–8.
Barry, Geoffrey,

2.GeoffreyBarry, Geoffrey Barry.
Barry, Griffin,

4.TheBarry, Griffin American journalist Griffin Barry (1884–1957) fathered two children, Harriet (b. 1930) and Roderick (b. 1932), with the gifted radical feminist and experimental educator Dora Russell (1894–1986), second wife of Bertrand Russell. See Harriet Ward, A Man of Small Importance: My Father Griffin Barry (Debenham, Surrey, 2003).

 Bunny Wilson's cohabitant,
Barry, Iris,

2.IrisBarry, Iris Barry (1895–1969), Birmingham-born film critic and cinéaste, came to know Ezra Pound in London in the 1920s. With Wyndham Lewis, she had two children. She wrote on film for the Spectator, and for the Daily Mail, 1925–30; and co-founded the Film Society. After emigrating to the USA, she launched in 1932 the film study department of the Museum of Modern Art; she took American citizenship in 1941, and was a book critic for the New York Herald Tribune. Her publications include Splashing into Society (novel, 1923) Let’s go to the pictures (1926), and D. W. Griffith: American Film Master (1940). In 1923 she married the American poet Alan Porter (1899–1942) – author of a well-received collection, The Signature of Pain (1930) – who was working as assistant literary editor of the Spectator; but the marriage did not last. See further Leslie L. Hankins, ‘Iris Barry, Writer and Cinéaste: Forming Film Culture in London 1924–6: the Adelphi, the Spectator, the Film Society, and the British Vogue’, Modernism/modernity 11: 3 (2004), 488–515; Haidee Wasson, ‘The Woman Film Critic: Newspapers, Cinema and Iris Barry’, Film History 18: 2 (2006), 154–62.

 TSE on, on TSE,
Barrymore, Ethel,

2.EthelBarrymore, Ethel Barrymore (1879–1959) – legendary American star of stage and screen; hailed as the ‘First Lady of American Theatre’ – was present at the first night of The Cocktail Party in New York.

 at New York Cocktail Party premiere,
Bartek, Zenda,

6.HughPorteus, Hugh Gordon Gordon Porteus (1906–93), literary and art critic; author: see Biographical Register. HisBartek, Zenda partner was Zenka Bartek, who left him in 1944.
Bartók, Péter,

1.PéterBartók, Péter Bartók (1924–2020) – son of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók – was a recording and sound engineer.

 TSE records poems for,
Baruch, Bernard,

3.BernardBaruch, Bernard Baruch (1870–1965): wealthy and powerful American financier, stock investor, benefactor and statesman; adviser to Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Bateson, F. W., and John Peter's essay,
Bax, Clifford, The King and Mistress Shore,
Bayley, John,
Baylis, Lilian,

2.LilianBaylis, Lilian Baylis (1874–1937), English theatre producer; manager of the Old Vic and Sadler’s Wells theatres; an opera company (subsequently English National Opera) and a ballet company that was to become the Royal Ballet. She fostered the careers of numerous stars including John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike and Michael Redgrave.

 presented to Prince Arthur, criticised over The Rock, at Sadler's Wells meeting, TSE's valediction on,
Beach, Sylvia,

2.SylviaBeach, Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), American expatriate; proprietor (with Adrienne Monnier) of Shakespeare & Company, Paris, a bookshop and lending library. Her customers included James Joyce (she published Ulysses), André Gide and Ezra Pound: see Biographical Register.

 TSE's 'lecture de poésies' for, dinner in Paris with Gide and, thanks TSE,
Beachcroft, Thomas Owen ('T. O.'),

2.T. O. BeachcroftBeachcroft, Thomas Owen ('T. O.') (1902–88), author and critic. A graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, he joined the BBC in 1924 but then worked for Unilevers Advertising Service until 1941. He was Chief Overseas Publicity Officer, BBC, 1941–61; General Editor of the British Council series ‘Writers and Their Work’, 1949–54. His writings include Collected Stories (1946).

 last to leave Criterion gathering, accompanies TSE to Cranmer,
Beatrice, Princess of the United Kingdom,

6.PrincessBeatrice, Princess of the United Kingdom Beatrice (1857–1933), youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

 promises to read The Rock,
Beaumont, Hugh 'Binkie',

7.HughBeaumont, Hugh 'Binkie' ‘Binkie’ Beaumont (1908–73), noted theatre manager and producer; co-founder of H. M. Tennent company in 1936; close associate of the actor John Gielgud.

 party to Gielgud negotiations,
Beckett, Eric,

4.EricBeckett, Eric Beckett (1896–1966), international lawyer; joined the Foreign Office in 1925, where he rose to be Legal Adviser, 1945–53. Educated at Sherborne School and at Wadham College, Oxford; Prize Fellow of All Souls, 1921. His wife was Katharine Mary Richards, younger daughter of the lawyer Sir Henry Erle Richards: the elder daughter was Geoffrey Faber’s wife Enid. Beckett was a godfather to Tom Faber – as was TSE.
Bedale, Fr Stephen, SSM,

6.StephenBedale, Fr Stephen, SSM Bedale (1882–1961), Prior of the Society of the Sacred Mission.

 TSE on, approves 'Rannoch, by Glencoe',
Bédier, Joseph, Tristan et Iseult,
Beerbohm, Florence, Lady (née Kahn), 'overpowering' Southerner, in Roberts's Peer Gynt,
Beerbohm, Max, TSE invited to dine with, TSE misses funeral of,
Beethoven, Ludwig van, delights and awes TSE, TSE's favourite composer, TSE's authorial envy of, Jelly D'Aranyi plays, inspires Burnt Norton, Coriolan and 'Unfinished' Symphony, 3rd Symphony, 'Eroica' Symphony, 'Pastoral' Symphony, the 'Kreutzer' Sonata, 'Razumovsky' Quartet in F major, String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132,
Behrens, Margaret Elizabeth (née Davidson),

4.MargaretBehrens, Margaret Elizabeth (née Davidson) Elizabeth Behrens, née Davidson (1885–1968), author of novels including In Masquerade (1930); Puck in Petticoats (1931); Miss Mackay (1932); Half a Loaf (1933).

 comes to lodge at Shamley, tends to Shamley hens, mainstay of Shamley sanity, does not spoil her dog, takes refuge from Shamley's dogs, reports on poultry-feeding manuscript, sequesters dogs for TSE's recording, makes vatic pronouncements on Operation Overlord, cheers up Shamley, jeremiad on Shamley, introduces Violet Powell to TSE, in Ilfracombe, settled in Lee, during Christmas 1945, departing for Menton, visited in Menton,
Belgion, Montgomery,

4.MontgomeryBelgion, Montgomery (‘Monty’) Belgion (1892–1973), author and journalist: see Biographical Register.

 and Alida Monro dine chez Eliot, expensive club dinner with, accompanies TSE to Othello, and Charles Williams dine with TSE, accompanies TSE to Henry IV, Part II, to Garrigou-Lagrange lecture, takes TSE and Saurat to the Ivy, weekend's walking in Sussex with, in Criterion inner-circle, drink with Tom Burns and, accompanies TSE to Cranmer, and Mairet to lunch, accompanies TSE to Witch of Edmonton, arranges dinner for Murder, accompanies TSE to Uncle Vanya, to Measure for Measure, to Richard III, to Volpone, lonely, hosts dinner at Chinese restaurant, reviews Christian Society, on leave in London,
Bell, Angelica, present for Charleston visit,
Bell, Bernard Iddings,

3.BernardBell, Bernard Iddings Iddings Bell, DD (1886–1958), American Episcopal priest, author and cultural commentator; Warden of Bard College, 1919–33. In his last years he was made Canon of the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Chicago, and a William Vaughn Lecturer at the University of Chicago.

 TSE writes to Church Times about, recommended to EH, meets EH, subscribed to CNL, apparently anti-British, in Church Times contretemps, rebuked by TSE, reviews Christian Society, and America's position on war, sends TSE Four Quartets cutting, appears in London, TSE gives reading for, Preface to Religion,
Bell, Clive,

12.CliveBell, Clive Bell (1881–1964), author and critic of art: see Biographical Register.

 lunches TSE and the Woolfs, described for EH, another Bloomsbury lunch with, gossips with TSE, usual lunch marred by Lady Colefax, duels with TSE at dinner-party, gossiping again with TSE, during TSE's Charleston visit, dines with JDH, Garnett and TSE, hosts lunch-party,
Bell, George, Bishop of Chichester (earlier Dean of Canterbury),

4.RtBell, George, Bishop of Chichester (earlier Dean of Canterbury) Revd George Bell, DD (1883–1958), Bishop of Chichester, 1929–58: see Biographical Register.

 invites TSE to Chichester, to read 'Thoughts After Lambeth', Chichester visit described, consults TSE on extra-liturgical devotions, invites the Eliots for Whitsun, fancied for archbishopric, the Perkinses given introduction to, asks TSE to advise Archbishop, at anti-totalitarian church meeting, on Hitler's Germany, remains in Sweden after TSE, volunteers to guest-edit CNL, TSE's view of, convenes 'The Church and the Artist' conference, and Religious Drama Conference, as patron of the arts,
Bell, Henrietta Millicent Grace,
Bell, Kay,

6.KayBell, Kay Bell (1905–77), an associate editor of Vogue who took up portrait photography in the 1940s, married the publisher Eugene Reynal in 1947. Her candid image of TSE appears on the cover of Complete Poems and Plays 1909–1950 (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1952).
Bell, Mary Hayley, Men in Shadow,
Bell, Quentin, during TSE's Charleston visit,
Bell, Vanessa,

6.VanessaBell, Vanessa Bell, née Stephen (1879–1961) – sister of Virginia Woolf; wife of Clive Bell – was an artist, illustrator and designer; member of the Bloomsbury Group. See Frances Spalding, Vanessa Bell (1979).

 hosts TSE and Woolfs at Charleston, TSE relieved to be spared,
see also Stephens, the
Belvedere Hotel, 9 Grenville Place, TSE's Blitz headquarters, TSE recognised at,
Benét, William Rose,

1.WilliamBenét, William Rose Rose Benét (1886–1950), poet and editor, was associate editor of the New York Evening Post Literary Review, 1920–4; co-founder and editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, 1924–9. His works include the Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Dust Which Is God (autobiography in verse, 1941), and The Reader’s Encyclopedia (1948).
Benn, Sir Ernest,
Bennet-Clark, Elizabeth Constance,

7.ElizabethBennet-Clark, Elizabeth Constance Constance Bennet-Clark (1902–76), of Darby’s House, Chipping Campden, was a gardening friend of Edith Perkins.
Bennett, Arnold, commemorated by TSE, Gallup buys TSE's correspondence with, The Grand Babylon Hotel,
Bennett, Dilys,

1.DilysBennett, Dilys Bennett (1906–60), poet and author. Born in Wales, she married in 1936 Alexander Laing, a Dartmouth College academic, and became an American citizen. Works include Another England (New York, 1941) and The Collected Poems of Dilys Laing (Cleveland, 1967).

 TSE looks forward to meeting, then promises to consider poems by, which he delivers verdict on, then writes to,
Bennett, Vivienne, as Cassandra in Agamemnon, waits on JDH,
Benthall, Michael,

10.MichaelBenthall, Michael Benthall (1919–74), partner of Robert Helpmann; artistic director of the Old Vic, 1953–62.

 his revival of Murder,
Bentley, Nicholas,

2.TheBentley, Nicholas illustrator was Nicolas Bentley (1907–78), who worked at Shell publicity, together with Edward Ardizzone, Barnett Freedman, Rex Whistler, John Betjeman, Peter Quennell and Robert Byron, before getting his break as a book illustrator with Hilaire Belloc’s New Cautionary Tales (1930). His father was E. C. Bentley (inventor of the clerihew).

 his Cats illustrations,
Beran, Josef, and the 1949 Berlin Murder,
Berdyaev, Nikolai,

6.NikolaiBerdyaev, Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948), Russian religious and political philosopher; author of The End of Our Time (1933).
Berenson, Bernard,

2.BernardBerenson, Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art critic, connoisseur and collector, born in Lithuania and educated at Harvard. An expert on Renaissance art and a knowledgeable and influential adviser to the worlds of art dealership and gallery acquisition, he lived for most of his life at ‘I Tatti’, a splendid villa just outside Florence. His works include The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance (1894); The Drawings of the Florentine Painters (1938); Aesthetics and History in the Visual Arts (1948); Italian Painters of the Renaissance (1952).

 totem of expatriate decadence,
Bergner, Elizabeth,

7.ElizabethBergner, Elizabeth Bergner (1897–1986), Austrian-born British actor, established her career as stage and screen actor in Germany before emigrating to Britain after the rise of Nazism in 1933. In 1934 she played the part of Gemma Jones in Escape Me Never, by Margaret Kennedy, and she was nominated for an Academy Award for the film version. She was to play Rosalind opposite Laurence Olivier’s Orlando in the 1936 film of As You Like It.

 TSE and Christina Morley watch, in The Constant Nymph, thought to lack the voice for Shakespeare,
Berlin, Isaiah,

7.IsaiahBerlin, Isaiah Berlin (1909–97), author, philosopher, historian of ideas, was born in Riga, Latvia, but came to England with his family in 1920. Educated at St Paul’s School, London, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he gained a first in Greats and a second first in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, he won a prize fellowship at All Souls. He taught philosophy at New College until 1950. In 1957 he was appointed Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford; and in the same year he was elected to the British Academy, which he served in the capacity of Vice-President, 1959–61, and President, 1974–8. He was appointed CBE in 1946; knighted in 1957. In 1971 he was appointed to the Order of Merit. Founding President of Wolfson College, Oxford, 1966–75. Works include Karl Marx (1939), The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953) and The Roots of Romanticism (1999).

 on Russian philosophical vocabulary,
Bernhardt, Sarah,

3.TheBernhardt, Sarah French actor Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) practised Roman Catholicism, though she never hesitated to admit her Jewish heritage.

 TSE's admiration for,
Berti, Luigi, produces bad Family Reunion translation, which is rejected,
Bethell, S. L.,
Betjeman, John,

3.JohnBetjeman, John Betjeman (1906–84), poet, journalist, authority on architecture; radio and TV broadcaster: see Biographical Register.

 TSE discusses book proposal with, invites TSE for weekend, goes to Greta Garbo film with TSE,
see also Betjemans, the
Betjemans, the, host TSE in Berkshire,
Betti, Ugo, The Queen and the Rebels,
Bevan, Edwyn R.,

1.EdwynBevan, Edwyn R. R. Bevan (1870–1943), philosopher and historian of the Hellenic world, taught at King’s College London; elected FBA, 1942.
Bevan, Freda,

1.ValerieCourtfield Roadas described to EVE;a2n Eliot (1926–2012), who became TSE’s second wife in 1957, to Helen Gardner, 24 July 1973: ‘I think [Tom] was at Courtfield Road in 1934 for a matter of months only, or at most a year. He told me that the owner prided herself on having only public school men!’ (EVE). The ‘owner’ was actually an eccentric character named William Edward Scott-Hall, who had been ordained a bishop in the ‘Old Catholic’ Church; butBevan, Freda the real proprietor of the boarding house, which lay quite near the Gloucester Road tube station, wasBevan, Fredarecalls TSE from 1934;a3n a Miss Freda Bevan, who was to recall of TSE: ‘He would come in and sit in the garden listlessly. “I wonder,” he would keep repeating, “I wonder”’ (Sencourt).

 recalls TSE from 1934,
Bevin, Ernest,

9.ErnestBevin, Ernest Bevin (1881–1951), trade union leader – General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, 1922–40, he had served during the war as Minister of Labour and National Service – and Labour Party politician, became Foreign Secretary in Clement Attlee’s Labour government, 1945–51. An intense anti-Communist, he worked well with the Truman administration, and helped to develop the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).

 strikes TSE as immediately preferable to Churchill,
Beyle, Marie-Henri (Stendhal), TSE suggests that he and EH read together, as realism, La Chartreuse de Parme,
'Bible and English Literature, The', lecture given at Princeton,
see also 'Bible as Scripture and as Literature, The'
'Bible as Scripture and as Literature, The', originally suggested by EH, outlined, Dr Perkins writes to TSE about, yet to be written, TSE turns mind to, finished, and the prospect of Unitarian audience, EH promised copy, tarted up for Princeton,
see also 'Bible and English Literature, The'
Bickersteth, Revd Julian,

8.RevdBickersteth, Revd Julian Julian Bickersteth, MC (1885–1962) – Anglican priest, military chaplain, teacher, Headmaster of Felsted School, Essex (later Archdeacon of Maidstone, Kent, 1942–58) – wrote on 11 Mar. to invite TSE to address a new literary society for the senior boys: TSE was to visit the school on 16 May 1939.
Biddulph, Geoffrey,

3.GeoffreyBiddulph, Geoffrey Biddulph: young economist who contributed to the Criterion and the Economic Review.
Bigelow, Henry Bryant,

2.HenryBigelow, Henry Bryant Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967), oceanographer and marine biologist, taught zoology at Harvard from 1906.
'Billy M'Caw: The Remarkable Parrot', TSE on,
Binyon, Laurence,

4.LaurenceBinyon, Laurence Binyon, CH (1869–1943), Keeper of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, 1932–3; translator of Dante. In 1933 he succeeded TSE as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. John Hatcher, Laurence Binyon: Poet, Scholar of East and West (1995).

 living TSE's dream in Cairo, converses discreetly on Greek tragedy, commemorated at poetry reading,
Binyon, Nicolete,

2.PresumablyBinyon, Nicolete Nicolete Binyon (1911–97) – youngest daughter of Laurence Binyon – scholar of art and calligraphy; author of works including Rossetti, Dante, and Ourselves (F&F, 1947) – who was married in 1946 to Basil Gray (1904–89), art historian and author, and Keeper of Oriental Prints and Drawings at the British Museum.
Bird, Ernest, TSE shares details of his return to England with, TSE's consultations with, as solicitor, hosts discussion of separation terms, convenes meeting with TSE, Maurice and Alfred James, delivers separation deed to James, and retrieving TSE's property, instructed in case of death,
birds, TSE reading Birds of the Countryside, American Yellow warbler ('Summer Yellowbird'), fellow passenger on the Laetitia, Baltimore Oriole, spotted in Maine, blackbird, more innocent singer than nightingale, Blue Heron, spotted in Maine, blue tits, at Pike's Farm, budgerigar, belonging to Mrs Behrens, cardinals, spotted near Charlottesville, chaffinch, at Pike's Farm, Chestnut-sided warbler, spotted in Maine, chiffchaff, more piping than the nightingale, in Shamley woods, Common whitethroat, identified in Winchester, cuckoo, compared to nightingale, as herald of spring, its song, dove, EH as TSE's, Evening grosbeak, finches, at autumntide, more piping than the nightingale, swarm at Shamley, geese, slaughtered at autumntide, hermit thrush, TSE's personal poetic bird, heron, at Shamley, House Sparrow ('English Sparrow'), fellow passenger on the Laetitia, kestrels, over the Surrey fields, lapwings, in the Surrey fields, Longbilled Marsh Wren, spotted in Maine, magpies, in the fields of Surrey, mockingbird, TSE 'the Missouri Mockingbird', and Walt Whitman, nightingale, EH addressed as, 'clanging' at Pike's Farm, and Sophocles, associated with Pike's Farm, hoped for at Herbert Read's, Pied Wagtail, on lawn at Pike's Farm, songbirds, TSE and Hodgson discuss, tanagers, spotted near Charlottesville, thrush, inspires humility in TSE, more innocent singer than the nightingale, wagtails, on the lawn at Shamley, Willow Warbler ('Willow Wren'), identified in Winchester, wren, more piping than the nightingale,
Birrell, Francis,

4.FrancisBirrell, Francis Birrell (1889–1935), critic; owner with David Garnett of a Bloomsbury bookshop. He wrote for New Statesman and Nation, and published two biographies: his life of Gladstone came out in 1933.

 at Clive Bell's Bloomsbury lunch, gossips with TSE, dying, wishes for death,
Bishop, Elizabeth, attends the Vassar Sweeney Agonistes,
Bishop, George, previews Family Reunion,
Blackburn, Raymond,

2.RaymondBlackburn, Raymond Blackburn (1915–91), who served in WW2 as a captain in the Royal Artillery, was a Labour Party Member of Parliament, 1945–51. (He was an alcoholic, was declared bankrupt in 1952, and in 1956 was convicted of fraud and served a prison sentence.)

 with TSE against nuclear war,
Blackett, Patrick M. S.,

P. (PatrickBlackett, Patrick M. S.) M. S. Blackett (1897–1974) of Manchester University won the physics prize ‘for his work on cosmic radiation and his development of the Wilson method’.

 in TSE's Nobel Prize cohort,
Blackmur, Richard Palmer ('R. P.'), on TSE's first Norton lecture,
Blackstone, Bernard,

5.TSEBlackstone, Bernard was to examine the PhD thesis of Bernard Blackstone (1911–83), of Trinity College, Cambridge: ‘George Herbert and Nicholas Ferrar: a study in devotional imagery’.

 examined for PhD by TSE,
Blackwell, Basil,
Blake, George,

10.GeorgeBlake, George Blake (1893–1961), novelist, journalist, publisher: see Biographical Register.

 TSE's office neighbour, interrupts TSE with offer of haggis, and TSE's 1933 tour of Scotland, archetypal 'lowlander', reports launch of Queen Mary, and TSE's 1935 tour of Scotland, and TSE's 1937 tour of Scotland,
see also Blakes, the
Blake, Grey,

1.EileenPeel, Eileen Peel (1909–99), British stage and screen actor, was to play Lavinia Chamberlayne at Henry Miller’s Theatre in New York, 21 Jan. 1950–13 Jan. 1951; later in London. GreyBlake, Grey Blake (1902–71), British stage and film actor, was to be Peter Quilpe.
Blake, William, quoted by way of nostrum, pervades 'Lines to a Persian Cat', appears to masseuse in vision,
Blakes, the, visited at Dollar,
Bland, Mary,

3.MaryBland, Mary Bland worked for a while as TSE’s secretary: she was the wife of David Bland (1911–70), printer and publisher, who ran the Production Department at F&F from 1937.
Bligh, Florence Rose, Countess of Darnley,

3.FlorenceBligh, Florence Rose, Countess of Darnley Rose Bligh (née Morphy), Countess of Darnley (1860–1944), Australian-born widow of Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley.

 gives her usual turn,
Bliss, Kathleen,

11.KathleenBliss, Kathleen Bliss (1908–89), theologian, missionary and writer, worked as assistant editor of the Christian News-Letter; as editor, 1945–9. She served too on the World Council of Churches; as a member of the executive committee from 1954; and also as a BBC producer, 1950–5. Her publications include The Service and Status of Women in the Churches (1952).

 discusses future of CNL, accepts TSE's CNL resignation,
Blood, Thomas,

4.ThomasBlood, Thomas Blood (1618–80) – a self-styled ‘Colonel’ – attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London in 1671.

 TSE's myth of,
Blum, Léon,

3.LéonBlum, Léon Blum (1872–1950): French socialist politician – Prime Minister in a Popular Front government, 1936–7, 1938. During the war, as a Jew and stout antagonist of Vichy France, he had been incarcerated in Buchenwald concentration camp. TSE to Elena Richmond, 27 June 1948, of Blum: ‘a most charming man, who recites poetry with learning, taste and expressiveness, but who struck me as, like other socialists, a mediocre political philosopher’.

 voices TSE's feelings about Munich, on Munich Agreement, and TSE both passengers in minor car accident,
Blumenfield, Olga,

2.OlgaBlumenfield, Olga Blumenfeld, married to Chaim Weizmann’s nephew Serge Blumenfeld.
Blunden, Edmund,

3.EdmundBlunden, Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), poet and critic, who won the Military Cross for valour in Flanders in 1916 – see his Undertones of War (1928; ed. John Greening: Oxford, 2015) – was Professor of English at the Imperial University, Tokyo, 1924–7; and in 1930–1 literary editor of The Nation. He was Fellow and Tutor in English at Merton College, Oxford, 1931–44; and for a year after WW2 he was assistant editor of the TLS. In 1947 he returned to Japan with the UK Liaison Mission; and he was Professor of English, Hong Kong, from 1953 until retirement. Made CBE in 1964, he received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1956. In 1966 he was elected Oxford Professor of Poetry (his rival was Robert Lowell), but stood down before the completion of his tenure. See Barry Webb, Edmund Blunden: A Biography (1990).

 TSE sees in Oxford, at Aeolian Hall reading, TSE careful to honour,
Blunt, Alfred, Bishop of Bradford, on the Abdication Crisis,
Boas, George,

19.GeorgeBoas, George Boas (1891–1980), Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University.
Bodleian Library, Oxford, intended repository for EH's letters, letters which EH asks after,
Bogan, Louise, reviews Family Reunion,
Boie, Mildred Louise,

1.MildredBoie, Mildred Louise Louise Boie (b. 1907), educated in Minnesota and at Newnham College, Cambridge, became assistant professor of English at Smith College, 1935–7; associate editor of poetry for the Atlantic Monthly in Boston, 1937–40; Head of Publicity for the American Unitarian Association and Service Committee, 1940–3. From 1943 to 1946 she worked with the American Red Cross at U.S. Army bases in France, Italy and Egypt, and was awarded the Bronze Star by the United States Army. She published Better Than Laughter (poetry, 1946). On 17 Aug. she wrote to remind TSE that they had talked ‘five years ago’ about possible extension lecturing; and at Frederick Eliot’s house in St Paul, Minnesota, TSE had been encouraging. ‘I have been writing some verse and criticism’; and she had been asked too to discuss modern poetry at the meeting of the Modern Language Association in December.
Bolliger, Aurelia,

1.AureliaBolliger, Aurelia Bolliger (1898–1984), born in Pennsylvania, studied at Heidelberg College, Ohio; she taught in Wisconsin before journeying to teach at a mission school in Tokyo, 1922–3, and for the next seven years at the Women’s College of Sendai, where she met and fell in love with Ralph Hodgson. She was to marry Hodgson in 1933.

 described, good for VHE, relieves trip to Hindhead, Ralph Hodgson confides in TSE his desire to marry,
see also Hodgsons, the
Bollingen Prize for Poetry, decision to confer on EP,
Bonham-Carter, Lady Helen Violet, plagues TSE at party,
Bonner, Barbara,

6.BarbaraBonner, Barbara Bonner: Hon. Secretary of ‘Books Across the Sea’.
Books Across the Sea, TSE unwillingly president of, AGM, letter to The Times for, exhibition, reception for Beatrice Warde, The Times reports on, TSE trumpets in TES, 'Bridgebuilders', TLS reports on, and South Audley Street library, absorbed into English Speaking Union, final meeting of,
'Books for the Freed World',
Bookshop for Boys and Girls, Boston, TSE gives reading at,
Boot, Gladys,

3.GladysBoot, Gladys Boot (1890–1964): stage and screen actor (a sometime student of TSE’s old collaborator Elsie Fogerty), emerged as a leading lady while at the Liverpool Playhouse.

 in The Cocktail Party,
Booth-Wilbraham, Lady Constance Ada,

2.MargueriteBooth-Wilbraham, Lady Constance Ada Caetani’s mother-in-law was Lady Constance Ada Constance Bootle-Wilbraham (1846–1934), fourth daughter of the Hon. Colonel Edward Bootle-Wilbraham (second son of the first Baron Skelmersdale).

 Marguerite Caetani in mourning for,
Bosanquet, Theodora,

3.TheodoraBosanquet, Theodora Bosanquet (1880–1961) had been Henry James’s amanuensis, 1907–16. See Larry McMurty, ‘Almost Forgotten Women’ (on Bosanquet and Lady Rhondda), New York Review of Books, 7 Nov. 2002, 51–2.

 visits Shamley, sends TSE whisky in hospital,
Boston,
see America
Boston Evening Transcript, profiles TSE, interviews TSE,
Boston Herald, interviews TSE,
Bottomley, Gordon, at Aeolian Hall reading, The Acts of St. Peter,
Bottrall, Ronald,

2.RonaldBottrall, Ronald Bottrall (1906–89), poet, critic, teacher and administrator, studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge and became Lektor in English, University of Helsingfors (Helsinki), Finland, 1929–31, before spending two years at Princeton. He was Johore Professor of English at Raffles University, Singapore, 1933–7, and taught for a year at the English Institute, Florence, before serving as British Council Representative in Sweden, 1941–5; Rome, 1945–54; Brazil, 1954–7; Greece, 1957–9; Japan, 1959–61. At the close of his career he was Head of the Fellowships and Training Branch of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations in Rome. His poetry includes The Loosening (1931) and Festivals of Fire (1934).

 accompanies TSE to literary dinner, in Rome,
Boutwood Lectures (afterwards The Idea of a Christian Society), Spens invites TSE to deliver, being prepared, and Oldham's Times letter, TSE on delivering, being rewritten for publication, approaching publication, published as Christian Society, sent to EH, reception, selling strongly, apparently stimulating to others,
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, TSE on his visit to,
Bowdon, Lt.-Col. W. Butler,

16.Lt.-ColBowdon, Lt.-Col. W. Butler. W. Butler Bowdon, DSO, had recently discovered in his library the reminiscences of the medieval mystic Margery Kempe (dictated in 1436 and 1438, some of it from a copy of ca. 1432). The ‘Book of Margery Kempe of Lynn’ – she was the daughter of a prominent citizen of Lynn, and had been married for many years to John Kempe, ‘a worshipful burgess’, bearing him fourteen children, before taking a vow of chastity – combines lofty spiritual devotions with an account of her travels throughout Europe and to the Holy Land. This newly discovered text was to place her as one of the foremost mystics of the age, alongside contemporaries such as St Bridget of Sweden, St Catherine of Siena and St Joan of Arc. See Hope Emily Allen, ‘A Medieval Work: Margery Kempe of Lynn’ (letter), TLS, 27 Dec. 1934.
Bowen, Elizabeth (Mrs Cameron),

4.ElizabethBowen, Elizabeth (Mrs Cameron) Bowen (1899–1973) – Mrs Alan Cameron – Irish-born novelist; author of The Last September (1929), The Death of the Heart (1938), The Heat of the Day (1949). See Victoria Glendinning, Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer (1977); Hermione Lee, Elizabeth Bowen: An Estimation (1981). TSE to Desmond Hawkins, 3 Feb. 1937: ‘She has a very definite place, and a pretty high one, amongst novelists of her kind.’

 at the Eliots' tea, described, at the Woolfs' tea, TSE on her fiction, holds conversation with TSE into the small hours, Mrs Aubrey Coker and Enid Faber at school with, at Speaight's Garrick dinner, The House in Paris,
see also Camerons, the
Bowen, Henry S.,
Bowes-Lyon, Ann,

1.AnnBowes-Lyon, Ann Bowes-Lyon (1907–99), poet; cousin of the Queen Consort; intimate of Tom Burns, publisher and journalist. See Lyon, Poems (F&F, 1937).
Bowman, Louise Morey,

1.LouiseBowman, Louise Morey Morey Bowman (1882–1944), Canadian poet.
Bowra, C. M.,

3.C. M. BowraBowra, C. M. (1898–1971), educated at New College, Oxford (DLitt, 1937), was a Fellow and Tutor of Wadham College, Oxford, 1922–38; Warden of Wadham, 1938–70; Oxford Professor of Poetry, 1946–51; Vice-Chancellor, 1951–4. President of the British Academy, 1958–62, he was knighted in 1951; appointed CH in 1971. Publications include Tradition and Design in the Iliad (1930), Greek Lyric Poetry (1936), The Romantic Imagination (1950), The Greek Experience (1957), Memories, 1898–1939 (1966). TSE wrote rhetorically to John Hayward, 23 June 1944, of Bowra: ‘was there ever a more vulgar little fat Head of a House than he?’

 on After Strange Gods, as succeeding Norton Professor,
Brace, Donald,

6.DonaldBrace, Donald Brace (1881–1955), publisher; co-founder of Harcourt, Brace: see Biographical Register.

 pressuring TSE for After Strange Gods, on TSE's 1933 tour of Scotland, at Joyce dinner in Paris, on TSE's 1935 tour of Scotland, squanders American rights to Murder, receives Burnt Norton from Morley, reports on 1936 New York Murder, receives corrected Anabasis, on publishing Cats, on TSE's discharge from hospital, sends flowers,
Brace, Ida, a 'red hot momma',
Brackett, Jeffrey Richardson,

1.JeffreyBrackett, Jeffrey Richardson Richardson Brackett (1860–1949), pioneer in charity and social work; Head of the Boston School for Social Workers (later the Simmons College School of Social Work).
Brackett, Louisa,

2.EHBrackett, Louisa hoped for a position at St. Catherine’s School, Westhampton, Richmond, Virginia (a girls’ school, est. 1917). Louisa Brackett, wife of J. R. Brackett, was headmistress, 1924–47.
Brahms, Johannes, ranked by TSE alongside Beethoven, 2nd Symphony,
Brand, Robert,

1.TheBrand, Robert City magnate in question was Robert Brand (1878–1963), a Fellow of All Souls (and friend of Geoffrey Faber), who was a civil servant and financier. He worked for the merchant bank Lazard Brothers, as managing director till 1944, and as a director till 1960. During WW1 he worked for the Ministry of Munitions, and in WW2 he was Head of the British Food Mission to the USA, 1941–4. A skilful counsellor, he was a director of the Times Publishing Company, 1925–59. In 1946 he accepted a peerage, becoming Baron Brand.
Brandt, Bill,

1.BillBrandt, Bill Brandt’s expressive full-page photograph of TSE, pictured in tired, lined concentration against his dirty office window, with the trees of Gordon Square behind him, appeared in a feature article about Brandt’s work, entitled ‘Above the Crowd’, Harper’s Bazaar (New York), 79: 2803 (July 1945), [34–7] 34. Brandt (1904–83) spent his early years in Germany, where his British father was interned for some time during WW1 (his mother was German). Moving to London in 1933, he won a high reputation as photographer and photojournalist. His works include The English at Home (1936); A Night in London (1938); Literary Britain (1951); Perspective of Nudes (1961). See Paul Delany, Bill Brandt: A Life (Stanford, 2004).
Braque, Georges, painting by hanging in John Brocklebank's bedroom,
'Bridgebuilders',
Bridie, James,

2.JamesBridie, James Bridie (1888–1951) – pen name of Dr O. H. Mavor – physician and playwright.

 writes Pilgrim Players two plays, Tobias and the Angel,
Bridson, D. G. ('Geoffrey'),

1.D. G. BridsonBridson, D. G. ('Geoffrey') (1910–80), dramatist and poet, worked for thirty-five years as one of the most creative writer-producers on BBC Radio, for which he produced two authoritative series, The Negro in America (1964) and America since the Bomb (1966). Early writing figured in Ezra Pound’s Active Anthology (1933), and later books include The Filibuster: A Study of the Political Ideas of Wyndham Lewis (1972) and Prospero and Ariel: The Rise and Fall of Radio (1971).
Briggs, Sabra Jane,

1.SabraBriggs, Sabra Jane Jane Briggs (1887–1976), artist, illustrator, and proprietor since 1936 of ‘The Anchorage’, Grand Manan, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada.
Brinnin, John Malcolm,

3.JohnBrinnin, John Malcolm Malcolm Brinnin (1916–98): US poet and critic. Educated at the University of Michigan and Harvard, he was Director of the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association Poetry Center, New York, 1949–56 – where he famously hosted Dylan Thomas: see his memoir Dylan Thomas in America (1956). See too Brinnin, Sextet: T. S. Eliot, Truman Capote and Others (1981).
Bristowe, Sibyl,

4.SibylBristowe, Sibyl Bristowe (1870–1954), President of the Poetry Circle of the Lyceum Club, Piccadilly, London, invited TSE on 1 Oct. 1930 to attend the Annual Poetry Club Dinner ‘as our distinguished guest’. Bristowe’s publications included Provocations, with intro. by G. K. Chesterton (1918). See too her preface to The Lyceum Book of Verse, a collection by English women poets, ed. Mollie Stanley-Wrench (1931): this included a poem by Bristowe.
'Britain and America: Promotion of Mutual Understanding',
British Academy, TSE's Milton lecture for,
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), TSE's committee service for, its future discussed, TSE working on autumn programme for, TSE on educational broadcasting in general, Barbara Burnham production of Murder, lobbies TSE for next play, 'The Need for Poetic Drama', Metaphyical poet broadcasts for, 'The Church's Message to the World', Christmas Day 'Cats' broadcast, dramatic Waste Land adaptation, which is censored for broadcast, repeats 'Cats', plays Parsifal on Good Friday, broadcasts Hawkins interview with TSE, 'Towards a Christian Britain', 1941 production of Murder, Eastern Service broadcasts East Coker, broadcasts Webster talk, Tennyson talk, Dry Salvages, Poe talk, Dryden talk, Joyce talk, European Service broadcasts TSE's talk, TSE declines Christmas broadcast for, wants to record 'Milton II', broadcasts TSE's personal poetry selection, broadcasts Gielgud's Family Reunion, marks TSE's 60th birthday, Gielgud Family Reunion repeated, solicits TSE post-Nobel Prize, TSE's EP broadcast for, records TSE reading Ash-Wednesday, floats Reith Lectures suggestion, approaches Marilyn Monroe to star in Fitts's Lysistrata,
British Council, and TSE's mission to Sweden, honours TSE with Edinburgh reception, and TSE's abortive mission to Italy, and TSE's abortive North Africa mission, despaired of, wartime trip to Paris, think TSE's lecture too French, TSE opens exhibition for, trip to Paris,
British General Election, 1931, 1936, and the value of sterling, 1945, its political terrain, TSE fears Labour Party's agenda, but welcomes change of government, 1951,
British League for European Freedom, TSE becomes member of,
British local elections, 1947,
British Red Cross Society, TSE to address, which he does at Enid Faber's instance, which proves a distasteful experience,
British–Norwegian Institute, and 'The Social Function of Poetry', and proposals for Anglo-Norwegian dinner,
Britten, Benjamin,

1.BenjaminBritten, Benjamin Britten (1913–76), British composer, conductor, pianist, pacifist. His compositions include A Boy was Born (1934), Peter Grimes (1945), The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (1945), The Turn of the Screw (1954) and War Requiem (1962). In 1948 he co-founded the Aldeburgh Festival; in 1952 he was made a Companion of Honour; in 1965 he was appointed to the Order of Merit; and in 1976 he was created a life peer.

 disastrous meeting with, The Rape of Lucretia,
'Broadcast appeal for the Testaccio Cemetery',
'Broadcast on the liberation of Rome by the Allies',
'Broadcast on the publication of first ten “Guild Books” in Sweden',
Brocklebank, Charlotte Carissima ('Cara'),

2.CharlotteBrocklebank, Charlotte Carissima ('Cara') Carissima (‘Cara’) Brocklebank (1885–1948), only surviving daughter of Gen. Sir Bindon and Lady Blood, married in 1910 Lt.-Col. Richard Hugh Royds Brocklebank, DSO (1881–1965). They lived at 18 Hyde Park Square, London W.2, and at Alveston House, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire: see Biographical Register.

 Cheetham introduces to TSE, invites TSE to Nativity play, son killed in action, shares ancestors with TSE, suffers further family heartbreak, visited in Stratford-upon-Avon, news of her death, her death and inquest, provides inspiration for 'Celia',
see also Brocklebanks, the
Brocklebank, John Ralph Auckland,

5.JohnBrocklebank, John Ralph Auckland Ralph Auckland Brocklebank (1921–43). The Brocklebanks had lost another child, Bindon Henry Edmund, at the age of five in 1919.

 killed in action, his childhood bedroom,
Brocklebank, Lt-Col Richard Hugh Royds, his catalogue of paintings, and TSE attend Troilus, in mourning for wife,
see also Brocklebanks, the
Brocklebank, Ursula Mary,
Brocklebanks, the, TSE visits at Alveston, their situation, and Alveston's painful associations,
Brook, Peter, congratulated by TSE for 1956 Family Reunion revival,
Brooke, Rupert,

8.RupertBrooke, Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), English poet who died of sepsis en route to Gallipoli in Apr. 1915. Educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge (Classics), he was elected to a Fellowship of King’s College; friend of Bloomsbury writers including Virginia Woolf; of the Georgian poets, and of the so-called Dymock poets including Edward Thomas and Robert Frost. Celebrated for his idealistic poetry of WW1 including 191 4 and Other Poems (1915).

 qua poet,
Brooke-Pechell, Sir Augustus Alexander,

11.SirBrooke-Pechell, Sir Augustus Alexander Augustus Alexander Brooke-Pechell, 7th Baronet (1857–1937).

 sketched for EH, dies, funeral,
see also Dobrées, the
Brooks, Collin,

8.CollinBrooks, Collin Brooks, MC (1893–1959): journalist, editor, broadcaster and prolific author. Although he had left school at the age of fifteen, his long experience of journalism included stints as editor of the Financial News and of the Sunday Dispatch. He was chair and editor of Truth, 1941–53; and in 1953 he was to join the Daily Express group. In later years he participated in the BBC broadcast programmes Any Questions and The Brains Trust. By origin a northerner, and a longstanding friend of Valerie Fletcher’s parents, he came to know that TSE was looking for a new secretary and recommended Valerie to apply. Two of Brooks’s books in the Eliot library, Tavern Talk (1950) and More Tavern Talk (1952), are inscribed to Valerie. TSE was to send Brooks a copy of On Poetry and Poets, inscribed ‘to Collin Brooks in gratitude and affection from T. S. Eliot 13.9.57.’ See TSE, ‘Memorial Talk for Collin Brooks’, The Statist, 30 May 1959, 1–2: CProse 8, 334–8.

 recommends EVE as secretary,
Brooks, Van Wyck, TSE rebuts in Partisan Review,
Brown, Beatrix Curtis,
Brown, Harry, Jr.,

3.HarryBrown, Harry, Jr. Brown, Jr. (1917–86), American poet, novelist and screenwriter; his works include The End of a Decade (1940) and The Poem of Bunker Hill (1941). During WW2 he wrote for Yank, the Army Weekly; and he later found success as a screenwriter: his achievements included Ocean’s 11 (1960), starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr.

 dumps his verses on TSE,
Brown, Howard Nicholson,

2.HowardBrown, Howard Nicholson Nicholson Brown (1849–1932), minister of King’s Chapel, Boston, 1895–1921.
Brown University, poetry reading at, for which TSE receives encore,
Browne, Elliott 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.

 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
Browne, Henzie (née Raeburn), meets TSE at Chichester, and initial discussions of The Rock with TSE, discusses unwritten pageant scenes, in Family Reunion, asks after EH, looking after her two boys, in Old Man of the Mountains, stands in for Henrietta Watson in Family Reunion, marks TSE's OM with party, as Cocktail Party understudy, as actress,
see also Brownes, the Martin
Browne, Wynyard,

3.WynyardBrowne, Wynyard Browne (1911–64), dramatist, playwright and screenwriter.
Brownes, the Martin, at TSE's theatrical tea-party, pick over scenario for Murder, TSE's fondness for, introduce TSE to Saint-Denis, both invited to Tenebrae, TSE reads Family Reunion to, and their Pilgrim Players, their sons, among TSE's intimates, encourage TSE over Cocktail Party, discuss Cocktail Party draft, Silver Wedding Party,
Browning, Robert, TSE honours grave of,
Brunius, Pauline,

7.PaulineBrunius, Pauline Brunius (1881–1954), stage and film actor; director; managing director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, 1938–48. (TSE attended a performance of Strindberg’s Gustav Vasa, at the Rikstheater: see ‘Strindbergs inflytande på T. S. Eliot berydande’, CProse 7, 318–21.)
Bryant, Arthur,

2.ArthurBryant, Arthur Bryant (1899–1985), English historian and columnist; author of The Spirit of Conservatism (1929), Macaulay (1932), and a three-volume biography of Samuel Pepys (1933–4). Bryant’s second wife, from 1941, was Anne Elaine Brooke (1910–93), daughter of Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke, one of the White Rajahs of Sarawak. See Andrew Roberts, Eminent Churchillians (1994; 2010), ch. 6: ‘Patriotism: The Last Refuge of Sir Arthur Bryant’; W. Sydney Robinson, Historic Affairs: The Muses of Sir Arthur Bryant (2021).
Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, TSE lectures and reads at, reads at again in 1948,
Buchan, Anna Masterton ('O . Douglas'), Pink Sugar,
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir,

2.JohnBuchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875–1940) – Scottish novelist, historian, Unionist politician; Governor-General of Canada – was author of novels including The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) and Greenmantle (1916).

 TSE on, Huntingtower,
Buckle, Charles, as described to TSE,
Buckmaster, Stanley, 1st Viscount Buckmaster,

10.StanleyBuckmaster, Stanley, 1st Viscount Buckmaster Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster (b. 1861) – lawyer and Liberal Party politician; Lord Chancellor, 1915–16 – had died on 5 Dec. 1934.
Buckton, Alice Mary, Eager Heart: A Christmas Mystery-Play,
Budberg, Maria (Moura),

3.MariaBudberg, Maria (Moura) (Moura) Budberg (ca. 1891–1974), daughter of a Russian nobleman and diplomat, is believed to have been a double agent for OGPU and the British Intelligence Service – becoming known as the ‘Mata Hari’ of Russia. Married in 1911 to Count Johann von Benckendorff (who was killed in 1918), she was secretary and common-law wife to Maxim Gorky, 1922–33. From 1920, and again from 1933 until his death, she was mistress of H. G. Wells (she declined to marry him). Finally she was married, briefly, to Baron Nikolai von Budberg-Bönningshausen. She was in addition a writer, and worked on the scripts for films including The Sea Gull, directed by Sidney Lumet (1968), and Three Sisters, dir. Laurence Olivier (1970). See further Nina Berberova, Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg (New York, 2005).
Budge, John Donald ('Don'),

13.JohnBudge, John Donald ('Don') Donald (‘Don’) Budge (1915–2000), American tennis player.

 beats 'Bunny' Austin at Wimbledon,
'Building Up the Christian World',
Bukhari, Zulfiqar Ali,

1.ZulfiqarBukhari, Zulfiqar Ali Ali Bokhari/Bukhari (1904–75), born in Peshawar, was Director of the Delhi Broadcasting Station of All India Radio before removing to London in July 1937. Director of the Indian Section of the BBC Eastern Service, 1940–5; instrumental in recruiting George Orwell. In 1945 he returned to India as Director of All India Radio Station, Calcutta; later to Karachi to work as Controller in Broadcasting for Radio Pakistan. See Talking to India, ed. Orwell (1943); Ruvani Ranasinha, South Asian Writers in Twentieth Century Britain: Culture in Translation (Oxford, 2007); W. J. West, Orwell: The War Broadcasts (1985).

 presents TSE with ornate umbrella, embarrasses him with second, his umbrellas, commissions 'Duchess of Malfy' broadcast, commissions Tennyson broadcast,
Bulgakov, Mikhail, The White Guard,
Bullard, Ellen Twistleton,

9.EllenBullard, Ellen Twistleton Twistleton Bullard (1865–1959) lived on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. W. S. Bullard (d. 1897) had married Charles Eliot Norton’s eldest sister.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward,

1.EdwardBulwer-Lytton, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy (historical play, 1839).

 overpraised by Shaw,
Bulwer-Lytton, Victor, 2nd Earl of Lytton,

5.VictorBulwer-Lytton, Victor, 2nd Earl of Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton (1876–1947), politician and colonial administrator, wrote on 8 Feb.: ‘Miss Fogerty tells me that you have been good enough to join the Public Relations Committee [for a proposed National Theatre], which is being formed in connection with the National Theatre Appeal. I am very grateful to you for your help in this matter.’
Bunting, Basil, remembers TSE in make-up,
'Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar', and The Aspern Papers,
Burdett, Fr Francis, SJ,
Burdett, Osbert,

6.OsbertBurdett, Osbert Burdett (1885–1936), author of works including The Idea of Coventry Patmore (1921), William Blake (1926), W. E. Gladstone (1928), The Brownings (1928), The Two Carlyles (1930).

 duff English Review contribution,
Burke Club, The,
Burnham, Barbara, directs BBC Murder, keen to broadcast TSE's next play,
Burnham, James,

2.JamesBurnham, James Burnham (1905–87), who taught philosophy at New York University, 1929–53, was co-editor of The Symposium, 1930–3. During the 1930s he was a Trotskyite communist.
Burns, Robert, hideous tomb of,
Burns, Tom,

3.TomBurns, Tom Burns (1906–95), publisher and journalist: see Biographical Register.

 at heavy Criterion gathering, brings David Jones to dinner,
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,
Burnt Norton, Gloucestershire,
see England
Bussy, Dorothy (née Strachey),

3.DorothyBussy, Dorothy (née Strachey) Bussy (1865–1960) – one of thirteen children of Sir Richard and Jane Strachey; sister of Lytton – was married to the French painter Simon Bussy. Chief translator of André Gide, and his intimate. Her novel, Olivia, was published anonymously by the Hogarth Press. See Barbara Caine, Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family (Oxford, 2005).

 TSE on,
see also Bussys, the
Bussy, Jane,

1.JaneBussy, Jane Bussy (1906–60), painter; her mother was Dorothy Bussy, née Strachey (1865–1960) – sister of Lytton and James Strachey – wife of the artist Simon Bussy (1870–1954).

 and father dine chez Eliot, has the Strachey accent, during TSE's Charleston visit, potential reader of EH–TSE correspondence,
see also Bussys, the
Bussy, Simon, dines chez Eliot, described for EH,
see also Bussys, the
Bussys, the, host pack of Stracheys, report on wartime situation in Nice, TSE visits in Roquebrune,
Butler, Nicholas Murray,

4.TSEColumbia Universityconfers degree on TSE;a1 was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at the 179th Commencement Exercise at Columbia University, New York, 6 June. NicholasButler, Nicholas Murray Murray Butler (1862–1947), philosopher, was President of Columbia University, 1901–45; Nobel Peace laureate, 1931.
Butler, R. A. ('Rab'),

4.R. A. ButlerButler, R. A. ('Rab') (1902–82), Conservative Party politician, was at this time – following Anthony Eden’s resignation as Foreign Secretary – Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. (He was later to serve as Education Minister, 1941–5; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1951–5; Home Secretary, 1957–62; Deputy Prime Minister, 1962–3, Foreign Secretary, 1963–4.)

 possible wartime employer for TSE, not TSE's choice of Chancellor,
Bynner, Harold Witter,

4.HaroldBynner, Harold Witter Witter Bynner (1881–1968), Harvard graduate; poet and translator; long resident in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he associated with literary figures including D. H. Lawrence.
Byron, Robert,
Caetani, Camillo, sent to Albania, where he is killed,
Caetani, Lélia,

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.

 compared to her mother,
Caetani, Marguerite (née Chapin),

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.

 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,
Caetani, Roffredo Michel Angelo Frank,

1.DonCaetani, Roffredo Michel Angelo Frank Roffredo Michel Angelo Frank Caetani (1871–1961), second son of Onorato Caetani (1842–1927) – Prince of Teano, and from 1883 the 14th Duke of Sermoneta – and Lady Constance Ada Constance Bootle-Wilbraham (1846–1934), fourth daughter of the Hon. Colonel Edward Bootle-Wilbraham (who was second son of the first Baron Skelmersdale).
Cailliet, Dr Emile,

4.DrCailliet, Dr Emile Emile Cailliet (1894–1981), Professor of French Literature and Civilisation, Scripps College and Claremont Graduate School, 1931–41 – ‘dear Mons. Caillet [sic],’ as EH called him (letter to Ruth George, 6 Dec. 1935; Scripps).

 TSE to inscribe poem for, recalled by TSE,
Cain, Julien,

1.JulienCain, Julien Cain (1887–1974) was general administrator of the Bibliothèque nationale, 1945–64. A Jew, he had been held by the French authorities before being sent off to Buchenwald, Jan. 1941–Apr. 1945.
Cairns, Huntington,

5.HuntingtonCairns, Huntington Cairns (1904–85): lawyer; secretary, treasurer and general counsel to the National Gallery of Art; author; adviser on pornography. Works include The Limits of Art, an anthology.
Caitlin, George,

1.GeorgeCaitlin, George Catlin (1896–1979), Professor of Political Science, Cornell University; author of works on political philosophy – including Thomas Hobbes (1922) – and later on Anglo-American relations; friend and associate of Harold Laski, Ramsay MacDonald, Herbert Morrison, Nehru; husband of Vera Brittain (author of Testament of Youth). See John Catlin, Family Quartet: Vera Brittain and her family (1987). HerbertCaitlin, George;a2n Read to TSE, 3 Jan. 1930, ‘Avoid Catlin: he is a dreadful windbag. Morley had lunch with him recently & will concur.’
California,
see America
Callender, Stephen J.,

10.StephenCallender, Stephen J. J. Callender, STB, MRE, Minister of the Copley Methodist Episcopal Church, Boston, had invited TSE (16 Mar.) to speak at their evening service on 2 Apr.
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire,
see England
Cambridge Literary Society, 'The Idiom of Modern Verse', TSE's lecture to,
Cambridge, Major-General Alexander, 1st Earl of Athlone,

5.AlexanderCambridge, Major-General Alexander, 1st Earl of Athlone Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, born Price Alexander of Teck (1874–1957) – cousin and brother-in-law of King George V – British Army officer who served with distinction in WW1 – was created 1st Earl of Athlone in 1917. Governor-General of South Africa, 1923–30, he served as Chancellor of the University of London until 1940, when he became Governor-General of Canada.

 intrigued by The Rock,
Cambridge, Massachusetts,
see America
Cameron, Alan, owns television set,
see also Camerons, the
Cameron, Donald,
Camerons, the, removed from Oxford to London, at JDH's, evening with Freddie Ayer and, first television-watching experience with,
Camoens Prize, outlined, TSE invited to judge, the event itself,
Campbell, Henry Colville Montgomery, Bishop of Kensington (later Bishop of Guildford, eventually Bishop of London),
Campbell, Mrs Patrick (née Beatrice Tanner),

7.MrsCampbell, Mrs Patrick (née Beatrice Tanner) Patrick Campbell, née Beatrice Tanner (1865–1940), English stage actor, famous for her performances in plays by Shakespeare, J. M. Barrie and Bernard Shaw (who adored her).

 Gielgud describes Family Reunion to,
Campbell, Oscar,

14.OscarCampbell, Oscar Campbell (1879–1970), Professor of English, State University of New York at Buffalo; author of Shakespeare’s Satire (1943); The Reader’s Encyclopedia of Shakespeare (1966).
Campbell, Robert Erskine,

2.RobertCampbell, Robert Erskine Erskine Campbell (1884–1977), a monk of the Order of the Holy Cross, was Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Liberia (West Africa), 1925–36.
Campbell, Roy,

6.RoyCampbell, Roy Campbell (1901–57), South African-born poet, satirist and translator, arrived in England in 1918 and was taken up by the composer William Walton and the Sitwells, and by Wyndham Lewis. He made his name with the long poem Flaming Terrapin (1924). Later poetry includes Adamastor (1930) – the volume to which TSE refers in this letter – The Georgiad (1931) and Talking Bronco (1946). See Peter F. Alexander, Roy Campbell: A Critical Biography (1982).

 commended as poet, literary fracas surrounding Talking Bronco,
Canada, Campobello, New Brunswick, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, in TSE's recollection, EH holidays on, EH spends autumn on, Montreal, TSE due to arrive at, relatives offer to collect TSE from,
Canterbury Cathedral Festival, 1935, approaches TSE, unremunerative, abbreviated Murder offered to, TSE flirts with premiering Murder elsewhere, but settles on Canterbury, TSE reflects on,
Cantlie, Kenneth,

1.KennethCantlie, Kenneth Cantlie (1899–1986) – whose godfather was Sun Yat-Sen (1866–1925), first President of the Republic of China – was a British engineer who had worked in China, India and Argentina: he was famous for designing the KF 4–8–4 locomotive (a huge engine built in Britain for the Chinese railways); later a trade consultant with links to international espionage. See the Kenneth Cantlie Archive at the National Railway Museum. See further TSE to Hayward, 17 Jan. 1940 (Letters 9, 390–2).
'Cape Ann', admired by Richards, copied for EH,
Capponi, Agnes Manucci,
Cardozo, Benjamin N.,

8.BenjaminCardozo, Benjamin N. N. Cardozo (1870–1938), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, was appointed (by Pres. Herbert Hoover) Judge of the Supreme Court, 1932–8. Both of his maternal grandparents were Western Sephardim of the Portuguese Jewish Community of New York.

 specially impresses TSE,
Carmina Gadelica, inspires The Family Reunion,
Carmona, Óscar,

1.ÓscarCarmona, Óscar Carmona (1868–1951), army officer; politician; 11th President of Portugal, 1926–51.
Carpenter, Spencer,

1.SpencerCarpenter, Spencer Carpenter (1877–1959), Anglican priest; author; Master of the Temple, 1930–5.
Carroll, Lewis, TSE's personal torment suggests Alice in Wonderland, illustrates talk on English humour, TSE measures his nonsense against, Shamley post-office recalls, and TSE's door 'into the rose-garden',
Carroll, Sydney W.,

11.SydneyCarroll, Sydney W. W. Carroll, ‘A fine poetic play’, Daily Telegraph, 5 Nov. 1936. The Australian-born Carroll (1877–1958) was an actor, drama critic and theatre manager; theatre critic of the Sunday Times, 1918–23. Co-producer in 1932 of the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.

 reviews Murder,
Carryl, Charles Edward,

6.CharlesCarryl, Charles Edward Edward Carryl (1841–1929), American businessman and stockbroker; author of children’s books including Davy and the Goblin (1884) and The Admiral’s Caravan (1892) – inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1862) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

 TSE's standard for Old Possum's,
Carson, Edward,

EdwardCarson, Edward Carson, Baron Carson (1854–1935), Irish Unionist politician, barrister and judge, organised the Irish Volunteers in order to secure military resistance to Home Rule, 1912–14.
Carter, Barbara Barclay,

5.BarbaraCarter, Barbara Barclay Barclay Carter (1900–51), Catholic convert and writer who devoted her career to translation and to the Italian democratic movement under Don Luigi Sturzo.
Carter, Morris,

3.MorrisCarter, Morris Carter (1877–1965), Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1924–54. TSE had corresponded with Gardner during WW1: see Letters 1, 100–3, 115–17, 290–2.
Cass, Henry,

1.HenryCass, Henry Cass (1903–89), theatre director and writer, ran the Old Vic Shakespeare Co., 1934–6.

 wants TSE's play for Old Vic,
Casson, Ann,

3.AnnCasson, Ann Casson (1915–90), actor; daughter of Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike.

 and the Pilgrim Players,
Casson, Christopher T.,

1.ChristopherCasson, Christopher T. T. Casson (1912–96), stage, screen and TV actor; younger son of the actors Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson.

 on American Murder tour, reported ill,
Casson, Lewis,

4.LewisCasson, Lewis Casson (1875–1969): noted British actor and director; husband of Dame Sybil Thorndike.

 in 1956 Family Reunion revival,
Castelli, Alberto,

1.AlbertoCastelli, Alberto Castelli (1907–71), who was ordained priest in 1930, taught Language and Literature for many years at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. In 1961 he was to be elected Titular Archbishop of Rhusium; Vice-President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, 1966–70. Father Castelli reported to TSE on 21 May 1940 that he had given up working on his translation of Murder in the Cathedral, having been informed from Rome that another translation was to go into production. See Assassinio nella Cattedrale (Milano, Firenze, Roma: Bompiani, 1947): an authorised translation of the fourth English edn. by Alberto Castelli.
Castle, William R., Jr.,

6.WilliamCastle, William R., Jr. R. Castle, Jr. (1878–1963), teacher and distinguished diplomat, joined the U.S. State Department in 1919; Ambassador to Japan in 1930; subsequently Under Secretary of State. At Harvard he had been an Instructor in English, 1904–13; co-founder of the Fox Club. See Diplomatic Realism: William R. Castle Jr. and American Foreign Policy, 1919–1953, ed, Alfred L. Castle and Michael E. MacMillan (University of Hawaii Press, 1998).

 relieves a dull dinner, hosts TSE in Washington,
see also Castles, the
Castles, the, special status,
'Cat Morgan Introduces Himself',
Catholic Literature Association, Book Committee meeting, at Pusey House, Oxford, TSE composing speech for,
Catholic Summer School of Sociology, 1940, TSE promises paper to, 'The English Tradition' prepared for, postponed, paper eventually delivered at,
'Catholicism and the International Order', dreaded, composed without enthusiasm, outlined to EH,
cats, the Eliots' Persian, the adopting of, possible abduction of Janes's pet, Cat Morgan,
Cattaui, Georges,

3.GeorgesCattaui, Georges Cattaui (1896–1974), Egyptian-born (scion of aristocratic Alexandrian Jews: cousin of Jean de Menasce) French diplomat and writer; his works include T. S. Eliot (1958), Constantine Cavafy (1964), Proust and his metamorphoses (1973). TSE to E. R. Curtius, 21 Nov. 1947: ‘I received the book by Cattaui [Trois poètes: Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot (Paris, 1947)] and must say that I found what he had to say about myself slightly irritating. There are some personal details which are unnecessary and which don’t strike me as in the best taste.’

 at OM's, again at OM's, translates Murder badly,
Cavendish, Edward William Spencer, Marquess of Hartington (later 10th Duke of Devonshire),

7.EdwardCavendish, Edward William Spencer, Marquess of Hartington (later 10th Duke of Devonshire) William Spencer Cavendish (1895–1950), Conservative politician, was Marquess of Hartington, 1908–38, before succeeding his father as 10th Duke of Devonshire.
Cavendish-Bentinck, William John Arthur Charles James, 6th Duke of Portland, the pompous respectable sort of duke,
Cecchi, Emilio,

4.Valentino Bompiani, the publishing house in question, told TSE that they considered the translation by Berti to have ‘gravi difetti’ (grave defects). TSECecchi, Emilio took the initiative in seeking out the opinion of Emilio Cecchi (1887–1966), literary and art critic, screenwriter and short story writer – whose view, as TSE told Bompiano, was ‘so unfavourable’ that he released the publisher ‘from the clause in the contract binding you to accept Signor Berti’s translation’.

 abominates Luigi Berti's translations of TSE,
Cecil, Algernon,

2.AlgernonCecil, Algernon Cecil (1879–1953), barrister, author and historian.
Cecil, Lord David,

5.LordCecil, Lord David David Cecil (1902–86), historian, critic, biographer; Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, 1924–30; Fellow of New College, Oxford, 1939–69; Professor of English, Oxford, 1948–70; author of The Stricken Deer (1929), Early Victorian Novelists: Essays in Revaluation (1934), Jane Austen (1936) and studies of other writers including Hardy, Shakespeare, Scott.

 seconds TSE in argument about religion, invited to tea by VHE, signatory to Credit Reform letter, believer in Dr Karl Martin,
Cecil, Lord Hugh,

8.LordCecil, Lord Hugh Hugh Cecil (1869–1956), Conservative party politician; Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, 1891–1936; MP for Greenwich, 1895–1906, then for Oxford University, 1910–35; raised to the peerage as Baron Quickswood, 1941.
Centre Universitaire Meditérranéen, Nice, TSE's lecture to,
Cézanne, Paul, Barnes Foundation paintings delight,
Chailley, Claude,

4.ClaudeChailley, Claude Chailley, secrétaire général of the c onseil of the Fédération britannique des comités de l’Alliance Française.
Chamberlain, Neville, as Baldwin's successor, and the policy of appeasement, his policy towards Germany and Italy, rumoured rationale for appeasement, post-Munich, in TSE's opinion, his resignation,
Chambers, R. W.,

7.R. W. ChambersChambers, R. W. (1874–1942), Quain Professor of English at University College London, delivered an address on ‘The Place of St. Thomas More in English History and Literature’.

 reads paper about Thomas More,
Chandlers, the,

4.BenjaminChandlers, the Martin Chandler (1872–1948) – a wealthy American from Manchester, New Hampshire (son of a banker) who became a local benefactor – lived in Chipping Campden with his second wife Frances Izod Robbins (1880–1972), for a while at the seventeenth-century Hidcote Manor. An amateur craftsman who spent time working with C. R. Ashbee and purchased one of the Kelmscott presses, he was co-founder of the Chipping Campden Trust. See Paul Whitfield, Benjamin Martin Chandler, 1872–1948 (privately printed, 2016).
Chandos Group, described, discusses Social Credit, discusses economics,
Channing, Revd Dr William Ellery, TSE reading sermons by,
Chapin, Samuel,

5.MargueriteChapin, Samuel Chapin’s Devon-born ancestor Samuel Chapin (1595–1675), a Protestant non-conformist, settled in 1635 in New England, where he became Selectman of Springfield, Mass. A renowned bronze statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, fixed in the centre of Springfield since 1887, depicts the swaggering Deacon Chapin as ‘The Puritan’.
Chaplin, Charlie, TSE finds increasingly over-deliberate, resembles Robert Helpman, identified as highbrow, City Lights, Modern Times,
Chapman, Dom John, OSB,

8.DomChapman, Dom John, OSB John Chapman, OSB (1865–1933), Spiritual Letters (1935). A posthumous publication.

 TSE reads on Christmas Eve, recommended again to EH, compared to other spiritual letter-writers, Spiritual Letters,
Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (afterwards The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism), weekend spent meditating, a task for Lent, contemplated, stimulated by Mirsky, preoccupying TSE, hard-going, outlined, TSE yet to begin, unsatisfactory, 'The Relation of Criticism and Poetry' (afterwards 'Introduction'), TSE preparing, and the Charles Norton references, hard-going, a week's toil over, TSE on giving the lecture, EH promised copy, 'Poetry and Criticism in the Time of Elizabeth' (afterwards 'Apology for the Countess of Pembroke'), so far promising, finished, TSE on giving the lecture, 'The Classical Tradition: Dryden on Johnson' (afterwards 'The Age of Dryden'), TSE on the lecture itself, 'The Theories of Coleridge and Wordsworth' (afterwards 'Wordsworth and Coleridge'), TSE immersed in, TSE wonders at audience for, finished, TSE's jokes lost on audience, 'The practice of Shelley and Keats' (afterwards 'Shelley and Keats'), TSE on giving the lecture, 'Arnold and the Academic Mind' (afterwards 'Matthew Arnold'), unprepared with less than two weeks, completed the morning of lecture, 'The Modern Mind', as yet unfinished, TSE on giving the lecture, 'Conclusion', TSE on giving the lecture, TSE's immediate reflections on, being revised for publication, improved by Sheff's criticisms, in proof, copy inscribed to EH, Maritain on, seem intemperate on further reflection,
see also Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry
Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry, TSE ruminates on offer of, which TSE cannot afford to refuse, TSE pressed to accept, and EH's possible post at Scripps, TSE accepts, TSE in suspense over, apparently a certainty, America reporters seek to confirm appointment, but still no official notice, critical to TSE's finances, official notice finally received, a break with present existence, attendant social obligations dreaded, announced in the American press,
Charles Whibley: A Memoir, EH promised copy,
Charlton, Air Commodore Lionel,

2.AirCharlton, Air Commodore Lionel Commodore Lionel Charlton, CB, CMG, DSO (1879–1958), military officer during the Boer War and WW1, rising to be brigadier general. In Feb. 1923, while serving as Chief Staff Officer for the RAF’s Iraq Command, he resigned in protest against the policy of bombing Iraqi villages with a view to quelling possible unrest. Later, children’s author and autobiographer. His reminiscences were published by F&F in 1931.

 attends Harold Monro's funeral, at Alida Monro's,
Charterhouse Literary Society, TSE ambushed by, TSE speaks to,
cheese, chocolate-coloured at Norske Klub, Old Cheshire, which TSE compares to Double Gloucester and Leicester, Wensleydale 'Prince Consort' to 'Queen' Cheshire, cold-curing, smell-restoring Limburger, brie at Prunier's, cheese-eating ruined by perfume, discussed with Hoskyns, TSE's first Old Blue Cottenham, TSE's cheese-counsellor, Port Salut, letter to Times on Stilton, and the privations of war, EH sends TSE for Christmas,
Cheetham, Revd Eric,

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.

 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,
Chekhov, Anton, at the Old Vic, his distinguishing excellence, as master, supreme modern playwright, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya,
Chevrillon, Pierre,

3.PierreChevrillon, Pierre Chevrillon (1903–75), son of André Chevrillon (1864–1957), Anglophile writer who was educated in London and Paris, fought for the British Army in WW1, and was elected to the Académie Française in 1921. Works include books on Sydney Smith and Ruskin, and Trois Études de Literature Anglaise (on Kipling, Shakespeare, Galsworthy, 1921). TSE to Hayward, 24 Mar. 1945: ‘The Chevrillon in question may well be the one you remember: he is about 45 I should say, and was certainly a little boy when I lunched at the expensive villa of his father, André C. (the French impresario of Kipling) in St. Cloud in 1910.’

 accidentally takes TSE to nightclub,
Chiappe, Jean Baptiste,

4.JeanChiappe, Jean Baptiste Baptiste Chiappe (1878–1940), director of the Sûreté générale; subsequently rightist Préfet de police until removed from post in Feb. 1934 by Prime Minister Édouard Daladier.
Chiari, Joseph,

5.JosephChiari, Joseph Chiari (1911–89): French poet, author, diplomat. ‘Following the collapse of France I answered General de Gaulle’s appeal on the day he made it, the 18th June, and as I was unfit for military service, as soon as a French organisation was set up I was sent to Scotland as its political and cultural envoy. I met Eliot some time in 1943, through a mutual friend, Denis Saurat, who was Professor of French at King’s College and Director of the French Institute in London’ (T. S. Eliot: A Memoir [1997], 19). Chiari also held teaching posts at London and Manchester. A prolific author, his publications include Contemporary French Poetry, with foreword by TSE (1952); Symbolism from Poe to Mallarmé: The Growth of a Myth (1956); T. S. Eliot: Poet and Dramatist (1975).

 and TSE's Borders motor-tour, preface for, Contemporary French Poetry,
Chidgey, Norman,

2.NormanChidgey, Norman Chidgey (1901–81), actor.
Child, Maurice,

7.MauriceChild, Maurice Child (1884–1950), Anglican priest; librarian of Pusey House, Oxford; General Secretary of the English Church Union.

 at 'Pro Fide' bookshop meeting,
Chipman, Constance Parker,

3.MrsChipman, Constance Parker Constance Parker Chipman (1885–1978), who graduated from Abbot School in 1906, was sometime President of the Abbot Alumnae Association.
Chipping Campden,
see England
Choate, Robert ('Beanie'),

5.RobertChoate, Robert ('Beanie') ‘Beanie’ Choate (1898–1965), editor and publisher of the Boston Herald.
Choice of Kipling's Verse, A, TSE's high and low motives for undertaking, selection made on rereading Kipling, approved by Kipling's daughter, delayed, TSE paid £250 for, sold out but unreviewed, sent to EH, reviewed,
Chosack, Cyril,

2.CyrilChosack, Cyril Chosack (1916–91): South African actor, director and radio dramatist; he appeared in co-starring roles in the films Man Without a Face (1935) and Late Extra (1935).
Christ Church, Oxford, hosts TSE as guest, 'Chatham Club' addressed at, Gaudy at,
Christ Church, Shamley Green, nice but low, midwinter morning services at, Pilgrim Players' 'Way of the Cross', Holy Week 1941 at, Christmas at, Pilgrim Players' Resurrection at, at Harvest Festival, Christmas Eve midnight-mass at,
Christ Church, Woburn Square, part of TSE's office view, and Christina Rossetti,
'Christian Conception of Education, The', charged with being dull,
Christian Frontier Council, established by Oldham,
Christian News-Letter (CNL), TSE's way of writing for, described, first number, TSE's commitment to as war work, TSE on Papal Encyclical, TSE's colleagues not quite friends, becoming too politic for TSE, features TSE on Wells's New World Order, 'Education in a Mass Society', TSE's guest-editorship of, TSE gives talk for, relocates to Oxford, 'Responsibility and Power', TSE, Hambleden and Mrs Bliss discuss,
Christianity, and human isolation, and modern economics, Ada on TSE's personal piety, scheme for 'Pro Fide' bookshop, among the Eliot family, and beauty, its sects like different clubs, Anglo-Catholicism, TSE's conversion to, which he dates to Eccleston Square meeting, Anglican Missal sought for EH, but unfortunately out of print, discussed at Boston Theological School, and the Petrine Claims, apostolic succession, over Roman Catholicism, as refuge from VHE, and the Reformation, asceticism, discipline, rigour, the necessity for, and TSE's daily exhortation, making and breaking habits, mastering emotions and passions, as salubrious, only remedy for a prurient culture, confession and communion, more possible during Harvard year, the case for unattainable ideals, in time of war, gets TSE up before 7 o'clock, hereditary with TSE, belief, and good poetry, faced with Second World War, and conversion, antidote to TSE's skepticism, Christendom, TSE ponders the decline of, TSE on his prominence within, its ruin, the Church Visible and Invisible, and TSE's war work, the Malabar Church, prospect of total reunion within, confession, helps to objectify sin, more dreaded than dentist, harder in the morning, death and afterlife, the struggle to prepare for, consoles TSE in life, and cremation, Requiem Mass, gives meaning to life, and what makes a desirable burial place, the nature of eternal life, divorce, unrecognised by Anglo-Catholic Church, which TSE regrets, in church law, would separate TSE from Church, evil, TSE's belief in, and moral percipience, guilt, and the New England conscience, hell, TSE's 1910 vision of, and damnation, according to TSE, liturgy, TSE's weekly minimum, Mass of the Pre-sanctified, Requiem Mass versus Mass of Good Friday, and whether to serve at Mass, Imposition of Ashes, at Christmas, High Mass over Mattins, aversion to Low Church Mattins, Roman service in Wayland, Tenebrae, in country parish church, as guest at Kelham, remarkable sermon, over Christmas, Tenebrae and Family Reunion, during Holy Week, Mass of Charles King and Martyr, love, loving one's neighbour, marriage, TSE's need for privacy within, mysticism and transcendence, interpenetration of souls, intimations of life's 'pattern', 'doubleness', arrived at through reconciliation, orthodoxy, only remedy for contemporary culture, and pagans, sets TSE at odds with modernity, necessarily trinitarian, 'Christian' defined, iniquities of liberal theology, and creed, authority, Transubstantiation, TSE disclaims 'self-centredness' in maintaining, politics, the Church and social change, how denomination maps onto, need for working-class priests, church leaders against totalitarianism and Nazism, Christianity versus Fascism and Communism, Papal Encyclical against Nazi Germany, the 'Dividend morality', Presbyterianism, TSE quips on the meanness of, Quakerism, resignation, reconciliation, peace, TSE's love allows for, 'peace that passeth all understanding', the struggle to maintain, following separation from VHE, retreat and solitude, EH at Senexet, the need for, a need increasing with age, and TSE's mother, Roman Catholicism, TSE's counter-factual denomination, Rome, sacraments, Holy Communion, marriage, sainthood, TSE's idea of, the paradoxes of, susceptible of different sins, sins, vices, faults, how to invigilate, the sense of sin, the sinner's condition, bound up with the virtues, as a way to virtue, TSE's self-appraisal, when humility shades into, when unselfishness shades into, among saints, proportionate to spiritual progress, daydreaming, despair, lust, pride, perfection-seeking pride, spiritual progress and direction, TSE's crisis of 1910–11, EH's crisis, versus automatism, TSE's sense of, towards self-knowledge, in EH's case, as personal regeneration, temptation, to action/busyness, the Church Year, Advent, Christmas, dreaded, happily over, TSE rebuked for bah-humbugging, church trumps family during, season of irreligion, thoughts of EH during, unsettling, fatiguing, in wartime, Easter preferred to, Ash Wednesday, Lent, season for meditation and reading, prompts thoughts of EH, Lady Day, Holy Week, its intensity, arduous, preserved from public engagements, exhausting but refreshing, excitingly austere, Easter, better observed than Christmas, missed through illness, Unitarianism, the Eliots' as against EH's, the prospect of spiritual revival within, as personified by TSE's grandfather, regards the Bible as literature, as against Catholicism, divides EH from TSE, and whether Jesus believed himself divine, according to Dr Perkins, in England as against America, over-dependent on preachers' personality, TSE's wish that EH convert from, outside TSE's definition of 'Christian', the issue of communion, baptism, impossibly various, virtues heavenly and capital, bound up with the vices, better reached by way of sin, charity, towards others, in Bubu, TSE's intentness on, delusions of, as against tolerance, chastity, celibacy, beneath humility, TSE lacks vocation for, faith, and doubt, hope, a duty, TSE's struggle for, humility, distinguished from humiliation, comes as relief, greatest of the virtues, propinquitous to humour, not an Eliot virtue, opposed to timidity, danger of pride in, is endless, TSE criticised for overdoing, theatre a lesson in, most difficult of the virtues, possessed by EH, possessed by EH to a fault, TSE compares himself to EH in, the paradox of, distinguished from inferiority, self-discovery teaches, possessed by Dr Perkins, patience, recommended to EH, its foundations, possessed by Uncle John, purity, distinguished from purification, temperance, with alcohol, beneath humility,
'Christianity and Communism', sent to EH,
'Church and the Artist, The' Conference, Chichester, occasion recounted,
'Church as an Ecumenical Society, The',
Church Literature Association, Archbishop requested at annual meeting of, TSE reports on Book Committee to, 'The Christian in the Modern World', Book Committee meeting, Book Committee plot against Harris, comments on 'The Church and Marriage', resignation from Book Committee intended, but illness prevents,
Church of St. John the Evangelist, Bowdoin Street, High Mass at, TSE's preferred Boston church, during Holy Week, during Lent, EH encouraged to attend, on Christmas Eve, 1932,
Church of South India controversy, TSE chairs 'press conference on',
Church, Richard,

4.RichardChurch, Richard Church (1893–1972), poet, critic, novelist, journalist and autobiographer; worked as a civil servant before becoming in 1933 a full-time writer and journalist. His first book of verse, Mood without Measure, was published by TSE at F&G in 1928. On TSE: see Church, The Voyage Home (1964).

 at heavy Criterion gathering,
Church Times, TSE on Fascism in, carries Murder review, receives violent letter from TSE, to which it responds and is corrected, demurral from TSE, leads on 'A Liberal Manifesto', Iddings Bell contretemps in, reviews Christian Society, 'Twenty-Five Years at Gloucester Road',
Churchill Club, The, Walt Whitman talk for, Milton talk for, Poe talk for,
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, reviews Cooper's Haig, commendable speeches, compared to Halifax as orator, as successor to Chamberlain, 'Their Finest Hour', EH attends his Harvard address, as do Henry and Theresa, remarks on Basic English, compared to Bevin, unsuited to peacetime office, broadcast on King's death, as public figure,
'Church's Message to the World, The', commissioned by BBC, submitted to D'Arcy, Every and Mairet, revised in light of criticisms, fee donated to St. Stephen's, broadcast, moves George Barnes,
'Civilisation: the Nature of Cultural Relations',
Clair, René, À Nous la liberté, Le Million,
Claire, Ina,

2.InaClaire, Ina Claire (1893–1985), popular American stage and screen actor – lauded for her performance as the Grand Duchess Swana in Ernst Lubitsch’s Ninotcha (1939), starring Greta Garbo – was cast as Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer in the New York production of The Confidential Clerk: it was to be her last appearance on stage. Henry Sherek, Not in Front of the Children (1959), 190: ‘I had received a mysterious cable in London from Ina Claire. She is probably the finest comedy actress in America, but after marrying a wealthy lawyer she had been living in retirement in San Francisco for the last seven years. Every first-line production in New York had been trying to get her to come back to Broadway but she consistently turned down their affairs.
Clark, Alexander P.,

1.AlexanderClark, Alexander P. P. Clark, Curator of Manuscripts, Princeton University Library.

 and EH's Princeton bequest,
Clark, Ernest,

2.ErnestClark, Ernest Clark (1912–94), British actor – he played Alexander Gibbs in the Edinburgh production of The Cocktail Party – was to appear in the film The Dam Busters (1955), and to become well beloved in the TV series Doctor in the House and All Gas and Gaiters, 1967–71.
Clark, Freda Massingberd,

2.FredaClark, Freda Massingberd Massingberd Clark (b. 1876).
Clark, Kenneth,

4.KennethClark, Kenneth Clark (1903–83), patron, collector, historian of the arts. Educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, he was Director of the National Gallery, 1934–45; Chairman of the Arts Council, 1953–60. He won honours including a life peerage (1969) and the Order of Merit (1976). Writings include Landscape into Art (1949); The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956); Civilisation: a Personal View (1969), based on his TV series Civilisation (1966–9).

 and 'Defence of the Islands', introduces Henry Moore to TSE,
Clark Lectures, The (1926), resuscitated for Turnbull Memorial lectures,
Clark, Sir Andrew Edmund James,

2.SirClark, Sir Andrew Edmund James Andrew Edmund James Clark, MC, QC, 3rd Baronet (1898–1979).
Clark, Walter,

2.WalterClark, Walter Clark (1881–1960), Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Harvard University, 1927–50.
Clarke, Professor Sir Frederick,

5.ProfessorClarke, Professor Sir Frederick Sir Frederick Clarke (1880–1952), Professor of Education; Director of the Institute of Education, University of London, 1936–45; member of ‘The Moot’. His major publications include Essays in the Politics of Education (1923); Education and Social Change: an English interpretation (1940); Freedom in the Educative Society (1948).
Clarke, Tom,

1.TomClarke, Tom Clarke: news editor, Daily Mail; editor, News Chronicle; Director of Practical Journalism, King’s College London, 1935–9.
Classical Association, TSE disqualifies himself for presidency, Livingstone confers Presidency on TSE, TSE's communiqué to Greek Minister, Presidential Address for,
Classics and the Man of Letters, The, being written, revised with suggestions from GCF, reception,
Clayton, Joseph ('Joe'),

12.JosephClayton, Joseph ('Joe') ClaytonClayton, Margaret, FRHistS (1867–1943). Clayton was a journalist, author and historian; editor of The New Age, 1906–7; Catholic convert. Resident in later years in Chipping Campden, where he and his wife Margaret became friendly with the Perkinses.

 dies, his obituary,
Clayton, Margaret,

12.JosephClayton, Joseph ('Joe') ClaytonClayton, Margaret, FRHistS (1867–1943). Clayton was a journalist, author and historian; editor of The New Age, 1906–7; Catholic convert. Resident in later years in Chipping Campden, where he and his wife Margaret became friendly with the Perkinses.

 letter of condolence to, acknowledged, presently dies,
Clemen, Wolfgang H.,

1.WolfgangClemen, Wolfgang H. H. Clemen (1909–90), literary scholar; renowned for Shakespeare’s Imagery (1951) – a work that began life as his doctoral dissertation completed in 1936. He taught at Cologne and Kiel, and was to be Professor of English at the University of Munich, 1946–74.
Clement, James,

2.JamesClement, James Clement (1889–1973), Harvard Class of 1911, marriedClement, Margot Marguerite C. Burrel (who was Swiss by birth) in 1913. In later years, TSE liked visiting them at their home in Geneva.

 Wayland weekends with, conversation limited to grandchildren,
see also Clements, the
Clement, Margot,

2.JamesClement, James Clement (1889–1973), Harvard Class of 1911, marriedClement, Margot Marguerite C. Burrel (who was Swiss by birth) in 1913. In later years, TSE liked visiting them at their home in Geneva.

 too Swiss for America, knits TSE socks, ministrates to TSE,
see also Clements, the
Clements, the, their marriage, take TSE to hockey match, at the movies with TSE, send TSE food, in Geneva,
Clerk, Mabel Honor, Lady (née Dutton),

3.LadyClerk, Mabel Honor, Lady (née Dutton) Mabel Honor Clerk, née Dutton (1880–1974), widow of Sir George James Robert Clerk of Penicuik, 9th Baronet (1876–1943).
Club, The, TSE elected to,
Coal Miners' strikes, 1947,
Cobb, Richard,

5.RichardCobb, Richard Cobb was Head of Milton Academy, 1904–10. HisApthorp, Harrison Otis immediate predecessor was Harrison Otis Apthorp (1857–1905), Head of Milton, 1887–1904.

 as TSE's Milton headmaster,
Cobden-Sanderson, Sally,

1.TSE’sCobden-Sanderson, Sally friend Sally Cobden-Sanderson was working for Hutchinson’s Agency (‘for Domestic Help Male and Female’), Regent Street – a firm which also catered for travel arrangements.

 and TSE's Ausonia passage,
see also Cobden-Sandersons, the
Cobden-Sandersons, the,
Cochran, Charles Blake ('C. B.'),

4.C. B. CochranCochran, Charles Blake ('C. B.') (1872–1951), English theatrical manager and impresario; successful producer of revues, musicals and plays; collaborator with Noël Coward.
Cockburn, James Hutchinson,

12.JamesCockburn, James Hutchinson Hutchison Cockburn (1882–1973), Church of Scotland clergyman and scholar; Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1941–2. William Belden Lecturer at Harvard, 1942. From 1944 he was to be Chaplain to King George VI.
Cocktail Party, The, copy inscribed to Miss Swan, Martin Browne's preference for a popular play, plot ruminated, still a distant prospect, deferred by war, at last begun, being written, EH begs TSE to continue, stimulated by the Martin Brownes, titled and nearly drafted, interrupted, attempts to reconcile EH to title, to be discussed with Brownes, to be continued in Princeton, end in prospect, TSE rewriting, alternative titles, its star appeal, 1949 Edinburgh Festival production, Martin Browne to produce, production schedule, the Martin Browne collaboration, 'reading' for, reviewed, cuts made during rehearsal, TSE's opening-night impressions, stage-set for, copy to be sent to EH, EH on, TSE disavows autobiographical basis, post-Edinburgh prospects, 1949 Theatre Royal, Brighton run, its fate, closing, 1950 New York transfer, TSE skeptical of, its fate, being negotiated, fixed, revisions made in mind of, alarmingly successful, royalties from, prospects beyond 1 June 1950, final act still being rewritten, its reception, EH's second opinion on, 1950 New Theatre production, preliminary week in Southsea, its fate, opening night, to close with provinicial tour, comes off at New Theatre, Mrs Nef's reading-group reading, in which TSE reads Reilly, and casting for Confidential Clerk, its first draft, difficult to produce in France, 1954 Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier production, reception, Muriel Spark on, EH detects hidden meaning in,
Cocteau, Jean,

2.JeanCocteau, Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), playwright, poet, librettist, novelist, film-maker, artist and designer, was born near Paris and established an early reputation with two volumes of verse, La Lampe d’Aladin (Aladdin’s Lamp) and Prince Frivole (The Frivolous Prince). Becoming associated with many of the foremost practitioners of experimental modernism, such as Gide, Picasso, Stravinsky, Satie and Modigliani, he turned his energies to modes of artistic activity ranging from ballet-scenarios to opera-scenarios, as well as fiction and drama. ‘Astonish me!’ urged Sergei Diaghilev. A quick collaborator in all fields, his works embrace stage productions such as Parade (1917, prod. by Diaghilev, with music by Satie and designs by Picasso); Oedipus Rex (1927, with music by Stravinsky); and La Machine Infernale (produced at the Comédie des Champs-Elysées, 1934); novels including Les Enfants terribles (1929); and the screenplay Le Sang d’un poète (1930; The Blood of a Poet, 1949).

 TSE on, his conversion to Catholicism, Maritain on, an amusing bore, as interpreter of Greek drama, La Machine infernale, Orphée,
Codrington, Primrose (née Harley),

2.PrimroseCodrington, Primrose (née Harley) Codrington, née Harley (1908–78), a professional painter – she exhibited work at galleries including the Royal Academy, the New English Art Club and the London Group – was married in 1936 to a professional soldier named Lt.-Col. John Codrington (1898–1991), but divorced in 1942. She lived and worked in Chelsea.
Coffey, Brian,
Coffey, Dr Denis J.,

11.DrCoffey, Dr Denis J. Denis J. Coffey (1865–1945), first President of University College Dublin, 1908–40. Formerly Professor of Physiology, and Dean of the Catholic University Medical School.
Coghill, Nevill,

11.NevillCoghill, Nevill Coghill (1899–1980), born in Co. Cork, studied at Exeter College, Oxford, and taught at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, before being elected in 1924 to a research fellowship at Exeter College and then a full Fellowship. From 1957 he was Merton Professor of English. A passionate member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, he put on many plays (including Measure for Measure, starring Richard Burton, in 1944); and he was friends with C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, and with his pupil W. H. Auden. His primary interest was Chaucer: he translated The Canterbury Tales (1956) and Troilus and Criseyde (1971), and he wrote The Poet Chaucer (1949), Geoffrey Chaucer (1956) and Shakespeare’s Professional Skills (1964). He later edited the Faber Educational editions of Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion and The Cocktail Party.

 TSE kept from talking to, his Worcester College gardens Tempest,
Cohen, Dennis,

4.DennisCohen, Dennis Cohen (1891–1970), independently wealthy editor and publisher; educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Oxford, he founded in 1927 the Cresset Press, which specialised in illustrated editions of classical works and editions de luxe (including Gulliver’s Travels decorated by Rex Whistler). TSE’s flatmate John Hayward was a literary adviser.
Cohen, Harriet,

1.HarrietCohen, Harriet Cohen (1895–1967), distinguished, well-connected and influential British pianist.
Cohn, Leonie,

3.LeonieCohn, Leonie Cohn (1917–2009), born in Königsberg, Prussia, to a cultured Jewish family – the family had dealt in amber, and her father was a lawyer – migrated to Italy when the Nazi government denied her ambition to go to university at home. She studied languages, notably Arabic and Hebrew, at Rome University, but Fascist oppression forced her in Dec. 1938 to flee Italy for Britain (being Jewish, she would otherwise have been obliged to return to Germany), where she was sponsored by Herbert Read to act as a nanny for his three children. The capable Cohn (to whom childcare did not come naturally) joined the BBC’s German Service at Bush House in Nov. 1941, with support from Read and TSE (see below), working initially as a translator. In 1950 Cohn progressed from External Services to become a resourceful and distinguished producer of features and documentaries (including discussions with artists and architects, and the major series This Island Now and This Europe Now). She married Paul Findlay, chief engineer of Hamburg Radio and deputy controller of broadcasting in the British zone of occupation in north-west Germany; later Head of BBC TV administration.
Coker, Lewis Aubrey ('Bolo'),

5.MargaretCoker, Margaret Rosalys ('Margot', née Mirrlees) Rosalys Mirrlees – ‘Margot’ (b. 1898) – wasCoker, Lewis Aubrey ('Bolo') married in 1920 to Lewis Aubrey Coker, OBE (1883–1953), nicknamed ‘Bolo’, a major in the Royal Field Artillery. T. S. Matthews, Great Tom: Notes towards the definition of T. S. Eliot (1974), 126: ‘The married daughter, Margot Coker, had a large country house near Bicester …’

 reputation at Shamley, at Christmas,
see also Cokers, the
Coker, Margaret Rosalys ('Margot', née Mirrlees),

5.MargaretCoker, Margaret Rosalys ('Margot', née Mirrlees) Rosalys Mirrlees – ‘Margot’ (b. 1898) – wasCoker, Lewis Aubrey ('Bolo') married in 1920 to Lewis Aubrey Coker, OBE (1883–1953), nicknamed ‘Bolo’, a major in the Royal Field Artillery. T. S. Matthews, Great Tom: Notes towards the definition of T. S. Eliot (1974), 126: ‘The married daughter, Margot Coker, had a large country house near Bicester …’

 described for EH, at Mappie's 80th-birthday celebrations, in Natal for Mappie's death, Wishful Cooking,
see also Cokers, the
Cokers, the, due at Shamley for Christmas,
Cold War, The, and atomic war, EH on nuclear proliferation, TSE on the threat of, the Berlin Airlift,
Colefax, Lady Sibyl (née Halsey),

4.SibylColefax, Lady Sibyl (née Halsey), Lady Colefax (1874–1950), socialite and professional decorator; was married in 1901 to Sir Arthur Colefax, lawyer. John Hayward called her (New York Sun, 25 Aug. 1934) ‘perhaps the best, certainly the cleverest, hostess in London at the present time. As an impresario she is unequaled, but there is far too much circulation and hubbub at her parties to entitle her to be called a salonière.’ See Kirsty McLeod, A Passion for Friendship (1991); Siân Evans, Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Hostesses Between the Wars (2016).

 TSE's dislike for, dislike refreshed, prejudices TSE against Dorothy Wellesley, gives dinner for the Wavells, ill with 'broken head',
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, recommended for EH's 'criticism' course,
Coliseum, The, London, panto (Cinderella) delights TSE,
Collected Poems: 1909–1935, additions to be written for, Burnt Norton's signficance within, reviewed,
College of the City of New York, offers TSE wartime lecturing, withdraws offer, withdraws offer, bars Bertrand Russell from teaching,
Collett, Mary,

7.MaryCollett, Mary Collett (ca. 1600–80) became ‘mother’ to the community of Little Gidding from 1632. The poet Richard Crashaw was an admirer of Collett.

 inspires Little Gidding pilgrimage, immanent at Little Gidding,
Collis, Margot,

3.MargotCollis, Margot Collis (1907–51) used her first married name, Collis, as an actor; her maiden name, Ruddock, as a poet. Michael J. Sidnell characterises her as ‘a beautiful, humourless woman with high artistic and intellectual ambitions, who had recently been the lessee, with her husband, of two provincial theatres. In September 1933 she had written to Yeats, out of the blue, to propose the foundation of a poets’ theatre. Yeats met her in London in October and became her lover. He decided that she had the beauty and the intellectual passion to be a great actor and began to execute her idea with gusto and with a view to advancing her career’ (Sidnell, Dances of Death, 266). See further Ah, Sweet Dancer: W. B. Yeats and Margot Ruddock: A Correspondence, ed. Roger McHugh (1970); Yeats, Uncollected Prose, ed, John P. Frayne and Colton Johnson, 501–6.

 at disastrous Mercury Theatre meeting, Yeats's weakness for,
Colonial Society, The,
Columbia University, confers degree on TSE, degree ceremony witnessed by TSE's family, TSE lectures at, offers TSE Bampton Lectureship,
committees, as a form of evasion, TSE forswears,
communism, TSE's fantasy political party conceived against, communists satirised in The Rock, communists known to TSE, essentially antagonistic to Christianity, discussed with Bunny Wilson, and unemployment, as against fascism, the church's case against, preferred to conservatism, TSE asked to sign Christian manifesto against, as inspiration for Auden and Isherwood's collaboration, preached by Cecil Day Lewis, and Middleton Murry, during the Cold War, Margaret Thorp's liberal hypocrises over,
Compagnie des Quinze, its Don Juan recalled,
Compton, Arthur Holly,

3.ArthurCompton, Arthur Holly Holly Compton (1892–1962), physicist – winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1927 – was Chancellor of Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, 1945–53. See TSE, ‘American Literature and the American Language’: CProse 7, 792–810.
Conant, Grace Thayer (née Richards),

8.GraceConant, Grace Thayer (née Richards) Thayer Conant, née Richards (1898–1985), daughter of Theodore William Richards, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1914. Her husband, James B. Conant, was 23rd President of Harvard, 1933–53. TSE dined with the Conants on 5 June 1947.
Conant, James B.,

1.JamesConant, James B. B. Conant (1893–1978), chemist; 23rd President of Harvard University, 1933–53.
Concord Academy, Massachusetts, appoints EH on temporary basis, subsequently to permanent position, provides EH with rooms, TSE's Commencement Address to, compared to Scripps, TSE on,
Confidential Clerk, The, first sketches towards, intended for 1952 Edinburgh Festival, being written, draft complete, which TSE rewrites, now intended for 1953 Edinburgh Festival, and Sherek's lordly conduct, EVE typing up, TSE finalising, 1953 Edinburgh production, negotiations over, casting for, may prompt further revision, stage-sets for, EH's ticket arranged for, dress rehearsal, 1953 Lyric Theatre production, first night, full house, soon to come off, 1954 American production, Sherek to negotiate, schedule for, EH encouraged to report on, reception, 1954 Paris International Theatre Festival production, reception, 1954 Ruhrfestspiele production, reception, 1954 post-Paris English touring production, Muriel Spark on, EH requests signed copy of,
Congreve, William, Love for Love,
Connolly, Cyril,

CyrilConnolly, Cyril Connolly (1903–74): English literary critic and author; editor of the literary magazine Horizon, 1940–9; joint chief book reviewer for the Sunday Times, 1952–74. Works include The Rock Pool (novel, 1935), Enemies of Promise (1938), The Unquiet Grave (1944). See Connolly, ‘Revolutionary out of Missouri’, Sunday Times, 10 Jan. 1956, 38.

 reviews Collected Poems, and Spender busy on Horizon, and TSE discuss Horizon,
Conrad, Joseph, The Heart of Darkness,
conservatism, TSE inclines towards, TSE would favour communism over, Landon distinguished from Roosevelt,
Constable-Maxwell-Scott, Sir Walter, 1st Baronet,

4.SirConstable-Maxwell-Scott, Sir Walter, 1st Baronet Walter Constable-Maxwell-Scott, 1st Baronet, DSO (1875–1954) – British Army officer (retired 1934), and great-great-grandson of the novelist Sir Walter Scott – inherited Abbotsford House from his mother in 1920.
'Cooking Egg, A', and EH,
Cooper, (Alfred) Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich,

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

 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,
Cooper, Lady Diana (née Manners),

7.DianaCooper, Lady Diana (née Manners) Cooper, née Lady Diana Manners (1892–1986), socialite and actor, was married in 1919 to Alfred Duff Cooper (1890–1954), Conservative politician, diplomat and historian.
Copeau, Jacques,
Corbett, Harry H.,

6.HarryCorbett, Harry H. H. Corbett (1925–82): British actor on stage, film and TV, and comedian – who had served during WW2 with the Royal Marines in the Far East, before taking up acting – was to become a household name as the character Harold Steptoe in the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son, 1962–5, 1970–4 (which sadly typecast him).

 in 1956 Family Reunion revival,
Coriolan, Triumphal March, TSE's conception of, TSE hopes to finish,
Cornell, Katharine,

5.KatharineCornell, Katharine Cornell (1893–1974), distinguished American stage actor, writer and producer.
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille, particularly beautiful portrait by,
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, TSE's friends at, honorary fellowship coveted at, TSE's favourite Oxbridge college, TSE twice guest at, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, awards TSE degree, and the Boutwood Lectures, and Tom Faber,
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, TSE's Oxford perch,
Coulton, George Gordon,

3.GeorgeCoulton, George Gordon Gordon Coulton, FBA (1858–1947), historian of medieval history and religion; controversialist; vehement anti-Catholic. His many publications include Chaucer and His England (1908); Life in the Middle Ages (1910; revised in 4 vols, 1928); Papal Infallibility (1922); In Defence of the Reformation (1931); Five Centuries of Religion (4 vols, 1927–50).

 charms TSE, presents him with engraving,
Council of Church, Community & State,
Council of Churches at Lambeth, TSE attends,
Council of the Universities Mission to Central Africa,
Cournos, John,

1.JohnCournos, John Cournos (1881–1966) – Johann Gregorievich Korshune – naturalised American writer of Russian birth (his Jewish parents fled Russia when he was 10), worked as a journalist on the Philadelphia Record and was first noted in Britain as an Imagist poet; he became better known as novelist, essayist and translator. After living in England in the 1910s and 1920s, he emigrated to the USA. An unhappy love affair in 1922–3 with Dorothy L. Sayers was fictionalised by her in Strong Poison (1930), and by him in The Devil is an English Gentleman (1932). His other publications include London Under the Bolsheviks (1919), In Exile (1923), Miranda Masters (a roman à clef about the imbroglio between himself, the poet HD and Richard Aldington, 1926), and Autobiography (1935). See too Alfred Satterthwaite, ‘John Cournos and “H.D.”’, Twentieth Century Literature 22: 4 (Dec. 1976), 394–410.

 described for EH, puts TSE up, on TSE's lecture persona, mourns The Criterion,
Courtfield Road, TSE reconnoitres, as described to EVE, TSE moves into, described for EH, meal-times at,
Coward, Noël, TSE's dislike for, compared to Shakespeare and Racine, his prose inferior to Shaw's, has two plays on, name dropped by Gilda Dahlberg, Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, The Queen was in the Parlour,
Cowley, Abraham, TSE's note on,
Cowley House, Oxford, TSE considers retreat at, then makes retreat to, and Divinity Books issue, TSE discusses South India at,
Cowper, William, TSE suggests to EH for joint-reading,
Cox, Ian,

1.IanCox, Ian Cox, a scientist by training, was BBC Talks Producer from 1936.

 lobbies TSE for Christmas sermon, subsequently for reading of 'Cat Poems',
Cram, Ralph Adams,

8.RalphCram, Ralph Adams Adams Cram (sic; 1863–1942), Boston architect, specialising in collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings in Gothic Revival style. Anglo-Catholic. Married to Elizabeth.
Crane, Mary Hinckley,

4.MaryCrane, Mary Hinckley Hinckley Crane (Mrs Alexander): Headmistress of Abbot Academy, 1955–66.
Crashaw, Richard, and Little Gidding,
Crawford, John Herbert,

10.JohnCrawford, John Herbert Herbert Crawford (1908–91), Australian tennis player; world number 1 in 1933.
Crawley, W. J., on Cats' sales, working late next door,
Cresswell, Euphemia ('Effie'),

4.Herbert PinkneyCresswell, Pinkney Creswell andCresswell, Euphemia ('Effie') his wife Euphemia – ‘Effie’ (a friend at Chipping Campden) – lived at Ardley House (now the Kings Hotel) before moving in 1934–5 to Charingworth Manor, a fine Tudor house (also now a hotel) about four miles east of Chipping Campden. Effie Cresswell liked to hold arty gatherings and tea parties for cultured visitors.
Cresswell, Pinkney,

4.Herbert PinkneyCresswell, Pinkney Creswell andCresswell, Euphemia ('Effie') his wife Euphemia – ‘Effie’ (a friend at Chipping Campden) – lived at Ardley House (now the Kings Hotel) before moving in 1934–5 to Charingworth Manor, a fine Tudor house (also now a hotel) about four miles east of Chipping Campden. Effie Cresswell liked to hold arty gatherings and tea parties for cultured visitors.
Cret, Paul Philippe,

16.PaulCret, Paul Philippe Philippe Cret (1876–1945), French-born architect, taught design in the Dept of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania for thirty years. Among the projects he headed were the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC; the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia; the master plan for the University of Texas at Austin (including the central tower); the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Philadelphia; and the Duke Ellington Bridge, Washington, DC.
Cripps, Sir Richard Stafford,

8.SirCripps, Sir Richard Stafford Richard Stafford Cripps (1889–1952), lawyer and Labour Party politician; co-founder in 1932 and leader of the Socialist League, he was at this time opposed to rearmament.

 Leonard Woolf situates within Labour, appointed to cabinet, makes TSE's cold worse,
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',
Crofton, Harry C.,

1.HarryCrofton, Harry C. C. Crofton (d. 1938), was the senior of the four managers of the Colonial and Foreign Department. HisCrofton, Harry C.TSE remembered by his son;a2n son John told the Archivist of Lloyds Bank, 1 Aug. 1980: ‘I have memories of my father inviting T. S. for several week-ends to our home. My mother … used to speak of him and of how much they enjoyed his visits. (If I may add that in those days it was a little unusual for the Chief Foreign Manager to invite “a clerk” for week-ends!!!) I do know that the object of the visits from my father’s side, was to persuade T. S. to give up the Bank and devote himself to his obvious real calling.’

 TSE's ease with, TSE remembered by his son, lunches with TSE on New Year's Day, in thumbnail,
Cros, Guy-Charles,

6.Guy-CharlesCros, Guy-Charles Cros (1879–1956), noted poet and translator, whose father Charles Cros (1842–88) was also a poet, and an inventor. In 1877 he published an invention that he termed the ‘Paleophone’: a device for reproducing recorded sound by means of a vibrating membrane. Sadly for him, just a year later, Thomas Edison produced a working model of the cylinder-based phonograph.
Crosby, Caresse,

2.CaresseCrosby, Caresse Crosby (1892–1970), née Jacob (her parents were wealthy New Yorkers), married in 1922 the poet Harry Crosby, with whom she set up in Paris an imprint called Editions Narcisse, which became the Black Sun Press: they published writers including James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Hart Crane and Ezra Pound. Following Harry Crosby’s suicide in Dec. 1929, she continued to expand the Black Sun Press – publishing works including Hart Crane’s The Bridge (1930) and editions of Crosby’s writings – before returning to the USA. In later years she took initiatives in various fields: she opened the Crosby Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC; she launched a quarterly journal, Portfolio: An Intercontinental Review; and she became active in the international peace movement, co-founding Citizens of the World and Women Against War. Writings include Poems for Harry Crosby (1931); The Passionate Years (memoir, 1953).
Crosby, Harry,
Cross, Ellen,
Crothers, Samuel McChord,

2.SamuelCrothers, Samuel McChord McChord Crothers (1857–1927), Unitarian minister of the First Parish, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass.
Crum, John M. C.,

3.JohnCrum, John M. C. M. C. Crum (1872–1958), Anglican theologian and poet; Canon of Canterbury Cathedral since 1928.
Culford School, Bury St. Edmunds, TSE's Prize Day address at,
Culpin, Johanna ('Aunt Johanna', née Staengel), described, TSE's South Kensington neighbour, weekly chess opponent, 'tiring', reports Nazi horrors, her German refugees, whom TSE helps, quarrels with VHE, leaving for Germany, departure toasted with champagne, returned from Germany, taken to Murder, and TSE watch Show Boat, returns again to Germany, taken to the movies, and company taken to Escargot,
Culpin, John ('Jack') Reibel, described,
Culpin, Karl Henry, remembered,
Culpin, Mary ('Mollie') Johanna, plays piano at the Eliots' party, evening of Cockney songs with,
Culpin, Rexi,

3.RexiCulpin, Rexi Culpin, wife of Jack Culpin (surviving son of TSE’s old friend Jan Culpin).

 plays Hungarian songs, introduces fellow-Hungarian to the Eliots,
Cultivation of Christmas Trees, The, sent uninscribed, explained as publishing venture,
'Cultural Diversity and European Unity', as it was delivered,
Cummings, Constance,

2.ConstanceCummings, Constance Cummings (1910–2005), American-born British stage and screen actor.
Cummings, Edward Estlin ('E. E.'), Second Footman to TSE's Lord Bantock,
Cunard, Nancy, TSE's liaison with, TSE's liaison with, gave parties to which TSE wore make-up, possible patron for Mercury Theatre season, 'Letter',
Curran, Constantine Peter ('C. P.'),

8.C. P. (ConstantineCurran, Constantine Peter ('C. P.') Peter) Curran (1880–1972), contemporary and friend of Joyce at Trinity College Dublin; lawyer and historian of eighteenth-century Dublin art and architecture; author of James Joyce Remembered (1968).
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).
Curtis, Charles P.,

3.CharlesCurtis, Charles P. P. Curtis (1891–1959), distinguished Boston lawyer and author; publications include Lions Under the Throne (Boston, 1947) and The Oppenheimer Case (Boston, 1955).

 TSE discusses his will with,
Curtis, Lionel,

8.LionelCurtis, Lionel Curtis (1872–1955), administrator, author; lecturer; Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; proponent of a federal world government; founder in 1910 of the quarterly Round Table, he was instrumental in setting up the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) during the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. Appointed Companion of Honour in 1949.
Curtis, Revd Geoffrey,

4.RevdCurtis, Revd Geoffrey Geoffrey Curtis (1902–81), Anglican priest, scholar and teacher: see Biographical Register.

 torn between Mirfield and Rome, at Mirfield, visited at Burnham, seeks TSE's counsel,
Curtiss, Mina, in Dr Perkins's book,
Curtius, Ernst Robert ('E. R.'), mourns The Criterion, TSE intercedes on behalf of,
Curzon, Charles, Bishop of Stepney (later Bishop of Exeter),

3.CharlesCurzon, Charles, Bishop of Stepney (later Bishop of Exeter) Curzon (1878–1954), 6th Bishop of Stepney, 1928–36; later Bishop of Exeter.

 and TSE's three-bishop lunch,
'Cyril Tourneur', and Tourneur's identity,
Czecho-Slovak Institute, London, TSE's address to,
Dahlberg, Gilda,

1.GildaDahlberg, Gilda Dahlberg, née Rebecca Krieger (1902–79), American actor: she was to appear in Federico Fellini’s film 8½ (1963).

 hounds TSE on boat,
Daily Telegraph, now government mouthpiece, reviews Murder, schmoozed by TSE, reviews Family Reunion, reviews The Cocktail Party,
d'Almado, José,

1.Joséd'Almado, José d’Almado (b. 1879?), financier and adviser, Banco Nacional Ultramarino (National Overseas Bank).

 as host in Portugal,
Dane, Barbara (née Welch, later Sturtevant), TSE's pity for, horror story connected with,
Dane, Ernest Blaney, Jr.,
Dante, EH reading,
Dante Alighieri, TSE explains inscription quoting, TSE lectures on, his didacticism compared to Shelley's, spiritually 'helpful', TSE asked to broadcast on, EH favoured with quote from,
D'Aranyi, Jelly, playing Beethoven in Lincoln,
D'Arcy, Fr Martin,

3.MartinD'Arcy, Fr Martin D’Arcy (1888–1976), Jesuit priest and theologian: see Biographical Register.

 'cleverest Jesuit in England', approves After Strange Gods, discusses 'Pro Fide' scheme, lent galoshes, compared to TSE qua Christian, compared to Freddie Ayer, consulted on BBC talk, recommended to EH, at Bishop Bell's conference,
Dark, Sidney,

1.SidneyDark, Sidney Dark (1872–1947), editor of the Anglo-Catholic Church Times, 1924–41.

 part of Church Times contretemps, urged to moderate tone,
Darwin, Bernard, at The Literary Society,
Daumier, Honoré, interests TSE,
David, Richard,

8.TSEDavid, Richard reported on The Janus of Poets: Being an essay on the Dramatic Value of Shakspere’s Poetry both good and bad, by Richard David (Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) – an extended version of the winning entry in the Harkness Essay Prize 1934 – which was to be published by Cambridge University Press, 1935.
Davies, Hugh Sykes,

1.HughDavies, Hugh Sykes Sykes Davies (1909–84), author and critic; Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge: see Biographical Register

 invites TSE to St. John's feast, takes TSE to rugby match, at Dobrée's farewell lunch,
Davies, Peter Llewelyn,

1.PeterDavies, Peter Llewelyn Llewelyn Davies (1897–1960) felt plagued for life after being identified by J. M. Barrie as the original of Peter Pan. After dreadful and distinguished war service, for which he was awarded the Military Cross, in 1926 he founded the publishing house Peter Davies Ltd. – he published his cousin Daphne du Maurier’s volume about her renowned grandfather, The Young George du Maurier, letters 1860–1867 (1951). See Andrew Birkin, J. M. Barrie & the Lost Boys (1979); Finding Neverland (film, 2004); John Logan, Peter and Alice (play, 2013).

 takes TSE to lunch with J. M. Barrie, at Fred Manning's funeral,
Davis, Herbert,

7.HerbertDavis, Herbert Davis (1893–1967).
Dawkins, Lady Bertha,

4.LadyDawkins, Lady Bertha Bertha Dawkins (1866–1943), widow – who was married to Major Arthur Dawkins, 1903–5 – had been Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary, and a confidante.
Dawson, Bertrand, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn,
Dawson, Christopher,

2.ChristopherDawson, Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), cultural historian: see Biographical Register.

 co-orchestrates BBC religious talks, signatory to Credit Reform letter, encouraged to expand Christianity and Sex, writes Times's Abdication Crisis editorial, anointed reader of Boutwood Lectures, promised article for Dublin Review, in Oxford, where he hosts TSE,
Dawson, Geoffrey,

9.GeoffreyDawson, Geoffrey Dawson (1874–1944), editor of The Times, 1912–19, 1922–41.

 and Credit Reform letter to The Times, at The Literary Society, rumoured to be pro-German,
Day Lewis, Cecil,

4.CecilDay Lewis, Cecil Day Lewis (1904–72), Anglo-Irish poet and novelist (author of mystery novels under the pseud. Nicholas Blake); Oxford Professor of Poetry, 1951–6; Norton Professor at Harvard, 1962–3; Poet Laureate, 1968–72. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he edited with Auden the anthology Oxford Poetry 1927. For a period in the mid-1930s he was a member of the Communist Party. After WW2 he worked as a director and senior editor of the publishers Chatto & Windus. His poetry includes From Feathers to Iron (1932), The Complete Poems of C. Day-Lewis (1992); critical works include A Hope for Poetry (1934); The Poetic Image (1947); and The Buried Day (autobiography, 1960). He was made CBE, 1950; and appointed Poet Laureate in 1968. See Sean Day-Lewis, C. Day Lewis: An English Literary Life (1980); Peter Stanford, C. Day-Lewis: A Life (1998).

 addresses Red Cross Society, at Valéry memorial event, and the Spender–Campbell spat, The Graveyard by the Sea,
de Blasio, Maria,

5.Mariade Blasio, Maria de Blasio (1917–2007), of Italian heritage, graduated from Smith College in 1938 and wrote a postgraduate thesis (supervised by EH) on TSE’s poetry and criticism. During WW2 she worked at Time magazine, and edited Italian-language propaganda for the Office of War Information. She was author of The Other Italy: The Italian Resistance in World War II (1988). In 1945 she married Warren Wilhelm (1917–79). Bill de Blasio (b. 1961), Mayor of New York City, 2014–21, is her third son.
de Cervantes, Miguel, Don Quixote,
de Chirico, Giorgio, Barnes Foundation paintings delight TSE,
de Foucauld, Charles,

2.Renéreading (TSE's)René Bazin's Charles de Foucauld;d5 Bazin, Charles de Foucauld [1921], trans. Peter Keelan (La Vie de Charles de Foucauld explorateur en Maroc, eremite du Sahara). Charlesde Foucauld, Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916), explorer, monk and priest, a wealthy aristocrat who served in the early part of his life as an army officer in Algeria. In 1882 he resigned from the army and joined a perilous exploration to the Sahara, travelling in disguise through Algeria and Morocco; he also journeyed into South Algeria and Tunisia; and he would later visit the Holy Land. He subsequently took holy orders and chose to lead a life of penury and hardship: having been ordained a priest in 1901, he proceeded to live for the next fifteen years as a hermit missionary in the central Sahara near Morocco, ultimately in a Touareg village at Tamanghasset in southern Algeria. He was shot and killed by passing Muslim insurgents of the Senussi order.

 inspires TSE by his example,
de Gaulle, Charles,

1.Charlesde Gaulle, Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), military officer and statesman. Having refused to accept the armistice with Germany in June 1940, he based himself in London from where he led the Free French Forces and then the French National Liberation Committee. Later, President of the Republic.

 TSE to meet with Saurat, at Marseilles,
de la Mare, Richard,

12.Richardde la Mare, Richard de la Mare (1901–86) – elder son of the poet Walter de la Mare – director of F&F, in charge of design and production: see Biographical Register.

 at JDH's Faber evening, offers Mrs Mirrlees seedlings, his 40th at Much Hadham, TSE's Much Hadham chauffeur,
see also de la Mares, the
de la Mare, Walter,

4.Walterde la Mare, Walter de la Mare (1873–1956), poet, novelist, short story writer, worked for the Statistics Department of the Anglo-American Oil Company, 1890–1908, before being freed to become a freelance writer by a £200 royal bounty negotiated by Henry Newbolt. He wrote many popular works: poetry including The Listeners (1912) and Peacock Pie (1913); novels including Henry Brocken (1904) and Memoirs of a Midget (1921); anthologies including Come Hither (1923). Appointed OM, 1953; CH, 1948. F&F brought out several of his books including Collected Rhymes and Verses (1942) and Collected Poems (1948); and TSE wrote ‘To Walter de la Mare’ for A Tribute to Walter de la Mare (1948). See further Theresa Whistler, Imagination of the Heart: The Life of Walter de la Mare (1993).

 talks to TSE at tea-party, roped into Edith Sitwell poetry-reading, at which he reads, at which he is rated, exempt from public duties, his funeral,
de la Mares, the, TSE forgoes EH's invitation for, TSE's dread of visiting, give dinner for the Morleys, give TSE wartime refuge, the children, teach TSE vingt-et-un,
de La Rochefoucauld, Edmée, Duchesse, keen on Murder in Paris, discusses St. John of the Cross,
de Lacretelle, Jacques,

1.Jacquesde Lacretelle, Jacques de Lacretelle (1888–1985), novelist; elected to the Académie Française in Nov. 1936.
de Margerie, Henriette 'Jenny' Jacquin (née Fabre-Luce),

4.Henriettede Margerie, Henriette 'Jenny' Jacquin (née Fabre-Luce) ‘Jenny’ Jacquin de Margerie, née Fabre-Luce (1896–1991), wife of the French diplomat Roland de Margerie.

 lion-huntress-in-chief, keen for Murder in Paris,
de Menasce, Jean,

6.Jeande Menasce, Jean de Menasce (1902–73), theologian and orientalist (his writings include studies in Judaism, Zionism and Hasidism), was born in Alexandria into an aristocratic Egyptian Jewish family and educated in Alexandria, at Balliol College, Oxford (he was contemporary with Graham Greene and took his BA in 1924), and at the Sorbonne (Licence de Lettres). In Paris, he was associated with the magazines Commerce and L’Esprit, and he translated several of TSE’s poems for French publication: his translation of The Waste Land was marked ‘revué et approuvée par l’auteur’. He became a Catholic convert in 1926, was ordained in 1935 a Dominican priest – Father Pierre de Menasce – and became Professor of the History of Religion at the University of Fribourg, 1938–48; Professor and Director of Studies, specialising in Ancient Iranian Religions, at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris (1949–70).

 as Jamesian, as translator, TSE admits spiritual inferiority to, congratulated on ordination, severe on Christian Society,
de Montalk, Geoffrey Wladisla Potocki,

2.Onde Montalk, Geoffrey Wladisla Potocki 8 Feb. 1932, Geoffrey Wladisla Potocki de Montalk, a British subject born in 1904 in New Zealand (his grandfather was a Polish Count, and it seems that he was entitled to be called Count), was convicted at the Central Criminal Court of ‘uttering and publishing an obscene libel’. (As it happens, Montalk had written to TSE on 24 July 1929, claiming to be ‘anglo-catholic’ and seeking an audience; and TSE had talked with him in Aug. 1929.) Montalk had sought to publish through a firm of printers called Comps a collection of his poems – some of which, as he explained in the witness box, were translated from Rabelais.
de Sales, St. François, L'Amour de Dieu,
de Sola Pinto, Vivian,

4.Viviande Sola Pinto, Vivian de Sola Pinto (1895–1969), British literary critic and historian – friend of Siegfried Sassoon, to whom he had been second-in-command in France during WW1 – taught at University College Nottingham, where he was Professor of English, 1938–61. An authority on D. H. Lawrence – editor of The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence (with F. Warren Roberts, 1964) – he was to appear for the defence of Penguin Books in the 1960 trial of Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
de Traz, Robert,

3.Robertde Traz, Robert de Traz (1884–1951), Swiss author.
de Valera, Éamon,

2.Éamonde Valera, Éamon de Valera (1882–1975), a leader in Ireland’s struggle for independence from the UK, founded Fianna Fáil in 1926; President of the Executive Council, 1932–48, 1951–4, 1957–9. TSE to W. B. Yeats, 1 Apr. 1932: ‘I met De Valera years ago in London, but he would not remember me.’

 commands TSE's respect,
de Valois, Ninette,

6.Ninettede Valois, Ninette de Valois (1898–2001), Irish-born British dancer and choreographer; soloist in the early 1920s with Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. In 1931 she founded, in association with Lilian Baylis, the Vic-Wells Ballet Company and the Sadler’s Wells School: the company was to become the Royal Ballet in 1956. Her publications include Invitation to the Ballet (1937); Come Dance with Me (1957). Created DBE in 1951; CH, 1980.

 to assist Ashton in Mercury Theatre season,
de Villiers, Drummond Louis,

7.Drummondde Villiers, Drummond Louis Louis de Villiers (b. 1907) was married to Nicolette Gray.
Deane, Canon Anthony,

2.CanonDeane, Canon Anthony Anthony Deane (1870–1946), poet and writer of popular Christian books.
'Defence of the Islands', pleases EH, not 'a poem',
Defoe, Daniel, Bonamy Dobrée broadcasts on, Moll Flanders,
Degas, Edgar, TSE recalls painting in Boston Museum,
Dekker, Thomas, The Shoemaker's Holiday, The Witch of Edmonton,
Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugène, part of Barnes Foundation collection,
Delorne, Claude,

2.ClaudeDelorne, Claude Delorme (1912–83): politician and lawyer.
Demant, Revd Vigo Auguste,

4.RevdDemant, Revd Vigo Auguste Vigo Auguste Demant (1893–1983), Anglican clergyman; leading exponent of ‘Christian Sociology’; vicar of St John-the-Divine, Richmond, Surrey, 1933–42: see Biographical Register.

 appeals to TSE as economist, drinks and smokes in holy company, at heavy Criterion gathering, potential reader for Boutwood Lectures, as CNL editorial collaborator, sound on H. G. Wells, dull paper for Malvern 1941, at Chandos Group lunch, on TSE's Northern tour, given canonry in St. Paul's,
Dent, John Cyril, mis-introduces TSE,
d'Erlanger, Émile Beaumont,

3.Emiled'Erlanger, Émile Beaumont B. (Beaumont) d’Erlanger (1866–1939), of the banking family.

 translates Murder badly,
Derrickson, Howard, describes TSE's tea-party in the New Yorker,
'Des Organes publics et privés de la coopération intellectuelle',
'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,
Devlin, Denis,

15.DenisDevlin, Denis Devlin (1908–59), Irish poet and career diplomat; close friend of Brian Coffey, with whom he published Poems (1930). Collected Poems was edited by J. C. C. Mays (1989).
Devlin, William,

7.R. Ellis Roberts’s adaptation of Peer Gynt, starringDevlin, William the young William Devlin (1911–67) – who had been acclaimed for playing King Lear at the age of twenty-two – was directed at the Old Vic Theatre by Henry Cass. Florence Kahn (1878–1951) – Mrs Max Beerbohm – played Ase.

 in Peer Gynt,
Dewey, John,

1.JohnDewey, John Dewey (1859–1952), philosopher, psychologist, progressive educationalist, pragmatist. His works include Psychology (1887); The School and Society (1889); Moral Principles in Education (1909); Experience and Education (1938). See The Essential Dewey , vols 1 & 2, ed. Larry Hickman and Thomas Alexander (Indiana University Press, 1998).
Diaghilev, Sergei,

8.SergeiDiaghilev, Sergei Diaghilev (1872–1929), Russian impresario; founder in 1909 of the Ballets Russes.

 remembered, La Boutique fantasque, The Three Cornered Hat,
Dickens, Charles, his description of Rochester, read aloud to the Morleys, Miss Plunkett's dependence on, Ellis Roberts and Mr Chadband, TSE and Mrs Jellyby, Mrs Nickelby and Mrs Nef, Bleak House, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Nicholas Nickleby, The Pickwick Papers,
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes,

6.GoldsworthyDickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932), Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; historian, pacifist, and promoter of the League of Nations; Apostle. OM thought him ‘a rare and gentle Pagan Saint … by temperament religious and poetical’ (Ottoline at Garsington [1974], 117–19).

 at OM's, part of Bloomsbury,
Dietrich, Marlene, pointed out to TSE,
'Difficulties of a Statesman', Commerce edition,
Dighton, William,

3.WilliamDighton, William Dighton, who lodged at Donald Stauffer’s house on Alexander Street, Princeton, edited The Poems of Sidney Godolphin (Oxford, 1931).
Dirac, Paul,

5.PaulDirac, Paul Dirac (1902–84): English theoretical physicist; Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, 1932–69; one of the discoverers of quantum theory; winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (with Erwin Schrödinger) ‘for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic energy’. OM, 1973. He was a frequent visitor to the Institute for Advanced Study.

 Institute for Advanced Study reputedly graced by,
Disney, Walt, The Night Before Christmas heralded, Mickey's Polo Team disappoints, The Band Concert TSE's favourite, Fantasia attended alone,
Dix, William Shepherd,

1.WilliamDix, William Shepherd Shepherd Dix (1910–78): Librarian, Princeton University, 1953–75. Having gained first degrees (BA and MA) at the University of Virginia, he earned a doctorate in American literature at the University of Chicago. After working first as a teacher and English instructor, he became Associate Professor of English and Librarian of Rice Institute, Houston, Texas (now Rice University), 1947–53. Resolutely opposed to censorship and intellectual constraint, he served as chair of the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the American Library Association (ALA), 1951–3; chair of the International Relations Committee, 1955–60; and President of the ALA, 1969–70. In addition, he was Executive Secretary, 1957–9, and President, 1962–3, of the Association of Research Libraries. Recognised as one of the topmost figures in librarianship, he was honoured by the American Library Association with the Dewey Medal, 1969, and the Lippincott Award, 1971.

 acknowledges EH's bequest to Princeton, produces legal memorandum, objects to 50-year moratorium, suspected of reading letters, requested to write to TSE, writes to reassure, and is acknowledged, receives further material from EH, pushes again for shorter moratorium, which TSE again rejects, invited to petition TSE directly, supposed to write to TSE,
Doat, Jan,

2.JanDoat, Jan Doat (1909–88): celebrated French theatre, opera and TV director; actor and writer.

 and the Vilar Meurtre, as chorus-master,
Dobrée, Bonamy,

3.Bonamy DobréeDobrée, Bonamy (1891–1974), scholar and editor: see Biographical Register.

 Criterion monthly meeting regular, photograph of his home on TSE's mantel, in thumbnail, and Flint take TSE for farewell lunch, as country squire, promulgates Credit Reform, sings songs with TSE, shilling life of, and 'Byron', doomed to American lecture tour, reduced to doing his own gardening, detects life in Willard Thorp, farewell lunch for, training gunner officers, chairs TSE's reading,
see also Dobrées, the
Dobrée, Georgina,

10.GeorginaDobrée, Georgina Dobrée (1930–2008) was to become a distinguished clarinettist; from 1967, Professor of Clarinet at the Royal Academy of Music.

 'quaint', and TSE play rounders, evacuated with Hotsons to America,
see also Dobrées, the
Dobrée, Valentine,

3.ValentineDobrée, Valentine Dobrée (1894–1974) – née Gladys May Mabel Brooke-Pechell, daughter of Sir Augustus Brooke-Pechell, 7th Baronet – was a well-regarded artist, novelist and short story writer. In addition to Your Cuckoo Sings by Kind (Knopf, 1927), she published one further novel, The Emperor’s Tigers (F&F, 1929); a collection of stories, To Blush Unseen (1935); and a volume of verse, This Green Tide (F&F, 1965). She married Bonamy Dobrée in 1913. See further Valentine Dobrée 1894–1974 (University Gallery Leeds, 2000); and Fifty Works by Fifty British Women Artists 1900– 1950, ed. Sacha Llewellyn (2018), 85.

 inscrutable, TSE now easier with, her unfortunate real name, described for EH, reduced to cooking and cleaning for herself,
see also Dobrées, the
Dobrées, the, accompany TSE to Mae West film, pleasant weekend with, second Norfolk weekend with, engaged for the ballet with EH, TSE's final visit to Mendham, on their uppers, visited in Leeds, return to London, their new residence,
Dodds, Margaret (née Murray),

9.MargaretDodds, Margaret (née Murray) Dodds, née Murray (1891–1990) was married in 1917 to Harold W. Dodds (1889–1980), Professor of Politics, who served as 15th President of Princeton University, 1936–55.
dogs, TSE imagines himself as EH's dog, Pollicle, endear Hodgson to TSE, EH fond of, TSE wishes to give EH, TSE enthuses over with Ambassador Stimson's wife, death of Lord Lisburne's gun-dog, wish to buy EH dog reaffirmed, James Thurber's dog, wish to buy EH dog develops, TSE's wish that EH choose dog for him, of Shamley Wood, Aberdeen Terrier, belonging to Gerald Graham, TSE against, Alsatian, bites F&F sales manager in Cheltenham, Blue Bedlington Terrier, TSE wishes to bring EH, related to the Kerry Blue, TSE fantasises with Hodgson about breeding, TSE wishes EH might have, 'Boerre' (Norwegian Elkhound), travels to America, described, and right-hand traffic, TSE receives photo of, affords EH exercise, envied by TSE, scourge of Northampton, cuts foot, when chasing squirrel, suspected attempt to abduct, 'disorderly', 'cantankerous', taking unaccompanied exercise, decorated at dog-show, goes missing, not taken to Maine, EH decides to give up, poignant photograph of, dies, Bull Terrier, Ralph Hodgson's 'Picky' bites cat, home found for 'Picky', Hodgson fantasises with TSE about breeding, Dachshund, among TSE's preferred short-legged breeds, Hope Mirrlees's 'Mary', elkhound, belonging to Mrs Eames, as breed for EH, Jack Russell, among TSE's preferred short-legged breeds, possible replacement for Boerre, Kerry Blue, related to Blue Bedlington Terrier, at Army and Navy stores, Labrador, the Morleys' eight puppies, the Morleys', Pekingese, TSE averse to, belonging to Mrs Behrens, 'Polly' (the Eliots' Yorkshire Terrier), falls off roof, taken to have wound dressed, barks at Hungarian language, Poodle, as breed for EH, 'Rag Doll' (Scottish Terrier), travels to Grand Manan, TSE receives photo of, EH gives up, Samoyed, considered for EH, spaniel, belonging to the Fabers, Staffordshire Terrier, Hodgson advises Miss Wilberforce on,
Don, Alan,

1.AlanDon, Alan Don (1885–1966), chaplain to Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1931–41. Later, chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, 1946–56; Dean of Westminster, 1946–59. TSE hoped to persuade the Archbishop to be present, and perhaps to speak, at a meeting convened to urge the government that ‘Books should be excluded from the Scope of Purchase Tax’: see The Book Crisis, ed. Gilbert McAllister (F&F, 1940).
Donat, Robert,

3.RobertDonat, Robert Donat (1905–58), stage and screen actor; starred in Alfred Hitchcocks’s The 39 Steps (1935); and won an Academy Award for Best Actor in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939).

 negotiating over Family Reunion, reading Family Reunion, keen on Becket, as Becket,
Donne, John, TSE lectures on, discussed in Claremont, and EH's Christmas card,
Doolittle, Hilda ('H. D.'), rated at Aeolian Hall reading,
Doone, Rupert,

2.RupertDoone, Rupert Doone (1903–66), dancer, choreographer and producer, founded the Group Theatre, London, in 1932: see Biographical Register.

 approaches TSE with Aristophanes commission, at TSE's theatrical Ritz tea-party, pitches the Group Theatre to TSE, discusses Sweeney Agonistes with TSE, TSE on his Sweeney, his own interpretation of Sweeney Agonistes, and Yeats's Mercury Theatre season, dismissed by Yeats, on Margot Collis, possible Mercury Murder premiere, dismayed by prose of Murder, resigns from Mercury Theatre season, resigns from Mercury Theatre season, offers Westminster Theatre production instead, craves TSE's next play, and troupe bemoaned, producing The Ascent of F6, surpasses himself with Spender, and his illustrious housekeeper,
see also Group Theatre
Dorset Players, The, described, elect EH director, EH returns to for single play, suspended for the summer,
Dos Passos, John, denounced along with TSE,
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, Karamazov among TSE's 'great' novels,
Douglas, Lewis,

5.LewisDouglas, Lewis Douglas (1894–1974): American politician, diplomat, businessman and academic. Principal of McGill University, 1937–9; US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, 1947–50.
Douglas, Major Clifford Hugh ('C. H.'),

5.C. H. DouglasDouglas, Major Clifford Hugh ('C. H.') (1879–1952), British engineer; proponent of the Social Credit economic reform movement. Noting that workers were never paid enough for them to purchase the goods they produced, Douglas proposed that a National Dividend (debt-free credit) should be distributed to all citizens so as to make their purchasing power equal to prices. Major works are Economic Democracy and Credit-Power and Democracy (1920); Social Credit (1924).
see also economics
Douglas-Hamilton, Douglas , Lord Clydesdale,

2.DouglasDouglas-Hamilton, Douglas , Lord Clydesdale Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon (1903–73) – politician, landowner, sportsman, airman (he was one of the first pilots to fly over Mount Everest in 1933) – was Lord Clydesdale until he succeeded his father as Duke of Hamilton in 1940.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, TSE's 'Cardboard Box' prank on Auden, 'Five Orange Pips' prank on GCF, Holmes quoted on false modesty, TSE's personal Colonel Moran, Dr Roylott's safe and the nightingale, Holmes quoted again, TSE dresses up as Holmes,
Dragon School, Oxford, TSE watches The Mikado at,
Draper, Ruth,

2.RuthDraper, Ruth Draper (1884–1956): American actor and dramatist, and noted monologuist.
Drew, Elizabeth A.,

1.ElizabethDrew, Elizabeth A. A. Drew (1887–1965): author, critic and lecturer, taught English at Cambridge University, 1916–19, 1934–7, before emigrating to the USA, where she was a professor of English at Smith College, Northampton, 1946–61. Her several books include T. S. Eliot: The Design of His Poetry (1949).
Drinkwater, John, Bird in Hand,
Driscoll, Emily,
'drugs', activity ('being useful'), necessity, controversy, pain, either public or inner life,
Drummond, James Eric, 7th Earl of Perth,

1.JamesDrummond, James Eric, 7th Earl of Perth Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth (1876–1951): politician and diplomat; first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, 1920–33; British Ambassador to Rome, 1933–9. After the war he was Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords. He became a Roman Catholic before his marriage to the Hon. Angela Constable-Maxwell (1877–1965).
Drury Lane Theatre, Hindemith ballet with Dodo,
Dry Salvages, The, and Woods Hole, begun, being composed, first draft, on draft no. 5, early version seen by Henry, defended from charge of cheerlessness, reception, praised by Kennard Rand, sales, conchological emendation,
Dryden, John, 15-minute BBC American broadcast on, discussed at Lorraine Havens's, TSE on, subject of Indian Service broadcast,
'Dryden the Critic, Defender of Sanity',
Du Bois, Dr Arthur,

4.DrDu Bois, Dr Arthur Arthur du Bois (1890–1974) – friend from Milton Academy or Harvard.

 TSE stays with,
Du Bois, the,
du Bos, Charles,

3.Charlesdu Bos, Charles du Bos (1832–1939), French critic of French and English literature – his mother was English – wrote one review for the Criterion in 1935. He published Réflexions sur Mérimée (1920), and was later famous for his posthumously published journals (6 vols, 1946–55).

 on TSE's Paris itinerary,
DuBois, J. Delafield,

3.J. DelafieldDuBois, J. Delafield DuBois (1903–83): lawyer, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, joined J. P. Morgan & Company in 1946. When Morgan and the Guaranty Trust Company of New York merged, DuBois became head of Morgan Guaranty’s international division. He lived with his wife, Elizabeth and their three daughters in Greenwich, Conn.
'Duchess of Malfy, The',
Duchess Theatre, London,
Duddy, Revd Dr Frank E.,

5.RevdDuddy, Revd Dr Frank E. Dr Frank E. Duddy, minister of the North Congregational Church, Cambridge, Mass.
Dukes, Ashley,

4.AshleyDukes, Ashley Dukes (1885–1959), theatre manager, playwright, critic, translator, adapter, author; from 1933, owner of the Mercury Theatre, London: see Biographical Register.

 described by Yeats to TSE, approaches Doone over Mercury Theatre season, lines up Mercury Murder revival, with which he is pleased, his ambitions for Murder, which Brace upsets, instructed as to Murder New York negotiations, hustling in New York, from where he reports, agrees about Speaight's decline, explains miscarriage of 1936 American production, at 100th performance of Murder, latest plans for Murder, revised plans for New York, dares to call TSE in morning, TSE's royalty arrangement with, policing pirate productions of Murder, discusses Murder's America rights, full of grand desgins, takes Browne into partnership, on Murder's Abdication Crisis resonance, among Family Reunion's first readers, plans for Murder, American Murder tour, against Family Reunion as title, pleased with Family Reunion fragment, sent full Family Reunion draft, lets EH down, consulted over Gielgud contract, on Gielgud and Family Reunion, negotiating with Saint-Denis, less persuaded by Family Reunion, optimistic on Family Reunion transfer, instructed on Family Reunion licensing, fields Orson Welles enquiry, suggests wartime Murder revival, which he mounts without consulting TSE, attempting season of miniature operas, submits theatrical reminiscences to TSE, and Murder film rights, book launch for memoirs, reports on TSE's continental productions, gives Garrick Club dinner for TSE, takes full control of Mercury, accompanies TSE to Germany, La Mandragola, The Scene is Changed, Too Many Twins,
see also Dukes, the
Dukes, the,
Dulac, Edmund,

7.EdmundDulac, Edmund Dulac (1882–1953), French-born British book and magazine illustrator; designer.

 to assist Ashton's production of Yeats, and Yeats's Mercury Theatre season,
Dumas, Alexandre, fils, La Dame aux camélias,
Duncan, Ronald,

3.RonaldDuncan, Ronald Duncan (1914–82): British poet, playwright, librettist, autobiographer: see Biographical Register.

 part of New Plays by Poets series, introduces TSE to Britten, on TSE's meeting with Britten, The Rape of Lucretia, This Way to the Tomb,
Duncan-Jones, Revd Arthur Stuart, Dean of Chichester,

7.RevdDuncan-Jones, Revd Arthur Stuart, Dean of Chichester Arthur Stuart Duncan-Jones (1879–1955) held various incumbencies, including St Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London, before becoming Dean of Chichester, 1929–55.

 to lunch with EH, member of All Souls Club, where he speaks on adult baptism, leads discussion on church music, attacks government, with TSE over South Indian Church, dies, TSE's memorial on,
Dunham, Dr Ethel Collins,

2.DrDunham, Dr Ethel Collins Ethel Collins Dunham (1883–1969) – Martha Eliot’s life partner (they met at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) – specialised in the welfare of newborn and premature babies; from 1927, Associate Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Medicine. In 1935 she was to be appointed Head of Child Development at the Children’s Bureau, where she pursued numerous initiatives. In 1949–51 she worked on the problem of premature birth at the World Health Organization in Geneva. In 1957 she was the first woman to receive the John Howland Award of the American Pediatric Society: Martha May Eliot received the award in 1967.
Dunhill & Herbert, Tantivy Towers,
Dunn, E. C.,

7.E. C. DunnDunn, E. C., The Literature of Shakespeare’s England (1936).
Dunn, Esther Cloudman,

10.EstherDunn, Esther Cloudman Cloudman Dunn (1891–1977), Professor of English, Smith College, 1923–59; works include The Literature of Shakespeare’s England (1936); Shakespeare in America (1939).
Dunne, Annie,

7.Cf. TSE to Childs, 8 Aug. 1930: (Letters 5, 281): ‘TheDunne, Annie earliest personal influence I remember, besides that of my parents, was an Irish nursemaid named Annie Dunne, to whom I was greatly attached.’

 took TSE to Catholic church in St. Louis,
Dunster House, TSE gives paper at,
Dyer, Peter, writes to TSE from prison, where TSE visits him,
Eames, Jack,

MrsEames, Jack Doris Eames (49 Shepherds Way, Horsham, W. Sussex) to Valerie Eliot, 14 Jan. 2010: ‘Many years ago my husband’s late uncle Jack Eames told us that he had Mr Eliot to stay for several months in 1933. Mr Eliot was in fact a guest of Mr Morley of Faber and Faber who lived next door. He dined with the Morley family but otherwise lived with Uncle Jack and his family. He chose this because it was quiet and he was not disturbed by the Morley children …

 on TSE,
see also Eameses, the
Eameses, the, and their wireless,
East Coker, its Kensington origins, and TSE's cousins' visit, TSE's own plan to visit eponymous village, which he does, TSE returns to East Coker, TSE on writing, and Yeats's Purgatory, needs polishing, ready for printer, EH sent, decision to print in NEW, TSE on its mood, sales, reception, EH yet to receive, EH promised shilling edition, broadcast by BBC Eastern Service, draft inevitably bought by Gallup, TSE recites for Czechs, EH recounts recitation of, TSE's recording of,
East Coker, Somerset,
see England
economics, and TSE's case against materialism, TSE opposed to economic orthodoxy, in TSE's fantasy political party, capitalism and Christianity, and TSE's ideal political economy, Social Credit, and FDR,
Ede, Jim,

2.JimEde, Jim Ede (1895–1990), museum curator and art collector; after WW2, creator of Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge.

 aspersion on,
Eden, Anthony,

1.TheEden, Anthony Rt. Hon. Anthony Eden, MC, MP (1897–1977), Conservative politician; Foreign Secretary, 1940–5; Prime Minister, 1955–7. Appointed to the Order of the Garter, 1954; raised to the peerage as Earl of Avon, 1961.

 resigns, at TSE's Cambridge degree ceremony, compared to Labour alternative, as prime minister,
'Edgar Poe et la France', prepared for Aix and Rome, too French for the Italians, repeated at Jesus College, finally delivered at Aix, delivered again in Oxford,
see also From Poe to Valéry
Edinburgh,
see Scotland
Edinburgh University, confers honorary degree on TSE, lecture at,
Educational Reform bill (1944 Education Act), TSE fears being asked about, TSE defends position on,
'Edward Lear and Modern Poetry', delivered at Bowdoin, repeated gratis at Wellesley,
Edward VIII, mysteriously unmarried, apparently partial to NEW, and the Abdication Crisis,
Eeman, Beryl,

6.‘Some girl from Newnham’ was BerylEeman, Beryl Eeman (1916–92), who was to become, in 1937, the fiancée of the American poet John Berryman (who held a scholarship at Clare College).

 as Cleopatra,
Egoist, The, its aetiology,
Einstein, Albert,

6.AlbertEinstein, Albert Einstein (1879–1955): German-born American theoretical physicist, renowned for the theory of relativity, and for developing the theory of quantum mechanics. He quit Germany in 1933, and was attached to the Institute for Advanced Study from 1935 to 1955.

 Institute for Advanced Study reputedly graced by, at Princeton degree ceremony,
Einstein, Lewis,

3.LewisEinstein, Lewis Einstein (1877–1967), American diplomat and author. Born in New York – the son of a wool magnate – and educated at Columbia University, he served in the Legation at Constantinople, 1903–8, and was U.S. Minister to Czechoslovakia, 1921–30. His writings include Inside Constantinople: A Diplomatist’s Diary during the Dardanelles Expedition, April–September 1915 (1918); Divided Loyalties: Americans in England during the War of Independence (1933); A Diplomat Looks Back (1968); and The Holmes–Einstein Letters: Correspondence of Mr Justice Holmes and Lewis Einstein 1903–35, ed. James Bishop (1964).
Eisenhower, Dwight D. ('Ike'),

5.DwightEisenhower, Dwight D. ('Ike') D. (‘Ike’) Eisenhower (1890–1969), soldier and Republican politician, served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe: he led operations including the invasion of North Africa, and of Normandy, 1944–5. US Army Chief of Staff, 1945–8; Supreme Commander of NATO, 1951–2. 34th President of the USA, 1953–61.

 at degree ceremony, compared to Adlai Stevenson, ill,
El Greco,
Elder Statesman, The, and Oedipus Coloneus, TSE writing, in abeyance,
Eley, Revd Stanley,

3.RevdEley, Revd Stanley Stanley Eley (1904–90); later Bishop of Gibraltar, 1960–70.
Eliot, Abigail Adams (TSE's cousin),

2.RevdEliot, Revd Christopher Rhodes (TSE's uncle) Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1856–1945) andEliot, Abigail Adams (TSE's cousin) his daughter Abigail Adams Eliot (b. 1892). ‘After taking his A.B. at Washington University in 1856, [Christopher] taught for a year in the Academic Department. He later continued his studies at Washington University and at Harvard, and received two degrees in 1881, an A.M. from Washington University and an S.T.B. from the Harvard Divinity School. He was ordained in 1882, but thereafter associated himself with eastern pastorates, chiefly with the Bulfinch Place Church in Boston. His distinctions as churchman and teacher were officially recognized by Washington University in [its] granting him an honorary Doctorate of Laws in 1925’ (‘The Eliot Family and St Louis’: appendix prepared by the Department of English to TSE’s ‘American Literature and the American Language’ [Washington University Press, 1953].)

 tries to disabuse VHE, and Uncle Chris tour Eliot country,
Eliot, Alice (Mrs Leonard Martin, TSE's cousin),
Eliot, Charlotte Champe Stearns (TSE's mother),

6.CharlotteEliot, Charlotte Champe Stearns (TSE's mother) Champe Stearns Eliot (1843–1929): see Biographical Register.

 effect of her death on TSE, her religious beliefs, her pride in TSE, screened from TSE's domestic nightmare, her decline and death, was cremated, her grave visited, TSE visits her final address, her death and TSE's guilt, and TSE's poetic inheritance, as parent, and the Stearns family home,
Eliot, Dr Martha May (TSE's cousin),

1.DrEliot, Dr Martha May (TSE's cousin) Martha May Eliot (1891–1978), pediatrician: see Biographical Register.

 superior to brother, sent to England on commission, returns to America, TSE's favourite cousin, shares prognosis on Henry's leukaemia,
Eliot, Elizabeth (TSE's cousin), TSE's first impression of, hosts TSE in St. Paul,
Eliot, Elsa (TSE's cousin),

1.SamuelEliot, Samuel Ely (TSE's cousin) Ely Eliot (1882–1976) andEliot, Elsa (TSE's cousin) his wife, Elsa Eliot, née von Manderschel (1880–1978).
Eliot, Esmé Valerie (née Fletcher, TSE's second wife),

7.EsméEliot, Esmé Valerie (née Fletcher, TSE's second wife) Valerie Fletcher (1926–2012) started work as TSE’s secretary on 12 Sept. 1949, and became his second wife on 10 Jan. 1957; after his death in Jan. 1965, his literary executor and editor: see 'Valerie Eliot' in Biographical Register.

 comes highly recommended as secretary, which she recalls becoming, ticked off indirectly by EH, but exclupated by TSE, on leave in Leeds, fending off invitations for TSE, types up The Confidential Clerk, gets EH ticket to Confidential Clerk, vets Muriel Spark, helps TSE with Christmas cards, marries TSE, TSE on marrying and widowing, EH congratulates on marrying TSE, continues temporarily as secretary, writes to EH, installed as newlywed at Kensington Court Gardens, TSE collecting photographs for, her father's death, receives photo from EH, and the Hale letters, Theresa on TSE's relations with, nurses TSE, shielded from EH's importunities, admired by EH, admired by TSE's family, urged to correspond with EH, meets EH,
Eliot family, the, ties to New Bedford, coat of arms in Eliot House, TSE visits quondam ancestral estate, have public not private lives, and God, Molly Browne and her three Greenleaf daughters, congenital reserve, its former family mansions, in East Coker, are Whigs, the original William Greenleaf, its Peterborough connection, the Stearns Lexington home, hereditary neurosis,
Eliot, Frank (TSE's cousin), on TSE's 1948 itinerary,
Eliot, George, ancestor of Bloomsbury, TSE finally reads Middlemarch,
Eliot, Henry Ware, Jnr (TSE's brother),
see also Eliots, the Henry
Eliot, Henry Ware, Jr. (TSE's brother),

3.HenryEliot, Henry Ware, Jr. (TSE's brother) Ware Eliot (1879–1947), TSE’s older brother: see Biographical Register.

 hears TSE's Dryden broadcast, as potential confidant, sibling most attuned to TSE's needs, witness to the Eliots in 1926, surprises TSE in Boston, his aura of futility, disputes New Yorker profile of TSE, at Eliot family Thanksgiving, attends second Norton lecture, his business in Chicago, hosts TSE in New York, TSE reads his second detective story, his immaturity, accuses TSE of wrath, writes TSE long critical letter, the favourite of TSE's parents, sends New York Murder clippings, writes again about religion, insensitive to European affairs, Peabody Museum employ as research associate, gives TSE pyjamas for Christmas, sends TSE luggage for Christmas, hosts Murder's Boston cast, sends present to Morley children, cables TSE on 50th birthday, given draft of Family Reunion, gives TSE portfolio, champions Kauffer's photograph of TSE, explains operation on ears, sends list of securities, takes pleasure in shouldering Margaret, undergoes serious operation, recovering at home, as curator of Eliotana, as curator of Eliotana, war imperils final reunion with, and TSE's rumoured Vatican audience, corresponds with TSE monthly, offers Tom Faber wartime refuge, nervous about TSE during Blitz, as described by Frank Morley, recalls The Dry Salvages, has appendix out, cautioned as to health, frail, condition worries TSE, as correspondent, friend to J. J. Sweeney, tries TSE's patience, reports on Ada, describes Ada's funeral, beleaguered by Margaret, sent Picture Post F&F photos, likened to Grandfather Stearns, goitre operated on, his archaeological endeavours, back in hospital, imagined in exclusively female company, ill again, as brother, has pneumonia, terminal leukaemia, prospect of his death versus Ada's, anxieties induced by deafness, writes to TSE despite illness, death, memorial service for, on EH's presumption, Michael Roberts's symptoms reminiscent of, his Chicago acquaintance, friends with Robert Lowell's father, invoked against EH, on TSE's love for EH, buried in Garrett family lot, The Rumble Murders,
Eliot, Henry Ware (TSE's father), death, a saying of his recalled, disapproved of son-in-law, was cremated, his grave visited, haunts TSE in St. Louis, religious beliefs, as person and parent, TSE accepts Washington University degree to propitiate,
Eliot House, TSE offered suite in, possesses telephone, TSE offered more peaceful suite in, oppressively luxurious compared to Oxbridge, TSE moved to B-11, TSE takes up residence in, its library, conspicuous lack of teapots, TSE suffers company over breakfast, TSE's compeers at, TSE's tea-parties in, obscene limericks over dinner at, TSE reads poetry to, TSE's cello-playing neighbour, repository for Eliotana, its chaotic mealtimes, noisy,
Eliot, Ida M. (TSE's cousin),

4.IdaEliot, Ida M. (TSE's cousin) M. Eliot (1839–1923) – daughter of Congressman Thomas D. Eliot, niece of William Greenleaf Eliot – was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, but moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where after the Civil War she founded a school for freed African-American students. She was subsequently Assistant Principal of the St. Louis Normal School in St. Louis (her good friend Anna Brackett was Principal). In 1873 she and Brackett moved to New York City, where they co-founded the Brackett School for Girls, at 9 West 39th Street. After 1900 she moved back to New Bedford to live with her sister Edith (1854–1933). She was in addition a writer and entomologist, and published the pioneering study Caterpillars and Their Moths (1902).
Eliot, John (TSE's great-great-grandfather),

TSE’sEliot, John (TSE's great-great-grandfather) ancestor John Eliot, a Boston Congregational minister, was pastor of the New North Church (now St Stephen’s), and a co-founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Eliot, Margaret Dawes (TSE's sister),

6.MargaretEliot, Margaret Dawes (TSE's sister) Dawes Eliot (1871–1956), TSE's second-oldest sister sister, resident in Cambridge, Mass. In an undated letter (1952) to his Harvard friend Leon M. Little, TSE wrote: ‘Margaret is 83, deaf, eccentric, recluse (I don’t think she has bought any new clothes since 1900).’

 not a suitable confidant, scandalised by Henry's detective story, threatens to visit England, compared to VHE, wishes to arrange TSE's birthday party, remote from TSE, TSE and Henry visit, TSE dreads visiting Uncle Rob with, drains TSE, takes TSE to hear spirituals, her history, amazes TSE by attending Norton lecture, celebrates 61st birthday at Marion's, remembered in St. Louis, unwanted presence on holiday, reason for avoiding Boston, supported Landon over FDR, in response to 1930s controversies, compared to Irene Hale, imposes on Henry, tends to monologue, her reclusive hotel existence, Henry describes moving house for, her condition, TSE leaves money with, Thanksgiving with, efforts to support financially, death, funeral, TSE's final visit to,
Eliot, Marion Cushing (TSE's sister),

1.Marian/MarionEliot, Marion Cushing (TSE's sister) Cushing Eliot (1877–1964), fourth child of Henry Ware Eliot and Charlotte Eliot: see Biographical Register.

 described, her reading habits, not a suitable confidant, TSE reflects on reunion with, Symphony concerts with TSE, to the cinema with TSE, delighted with first Norton lecture, recommends TSE hairdresser for baldness, attends second Norton lecture, hosts birthday party for Margaret, remembered in St. Louis, worried by Dodo's manner, TSE's pride in, vigilant on TSE's health, on Randolph family holiday, congratulates TSE on separation, 1934 summer in England with Dodo, July arrival anticipated, arrangements for, visit to Chipping Campden, off to Salisbury, walks to Kelmscott, returns from Winchester, forces Regent's Park on TSE, excessively humble, next to Ada in TSE's affections, protects TSE from overbearing Hinkleys, supported Landon over FDR, co-hosts Murder party, 1939 summer in England with Dodo, trip in doubt, Southwold week planned, due 19 June, taken to Dulwich, ballet and dinner with, Southwold holiday with, given to post-lunch naps, sends Christmas supplies to Shamley, as correspondent, easiest Eliot in Ada's absence, experiences crisis, importance as sister, Henry's fondness for, devoutly Unitarian, ignorant of Henry's true condition, undernourished, abortive 1948 summer in England, cancelled, which comes as relief, hosts family dinner-party, letter about Nobel Prize to, TSE leaves money with, 1949 visit to England with Dodo, June arrival anticipated, plans for, EH bids 'bon voyage', visit to Cambridge, return from Southwold, Borders tour, Basil Street Hotel stay, Thanksgiving with, reports on Dr Perkins's funeral, efforts to support financially, tethered to Margaret, joins TSE in St. Louis, 1954 trip to England with Dodo, visit to Ely and Cambridge, in light of Margaret's death, invoked against EH, TSE to Theresa on,
Eliot, Revd Christopher Rhodes (TSE's uncle),

2.RevdEliot, Revd Christopher Rhodes (TSE's uncle) Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1856–1945) andEliot, Abigail Adams (TSE's cousin) his daughter Abigail Adams Eliot (b. 1892). ‘After taking his A.B. at Washington University in 1856, [Christopher] taught for a year in the Academic Department. He later continued his studies at Washington University and at Harvard, and received two degrees in 1881, an A.M. from Washington University and an S.T.B. from the Harvard Divinity School. He was ordained in 1882, but thereafter associated himself with eastern pastorates, chiefly with the Bulfinch Place Church in Boston. His distinctions as churchman and teacher were officially recognized by Washington University in [its] granting him an honorary Doctorate of Laws in 1925’ (‘The Eliot Family and St Louis’: appendix prepared by the Department of English to TSE’s ‘American Literature and the American Language’ [Washington University Press, 1953].)

 sees TSE in Boston, dinner with, sleeps through first Norton lecture, in audience for 'Two Masters', commits heresy, tours Eliot country, qua Unitarian, intellectually inferior to Martha, memorialised,
Eliot, Revd Frederick May (TSE's first cousin),

2.RevdEliot, Revd Frederick May (TSE's first cousin) Frederick May Eliot (1889–1958) – first cousin – Unitarian clergyman and author: see Biographical Register.

 invites TSE to lecture in St. Paul, qua preacher, as TSE's St. Paul host, unChristian, compared to Martha, versus Dr Perkins's Unitarianism, less observant than older generation, conspicuously absent from church manifestoes, compared to Uncle Christopher, and Margaret's death,
Eliot, Revd Samuel Atkins, II (TSE's cousin),
Eliot, Ruth Kayser (TSE's cousin),

2.Will Eliot (1866–1956), of Portland, Oregon, andEliot, Ruth Kayser (TSE's cousin) his daughter Ruth Kayser Eliot (1899–1994).
Eliot, Samuel Atkins, Jr. (TSE's cousin),

2.SamuelEliot, Samuel Atkins, Jr. (TSE's cousin) Atkins Eliot, Jr. (1893–1984), author, translator of works by Frank Wedekind, Professor at Smith College, Northampton; son of the Unitarian clergyman Samuel Atkins Eliot (1862–1950) and grandson of Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard. Works include Little Theatre Classics (3 vols, 1918–21); Erdgeist, by Wedekind (trans., 1914); and Tragedies of Sex, by Wedekind (trans., 1923).

 unknown to TSE, apparently disliked, critical of TSE as playwright, dominates theatre at Smith,
Eliot, Samuel Ely (TSE's cousin),

1.SamuelEliot, Samuel Ely (TSE's cousin) Ely Eliot (1882–1976) andEliot, Elsa (TSE's cousin) his wife, Elsa Eliot, née von Manderschel (1880–1978).
Eliot, Sir John (TSE's ancestor), his legacy contested,
Eliot, Theresa Garrett (TSE's sister-in-law), witness to the Eliots in 1926, draws TSE, co-hosts Murder party, remembers TSE's intention to marry EH, her immaturity, expresses solicitude for EH, careless of Henry's health, inflator of rumours, apparently ill, a 'lovely person', as correspondent, more agreeable than an Eliot, TSE on, unsuited to resist Margaret, and Henry's mania for Eliotana, wishes to take Henry on holiday following illness, made fretful by Henry, relationship with Henry, ignorant of Henry's true condition, on EH and TSE, after Henry's death, sends TSE Henry's old greatcoat, EH reports on, visits lawyer with TSE, avid for Eliotana, star-struck, undergoes operation on ear, for which TSE bears cost, hosts TSE in 1952, hosts TSE in 1955, custodian of Henry's collection, hosts TSE in 1956, visits England, on whether to return EH's letters, on TSE not marrying EH,
see also Eliots, the Henry
Eliot, Thomas Dawes (TSE's first cousin),

12.ThomasEliot, Thomas Dawes (TSE's first cousin) Dawes Eliot (1889–1973) was married to Sigrid Victoria Wijnbladh (1888–1942).

 described for EH,
Eliot, Thomas Hopkinson,

1.ThomasEliot, Thomas Hopkinson H. Eliot (1907–91), son of Samuel Atkins Eliot (1862–1950); lawyer, politician, academic and author. Educated at Harvard, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and the Harvard Law School, he practised as a lawyer from 1933 (also lecturing on Government at Harvard, 1937–8). He was a Democratic member of Congress, 1941–Jan. 1943. In 1943 he became Director of the British Division, Office of War Information in London (where he was also a special assistant to the U.S. Ambassador); and in 1944 he did further war service with the Office of Strategic Services. For five years after the war, he was in practice as a lawyer in Boston, before taking up an appointment as Professor of Political Science at Washington University, St Louis. After a period as Professor of Constitutional Law, 1958–61, he became Chancellor of Washington University, 1962–71; and he served on various government bodies.

 at Lady Colefax's, TSE on,
Eliot, Vivien (TSE's first wife, née Haigh-Wood), takes a liking to EH, EH urged not to blame, relations with Charles Buckle, unbearable to holiday with, takes to Margaret Thorp, accompanies TSE to Poetry Bookshop, and 57 Chester Terrace, on TSE's religion, TSE declines invitations excluding, her driving, hosts various writers to tea, considers flat in Gordon Square, arranges large tea-party, as theatregoer, declares desire to make confession, taken to Eastbourne, recalls the Eliots' visit to Rodmell, Alida Monro reports on, in Alida Monro's opinion, falls out with Lucy Thayer, meets TSE for last time at solicitors, seeks TSE's whereabouts, haunts TSE in London, such that he forgoes the theatre, news of, inquires after Man Ray portrait, harries F&F office, on Mosley Albert Hall rally, dies, her funeral, Requiem Mass for, Theresa remembers, marriage to, TSE on entering into, alleged affair with Bertrand Russell, sexual relations, its morbidity, TSE on his own incapacity, its torments providential on reflection, in OM's opinion, its lessons, humiliating, TSE's father's reaction, unrecognised by TSE, to outsiders, TSE reflects on, painful yet stimulating, as an act of self-rupture, drug habits, sleeping draughts, in TSE's absence, 1926 bromidia delusions, mental state, childlike, benefits from active social life, compared to EH's mother's, at the Malmaison sanatorium, and dining in public, TSE's influence on, post-separation, the prospect of institutionalising, prompts institutionalisation crisis-meeting, and TSE's departure for America, against TSE going, adjusting to the prospect, might coordinate with a return to Malmaison, in denial as to, threatens to come, from which TSE tries to dissuade her, aggrieved at being left, possible arrangements in TSE's absence, still in denial as to, TSE dreads scene of departure, possibly beneficial to VHE, TSE describes the moment of departure, separation from, TSE, for and against, out of the question, obstructed by self-deception and responsibility, reasons for not having happened, Dr Miller's opinion on, contemplated, plotted, would necessitate TSE's sequestration, TSE encouraged in his determination, Alida Monro independently suggests, communication with solicitors on, TSE describes going through with, VHE's response before and after meeting at solicitors, impasse over financial settlement, which VHE misrepresents to friends, VHE in denial over, separation deed drawn up, which is yet unsigned, delayed by death of lawyer, general impasse, financial settlement put into force, complicated by VHE renewing lease on flat, efforts to retrieve TSE's property, which is eventually recovered, financial consequences, the possibility of divorcing, TSE's objections to, against what TSE symbolises, likened to Newman's conversion, in common and canon law, in Ada's opinion, how TSE's attitude might seem, would involve permanent division from Church, inimical to future TSE's happiness, her death, and Theresa on TSE remarrying, TSE's shifting response to, formerly wished for, EH reflects on,
see also Eliots, the T. S.
Eliot, William Greenleaf, Jr. (TSE's cousin),

3.WilliamEliot, William Greenleaf, Jr. (TSE's cousin) Greenleaf Eliot, Jr. (1866–1956), who was born in St. Louis, Missouri, served for twenty-eight years as Minister of the Church of Our Father (Unitarian), in Portland, Oregon, 1906–34.

 and TSE's great-grandfather's seal ring, delights TSE in London, dies, elegised, funeral tribute to,
Eliot, William Greenleaf, Sr. (TSE's great-grandfather),

5.WilliamEliot, William Greenleaf, Sr. (TSE's great-grandfather) Greenleaf Eliot, Sr. (1781–1853), merchant and ship-owner of New Bedford, Mass. (where TSE’s grandfather was born in 1811), was ruined by the British embargo on trade imposed during the war of 1812–15; he subsequently relocated to Washington, D.C., where he worked as an inspector in the Postal Service auditing office.

 cousin of John Quincy Adams,
Eliot, William Greenleaf (TSE's grandfather),

2.Washington University 1857–1932: Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Inauguration (Washington University Press, Apr. 1932) saluted WilliamEliot, William Greenleaf (TSE's grandfather) Greenleaf Eliot (1811–87), one of the founders and third Chancellor of the university. ‘He was graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1834, and one year later was ordained as a minister. Desiring to identify himself with the West, he accepted an invitation from a group in St Louis, and organized the First Congregational Society, which later became the Church of the Messiah (Unitarian) … In 1853 he became the first president of the Board of Directors of Eliot Seminary, a position which he continued to hold after the change of name to Washington University, until 1870, when he became also acting chancellor. In 1872 he was elevated to the chancellorship’ (6). In an address given on 22 Apr. 1957, the Revd Dr W. G. Eliot proclaimed, ‘The charter under which we act is unexceptionable, – broad and comprehensive, – containing no limitation nor condition, except one introduced by our own request, as an amendment to the original act, namely, the prohibition of all sectarian and party tests and uses, in all departments of the institution, forever’ (11).

 TSE's religious inheritance from, the Eliot family Napoleon, Ada's quarrel with, Washington University degree accepted to propitiate,
Eliots, the Henry, attend TSE's Yale lecture, get on TSE's nerves, move to Cambridge, Mass., join Randolph holiday, TSE enjoys birthday dinner chez, as potential parents, EH urged to see, invited to EH's birthday, their dynamic,
Eliots, the T. S., receive Aldous Huxley, give tea to Nora Joyce, give dinner-party for Joyces, Fabers and Osbert Sitwell, described by Osbert Sitwell, give dinner for Philippa Whibley, host the Morleys, Joyces and Hutchinsons, take tea with OM, who describes their appearance, invite OM to meet Mrs Joyce, introduce TSE's nieces to Lucia Joyce and Barbara Hutchinson, host the Joyces, host the Thorps to tea, host Dorothy Pound to supper, again to OM's, have the Huxleys to tea, more harmonious for Gordon George's stay, host Maurice and Ahmé to dinner, host Ralph Hodgson, Aurelia Bolliger, Gordon George and Scott Moncrieff, to OM's tea-party for Yeats, host Ralph Hodgson despite his dog's behaviour, have the Hodgsons for the weekend, attend Derby Day with the Hodgsons, host the Faber children to tea, host OM and D'Arcy, host Mark Gertler and wife, at James Stephens's party, have fifteen to tea, Evelyn Underhill and Force Stead to lunch with, spend weekend with VHE's mother, join farewell dinner for the Hodgsons, in 1926, holiday in Eastbourne, where they dine with the Morleys, then visit the Woolfs at Rodmell,
Elizabeth II, Queen (formerly Princess Elizabeth of York), prospect of her accession, seated next to TSE, at Royal Maundy, apparently enjoys The Confidential Clerk, discusses TSE and EVE's wedding,
Elizabeth, Queen, the Queen Mother, at Aeolian Hall poetry reading, attends Murder,
Elliot, Walter,

1.WalterElliot, Walter Elliot Elliot (1888–1958), British parliamentarian (Scottish Unionist Party).
Elliott, Denholm,

6.DenholmElliott, Denholm Elliott (1922–92) – Colby Simpkins in The Confidential Clerk – was a great character actor: his scene-stealing, award-winning appearances included parts in The Cruel Sea (1953), Alfie (1966), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989); and as the insidious Philip Neville in the TV adaptation of Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac (1986). CBE, 1988. Sherek to TSE, 13 Jan. 1953: ‘He is an excellent young man and is also a musician. Luckily his instrument is the piano.’ TSE to Elliott, 10 May 1954: ‘I particularly … want to thank you for all you did with the role of Colby. I realize that it was the most difficult part in the play, and in a sense, the most thankless, because I know what you did with it, and so few amongst any of the audiences could, I think, have realised what a difficult part it was. I am afraid that it is the one part in which the author did not succeed in finding the “objective correlative” (a phrase which I have come to dislike intensely, but which is the only one for what I want to say here). My grateful thanks and best wishes.’

 Colby in The Confidential Clerk, in which he proves irreplaceable,
Elliott, William Yandell,

5.WilliamElliott, William Yandell Yandell Elliott (1896–1979), historian, taught at Harvard for 41 years; he also worked as a political advisor to six US presidents.

 TSE confused with,
Elsmith, Dorothy Olcott,

4.TSEElsmiths, theseminal Woods Hole stay with;a1Elsmith, Dorothy OlcottElsmiths, the andAmericaWoods Hole, Falmouth, Massachusetts;i2TSE and EH's holiday in recalled;a2St. LouisAmericaBostonAmericaCaliforniaAmericaCambridge, MassachusettsAmericaHollywoodAmericaNew EnglandAmericaNew YorkAmerica EHElsmith, Dorothy Olcott were going to visit a friend of EH’s named Dorothy Olcott Elsmith (a graduate of Smith College), who lived with her family in a white clapboard house by the seaside at Woods Hole, Falmouth, Mass.: see Biographical Register.

 issues invitation to Woods Hole, TSE and EH to stay with, now living in Boston, invites TSE again to Woods Hole, thanked for hospitality, on TSE as nurse, attends Kind Lady, reports on Kind Lady, in New Zealand, taken to dinner at Garrick, EH in Grand Manan with, EH visits during Christmas holidays, present when EH learns of TSE's death,
see also Elsmiths, the
Elsmiths, the, seminal Woods Hole stay with,
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Boston, EH attends midnight service at,
Empson, William,

4.WilliamEmpson, William Empson (1906–84), poet and critic: see Biographical Register.

 invited to Criterion monthly meeting, TSE dines in company with, rakish appearance at Criterion gathering, takes TSE for Chinese meal, lunch on return from China, recommended for EH's 'criticism' course, gives small dinner, reads 'Bacchus', TSE reads poetry alongside,
England, TSE as transatlantic cultural conduit for, discomforts of its larger houses, and Henry James, at times unreal, TSE's patriotic homesickness for, which is not a repudiation of America, TSE's want of relations in, encourages superiority in Americans familiar with, reposeful, natural ally of France, compared to Wales, much more intimate with Europe than America, TSE on his 'exile' in, undone by 'Dividend morality', in wartime, war binds TSE to, post-war, post-war privations, the English, initially strange to TSE, contortions of upward mobility, comparatively rooted as a people, TSE more comfortable distinguishing, the two kinds of duke, TSE's vision of wealthy provincials, its Tories, more blunt than Americans, as congregants, considered racially superior, a relief from the Scottish, don't talk in poetry, compared to the Irish, English countryside, around Hindhead, distinguished, the West Country, compared to New England's, fen country, in primrose season, the English weather, cursed by Joyce, suits mistiness, preferred to America's, distinguished for America's by repose, relaxes TSE, not rainy enough, English traditions, Derby Day, Order of Merit, shooting, Varsity Cricket Match, TSE's dislike of talking cricket, rugby match enthralls, the death of George V, knighthood, the English language, Adlestrop, Gloucestershire, visited by EH and TSE, Amberley, West Sussex, ruined castle at, Arundel, West Sussex, TSE's guide to, Bath, Somerset, TSE 'ravished' by, EH visits, Bemerton, Wiltshire, visited on Herbert pilgrimage, Blockley, Gloucestershire, tea at the Crown, Bosham, West Sussex, EH introduced to, Bridport, Dorset, Tandys settled near, Burford, Oxfordshire, EH staying in, too hallowed to revisit, Burnt Norton, Gloucestershire, TSE remembers visiting, and the Cotswolds, its imagined fate, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, less oppressive than Oxford, TSE's vision of life in, possible refuge during Blitz, Charlbury, Oxfordshire, visited by EH and TSE, Chester, Cheshire, TSE's plans in, TSE on, Chichester, West Sussex, the Perkinses encouraged to visit, EH celebrates birthday in, TSE's guide to, 'The Church and the Artist', TSE gives EH ring in, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, Perkinses take house at, shockingly remote, TSE's first weekend at, likened to Florence, TSE jealous of memories associated with, its Arts & Crafts associations, its attractions to Dr Perkins, forever associated with TSE and EH, sound of the Angelus, without EH, treasured in TSE's memory, excursions from, EH on 'our' garden at, Stamford House passes into new hands, EH's fleeting return to, Cornwall, TSE's visit to, compared to North Devon, Cotswolds, sacred in TSE's memory, Derbyshire, as seen from Swanwick, Devon ('Devonshire'), likened to American South, the Eliots pre-Somerset home, its scenery, Dorset, highly civilised, TSE feels at home in, TSE's Tandy weekend in, Durham, TSE's visit to, East Anglia, its churches, TSE now feels at home in, East Coker, Somerset, visited by Uncle Chris and Abby, TSE conceives desire to visit, reasons for visiting, described, visited again, and the Shamley Cokers, now within Father Underhill's diocese, photographs of, Finchampstead, Berkshire, visited by TSE and EH, specifically the Queen's Head, Framlingham, Suffolk, visited, Garsington, Oxfordshire, recalled, Glastonbury, Somerset, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, highly civilised, its beautiful edge, its countryside associated with EH, TSE at home in, its domestic architecture, Hadsleigh, Suffolk, visited, Hampshire, journey through, TSE's New Forest holiday, Hereford, highly civilised, Hull, Yorkshire, and 'Literature and the Modern World', Ilfracombe, Devon, and the Field Marshal, hideous, Knole Park, Kent, Lavenham, Suffolk, visited, Leeds, Yorkshire, TSE lectures in, touring Murder opens in, the Dobrées visited in, home to EVE's family, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, TSE's visit to, especially the Bishop's Palace, Lincolnshire, arouses TSE's curiosity, unknown to EH, Lingfield, Surrey, Little Gidding, Cambridgeshire, TSE's long-intended expedition to, London, in TSE's experience, TSE's isolation within, affords solitude and anonymity, contrasted to country life, its fogs, socially freer than Boston and Paris, eternally misty, its lionhunters, rain preferable in, more 'home' to TSE than America, socially more legible than Boston, its society compared to Boston's, TSE's desire to live among cockneys, South Kensington too respectable, Clerkenwell, Camberwell, Blackheath, Greenwich scouted for lodging, its comparatively vigorous religious life, Camberwell lodging sought, Clerkenwell lodging sought, and music-hall nostalgia, abandoned by society in August, the varieties of cockney, TSE's East End sojourn, South Kensington grows on TSE, prepares for Silver Jubilee, South Kensington street names, Dulwich hallowed in memory, so too Greenwich, during 1937 Coronation, preparing for war, Dulwich revisited with family, in wartime, TSE as air-raid warden in, Long Melford, Suffolk, Lowestoft, Suffolk, Lyme Regis, Dorset, with the Morleys, Marlborough, Wiltshire, scene of a happy drink, Needham Market, Suffolk, Newcastle, Northumberland, TSE's visit to, Norfolk, appeals to TSE, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, dreary, Nottinghamshire, described for EH, Oxford, Oxfordshire, as recollected by TSE, past and present, EH takes lodgings in, haunted for TSE, in July, compared to Cambridge, Peacehaven, Sussex, amazing sermon preached in, Penrith, TSE's visit to, Rochester, as Dickens described, Salisbury, Wiltshire, in the Richmonds' company, Shamley Green, Surrey, TSE's ARP work in, its post office, Pilgrim Players due at, Somerset, highly civilised, TSE at home in, Southwold, Suffolk, TSE visits with family, Stanton, Gloucestershire, on TSE and EH's walk, Stanway, Gloucestershire, on EH and TSE's walk, Suffolk, TSE visits with family, Surrey, Morley finds TSE lodging in, evening bitter at the Royal Oak, TSE misses, as it must have been, Sussex, commended to EH, TSE walking Stane Street and downs, EH remembers, Walberswick, Suffolk, Wells, Somerset, TSE on visiting, Whipsnade, Bedfordshire, EH and TSE visit, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, delightful name, Wiltshire, highly civilised, TSE at home in, Winchelsea, East Sussex, visited, Winchester, TSE on, Wisbech, Lincolnshire, TSE on visiting, Worcestershire, TSE feels at home in, Yeovil, Somerset, visited en route to East Coker, York, TSE's glimpse of, Yorkshire,
see also British General Election
English 26 (Modern English Literature),
see Harvard University
English Church Union, Literature Committee, punchline to self-directed quip, and Christendom, amalgamates with Anglo-Catholic Congress, Literature Commitee amalgamates with Catholic Literature Association,
'English Poets as Letter Writers', lecture to be given at Yale, where it meets inverted reception, copy promised to EH,
English Review, perks of TSE's association with,
English Speaking Union, absorbs Books Across the Sea, TSE opens library at,
English Teachers' Association, TSE makes speech at,
'English Tradition: Some Thoughts as a Preface to Study, The',
'Epistle: To the Learned and Ingenious Dr Morley, An', sent to EH,
Epstein, Jacob,

1.JacobEpstein, Jacob Epstein (1880–1959), American sculptor championed by Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis; naturalised British subject from 1907. He designed the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Père Lachaise, and his Rock-Drill was sculpted during his Vorticist period.

 TSE sitting for, good company, and family at Confidential Clerk premiere,
Ervine, St. John,

3.StErvine, St. John John Ervine – nom de plume of John Greer Irvine (1883–1971) – was born into working-class poverty in Belfast but moved to London while young. His play Mixed Marriage (1911) was produced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin – of which Ervine became (for less than a year) the domineering manager. His successful tragedy John Ferguson (1915) was also written for the Abbey. A diehard Unionist, opposed to Home Rule, he enlisted during WW1 in the British Army and was so gravely wounded in action that he had to have a leg amputated. Other plays include Jane Clegg (1913), performed at the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, starring Sybil Thorndike; The First Mrs Fraser (1929), and Boyd’s Shop (1936); his novels include The Foolish Lovers (1920) and The Wayward Man (1927). In addition, he wrote works of reminiscence and biography. George Bernard Shaw (1956) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In the 1920s he worked as drama critic for the Morning Post and The Observer; and in 1929 he was guest drama critic for the New York World – a role in which he aroused resentment for his withering comments on the New York theatre.
Esmonde, Sir Osmund Thomas Grattan,

18.SirEsmonde, Sir Osmund Thomas Grattan Osmond Thomas Grattan Esmonde, 12th baronet (1896–1936), diplomat and politician.

 transformed since TSE's Oxford days,
Essays Ancient and Modern, Pascal and Reformation essays revised for, TSE working on, reception,
Europe, and Henry James, through the 1930s, its importance for America, potentially inspired by FDR, in the event of war, seems more alive than America, the effects of war on, its post-war future, its post-war condition, the possibility of Federal Union, TSE's sense of duty towards,
Evans, Edith,

2.EdithEvans, Edith Evans (1888–1976), versatile stage and screen actor; enduringly celebrated for her appearance as Lady Bracknell in the film of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (1952). Evans won her reputation during her long association (from 1925) with the Old Vic, London: her other notable roles included Judith Bliss in Noel Coward’s Hay Fever on the stage and the movie Tom Jones (1963). DBE, 1946.

 as Viola in Twelfth Night, unmissable even when playing Bernard Shaw, compared to Athene Seyler, TSE would endure Evensong for, in voice and in person, 'Acting Shakespeare' sent to EH, considered for The Family Reunion,
Evans, Maurice,

2.MauriceEvans, Maurice Evans (1901–89): British-born American actor of West End and Broadway; movie and TV. He was the homicidal husband in the stage production of Dial M for Murder (1952); and he later featured in Planet of the Apes (1968) and Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970).

 as Hamlet,
Every, George,

4.GeorgeEvery, George Every, SSM (1909–2003), historian and poet: see Biographical Register.

 TSE's affection for, invites TSE to Kelham, consulted on TSE's BBC talk, surprises TSE in London, possible reader of Boutwood Lectures, at Kelham,
Everyman, influences metre of Murder,
Ewing, Mary Cross,

1.MaryEwing, Mary Cross Cross Ewing, Dean of Residence, supervised Wellesley’s twenty dormitories.
'Experience of Poetry, The', at Wellesley,
Eyre, Mary B.,

3.MaryEyre, Mary B. B. Eyre, Professor of Psychology, lived in a pretty frame house on College Avenue, Claremont, where TSE stayed during his visit to EH at Scripps College.

 offers to lend TSE house, for which she receives Ariel poem, sent Sweeney Agonistes, favoured among EH's Claremont circle, poem inscribed for, TSE on, TSE reflects on New Year's Eve at, recalled,
'Ezra Pound',
Faber and Faber (F&F), TSE's office in, the garrulousness of publishing, refuge from home, in financial straits, future feared for, tranquil Saturday mornings at, TSE disenchanted with, hosts summer garden-party, as part of Bloomsbury, TSE considers 'home', VHE intrusion dreaded at, robbed, increases TSE's workload, TSE's editorial beat at, negotiate over Murder in the Cathedral, pay advance for Murder, VHE's appearances at, and Duff Cooper's Haig, 'blurbs' for, commission new letterhead from Eric Gill, give Ivy lunch for Dukes, TSE as talent-spotter and talent-counsellor, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, mark TSE's 50th birthday, and the prospect of war, and closing The Criterion, lose Morley to America, on war footing, war ties TSE to, fire-watching duties at, wartime bookbinding issues, advertisements to write for, Picture Post photographs boardroom, offices damaged by V-1, consider moving to Grosvenor Place, lunch at Wednesday board-meetings, Christmas staff party,
Faber, Ann,

AnnFaber, Ann Faber (1922–78) was born and registered in Hampshire: her mother would teasingly refer to her as a ‘Hampshire hog’. She was a boarder at Downe House School, Berkshire, and read history at Somerville College, Oxford (where she became engaged to Alan Watt, who was to be killed at El Alamein). After Oxford, she spent time with the Wrens in Liverpool. Following her military service Ann was employed as secretary by the classical scholar Gilbert Murray in Oxford. She then moved to London where she worked for the family firm in editorial and publicity, as well as writing and publishing a novel of her own, The Imago. However, in Aug. 1952 she suffered a life-changing accident when she crashed her motorcycle, which resulted in the loss of the use of her left arm. (In the mid-1960s she was still doing a little freelance work for Faber, reading manuscripts for Charles Monteith and – in 1967 – arranging a lunch party at her home for the science fiction writers James Blish and Brian Aldiss and their wives.) In Apr. 1958 she married John Corlett, who had two children – Anthony and Brione – from his first marriage, which had ended in divorce. Ann and John did not have children of their own. In the early to mid-1960s Ann and John spent some weeks or months of most years in the West Indies. John had launched and Ann helped with a business called Inter-Continental Air Guides: their firm sold advertising space to hotels and other tourist destinations for inclusion in guidebooks which Ann compiled. In 1966 Ann and John moved from their flat in Highgate to Wiltshire. In the late 1960s or early 1970s John contracted polio while on a work trip to Hong Kong. He became a paraplegic and for the remainder of Ann’s life she was his primary carer, with financial assistance from her mother. During all the years that she had her own property, whether in London or in Wiltshire, Ann’s great love was her garden. Ann died of cancer in March 1978. John survived her by two or three years.

 promised play for puppet theatre, TSE pleased with photos of, organises holiday entertainments, shares TSE's box at Family Reunion premiere, engaged to Alan Watt, fiancé's death, completes preparations as Wren,
see also Fabers, the
Faber, Dorothy Brace,

1.GwyneddRichards, Gwynedd was Enid Faber’s sister; DorothyFaber, Dorothy Brace was Geoffrey Faber’s sister.
Faber, Enid Eleanor,

1.TSE was mistaken here. EnidFaber, Enid Eleanor Eleanor Faber (1901–95) was the daughter of Sir Henry Erle Richards (1861–1922), Fellow of All Souls College and Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at Oxford University, and Mary Isabel Butler (1868–1945).

 TSE mistakes her parentage, and the Eliots' separation, and the Irish waiter, as tennis-player, suggests Murder tickets for F&F employees, presses TSE into public speaking, and sons at zoo, cousin of Rab Butler, and Ann share TSE's box, congratulates TSE on opening night, TSE dependent on for food, at VHE's funeral, on VHE's death and funeral, home-hunting for TSE in Sussex, now Lady Faber,
see also Fabers, the
Faber, Geoffrey,

11.GeoffreyFaber, Geoffrey Faber (1889–1961), publisher and poet: see Biographical Register.

 made TSE's literary executor, described for EH, as friend, overawed by Joyce, recounts the Eliots' dinner-party, discusses international situation with TSE, his annual effort to diet, introduced to TSE by Whibley, favours TSE taking Norton Professorship, suggests garden-party for TSE, mislays key to Hale correspondence, writes to TSE about separation, which he helps TSE over, blesses Scotland tour with whisky, victim of Holmesian prank, favours 'The Archbishop Murder Case', Times articles on Newman, Russell Square proclaims his gentlemanly standards, forgives TSE and Morley's prank, as tennis-player, champion of Haig biography, social insecurities, and the Faber family fortune, advertises 'Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats', at lavish lunch for Dukes, relieved that 'Work in Progress' progresses, and JDH, needs persuading over Nightwood, on Edward VIII's abdication, Old Buffer's Dinner for, wins at Monopoly, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, thrilled by complimentary tickets, The Family Reunion described to, in line to read Family Reunion, has mumps, composes Alcaics from sickbed, at TSE and JDH's dinner, shares EH's Family Reunion criticism, on TSE's dinner-party bearing, discusses F&F's wartime plans, on meeting Ralph Hodgson, asks TSE to stay on during war, takes TSE to Oxford, argues with Major-General Swinton, and Purchase Tax exertions, and Literary Society membership, TSE's wartime intimacy with, drops teeth on beach, offers criticisms of 'Rudyard Kipling', falsely promised Literary Society membership, but eventually elected, helps revise TSE's Classical Association address, reports to Conversative Education Committee, deputed to America on publishing business, returned from America, Ada too ill to see, discusses National Service on BBC, depended on for breakfast, as fire-watching companion, and TSE rearrange attic at 23 Russell Square, recommends blind masseuse to TSE, in nursing home, and the Spender–Campbell spat, on TSE's Order of Merit, approached for essay on TSE, seeks to protect TSE's serenity, as Captain Kidd, wins fancy-dress prize, TSE's trip to Spain with, and National Book League, receives knighthood, on TSE's paroxysmal tachycardia, dies, his death,
see also Fabers, the
Faber, George Denison, 1st Baron Wittenham,

1.GeorgeFaber, George Denison, 1st Baron Wittenham Denison Faber, 1st Baron Wittenham (1852–1931), was a Conservative Party politician. It was in fact a remote cousin, John David Beverley Faber (1854–1931), who in 1886 bought out Strong’s Brewery and grew the business: he lived at Ampfield House, Romsey, Hampshire. David Faber was a man of such energy and enterprise that by the time he died in 1931, he controlled other breweries in Hampshire and elsewhere, along with more than 500 tied public houses.
Faber, Richard ('Dick'), bought roller-skates, takes TSE to Madame Tussaud's, the more religious Faber son, taken to Distant Point, entering Naval Cadet school, serving on cruiser, in hospital with broken leg, fellow convalescent at Minsted, TSE speaks at Chatham Club to oblige,
see also Fabers, the
Faber, Thomas Erle ('Tom', TSE's godson),

4.ThomasFaber, Thomas Erle ('Tom', TSE's godson) Erle Faber (1927–2004), TSE’s godson and principal dedicatee of Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, was to become a physicist, teaching at Cambridge, first at Trinity, then for fifty years at Corpus Christi. He served too as chairman of the Geoffrey Faber holding company.

 not named for TSE, his photograph on TSE's mantel, sends one-word letter, poem written for, and 'The Naming of Cats', which consoles him, decorates matchbox for TSE, given watch for Christmas, bought telescope, takes TSE to Madame Tussaud's, in school Mikado, win scholarship but splits infinitive, TSE's impotence as godfather to, bought fishing rod, TSE goes fishing with, treated by TSE in Cambridge, now don at Corpus Christi, Cambridge,
see also Fabers, the
Fabers, the, model of happiness and respectability, their domestic situation, Faber children to tea chez Eliot, visit TSE at Pike's Farm, compared to the Morleys, closer to TSE than to VHE, 1933 summer holiday with, Ty Glyn Aeron described, request TSE to write play, too absorbed in their children, at the Morleys' party, give anti-Nazi party for author, host poker party, 1934 summer holiday with, take TSE to lunch in Oxford, 1935 summer holiday with, for which the children are bought tent, give party, 1936 summer holiday with, at Morleys' Thanksgiving Day party, sail model boats with TSE, and TSE's foggy adventure, cinema-going with TSE, take TSE to Witch of Edmonton, and Morleys take TSE to pantomime, and TSE attend opening of Ascent of F6, 1937 summer holiday with, and the Bradfield Greek play, School for Scandal with, take TSE to pantomime again, 1938 summer holiday with, 1939 summer holiday with, offer possible wartime refuge, 1940 summer holiday with, host TSE in Hampstead during war, TSE makes bread sauce for, brought vegetables from Shamley, move to Minsted, and TSE attend musical revue, 1941 summer holiday with, Minsted as substitute for nursing-home, trying to sell Welsh home, take TSE to International Squadron, invite TSE to Wales for Christmas, host TSE at Minsted, away fishing in Scotland, mourn TSE's post-war independence, 1947 Minsted summer stay, 1948 Minsted summer stay, host TSE for weekend, on 1950 South Africa trip, on TSE's 1951 Spain trip, 1951 Minsted summer stay, 1952 Minsted summer stay, 1953 Minsted summer stay, on 1953–4 South Africa trip, 35th wedding anniversary weekend,
Faith That Illuminates,
Faló, Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y, 17th Duke of Alba,

1.JacoboFaló, Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y, 17th Duke of Alba Fitz-James Stuart y Faló, 17th Duke of Alba (1878–1953), Spanish nobleman, diplomat and politician, held among other titles the dukedoms of Alba de Tormes and Berwick.
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,
Fargue, Léon Paul,
Farmer, Herbert Henry,

1.HerbertFarmer, Herbert Henry Henry Farmer (1892–1981), British Presbyterian minister, philosopher of religion, noted preacher, taught at the Hartford Seminary foundation in Connecticut, 1931–5. Thereafter he was appointed Barbour Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster College, Cambridge, 1935–60. His works included The Healing Cross (sermons, 1938); The Servant of the Word (1941); Towards a Belief in God (1942).
fascism, and the unemployment crisis, essentially anti-Christian, The Rock's 'modern ballet' on, 'beastly', corrupts TSE's image of Rome, possible subject for July 1936 'Commentary', and the Spanish Civil War, TSE asked to sign Christian manifesto against, TSE accused of,
Fassett, Dorothea,

2.DorotheaFassett, Dorothea Fassett, Managing Director, The London Play Company.
Fassett, Irene Pearl,

10.IreneFassett, Irene Pearl Pearl Fassett (1900–28), born in Paddington, London, had been TSE’s secretary at The Criterion. She died of pulmonary tuberculosis on 28 July 1928, aged 27.

 her photograph on TSE's mantel, her funeral, remembered en passant,
Feiling, Keith, reviews TSE's essays, reviews Christian Society,
Feke, Robert,

2.RobertFeke, Robert Feke (ca. 1705–ca. 1752), American artist; born on Long Island, New York. The Bowdoin College Museum of Art owns five portraits of the Bowdoin family.

 redeems Bowdoin College Museum of Art,
Felsted School, Essex, fledgling literary society addressed,
Fenn, Revd J. Eric,

12.RevdFenn, Revd J. Eric J. Eric Fenn (1899–1995): presbyterian minister, broadcaster; editor of The Student Movement. From 1936 he worked with the ecumenist J. H. ‘Joe’ Oldham, helping to organise the Oxford conference on ‘Church, Community, and State’, and participating in the ‘Moot’, 1938–47. From 1939 he was assistant director of religious broadcasting for the BBC; literary editor for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1947–56. See K. M. Wolfe, The Churches and the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1922–1956: The Politics of Broadcast Religion (1984); The Moot Papers: Faith, Freedom and Society, 1938–1947, ed. K. Clements (2010).
Fernandez, Ramon,

5.RamonFernandez, Ramon Fernandez (1894–1944), philosopher, essayist, novelist, was Mexican by birth but educated in France, where he contributed to Nouvelle Revue Française, 1923–43. Works include Messages (1926) – which included an essay 'Le Classicisme de T. S. Eliot’ – and De La Personnalité (1928).
Ferrar, Nicholas, inspires Little Gidding pilgrimage,
Ferro, António,

4.AntónioFerro, António Ferro (1895–1956), Portuguese writer, journalist, politician – author of Viagem à Volta das Ditaduras (‘Journey round the Dictatorships’, 1927) and Salazar: o Homem e a Obra (‘Salazar: The Man and his Work’, 1927; eventually published in revised translation as Salazar: Portugal and Her Leader [F&F, 1939]) – was a firm supporter of the authoritarian regime of António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970), Prime Minister of Portugal, 1932–68. Ferro served as Director of the Secretariado de Propaganda Nacional.

 and the Camoens Prize,
Festival of Britain,
Feuillère, Edwige,

3.EdwigeFeuillère, Edwige Feuillère (1907–98): French stage and screen actor.

 delights TSE,
Field, Dr William Lusk,

4.DrField, Dr William Lusk William Lusk Field (1876–1963), a graduate of Harvard, taught Natural Sciences at Milton Academy from 1902; Headmaster, 1917–42.

 meets TSE again, and TSE's Milton Commemoration Address, which satisfies him,
Fielding, Henry, disliked,
finances (TSE's), TSE's Income Tax, American income, Norton Professorship, Grenville Place rent, costs of separation, TSE's desire to pay for EH, theatrical royalties, royalties from Cats, rent at Shamley, and retirement, apropos of The Cocktail Party, and post-war capital controls,
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.
Finley, David E., Jr.,

6.DavidFinley, David E., Jr. E. Finley, Jr. (1890–1977): first Director of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938–56.
Finley, John Huston, Jr.,

4.JohnFinley, John Huston, Jr. Huston Finley, Jr. (1904–95): Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, Harvard University, 1942–76; Master of Eliot House, 1941–68 – andFinley, Magdalena (née Greenslet) his wife, Magdalena Greenslet.
see also Finleys, the
Finley, Magdalena (née Greenslet),
see also Finleys, the
Finleys, the,
First New Deal,
First World War, TSE's disqualification from serving in, and war poetry, in retrospect, from the 1930s,
Fisher, Geoffrey Francis, Bishop of London (later Archbishop of Canterbury), makes poor first impression, compared to William Temple,
Fitts, Dudley,

3.DudleyFitts, Dudley Fitts (1903–68), American poet, translator and literary critic, won especial praise for his translations of Euripides’ Alcestis (1936) and Sophocles’ Antigone (1939), King Oedipus (with Robert Fitzgerald, 1949), and Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (1954), Frogs (1955) and Birds (1956). Other work includes Poems 1929–1936 (1937).

 his Frogs, his Lysistrata,
Fitzgerald, Desmond,

3.DesmondFitzgerald, Desmond Fitzgerald (1888–1947), Irish Nationalist politician; poet. See Letters 4; Karl O’Hanlon in the Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/desmond-fitzgerald-on-ts-eliot-a-revolutionary-taste-in-poetry-1.4438458.

 at Dublin literary lunch, entertains TSE in Ireland, discusses poetry and scholastics,
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, doses TSE with whisky, on meeting TSE, in TSE's recollection, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night,
'Five-Finger Exercises', 'Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg',
Flaccus, William Kimball,

3.WilliamFlaccus, William Kimball Kimball Flaccus (1911–72), poet and teacher, published his first book of poems, Avalanche of April, in 1934. Frank Morley to Alexander Laing, 9 Jan. 1935: ‘I went into deep consultation with Mr Eliot on AVALANCHE OF APRIL. Mr Eliot has been interested in Kimball Flaccus for quite awhile, but the result of our confabulation was, alas, that which I foreshadowed in our conversation’ (E6/27).
Flagg, Nancy,

5.NancyFlagg, Nancy Flagg (1922–80), who graduated in 1942 from Smith College (where she became known to EH), was a magazine writer and editor; she was writing at this time for Vogue.
Flanagan, Hallie,

5.The directorFlanagan, Hallie Hallie Flanagan (1890–1969), a Professor at Vassar College, was planning to produce Sweeney Agonistes at the Experimental Theater that she had founded at Vassar.

 her Sweeney Agonistes, recalls TSE on his own poetry, weakness for 'stunting', looks up TSE in London, theatrical Ritz tea-party for, on further acquaintance, as director, taken on by Smith, and Vassar's Tempest,
Flat 3, 11 Emperor's Gate, and East Coker, TSE moving to, described, TSE's initial impressions of, EH stays in, makes TSE ill, compared to Grenville Place, TSE's situation at, made homelier, drawing desk acquired for, redecorated with EH's presents, and TSE's wartime routine, St. Stephen's keeps TSE at, water pipes freeze, shut up during Blitz, date of TSE's removal from,
Flaubert, Gustave, 'Tentation de S. Antoine' and Burnt Norton, Éducation sentimentale,
Flemyng, Robert,

5.RobertFlemyng, Robert Flemyng (1912–95): British actor of stage and screen, came to prominence in Terence Rattigan’s French Without Tears (1936) and in a Ben Travers farce, Banana Ridge (1938). After distinguished service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, for which he was awarded the Military Cross and appointed OBE, he played Edward Chamberlayne in The Cocktail Party. He later starred in stage productions; films including The Blue Lamp (1950) and The Quiller Memorandum (1966); and episodes of the 1960s British TV series Compact.
Fletcher, John Gould ('J. G.'),

8.JohnFletcher, John Gould ('J. G.') Gould Fletcher (1886–1950), American poet and critic: see Biographical Register.
Flint, Frank Stuart ('F. S.'),

2.F. S. FlintFlint, Frank Stuart ('F. S.') (1885–1960), English poet and translator: see Biographical Register.

 and Hulme, in Criterion inner-circle, sketched for EH, at Monro's funeral, and Dobrée give TSE farewell lunch, accompanies TSE to music hall,
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,
Fluchère, Henri, mourns The Criterion, his translation of Murder, TSE takes to, translating Aix lecture, lectures on Apollinaire, as TSE's companion in Aix, TSE's debt to, promised foreword by TSE, on Cocktail Party in Paris, hosts TSE in France, Shakespeare,
Foester, Norman,

2.NormanFoester, Norman Foerster (1887–1972) – he was a contemporary of TSE’s at Harvard, though they did not meet at the time – taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; then as Director of the School of Letters, University of Iowa, 1930–44. See Robert Falk and Robert E. Lee, ‘In Memoriam: Norman Foerster 1887–1972’, American Literature 44 (Jan. 1972), 679–80; J. David Hoeveler Jr., The New Humanism: A Critique of Modern America, 1900–1940 (1977).
Fogarty, Basil,

5.BasilFogarty, Basil Fogarty set up ‘Fogarty’s Bookstore’ in a basement shop at 59 Main Street, Port Elizabeth, in the late 1940s; he was supported by his dominant Scottish wife, Eleanor. (GCF commented: ‘Met Mrs Fogarty, who wears most of the trousers and knows her onions.’)
Fogerty, Elsie,

2.ElsieFogerty, Elsie Fogerty, CBE, LRAM (1865–1945), teacher of elocution and drama training; founder in 1906 of the Central School of Speech and Drama (Laurence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft were favourite pupils). Fogerty was to train the chorus for the Canterbury premiere in 1935 of TSE’s Murder in the Cathedral.

 to collaborate on The Rock, her chorus represents The Church, TSE gives poetry-reading to oblige, in rehearsal, her chorus on opening night, in the Archbishop of Canterbury's presence, committed to Mercury Murder revival, her chorus versus Dublin chorus, pioneer of contemporary chorus, Murder's chorus without, puts TSE forward for committee,
For Lancelot Andrewes, JDH given first edition,
Forbes-Sempill, William, 19th Lord Sempill,

TheForbes-Sempill, William, 19th Lord Sempill Anglo-Swedish Society was chaired by the Scottish peer and pioneering pilot William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill (1893–1965), whose second wife Cecilia Sempill was a cousin of Christina Morley. (Lord Sempill was later discovered to have passed secret information to the Imperial Japanese military prior to WW2, but no prosecution took place.)

 TSE refuses occasional poem for,
'Formation of Taste, The', lecture reprised in St. Paul,
Forster, Edward Morgan ('E. M'),

4.E. M. ForsterForster, Edward Morgan ('E. M') (1879–1970), novelist and essayist, was educated at King’s College, Cambridge, where he gained a second in the classics tripos (and was elected to the exclusive Conversazione Society, the inner circle of the Apostles). Though intimately associated with the Bloomsbury group in London, where his circle included Edward Marsh, Edward Garnett, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, Lytton Strachey, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf, he derived much from visits to Italy, Greece, Egypt and India – where he worked for a while as private secretary to the Maharaja of Dewas: that experience brought about one of his most acclaimed novels, A Passage to India (1924), which sold around one million copies during his lifetime alone. His other celebrated novels include Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), and the posthumous Maurice (1971, written 1910–13), a work that addressed his homosexuality. He gave the Clark Lectures at Cambridge in 1927 – in succession to TSE – which were published as Aspects of the Novel (1927). He turned down a knighthood, but in 1953 was appointed a Companion of Honour; and he received the OM in 1969. See further Forster, ‘Mr Eliot and His Difficulties’, Life and Letters, 2: 13 (June 1929), 417–25; P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster (2 vols, 1977, 1978); Selected Letters of E. M. Forster, ed. by Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank (2 vols, 1983–5); Nicola Beauman, Morgan: A Biography of E. M. Forster (1993).

 obiter dictum on, A Passage to India, Howards End,
Forty-Five Churches Fund, The, approaches TSE with theatrical commission,
see also Rock, The
Foss, Martha,
Foss, Mary,

1.MaryFoss, Mary Foss was an old friend of EH: they were contemporaries at Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, CT, where they acted in plays and were members of a Shakespeare club. EH would often visit the Fosses at their home in Concord, and she taught the daughter, Sally Foss, while at Concord Academy.

 EH's holidays with, lunched at the Connaught,
Foss, Sally,

1.SallyFoss, Sally Foss, a student at Concord Academy.

 recollects EH,
Foster, John,

2.Geoffrey Faber’s diary, Mon. 28 Mar.: ‘Dined w. John Hayward – TSE & John Foster.’ JohnFoster, John Foster (1903–82), barrister and legal scholar; from 1924, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; Recorder of Oxford, 1938–51, 1958–64. Army officer; humanitarian; and Conservative MP.
Foster, Maxwell,
Fouchet, Max-Pol,

3.Max-PolFouchet, Max-Pol Fouchet (1913–81), poet; editor of Fontaine, a review published by the French Resistance. TSE to Spender, 16 Oct. 1943: ‘I have met Fouchet, and find him very agreeable’ (Northwestern).
Four Quartets, as publishing proposition, as conceived by TSE, deliberations over title, published in America, whose first edition appals TSE, reviewed, English edition of, appearing in French in Africa, recorded by TSE, BBC broadcast TSE reading,
Fowler-Seaverns, James,

1.JamesFowler-Seaverns, James Fowler-Seaverns, adopted son of Joel and Helen Seaverns. TSE to Theodore Spencer, 9 Nov. 1938: ‘You may be presented within a month or two with a letter of introduction from me for a man named Jim Fowler, or he may call himself James Fowler Seaverns. He is a very nice lad (Harrow and Magdalene) not a bit literary, runs a business in London and Australia which has some mysterious connexion with Needham, Mass. Amongst other things he is marketing the Iron Lung. He has adoptive parents from Portland Maine but has never been in America before. He married a girl named Roper who is some collateral of St. Thos. More, she died this summer, and he is a widower with two small children. You will find him a nice innocent fellow who will appreciate anything convivial.’
Fox Club, Harvard University,
'Fr Cheetham Retires from Gloucester Road',
France, TSE's Francophilia shared by Whibley, TSE dreams of travelling in, synonymous, for TSE, with civilisation, the Franco-Italian entente, over Portugal, TSE awarded Légion d’honneur, subsequently elevated from chevalier to officier, TSE describes a typical French reception, Switzerland now favoured over, French cuisine, French culture, Exhibition of French Art 1200–1900, French painting, compared to English culture, French language, tires TSE to speak, TSE hears himself speaking, TSE dreads speaking in public, and TSE's false teeth, French politics, French street protest, England's natural ally, post-Versailles, post-war Anglo-French relations, French theatre, the French, more blunt than Americans, as compared to various other races, Paris, TSE's 1910–11 year in, EH pictured in, its society larger than Boston's, TSE's guide to, Anglo-French society, strikes, TSE dreads visiting, post-war, the Riviera, TSE's guide to, the South, fond 1919 memories of walking in, Limoges in 1910, Bordeaux,
Franklin, Benjamin,

12.BenjaminFranklin, Benjamin Franklin (1705–90) – polymathic statesman, diplomat, scientist, writer – one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America – was born in Boston but spent many years from the age of 17 in Philadelphia (where he was a printer and newspaper publisher, and, among many other achievements, set up in 1751 the Academy and College of Philadelphia, which in due course became the University of Philadelphia). TSE dubs him ‘lecherous’ possibly because Franklin at the age of 17 proposed marriage to a 15-year-old girl named Deborah Read. While Franklin was away in England, Read married another man who soon deserted her, and Franklin subsequently established a common-law marriage with her.

 'lecherous old humbug',
From Poe to Valéry, revised from Aix lecture,
'Frontiers of Criticism, The', as delivered, invoked against EH,
Frost, Robert,

2.RobertFrost, Robert Frost (1874–1963), celebrated American poet and critic, spent three years (1912–15) with his wife in England, where he was influenced by friendships with Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves and Ezra Pound. His poetry – rooted in the vernacular of rural life in New England, and with a deep sensitivity to marital and domestic strain and conflict – won immediate critical and popular success. Noted publications included A Boy’s Will (1913), North of Boston (1914), Mountain Interval (1916) and New Hampshire (1923). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times; and in 1962 he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. See The Letters of Robert Frost, vols 1–3, ed. Donald Sheehy et al. (2014–21); Jeffrey Meyers, Robert Frost: A Biography (1996); Jay Parini, Robert Frost: A Life (2000).

 at poets' dinner, TSE respects without liking, in TSE's opinion,
Frothingham, Paul Revere,

1.PaulFrothingham, Paul Revere Revere Frothingham (1864–1926), pastor of Arlington Street Church (Unitarian), 1900–26.
Fry, Christopher, his diction, The Lady's Not for Burning,
Fry, Roger,

4.RogerFry, Roger Fry (1866–1934), artist and enormously influential critic of art; celebrant of Post-Impressionism; author of works including Vision and Design (1920) and Matisse (1930).

 as part of Bloomsbury society, unchanged with the years, his sudden death, and Dr Karl Martin,
Fuchs, Klaus,

8.KlausFuchs, Klaus Fuchs (1911–88) was a German theoretical physicist in exile who became a British citizen in 1939, and who spent time working on both the Manhattan Project in the Theoretical Physics Division at the Los Alamos Laboratory (he was present at the Trinity test in July 1945) and the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, England. He was first suspected of being a Russian spy in late 1949, and was convicted of espionage on 1 Mar. 1950 and sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment; and he ultimately made a full confession in January 1951. (After serving some nine years of his sentence, he was released in June 1959 and skedaddled to the German Democratic Republic, where he became a celebrated scientist.)
Fuller, Major-General J. F. C.,

4.Major-GeneralFuller, Major-General J. F. C. J. F. C. Fuller (1878–1966), British Army officer, historian and strategist; advocate of the mechanisation of the military. Following his retirement, he worked as a reporter and author. In the 1930s, he became a close associate of Sir Oswald Mosley, joining the British Union of Fascists and serving on the Party’s Policy Directorate. Two of his numerous books – Generalship: Its Diseases and Their Cure: A Study of the Personal Factor in Command (1932) and The Last of the Gentlemen’s Wars: A Subaltern’s Journal of the War in South Africa, 1899–1902 (1937) – were published by F&F (which built up a list of military memoirs and commentaries). There is no other known association between TSE and Fuller.
Furness, Laura,

6.RebekahFurness, Rebekah ('Rebe') (‘Rebe’) Furness (1854–1937) andFurness, Laura Laura Furness (1857–1949) – born in Philadelphia, daughters of James Thwing Furness and Elizabeth Margaret Eliot (a descendant of Sheriff William Greenleaf, who had declaimed the Declaration of Independence from the balcony of the State House in Boston in 1776) – had lived since 1920, with their brother Dawes Eliot Furness, in Boston’s Back Bay neighbourhood and in Petersham, New Hampshire. Rebekah, a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, was an artist.

 at TSE's King's Chapel talk, approaching death,
see also Furness sisters, the
Furness, Rebekah ('Rebe'),

6.RebekahFurness, Rebekah ('Rebe') (‘Rebe’) Furness (1854–1937) andFurness, Laura Laura Furness (1857–1949) – born in Philadelphia, daughters of James Thwing Furness and Elizabeth Margaret Eliot (a descendant of Sheriff William Greenleaf, who had declaimed the Declaration of Independence from the balcony of the State House in Boston in 1776) – had lived since 1920, with their brother Dawes Eliot Furness, in Boston’s Back Bay neighbourhood and in Petersham, New Hampshire. Rebekah, a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, was an artist.
see also Furness sisters, the
Furness sisters, the,
'Future of Poetic Drama, The',
Galitzi, Dr Christine,

1.DrGalitzi, Dr Christine Christine Galitzi (b. 1899), Assistant Professor of French and Sociology, Scripps College. Born in Greece and educated in Romania, and at the Sorbonne and Columbia University, New York, she was author of Romanians in the USA: A Study of Assimilation among the Romanians in the USA (New York, 1968), as well as authoritative articles in the journal Sociologie româneascu. In 1938–9 she was to be secretary of the committee for the 14th International Congress of Sociology due to be held in Bucharest. Her husband (date of marriage unknown) was to be a Romanian military officer named Constantin Bratescu (1892–1971).

 in line for Ariel poem, favoured among EH's Claremont friends, encloses flower in letter, sends TSE photographs, and possible Greek translation of The Waste Land, her mannerisms, EH warned against imitating, asks TSE to communicate with imprisoned husband, her marriage, writes to TSE about husband,
Gallup, Donald,

3.DonaldGallup, Donald Gallup (1913–2000), curator, bibliographer and editor: see Biographical Register.

 object of pity, gives TSE creeps, wins East Coker MS auction,
games, diversions, solitaire patience, shuffleboard, crossword puzzles, cricket and swimming at Pike's Farm, light reading, 'Go' (Wei-Ki), 'Peabody' card-game,
Gangulee, Dr Nagendranath,

DrGangulee, Dr Nagendranath Nagendranath Gangulee (1889–1954) – agricultural scientist, author, anthologist – was son-in-law of Rabindranath Tagore. After teaching agriculture and rural economics at the University of Calcutta, he settled from 1932 in London, where he obtained a doctorate in soil biology from the University of London. He published on Indian agriculture and politics, and on religion and literature. Vera Brittain found him a ‘vital, intelligent man’ (Search after Sunrise [1951], 172).

 preface for, blurb for,
Garbo, Greta, in Ninotchka, in Conquest,
Gardiner, Rolf,

6.RolfGardiner, Rolf Gardiner (1902–71), a graduate of St John’s College, Cambridge, was in the 1920s a youth leader, influenced by D. H. Lawrence (whom he visited in Switzerland in 1928), with concomitant interests in fields including folk dance, guild socialism, rural revivalism and Social Credit; but by the early 1930s he evinced approval of the Jugendbewegung (German Youth Movement), a leaning which led him towards pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic sentiments and writings. His works include World Without End: British Politics and the Younger Generation (1932), England Herself: Ventures in Rural Restoration (F&F, 1943) and Water Springing from the Ground: An Anthology of the Writings of Rolf Gardiner, ed. Andrew Best (1972).
Gardner, Isabella Stewart,

9.IsabellaGardner, Isabella Stewart Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), socialite, art collector, philanthropist; friend of artists and writers including John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler and Henry James; wife of John Lowell Gardner II (1837–98), businessman and patron of the arts. Founder of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (modelled after a Venetian palazzo), which opened in 1903. TSE came to know her well enough to exchange a few letters with her, written from England in 1915–17: see Letters 1, 100–3.

 her society, her art collection, friend to Matt Prichard,
Garnett, David,

6.DavidGarnett, David Garnett (1892–1981), author, publisher; founder with Francis Meynell of the Nonesuch Press; author of Lady into Fox (1922: James Tait Black Memorial Prize), The Sailor’s Return (1925), and Aspects of Love (1955 – the source for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, 1989). See Sarah Knights, Bloomsbury’s Outsider: A Life of David Garnett (2015).

 TSE regaled with tales of, dines with Bell, JDH and TSE,
Garrett, Hurst,
Garrett, John,

1.JohnGarrett, John Garrett (1902–66), pioneering schoolmaster, read History at Oxford. Head of English at Whitgift School, 1931–5, he was then appointed headmaster of the new county secondary school at Raynes Park, Surrey, where he galvanised the curriculum, recruited talented teachers, stimulated imaginations, and invited figures from the arts – including TSE, Benjamin Britten, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender – to address the school. By 1942 Raynes Park School was deemed one of the best schools in the UK. Head of Bristol Grammar School, 1942–60.
Garrick Club, London, described for EH, Literary Society dine at, supper with Robert Lowell at, hosts supper honouring Sybil Thorndike,
Garrick Theatre, Hocus Pocus, music-hall evening at,
Garrigou-Lagrange, Réginald,

6.RéginaldGarrigou-Lagrange, Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, OP (1877–1964), Dominican priest; leading Catholic Thomist theologian; author of Le Sens Commun: La Philosophie de l'être et les formules dogmatiques (3rd edn, Paris, 1922), and Les Trois Conversions et les trois voies (1933): both in TSE library. He spoke under the auspices of the Aquinas Society at the Temple, London, on ‘Le Premier Regard de l'intelligence et la contemplation’.
Garrod, Heathcote William ('H. W.'),

8.H. W. GarrodGarrod, Heathcote William ('H. W.') (1878–1960), classical scholar and literary critic; Tutor and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford; Oxford Professor of Poetry, 1923–8. His writings include Wordsworth: Lectures and Essays (1923), The Profession of Poetry (1929), Keats: A Critical Appreciation (1926), the Oxford Book of Latin Verse (1912), Keats (Oxford English Texts, 1939, 1958). His Norton Lectures were published as Poetry and the Criticism of Life (1931).
Garvie, Alfred Ernest,

4.AlfredGarvie, Alfred Ernest Ernest Garvie (1861–1945), Congregational minister, theologian and author; Principal of New College, Hampstead. Works include The Christian Ideal for Human Society (1930) and The Christian Belief in God (1933).
Gas Workers' Strike, 1945,
Gascoyne-Cecil, Mary Alice, Lady Hartington,

2.MaryGascoyne-Cecil, Mary Alice, Lady Hartington Alice Gascoyne-Cecil, who married in 1917 Edward Cavendish, Lord Hartington (later 10th Duke of Devonshire).

 at OM's tea,
Gaselee, Sir Stephen,

4.SirGaselee, Sir Stephen Stephen Gaselee (1882–1943), librarian, bibliographer, classical scholar; Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge; Pepys Librarian, 1909–19; Librarian and Keeper of the Foreign Office from 1920; President of the Bibliographical Society, 1932; Hon. Librarian of the Athenaeum Club; President of the Classical Association, 1939; Fellow of the British Academy, 1939. Works include The Oxford Book of Medieval Latin Verse (1928); obituary in The Times, 17 June 1943, 7.

 at the Literary Society, possible wartime employer for TSE, memorial service,
Gasset, José Ortega y,

1.JoséGasset, José Ortega y Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955): Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist, educated in Spain and Germany, was appointed (in 1910) Professor of Metaphysics at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1917 he began contributing to El Sol; and in 1923 founded Revista de Occidente, which he directed until 1936. For ten years from the outbreak of the Civil War he exiled himself in Argentina and Portugal; but in 1948 he returned to Madrid where he founded the Institute of Humanities. Works include España invertebrada (Invertebrate Spain, 1921) and La rebellion de las mases (The Revolt of the Masses, 1930), which TSE called a ‘remarkable book’ (Leslie Paul, ‘A Conversation with T. S. Eliot’, Kenyon Review 27 [1965], 14).
Gate Theatre, Dublin, possible Murder run at,
Gauguin, Paul, in the Barnes Foundation collection,
'George Herbert',
George, Robert Esmonde Gordon ('Robert Sencourt'),

3.RobertGeorge, Robert Esmonde Gordon ('Robert Sencourt') Esmonde Gordon George – Robert Sencourt (1890–1969) – critic, historian, biographer: see Biographical Register.

 in thumbnail, staying with the Eliots, records TSE's argument with Koteliansky, recites chapter from new book, creates harmony between the Eliots, offers to lend TSE fur coat, relays gossip about VHE, stirs up situation, extends invitation to Cairo, and Stead visit Campden, forces himself on TSE, TSE's mixed feelings toward, The Life of Newman,
George, Ruth,

2.RuthGeorge, Ruth George (1880–1959), Associate Professor of English, Scripps College, Claremont, California, had become a close friend of EH at Scripps in 1932–4. EH was to donate thirty-two inscribed books to Scripps; five inscribed items to Princeton University Library.

 and EH's Scripps College Library Eliot collection bequest, submits poem to TSE, which TSE sees merit in, for which TSE congratulates her, dies, remembered,
George V, near death, dies, his funeral,
George VI, his coronation, invests TSE at Buckingham Palace, attends Murder, dies, his funeral,
Gerard Hopkinses, the,
Germany, and The Road Back, and Triumphal March, needs to cooperate with Britain and France, and TSE's Lloyds war-work, TSE listening to speeches from, its actresses, and its Jewish population, in light of Versailles, Oldham reports on religious resistance in, remilitarises the Rhineland, its territorial ambitions under Hitler, Germans compared to Austrians, under Nazism, Duncan-Jones on religious persecution in, German conduct in warfare, Germans compared to Swedes, TSE's post-war sense of duty to, TSE diagnoses its totalitarian slide, TSE urges renewed cultural relations with, TSE on visiting,
'Gerontion', and Matthew Prichard, recited at Wellesley, radio programme about,
Gershwin, George, Of Thee I Sing,
Gertler, Mark,

1.MarkGertler, Mark – orig. Marks – Gertler (1891–1939), British artist of Polish Jewish descent, studied at the Slade School of Art (where contemporaries included Paul Nash, C. R. W. Nevinson, Stanley Spencer and Isaac Rosenberg); was supported variously by Ottoline Morrell, Edward Marsh and Gilbert Canaan, and was for many years infatuated with Dora Carrington; suffered from tuberculosis for much of his adult life. See Sarah MacDougall, Mark Gertler (2002), David Boyd Hancock, A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (2009).

 dines chez Eliot, at the Eliots' tea-party,
Ghosh, Dr J. G.,
Gibbs, Sir Philip,

1.SirGibbs, Sir Philip Philip Gibbs (1877–1962), journalist and author; Roman Catholic; famed as one of the five official newspaper reporters during WW1: his bulletins featured in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Chronicle. His many books included The Battle of the Somme (1917), From Bapaume to Passchendaele (1918), Ordeal in England (1937), and This Nettle Danger (bestselling novel, 1939). Gibbs, who worked during WW2 for the Ministry of Information, London, lived nearby at Old Stonnards Cottage, Sweetwater Lane, Shamley Green, Surrey.

 sometime Shamley chauffeur, his cataracts,
Gibson, Captain Edward Russell, Lord Ashbourne,

5.CaptainGibson, Captain Edward Russell, Lord Ashbourne Edward Russell Gibson, DSO (1901–83), who was Commander of the 3rd Submarine Flotilla from 1945, had succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron Ashbourne in 1942. He was to reach the rank of vice-admiral in 1952.

 and the attempt on Mussolini's life,
Gibson, Wilfred, at Aeolian Hall poetry reading,
Gide, André,

5.AndréGide, André Gide (1869–1951), novelist, essayist, diarist, travel writer, translator, critic and anti-colonialist; co-founder of the Nouvelle Revue Française, 1908; author of numerous works in various genres including the novels L’Immoraliste (1902), La Porte étroite (1909), Les Caves du Vatican (1914), Corydon (1924) and Les Faux-monnayeurs (1925); and journals and autobiographies including Si Le Grain ne meurt (1924). Nobel Prize laureate, 1947.

 port of call in Paris, dinner in Paris with Beach and, TSE on, Morley on,
Gielgud, John,

2.JohnGielgud, John Gielgud (1904–2000), distinguished actor and theatre director. Knighted in 1953; awarded Legion of Honour, 1960; created Companion of Honour, 1977; Order of Merit, 1996.

 TSE takes against, declares interest in Family Reunion, subsequent negotiations with, on Family Reunion, renews interest in Family Reunion, in The Duchess of Malfi, as Harry in BBC broadcast, as Harry again,
Gielgud, Val,

8.ValGielgud, Val Gielgud (1900–81), pioneer of radio drama, actor, writer (his output included novels, stage plays, radio plays, works of non-fiction), director and broadcaster; Head of Productions at the BBC (responsible for radio drama) from 1929; Head of BBC Television Drama, 1946–52.
Gilbert, Stuart,

4.StuartGilbert, Stuart Gilbert (1883–1969), English literary scholar and translator, was educated at Hertford College, Oxford (1st class in Classics), and worked in the Indian Civil Service; and then, following military service, as a judge on the Court of Assizes in Burma. It was only after his retirement in 1925 that he undertook work on Joyce, having admired Ulysses while in Burma. After befriending Joyce and others in his Paris circle (including Sylvia Beach and Valery Larbaud), he wrote James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’: A Study (F&F, 1930). He helped Joyce with the French translation of Ulysses; and in 1957 edited Letters of James Joyce (with advice from TSE). In addition, he translated works by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Roger Martin du Gard, Paul Valéry, André Malraux, Jean Cocteau, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and Georges Simenon.

 port of call in Paris, in Paris,
Gilbert, Tacon,

3.TaconGilbert, Tacon Gilbert, who started work at F&F in Jan. 1933, wrote to Montgomery Belgion, 16 Dec. 1932: ‘Miss Wilberforce has suddenly decided to get married, and I have taken her place at short notice.’ To L. C. Knights, 9 May 1933: ‘No, you are quite right; I am dear Madam. But I am quite accustomed to being Sir-ed: it is my own fault for having such an improbable name!’
Gill, Austin,

2.AustinGill, Austin Gill (1906–90): scholar of French literature and culture, lectured at the University of Edinburgh, 1933–43, before being recruited as British Council representative in Paris, in Aug. 1944. After a year in Paris, he returned to the UK to teach modern languages at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1945–50; and he was again Director of the British Council in Paris, 1950–4.
Gill, Eric,

6.EricGill, Eric Gill (1882–1940), English sculptor, typeface engraver, typographer and printmaker. See Fiona MacCarthy, Eric Gill (1989).

 designs F&F letterhead,
Gillet, Louis,

1.LouisGillet, Louis Gillet (1876–1943), art and literary historian; curator of the Abbaye de Chaalis; member of the Académie Française.
Gillie, Darsie R.,

1.DarsieGillie, Darsie R. R. Gillie (1903–72), Berlin correspondent of the Morning Post; later in the 1930s he reported from Warsaw, and he was Paris correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. During WW2 he worked for the BBC as French News Editor; and in 1944 he returned to the Guardian; ultimately, he would be the BBC’s representative in Paris.
Gillingham, Frank,

13.FrankGillingham, Frank Gillingham (1875–1953), ordained in 1899, played cricket for the Essex XI, 1903–28.
Giroux, Robert ('Bob'),

7.RobertGiroux, Robert ('Bob') Giroux (1914–2008): American book editor and publisher: see Biographical Register.

 sees TSE off at La Guardia, TSE's New York mainstay, in London,
Gladstone, William, on Newman's conversion, recollected by Lady Pentland,
Glasgow,
see Scotland
Glendinning, Ethel,

44.EthelGlendinning, Ethel Glendinning (1910–96), stage and screen actor.
Glessners, the,
Gloucester Cathedral,
Godfrey, Fr William,

2.FrGodfrey, Fr William William Godfrey (1889–1963), Apostolic Nuncio (Ambassador) to the UK, Malta and Gibraltar, 1938–53.
Godolphin, Francis 'Frisco',

2.FrancisGodolphin, Francis 'Frisco' ‘Frisco’ Godolphin (1903–74), classicist and charismatic, witty teacher. Educated at Princeton and New York University, he earned his PhD at Princeton, 1929, and taught classics at Princeton from 1927; chair of the Department, 1942–5; Dean of the College, 1945–55; Musgrave Professor of Latin, 1946–70. Works include The Greek Historians (New York, 1942); The Latin Poets (New York, 1949): Great Classical Myths (New York, 1964).
see also Godolphins, the
Godolphins, the,
'Goethe as the Sage', 'maddening',
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, TSE's failure to appreciate, quoted on serenity, obiter dictum on,
Gogarty, Oliver St. John,

4.OliverGogarty, Oliver St. John St John Gogarty (1878–1957), Irish poet, author, politician and conversationalist.

 at Dublin literary lunch,
Goldman, Emma, Living My Life,
Gooch, Sir Henry,

3.SirGooch, Sir Henry Henry Gooch (1871–1959), barrister, educationalist, Conservative Party politician.
Gordon, Caroline,

4.CarolineGordon, Caroline Gordon (1895–1981), novelist and critic – who was married to the poet and critic Allen Tate in 1925–45, 1946–59 – had become a Roman Catholic convert on 24 Nov. 1947.
Gore, Charles, Bishop of Oxford,

2.CharlesGore, Charles, Bishop of Oxford Gore (1853–1932), influential Anglican theologian; founder and first Superior of the Community of the Resurrection; Bishop of Oxford, 1911–19.

 death depresses TSE, remembered arguing with Lytton Strachey, at Garsington, his life too straight for biography,
Gorky, Maxim,
Gosse, Edmund, rebukes TSE for lateness,
Gottfried, Hanna,
Gough, Revd E. P.,

3.TheGough, Revd E. P. Revd E. P. Gough, vicar and Rural Dean of Tewkesbury Abbey.

 Tewkesbury Abbey Tower appeal, which TSE dreams of answering,
Goya, Francisco, at the Prado,
Graham, Gerald S.,

5.GeraldGraham, Gerald S. S. Graham (1903–88), a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, was Instructor in History at Harvard, 1930–6, where he was befriended by TSE. After a period as Assistant Professor of History at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, he was a Guggenheim Fellow, 1940–1; and during WW2 he served in the Canadian Army. Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London, 1949–70; Life-Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Commonwealth Society; general editor of the Oxford West African History series. An authority on naval power and the British Empire, his works include Sea Power and British North America, 1783–1820: A Study in British Colonial Policy (1941) and The Politics of Naval Supremacy (1967). See further Perspectives of Empire: Essays presented to Gerald S. Graham, ed. J. E. Flint and Glyndwyr Williams (1973). TSE told Mary Trevelyan, 15 June 1949, he was ‘giving dinner to Professor Graham, the very meritorious Professor of Canadian History at London University whom I knew when he was tutor at Eliot House’.

 and his wife described, gets to brass tacks with TSE, again object of concern, TSE gives poetry reading to oblige,
see also Grahams, the
Grahams, the, object of TSE's pity,
Grandgent, Charles H.,

7.CharlesGrandgent, Charles H. H. Grandgent (1862–1939), scholar of linguistics and phonetics, and Dante; Professor of Romance Languages, Harvard, 1896–1932; Secretary of the Modern Language Association, 1902–11; President, 1912. Founding President of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, 1923. His works include An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Boston, 1907).
Grandgent, Ethel Wright Cushing,
Grant, Duncan,

1.DuncanGrant, Duncan Grant (1885–1978), artist and designer; lover of Vanessa Bell and David Garnett.

 due at the Eliots', at Charleston, at Clive Bell's lunch-party, at Bishop Bell's conference,
Grant, Robert,

7.RobertGrant, Robert Grant (1852–1940), popular novelist and probate court judge, 1893–1923 (a graduate of Harvard, he obtained the first PhD in English awarded in 1876, and subsequently took a law degree in 1879). He served too as an Overseer of Harvard University, 1896–1921.
Granville-Barker, Harley,

1.HarleyGranville-Barker, Harley Granville-Barker (1877–1946), English actor, director, playwright and critic.

 recipient of TSE's Shakespeare lectures,
Graves, Robert,

14.RobertGraves, Robert Graves (1895–1985), English poet, historical novelist, critic and classicist; author of numerous volumes of verse; a celebrated and graphic early autobiography, Good-Bye to All That (1929); works of contentious literary criticism including A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927); and novels including the lauded and lucrative I, Claudius (1934) and Claudius the God (1935). Despite his generally low regard for Graves’s poetry, TSE was to accept for publication by F&F – and to puff in a blurb – his astonishing study The White Goddess: An Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (1948).

 aspersion on,
Great Depression in the United Kingdom ('Great Slump'), the 1931 Sterling Crisis, the unemployment crisis, unemployment conference at York,
'Great Layman, The',
Green Quarterly,
Greene, Graham, Morley inherits job from,
Greene, Henry Copley,
see Greenes, the Copley
Greene, Rosalind Copley (née Huidekoper),
see Greenes, the Copley
Greene, William Chase,

1.WilliamGreene, William Chase Chase Greene (1890–1978) taught at Harvard from 1920: Associate Professor of Greek and Latin from 1927, later as full professor. Head of the Department of Classical Philology, 1946–51.
Greenes, the Copley,

3.HenryGreenes, the CopleyGreene, Henry CopleyGreenes, the CopleyGreene, Rosalind Copley (née Huidekoper)Greenes, the Copley Copley Greene (1871–1951), Harvard alumnus, writer and social worker; Unitarian. He was for many years Clerk of the Boston Art Commission. His wife was Rosalind Huidekoper. The Copley Greene family was much involved with amateur theatre, musicology and various social causes.
Greenslet, Ferris,

1.FerrisGreenslet, Ferris Greenslet (1875–1959), author and literary advisor; director of Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. His books include James Russell Lowell: His Life and Work (1905); Under the Bridge: An Autobiography (1943); and The Lowells and Their Seven Worlds (1946).

 lays on poets' dinner,
Greenwood, Joan,

1.JoanGreenwood, Joan Greenwood (1921–87): English stage and screen actor, applauded for her husky voice and her comic talent, featured in notable films including Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) and – perhaps most seductively – Tom Jones (1963). She took the part of Lucasta Angel in the New York production – at the Morosco Theatre, West 45th Street – of The Confidential Clerk, 11 Feb.–22 May 1954.

 as Lucasta Angel,
Gregg, Olive,

8.OliveGregg, Olive Gregg (1925–2003): South African-born British actor and voice artist.

 in 1956 Family Reunion revival,
Gregory, Eric,

3.TSEGregory, Eric dined and stayed overnight with Eric Gregory (who had been responsible for the private printing of Noctes Binanianae, and who was working at this time for the Ministry of Information) at 141 Swan Court, London S.W.3, on Tues. 19 Aug.
Gregory, Horace, reviews Four Quartets,
Gregory, Lady Augusta, her diction, The Dragon, The Rising of the Moon,
Grey, Edward, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon,

8.EdwardGrey, Edward, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933), Liberal statesman; Foreign Secretary, 1905–16; Ambassador to the USA, 1919–20; Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords, 1923–4.

 responsible for botching Versailles,
Grieg, Nordahl,

7.NordahlGrieg, Nordahl Grieg (b. 1902), poet, novelist, dramatist and journalist. While working as a war correspondent he was killed on 2 Dec. 1943 on a bombing mission over Berlin.
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, Dr Margaret Grierson (née Storrs),

1.DrGrierson, Dr Margaret Grierson (née Storrs) Margaret Grierson, née Storrs (1900–97) – she taught philosophy at Smith College, 1930–6, and served as college archivist from 1940 – took on in 1942 the role of executive secretary of the Friends of the Smith College Library (EH did some voluntary work for the Friends). In 1938, to everyone’s surprise, Storrs married the Scottish scholar and academic Sir Herbert Grierson in Edinburgh; but even though the couple lived apart from Feb. 1939 – Sir Herbert died in 1960 – she retained the surname Grierson for the remainder of her life.
Grierson, John,

8.JohnGrierson, John Grierson (1898–1972), pioneering documentary filmmaker; chief of GPO Film Unit.
Grierson, Sir Herbert,

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.

 Festschrift essay for, his Rectorial address, described for EH, remarries, evening in Edinburgh with, in TSE's reckoning,
Grieve, Christopher Murray,

1.ChristopherGrieve, Christopher MurrayMacDiarmid, HughGrieve, Christopher Murray Murray Grieve (1892–1978), pseud. Hugh MacDiarmid – poet, journalist, critic, cultural activist, self-styled ‘Anglophobe’, by turns Scottish Nationalist and Communist; founder-member of the Scottish National Party, 1928; founder of the Scottish Centre of PEN. His works include A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926), To Circumjack Cencrastus (1930), ‘First Hymn to Lenin’ and Other Poems (1931), In Memoriam James Joyce (1955), Hugh MacDiarmid: Complete Poems, 1920–1976 (2 vols, 1978). See further Alan Bold, MacDiarmid, Christopher Murray Grieve: A Critical Biography (1988); The Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid, ed. A. Bold (1984); Dear Grieve: Letters to Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Grieve), sel. and ed. John Manson (Glasgow, 2011).
Griffith, Helen,

11.HelenGriffith, Helen Griffith (1882–1976) taught English at Mount Holyoke College, 1912–47.
Grigson, Frances (née Galt),
Grigson, Geoffrey,

4.GeoffreyGrigson, Geoffrey Grigson (1905–85), poet, anthologist, critic, writer on natural history and travel, worked for the Yorkshire Post, as literary editor of the Morning Post, and for the BBC. Founder and editor of the magazine New Verse, his other works include New Verse: An Anthology (1939), and The Crest on the Silver: An Autobiography (1950). His first marriage was to Frances Galt.

 meets TSE, on that first meeting,
Grindea, Miron,

3.MironGrindea, Miron Grindea (1909–95) was a Romanian Jewish literary journalist and editor, who had studied humanities in Bucharest and at the Sorbonne, Paris. He and his wife came to London at the outbreak of WW2, and Grindea found employment at the BBC’s Intelligence Section. For half a century from Sept. 1941, the learned, idiosyncratic, indefatigable Grindea edited from his home on Emperor’s Gate, S. Kensington (a stone’s throw from TSE’s lodgings) the astonishingly eclectic Adam International Review: contributors (often unpaid) ranged from G. B. Shaw, E. M. Forster, Lawrence Durrell, Gide, Proust, to Auden, Dylan Thomas, François Mauriac, Picasso, Marc Chagall and TSE. Grindea, who was working on the 500th edition at the time of his death, was elected Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, 1974; OBE, 1986.
Grogan, Vincent B.,

7.VincentGrogan, Vincent B. B. Grogan, Hon. Sec., English Literary Society, University College Dublin.
Groser, Fr St. John B.,

4.GeorgeHoellering, George M.discovers Father Groser of Stepney;b8n Hoellering to TSE, 20 Apr. 1949: ‘AsGroser, Fr St. John B. you know I have searched for a long time to cast the part of the Archbishop for “Murder in the Cathedral”. I have seen many actors and found no one who genuinely look [sic] like an Archbishop. I then looked amongst non-actors, and at last I think I have found the right man. He is Father Groser of Stepney. I have spoken to him and he is already taking a great interest in the film. He has studied the script, and this morning I screened your recording for him for two hours.

 to be screen-tested,
Group Theatre, and Auden, as pitched to TSE, and Spender, angling for Yeats's plays, 'The Chorus in Modern Drama', TSE satirises, and OM, to produce Timon of Athens, autumn 1935 season announced, TSE speaks at fundraiser for, its clichés, surpass themselves, and Sweeney Agonistes,
Grovesnor, Hugh Richard Arthur, 2nd Duke of Westminster, the disreputable sort of duke,
Grumbar, J. C.,

7.J. C. GrumbarGrumbar, J. C., MBE., served on the council of the Fédération Britannique.
Gründgens, Gustaf,

11.GustafGründgens, Gustaf Gründgens (1899–1963): famous, and famously controversial, German actor and director. He played the part of ‘Der Schränker’ (‘The Safecracker’) in Fritz Lang’s film M (1931), and earned authority as artistic director of a series of major theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. During WW2 he somehow found favour with the Nazis, and served on the Presidential Council of the Reichskulturkammer (Reich Chamber of Culture); Hermann Göring even added his name to the Gottbegnadeten (Important Artist Exempt List). In 1960 he was to be celebrated for his portrayal of Mephistopheles, in Goethe’s Faust. Despite being a known homosexual, Gründgens was briefly married, 1926–7, to the actor and writer Erika Mann (1905–69) – daughter of the author Thomas Mann – who was later to arrange a marriage of convenience with W. H. Auden. In 1936, while living in exile in Amsterdam, Klaus Mann – Gründgens’ quondam brother-in-law – published the novel Mephisto, in which the figure of Hendrik Höfgen – whose career is depicted as one of corruption and compromise with the Nazis – is based on the career of Gründgens; this roman-à-clef was published for the first time in Germany in 1956; and in 1981 it was to be filmed by István Szabó, with Klaus Brandauer starring as Höfgen. See Andrea Weiss, In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story (Chicago, 2010) and Lara Feigel, The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love, and Art in the Ruins of the Reich (2016).

 directs The Family Reunion, directs The Confidential Clerk,
Guinness, Alec,

5.AlecGuinness, Alec Guinness (1914–2000), distinguished English actor: see Biographical Register.

 as Hamlet, in Martin Browne's Coriolanus, desires to act for TSE, keen on Cocktail Party, at Cocktail Party reading, praised by The Times, in The Cocktail Party, 'most intelligent' British actor, desires London Cocktail Party production, superior to Rex Harrison, at TSE's Cocktail Party buffet, would turn down anyone for TSE, presses TSE for new play, wouldn't work for Sherek,
Guinness, Bryan,

4.BryanGuinness, Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne (1905–92), heir to the brewing fortune of the Guinness family; barrister-at-law, poet, novelist. (In 1929 he had married the Hon. Diana Mitford, but they were divorced in 1933 when she deserted him for the fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley.)
Guinness, Walter, 1st Baron Moyne,

1.Bailiffscourt Hotel, by the beach at Climping, near Littlehampton, West Sussex, was conceived in the 1930s by the wealthy WalterGuinness, Walter, 1st Baron Moyne Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (1880–1944), at the behest of his wife Lady Evelyn, née Erskine (1883–1939). Designed by Amyas Phillips, an antiquarian and amateur architect, it is constructed in medieval style, using reclaimed materials from around the country: this beautiful fake of a building is now Grade II listed. From 1948 it was run as a hotel by German refugees Emmy Birrer and her husband, Hans.
Gunn, Daisy,
see also Gunns, the
Gunn, Neil M.,

1.NeilGunn, Neil M. M. Gunn (1891–1973), Scottish novelist who worked as a Customs and Excise officer, 1920–37, was to publish Whisky and Scotland (1935): see Biographical Register.

 and TSE's 1933 tour of Scotland, archetypal 'highlander', on TSE's 1937 tour of Scotland, inspires The Family Reunion,
see also Gunns, the
Gunns, the, TSE's evening with,
Gurian, Waldemar,

2.WaldemarGurian, Waldemar Gurian (1902–1954): German–Armenian political scientist and journalist; commentator on Catholicism and Communism; friend of Maritain and Massis; author of Bolshevism: Theory and Practice, trans. E. I. Watkin (1932). In fact, Gurian did not contribute to the Criterion; but his book on Bolshevism was reviewed by A. J. Penty in 1933.
Guthrie, Tyrone,

10.TyroneGuthrie, Tyrone Guthrie (1900–71), theatre and opera director; later instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

 counsels Doone against Yeats's Mercury Theatre season, withdraws from Mercury season, fellow-speaker at Group Theatre fundraising event, considers Old Vic Family Reunion, and Wolfit's Tamburlaine,
Gwyer, Lady Alsina,

1.LadyGwyer, Lady Alsina Gwyer (daughter of the philanthropist Sir Henry Burdett) and Sir Maurice Gwyer (1878–1952) were co-proprietors of the company that ran the joint enterprise of the Scientific Press (launched by Burdett, who had died in 1920), the Nursing Mirror, and the general publishing house of Faber & Gwyer that had become Faber & Faber. The Gwyers had been co-owners of the business and Lady Gwyer had understandably felt it her duty to be the vigilant trustee of her late father’s interests. Maurice Gwyer was a major shareholder but did not serve as a director of the company, and was otherwise fully employed in public service, as Treasury Solicitor.
Gwynne, M. Brooke,

4.M. BrookeGwynne, M. Brooke Gwynne, University of London Institute of Education – ‘a Training College for Graduate students’ – invited TSE on 19 Jan. to participate in their Weds.-morning seminar: ‘Emily Hale suggested that you might possibly consent to come to the Institute to talk to our students; otherwise I should have not felt justified in asking you … The teaching of poetry is the subject most hotly discussed & the subject we should like you to choose if possible.’

 EH puts in TSE's way, TSE teaches 'Usk' and 'Rannoch' for, hosts EH in Yorkshire, hosts her again, importunes another reading from TSE, present at RHS bequest,
Hägglöf, Anna,

3.BoHägglöf, Bo Gunnar Rickardsson Gunnar Rickardsson Hägglöf (1904–94): Swedish Ambassador to the UK, 1948–67. HisHägglöf, Anna wife was Anna Hägglöf.
Hägglöf, Bo Gunnar Rickardsson,

3.BoHägglöf, Bo Gunnar Rickardsson Gunnar Rickardsson Hägglöf (1904–94): Swedish Ambassador to the UK, 1948–67. HisHägglöf, Anna wife was Anna Hägglöf.
Hahn, Kurt,

3.KurtHahn, Kurt Hahn (1886–1974), German Jewish educator; founder of the boarding school Schule Schloss Salem; exiled in 1933 in consequence of his outspoken criticism of Hitler. Co-founder of Gordonstoun School; later of the Outward Bound organisation and of Atlantic College in Wales. See Nick Veevers and Pete Allison, Kurt Hahn: Inspirational Visionary, Outdoor and Experiential Educator (Rotterdam: Sense, 2011). Hahn was seeking to publish a book entitled ‘Christian Education’.
Haig, Lady Dorothy,

5.DorothyHaig, Lady Dorothy, Lady Haig (1879–1939), widow of the eminent WW1 military commander Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE (1861–1928).

 looms over F&F, writes competing Haig biography, legally defanged,
Haigh-Wood, Charles,

2.RoseHaigh-Wood, Rose Esther (TSE's mother-in-law, née Robinson) Esther Haigh-Wood (1860–1941), wifeHaigh-Wood, Charles of Charles Haigh-Wood (1854–1927), artist.

 grave in Eastbourne visited,
Haigh-Wood, Emily ('Ahmé') Cleveland (TSE's sister-in-law, née Hoagland),

5.MauriceHaigh-Wood, Maurice Haigh-Wood was eight years younger than his sister Vivien. InHaigh-Wood, Emily ('Ahmé') Cleveland (TSE's sister-in-law, née Hoagland) 1930 he married a 25-year-old American dancer, Emily Cleveland Hoagland – known as known as ‘Ahmé’ (she was one of the Hoagland Sisters, who had danced at Monte Carlo) – and they were to have two children.

 disconcertingly hard to place for an American, grows on TSE, smooths TSE's day of departure, discusses Raggie's education with TSE, at VHE's funeral,
Haigh-Wood, Maurice,

5.MauriceHaigh-Wood, Maurice Haigh-Wood was eight years younger than his sister Vivien. InHaigh-Wood, Emily ('Ahmé') Cleveland (TSE's sister-in-law, née Hoagland) 1930 he married a 25-year-old American dancer, Emily Cleveland Hoagland – known as known as ‘Ahmé’ (she was one of the Hoagland Sisters, who had danced at Monte Carlo) – and they were to have two children.

 shilling life of, and Ahmé dine chez Eliot, facilitate TSE's leave-taking, on TSE's departure for America, blamed by VHE during separation, negotiates separation, at crisis-meeting about VHE, and VHE's death, at VHE's funeral,
Haigh-Wood, Rose Esther (TSE's mother-in-law, née Robinson),

2.RoseHaigh-Wood, Rose Esther (TSE's mother-in-law, née Robinson) Esther Haigh-Wood (1860–1941), wifeHaigh-Wood, Charles of Charles Haigh-Wood (1854–1927), artist.

 attends TSE's lecture on Whibley, the impossibility of VHE looking after, encourages TSE to accept Norton Professorship, visited VHE in sanatorium, her health, Hindhead weekend with, blames VHE for Lucy Thayer's departure,
Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, EH and TSE visit,
Hale, Agnes (née Burke),

5.RobertHale, Robert Hale (1889–1976) graduated in law as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he met TSE. After some years as an attorney, he served in the Maine State Legislature, and was a U.S. Representative from Maine, 1943–58. HisHale, Agnes (née Burke) wife was Agnes Burke.
Hale, Edward,

1.EdwardHale, Edward Hale (1858–1918), Unitarian minister, father of Emily Hale: see Biographical Register.

 TSE's sense of propriety on behalf of, EH goes through possessions of, EH feels spiritually remote from, in TSE's prayers, commemorated by his church, EH recalls, anniversary of death marked,
Hale, Edward Everett,

1.EdwardHale, Edward Everett Everett Hale (1822–1909), esteemed author, biographer, historian; Unitarian minister at the South Congregational Church in Boston (where EH’s father had assisted him). Though a member of the extensive Hale family, he was not in fact directly related to EH.

 mistaken for EH's grandfather,
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',
Hale, Emily Jose Milliken (EH's mother), admission to McLean's Hospital, EH's frequent visits to, her state of mind, compared to VHE, a comparison regretted and refined, a strain on EH, falls ill, and suffering more generally, reported to be better, in the hands of physicians, in TSE's prayers, TSE (un-falsely) consoles EH over, her health, doctor prognosticates on, business relating to, TSE meditates on, war affects care for, and TSE's hope for the afterlife, final illness, dies, her funeral, anniversary of death marked, Theresa on,
Hale, Irene (née Baumgras),

3.IreneHale, Irene (née Baumgras) Hale, née Baumgras, widow of Philip Hale, celebrated as the prolific and influential music critic of the Boston Herald. Irene Hale, who was herself an accomplished pianist, had studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where she gained the Springer Gold Medal 1881, and continued with her studies in Europe under Raif and Moritz Mosckowski: she later wrote music under the name Victor Rene.

 descends on Campden, TSE on, compared to Mrs Perkins, EH reaches limit with, and Orlando and the parrots, EH's relations with, shares EH's Oxford lodgings, oppresses EH, her effect on Campden life, menaces Chipping Campden, descends on EH in Northampton, in Northampton, decamps from Northampton, taken less seriously by EH, not to be indulged, less exhausting than Mrs Perkins, yet still exhausting, indifferent to hardships of relations,
Hale, Lillian,

2.LillianHale, Lillian Hale (1881–1942), teacher and artist, was married to Charles Norman Fay (1848–1944), founder of the Chicago Orchestra.
Hale, Matthew,
Hale, Philip,

6.PhilipHale, Philip Hale (1854–1934), journalist, celebrated as the prolific and influential music critic of the Boston Herald, 1903–33, who also wrote a multitude of programme notes for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1901–34: see Jon Ceander Mitchell, Trans-Atlantic Passages: Philip Hale on the Boston Symphony Orchestra 1889–1933 (New York, 2014).

 his programme notes, dies, remembered by TSE, TSE receives book of programme notes, which is mentioned in Criterion,
Hale, Robert,

5.RobertHale, Robert Hale (1889–1976) graduated in law as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he met TSE. After some years as an attorney, he served in the Maine State Legislature, and was a U.S. Representative from Maine, 1943–58. HisHale, Agnes (née Burke) wife was Agnes Burke.
Hall, Amy Gozzaldi,

2.RichardHall, Richard ('Dick') Walworth Walworth Hall (1889–1966), who graduated from Harvard in 1910 and gained his LL.B from Boston University in 1913, was a lawyer. He shared TSE’s passion for small boat sailing. Hall and hisHall, Amy Gozzaldi wife Amy Gozzaldi Hall (d. 1981) lived at 11 Hawthorn Street, Cambridge, Mass. Both of them greatly enjoyed amateur dramatics: see Richard W. Hall, ‘Recollections of the Cambridge Social Dramatic Club’, The Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society 38 (1959–60), 51–66. InHall, Amy Gozzaldiplaying opposite TSE in 1912–13;a2n 1912–13Cummings, Edward Estlin ('E. E.')Second Footman to TSE's Lord Bantock;a1n, Amy had played the part of Fanny – new wife to TSE’s Lord Bantock (of Bantock Hall, Rutlandshire) – in the Cambridge Social Dramatic Club production of Jerome K. Jerome’s The New Lady Bantock or Fanny and the Servant Problem (1909): see letter to Eleanor Hinkley, 3 Jan. 1915. The Second Footman in that production had been played by E. E. Cummings (1894–1962), poet, novelist, playwright and artist.

 shares theatrical reminiscences with TSE, playing opposite TSE in 1912–13, accompanies TSE to Bird in Hand, hosts TSE and old friends,
see also Halls, the
Hall, Anmer,

7.AnmerHall, Anmer Hall – pseud. of Alderson Burrell Horne (1863–1953) – solicitor, actor-manager (stage name, Waldo Wright) and stage director. He was licensee of the Westminster Theatre, 1931–47. For the Group Theatre in Oct. 1935, he directed Auden’s The Dance of Death.
Hall, Mary,

1.MaryHall, Mary Hall: cousin of Mary Lee Ware. (Possibly wife of Ware’s cousin Edward Brooks Hall.)
Hall, Richard ('Dick') Walworth,

2.RichardHall, Richard ('Dick') Walworth Walworth Hall (1889–1966), who graduated from Harvard in 1910 and gained his LL.B from Boston University in 1913, was a lawyer. He shared TSE’s passion for small boat sailing. Hall and hisHall, Amy Gozzaldi wife Amy Gozzaldi Hall (d. 1981) lived at 11 Hawthorn Street, Cambridge, Mass. Both of them greatly enjoyed amateur dramatics: see Richard W. Hall, ‘Recollections of the Cambridge Social Dramatic Club’, The Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society 38 (1959–60), 51–66. InHall, Amy Gozzaldiplaying opposite TSE in 1912–13;a2n 1912–13Cummings, Edward Estlin ('E. E.')Second Footman to TSE's Lord Bantock;a1n, Amy had played the part of Fanny – new wife to TSE’s Lord Bantock (of Bantock Hall, Rutlandshire) – in the Cambridge Social Dramatic Club production of Jerome K. Jerome’s The New Lady Bantock or Fanny and the Servant Problem (1909): see letter to Eleanor Hinkley, 3 Jan. 1915. The Second Footman in that production had been played by E. E. Cummings (1894–1962), poet, novelist, playwright and artist.
see also Halls, the
Hallett, Monsignor Philip,

3.MonsignorHallett, Monsignor Philip Philip Hallett: rector (since 1924) of St John’s Seminary, Wonersh, Surrey.

 plays chess with TSE, asks TSE to reprise Johnson lectures,
Hamilton, General Sir Ian,

9.GeneralHamilton, General Sir Ian Sir Ian Hamilton (1853–1947), distinguished army officer; sometimes unfairly blamed for the failure of the Gallipoli Campaign during WW1. F&F were to publish his memoir When I Was a Boy (1939).

 visits F&F,
Hancock, Isabel Maxwell,

2.IsabelHancock, Isabel Maxwell Maxwell Hancock (d. 1964), a graduate of Hollins College and the University of Virginia (MA), was instructor in mathematics at Abbot Academy; she served too as Director of Admissions – and (in the official term) ‘hostess’.
Hannen, Nicholas 'Beau',

7.NicholasHannen, Nicholas 'Beau' ‘Beau’ Hannen (1881–1972): British stage and screen actor.
Hansell, William,

2.WilliamHansell, William Hansell (1856–1937), barrister.
Harcourt, Brace & Co., and Selected Essays, poach Frank Morley, negotiations over New York Murder, refuse illustrated edition of Cats, and Four Quartets, which they print disappointingly, advance TSE money,
Hard, Frederick,

1.FrederickHard, Frederick Hard, a Shakespeare scholar, was President of Scripps College 1944–64.
Harding, Ruth,

5.SeeHarding, Ruth Ruth Harding, ‘Dear Ruth: With letters and visits T. S. Eliot maintained a warm and unusual friendship in Cambridge’, Boston, Aug. 1967, 39. Ruth Harding was an African-American who prepared occasional meals for the Henry Eliots in Cambridge, Mass. Her memoir gives details of TSE’s kindness and friendship.
Hardinge, Charles, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst,

10.CharlesHardinge, Charles, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858–1944), diplomat; ambassador at St Petersburg, 1904–6; Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1906–10, 1916–20; Viceroy of India, 1910–16; Ambassador at Paris, 1920–2. See letter – ‘British Foreign Policy: The New Diplomacy: Waste of Ambassadors’ Experience’ – The Times, 20 May 1935, 15.
Hardwicke, Sir Cedric,

3.SirHardwicke, Sir Cedric Cedric Hardwicke (1893–1964), redoubtable stage and screen actor.

 brilliant in Heartbreak House, meets TSE,
Hardy, Thomas, TSE on, his portrait at Magdalene, Under the Greenwood Tree,
Harmsworth, Desmond,

7.DesmondHarmsworth, Desmond Harmsworth (1903–90), British publisher, artist and poet. Son of the politician Cecil Harmsworth; nephew of the press barons Lord Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth and Lord Rothermere, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and worked for a few years in the family publishing and newspaper business, before striking out to study art in Paris. In the 1930s he launched his own publishing house, Desmond Harmsworth Ltd, which was for a while brilliantly successful. The imprint brought out works by authors including Roy Campbell, Wyndham Lewis, Norman Douglas, Ezra Pound and Mulk Raj Anand; and his most remarkable production (co-published with the Obelisk Press, Paris) was a limited edition of James Joyce’s Pomes Penyeach, with illustrations by Joyce’s daughter Lucia (1932). His own writings included a notable verse translation of Paul Valéry’s Le Cimetière marin. He succeeded to the title of 2nd Baron Harmsworth on the death of his father in 1948.
Harris, Charles Reginald Schiller,

2.CharlesHarris, Charles Reginald Schiller Reginald Schiller Harris (1896–1979), journalist, author, diplomat; editor of The Nineteenth Century and After, 1930–5.
Harris, Joel Chandler, Uncle Remus,
Harris, Revd Charles,

12.RevdHarris, Revd Charles Charles Harris, DD (1865–1936), Prebendary of Hereford Cathedral from 1925; Vicar of South Leigh, Witney, Oxfordshire, 1929–34; Chairman of the Book Committee of the (English) Church Union since 1923; Assistant Editor of Literature and Worship, 1932. Works include Creeds or No Creeds? (1922); First Steps in the Philosophy of Religion (1927). TSE to Group Captain Paul J. Harris (son), 12 July 1961: ‘I was very happy to work with him many years ago on the Literature Committee of the Anglo-Catholic Congress. Your father was, incidentally, an extremely able and dynamic Secretary of the Committee and the publications reached a high level of importance and authority during his term of office.’

 consulted on 'Thoughts After Lambeth', upsets Father Rosey Rosenthal, visited in nursing home,
Harris, Robert,

1.RobertHarris, Robert Harris (1900–95), British actor.

 replaces Max Adrian, cannot manage Becket in rep,
Harris, Rosemary,

1.RosemaryHarris, Rosemary Harris (b. 1927): British stage and screen actor – she had graduated from RADA in 1952, and made her stage début in 1951 – went on to win several international awards including the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Lion in Winter (1966). In time, she even received a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination for her role as Vivien Eliot’s mother in the 1994 film of Michael Hastings’s play Tom & Viv.

 as Lucasta,
Harrison, Jane Ellen,

JaneHarrison, Jane Ellen Ellen Harrison (1850–1928), classical scholar specialising in Ancient Greek religion and mythology; taught at Newnham College, Cambridge, 1898–1922. Works include Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1903); Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion (1912). In her later years she lived with Mirrlees, her ‘spiritual daughter’.

 and Hope Mirrlees,
Harrison, Rex,

2.RexHarrison, Rex Harrison (1908–90): award-winning English actor of stage and screen; successful in comedies and musicals, but also in more serious roles, from the 1930s. He won a Tony award and an Oscar as Professor Higgins in versions of My Fair Lady.

 in The Cocktail Party, TSE's initial reaction to,
Harrow School, Poetry Society addressed, TSE's visit to,
Hart, Basil Henry ('B. H.') Liddell,

1.B. H. LiddellHart, Basil Henry ('B. H.') Liddell Hart (1895–1970), soldier, journalist and influential military historian.

 reviews Cooper's Haig spitefully, and the case for appeasement, The Revolution in Warfare,
Hart, Frank William,

1.FrankHart, Frank William William Hart (1881–1965), Professor of Education, University of California.
Hart, Sophie Chantal,

8.SophieHart, Sophie Chantal Chantal Hart (d. 1948, Head of the English Composition Department, Wellesley College, 1897–1937. Edited Tennyson’s Idylls of the King and an edition of Carlyle’s Essays.
Hartley, Leslie Poles ('L. P.'),

1.L. P. HartleyHartley, Leslie Poles ('L. P.') (1895–1972), novelist, short-story writer and book reviewer, enjoyed a modest success with a collection of stories Night Fears (1924) and a novella, Simonetta Perkins (1925), but was to become celebrated for his Eustace and Hilda trilogy (1944–7); The Go-Between (1953; filmed by Joseph Losey, 1971), and The Hireling (1957). CBE, 1956.

 at Clive Bell's lunch-party,
Harvard Advocate, TSE gives reading for,
Harvard Classical Club, write TSE into Aristophanes,
Harvard University, rumours of TSE defecting to, TSE's student days at, makes TSE feel inadequate, Annenberg Hall disparaged, its society, English 26 (Modern English Literature), class described, on Shaw and Chesterton, on Hardy, positive feedback on, on Yeats, on modern poetry, on Joyce contra Lawrence, final lecture, compared architecturally to Yale, hockey match, compared to Princeton, produces Murder, TSE's student cooking at, engages MacNeice at TSE's instance, TSE's election to Phi Beta Kappa Society, where TSE's writers' cramp began, Harvard calendar given to TSE, TSE's student bodybuilding regime at, speaking engagement at, poetry reading at, confers honorary degree on TSE, stages Murder at Germanic Museum, Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, produces Murder again, Class Reunion at, which TSE gets out of, possible deposit for Hale letters,
Harvey, Diana Blanche,

15.DianaHarvey, Diana Blanche Blanche Harvey (d. 1982), daughter of Sir Robert Harvey, 2nd Bt., married Harold Harington Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye, in 1921: they were divorced in 1946.

 gives TSE painting,
Hastings, Donald Pierre,

12.DonaldHastings, Donald Pierre Pierre Hastings (1900–38), English sculptor; son of the sculptor William Grenville Hastings (1868–1902); noted for ecclesiastical, architectural and portrait commissions.

 produces hideous bust of TSE, which TSE sends photographs of, which Hastings eventually exhibits, which proves inferior to Rodrigues's,
Havens, Lorraine,
Havens, Paul, and EH greet TSE at Claremont, appointed President of Wilson College, congratulated on appointment, offers TSE honorary degree, engages TSE to make commencement address, which Henry's health jeopardises, and is eventually cancelled,
see also Havenses, the
Havenses, the, EH stays with,
Haverford College, preponderance of Quakers,
Hawkes, Gwenda (née Glubb),

4.GwendaHawkes, Gwenda (née Glubb) Hawkes, née Glubb (1894–1990), motor-racing legend. As an ambulance driver during WW1, serving on the Russian and the Romanian Fronts, she showed such great courage that she was awarded both the Cross of St George and the Cross of St Stanislaus and was mentioned in despatches. From the 1920s she competed in motor-cycle and motor-car races at Brooklands and at the Autodrome de Montlhéry near Paris, breaking or establishing a number of world speed records, and in 1935 she became the fastest woman ever at the Brooklands circuit. Her brother was John Bagot Glubb (1897–1966) – ‘Glubb Pasha,’ as he became known – accomplished professional soldier, who founded the Arab Patrol in 1931, and was later to serve as commanding general of the Arab Legion in Transjordan, 1939–56.
Hawkins, A. Desmond,

3.A. DesmondHawkins, A. Desmond Hawkins (1908–99), novelist, critic, broadcaster: see Biographical Register.

 discusses novel with TSE, mourns The Criterion, interviews TSE for BBC, asks TSE to godfather child,
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, TSE flanked by portrait of,
Haye, Helen,

2.HelenHaye, Helen Haye (1874–1957), stage and film actor. (She was to play the Duchess of York in Laurence Olivier’s film production of Richard III.)

 as Amy, Daily Telegraph gives credit to, keen on repertory Murder,
Hayek, Friedrich von,

4.FriedrichHayek, Friedrich von von Hayek (1899–1992): Austrian-born economist, social theorist and political philosopher, who became a British citizen in 1938, taught at the London School of Economics, 1931–50, and at the University of Chicago, 1950–62; ultimately at the University of Freiburg. Co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1974, he was made Companion of Honour, 1984; and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991.

 TSE attends seminar of,
Hayes, Helen,

6.HelenHayes, Helen Hayes (1900–93), acclaimed American actor.

 distinct from Helen Haye,
Haysum, Maria Mary ('Molly'),

7.MariaHaysum, Maria Mary ('Molly') Mary ‘Molly’ Haysum, née Keyte (1888–1963), wife of George Haysum (1883–1963), who transported goods to and from Campden station and the town – whence his nickname ‘Bussy’. They lived at 12 Sheep Street, Chipping Campden, where Mrs Haysum took in paying guests. (My thanks to Carol Jackson, Chipping Campden Historical Society.)
Hayward, John,

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

 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,
Headlam, Arthur, Bishop of Gloucester, amusing encounter with,
Headlam, Sir Cuthbert,
Healey, Robert C.,

1.RobertHealey, Robert C. C. Healey, Office of the Military Attaché, American Embassy, London – but ‘normally a student of English Literature and Drama,’ as TSE told Hayward (10 Apr. 1942). TSE to the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, c/o Naval Intelligence, London, 22 Mar. 1942: ‘I am writing to recommend Mr. Robert C. Healey who is, I understand, applying for a Naval commission. I have known him since his arrival in England … He is evidently extremely intelligent, and well educated, and possess[es] as well considerable social charm, which ought to be helpful in any work of a diplomatic nature. He ought to be able to hold his own in any company, and made the best of impressions upon friends to whom I have introduced him.’
Heap, Jane,

3.JaneHeap, Jane Heap (1883–1964), American publisher, was co-editor (with her lover Margaret Anderson) of The Little Review, 1916–29.

 first female at Criterion gathering,
Heard, Gerald,

2.GeraldHeard, Gerald Heard (1889–1971), historian, science writer, educator and philosopher.

 compared to Colonel Sebastian Moran,
Hearsey, Dr Marguerite Capen,

1.DrHearsey, Dr Marguerite Capen Marguerite Capen Hearsey (1893–1990) was 14th Principal of Abbot Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1936–55. Educated at Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia, and at Radcliffe College, she taught French and English at Georgetown College in Kentucky; and English at both Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, and Wellesley College, 1924–5, 1927–9. In 1929 she earned a PhD at Yale, where she was a Sterling Fellow and specialised in Elizabethan literature; she studied too at the Sorbonne. Before moving on to Andover, she taught at Hollins, 1929–36. She served, too, as President of the National Association of Principals of Schools for Girls.

 offers EH permanent Abbot Academy position, TSE inscribes book for,
Heaviside, Oliver, and Old Possum's,
'Helping Children to Know the World',
Helpmann, Robert,

2.RobertHelpmann, Robert Helpmann (né Helpman; 1909–86), Australian ballet dancer and actor, director and choreographer, joined the Vic–Wells Ballet in London under its creator, Ninette de Valois, in 1932. In Feb. 1944 he starred in an Old Vic production of Hamlet, directed by Tyrone Guthrie (1900–71) and Michael Benthall (1919–74); he alternated the title role with Paul Scofield (1922–2008).

 as Hamlet, revives Murder at Old Vic,
Henderson, J. F.,

2.J. F. HendersonHenderson, J. F., Home Office, was to advise TSE and Frank Morley in Jan. 1934 about the perils that could be incurred if F&F were to publish Ulysses. See National Archives, Kew: HO 144/20071.
Henley, W. E.,

9.W. E. HenleyHenley, W. E. (1849–1903), poet, critic and editor. Charles Whibley, who was a close friend, worked as his assistant editor on the Scots Observer, later the National Observer.

 recalled by J. M. Barrie,
Henn, T. R.,

2.T. R. HennHenn, T. R. (1901–74), Fellow and then President of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 1926–61; Judith Wilson Lecturer in Poetry and Drama, 1961–5. Works include The Lonely Tower (1950), The Harvest of Tragedy (1959) and The Bible as Literature (1970).
Hennessey, Jean,

3.JeanHennessey, Jean Hennessey (1874–1944), French politician. The Hennessey family, of Irish descent, were proprietors of the Hennessey cognac business.

 known to Whibley,
Henriot, Émile,

1.The Centre Universitaire Meditérranéen: a university centre set up in Nice in 1933 by the University of Aix-Marseille. The Mayor of Nice nominated Paul Valéry of the Académie française as administrator and Maurice Mignon as Director. The academician ÉmileHenriot, Émile Henriot (1889–1961), who succeeded Valéry, called the CUM, with its premises at 65 Promenade des Anglais, the ‘Mediterranean equivalent of a small College of France”. (It is now a municipal centre for conferences, &c.) TSE was promoted to Officier de la Légion d’Honneur in 1951.
Henson, Herbert Hensley, Bishop of Durham,
Henson, Leslie,

2.LeslieHenson, Leslie Henson (1891–1957), English musical comedian, actor and producer. In WW2, in cooperation with Basil Dean, he set up the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA).
Heppenstall, Rayner,

2.RaynerHeppenstall, Rayner Heppenstall (1911–81), novelist, poet, radio producer; author of Middleton Murry: A Study in Excellent Normality (1934); Apology for Dancing (1936); The Blaze of Noon (novel, 1939); Four Absentees: Dylan Thomas, George Orwell, Eric Gill, J. Middleton Murry (1960).
Heraclitus, quoted in epigraphs to Burnt Norton,
Herbert, Alice (née Baker),

2.AliceHerbert, Alice (née Baker) Herbert, née Baker (1859–1941) – novelist: author of Garden Oats (1914) and Heaven and Charing Cross (1928) – married Walter Humboldt Loewe (1864–95), a Hungarian who anglicised his name to Low; following Low’s death, in 1896 she married Sandy Herbert.
Herbert, Fr Gabriel,

5.Fr ArthurHerbert, Fr Gabriel Gabriel Hebert, SSM.

 TSE's affection for, at Kelham,
Herbert, George, recited at Poetry Bookshop, TSE examines PhD on, inspires Leighton Bromswold pilgrimage, shortly followed by Bemerton expedition, TSE selects poems from, subject of TSE's Salisbury address,
Herbert, John Alexander ('Sandy'),

1.JohnHerbert, John Alexander ('Sandy') Alexander (‘Sandy’) Herbert (1862–1948), Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum; author of Illuminated Manuscripts (1911).
Herbert, Sir Dennis,

3.SirHerbert, Sir Dennis Dennis Herbert, later 1st Baron Hemingford (1869–1947), Conservative MP for Watford, 1918–43.
Hetherington, Sir Hector,

1.SirHetherington, Sir Hector Hector Hetherington (1888–1965), Scottish philosopher, was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, 1927–36; Principal of the University of Glasgow, 1936–61. See Charles Illingworth, University Statesman – The Story of Sir Hector Hetherington … 1888–1965 (1971).

 as TSE's Glasgow host,
Heyl, Lawrence,
Hicks, Nugent, Bishop of Lincoln (formerly Bishop of Gibraltar),

2.NugentHicks, Nugent, Bishop of Lincoln (formerly Bishop of Gibraltar) Hicks (1872–1942), Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar, 1927–33; Bishop of Lincoln, 1932–42; author of The Fullness of Sacrifice (1930).

 first impressions of,
Higginson, G. F.,

1.TSE’s solicitor, G. F. HigginsonHigginson, G. F. of Bird & Bird, Gray’s Inn Square, London.

 deputed to VHE crisis-talks, issues formal reprimand on TSE's behalf,
Highgate School, TSE's recollections of, teaching poetry at,
Hill, Jason, The Curious Gardener,
Hill, Laura Maude (TSE's secretary),

6.LauraHill, Laura Maude (TSE's secretary) Maude Hill was TSE’s secretary, for a while, before the advent of Pamela Wilberforce.
Hills, the,
Hillyer, Dorothy Hancock Tilton,
see also Hillyers, the
Hillyer, Robert,

12.RobertHillyer, Robert Hillyer (1895–1961), poet, taught from 1926 at Harvard, where he became Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, 1937–44. Collected Verse (1933) won a Pulitzer Prize. He became notorious when he published in the Saturday Review of Literature in 1949 a condemnation of the award of the Bollingen Prize to the ‘fascist’ Ezra Pound for Pisan Cantos.

 TSE suspends judgement on, at St. Botolph poets' dinner, unimproved by further acquaintance, attacks EP's 1949 Bollingen Prize, his attack on TSE, to which TSE responds,
see also Hillyers, the
Hillyers, the, their stereotypical cocktail-party,
Hindemith, Paul, intrigues TSE, Nobilissima visione,
Hinkley, Barbara (TSE's first cousin),

6.BarbaraHinkley, Barbara (TSE's first cousin) Hinkley (1889–1958) was married in July 1928 to Roger Wolcott (1877–1965), an attorney; they lived at 125 Beacon Hill, Boston, and at 1733 Canton Avenue, Milton, Mass.

 TSE's antipathy to, not an intimate, Hinkleys celebrate her second marriage, her irreligion, speculations on her failed marriage, TSE on, reports on Dear Jane, hosts grand dinner, TSE revises criticism of, distinguished from husband, handicaps Eleanor, left by husband,
see also Hinkleys, the, Wolcotts, the
Hinkley, Eleanor Holmes (TSE's first cousin),

5.EleanorHinkley, Eleanor Holmes (TSE's first cousin) Holmes Hinkley (1891–1971), playwright; TSE’s first cousin; daughter of Susan Heywood Stearns – TSE’s maternal aunt – and Holmes Hinkley: see Biographical Register.

 announces presence in London, TSE regrets speaking lightly of, un-deracinated, compared to TSE, TSE shares EH's frustrations with, less perceptive than her mother, gives party for Eva Le Gallienne, unworldly, theatrical success might improve, takes TSE to football match, dances with TSE, at second Norton lecture, as EH's friend, unflattering photograph of, and EH attend American Murder, suspected of writing by the book, to Aunt Susie as Hope Mirrlees to Mappie, pursues adult education, prejudices TSE against George Baker, cossetted, TSE feels remote from, explodes two Stearns family myths, reportedly writing novel, and life after Aunt Susie, turned carer, passes up EH's invitation, recollected as girl, TSE attempts to lure to England, her impersonality, invites TSE to stay in Boston, reports on Margaret's funeral, TSE's improved relations with, as 1956 hostess, reports on EH, informs EH of TSE's health, engineers correspondence between EVE and EH, adaptation of Emma, central to TSE falling for EH, Charlotte Brontë play, TSE presents to London Play Company, TSE's verdict on, compared to Dear Jane, Dear Jane, to be produced in New York, consumes her, TSE happy to dodge premiere, but hopes to catch over Christmas, well reviewed in certain quarters, White Violets,
see also Hinkleys, the
Hinkley, Susan Heywood (TSE's aunt, née Stearns), reports on I. A. Richards, writes to TSE about Hugh Walpole, delighted at Dear Jane's acceptance, retails TSE with ex-son-in-law's adulteries, possibly more perceptive than Eleanor, Eleanor's success might improve, at the second Norton lecture, TSE's occasional poem for, sympathises with TSE over separation, shares family drama with TSE, as correspondent, impediment to intimacy with Eleanor, eventually repelled Ada, reports daughter's reaction to Murder, writes innocently boastful letter, indifferent to war, writes in daughter's stead, in Ada's memory, overbearing mother, 'wambling', dependent on Eleanor,
see also Hinkleys, the
Hinkleys, the, during TSE's student days, in London, cheerful but somehow stunted, take to Evelyn Underhill and Harriet Weaver, taken on Bloomsbury tour, OM on, TSE reflects on their departure, have never asked after EH's mother, not in TSE's confidence as to EH, at odds with TSE's view of marriage, EH yet to confide in, more conventional than moral, bemuse TSE, their company makes TSE feel wary, outside Ada's confidence, TSE repents of criticising, more intolerant even than TSE, apprised of TSE's separation, ignorant of TSE's feelings for EH, EH explains relationship with TSE to, family drama of Dane babies, supported Landon over FDR, their insularity, their family sclerosis, TSE imagines EH's evening with,
Hinks, Roger,

4.RogerHinks, Roger Hinks (1903–63), Assistant Keeper, 1926–39, in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, from which he resigned in consequence of a scandal caused by his arrangements for deep-cleaning the Elgin Marbles. He later worked at the Warburg Institute, at the British Legation in Stockholm (where he met TSE in 1942) and for the British Council (Rome, The Netherlands, Greece, Paris). His writings include Carolingian Art (1935) and Caravaggio: His Life – His Legend – His Works (1953). See also ‘Roger Hinks’, Burlington Magazine 105: 4738 (Sept. 1964), 423–34; and The Gymnasium of the Mind: The Journals of Roger Hinks, 1933–1963, ed. John Goldsmith (1984).

 quizzed over Roman Art book, at JDH's birthday-party, recalls TSE in Sweden, on TSE's 1947 visit to Rome,
Hitchcock, Alfred,
Hitler, Adolf, Bishop Bell on, occupies the Rhineland, post-Anschluss, and Mussolini, and Vansittart, Kauffer's photo of TSE resembles, and appeasement, and the future of Europe, replies to Roosevelt, his Reichstag speech on Poland,
Hoare, Sir Samuel, 1st Viscount Templewood,

1.SirHoare, Sir Samuel, 1st Viscount Templewood Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (1880–1959), Conservative politician, was Foreign Secretary from 7 June to 18 Dec, 1935.
Hobhouse, Christopher,

4.ChristopherHobhouse, Christopher Hobhouse (1910–40), author of Oxford.
Hobson, Harold,

3.HaroldHobson, Harold Hobson (1904–92), drama critic for the Sunday Times and other publications. Knighted 1977.
Hocking, Agnes (née O'Reilly), grills TSE on Christian doctrine,
Hocking, William,

3.WilliamHocking, William Hocking (1873–1966), philosopher; Allord Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, Harvard University. Works include The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912); Living Religions and a World Faith (Hibbert Lectures, 1938).
Hodges, H. A.,

5.H. A. HodgesHodges, H. A. (1905–76), Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading, 1936–69.
Hodgson, Ralph,

4.RalphHodgson, Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962), Yorkshire-born poet; fond friend of TSE: see Biographical Register.

 debates religion with TSE, seeks introduction to TSE, talks dogs with TSE, TSE takes to, an afternoon's conversation with, further discussion of dogs, at Monro's funeral, his Bull Terrier in disgrace, elegised on departure, exchanges walking-sticks with TSE, reveals intention to propose to Miss Bollinger, bears Cats away to Wisconsin, 'The Song of Honour',
see also Hodgsons, the
Hodgsons, the, stay with the Eliots, accompany the Eliots to Derby Day, the Eliots share farewell dinner with, will be missed,
Hoellering, George M.,

3.GeorgeHoellering, George M. M. Hoellering (1898–1980), Austrian-born filmmaker and cinema manager: see Biographical Register.

 pitches for Murder film rights, TSE's fondness for, accompanies TSE on Canterbury recce, persists with TSE, encourages TSE over adaptation, sitting on TSE's scenario, commissioned to film Archbishop's enthronement, incommunicado, publicising Murder, on collaborating with TSE, tries to cast TSE as Becket, discovers Father Groser of Stepney, dressing set in disused church, peddling his Murder, and Murder's reception, Message from Canterbury,
Hogan, Professor J. J.,

6.ProfessorHogan, Professor J. J. J. J. Hogan, MA, B.Litt (Oxon).
Hollis, Christopher,

5.ChristopherHollis, Christopher Hollis (1902–77): schoolmaster, university teacher, author; Conservative MP for Devizes in Wiltshire, 1945–55; convert to Roman Catholicism.
'Hollow Men, The', indebted to Stravinsky, recited at Harvard,
Hollywood,
see America
Holmes, John Haynes,

13.JohnHolmes, John Haynes Haynes Holmes (1879–1964), prominent and controversial Unitarian minister; pacifist and anti-war activist (winner of the Gandhi Peace Award); co-founder (1909) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), co-founder (1920) of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) – of which he was chair, 1940–50. Works include New Wars for Old (1916); A Sensible Man’s View of Religion (1932); My Gandhi (1953). Review not found.

 reviews Christian Society,
Holmes, Sherlock,
see Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Holy Trinity, Long Melford,
'Homage to Virgil',
'Hommage à Charles Maurras',
homosexuality, EH's experience with former pupil, which reminds TSE of his own experiences teaching, TSE's experiences in Paris, considered as sin, versus Christian orthodoxy,
Hone, Joseph M.,

8.JosephHone, Joseph M. M. Hone (1882–1959), Irish writer, biographer, editor, critic.
Hopkins, Gerard,

1.GerardHopkins, Gerard (‘Gerry’) Hopkins (1892–1961), publisher and translator, and his wife Mabel. A nephew of Gerard Manley Hopkins – whose poetry, letters and diaries he put into print – he was educated at Balliol College, Oxford (president of OUDS), and won the Military Cross during WW1. In 1920 he joined Oxford University Press, serving as publicity manager and later editorial adviser. Fluent in French, he became well known for his feats of translation: his output included vols 7–27 of Jules Romain’s Men of Good Will; biographies by André Maurois; Proust’s Jean Santeuil; memoirs, broadcasts, plays. He was made Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, 1951. According to Grevel Lindop, he was ‘a big, genial man, full of confidence and (according to Press gossip) a womanizer’ (Charles Williams: The Third Inkling, 72).

 visited at OUP,
see also Gerard Hopkinses, the
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, possible influence on Wilfred Owen, his importance as poet, his Poems sent to EH, 'Lines to a Persian Cat' too reminiscent of, inspires 'New Hampshire' and 'Virginia', his influence, 'Margaret, are you grieving?', 'The Windhover',
Hopkins, Mabel,
see also Gerard Hopkinses, the
Horne, David,

5.DavidHorne, David Horne (1898–1970): British character actor on film and stage.

 in 1956 Family Reunion revival,
Horniman, Roy,

4.RoyHorniman, Roy Horniman (1874–1930), writer, playwright and screenwriter. Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907) was to be filmed as Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).
Horobin, Gilbert, Tangent,
Horton, Elizabeth,

1.ElizabethHorton, Elizabeth Horton, secretary to the Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton; friend of EH and Jeanette McPherrin.
Horton, Mildred H. (née McAfee),

1.MildredHorton, Mildred H. (née McAfee) H. Horton, McAfee (1900–94), academic and administrator, became 7th President of Wellesley College in 1936, aged 36. In 1945 she had married the Revd Dr Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School at Harvard University.
Hoskyns, Edwyn Clement,

8.EdwynHoskyns, Edwyn Clement Clement Hoskyns, 13th Baronet (1884–1937), theologian; Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was successively Dean of Chapel, Librarian and President. His works in biblical theology include The Fourth Gospel (1940) and Crucifixion-Resurrection (1981); and he published an English translation of Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans (1933). See Gordon S. Wakefield, ‘Hoskyns and Raven: The Theological Issue’, Theology, Nov. 1975, 568–76; Wakefield, ‘Edwyn Clement Hoskyns’, in E. C. Hoskyns and F. N. Davey, Crucifixion-Resurrection (1981); and R. E. Parsons, Sir Edwyn Hoskyns as Biblical Theologian (1985).

 among TSE's Corpus 'friends', and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, talks cheese, cricket, theology,
Hotson, Leslie,

6.TSEHotson, Leslie stayed with Leslie andHotson, Mary Mary Hotson at Haverford College, where he lectured on ‘The Development of Shakespearean Criticism’ in Roberts Hall on 24 Mar.

 a kind of bore,
see also Hotsons, the
Hotson, Mary,

6.TSEHotson, Leslie stayed with Leslie andHotson, Mary Mary Hotson at Haverford College, where he lectured on ‘The Development of Shakespearean Criticism’ in Roberts Hall on 24 Mar.

 ridiculed, not quite an Eliot, a kind of bore,
see also Hotsons, the
Hotsons, the, compared to Paul More as hosts, described for EH, their heartiness, looking after Georgina Dobrée,
House of the Resurrection, Mirfield, Curtis drawn to joining, TSE's weekend at,
Houseman, John,

1.JohnHouseman, John Houseman – born Jacques Haussmann (1902–88) – celebrated Romanian-born actor, director and producer; educated at Clifton College in England, he won plaudits for his long association with Orson Welles, beginning with productions for the Federal Theatre Project in the 1930s, and culminating in the writing and production of the movie Citizen Kane (1941).
Housman, Alfred Edward ('A. E.'), reviewed, inspires conversation about claret, and his brother Laurence, The Name and Nature of Poetry,
Housman, Laurence, compared to his brother,
'How to pick a Possum', sent to EH,
Howson, Revd Vincent,

1.RevdHowson, Revd Vincent Vincent Howson (d. 1957), St James’ Vicarage, Ratcliff, London, was ‘Bert’ in The Rock. Founder and producer of the East End Amateurs, he had been a member of Sir Frank Benson’s Shakespearian Company. His final post was as rector of St Paul’s, Covent Garden.

 revises TSE's cockney dialogue, takes TSE on East End pub-crawl, as Bert, TSE's Stepney sojourn with, hosts TSE in Limehouse, submits novel, lures TSE into speaking engagement,
Hudson, Revd Cyril Edward,

1.RevdHudson, Revd Cyril Edward Cyril Edward Hudson (1888–1960), Canon of St Albans; Hon. Secretary of the Teaching Church Group for Adult Religious Education.
Huebsch, Ben,

3.BenHuebsch, Ben Huebsch (1876–1964), American publisher, first with his own imprint and then, from 1925, with Viking Press.

 keeps TSE company at sea,
Hügel, Friedrich von, paraphrased for EH, appears in American actress's memoirs, TSE invited to join society founded by, invoked against the idea of conversion, Letters from Baron Friedrich von Hügel to a Niece,
Hugh Inneses, the, visiting Pike's Farm, visited in Cambridge,
Hughes, Babette,

3.BabetteHughes, Babette Hughes (1905–82), successful author of short plays and mystery stories.
Hughes, Glenn,

2.GlennHughes, Glenn Hughes (1894–1964), author, playwright, theatre director; author of Imagism and the Imagists: A Study in Modern Poetry (Stanford, 1931).
Hugo, Victor, compared to Stendhal and Thackeray,
Hulme, Thomas Ernest ('T. E.'), his influence on TSE and modernism, 'Conversion', Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art,
Hume, Laurabel, reports on TSE's Scripps visit,
Hunter, Ian,

2.IanHunter, Ian Hunter (1900–76): South African-born actor who studied under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, and whose career embraced good supporting roles in film, stage and TV. He worked with directors including Basil Dean and Michael Powell, and appeared in three films by Alfred Hitchcock in the later 1920s. He acted alongside Shirley Temple in The Little Princess (1939), and featured in other films including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1941); in a number of West End productions; and as Sir Richard of the Lea in the TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood. From the spring of 1950 he played Edward Chamberlayne alongside Rex Harrison as Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly in The Cocktail Party, directed by E. Martin Browne at the New Theatre, London.

 in The Cocktail Party,
Hunter, Ian (impresario),

2.IanHunter, Ian (impresario) Hunter, MBE (1919–2003), British festival director, impresario, talent manager, succeeded Rudolf Bing as artistic director of the Edinburgh Festival, 1950–5. He pursued his success in that capacity with others including the Bath Festival (from 1948), City of London Festival (from 1962), Brighton Festival (1967–83), Windsor Festival (1969–72), Hong Kong Festival (1973–5), and a one-off Commonwealth Arts Festival (1965). In addition, he was chairman of the artists’ agency Harold Holt Ltd, 1953–88. Knighted in 1983. As a guest on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs, his choice of book was the complete works of T. S. Eliot.

 wants three TSE plays in repertory, receives The Confidential Clerk,
Hunter, Melanie (née Grant),

5.MelanieHunter, Melanie (née Grant) Grant had married Robert Arbuthnott Hunter in 1937.
Hutchins, Robert Maynard,

6.RobertHutchins, Robert Maynard Maynard Hutchins (1899–1977): graduate of Yale, philosopher and educational theorist; President of the University of Chicago, 1929–45; Chancellor, 1945–51. He served on the Executive Committee of the Committee on Social Thought. Chairman of the Board of Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, 1943–74, he was the author of No Friendly Voice (1936), The Higher Learning in America (1936) and Education for Freedom (1943).
Hutchinson, Barbara, to lunch with TSE's nieces and Lucia Joyce, her engagement to Victor Rothschild, engagement-party dodged, appears with husband, and Victor Rothschild in Cambridge,
see also Hutchinsons, the, Rothschilds, the
Hutchinson, Jeremy,

1.JeremyHutchinson, Jeremy Hutchinson (1915–2017) was reading Modern Greats (PPE) at Magdalen College, Oxford; he went on to be a distinguished barrister, and was ultimately ennobled as Baron Hutchinson of Lullington. See Thomas Grant, Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories (2015).

 at pre-Sweeney-rehearsal lunch,
see also Hutchinsons, the
Hutchinson, Josephine,

1.JosephineHutchinson, Josephine Hutchinson (1903–98), stage and screen actor.

 meets TSE, appears at the Ritz, on her leading role in Dear Jane,
Hutchinson, Mary,

3.MaryHutchinson, Mary Hutchinson (1889–1977), literary hostess and author: see Biographical Register.

 her friendship compared to OM's, quondam admirer of TSE, enlisted to prevail on VHE, talks theatre and VHE, accompanies TSE to Dance of Death, at TSE's Ritz theatre tea-party, offers EH lunch before rehearsal, takes TSE to see Francis Birrell, issues Irish introductions to TSE, grumbles at Sadler's Wells meeting, on Eyeless in Gaza, accompanies TSE to Olivier's Hamlet, to I Have Been Here Before, to Mourning Becomes Electra, to Three Sisters, her company, accompanies TSE to Duchess of Malfi,
see also Hutchinsons, the
Hutchinson, St. John, cordial with TSE, urged by VHE to approach police, helps TSE over separation settlement, made KC, abducts TSE for tea, looking ill, removed to Cambridge post-stroke, recovering from stroke, dies,
Hutchinson, St John,
see also Hutchinsons, the
Hutchinsons, the, dine chez Eliot, questioned by VHE as to TSE's whereabouts, dine in company with TSE, give TSE Bath Olivers, as friends,
Hutton, Barbara,

2.BarbaraHutton, Barbara Hutton (1912–79), rich socialite and philanthropist; heir to a goodly portion of the Woolworth fortune. She was to be married seven times (one of those – the third – was to the actor Cary Grant).
Huxley, Aldous,

10.AldousHuxley, Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), novelist, poet, essayist: see Biographical Register.

 critiques 'Thoughts After Lambeth', drops in on the Eliots, the man versus the writer, TSE pronounces on, dismissed as novelist, his irreligion, signatory to Credit Reform letter, invigorating company, concurs with TSE on California, suffering from insomnia, and the Christian attitude to war, always charms TSE, pacifist efforts, as playwright, Brave New World, Eyeless in Gaza, The World of Light, TSE enjoys, compared to Hay Fever, EH reads and comments on, TSE reflects on, Those Barren Leaves,
see also Huxleys, the
Huxley, Julian, inferior to Aldous, pops in on TSE, at Aldous's for supper, objectionable, lunch in Chicago with,
Huxley, Juliette (née Baillot), at the Eliots' tea-party, at OM's,
Huxley, Maria (née Nys),

9.MariaHuxley, Maria (née Nys) Huxley, née Nys (1898–1955), bisexual wife of Aldous Huxley, was born in Belgium.

 TSE on, chats with TSE at OM's,
see also Huxleys, the
Huxleys, the, TSE's wish that EH meet, and Sweeney Agonistes, host tea at Albany flat, host sherry party without Aldous, tempt TSE to visit Provence,
Huysmans, Camille,

6.TSELoeb, Walter was to have a meeting with Walter Loeb and CamilleHuysmans, Camille Huysmans. Loeb (1895–1946), a dissenting German social democrat and author, had set up in London a publishing venture called ‘Fight for Freedom’, in order to disseminate anti-German propaganda. Huysmans (1871–1968), Belgian politician; Mayor of Antwerp, 1933–40; President of the Chamber of Representatives, 1936–9. In WW2 he lived in London, working to commission and publish anti-Nazi propaganda. After the war he was to become 34th Prime Minister, 1946–7.
Hyde, Douglas,

3.DouglasHyde, Douglas Hyde (1860–1949), eminent academic, scholar of the Irish language (co-founder of the Gaelic League and its first president), politician, diplomat; and first President of Ireland, 1938–45. Hyde’s verse adaptation of the ancient Irish Déirdre was published in 1895.

 Deirdre,
Ibsen, Henrik, compared to Chekhov, as dramatist, The Lady from the Sea, Rosmersholm, When We Dead Awake,
Inge, William Ralph, Dean of St. Paul's,

6.VeryInge, William Ralph, Dean of St. Paul's Revd W. R. Inge (1869–1954), Dean of St Paul’s, 1911–34 – ‘the gloomy Dean’ – wrote on theology, politics and society – his works include Lay Thoughts of a Dean (1926) and Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge (1927) – and he wrote for the Evening Standard, 1921–46.
Ingram, Kenneth,

13.KennethIngram, Kenneth Ingram (1882–1965), author and barrister, founded and edited Green Quarterly (The Society of SS Peter & Paul, Westminster House, London) in 1924. He wrote too for the Anglo Catholic Chronicle. At a later date he was Vice-Chairman of the National Peace Council. His works include Why I Believe (1928) and Has the Church Failed? (1929).

 consulted on 'Thoughts After Lambeth', at 'Pro Fide' bookshop meeting,
Innes, Hugh McLeod,

2.ChristinaInnes, Hugh McLeod Morley’s father, Hugh McLeod Innes (1862–1944), classicist, was a Fellow and Bursar of Trinity College, Cambridge; author of Fellows of Trinity (1941).

 dinner at Trinity with, dies,
see also Hugh Inneses, the
Innes, Margaret Bird,
see also Hugh Inneses, the
Institut Français, TSE chairs Chevrillon lecture at, and subsequent Fluchère lecture,
Institute of Modern Literature at Bowdoin,
International Theatre Congress, Stratford-upon-Avon,
internationalism, TSE against,
Introducing James Joyce, TSE rereading Joyce in preparation, TSE's prefatory note completed,
'Introduction' (to Literary Essays of Ezra Pound),
'Introduction' (to Poems of Tennyson), and Rosary Gardens without EH,
'Introduction' (to Revelation),
'Introduction to The Art of Poetry, by Paul Valéry',
Iovetz-Tereshchenko, N. M.,

2.N. M. Iovetz-TereshchenkoIovetz-Tereshchenko, N. M. (1895–1954), B.Litt. (Oxon), PhD (London): Russian exile; Orthodox Catholic Christian; university lecturer in psychology: see Biographical Register.

 his financial woes, his woes, Master of Balliol petitioned on behalf of, in hospital,
Iredale, Eleanora,

5.EleanoraIredale, Eleanora Iredale, Secretary of the Student Christian Movement (SCM); collaborator with J. H. Oldham; assistant editor of the Christian Newsletter; participant in the Christian and political society ‘The Moot’, 1937–48. See Keith Clements, Faith on the Frontier: A Life of J. H. Oldham (1999): ‘Iredale, a product of the SCM and a member of the council of Life and Work, was not only a voluble and forceful character with forthright views on social ills and their remedy: she also had a persuasive gift for finding and tapping sources of money for good causes.’
Ireland, according to TSE's prejudice, TSE on Irish hospitality, TSE's experience of Irish audiences, in general, the Irish compared to the English, its politics, its wartime neutrality, its folklore,
Iremonger, Revd F. A.,

2.RevdIremonger, Revd F. A. F. A. Iremonger (1878–1952); Anglican priest; Religious Director, BBC, 1932–9.
Irvine, Harry,

1.TheIrvine, Harry veteran actor Harry Irvine played Beckett in the production by the Popular Price Theater, at the Manhattan Theater (Broadway and 53rd Street, New York City), for six weeks from 18 Mar. TowardsMurder in the Cathedralunsolicited 1936 New York production;e2attended by Eleanor Roosevelt;a9n the end of the run, Eleanor Roosevelt came to see the play.

 as Becket in New York,
Irving, Laurence,

1.LaurenceIrving, Laurence Irving (1897–1988) – theatre designer and author; grandson of the legendary actor-manager Sir Henry Irving – served with distinction as a pilot during WW1 (Croix de Guerre, 1916) before spending a period in Hollywood as art director to Douglas Fairbanks Sr. From 1931 he worked in London and elsewhere – designing among other plays the first production of Murder in the Cathedral in 1935 – and in film. His writings include Henry Irving: The Actor and His World (1951), The Successors (1967), The Precarious Crust (1971); he was a director of the Times Publishing Company, 1946–62, and he campaigned for the establishment of the British Theatre Museum.

 encourages Thomas Becket play, on commissioning Murder, Henry Irving: The Actor and His World,
Irwin, Margaret,

2.MargaretIrwin, Margaret Irwin (1889–1967), historical novelist (her fictions being founded on considerable historical accuracy). Her works include too That Great Lucifer: A Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh (1960).
'Is a Christian Society Possible?',
Isaacs, Jack,

5.JackIsaacs, Jack Isaacs (1896–1973), scholar and film critic, taught at King’s College London, from 1924. A founding member of the Film Society (1925–38), he acted in Eisenstein’s Lost. Montefiore Professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Palestine, 1942–5; Professor of English Language and Literature, Queen Mary College London, 1952–64. Famed for his engrossing lectures, he was skilled as editor, theatre historian and broadcaster. His works include Coleridge’s Critical Terminology (1936) and An Assessment of Twentieth-Century Literature (1951). See too Isaacs, ‘Eliot’s Friends’, Observer, 18 June 1967.

 his epigram on Dance of Death,
Isham, Gyles,

1.GylesIsham, Gyles Isham (1903–76); aristocrat, stage and screen actor, historian; educated at Magdalen College, Oxford (where he was President of the Union). In 1941 he succeeded his father as 12th Baron Lamport.

 in Dog Beneath the Skin,
Isherwood, Christopher, responsible for the best of F6, should pursue prose plays alone, neglects to thank Keynes, puts TSE off American expedition, post-exodus drollery on,
see also Auden, Wystan Hugh ('W. H.')
Isherwood, Henry Bradshaw,

2.HenryIsherwood, Henry Bradshaw Bradshaw Isherwood (1869–1940), uncle of Christopher Isherwood (his deceased father’s elder brother), inherited Marple Hall and family estates in Cheshire in 1924; he had no children. Christopher Isherwood was to succeed to the diminished residue of his estate.
Italian General Election, 1948, particularly on TSE's mind, returns communist government,
Italy, marginal to European affairs, and Italian–Yugoslavian relations, compared to southern England, the Franco-Italian entente, and the League of Nations, as a military power, TSE objects to visiting, and European pre-war diplomacy, post-war, its architecture and painting, Florence, TSE's prejudices against, Rome, not a museum, 'centre of the world', the Appian Way, by horse, TSE's month in,
Jack, Peter Monro, fulsomely reviews Family Reunion,
Jackson, F. Ernest,

3.F. ErnestJackson, F. Ernest Jackson (1872–1945), artist and teacher of art. Principal of the Byam Shaw School, he taught also at the Royal Academy Schools.
Jacobs, Helen,

9.HelenJacobs, Helen Jacobs (1908–97), American tennis player; winner of nine Grand Slam titles.

 friend of Frank Morley's,
James, Alfred, to communicate TSE's wish to separate to VHE, ineffectual over separation, receives separation deed,
James, Alice Rutherford Runnels,

28.AliceJames, Alice Rutherford Runnels Rutherford Runnels James (1884–1957), wife of William (‘Willie’) James Jr. (1882–1961) – son of psychologist William James (brother of Henry) – American artist and painting critic for the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; acting director, 1930–7.
James, Henry, TSE on, TSE's personal James canon, on Charles Eliot Norton, too wealthy to understand England, subject of TSE's lectures, EH working way through, invoked as labyrinthine, appears in Mary Anderson's memoirs, parodied, The Aspern Papers, praised, taught in English 26, and 'Burbank with a Baedeker', The Sense of the Past, The Turn of the Screw, reminds TSE of Prichard, taught in English 26, Washington Square,
James, William, Jr.,

2.WilliamJames, William, Jr. James Jr. (1882–1961) – son of psychologist William James (brother of Henry) – American painter who worked as painting critic for the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; acting director, 1930–7. His wife was Alice Rutherford Runnels James (1884–1957).

 and wife host TSE,
Jameson, Margaret Storm,

4.MargaretJameson, Margaret Storm Storm Jameson (1891–1986), novelist and journalist. Daughter of a master-mariner, she was educated at Leeds University (the first woman to graduate in English, and with a first-class degree) and at King’s College London, where she held a research fellowship. Her MA thesis was published as Modern Drama in Europe (1920). Her novels include Cousin Honoré (1940), Cloudless May (1944), The Journal of Mary Hervey (1945) and her summa, the two-volume Journey from the North (1969–70). See Jennifer Birkett, Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life (2009).

 importunes TSE for American Red Cross Book, to which TSE contributes 'verses',
Janes, Ada,

4.W. L. JanesJanes, W. L. (1854–1939), ex-policeman who worked as handyman for the Eliots. Having been superannuated from the police force early in the century, he worked for a period (until about 1921) as a plain-clothes detective in the General Post Office. TSE reminisced to Mary Trevelyan on 2 Apr. 1951: ‘If I ever write my reminiscences, which I shan’t, Janes would have a great part in them’ (‘The Pope of Russell Square’). TSE to Adam Roberts (b. 1940; godson of TSE), 12 Dec. 1955: ‘I … knew a retired police officer, who at one period had to snoop in plain clothes in the General Post Office in Newgate Street – he caught several culprits, he said’ (Adam Roberts). HisJanes, Ada wife was Ada Janes (d. 1935).

 dies, her funeral, her engagement ring,
see also Janeses, the
Janes, W. L.,

4.W. L. JanesJanes, W. L. (1854–1939), ex-policeman who worked as handyman for the Eliots. Having been superannuated from the police force early in the century, he worked for a period (until about 1921) as a plain-clothes detective in the General Post Office. TSE reminisced to Mary Trevelyan on 2 Apr. 1951: ‘If I ever write my reminiscences, which I shan’t, Janes would have a great part in them’ (‘The Pope of Russell Square’). TSE to Adam Roberts (b. 1940; godson of TSE), 12 Dec. 1955: ‘I … knew a retired police officer, who at one period had to snoop in plain clothes in the General Post Office in Newgate Street – he caught several culprits, he said’ (Adam Roberts). HisJanes, Ada wife was Ada Janes (d. 1935).

 and 'Billy M'Caw: The Remarkable Parrot', reports on VHE, his Christmas dinners with TSE, singing and reminiscing, retirement anniversary dinner for, a saying of, one of TSE's dependents, disturbed by disappearing cats, ill but merry, a burden, dying in hospital, Christmas Day hospital visit to, TSE on his death and funeral, first Christmas without,
see also Janeses, the
Janeses, the, Christmas dinners with,
Janssen, Walter,

3.WalterJanssen, Walter Janssen (1887–1976), actor and director (noted primarily for his work in film).

 in Hocus Pocus,
Jaqua, Ernest J.,

40.DrJaqua, Ernest J. Ernest J. Jaqua (1882–1974), first President of Scripps College, 1927–42.

 obstructs EH's return to Scripps, weaselly letter returned to EH,
Jaquin, Noel,

8.NoelJaquin, Noel Jaquin (1893–1974) – ‘Consulting Psychologist and Diagnostician’ – was convinced that chirology and hand-reading could serve as a diagnostic tool in the analysis of psychological and pathological conditions. See Jaquin, The Hand of Man (F&F, 1933) and The Signature of Time: The Revealing Symbol – the Human Hand (F&F, 1940).

 compares TSE's palm to Bernard Shaw's,
Jarrell, Randall, subsequent inhabitant of 14 Alexander Street,
Jarrett, Bede,

13.BedeJarrett, Bede Jarrett, OP (1881–1934), English Dominican friar, historian and author; founder in 1921 of Blackfriars Priory, Oxford. He was a friend and close associate of Joseph Clayton.
Jeans, Isabel, versus Margaret Leighton in Confidential Clerk, in subsequent touring production,
Jeans, Ursula,

2.RogerLivesey, Roger Livesey (1906–76), Welsh stage and screen actor, was marriedJeans, Ursula to the English stage and film actor Ursula Jeans (1906–73) – Lavinia Chamberlayne in The Cocktail Party.

 in Cocktail Party reading, as Lavinia,
Jennings, Gertrude E.,

6.GertrudeJennings, Gertrude E. E. Jennings, The Young Person in Pink: A Comedy (1921).
Jennings, Richard,

5.RichardJennings, Richard Jennings (1881–1952), leader writer and literary editor of the Daily Mirror; noted bibliophile. He lived at 8 The Grove, London S.W.5; later at 8 The Little Boltons, S.W.10.

 described for EH,
Jerome, Jerome K., Fanny and the Servant Problem,
Jerrold, Douglas,

6.DouglasJerrold, Douglas Jerrold (1893–1964), publisher and author; Director of Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1929–59; editor of the English Review: see Biographical Register.

 condemned for fascist inclinations,
Jesus College, Cambridge, TSE addresses students of,
Joachim, Harold Henry ('H. H.'),

1.‘Professor H. H. Joachim’, The Times, 2 Aug. 1938, 12. JoachimJoachim, Harold Henry ('H. H.') was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, 1897–1919; Wykeham Professor of Logic at New College, Oxford, 1919–35. TSE was his pupil at Merton in 1914–15. See TSE’s tribute in The Times: CProse 5, 646–7.

 dies, as influence on TSE's punctuation,
Joad, C. E. M.,

4.C. E. M. JoadJoad, C. E. M. (1891–1953), philosopher, controversialist, socialist, pacifist, popular broadcaster and author; Head of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology, Birkbeck College, London; participant in the BBC wartime radio discussion series The Brains Trust.
John Dryden: Poet – Dramatist – Critic, being composed and rehearsed, TSE hopeful of American royalties on,
'John Dryden's Tragedies',
'John Ford',
'John Marston',
'John Maynard Keynes',
Johns Hopkins University, TSE on Turnbull lectures at,
'Johnson as Critic and Poet', being and not being written, threatens to outgrow its occasion, as essay was lectured, described for EH, revisited with view to publication, revamped for Princeton, favoured by Eleanor Hinkley,
Johnson, Brig. Gen. Sir Henry,

5.BrigJohnson, Brig. Gen. Sir Henry. Gen. Sir Henry Johnson, 4th Bt, CB (1855–1944), retired, lived at 60 Lexham Gardens, W.8. An associate at St Stephen’s Church, he helped with the church accounts.
Johnson, Dr Samuel, his cats, TSE reads aloud from the Rambler, TSE's fellow lie-abed, TSE joins club founded by, imbibed for lecture, TSE's projected Lives of the Poets essay, TSE's projected Lives of the Poets book, subject of TSE's Princeton lectures, The Vanity of Human Wishes,
Johnson, Hewlett, Dean of Canterbury,

11.HewlettJohnson, Hewlett, Dean of Canterbury Johnson (1874–1966), Anglican priest – known as the ‘Red Dean’ on account of his enduring and controversial support of the Soviet Union – Dean of Canterbury, 1931–63.

 object of Precints tittle-tattle, consulted over filming Murder,
Johnston, Denis, The Moon in the Yellow River,
Jolas, Maria,

MariaJolas, Maria Jolas (1893–1987): see profile in vol. I of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, vol. 1: 1929–1940, ed. Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck (2009).

 delivers Joyce's 'Work in Progress',
Jones, Aubrey, The Pendulum of Politics,
Jones, David,

1.DavidJones, David Jones (1895–1974), poet and painter. Thomas Dilworth, David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet (2017), 191: ‘Jones and Eliot were seeing more of each other. In the summer of 1936, at dinner with Eliot and others, Jones had liked him “a great lot”.’

 TSE's first impressions of, thanks TSE for dinner, as TSE and EP's contemporary, TSE's broadcast on, In Parenthesis,
Jones, Pauline,

3.PaulineJones, Pauline Jones, with her sister Lily, taught dancing and was involved in the theatre in Cambridge, Mass.
Jones, Rufus,

15.RufusJones, Rufus Jones (1863–1948), Quaker historian and theologian; editor of the Friends’ Review, 1893–1912; taught philosophy and psychology at Haverford College, 1893–1934.
Jonson, Ben, Volpone,
Jourdain, Eleanor, An Adventure,
see also Moberly, Charlotte
Jourdain, Philip Edward Bertrand,

3.PhilipJourdain, Philip Edward Bertrand Edward Bertrand Jourdain (1879–1919), mathematician and logician; a student of Bertrand Russell; British editor of The Monist and the International Journal of Ethics; author of The Nature of Mathematics (1912) and The Philosophy of Mr. Bertrand Russell (1918).

 recalled,
'Journey of the Magi', inscribed to EH in 1927, admired by EH, EH reads to students, teacher dismissed for reading,
Jouve, Pierre Jean,

5.PierreJouve, Pierre Jean Jean Jouve (1887–1976): poet and novelist. Works include Paulina (1880, 1925), Sueur de sang (1935), La Vierge de Paris (1946), and Tombeau de Baudelaire (1958); and Despair Has Wings: Selected Poems, trans. David Gascoyne (2007). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize five times, and received the Grand Prix de Poésie from the French Academy. (TSE to Moura Budberg, 22 Sept. 1943: ‘Jouve I consider a very respectable poet.’)

 forced upon TSE, trades poems with TSE,
Joyce, James,

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).

 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
Joyce, Lucia,

2.LuciaJoyce, Lucia Joyce (1907–82), daughter of James Joyce – trained as a dancer, talented as an illustrator – was deemed to suffer from schizophrenia and in consequence spent much of her life incarcerated in asylums. See Carol Loeb Schloss, Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake (2003).

 to lunch with TSE's nieces and Barbara Hutchinson, has nervous breakdown, her troubles,
Joyce, Nora, visits the Eliots for tea, missed at Parisian dinner,
see also Joyces, the
Joyces, the, business lunch in Paris with, dinner in Paris with,
Julian of Norwich, and Blackstone's PhD,
Jungmann, Elisabeth,

10.ElisabethJungmann, Elisabeth Jungmann (1894–1958): German Jewish translator; secretary and translator for Gerhart Hauptmann, 1922–33. During the war she worked for the Jewish Central Information Office in London; then for the Political Intelligence Department, and after the war for the Control Commission for Germany and Austria. Following the death of Max Beerbohm’s first wife, in Italy in 1951, Jungmann – who had been a close friend of the Beerbohms for several years – travelled out to Italy to support and work for Beerbohm. She was to marry Max Beerbohm in Apr. 1956, becoming his literary executor after his death the following month.
Junior American Officer's Club, where TSE converses about TSE,
Kahane, Jack,

8.JackKahane, Jack Kahane (1887–1939), Manchester-born novelist and publisher, founded in 1929 – with Henry Babou of the Vendôme Press (which published Norah James’s Sleeveless Errand, a novel that had been prosecuted in England in 1929; and which in 1930 issued Joyce’s fragment Haveth Childers Everywhere) – the Obelisk Press, with the purpose of publishing in Paris books that were either banned or deemed to be unprintable in the UK and USA. Obelisk Press published Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1934), Black Spring (1936) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939) Joyce’s Pomes Penyeach (1932), and works by D. H. Lawrence, Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Durrell, Cyril Connolly, Richard Aldington and Frank Harris – thirty-eight works over ten years. Kahane’s son was Maurice Girodias, founder of the Olympia Press. See Neil Pearson, Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press (2007); Gary Miers and James Armstrong, Of Obelisks and Daffodils: The Publishing History of the Obelisk Press (1929–1939) (2011).
Kalevala, The, anniversary celebrations for,
Karsavina, Tamara,
TheatreKarsavina, Tamara Street: The Reminiscences of Tamara Karsavina (1930). Karsavina (1885–1978) was prima ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet; later of the Ballets Russes under Sergei Diaghilev. In 1918 she quit Moscow for Paris, and then moved to London where she helped to establish the Royal Ballet and the Royal Academy of Dance. Her third husband, whom she married in 1918, was the British diplomat and author Henry James Bruce (1880–1951).
Keats, John, his love-letters disparaged, but suggested as joint-reading, then promised to EH, TSE recants superior attitude to, his letters guarantee his talent, his letters, Testaccio Cemetery appeal,
Keble College, Oxford, TSE on,
Keen, Harriet Ide,

8.HarrietKeen, Harriet Ide Ide Keen (1885–1971), who married Roberts in 1911, was in fact born in Philadelphia.

 a1,
Kendall, Marie,

5.MarieKendall, Marie Kendall (1873–1964), renowned British music hall artiste and actor.

 confused with Marie Lloyd,
Kennedy, John F., EH on his assassination,
Kennedy, Margaret,

3.MargaretKennedy, Margaret Kennedy (1896–1967), prolific popular novelist, esteemed above all for The Constant Nymph (1924), a bestseller which the author herself adapted for stage and screen.

 The Constant Nymph on stage,
Kennerley, Jean,
see also Kennerleys, the
Kennerley, Morley,

2.MorleyKennerley, Morley Kennerley (1902–85), an American director of F&F.

 enlisted in American Home Guard, TSE's fire-watching companion,
see also Kennerleys, the
Kennerleys, the, at the Morleys' farewell dinner, watch Modern Times with TSE, described for EH, at Morleys' Thanksgiving Day party,
Kentner, Louis,

3.LouisKentner, Louis Kentner (1905–87), renowned Hungarian-born pianist, was married in 1947 to Griselda Gould (1913–2009), sister of the ballerina Diana Gould, who was the second wife of the acclaimed American-bornMenuhin, Yehudi violinist Yehudi Menuhin (1916–99). The Kentners lived at 1 Mallord Street, Chelsea, a few streets to the north of TSE and Hayward at Cheyne Walk.

 and Yehudi Menuhin play for TSE,
Kerr, Philip, 11th Marquess of Lothian,

3.PhilipKerr, Philip, 11th Marquess of Lothian Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian (1882–1940), politician, diplomat, newspaper editor; Private Secretary to P.M. David Lloyd George, 1916–21. Advocate during the 1930s of appeasement of Nazi Germany (which he claimed did not harbour expansionist ambitions).

 rumoured to be pro-German,
Kesselring, Joseph, Arsenic and Old Lace,
Keynes, John Maynard,

4.JohnKeynes, John Maynard Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), economist; editor; patron of the arts; government adviser: see Biographical Register.

 rubbishes Marx, impressed by After Strange Gods, wishes to produce TSE's play, and Leonard Woolf discuss Abyssinia, in TSE's opinion, Auden and Isherwood neglect to thank, TSE's NEW memorial to, The Economic Consequences of the Peace,
see also Keyneses, the
Keyneses, the, host TSE and Woolfs in Sussex, their marriage, accompany TSE to Cambridge Murder, and TSE attend Auden–Isherwood premiere,
Kiernan, Delia,

4.DeliaKiernan, Delia Kiernan, of Ballsbridge, Dublin.
Kildare Street Club, Dublin, TSE's desire to join,
Kimmins, Anthony, While Parents Sleep,
Kinchin Smith, F.,

2.F. KinchinKinchin Smith, F. Smith (1895–1958), classicist, taught from 1934 in the Institute of Education, University of London; from 1936, he was Hon. Secretary of the Joint Committee of the Classical and English Associations. Best known for his Teach Yourself volumes on Greek and Latin, he also produced versions of The Trojan Women of Euripides (a work that was to be offered to F&F later in 1946 – and turned down) and the Antigone of Sophocles.

 offers book for publication,
King, Stanley,

7.StanleyKing, Stanley King (1883–1951), eleventh President of Amherst College, Mass., 1932–46.
King's Chapel, Boston, EH sends TSE article about, TSE formerly congregant of, EH asks TSE to address, two possible talks suggested for, which Dr Perkins writes to TSE about, TSE attracted to by Dr Perkins, whom he hears preach there, TSE undertakes to attend monthly, TSE's address to, distinguished from unitarianism in St. Louis, EH attends Christmas services at, Edith Perkins requests reading for,
King's School, Rochester, TSE's prize-day speech for, TSE spectates prize-day cricket at,
Kingswood School, Bath, TSE's prize-day address to,
Kinnaird, Kenneth Fitzgerald, 12th Lord Kinnaird,

2.KennethKinnaird, Kenneth Fitzgerald, 12th Lord Kinnaird Fitzgerald Kinnaird, 12th Lord Kinnaird (1880–1972): Lord-Lieutenant of Perthshire, 1942–60.
Kinsolving, Revd Arthur Barksdale,

26.RevdKinsolving, Revd Arthur Barksdale Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving (1861–1951), minister of St James, Baltimore, 1906–42.
Kinsolving, Sally Bruce (née Sally Archer Bruce),

25.SallyKinsolving, Sally Bruce (née Sally Archer Bruce) Bruce Kinsolving, née Sally Archer Bruce (1876–1962), author of David and Bathsheba and Other Poems (1922) and Grey Heather (1930).
Kipling, Rudyard, friend of Charles Whibley's, set next to David Jones, as war poet, as poet, TSE contributes to Russian periodical on, beloved of General Wavell, his portrait at Magdalene, parodied by TSE,
'Kipling – The People’s Poet',
Kirk, Kenneth,

4.KennethKirk, Kenneth Kirk (1886–1954), Anglican priest, theologian, author. Fellow and Chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford, from 1933 he was Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology. He was to be elevated as Bishop of Oxford, 1937–54. Works include Some Principles of Moral Theology (1920) and The Vision of God (Bampton Lectures, 1928) (1931).

 fancied for bishopric, consecrated Bishop of Oxford, concurs with TSE on education, Vision of God,
Kirkpatrick, Luis Escobar,

3.LuisKirkpatrick, Luis Escobar Escobar Kirkpatrick (1908–91): distinguished actor, playwright and director. On the death of his father in 1954 he was to become 7th Marquis of las Marismas del Guadalquivir.
Kirstein, Lincoln,

4.LincolnKirstein, Lincoln Kirstein (1907–96), writer, impresario, connoisseur of art, was born into a wealthy, cultivated Jewish family (his father was chief executive of the Boston department store Filene’s). At Harvard he set up, with a contemporary, Varian Fry, the periodical Hound & Horn: A Harvard Miscellany – specifically modelling it on The Criterion – which ran from 1927 until 1934. Smitten by what he styled ‘balletptomaine’, he launched in 1933, with his friend M. M. Warburg, the School of American Ballet, and then the American Ballet, which became the resident company of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 1946, he founded, with George Balanchine, the Ballet Society, later the New York City Ballet, of which he was General Director, 1946–89. In the 1960s he commissioned and helped to fund the New York State Theater building at the Lincoln Center. In 1935 he published Dance: A Short History of Classic Theatrical Dancing. See further Martin Duberman, The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein (2007).
Kittredge, George Lyman,

2.GeorgeKittredge, George Lyman Lyman Kittredge (1860–1941), scholar, editor and educator. He started teaching at Harvard in 1888, and was Gurney Professor of English, 1917–36. Renowned for his edition of the works of William Shakespeare (1936), and for his enterprise in American folklore studies.
Klee, Paul, painting by hanging in John Brocklebank's bedroom,
Klein, Charles, The Music Master,
Knight, Esmond,

6.ThisScofield, Paulas Troilus at Stratford;a1n production starred Paul Scofield as Troilus. ThersitesKnight, Esmond was played by the accomplished English character actor Esmond Knight (1906–87), who had been blinded in one eye by enemy action in 1941 while serving on Prince of Wales in the battle against the Bismarck.

 overdoes the part of Thersites,
Knoblock, Edward,

7.EdwardKnoblock, Edward Knoblock (1874–1945), American-born British playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He collaborated with Arnold Bennett on the plays Milestones (1912) and London Life (1924), and helped Bennett to dramatize The Good Companions (1931).
Knopf, Alfred Abraham,

8.AlfredKnopf, Alfred Abraham A. Knopf (1892–1984), founder (with his wife Blanche) of the eponymous American publishing house.

 wastes TSE's morning,
Knowles, Sylvia Hathaway,

2.SylviaKnowles, Sylvia Hathaway Hathaway Knowles (1891–1979), of New Bedford, Mass. – a descendant of a long-established merchant and business family based there – was a friend and room-mate of EH from their schooldays at Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Vermont.

 TSE tries to place, at 'Bleak House', EH summers with, EH spends week with,
Knox, E. V.,

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

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

5.WilfredKnox, Wilfred Knox (1886–1950), Anglican priest, theologian, ecclesiastical historian; brother of E. V. Knox, editor of Punch, and of the priest and author Ronald Knox. Influenced at Rugby School by his friend William Temple, later Archbishop of Canterbury, he worked for the poor in the East End of London and for the Workers’ Educational Association. Ordained in 1925, he was Warden of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd, Cambridge, 1924–40; from 1941, Chaplain and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Works include The Development of Modern Catholicism (with Alec Vidler, 1933); St Paul and the Church of the Gentiles (1939).
Koffka, Kurt,

3.KurtKoffka, Kurt Koffka (1886–1941), German-born psychologist; from 1927 a professor at Smith College; works include The Growth of the Mind: An Introduction to Child Psychology (1924) and The Principles of Gestalt Psychology (1935). His wife was Elisabeth Ahlgrimm.
see also Koffkas, the
Koffkas, the,
Korda, Alexander,

1.AlexanderKorda, Alexander Korda (1893–1956): famous Hungarian-born British film producer and director.
Korean War,
Koteliansky, Samuel Solomonovich,

6.TSE and Ralph Hodgson met at a soirée at OM’s house at 10 Gower Street on 11 Dec.; OM had also invited S. S. Koteliansky, Lord David Cecil and L. P. Hartley. (SamuelKoteliansky, Samuel Solomonovich S. Koteliansky [1881–1955], Ukrainian émigré, translated works by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, some in collaboration with the Woolfs; see Galya Diment, A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky [McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012].)

 argues religion with TSE, OM on said argument,
Koussevitzky, Serge,

3.Serge KoussevitzkyKoussevitzky, Serge (1874–1951), Russian-born conductor, composer and double-bassist; musical director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1924–49.
Krauss, Arthur,
see also Krausses, the
Krauss, Sophie M.,

1.SophieKrauss, Sophie M. M. Krauss (b. 1891), wife of Arthur Jeffrey Krauss (1884–1947), Episcopalian, who had resided in Seattle since 1921. Arthur Krauss ran the Krauss Brothers Lumber Company and was to retire in 1938 when the business was wound up in the area. They lived at 128 40th Avenue N., Seattle, with Lillie Cook (49) and Lucy Williams (28) – presumably their servants. See too Lyndall Gordon, The Hyacinth Girl, 183.

 offers to put TSE up in Seattle, one of EH's few confidants, TSE pays London call on, tending to the Perkinses,
see also Krausses, the
Krowl, Harry C.,

5.ProfessorKrowl, Harry C. Harry C. Krowl (d. 1935), who taught English literature at the City College of New York, contributed a chapter ‘A Nation at School’ to The New Russia: Between the First and Second Five-Year Plans, ed. Jerome Davis (New York, 1933).

 on the Laetitia, beats TSE at shuffleboard,
Labour Party, the, foreign policy, according to Leonard Woolf, mistrusted on foreign policy, 'futile as ever', its 1945 victory, and Harold Laski, better suited to the times, and the 1952 Wycombe by-election,
Lacey, Catherine,

2.CatherineLacey, Catherine Lacey (1904–79): British actor who was Agatha in The Family Reunion at the Westminster Theatre in 1939 and again at the Mercury Theatre in 1946.

 as Agatha in Family Reunion, again Agatha in 1946 revival, Daily Telegraph singles out, performance swells with praise, possible Mrs Guzzard,
Ladd, William Palmer,

6.WilliamLadd, William Palmer Palmer Ladd (1870–1941), liturgical scholar; Professor of Church History, 1904–41, and Dean of Berkeley Divinity School (Episcopal seminary), New Haven, Connecticut, 1918–41 – where it was based from 1928 – and author of Prayer Book Interleaves (1943).
Ladies' Auxiliary, Londonderry House, addressed by TSE on slum clearance,
Laforgue, Jules, TSE's Turnbull lecture on, TSE's early debt to,
Lafourcade, Georges,

3.GeorgesLafourcade, Georges Lafourcade, Professor of English Literature at the University of Grenoble, was author of Swinburne: A Literary Biography (1932) and of a study of Arnold Bennett.
Lamb, Aimée,

5.AiméeLamb, Aimée LambLambs, theLamb, AiméeLambs, the (1893–1989) shared a home with her sister Rosamond (1898–1989) at 310 Berkeley Street, Boston. ‘A very Cranford atmosphere,’ noted E. Martin Browne of their home life (E. Martin Browne and Henzie Browne, Two in One [1981], 206).

 commended to EH, sends TSE Christmas provisions,
see also Lambs, the
Lamb, Annie Lawrence (TSE's cousin),

35.AnnieLamb, Annie Lawrence (TSE's cousin) Lawrence (Rotch) Lamb (1857–1950) was married to Horatio Appleton Lamb (1850–1926).

 not so pious as TSE assumed, recounts colourful history of Sackville-Wests, writes to TSE about Murder,
Lambert, Baroness Johanna von Reininghaus,

3.BaronessLambert, Baroness Johanna von Reininghaus Johanna von Reininghaus Lambert (1899–1960): widow of Baron Henri Lambert (1887–1933), the grandson of Baron James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868) and great-grandson of Samuel Lambert, who in 1840 established the family-owned Banque Lambert.
'Lambeth and Education: The Report Criticised',
Lambs, the,

5.AiméeLamb, Aimée LambLambs, theLamb, AiméeLambs, the (1893–1989) shared a home with her sister Rosamond (1898–1989) at 310 Berkeley Street, Boston. ‘A very Cranford atmosphere,’ noted E. Martin Browne of their home life (E. Martin Browne and Henzie Browne, Two in One [1981], 206).

 accompany TSE to Family Reunion, host TSE for Milton visit,
Lang, William Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of Canterbury (later Baron Lang of Lambeth), non-committal benediction on Murder, petitioned over Purchase Tax, over which he proves industrious, blesses TSE's South India intervention, chairs TSE's Milton talk,
Langton, Revd Stephen,

1.TheLangton, Revd Stephen Revd Stephen Langton, Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer, Clerkenwell.
Lansbury, George,

9.GeorgeLansbury, George Lansbury (1859–1940), social reformer; politician; leader of the British Labour Party, 1932–5; during the 1930s he supported pacifism and was opposed to rearmament.

 Leonard Woolf situates within Labour,
Larbaud, Valery,

6.ValeryLarbaud, Valery Larbaud (1881–1957), poet, novelist, essayist, translated, inter alia, Joyce’s Ulysses. Pseudonymous author of Poèmes par un riche amateur (1908) and Le Journal intime de A. O. Barnabooth (1913). In a letter of 20 Mar. 1922 (Letters 1, 659), TSE called him ‘a great poet and prose author’. Larbaud’s lecture-essay ‘The Ulysses of James Joyce’ appeared in Criterion 1 (Oct. 1922).

 as 'editor' of Commerce,
Lascelles, Alan ('Tommy'),

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.

 seated next to TSE, at TSE's investiture,
Laski, Harold J.,

8.HaroldLaski, Harold J. J. Laski (1893–1950), Professor of Political Science, London School of Economics, 1926–50; editor of the Left Book Club; chairman of the Labour Party, 1945–6.

 TSE's reason for fearing Labour Party,
'Last Twenty-Five Years of English Poetry, The', written for Italian audience,
'Last Will and Testament', composed for EH,
Latham, Harry ('Hal') Stuart,

6.HarryLatham, Harry ('Hal') Stuart (‘Hal’) Stuart Latham (1912–93), directed The Family Reunion at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

 produces The Family Reunion,
Latham, Stuart,

4.StuartLatham, Stuart Latham (1912–93), stage and film actor; director; later a TV producer (in 1960 he was to be the first producer of Coronation Street, episodes 1–60).

 replaces Browne in Murder revival,
Laud, Archbishop William,
Laughton, Charles, as Macbeth,
Laurie, John,

3.JohnLaurie, John Laurie (1897–1980), Scottish actor, noted for leading Shakespearean roles on stage, beginning in the 1920s, and for many film and television performances from the 1930s onwards. His greatest fame came in later years with his part in the much-loved TV comedy series Dad’s Army.
Laverty, Maura,

2.MauraLaverty, Maura Laverty (1907–66), author, journalist and broadcaster, who worked for Radió Teilifis Éireann, interviewed TSE on Sat., 25 Jan.
Lavorgna, Elvira Giovanna,

1.ElviraLavorgna, Elvira Giovanna Giovanna Lavorgna (a devout Christian) was for some while a nurse-companion to Edith Perkins. ‘Mrs Perkins and Miss Hale both dislike my name Elvira – and worse, my nickname, Vee,’ as she was to tell TSE on 5 July 1953. ‘I don’t mind and I like having them use Giovanna! I would have taken it as my name in religion.’

 on the Perkinses,
Law, Phyllida, in Murder in the Cathedral,
Law, Richard,

1.RichardLaw, Richard Law, PC (1901–80): Conservative Party politician, representing the constituency of Haltemprice, Yorkshire, 1950–4; he was Minister of Education from 1945, and raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Coleraine in 1954.
Law, William,

5.WilliamLaw, William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1729).

 A Serious Call,
Lawrence, Colonel Thomas Edward ('T. E.'),

7.T. E. LawrenceLawrence, Colonel Thomas Edward ('T. E.') (b. 1888) – ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ – had died on 19 May, six days after a motorcycle accident. See The Times, 20 May 1935, which includes an obituary plus a long tribute by Capt. B. H. Liddell Hart: ‘Lawrence of Arabia: A Genius of War and Letters’, 15.

 TSE's personal verdict on, gives the laurels to TSE,
Lawrence, David Herbert ('D. H.'), his singularity as poet, piece of faux-Eliotana concerning, as writer of letters, TSE appreciates loneliness of, deranges TSE, singled out Bain's 'Disraeli' for praise, on The Criterion, represented better in Revelation, David, 'The Prussian Officer',
'Le Dilemme poétique',
Le Gallienne, Eva,

7.EvaLe Gallienne, Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991), British-born American actor, director, producer; director of the Civic Repertory Company, New York. In 1932 Le Gallienne staged Eleanor Holmes Hinkley’s Dear Jane, with an intimate friend, Josephine Hutchinson, playing Jane Austen.

 TSE meets, her Camille, appears after midnight at the Ritz, taken to lunch, her Hedda Gabler,
le Maistre, Violet,

5.Inle Maistre, Violet 1924 John Middleton Murry married Violet Le Maistre; they had two children: Katherine Middleton Murry (who was to publish Beloved Quixote: The Unknown Life of John Middleton Murry, 1986) and John Middleton Murry, Jr., who also became a writer.
Le Quesne, Charles Thomas, KC,

1.CharlesLe Quesne, Charles Thomas, KC Thomas Le Quesne (1885–1954), Jersey-born Liberal Party politician and barrister: King’s Counsel, 1925. President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, 1946–7.
'Leadership and Letters',
League of Nations, cause of Italian resentment, TSE against in principle, responsible for the Abyssinia Crisis,
Lear, Edward, illustrates Scripps talk on English humour, subject of TSE's Ann Arbor lecture, again in Buffalo, again in Smith, again at Bowdoin, yardstick for TSE's own nonsense, TSE bangs on about, The Book of Nonsense,
Leavis, F. R., on TSE coming to tea, TSE's efforts to save Scrutiny,
see also Leavises, the
Leavis, Ralph, grills TSE over his poetry,
see also Leavises, the
Leavises, the, entertain TSE to tea,
Lee, Desmond,

2.DesmondLee, Desmond Lee (1908–93), classical scholar; Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College; later, Headmaster successively of Clifton College and Winchester College. Knighted, 1961.
Lee, Vernon,

7.TheLee, Vernon British writer Vernon Lee, pseud. of Violet Paget (b. 1856), died on 13 Feb. 1935.

 death in Florence noted,
Lees-Milne, James,

5.JamesLees-Milne, James Lees-Milne (1908–97), author and expert on country houses. From 1936 to 1973 he worked for the National Trust – and it may have been in that capacity, and early in his career, that EH and the Perkinses came into contact with him.
Léger, Alexis Saint-Léger ('Saint-John Perse'),

6.AlexisLéger, Alexis Saint-Léger ('Saint-John Perse') Saint-Léger Léger (1887–1975) – who wrote as Saint-John Perse – poet and diplomat; Nobel Laureate, 1960: see Biographical Register. TSE to William R. Castle, 12 Oct. 1948: ‘Leger is a little tiresome in company, because he is a great talker and he has consistently refused to learn English’ (EVE).

 on TSE's 1948 Washington itinerary,
Leggatt, Alison, as Mrs Guzzard in Cocktail Party,
Lehmann, Beatrix, as O'Neill's Electra, dream casting for Family Reunion,
Lehmann, John, slandered by Roy Campbell,
Lehmann, Rosamond,

5.RosamondLehmann, Rosamond Lehmann (1901–90) – older sister of the writer, editor and publisher John Lehmann – enjoyed success with her first novel, the quasi-autobiographical Dusty Answer (1927); her second was A Note in Music (1930).

 TSE takes disliking to,
Leigh, H. D.,

3.H. D. LeighLeigh, H. D., Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Leigh, Vivien,

1.Laurence Olivier (1907–89): distinguished British stage and screen actor who made his name in productions on the London stage including Noel Coward’s Private Lives (1930) and Romeo and Juliet (1935). In the 1940s he was co-director of the Old Vic Theatre, where his roles included the title part in Richard III. In 1957 he joined the English Stage Company, appearing in successful new plays including The Entertainer (1957), by John Osborne. He was founding director of the National Theatre, 1963–73, where his successful appearances included the title role in Othello (1965). He starred too in movies including Wuthering Heights (1939) and Henry V (1944), for which he won many awards. Knighted in 1947, he was given a life peerage in 1970, and conferred with the Order of Merit in 1981. HisLeigh, Vivien wife at this time, 1940–60, was the British actor Vivien Leigh (1913–67), celebrated for starring roles in movies including Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).
see also Oliviers, the
Leighton, Margaret,

2.MargaretLeighton, Margaret Leighton (1922–76): British stage and film actor whose credits included roles in Henry IV (1946), with Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson; and The Winslow Boy (1948). For The Go-Between (1971), she was to win a BAFTA and an Academy Award. TSE to Polly Tandy, 10 Aug. 1953: ‘The rehearsals are going well: the females in the cast – Margaret Leighton, Isabel Jeans, and Alison Leggat – are all well cast for their parts, and I seem to be able to judge the female actresses more quickly than the male actors – partly, perhaps, because I seem for some reason to be better at writing the female roles than the male.’

 compared to Irene Worth in Cocktail Party, as Celia, in The Confidential Clerk, versus Isabel Jeans, leaving The Confidential Clerk,
Lejeune, C. A., interviews TSE, interviews TSE,
Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford), negotiates with TSE over lecture, possible stop on 1933 tour,
Léon, Paul,

3.Paul LéonLéon, Paul, né Léopoldovich (1893–1942?): Jewish émigré from the Bolshevik revolution who settled in Paris; he met Joyce in 1928, when Joyce was forty-seven and Léon thirty-five. He became Joyce’s unpaid assistant and amanuensis from 1930, and protected his papers after the Nazis took over Paris. Léon was eventually seized by the German authorities and despatched to a camp where he died in unknown circumstances. See The James Joyce–Paul Léon Papers in the National Gallery of Ireland: A Catalogue, by Catherine Fahy (1992); John Naughton, ‘Arm in arm with a literary legend’ (interview with Alexis Léon), Observer, 13 Jan. 1991.

 on TSE's Paris itinerary, despatches wife with Joyce's 'Work in Progress',
Leontovich, Eugenie,

3.EugenieLeontovich, Eugenie Leontovich (ca. 1900–93), Russian-born American stage and screen actor who emigrated to the USA in 1922, following the Bolshevik Revolution: she became a star of Broadway, where in 1930 she was acclaimed as Grusinskaia in the premiere of Vicki Baum’s Grand Hotel. In 1936, at the New Theatre, London, she starred in Antony and Cleopatra.

 as Cleopatra,
Les Cahiers du Sud,
Lesley, Lady Jowitt,

3.LadyLesley, Lady Jowitt (Lesley) Jowitt (ca. 1888–1970), wife of William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt (1885–1957), Labour politician and lawyer; ultimately, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Leslie, Sir Shane,

1.SirLeslie, Sir Shane Shane Leslie (1885–1971), diplomat and author. Born into the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy – first cousin on his mother’s side to Winston Churchill – he read classics at King’s College, Cambridge, where he became a Roman Catholic for life (though christened John Randolph, he styled himself ‘Shane’ – the Irish form). He also resigned the Irish estates entailed upon him and was for several years committed to Irish Nationalist affairs (he stood for Parliament in the 1910 election, unsuccessfully). In 1907 he went to Russia and visited Lev Tolstoy, and for a while he studied Scholastic Philosophy at Louvain University. He edited the Dublin Review, 1916–26, and published works including The End of a Chapter (1916); Henry Edward Manning: His Life and Labours (1921); Mark Sykes: His Life and Letters (1923); The Skull of Swift (1928). He succeeded as third baronet on the death of his father in 1944.
'Letter from T. S. Eliot. To the Editor of Poetry, A',
Levin, Harry,
Lewis, Clive Staples ('C. S.'),

1.C. S. LewisLewis, Clive Staples ('C. S.') (1898–1963), British novelist, academic and critic; Christian apologist; ‘Inkling’: see Biographical Register.

 and Charles Williams lunch with TSE, dodged,
Lewis Fry Lectures, TSE commits to, Shakespeare lectures revised for, TSE on delivering,
Lewis, Wyndham,

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

 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,
Ley, Murray Hickey,

13.MurrayLey, Murray Hickey Hickey Ley, a graduate of Notre Dame University, Indiana, was a newspaper columnist and literary critic.
Leyris, Pierre,

4.PierreLeyris, Pierre Leyris (1907–2001): French translator, celebrated for editions of Shakespeare (complete), Milton, Blake, Dickens, Yeats and many others. He was authorised to translate TSE’s Poèmes 1910– 1930 (Paris, 1946). He won the 1974 Prix Valery Larbaud; the National Grand Prix of Translation, 1985. See his posthumous memoirs, Pour mémoire: ruminations d’un petit clerk à l’usage de ses frères humains and des vers légataires (Paris, 2002).
'Liberal Manifesto: The Place of Reason in the Thought of the Church, A',
Library of Congress, Washington, solicits lecture, for which TSE revamps Poe lecture,
Lieder, Paul Robert,

1.PaulLieder, Paul Robert Robert Lieder (1889–1956) – BA Harvard, 1910; MA, 1912; PhD, 1915 – was Professor of English Language and Literature, Smith College, 1925–54.
Lilje, Johannes (Hanns),

7.JohannesLilje, Johannes (Hanns) (Hanns) Lilje (1899–1977), German Lutheran prelate and ecumenist who was confined for many years first in Dachau and then at the Buchenwald concentration camp. From 1947 he served as Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran State Church in Hanover. He was to become Presiding Bishop of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany, 1955–69; President of the Lutheran World Federation and World Council of Churches.
Lincoln Diocesan Conference, TSE's account of,
Lindsay, David Alexander Robert, 28th Earl of Crawford (styled Lord Balniel),

11.TSELindsay, David Alexander Robert, 28th Earl of Crawford (styled Lord Balniel) was the guest of David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford (1900–75) – politician, landowner, and patron of the arts – who was Rector of St Andrews University, 1952–5. Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, Lindsay had been a Unionist MP, 1924–40; a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, 1932–7; National Gallery, 1935–41, 1945–52, 1953–60; British Museum, 1940–73; and a member of the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries, 1937–52. In addition, he was Chair of the Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland, 1952–72; the Royal Fine Arts Commission, 1943–57; and the Trustees of the National Gallery of Scotland, 1944. His seat was Balcarres House, nr. Colinsburgh, in the East Neuk of Fife.
Lindsay, Kenneth,

1.KennethLindsay, Kenneth Lindsay (1897–1991), Labour Party politician and author; National Labour Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock, 1933–45.
Lindsay, Sir Ronald,

17.SirLindsay, Sir Ronald Ronald Lindsay (1877–1945), British diplomat; Ambassador to the USA, 1930–9.
'Lines to a Persian Cat', copied and explained for EH,
Lion, Leon Marks,

1.LeonLion, Leon Marks Marks Lion (1879–1947), British actor, producer and manager; starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s Number 17 (1932). TSE to Phyllis Woodliffe – who played ‘Mrs Bert’ in The Rock – 22 Aug. 1934: ‘Now, my personal acquaintance with the stage, and what is much more important, with managers etc. is very limited; I was once mistaken for Leon M. Lion, that’s about all.’

 TSE mistaken for,
Lister (caretaker at 24 Russell Square, formerly Faber's butler),

1.AnneMrs Lister (wife of 'Lister') Ridler, Memoirs, 122, onLister (caretaker at 24 Russell Square, formerly Faber's butler) Mr and Mrs Lister, the caretaker and his wife at 24 Russell Square: ‘Lister had been butler to the Fabers at their house in Frognal, and used to regale me (when I stayed late at the office) with stories of his experience there and at the Front in the First World War […] Lister was critical of his employers: “I think you Miss might have more sense in running this place than what they do.” Now he and his wife had twins, and occupied the top floor of No. 24.’

 talks chimneys, at heavy Criterion gathering,
Literary Society, The, TSE's reasons for joining, comical evening with, TSE's efforts to elect GCF to, finally admits GCF,
'Literature',
'Literature and the Modern World', delivered in Leeds, reprised in Hull,
Little Book of Modern Verse, The,
Little, Clarence C.,

15.ClarenceLittle, Clarence C. C. Little (1888–1971) – known to Harvard friends as ‘Pete’ – scion of an upper-class Boston family; science researcher specialising in mammalian genetics and cancer; President of the University of Maine, 1922–5; the University of Michigan, 1925–9; founding director of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory at Bar Harbor; managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer (later the American Cancer Society); twice President of the American Society for Cancer Research, President of the American Eugenics Society; and, most controversially, Scientific Director of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee (later the Council for Tobacco Research), 1954–69.

 appals TSE,
see also Littles, the Clarence
Little, Eleanor (née Wheeler),

4.EleanorLittle, Eleanor (née Wheeler) Wheeler (1891–1988).
see also Littles, the Leon
Little Gidding, things 'done to others' harm', and TSE's St. Kevin's cave excursion, TSE's pilgrimage to the eponymous, and John Inglesant, in the Four Quartets scheme, as TSE's war work, latent within TSE, being drafted, first draft finished, suspended, to be taken up again, partly redrafted at Buckler's Hard, further redrafting, seven lines from completion, redrafting finished, in which JDH proved indispensable, NEW version sent to EH, published, sales, ends hopefully,
Little Gidding, Cambridgeshire,
see England
Little, Leon M.,

1.LeonLittle, Leon M. M. Little (1887–1968), a classmate of TSE’s at Harvard (as Class Secretary of 1910 he compiled the 25th Anniversary Report, 1935), was a banker by profession: he worked for Parkinson & Barr and then, after wartime service in the Navy (Navy Cross), for W. A. Harriman & Company. From 1921 he worked in the Trust Department of the First National Bank of Boston, and in 1927 he became Vice-President of the New England Trust Company.

 un-deracinated, compared to TSE, drives TSE past EH's old home, congratulates TSE on Murder, cables TSE on 50th birthday, reports Harold Peters's death,
see also Littles, the Leon
Little Theatre, London,
Littles, the Clarence,
Littles, the Leon, dine chez Eliot, their kind of society,
Livesey, Roger,

2.RogerLivesey, Roger Livesey (1906–76), Welsh stage and screen actor, was marriedJeans, Ursula to the English stage and film actor Ursula Jeans (1906–73) – Lavinia Chamberlayne in The Cocktail Party.

 as Macbeth, in Cocktail Party reading,
Livingstone, Cecile Stephanie (née Maryon-Wilson),

1.RevdMaryon-Wilson, Revd Canon Sir George Percy Canon Sir George Percy Maryon-Wilson, 12th Baronet (1897–1965); rector of Christ Church, St Leonards on Sea. HisLivingstone, Cecile Stephanie (née Maryon-Wilson) sister was Cecile Stephanie Maryon-Wilson (1880–1960), who had married Sir Richard Livingstone in 1913.
see also Livingstones, the
Livingstone, Sir Richard,

1.SirLivingstone, Sir Richard Richard Livingstone (1880–1960), President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1933–50; Vice-Chancellor, 1944–7. Author of A Defence of Classical Education (1916); The Pageant of Greece (1923); The Future in Education (1941). President of the Classical Association, 1940–1. TSE to Aimée Lamb, 16 Mar. 1948: ‘[Livingstone] is … not only one of the most distinguished men in education, but a very charming person.’

 puts TSE up in Oxford, described for EH, confers Presidency of Classical Association on TSE, TSE declines lecture invitation from,
see also Livingstones, the
Livingstones, the, put TSE up in Oxford, issue standing invitation, put TSE up again,
Lloyd, George,

8.GeorgeLloyd, George Lloyd (1879–1941), Conservative politician, Anglo-Catholic, opponent of the National Government, whom Tories of the far right (such as Jerrold) wished to replace Baldwin.
Lloyds Bank, TSE's first boss at, his work on pre-war debt, safeguards TSE's Order of Merit,
Lockhart, J. G.,

2.J. G. LockhartLockhart, J. G. was a Director of The Centenary Press, London. TSE contributed ‘Religion and Literature’ to Faith that Illuminates, ed. V. A. Demant (Centenary Press, 1935), 29–54.
Lockyer, Isobel,

2.VivienLockyer, Isobel, in a letter to Aurelia (Hodgson) dated 27 Mar. 1932, refers to ‘Mrs & Miss [Isobel] Lockyer, friends of my Mother’s & mine’ (Beinecke).
Lodge, Henry Cabot,

1.The Searses could trace their lineage back to thirteenth-century England. The family included Phyllis (Sears) Tuckerman, Bostonian heiress, who in 1916 married Bayard Tuckerman Jr. (1889–1974), jockey, businessman, politician; and Eleanor Randolph Sears (1881–1968), champion tennis player and athlete; daughter of a Boston businessman – andLodge, Henry Cabot cousin of Henry Cabot Lodge (1902–85), who was to become Senator for Massachusetts; a distinguished, much-decorated soldier in WW2; vice-presidential running-mate to Richard Nixon; and later Ambassador to the United Nations, West Germany, and Vietnam. Henry Eliot had written to TSE, 15 May 1932: ‘when you come to New York, I should like to have you go to tea at the Tuckerman ladies’. They are charming representatives of the old regime; you would almost think yourself back in London. They have been most cordial to us.’

 'a nincompoop',
Loeb, Walter,

6.TSELoeb, Walter was to have a meeting with Walter Loeb and CamilleHuysmans, Camille Huysmans. Loeb (1895–1946), a dissenting German social democrat and author, had set up in London a publishing venture called ‘Fight for Freedom’, in order to disseminate anti-German propaganda. Huysmans (1871–1968), Belgian politician; Mayor of Antwerp, 1933–40; President of the Chamber of Representatives, 1936–9. In WW2 he lived in London, working to commission and publish anti-Nazi propaganda. After the war he was to become 34th Prime Minister, 1946–7.

 discusses anti-Nazi publishing venture,
Lombard, Liliane,
London,
see England
London Dock Strike, 1954,
London Library, lends TSE works of Marston, during the Blitz, makes TSE President, TSE's presidential address to, annual meeting dreaded,
London Omnibus strike, 1937,
London Passenger Transport Board, organises strike, which TSE approves on spiritual grounds,
London School of Economics, TSE chairs trilingual meeting at,
Longfellow, Alexander Wadsworth, Jr. ('Waddy'),

6.AlexanderLongfellow, Alexander Wadsworth, Jr. ('Waddy') Wadsworth ‘Waddy Longfellow, Jr. (1854–1934) – nephew of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – was a noted Colonial Revival architect.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, TSE lectures before bust of,
Lopokova, Lydia (Mrs John Maynard Keynes),

5.LydiaLopokova, Lydia (Mrs John Maynard Keynes) Lopokova (1892–1981), ballet dancer, married in 1925 John Maynard Keynes (1893–1946), the economist and theorist of money, government advisor and negotiator, and patron of the arts. Judith Mackrell notes that she ‘took pleasure in [TSE’s] company. She thought he had a “kind nature” and was intrigued by his and Maynard’s friendship’ (Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes [2008], 346).

 described, seeks return to the stage, theatre built for, as actress,
see also Keyneses, the
Lorant, Stefan,

5.StefanLorant, Stefan Lorant (1901–97), Budapest-born Jewish film director, journalist and author, moved in 1919 from Hungary to Germany, where he made his name as a filmmaker. In Mar. 1933 he was imprisoned by the Nazis but was released after six months, whereupon he migrated to Britain and promptly published I Was Hitler’s Prisoner: leaves from a prison diary (1935). He edited Weekly Illustrated and founded Lilliput, and in Oct. 1938 co-founded (with Sir Edward G. Hulton) the first British picture magazine, Picture Post: it was an immediate success.
'Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The', Harriet Monroe's part in, TSE ambushed with recitation of,
Lovejoy, Arthur O.,

1.ArthurLovejoy, Arthur O. O. Lovejoy (1873–1962), Berlin-born philosopher; Professor of Philosophy, Washington University, St Louis, 1901–8 – where he became acquainted with the Eliot family – and Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, 1910–38; editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas. Author of The Great Chain of Being (1936).

 unfailingly intelligent,
Lovingbird, Freda,
Low, David,

6.DavidLow, David Low (1891–1963), Australian cartoonist, worked for many years in the UK, initially (from 1927) for the Evening Standard; later for the Manchester Guardian. Knighted in 1962.

 cartoons TSE,
Löwe, Adolf,

1.Adolf LöweLöwe, Adolf (or Adolph Lowe/Loewe; 1893–1995) – economist and sociologist. Born in Stuttgart, he was educated in Munich and Berlin, gained his doctorate at Tübingen, and served in the German Army, 1914–15. Following a period as an economic adviser to the Weimar Government, 1918–24, and as head of international statistics at the Federal Bureau of Statistics, 1924–6, he taught at the University of Kiel. From 1926 to 1931 he was Director of Research and Educational Studies and Professor of Economics at the Institute of World Economics. He became Professor of Economics, University of Frankfurt (associating with the ‘Frankfurt School’ of sociology), 1931–3 – whereupon, in the spring of 1933, having been dismissed as a ‘dangerous intellectual’ by the Nazis, Löwe (who was Jewish) wisely fled with his family to Britain, where he became a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow and taught at the University of Manchester. In Sept. 1939 he became a naturalised British subject. In 1940 he left Britain for the USA, where he became Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, New York, retiring in 1978. His works include Economics and Sociology: A plea for cooperation in the social sciences (1935), The Price of Liberty: A German on contemporary Britain (1936), On Economic Knowledge: Toward a science of political economics (1965), and The Path of Economic Growth (1976).

 at first Moot meeting, in relation to CNL, differs from TSE on education,
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence,

1.AbbottLowell, Abbott Lawrence Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943), educator and legal scholar; President of Harvard University, 1909–33.

 TSE's first impression of, TSE despairs of liking, EP on, on further inspection, TSE's dislike for redoubled, his pronunciation, smugly respectable,
Lowell, Amy,

AmyLowell, Amy Lowell (1874–1925), a scion of the Boston Brahmin family; noted Imagist poet; lesbian (the love poems addressed to Ada Dwyer Russell are among her finest works); traveller, anthologist (Some Imagist Poets [New York, 1915]). Her works include A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (1912), What’s O’Clock (1925; winner of a posthumous Pulitzer Prize); The Complete Poems of Amy Lowell (1955). See Carl Rollyson, Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography (2013).

 her ex-lover invites TSE to lunch, TSE admires oil painting of, dismissed,
Lowell, Lucy,

1.LucyLowell, Lucy Lowell (1860–1944), from Boston, Mass.; President of the Alliance of Unitarian Women, 1917–23.
Lowell, Robert,

3.RobertLowell, Robert Lowell (1917–77): celebrated American poet of American cultural history (though often associated with the so-called ‘Confessional’ school); descendant of a distinguished Boston family; Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1947–8. Author of collections of poetry including Land of Unlikeness (1944), Lord Weary’s Castle (1946) and Life Studies (1959; winner of the National Book Award 1960). His poetry was to be promoted in the UK by TSE at Faber & Faber. Other awards included a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, 1947; the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1947 and 1974; and the National Book Critics Circle Award, 1977.

 commended to EH, dines with TSE in London,
Lowenstein, Prince Hubertus, TSE attends anti-Nazi party for,
Lowes, John Livingston,

1.JohnLowes, John Livingston Livingston Lowes (1867–1945), American scholar of English literature – author of the seminal study of Coleridge’s sources, The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination (1927) – taught for some years, 1909–18, at Washington University, St. Louis, where he was known to TSE’s family. He later taught at Harvard, 1918–39.

 helps TSE to settle at Harvard, TSE takes to, discusses Norton Lectures with TSE, shepherds TSE through first lecture, at St. Botolph poets' dinner, whisky-fuelled discussion with, remembers TSE's parents, assesses TSE's Norton tenure,
Lowther Clare, Revd William Kemp,

4.RevdLowther Clare, Revd William Kemp William Kemp Lowther Clarke DD (1879–1968) was Editorial Secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1915–44. He was to be Canon Residentiary of Chichester Cathedral, 1945–65; Prebendary of Chichester from 1943. Works include New Testament Problems (1929) and Liturgy and Worship (1932).
Lubbock, Lady Marjorie (née Cuffe),

1.LadyLubbock, Lady Marjorie (née Cuffe) Marjorie Cuffe (1879–1943) was married first to William Bayard Cutting (1878–1910), by whom she had one daughter, the writer Iris Origo (1902–88). Her second husband was Geoffrey Scott (1884–1929), an architectural historian who worked as secretary to Bernard Berenson. Her third and final husband was Percy Lubbock (1879–1965).

 totem of expatriate decadence,
Lucas, Edward Verrall ('E. V.'), at The Literary Society,
Lycaeum Theatre, Edinburgh,
Lycaeum Theatre, London, Beauty and the Beast,
Lyman, Elizabeth Van Cortlandt Parker,

5.ElizabethLyman, Elizabeth Van Cortlandt Parker Van Cortlandt Parker (1883–1953), wife of Ronald T. Lyman (son of a textile magnate), she was active in the arts and for some years President of the Boston Athenaeum. They lived at 39 Beacon Street.
Lyric Theatre, London, production of The Confidential Clerk,
Lyttelton, Oliver,

OliverLyttelton, Oliver Lyttelton (1893–1972), a businessman who had been brought into government during WW2, returned to work from 1945 as Chair of Associated Electrical Industries. He was in line for the position of Chancellor of the Exchequer but was deemed to be compromised by his business interests and connections with the City – the post went to R. A. Butler, while Lyttelton became Secretary of State for the Colonies. He was later to be raised to the peerage as 1st Viscount Chandos.

 TSE's preferred choice for Chancellor,
McAfee, Mildred Helen,

3.MildredMcAfee, Mildred Helen Helen McAfee (1900–94), pioneering academic and administrator; daughter of a Presbyterian minister. Appointed (at the age of 36) as 7th President of Wellesley College, 1936–42. Later, first director of WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the U.S. Navy (awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal); U.S. delegate to UNESCO; co-chair of President John F. Kennedy’s Women’s Committee for Civil Rights.

 EH to interview,
Macaulay, Rose,

1.RoseMacaulay, Rose Macaulay (1881–1958), novelist, biographer, travel writer. Her fictions include Dangerous Ages (1921); Told by an Idiot (1923); Keeping Up Appearances (1928); The Towers of Trebizond (1956). Created DBE, 1957. (TSE’s secretary Brigid O’Donovan was Macaulay’s goddaughter.)

 watches television with TSE, protests about Purchase Tax with TSE, presses Polish cause on TSE,
MacCarthy, Desmond,

1.DesmondMacCarthy, Desmond MacCarthy (1877–1952), literary and dramatic critic, was intimately associated with the Bloomsbury Group. Literary editor of the New Statesman, 1920–7; editor of Life and Letters, 1928–33; he moved in 1928 to the Sunday Times, where he was the chief reviewer for many years. See Desmond MacCarthy: The Man and His Writings (1984); Hugh and Mirabel Cecil, Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy: A Biography (1990).

 on Doone's Sweeney Agonistes, at TSE and JDH's dinner, which he thanks them for, at the Hutchinsons, rates Westminster Theatre Volpone, criticises Family Reunion, criticisms which TSE deflects, reviews East Coker, reviews The Dry Salvages, praises Little Gidding, mistaken for electrician, dislikes What is a Classic?,
see also MacCarthys, the
McCarthy, Mary, attends Vassar Sweeney Agonistes production,
MacCarthys, the, TSE's Hampton stay with,
McCord, David,

12.DavidMcCord, David McCord (1897–1977), poet; fundraiser; executive director of Harvard College Fund.
McCormick, Revd P. W. G.,

7.RevdMcCormick, Revd P. W. G. P. W. G. ‘Pat’ McCormick (1877–1940), vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, 1927–40; editor of St Martin’s Review; chaplain to the King.

 censor for The Rock,
see also McCormicks, the
McCormicks, the,
MacDermot, Frank,

6.FrankMacDermot, Frank MacDermot (1886–1975), lawyer and politician. Born in Dublin and educated in England at Downside School and Oxford, he qualified as a barrister and worked for some while as a New York banker before election as a Senator to Dáil Éireann, 1932–7, 1938–43.
MacDermott, Norman,

3.NormanMacDermott, Norman MacDermott (1890–1977), founder and first Director of the Everyman Theatre, Hampstead, 1920–6. Noel Coward’s The Vortex was first staged there by MacDermott.
MacDiarmid, Hugh,
see Grieve, Christopher Murray
MacDonagh, Donagh,

14.DonaghMacDonagh, Donagh MacDonagh (1912–68), Irish poet and playwright; barrister and judge (the youngest judge in Ireland on his appointment in 1941). His works include collections of verse: Variations and Other Poems (1941) and A Warning to Conquerors (1968); and verse plays including the acclaimed Happy as Larry (1946) and Lady Spider (1980). In a later year, TSE wrote this blurb for The Hungry Grass (F&F, 1947): ‘Donagh MacDonagh is an Irish poet of established reputation, whose work has until now been known in England only by those poems which have appeared from time to time in English magazines. This is the first collection of his poems to be published in this country. It will lead, we believe, to a valuation of this poet which will give him an assured place among the poets of his generation.’

 at Desmond Fitzgerald dinner, gives intellectual tea-party,
Macdonald, Hugh,

5.HughMacdonald, Hugh Macdonald (1885–1958), who trained as a solicitor, went into partnership with Frederick Etchells to produce fine editions under the imprint of The Haslewood Books, 1924–31. His works include England’s Helicon (1925), The Phoenix Nest (1926), John Dryden: A Bibliography of Early Editions and of Drydenianae (1939), On Foot: An Anthology (1942), Portraits in Prose (1946), and Andrew Marvell’s Poems (1952).
MacDonald, J. Ramsay, spotted at the Athenaeum, reputedly anti-German,
Macdonell, Archibald Gordon,

3.ArchibaldMacdonell, Archibald Gordon Gordon Macdonell (1895–1941), Scottish writer, journalist and broadcaster; author of England, Their England (1933) and Napoleon and His Marshals (1934).
McEachran, Frank,

2.FrankMcEachran, Frank McEachran (1900–75), schoolmaster, classicist, author, was a friend of TSE and contributor to the Criterion. In the 1920s he taught at Gresham’s School, Norfolk; subsequently at Shrewsbury School. Alan Bennett has acknowledged that the eccentric, charismastic schoolmaster Hector, in The History Boys (2004), is based on McEachran (Dave Calhoun, ‘Alan Bennett: interview’, Time Out, 2 Oct. 2006). On TSE’s recommendation, F&F brought out McEachran’s first books, The Civilised Man (1930) and The Destiny of Europe (1932). Other works include a study of J. G. Herder (1939), based on his Oxford B.Litt. thesis, and an anthology, Spells (1955). See John Bridgen, ‘Sometime Schoolmasters All: Frank McEachran and T. S. Eliot … and a few others’, Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society (UK) 2010, 21–40.
McGreevy, Thomas, Thomas Stearns Eliot: A Study,
Machiavelli, La Mandragola,
MacKinnon, Donald M.,

3.DonaldMacKinnon, Donald M. M. MacKinnon (1913–94), Scottish theologian and philosopher; Fellow and Tutor at Keble College, Oxford, 1937–47; Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, 1947–60; Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, Cambridge, 1960–78. Works include A Study in Ethical Theory (1957) and The Problem of Metaphysics, Gifford Lectures (1974).
MacKintosh, Elizabeth ('Josephine Tey', 'Gordon Daviot'), Richard of Bordeaux,
McKnight Kauffer, Edward,

2.EdwardMcKnight Kauffer, Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890–1954), American artist and illustrator: see Biographical Register. His partner was Marion Dorn (1896–1964), textile designer.

 gossiping at Clive Bell's, his cover for Triumphal March, as husband, takes Hitleresque photo, TSE dislikes photograph by, TSE opens Kauffer Memorial Exhibition, which involves television appearance,
see also McKnight Kauffers, the
McKnight Kauffer, Marion (née Dorn),

5.MarionMcKnight Kauffer, Marion (née Dorn) Dorn (1896–1964), acclaimed textile designer – she worked on the interiors of the Savoy Hotel and Claridges in London, and on the interior of the liner Queen Mary – lived in London with the artist and illustrator E. McKnight Kauffer, 1920–40: they were to marry in New York in 1950.

 complains of husband,
see also McKnight Kauffers, the
McKnight Kauffers, the, look in on Eliots' dinner, accompany TSE to Dance of Death, drop in on Boxing Day, their marital problems, celebrate JDH's birthday, TSE's sense of obligation to, host TSE in New York, see TSE off at La Guardia,
Mackworth, Margaret Haig, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (née Thomas),

2.MargaretMackworth, Margaret Haig, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (née Thomas) Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda (1883–1958), writer and feminist, was proprietor and editor from 1926 of Time & Tide. See Angela V. John, Turning the Tide: The Life of Lady Rhondda (Cardigan, 2013); Catherine Clay, ‘Time and Tide’: The feminist and cultural politics of a modern magazine (Edinburgh, 2018).
Maclagan, Eric,

3.EricMaclagan, Eric Maclagan (1879–1951), Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1924–45, had been Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer at Harvard, 1927–8. Distinguished as scholar and lecturer, and an expert on early Christian and Italian Renaissance art, his works include Catalogue of Italian Sculpture (with Margaret Longhurst, 1932) and The Bayeux Tapestry (1943), translations from poets including Rimbaud and Valéry, and editions of the works of William Blake. His offices included Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries, 1932–6; President of the Museums Association, 1935–6. A devout Anglo-Catholic, he served too on the Cathedrals Advisory Council and the Central Council for the Care of Churches, and as a member of the Church Assembly. Knighted in 1933, he was appointed KCVO in 1945. In 1913 he married Helen Elizabeth Lascelles.

 contrasts Chicago and Boston society, preferred to his Charles Eliot Norton successor, at The Literary Society,
see also Maclagans, the
Maclagan, Helen Elizabeth (née Lascelles),

6.EricMaclagan, Helen Elizabeth (née Lascelles) Maclagan married in 1913 Helen Elizabeth, daughter of Commander the Hon. Frederick Lascelles, second son of the 4th Earl of Harewood.

 'a swell',
see also Maclagans, the
Maclagan, William Dalrymple, Archbishop of York,

7.Maclagan’sMaclagan, William Dalrymple, Archbishop of York father was William Dalrymple Maclagan (1826–1910), Archbishop of York, 1891–1908.
Maclagans, the, dine with Underhill, Knox and TSE, demand TSE read Burnt Norton,
McLaren, Henry, 2nd Baron Aberconway,

6.HenryMcLaren, Henry, 2nd Baron Aberconway McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway (1879–1953): politician, horticulturalist, industrialist; President of the Royal Horticultural Society.
MacLeish, Archibald,

3.ArchibaldMacLeish, Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), poet and playwright, studied at Yale and at Harvard Law School (he abandoned the practice of law and took up poetry in 1923), then lived in France for a while in the 1920s. Conquistador (1933) won a Pulitzer Prize; and for his Collected Poems, 1917–1952 (1953) he won three awards: a second Pulitzer, the Bollingen Prize and the National Book Award. His verse play J.B. (1957) won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award. During WW2, at President Roosevelt’s bidding, he was Librarian of Congress, and he served with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. He was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Harvard, 1949–62.

 doesn't show at poets' dinner, inferior poet to MacNeice, meets TSE at dinner-party, requests TSE write to The Times,
Macleod, Joseph,

11.JosephMacleod, Joseph Macleod (1903–84), poet, playwright, actor, theatre director, historian and BBC newsreader, was educated at Balliol College, Oxford (where he was friends with Graham Greene), and in 1929 joined the experimental Cambridge Festival Theatre, of which he became director, 1933–5 (his productions included Chekhov’s The Seagull and Ezra Pound’s Noh plays, and five of his own plays). In 1938 he joined the BBC as announcer and newsreader, retiring to Florence in 1955: it was during the BBC period that the poetry he produced under the pseudonym ‘Adam Drinan’ became sought-after in Britain and the USA: he was much admired by writers including Basil Bunting and Edwin Muir. His first book of poems, The Ecliptic (1930), was published by TSE at F&F. His plays included Overture to Cambridge (1933) and A Woman Turned to Stone (1934). See Selected Poems: Cyclic Serial Zeniths from the Flux, ed. Andrew Duncan (2009); James Fountain, ‘To a group of nurses: The newsreading and documentary poems of Joseph Macleod’, TLS, 12 Feb. 2010, 14–15.

 promising young poet,
McLeod, Revd George,

2.RevdMcLeod, Revd George George McLeod (1895–1991), Scottish soldier; minister in the Church of Scotland; a distinguished social campaigner; founder of the Iona Community.
MacMurray, John,

5.JohnMacMurray, John Macmurray (1891–1976), moral philosopher; Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College, London, 1928–44; Professor of Moral Philosophy, Edinburgh University, 1944–58. His works include Freedom in the Modern World (1932). See J. E. Costello, John Macmurray: A Biography (2002); John Macmurray: Critical Perspectives, ed. D. Fergusson and N. Dower (2002).

 fellow broadcaster, reviews Christian Society,
MacNeice, Louis,

7.LouisMacNeice, Louis MacNeice (1907–63), poet, radio producer and playwright: see Biographical Register.

 Group Theatre production of Agamemnon, uses EH's stool at tea, TSE rebuts his charge of 'defeatism', touted to Smith College, better than Archibald MacLeish, at Cornell, introduced as T. S. Eliot, and the Spender–Campbell spat, Agamemnon, Autumn Journal, The Last Ditch, Out of the Picture,
MacNeill, Eóin,

1.EóinMacNeill, Eóin MacNeill (1867–1945); scholar; Gaelic nationalist politician, co-founder of the Gaelic League; Minister for Education, 1922–35. He served too in other public and governmental roles.From 1908, Professor of Early Irish History, University College Dublin.

 relates experiences of prison,
McNeill, James,

4.JamesMcNeill, James McNeill (1869–1938), politician and diplomat; served as High Commissioner to the UK (representing the Irish Free State); as Governor-General of the Irish Free State, 1928–32 (making him in fact the last-but-one ‘viceroy’). Josephine McNeill (1895–1969), who was a schoolteacher in her early career, became after her husband’s demise a strong voice in Irish cultural affairs, serving on a number of committees, and a diplomat: from 1950 she was Minister to the Netherlands; from 1955 Minister to Sweden; and from 1957 her brief was to include Austria and Switzerland. She retired in 1960.

 directs dreary verse play,
Macowan, Michael,

4.MichaelMacowan, Michael Macowan (1906–80), actor and director; later famous for Dickens of London (1976). He served during the war in the Army Educational Corps, with the rank of captain.
McPherrin, Jeanette,

2.JeanetteMcPherrin, Jeanette McPherrin (1911–92), postgraduate student at Scripps College; friend of EH: see Biographical Register.

 first mentioned, mentions 'shriners', TSE approves of, to accompany EH to Paris, and her first London visit, thanks TSE for Caetani introduction, TSE offers to rearrange studies at Cambridge, under I. A. Richards, encouraged to join EH in Rome, causes EH difficulty, joins EH in Florence, with EH in Rome, offered rare editions of Commerce, given introduction to the Maritains, whom she visits, shares TSE's Perkins concerns, sent stuffed plums, not to be mentioned at Campden, compared favourably to Margaret Thorp, disliked by Edith Perkins, EH job-seeking for, TSE confides EH's breakdown to, accompanied TSE and EH to Burford, taken to the Elsmiths, still persona non grata with the Perkinses, promised and receives East Coker, a Christian Scientist, recalls TSE's final day with Henry, hosts EH at Wellesley, now Lecturer in French at Wellesley, missed by EH, asks TSE to read at Wellesley,
McSpadden, Marie,

42.MarieMcSpadden, Marie McSpadden, in a letter to Kay Koeninger, 16 Jan. 1982: ‘Emily Hale, his dear friend, was an intimate of mine … I think he sent me the poem, “Marina”, because I was a typical California “sailor girl”, tanned, tall, and used to the sailing and swimming and out-of-door living that went with the locale. And very extrovert.’ A student at Scripps College, McSpadden went on to take an MA at Stanford University, and was to work for a while as assistant to Lou Henry Hoover (1874–1944) – wife of Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), President of the USA, 1929–33 – when she served as the National President of the Girl Scouts of the USA, 1935–7.

 'Marina' inscribed for,
Madge, Charles,

1.CharlesMadge, Charles Madge (1912–96), poet and sociologist: see Biographical Register.

 treated to meal, at heavy Criterion gathering, in one line, elopes with Spender's wife,
Maeterlinck, Maurice,
Magdalene College, Cambridge, claret discussed at, annual Pepys Dinner, makes TSE an Honorary Fellow, feast of St. Mary Magdalen at, Whitsun feast at, TSE's guest rooms at, repository for Eliotana, sermon preached at, houses Lewis portrait of TSE, which TSE pays for,
Magoun, Francis Peabody,

3.FrancisMagoun, Francis Peabody Peabody Magoun (1895–1979), an American who served with the British Royal Flying Corps in WW1 (he purported to be Canadian) and won the Military Cross, was to become an eminent scholar of medieval and English literature. He taught at Harvard, rising to be Professor of Comparative Literature, 1937; Professor of English, 1951; retiring in 1961.
Magruder, Calvert,

2.CalvertMagruder, Calvert Magruder (1893–1968); Professor of Law, Harvard, 1925–39; later a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals.

 on stage,
Mairet, Philip,

8.PhilipMairet, Philip Mairet (1886–1975): designer; journalist; editor of the New English Weekly: see Biographical Register.

 approaches TSE over NEW, at Chandos Group, at heavy Criterion gathering, consulted on BBC talk, approves TSE's NEW note, takes Criterion closure symbolically, anointed reader of Boutwood Lectures, on Oldham's new wartime committee, often editorially opposed to TSE, especially missed during war, and 'Culture Class', and Notes towards the Definition of Culture,
Maitlands, the, as TSE's Edinburgh hosts,
Malcolm, Dougal,
Malcolm, Maj.-Gen. Sir Neil,

1.MajMalcolm, Maj.-Gen. Sir Neil.-Gen. Sir Neil Malcolm (1869–1953), distinguished British Army officer.
Mallet, Victor,

4.VictorMallet, Victor Mallet (1893–1969), diplomat and author – who had served in Tehran, Buenos Aires, Brussels and Washington, DC – was Envoy to Sweden, 1940–5; later Ambassador to Spain, and to Italy; knighted, 1944; awarded GCMG, 1952. His wife was Christiana Jean Andreae.

 in Rome, makes Testaccio Cemetery appeal,
see also Mallets, the
Mallets, the, host TSE in Stockholm, where Roger Hinks remembers them,
Malory, Sir Thomas, TSE on Le Morte Darthur,
Malraux, André, denounced along with TSE,
(Manchester) Guardian, TSE subscribes EH to,
Manet, Édouard, interesting minor works by,
Mann, Erika,
Mannheim, Karl,

3.KarlMannheim, Karl Mannheim (1893–1947), Hungarian–Jewish sociologist: see Biographical Register.

 at TSE's Maritain dinner, and CNL, dinner in Cambridge with, notable correspondence with, Man and Society,
see also Mannheims, the
Mannheims, the,
Manning, Frederic,

5.FredericManning, Frederic Manning (1882–1935), Australian writer: see Biographical Register.

 lunches with TSE, in nursing home, his funeral, his works commended to EH,
Mansfield, Katherine, as recalled by TSE, remembered at Garsington,
Manwaring, Elizabeth,

3.ElizabethManwaring, Elizabeth Manwaring (1879–1959), a Professor of English at Wellesley College, was author of a pioneering study, Italian Landscape in Eighteenth Century England: a study chiefly of the influence of Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa on English Taste, 1700–1800 (New York, 1925). Good friend of TSE’s sister Marian.

 and Wellesley poetry reading, lays on Paderewski concert, curates TSE exhibition, on the day of Henry's death,
'Marching Song of the Jellicles, The', and The Queen's Book of the Red Cross,
Margaret, Princess, attends Murder, attends The Confidential Clerk,
Marichalar, Antonio,

4.AntonioMarichalar, Antonio Marichalar, Marquis of Montesa (1893–1973), author, critic, biographer; contributor to the newspaper El Sol and the periodical Revista de Occidente (on subjects including Claudel, Joyce, Valéry and Virginia Woolf). Works include Mentira desnuda: ‘The Naked Lie’ (essays on European and US culture, 1933); Riesgo y ventura del duque de Osuna (1932): The Perils and Fortune of the Duke of Orsuna, trans. H. de Onís; Julián Romero (1952).
'Marina', and Casco Bay,
Maritain, Jacques,

5.JacquesMaritain, Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), philosopher and littérateur, was at first a disciple of Bergson, but revoked that allegiance (L’Evolutionnisme de M. Bergson, 1911; La Philosophie bergsonienne, 1914) and became a Roman Catholic and foremost exponent of Neo-Thomism. For a while in the 1920s he was associated with Action Française, but the connection ended in 1926. Works include Art et scolastique (1920); Saint Thomas d’Aquin apôtre des temps modernes (1923); Réflexions sur l’intelligence (1924); Trois Réformateurs (1925); Primauté du spirituel (1927), Humanisme intégral (1936), Scholasticism and Politics (1940), Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry (1953). TSE told Ranjee Shahani (John O’London’s Weekly, 19 Aug. 1949, 497–8) that Maritain ‘filled an important role in our generation by uniting philosophy and theology, and also by enlarging the circle of readers who regard Christian philosophy seriously’. See Walter Raubicheck, ‘Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, and the Romantics’, Renascence 46:1 (Fall 1993), 71–9; Shun’ichi Takayanagi, ‘T. S. Eliot, Jacques Maritain, and Neo-Thomism’, The Modern Schoolman 73: 1 (Nov. 1995), 71–90; Jason Harding, ‘“The Just Impartiality of a Christian Philosopher”: Jacques Maritain and T. S. Eliot’, in The Maritain Factor: Taking Religion into Interwar Modernism, ed. J. Heynickx and J. De Maeyer (Leuven, 2010), 180–91; James Matthew Wilson, ‘“I bought and praised but did not read Aquinas”: T. S. Eliot, Jacques Maritain, and the Ontology of the Sign’, Yeats Eliot Review 27: 1–2 (Spring–Summer 2010), 21; and Carter Wood, This Is Your Hour: Christian Intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe, 1937–40 (Manchester, 2019), 69–72.

 and de Menasce's conversion and ordination, responsible for Cocteau's reconversion, on Cocteau, approaching sainthood, Boston reunion with, TSE appreciates his spiritual inferiority to, introduced to Jeanette McPherrin, on The Use of Poetry, writes to Jeanette McPherrin, TSE chairs talk by, which EH attends, thanks TSE for hospitality, and TSE's Paris itinerary, dinner for,
see also Maritains, the
Maritain, Raïssa (née Oumansoff),

1.RaïssaMaritain, Raïssa (née Oumansoff) Maritain, née Oumansoff (1883–1960), Russian-born poet and philosopher, married Jacques Maritain in 1904. There is no book of her poems in TSE’s library.

 thanked for her poems,
see also Maritains, the
Maritains, the, dine with EH and TSE, visited in Paris, dine with TSE in Princeton,
Marivaux, Pierre de,
Marlowe, Christopher, Tamburlaine,
Marquard, Leopold,

5.LeopoldMarquard, Leopold Marquard (1897–1974): politician, educator, publisher and author. Editorial manager for Oxford University Press in S. Africa, 1946–60. After studying at Oxford, 1920–3, he was founding president of the National Union of South African Students, 1924, and worked for some years as a teacher. In addition, he was co-founder of the South African Institute of Race Relations, of which he was President, 1957–8, 1968. In 1953 he became a founder member of the Liberal Party of South Africa. His works include The Story of South Africa (1966). TSE to Hope Mirrlees, 31 Mar. 1950: ‘If you should come across some people in Stellenbosch named Marquard, I found them agreeable and not uncultivated – they are I think Natives (i.e. whites of Huguenot–Dutch extraction) but he was a RHODES SCHOLAR IN HIS TIME (I did not intend capitals, but this typewriter surprises me that way from time to time) and is the Representative of the Oxford University Press in Cape Town.’ Geoffrey Faber, in his report on a second trip to S. Africa in 1954, noted of the ‘liberal minded Afrikaner’: ‘These intelligent “Dutch” are the salt of South Africa, and give points to all but a very few English men and women. They are apt, perhaps, to be a bit over serious. Alas, that there are not more of them!’
Mars, Marjorie,

4.MarjorieMars, Marjorie Mars (1903–91) – born Marjorie Brown – actor, was to become well known for her performance in Brief Encounter (1945).

 as harlot in Sean O'Casey,
Marsden, Dora,

1.DoraMarsden, Dora Marsden (1882–1960), suffragette; literary editor; founder-editor of The Freewoman and The Egoist. Weaver published what she regarded as Marsden’s magnum opus in two parts: The Definition of the Godhead (1928); Mysteries of Christianity (1930).

 Harriet Weaver's devotion to,
Marshall, Cicely Mary,

7.CicelyMarshall, Cicely Mary Mary Marshall.
Marshall, George C.,

7.GeorgeMarshall, George C. C. Marshall (1880–1959), soldier and statesman, was US Army Chief of Staff, 1939–45 – he orchestrated Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France in 1944 – and Secretary of State, 1947–9. AtMarshall, George C.announces Marshall plan;a2n Harvard’s 296th Commencement exercises held in Harvard Yard’s Tercentenary Theatre on 5 June 1947 – the first normal Commencement since the war – Marshall delivered to an audience of 15,000 in Harvard Yard a short, unshowy speech adumbrating the great post-war European Aid Program that duly became known as the Marshall Plan, and which led in turn to the establishment of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) in Apr. 1948 – the forerunner of the European Union. See Robert E. Smith, ‘Harvard Hears of the Marshall Plan’, Harvard Crimson, 4 May 1962.

 delights TSE, announces Marshall plan,
Marson, Una,

2.UnaMarson, Una Marson (1905–65), Jamaican poet, playwright, journalist, broadcaster, political activist; the first black programme-maker at the BBC. From 1941 she worked for the BBC Empire Service on the programme Calling the West Indies, which she presented from 1942, and Caribbean Voices – saluted by Kamau Brathwaite as ‘the single most important literary catalyst for Caribbean creative writing in English’ – which ran until 1958. From 1942, at the invitation of George Orwell, she contributed to the programme Voice, with TSE, Empson, Tambimuttu and others. Her poetry includes Tropic Reveries (1930), Heights and Depths (1931), Towards the Stars: Poems (1945). See Delia Jarrett-Macauley, The Life of Una Marson, 1905–65 (Manchester, 1998); Selected Poems (Caribbean Modern Classics, 2011).
Marston, John, TSE's paper on,
Martin, Alice Eliot (TSE's cousin),

9.AliceMartin, Alice Eliot (TSE's cousin) Eliot (1889–1967) was married to Leonard Martin (1887–1971).

 reunited with TSE in St. Louis,
Martin, Dr Karl Bernhard,

2.BothMartin, Dr Karl Bernhard TSE and Vivien had consultations during 1924 with Dr Karl Bernhard Martin, who lived at Dorfstrasse, Günthersthal, Germany, and ran a clinic called Sanatorium Lengenhardstrasse. The treatments he meted out combined starvation dieting with psychoanalysis. One of his most socially prominent British patients was Lady Ottoline Morrell, who chose to submit herself to his ministrations for several years. Lytton Strachey, who met Martin at Garsington, thought him ‘a miserable German doctor – a “psycho-analyst” of Freiburg’ (letter to Dora Carrington, 3 June 1923).

 and TSE's experience of analysis,
Martin, Leonard,

1.LeonardMartin, Leonard Martin (1887–1971), husband to Alice Eliot (1889–1967).
Martindale, Fr Cyril Charlie, SJ,

10.CyrilMartindale, Fr Cyril Charlie, SJ Charlie Martindale, SJ (1879–1963), scholar, preacher, lecturer and broadcaster, became a Catholic convert in 1897 and entered the Jesuit noviciate. A prize-winning essayist at Pope’s Hall (later Campion Hall), Oxford, he was ordained in 1911 and taught classics at Oxford, 1916–27. He then joined the staff of the Farm Street Church in Mayfair, London, where he was energetic in social causes. Celebrated for his lucid, forceful sermons and broadcasts, he gained world-wide renown for his involvement in the Roman Catholic international university movement and as a member of the central committee for the planning of the Eucharistic Congresses. A prolific author, he was to publish over 80 books including Faith of the Roman Church; What are Saints?; Broadcast Sermons; The Message of Fatima; 60 pamphlets and numerous articles. See Philip Caraman, C. C. Martindale (1967).
Marx Brothers, the, TSE's only inducement for moviegoing, Duck Soup,
Marx, Karl, TSE orders early writings of, rubbished by Keynes, late-night discussion of,
Marxism, Christian principle sets TSE against,
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, attends Murder,
Mary, Queen ('Mary of Teck'), attends Murder with daughter,
Maryon-Wilson, Revd Canon Sir George Percy,

1.RevdMaryon-Wilson, Revd Canon Sir George Percy Canon Sir George Percy Maryon-Wilson, 12th Baronet (1897–1965); rector of Christ Church, St Leonards on Sea. HisLivingstone, Cecile Stephanie (née Maryon-Wilson) sister was Cecile Stephanie Maryon-Wilson (1880–1960), who had married Sir Richard Livingstone in 1913.
Masaryk, Jan,

1.JanMasaryk, Jan Masaryk, a Czechoslovakian politician opposed to the postwar Soviet domination of his country, had been found dead on 10 Mar. 1948 on the ground outside a government building in Prague, below an open window on an upper floor. Many in the West suspected he had been murdered by the Soviets but the circumstances have never been clarified and it is possible that he fell accidentally or took his own life.
Masefield, John, compared to TSE qua playwright, declines role in Kalevala celebrations, roped into Sitwell poetry reading, at the same, where he is rated, too ill for public duties,
Massigli, René,

1.RenéMassigli, René Massigli (1888–1988), diplomat: French Ambassador to the United Kingdom, 1944–55.

 awards TSE Légion d’honneur,
Massine, Léonide,

7.LéonideMassine, Léonide Massine, born Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin (1896–1979), Russian baller dancer and choreographer; principal choreographer for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, 1915–21. The premiere of The Three Cornered Hat (El sombrero de tres picos, or Le Tricorne), prod. Sergei Diaghilev, with music by Manuel de Falla and sets and costumes by Pablo Picasso, took place at the Alhambra Theatre, London, in July 1919. TSE called Massine ‘the greatest mimetic dancer in the world’ (‘Commentary’, Criterion 3: 9 [Oct. 1924], 4); see too ‘Dramatis Personae’ (1923): CProse 2, 434.

 in TSE's opinion, successfully revives ballet,
Massinger, Philip, The Duke of Milan,
Massingham, Harold John,

2.HaroldMassingham, Harold John John Massingham (1888–1952), writer and journalist devoted to rural traditions; his works include Downland Man (1926) and Wold without End (1932).
Massis, Henri,

5.Henri MassisMassis, Henri (1886–1970), right-wing Roman Catholic critic; contributor to L’ Action Française; co-founder and editor of La Revue Universelle: see Biographical Register.

 associated with Maritain, welcomes TSE in Paris, submits Criterion article, and TSE's 1936 visit to Paris, solicits Maurras tribute,
Matisse, Henri, Barnes Foundation paintings delight TSE,
Matthews, Walter R.,

4.WalterMatthews, Walter R. R. Matthews (1881–1973), Anglican priest and theologian; Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, 1934–67.

 as historian of Anglican Church,
Matthiessen, Francis Otto ('F. O.'),

7.F. O. MatthiessenMatthiessen, Francis Otto ('F. O.') (1902–50) taught for 21 years in the English Department at Harvard, where he specialised in American literature and Shakespeare, becoming Professor of History and Literature in 1942. The first Senior Tutor at Eliot House, he was a Resident Tutor, 1933–9. Works include The Achievement of T. S. Eliot (1935) and American Renaissance (1941).

 late-night poetry discussion with, and Spencer co-direct Dekker, sojourn in Maine with, retirement-party for, interrupts EH and TSE's parting, worth discussing American politics with, compared as critic to Sweeney, apparently pro Henry Wallace, The Achievement of T. S. Eliot,
Mattuck, Rabbi Israel Isidor,

7.RabbiMattuck, Rabbi Israel Isidor Israel I. Mattuck (1884–1954) was born in Lithuania and taken as a child to the USA, where he studied at Harvard and was ordained at the Hebrew Union College. On moving to London, he became Rabbi of the Liberal Synagogue, 28 St John’s Wood Road, 1911–47. He was the first chairman of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, 1926–54, and edited the Liberal prayer book (3 vols, 1923–6). Other works include The Essentials of Liberal Judaism (1947), What Are the Jews? (1949), Jewish Ethics (1953) and The Thought of the Prophets (1953). TSE hoped he might write a History of the Jews since the Dispersion.

 history of the Jews discussed with,
Maugham, Frederic, 1st Viscount of Hartfield,

1.FredericMaugham, Frederic, 1st Viscount of Hartfield Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham of Hartfield (1866–1958), barrister; Lord Chancellor, Mar. 1938–Sept. 1939.
Maulnier, Thierry,

13.ThierryMaulnier, Thierry Maulnier (1909–88), journalist, essayist, literary critic and dramatist. The article promised by Maulnier was to have discussed the subject of surrealism.

 promises TSE Criterion article, drops in on Massis lunch,
Mauriac, François,

2.FrançoisMauriac, François Mauriac, Asmodée (1937).

 Asmodée,
Maurice, Frederick Denison,

4.FrederickMaurice, Frederick Denison Denison Maurice (1805–72): British theologian and academic; co-founder of the Christian Socialist movement; Chaplain of Guy’s Hospital, and Professor of English Literature and History, King’s College London. The quotation is from The Kingdom of Christ; or, Hints to a Quaker: respecting the Principles, Constitution, and Ordinances of the Catholic Church (1842), I, ch. III: ‘Unitarianism’, 185–6.
Maurice, Maj.-Gen. Sir Frederick,

9.Maj-GenMaurice, Maj.-Gen. Sir Frederick. Sir Frederick Maurice (1871–1951), British Army officer; military correspondent and author: Director of Military Operations, Imperial General Staff, 1915–18. In May 1918 he was obliged to resign after sending a letter to the press which criticised the government of David Lloyd George for issuing misleading statements about the strength of the British Army. He was Principal of the Working Men’s College, London, 1922–33; Professor of Military Studies, London University, 1927; President of the British Legion (which he had helped to found in 1920), 1932–47; Principal of Queen Mary College, University of London, 1933–44.
Mauron, Charles,

1.CharlesMauron, Charles Mauron (1899–1966) trained as a chemist but suffered from increasingly impaired eyesight. Author of The Nature of Beauty in Art and Literature, trans. Roger Fry (Hogarth, 1927), he translated into French Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Orlando, and collaborated with Fry on translations from Mallarmé. Later works include Aesthetics and Psychology (1935) and Des Μétaphores obsédantes au mythe personnel (1962).

 discusses Roger Fry's literary remains,
Maurras, Charles,

6.Charles MaurrasMaurras, Charles (1868–1952), French poet, critic, political philosopher and polemical journalist; founding editor and moving spirit of the monarchist paper, L’ Action Française (1908–44) – which was ultimately to support Pétain and Vichy during WW2. Building on ‘three traditions’ – classicism, Catholicism, monarchism – Maurras’s ideology was to become increasingly right-wing, authoritarian and anti-democratic. In 1925 TSE had planned to write a book about Maurras; and he later wrote ‘The Action Française, M. Maurras and Mr. Ward’, Criterion 7 (March 1928). In a later essay, TSE cited Whibley, Daudet and Maurras as the ‘three best writers of invective of their time’ (Selected Essays, 499). Eliot to William Force Stead, 19 Mar. 1954: ‘I am a disciple of Charles Maurras only in certain respects and with critical selection. I do owe Maurras a good deal, and retain my admiration for him, but I think he had serious errors of political judgment – in fact, he should have confined himself, I think, to the philosophy of politics, and never have engaged in political agitation at all.’ See further James Torrens, SJ, ‘Charles Maurras and Eliot’s “New Life”’, Publications of the Modern Language Association 89: 2 (Mar. 1974), 312–22. TSE on Maurras in Christian News-Letter 44 (28 Aug. 1940), 2; CProse 6, 122–3.

 TSE associates with Maritain, honoured while imprisoned,
Maury, Pierre,

2.PierreMaury, Pierre Maury (1890–1956), pastor of the reformed parish of Ferney-Voltaire; then of the parish of Passy-Annunciation in Paris, 1934–56; close associate of Pastor Visser’t Hooft (1900–85), of the Reformed Church of the Netherlands (who was Secretary General of the Universal Federation of Christian Student Associations in Geneva); subsequently the friend and promulgator of the great Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886–1968): Maury arranged for the publication of Barth’s influential study Word of God, Human Word (1933), along with several others of his works. In 1943 Maury became Professor of Dogmatics at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris; and he was President of the National Council of the Reformed Church of France, 1950–3. Maury published studies of Saint Augustine, Luther and Pascal.
Maxse, John Herbert,

1.JohnMaxse, John Herbert Herbert Maxse (1901–78) was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He and his wife Dorinda, née Thorne (1901–88), were close friends of John Hayward.

 and wife Dorinda meet TSE for drink,
Maxwell-Scott, Patricia,

3.PatriciaMaxwell-Scott, Patricia Maxwell-Scott (1921–98) married in 1944 Sir Christian Boulton, 4th Baronet, but retained her maiden name. She was to become Laird and Chatelaine of Abbotsford on her father’s death in 1954.
Mayer, Jacob-Peter,

2.J.-P. MayerMayer, Jacob-Peter, Sociology of Film: Studies and Documents (F&F, 1946). Jacob-Peter Mayer (1903–92) was the German-born Jewish editor of the Oeuvres Complètes of the sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville (Gallimard, 27 vols., 1951–83); author of Political Thought in France from the Revolution to the Fifth Republic (1943), Max Weber and German Politics (1944) and (ed.) Tocqueville, Journeys to England & Ireland (F&F, 1958). Born in Frankenthal, Mayer studied at Marburg, Freiburg, Hamburg and Berlin – his education included seminars with Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl – joined the German Social Democratic Party and became involved with the anti-Nazi movement before fleeing Germany with his wife and son in 1936. During WW2 he worked on German broadcasts for the Ministry of Economic Warfare, and he became a British citizen in 1950. His splendid work on Tocqueville earned him the Légion d’honneur. See further Michael Sonenscher, ‘Power, populism and plots: A German refugee-scholar’s papers and the politics of mass society’, TLS, 19 June 2020.
Mayer, Sir Robert,

2.SirMayer, Sir Robert Robert Mayer (1879–1985), German-born British businessman (not Anglo-American) and philanthropist; musicophile and supporter of young musicians; founder of the Robert Mayer Concerts for Children, 1923; co-founder of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, 1932. Appointed CH, 1973; KCVO, 1979.
Mayne, Ethel Colburn,

3.EthelMayne, Ethel Colburn Colburn Mayne (1865–1941), Irish novelist, biographer, critic and translator.

 at Alida's for dinner,
Mayne, Rutherford,

1.RutherfordMayne, Rutherford Mayne – pen name of Samuel John Waddell (1878–1967) – playwright and actor; co-founder of the Ulster Literary Theatre, 1904; author of The Bridgehead (1939).

 The Bridgehead,
Medley, Robert,

4.RobertMedley, Robert Medley (1905–94): English artist and designer; co-founder with his partner Rupert Doone of the Group Theatre: see Biographical Register.

 and Doone pitch TSE the Group Theatre,
Meiklejohn, Sir Roderick,

2.SirMeiklejohn, Sir Roderick Roderick Meiklejohn (1876–1962), distinguished civil servant.

 Old Buffer's Dinner for,
Melcher, Frederic G.,

1.FredericMelcher, Frederic G. G. Melcher (1879–1963): American publisher, bookseller, editor; promoter of literature for children (he set up the Newbery Medal and the Caldecott Medal). He was for forty years editor of Publishers’ Weekly, and chair of R. R. Bowker (proprietor of the paper). By 1945, when he had worked as a bookman for half a century, celebrations were held in his honour. He was awarded a medal from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and Hon. Membership of the American Library Association. See further Frederic G. Melcher: Friendly Reminiscences of a Half Century Among Books and Bookmen, ed. Mildred Smith (1945).
Melton, Linda,

6.TSEMelton, Linda to Ronald Bottrall, 16 Aug. 1948: ‘Miss [Linda] Melton [b. 1919] was my secretary throughout the war years, and a very good secretary too: coming up daily from Esher, I think, all through the blitz, and rescued a lot of my stuff at Russell Square when an unexploded bomb sunk in the street just outside, and nobody knew whether it would go off – I didn’t know about this till the next day … She is a good shorthand typist, an efficient secretary, and has an intelligent understanding of contemporary literary situations and personalities.
Mendenhall, Thomas C.,

2.ThomasMendenhall, Thomas C. C. Mendenhall (1910–98), historian and academic administrator, served as the sixth President of Smith College, 1959–75: he was to be the last male president of the college.
Mendonça, Antonio S. de,

1.PresumablyMendonça, Antonio S. de Antonio S. de Mendonça, Manager of Casa de Portugal (Portuguese Information Bureau), London.
Merchant, Revd W. Moelwyn,

4.RevdMerchant, Revd W. Moelwyn W. Moelwyn Merchant (1913–97): Welsh academic, Anglican priest, poet, critic and sculptor, who undertook research in the autumn of 1957 at the Folger Library in Washington, DC, and visited Ezra Pound at St Elizabeth’s Hospital. Merchant was to become Professor of English at the University of Exeter, 1961–74; later, Willett Professor at the University of Chicago and Chancellor of Salisbury Cathedral, 1967–71. In Aug. 1957 he had sent TSE, whom he had met, a copy of Wordsworth’s A Guide through the District of the Lakes, illus. by John Piper and with an introduction by Merchant. See further Merchant, Fragments of a Life (1990): ‘Despite [Pound’s] tragic circumstances, the omens were good for my visits to him in Washington, for T. S. Eliot had briefed me carefully on the personal issues and the pattern of friendships which surrounded Pound in face of official animosity’ (147).
Mercury Theatre, London, Yeats proposes season at, from the outside, possible Murder premiere at, season in financial straits, stage too small for Doone, to stage Murder revival, rehearsal at, Murder coming off at, hard to imagine Murder beyond, Dukes proposes new Mercury Theatre, Martin Browne's York Nativity Play, presents The Ascent of F6, Murder in re-rehearsal at, possible venue for Family Reunion, Dukes's La Mandragola, new Murder revival at, attempts season of miniature operas, 'initimate opera' at, its French equivalent, hosts New Plays by Poets, and 1946 Family Reunion revival, Martin Browne's proposal to stage revue at, presents Saroyan play, graced with royal visit, staging Playboy of the Western World, possible destination for Cocktail Party,
Merriman, Dorothea (née Foote),
Merriman, Roger Bigelow,

3.RogerMerriman, Roger Bigelow Bigelow Merriman (1876–1945), the first Master of Eliot House, Harvard, which was opened in 1931. Born in Boston and educated at Harvard (PhD, 1902), he studied also at Balliol College, Oxford, and in Berlin. He was appointed Professor of History at Harvard in 1918. His writings include Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell (1902), Rise of the Spanish Empire (4 vols, 1918–34) and Suleiman the Magnificent (1944). He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a vice-president of the Massachusetts Historical Society; and he received honorary degrees from Oxford, Glasgow and Cambridge. Robert Speaight was to say of him, in The Property Basket: Recollections of a Divided Life (1970), 187: ‘A ripe character and erudite historian of the Spanish Empire, Merriman was Balliol to the backbone. At Oxford he was known as “Lumps” and at Harvard he was known as “Frisky”, and while his appearance suggested the first his ebullience did not contradict the second.’

 praised, cultivates Oxford manner, arranges underwhelming Republican dinner, Lenten dinner with, TSE comes round to, reunited with TSE in Oxford, supported Landon over FDR,
Merton College, Oxford, and Karl Culpin, Edmund Blunden visited at, TSE recognised by college porter, TSE on his time at, makes TSE Honarary Fellow, Gaudy at,
'Message to Aguedal',
'Message to Merkur',
'Message to the Fish, A', provoked by The Times,
Meyer, Eugene,

1.EugeneMeyer, Eugene Meyer (1875–1959), financier and newspaper proprietor; chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1930–3; publisher of the Washington Post, 1933–46.
Middleton, Thomas, The Witch of Edmonton,
Miles, Hamish,

8.HamishMiles, Hamish Miles (1894–1937), author; publisher’s editor (Jonathan Cape).
Millay, Edna St. Vincent,

9.EdnaMillay, Edna St. Vincent St Vincent Millay (1892–1950), American poet, playwright and librettist; graduate of Vassar College; bisexual; feminist activist and pacifist; close friend of Edmund Wilson, Floyd Dell and Susan Glaspell – with whom she participated in the work of the Provincetown Players on Macdougal Street, New York (she wrote the anti-war verse play Aria da Capo for the Players) – and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (1923). Other works include the sonnet sequence Fatal Interview (1931) and Murder of Lidice (1942). See Nancy Milford, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St Vincent Millay (2001).

 unfortunately named, disparaged by TSE,
Miller, Alastair W. R.,

5.AlastairMiller, Alastair W. R. W. R. Miller, a resident of Chipping Campden.
Miller, Alec,

2.AlecMiller, Alec Miller (1879–1961), accomplished Scottish carver and sculptor – associate of Ashbee – lived in Chipping Campden (where the Perkinses, Hale and TSE made his acquaintance); in 1939 he emigrated to California. Alastair was his elder child. See Jane Wilgress, Alec Miller: Guildsman and Sculptor in Chipping Campden (Chipping Campden: CADHAS, 1998).
Miller, Dr Reginald,

5.DrMiller, Dr Reginald Reginald Miller (1879–1948) of 110 Harley Street, London, W.1.; Consulting Physician to St Mary’s Hospital and to Paddington Green Children’s Hospital, London; a general physician with a special interest in children, he was expert in the problems of mental deficiency in children and in rheumatic diseases and heart diseases in childhood (on which he wrote several articles). He was the first editor, with Dr Hugh Thursfield, of the Archives on Disease in Childhood. Brought up in Hampstead, it is probable that he was an early friend of the Haigh-Wood family.

 counsels separation between the Eliots, at crisis-meeting about VHE,
Miller, Gilbert,

5.GilbertMiller, Gilbert Miller (1884–1969); American theatrical producer. In 1950 he was to win a Tony Award for his production of The Cocktail Party. The Gilbert Miller–Ashley Dukes production of Murder in the Cathedral (with Miller taking a quarter-share in the enterprise, and Dukes three-quarters to secure artistic control), starring Robert Speaight, was to open at the Ritz Theatre, West 48th Street, New York City, on 16 Feb. 1938. It ran for 21 performances.

 possible force behind Murder's transfer, negotiating Cocktail Party's transfer, repels TSE, knows the wrong sort of duke, bumps into TSE in Spain,
Miller, Perry,

4.PerryMiller, Perry Miller (1905–63), American historian, taught at Harvard University from 1931, but spent the years 1942–5 working for the Office of Strategic Services in London. Works include The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (1939) and Jonathan Edwards (1949).
Millin, Sarah Gertrude,

5.SarahMillin, Sarah Gertrude Gertrude Millin (1889–1968): South African novelist and writer of non-fiction and biography. Works include The Night is Long (autobiography: F&F, 1941); a six-volume diary (F&F, 1944–8); and The Measure of My Days (1955). See Martin Rubin, Sarah Gertrude Millin: A South African Life (Johannesburg and London: Ad. Donker, 1977). In Oct. 1934 F&F had offered a remarkable advance of £2,500, with royalty of 25%, for Millin’s two-volume life of General Smuts (1936). Her husband was Philip Millin (1888–1952), Judge of the South African Supreme Court.
Milne, Alan Alexander ('A. A.'), controversy with TSE over pacifism, not TSE's nonsense model, The Dover Road,
Milton Academy, Boston, TSE on revisiting, TSE's Commencement Address for, stages Murder, TSE's War Memorial Lecture for,
Milton, Ernest,

1.ErnestMilton, Ernest Milton (1890–1974), American-born British actor; member of Old Vic company.
'Milton II', TSE reading for, drafted, being revised, further revision, apparently perceived as 'recantation',
Milton, John, on TSE's brain, TSE on Comus, appealing to the ear, TSE's Churchill Club talk on, British Academy lecture on, Frick lecture on, Comus,
Milton, Yves,

1.ForMilton, Yves two days, 21–2 Apr., TSE was to be the house guest of the mayor of Rennes, named Yves Milon (1897–1987), a professor of geology and former Dean of the Faculty of Sciences.
Mindszenty, Cardinal József,

2.Cardinal JózsefMindszenty, Cardinal József Mindszenty (1892–1975), Archbishop of Esztergom, was head of the Catholic Church in Hungary, 1945–73. A staunch anti-fascist and anti-communist, he was sentenced to life imprisonment after a show trial in 1949. After eight years in prison, he was to be released following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and passed the next fifteen years in political asylum in the US Embassy in Budapest. From 1971 he lived in exile in Vienna.

 and the 1949 Berlin Murder,
Minot, Dr George,

1.DrMinot, Dr George George Minot (1885–1950), a native of Boston, joined the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital in 1917, rising to be Chief of Medical Services in 1923; Physician-in-Chief, 1934. He was Professor of Medicine at Harvard, and Director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory at Boston City Hospital. A member of the Pernicious Anemia Committee at Harvard, he received in 1930 the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh; and in 1934 he was awarded, with William P. Murphy and George H. Whipple, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on the treatment of blood anaemia. Minot himself was diagnosed in 1920 with diabetes mellitus, and (after initial treatment with a severe diet) was kept alive for many years by the happily contemporaneous discovery of insulin. See further F. M. Rackemann, The Inquisitive Physician: The Life and Times of George Richards Minot, A.B., M.D., D.Sc. (Harvard University Press, 1956).
Mirrlees, Emily Lina ('Mappie', née Moncrieff),

3.HopeMirrlees, Emily Lina ('Mappie', née Moncrieff) Mirrlees’s mother was Emily Lina Mirrlees, née Moncrieff (1862–1948) – known as ‘Mappie’ or ‘Mappy’ – see Biographical Register.

 taken round the Tower, invites TSE to Shamley, described for EH, offers to house TSE gratis, her religion, as horticulturalist, concerns TSE, her distress on animals' behalf, not an irritant, secures better gardener for Shamley, circumstances in which she offered TSE refuge, indifferent to enlarging acquaintance, engineers solitude at Shamley, surprises TSE with lobster and cigars, reduces TSE's rent, celebrates 80th birthday, abed and anxious, anxious about North African campaign, going deaf, boosted by son's promotion, receives offer for Shamley, theatrical by nature, TSE prefers being alone with, TSE's sense of responsibility to, spoils TSE on his birthday, aflutter over Christmas turkey, delighted by recording at Shamley, takes in hopeless cases, collector of recipes, pleased by TSE's lawnmowing, hankers after life in Menton, dreams of leaving Shamley, pulls out of selling Shamley, as landlady, frustrations with gardener, her aura, summons TSE to Shamley, during TSE's final Shamley Christmas, dying, still just living, dies following operation, Wishful Cooking,
see also Mirrleeses, the
Mirrlees, Hope,

2.HopeMirrlees, Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978), British poet, novelist, translator and biographer, was to become a close friend of TSE: see Biographical Register.

 sketched for EH, at the Eliots' tea-party, part of Bloomsbury society, VHE complains about TSE to, dinner in company with, and mother taken sightseeing, ordeal of a walk with, dinner and chess with, and her dachshund, exhausting but pitiable, her mother preferable, her religion, to Mappie as Eleanor Hinkley to Aunt Susie, irritates like Eleanor, indifferent to enlarging her acquaintance, at Shamley, researching in Worthing Public Library, bathing daily at Lee, and TSE judge fancy-dress parade, during TSE's final Shamley Christmas, suffers 'collapse', in Stellenbosch, visits London, go-between in TSE's second marriage,
see also Mirrleeses, the
Mirrlees, Maj.-Gen. William Henry Buchanan ('Reay'),

1.MajMirrlees, Maj.-Gen. William Henry Buchanan ('Reay').-Gen. William Henry Buchanan ‘Reay’ Mirrlees, DSO, CB, MC (1892–1964), served in the Royal Artillery. He was the only son of William Julius and Emily Lina Mirrlees, brother of Hope Mirrlees.

 with brigade in North Africa, source of anxiety in Shamley, promoted to major-general, awarded DSO, homecoming animates Mappie, returns from India, TSE's impression of, returns to regiment, at Shamley for Christmas,
Mirrleeses, the, pre-war weekend in Surrey with, host TSE during Blitz, subsequently issue standing invitation, six days a week with, set their hearts on the Riviera, mourn prospect of TSE's departure, invite TSE for Christmas, nurse TSE post-operation, their family estate in South Africa,
Mirsky, Dmitri S.,

4.DmitriMirsky, Dmitri S. S. Mirsky (1890–1939), son of Prince P. D. Svyatopolk-Mirsky, army officer and civil servant. Educated at the University of St Petersburg, where he read Oriental Languages and Classics, he served as an army officer and was wounded during WW1 while fighting on the German front; later he served in the White Army. In 1921, he was appointed Lecturer in Russian at the School of Slavonic Studies, London (under Sir Bernard Pares), where his cultivation and command of languages brought him to the attention of a wide literary circle. His works include Contemporary Russian Literature (2 vols, 1926) and A History of Russian Literature from the Earliest Times to the Death of Dostoevsky, 1881 (1927). In 1931 he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (see ‘Why I became a Marxist’, Daily Worker, 30 June 1931), and in 1932 returned to Russia where he worked as a Soviet literary critic (and met Edmund Wilson and Malcolm Muggeridge). In 1937 he was arrested in the Stalinist purge, found guilty of ‘suspected espionage’, and sentenced to eight years of correctional labour: he died in a labour camp in Siberia. See G. S. Smith, D. S. Mirsky: A Russian–English Life, 1980–1939 (2000). Mirsky later did TSE this crude disservice: ‘The classicists led by T. S. Eliot, came forward as conscious supporters of the re-establishment of classical discipline, of a hierarchy, and as open enemies of democracy and liberalism – in short, as the organized vanguard of theoreticians of a capitalist class going fascist’ (The Intelligentsia of Great Britain, trans. Alec Brown [1935], 123).

 TSE praises for article on TSE, which TSE responds to, compared qua Marxist to Rowse, stimulates TSE's Norton Lectures, his farewell lunch, 'The End of Bourgeois Poetry',
Mistral, Gabriela,

4.GabrielaMistral, Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957), Chilean poet, teacher, diplomat; born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, she adapted the pseudonym from the names of her favourite poets, Gabriele D’Annunzio and Frédéric Mistral. Mistral was the first Latin American author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The citation lauded ‘her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world’. Her volumes of poetry include Desolación: ‘Despair’(1922); Ternura: ‘Tenderness’ (1924); Tala: ‘Felling’ (1938). She served as Chilean consul in countries including Spain and Portugal.

 reception for, which TSE describes,
Mit brennender Sorge (Papal Encyclical),
Mitchelhill, J. P.,

5.J. P. MitchelhillMitchelhill, J. P. (1879–1966), an estate agent who in 1930, at the age of fifty, purchased the Duchess Theatre as part of a big property deal, with two associates. Built in 1929, the little Duchess Theatre had a seating capacity of 494. On top of his presentation of Murder in the Cathedral – TSE’s first West End success – Mitchelhill had successes throughout the 1930s, notably with plays by J. B. Priestley (including Time and the Conways (1937). The Duchess’s production of Night Must Fall (1935), by the thirty-year-old Emlyn Williams, was another hit.

 quintessential West End proprietor,
Mme Amery,

1.MadameMme Amery Amery: housekeeper at 19 Carlyle Mansions, Chelsea.

 tolerates TSE's lie-abed ways,
Mme Frenay,

1.TSEMme Frenay to John Hayward, 8 Jan. 1946: ‘I have interviewed Madame Frenay today, and was very well impressed. Her ailment was a cancer of the side, she says, but after five months in hospital her doctor declares her cured and fit to work. She is middle-aged, portly, and pleasant in manner and appearance. I have asked Miss Melton to get on to P. Codrington who has the references, and get her either to take them up or let me have the names and addresses. She has been a nursery governess until her illness, before that kept house until her husband died. P.C. told Miss M. the references looked excellent. Has three sons, one of them a farmer in Devon. Lived in this country since the last war. Knows London well and has friends. She wants £3 a week, says she cant do on less, and I should think she would easily get it. Seemed intelligent and claims to be a good cook, also prepared to do sewing etc.’

 described, as JDH and TSE's housekeeper, resigns post, spooks successor,
Moberley, Sir Walter,

2.SirMoberley, Sir Walter Walter Moberley (1881–1974), Professor of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, 1921–4; Principal of the University College of the South West of England, 1925–6; Vice-Chancellor, University of Manchester, 1926–34; Chairman of the University Grants Committee, 1935–49. Keith Clements, Faith on the Frontier, 367: ‘Combining the academic and man of affairs, (Sir) Walter Moberley was perhaps the nearest anyone ever attained to Oldham’s ideal of the theologically aware and responsible Christian layperson … Since 1935 he had been chairman of the University Grants Committee, the most powerful and politically influential position in higher education in England. His close association with Oldham already long-standing …’

 at anti-totalitarian church meeting, fellow contributor to BBC series, at TSE's Maritain dinner, writes CNL,
Moberly, Charlotte, An Adventure,
'Modern Dilemma, The', and educational broadcasting generally, being composed, receives unlikely praise, TSE against turning into book, approved by EH, earns TSE 60 guineas,
'Modern Education and the Classics',
Modigliani, Amedeo, Barnes Foundation paintings among his best,
Molnár, Ferenc, The Swan,
Monck, Nugent,
Moncrieff, Alexander,

2.AlexanderMoncrieff, Alexander Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff (1870–1949), lawyer and judge; Senator of the College of Justice; later a Privy Counsellor.
Moncrieff, Constance ('Cocky'), resident at Shamley, used to a Riviera winter, as quondam resident of Pau, in London for bridge and Mass, taken to theatre by TSE, chaperoned in London, given to grievances, dispenses fragment of Lourdes grotto, has hair waved, dreams of returning to Pau, peremptory presence at Shamley,
Moncrieff, Dr Agnes, Mappie's homeopathic cousin, ministers to TSE,
Moncrieff, George Scott,

12.GeorgeMoncrieff, George Scott Scott Moncrieff (1910–74) – ‘Scomo’ – journalist, author, playwright, novelist: see Biographical Register.

 to supper with the Eliots,
Monet, Claude, TSE's choicest painting by,
Monk, Samuel Holt,

2.SamuelMonk, Samuel Holt Holt Monk (1902–81), Professor of English at the University of Minnesota; author of studies including The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in XVIII-Century England (1935).
Monnier, Adrienne,

3.AdrienneMonnier, Adrienne Monnier (1892–1955), bookseller, publisher, essayist, translator; founder in 1915 of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres; close associate of Sylvia Beach at her English-language bookshop Shakespeare & Company. In June 1925 Monnier launched a magazine, Le Navire d’Argent (‘The Silver Boat’), featuring a translation by Monnier and Beach of ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’: the first French translation of any poem by TSE. The magazine, which promoted works by European and American authors, ran for twelve issues. See The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier, memoirs trans. Richard McDougall (1976). In response to a request for a contribution to a memorial (8 July 1955), TSE wrote to Françoise Hartmann, 31 July 1955: ‘My memories of Mlle. Monnier go back to the years immediately after the first world war … I have several memories of her and of her bookshop in the period between the wars; and when I revisited Paris in June 1945, I took the first opportunity of returning to that shop, to bring an offering of tea and soap, and to partake of a magnificent cake which Adrienne had baked for the occasion. With the death of Adrienne Monnier another large part of the Paris that I knew has been transferred from the world of actuality to the world of memory.’

 at dinner with Beach and Gide,
Monro, Alida (née Klementaski),

3.AlidaMonro, Alida (née Klementaski) Klementaski (1892–1969) married Harold Monro on 27 Mar. 1920: see Alida Monro in Biographical Register.

 deputises for husband at Poetry Bookshop, reads at the Eliots' party, TSE worries for, and the Poetry Bookshop's future, TSE loses bet with, reports on VHE, coincidentally recommends that the Eliots separate, antipathetic to VHE, considers closing Poetry Bookshop, detects life in Willard Thorp, goes on about dead husband's ex-wife, regales TSE with Irish escapades, reports from Selsey, in straitened circumstances, breeding poodles,
Monro, Harold,

6.Harold MonroMonro, Harold (1879–1932), poet, editor, publisher, bookseller: see Biographical Register.

 part of Hulme's circle, comes with Flint to supper, described for EH, visited in nursing home, obliged with Poetry Bookshop reading, now in hospital, still in nursing home, from which he returns, inveighs against Aldington, needs another operation, TSE on the death of, his funeral,
Monroe, Harriet,

11.HarrietMonroe, Harriet Monroe (1860–1936), American poet and editor, based in Chicago. In 1912 she was founder of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, which she continued to co-edit until 1936. The magazine provided a launching place for many poets, including TSE (‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ was published in Poetry in 1915), Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, W. B. Yeats and Robert Frost. She was co-editor, with Alice Corbin Henderson (first associate editor of Poetry) of The New Poetry: An Anthology (New York, 1917), which TSE reviewed in the Egoist (Oct. 1917). Her autobiography, A Poet’s Life: Seventy Years in a Changing World, appeared posthumously in 1937. See Ann Massa, ‘Harriet Monroe and T. S. Eliot: A curious and typical response’, Notes and Queries 230 [32: 3], Sept. 1985, 380–2; Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters: The First Fifty Years, 1912–1962, ed. Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young (2002).

 TSE's sense of obligation to, in person,
Monroe, Marilyn, and Dudley Fitts's Lysistrata,
Montagu, William Angus Drogo, 9th Duke of Manchester, the disreputable sort of duke,
Montague, William Peperell,

2.WilliamMontague, William Peperell Peperell Montague (1873–1953), Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, 1903–47. Works include Belief Unbound: A Promethean Religion for the Modern World (Yale University Press, 1930); The Ways of Things: A Philosophy of Knowledge, Nature and Value (New York, 1940).
Montale, Eugenio,

5.EugenioMontale, Eugenio Montale (1896–1981), poet, prose writer, translator, editor; winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1975. TSEMontale, Eugenioqua translator;a2n to the Italian Consul, Liverpool, 11 Dec. 1959: ‘I have a very high respect for the poetry of Eugenio Montale and, though my knowledge of Italian is imperfect, feel a spiritual kinship with him. I know also that he has made what seemed to me very successful translations of several of my own poems into Italian. There is no Italian poet whom I would rank higher.’ See too Montale, ‘Eliot and Ourselves’, in T. S. Eliot: A Symposium, ed. March and Tambimuttu, 190–5; Ernesto Livorni, T. S. Eliot, Eugenio Montale et la modernità dantesca (Firenze, 2020).

 qua translator,
Montgomery, Niall,

13.NiallMontgomery, Niall Montgomery (1915–87), distinguished architect, poet and playwright; friend of Samuel Beckett; and authority on the work of James Joyce. See Christine O’Neill, ‘Niall Montgomery: An Early Irish Champion of Joyce’, James Joyce Journal 1 (2008), 1–16.
Moore, George, insupportable,
Moore, Henry,

4.HenryMoore, Henry Moore (1898–1986), renowned British sculptor; sponsored by Kenneth Clark.

 possible set-designer for Murder film, in company with Kenneth Clark, at Bishop Bell's conference,
Moore, Marianne,

6.MarianneMoore, Marianne Moore (1887–1972) contributed to The Egoist from 1915. She went on to become in 1925 acting editor of The Dial, editor, 1927–9, and an influential modern poet. Eliot found her ‘an extremely intelligent person, very shy … One of the most observant people I have ever met.’ Writing to her on 3 April 1921, he said her verse interested him ‘more than that of anyone now writing in America’. And in his introduction to Selected Poems (1935), which he brought out from Faber & Faber, he stated that her ‘poems form part of the small body of durable poetry written in our time’. TSE told Marion Dorn, 3 Jan. 1944, that he met Marianne Moore ‘once … in New York, but I took a great fancy to her: she and Bunny Wilson were the two people I liked best of those whom I met in New York in 1933. She is a very unusual person, as well as a good poet.’

 scintillates at Bunny Wilson's, on meeting TSE, TSE's wish that EH meet, writes concernedly about TSE's health, for which TSE thanks her, EH makes proposal to, which Moore declines, Selected Poems,
Moore, Thomas ('T.') Sturge,

5.T. SturgeMoore, Thomas ('T.') Sturge Moore (1870–1944), poet, playwright, critic, and artist – brother of the philosopher G. E. Moore – was christened Thomas but adopted his mother’s maiden name ‘Sturge’ to avoid confusion with the Irish poet Thomas Moore. A prolific poet, author of 31 plays, and a loyal contributor to the Criterion, he was also a close friend of W. B. Yeats, for whom he designed bookplates and bookbindings. He published his first collection of poetry, The Vinedresser and Other Poems, in 1899.

 his pink and white complexion, interrupts Yeats telling story at his expense, EH left chatting to, 'sheep in sheep's clothing',
Moot, The, first meeting, invited to TSE's Maritain dinner, no substitute for individual friendships, seems futile, welcomes Reinhold Niebuhr as guest, discusses TSE's paper,
More, Louis T.,

2.LouisMore, Louis T. T. More (1870–1944), physicist, humanist; critic of the Darwinian theory of evolution; Dean of the Graduate School, University of Cincinnati. His works include Isaac Newton: A Biography (1934).
More, Paul Elmer,

4.PaulMore, Paul Elmer Elmer More (1864–1937), critic, scholar, philosopher: see Biographical Register.

 greatly preferred to Irving Babbitt, the prospect of Madeira and theology with, TSE's Princeton sojourn with, his importance since Whibley's death, quoted on the virtues, TSE's two days in Oxford with, discusses Anglicanism with TSE, TSE hopes to pay final visit, near death, TSE finishes note on, important older male friend, posthumous work reviewed, his letters returned to executors,
Morgan, Charles, Flashing Stream, TSE's obiter dictum on, EVE's quondam employer,
Morison, Catharine,

4.MostMorison, Catharine probably Catharine Morison (b. 1925), later Mrs Julian Cooper, who lived in Islington, London. Or possibly a slightly older daughter, Emily Morison Beck (1915–2004), who was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, and who worked as an editor for Harper & Brothers, Knopf and the Atlantic Monthly Press, before joining in 1952 the editorial staff of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations – she edited the 13th, 14th and 15th editions – until 1975.
Morison, Samuel Eliot,

2.SamuelMorison, Samuel Eliot Eliot Morison (1887–1976), American historian and a cousin of TSE, was for thirty years from 1925 Professor of History at Harvard. In 1922 he became the first Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford. His works include The Maritime History of Massachusetts (1921), the history of Harvard University (5 vols, 1930–6), History of United States Naval Operations (15 vols), the Oxford History of the American People (1965), and The European Discovery of America (1972). A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the American Philosophical Association, he served too as President of the American Historical Association; and his awards included the Bancroft Prize (twice), the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award of the Navy League, the Gold Medal for History, National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. See also ‘The Dry Salvages and the Thacher Shipwreck’, American Neptune 25: 4 (1965), 233–47.

 ropes TSE into speech, at St. Botolph poets' dinner,
Morley, Christina Margaret Peregrine ('Perry'),

8.ChristinaMorley, Christina Margaret Peregrine ('Perry') Margaret Peregrine Morley – ‘Perry’ – was born on 6 Feb. 1940.
see also Morleys, the
Morley, Christina (née Innes), and country life, at Joyce dinner in Paris, taken to theatre in Morley's absence, again to Love for Love, knits TSE socks, her Celtic temperament, therefore special affinity with Donald, sleeping at Donald's school, as tennis-player, falls asleep at wheel, entertained at The Berkeley, accompanies TSE to Three Sisters, taken to meet JDH, accompanies TSE to Bulgakov's White Guard, brings Morley boys along to Shakespeare, faced with departure for America, America's effect on, sends Ada's New York Times obituary, TSE writes letter of condolence to, for which she thanks him, in Cambridge,
see also Morleys, the
Morley, Christopher,

5.ChristopherMorley, Christopher Morley (1890–1957), noted journalist, novelist, essayist, poet. Educated at Haverford College, Pennsylvania, and as a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford, he made his name as a journalist with the New York Evening Post, and he was co-founder of and contributor to the Saturday Review of Literature. A passionate Sherlock Holmesian, he was to be co-founder in 1934 of ‘The Baker Street Irregulars’. Works include Kitty Foyle (novel, 1939).

 inferior to Frank,
Morley, Donald,

2.JohnMorley, Donald Donald Innes Morley (b. 15 Mar. 1926).

 TSE on, model yacht sought for, pleased with TSE's present, after a term of school, close to mother's Celtic soul, masters his urge to pester TSE, given tennis-racket, improved by school, bought model car for Christmas, treated in Ramsgate, taken to Shakespeare, wants to be a pilot,
see also Morleys, the
Morley, Dr Frank,

1.DrMorley, Dr Frank Frank Morley (1860–1937), who was born in Suffolk, became a scholar and prizeman of King’s College, Cambridge, where he was placed in the first class in both parts of the Mathematical Tripos. A fine chess player, he was in the Cambridge University chess team, 1880–4. After a period as mathematics master at Bath College, he went to teach at Haverford College, Pennsylvania, where he was ultimately Professor of Mathematics. He was for a while President of the American Mathematical Society. His three sons were all Rhodes scholars from Maryland – Christopher, the novelist; Felix, editor of the Washington Post; and Frank.

 dies,
Morley, Felix,

2.FelixMorley, Felix Morley (1894–1982), journalist; editor of the Washington Post, 1933–40 (winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1936); later, President of Haverford College, PA.

 bores TSE,
Morley, Frank Vigor,

4.FrankMorley, Frank Vigor Vigor Morley (1899–1980), American publisher and author; a founding editor of F&F, 1929–39: see Biographical Register.

 TSE on sharing an office with, Criterion monthly meeting regular, returns from New York, indispensable in proofing Selected Essays, Criterion lunch in company with, joins farewell lunch for Hodgson, offers TSE post-separation refuge, acts for TSE during separation, spirits TSE away to Surrey, on TSE at Pike's Farm, as châtelain, acting as TSE's courier, on TSE's relationship to children, music-hall evening with, suggests tour of Scotland, which he plans out, suggests trip to Paris, thanks Joyce for hospitality, on TSE's 1933 tour of Scotland, negotiating for Ulysses, his absence means more work, treasured and missed, gets on famously with Ada, mercifully returned to F&F, produces birthday-cake, peacekeeper between Rowse and Smyth, in on Sherlock Holmes prank, encourages TSE to go to Finland, on TSE's 1935 tour of Scotland, and TSE drink GCF's whisky, takes TSE to Wimbledon, monopolises typewriter for joint story, as tennis-player, overawes GCF, TSE and EH's elected emergency go-between, good with thrusting young authors, backs publication of Nightwood, helps deal with Joyce, naturally projects strength, his French, escapes Criterion gathering to catch last train home, unusually subdued among the French, submits his Johnson Society paper, depends on TSE, on TSE's 1937 tour of Scotland, which Morley describes, two nights' sleep in a caravan with, potential reader for Family Reunion, his father dies, Spender discussed with, sends TSE corrected Anabasis, heads for New York and Baltimore, his energy, returns from America, visiting dying mother, shoulders burden of EP, insufficiently honours EP, Boutwood Lectures submitted to, accepts Harcourt Brace position, what his leaving F&F will mean, taken to tea with Woolfs, remembers EH taking priority, first wartime letter from, which reports on TSE's family, sounds depressed in America, sounds less depressed to GCF, among TSE's closest friends, his conversation missed, on Christian Society's American reception, suspected of indiscretion, EH explains 'Defence of the Islands' to, indifferent to Cats, entrusted with emergency Dry Salvages, America's effect on, gives Henry MS of 'Yeats', suggests 'Night Music' over 'Kensington Quartets', Ada too ill to see, his use of 'poised', puts TSE up in New York, on TSE's 1947 New York stay, presently unemployed, but inherits Graham Greene's job,
see also Morleys, the
Morley, Lilian Janet Bird,

1.LilianMorley, Lilian Janet Bird Janet Bird Morley (1866–1939), violinist and poet; Frank Morley’s mother.

 dies,
Morley, Oliver,

1.HughMorley, Oliver Oliver Morley (b. 4 Dec. 1928).

 TSE's favourite, remembered by Michael Tippett, his obsessions, his musical prodigy, calculates optimal length of TSE's stay, bought wool for his loom, taken along to Shakespeare, has scarlet fever,
see also Morleys, the
Morley, Susanna, TSE delighted to godfather, her baptism, silver mug as christening present, as baby, her first birthday, gives TSE boiled-egg cover, given doll's chest for Christmas, gives TSE blotter for Christmas,
see also Morleys, the
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,
Morrah, Dermot Michael Macgregor,

1.DermotMorrah, Dermot Michael Macgregor Michael Macgregor Morrah (1896–1974), Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; author and journalist; worked in the civil service, then for the Daily Mail and The Times; and wrote several books on the Royal Family, including a biography of Prince Charles. Appointed Arundel Herald Extraordinary, 1953. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 1959.

 The Mummy Case,
Morrell, Harriette Anne (née Wynter),
Morrell, Julian,

4.JulianMorrell, Julian Morrell (1906–89) married Victor Goodman, 1928–46; she subsequently married Igor Vinogradoff (1901–87), son of Sir Paul Vinogradoff (1854–1925), Professor of Roman Law at Oxford.
Morrell, Lady Ottoline,

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

 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
Morrell, Philip,

2.PhilipMorrell, Philip Morrell (1870–1943), a scion of the Morrell’s Brewing Company, was a Liberal MP, 1906–18.

 described, at Friends of Sadler's Wells, ill, dies, sparsely attended requiem for,
see also Morrells, the
Morrells, the, their marriage,
Morris, Howard,

1.HowardMorris, Howard Morris (1887–1954) – a friend at Milton Academy and at Harvard who became a successful dealer in investment bonds – forewarned TSE, 16 Dec.: ‘Better get in training for the alcoholic junk you will find here. All gin is synthetic – and of course raw. The Scotch for the most part is expensive & green – not to say something worse. The rye is all of Canadian manufacture & without mellowness. The wine is practically non-existent, & the beer horrible. I suggest a daily ration of raw alcohol to get your innards in tune with the American spirit.’

 warns TSE about American liquor,
Morrow, Elizabeth Cutter,

1.ElizabethMorrow, Elizabeth Cutter Cutter Morrow (1873–1955), benefactor and philanthropist – widow of Dwight Morrow (1873–1931), U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1927–30, and Senator – was the active, enterprising President of the Alumnae Association of Smith College; from 1926, a Trustee of the Board. She served as Acting President of Smith College for the interim year 1939–40.
Mortimer, Revd Robert Cecil,

7.RevdMortimer, Revd Robert Cecil Robert Cecil Mortimer (1902–76), Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, University of Oxford, 1944–9. In 1949 he was to be ordained Bishop of Exeter.
Mosley, Sir Oswald ('Tom'),

3.SirMosley, Sir Oswald ('Tom') Oswald Mosley, 6th Bt (1896–1980), founder in 1932 of the British Union of Fascists.

 disappointingly shallow, TSE repudiates connection with, blunders by association with Harold Nicholson, Jim Barnes calls TSE to discuss, his Albert Hall rally,
Mostyn Red Cross Club, TSE meets American soldiers at, some of whom visit him, some of whom visit him, TSE's second visit to,
Mount Holyoke College, lecture promised pro bono to, journey through snow to, TSE on visiting, Blackstick Society addressed, recalled,
Mozley, Revd John Kenneth,

5.RevdMozley, Revd John Kenneth John Kenneth Mozley (1883–1946), Anglican priest and theologian; Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1909–19; Canon Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, 1930–41. Author of works including The Impassibility of God: A Survey of Christian Thought (Cambridge, 1926) and The Beginnings of Christian Theology (Cambridge, 1931).
'Mr Harold Monro: A Poet and His Ideal',
'Mr Reckitt, Mr Tomlin, and the Crisis', Mairet appreciates,
Mrs Deane, eccentric Grenville Place resident,
Mrs Edmund Osborne (EH's friend),
Mrs Harding, one of EH's few confidants, introduces herself to TSE, whom she charms and baffles,
Mrs Lister (wife of 'Lister'),

1.AnneMrs Lister (wife of 'Lister') Ridler, Memoirs, 122, onLister (caretaker at 24 Russell Square, formerly Faber's butler) Mr and Mrs Lister, the caretaker and his wife at 24 Russell Square: ‘Lister had been butler to the Fabers at their house in Frognal, and used to regale me (when I stayed late at the office) with stories of his experience there and at the Front in the First World War […] Lister was critical of his employers: “I think you Miss might have more sense in running this place than what they do.” Now he and his wife had twins, and occupied the top floor of No. 24.’
Mrs Millington (the blind masseuse), works on TSE's writers' cramp, traces TSE's cramp to Harvard, pounding TSE's neck, communicates message from William Blake, attributes condition to teeth, dies of stroke,
Mrs Webster (Ada Janes's sister), monologues over Christmas dinner, ventriloquised, like Dickens's Mrs Gummidge, gives TSE sister's engagement ring, in poorhouse, which TSE visits, TSE overseeing burial arrangements for,
Muir, Edwin,

3.EdwinMuir, Edwin Muir (1887–1959), Scottish poet, novelist, critic, translator: see Biographical Register.

 reviews TSE's Collected Poems,
Müller, Paul Hermann,

4.PaulMüller, Paul Hermann Hermann Müller (1889–1965) was a researcher for the Geigy chemical company who won the prize in medicine for his role in developing the DDT compound as an insecticide; this had proved to be highly effective in reducing the spread of malaria and other very dangerous insect-borne diseases, though serious environmental and health problems with its use would soon begin emerging.

 in TSE's Nobel Prize cohort,
Mungovan, Jim,
Munich Agreement, with respect to Czechoslovakia, and British domestic politics, TSE on Chamberlain's conduct during, TSE's reservations as to,
Murder in the Cathedral, idea for initially suggested by Laurence Irving, offered to Martin Browne, St. Thomas as TSE's muse, TSE on writing, tentatively, 'The Archbishop Murder Case', uncertainties over title, currently 'Fear in the Way', which proves unpopular, TSE on rewriting, title settled on, final revisions for printer, tentatively critiqued by EH, and EH on TSE as dramatist, chorus copied for EH, Virginia Woolf's aspersions on, the form of its choruses, defended from obscurity, did not test TSE's plotting, book-sales to-date, $1,000 offered for American rights, pays for 1936 American trip, Italian and Hungarian rights sold, and Whiggery, Savile Club dinner to celebrate, compared to next play, discrepancies of Canterbury Text, Martin Browne's initial response to, TSE recognised as author of, TSE on its cheerful title, EH on, abandoned Mercury Theatre premiere, suggested by Yeats and Doone, in the offing, and Doone's response to first draft, EH requested at, imperilled, text copied for Yeats, 1935 Canterbury Festival production, in rehearsal, opening night, reception, final performance, and EH's response, 1935–6 Mercury Theatre revival, Martin Browne pushing for, in rehearsal, which EH attends, compared to Canterbury original, at the box-office, its 100th performance, still running, proposed tour to end, 1936 BBC radio version, BBC bid to produce, broadcast fixed, BBC memo on, in rehearsal, TSE on, abortive 1936 New York transfer, Dukes visits America to arrange, blighted by Brace's actions, quashed by Federal Theatre production, its usurper founders, deferred to autumn, unsolicited 1936 New York production, licensed by Brace, to be directed by Rice, seemingly withdrawn, Rice resigns from, delights EH and Eleanor Hinkley, TSE sent press-cuttings for, EH reports on, TSE speculates as to textual discrepancies, attended by Eleanor Roosevelt, extended and potentially expanded, TSE to the Transcript on, may predispose immigration authorities favourably in future, royalties from, 1936 University College, Dublin student production, described by TSE, rumoured Australian and American productions, 1936 Gate Theatre touring production, TSE's long-held wish, scheduled, 1936 touring production, due at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge, as it was played in Cambridge, 1936 America pirate production, 1937 Duchess Theatre West End transfer, date fixed for, announced in Times, dress-rehearsal attended, reception, reviewed, royalties, still playing, ticket sales pick up, coming to an end, receives royal visit, 1937 touring production, scheduled post-Duchess, beginning in Leeds, then Manchester, going strong, 1937 Harvard University production, 1937 Amherst College production, singled out for praise, 1937 Old Vic production, touring production arrived at, in rehearsal, 1937 Tewkesbury Drama Festival production, 1938 American tour, projected for January 1937, said date seconded by Dukes, deferred to September 1937, confirmed again by Dukes, pre-tour dates in Golders Green, then Liverpool, opening in Boston in January, over which EH is consulted, tour itinerary, Family Reunion keeps TSE from, preparatory re-rehearsal for, pre-crossing Liverpool dates, EH's judgement desired, EH reports on first night, reviewed in The Times, EH sends New York cuttings, prematurely transferred to New York, Dukes reports on, Westminster Cathedral Hall charity performance, 1940 Latham Mercury revival, revival suggested in rep with Family Reunion, wartime modern-dress production suggested, ambushes TSE, in rehearsal, first night, reviewed, Browne's wartime Pilgrim Players' adaptation, Hoellering film, Hoellering's initial approach made, Hoellering's vision for, TSE adapting for screen, reconnoitre of Canterbury for, casting Becket, recording made for, development process described to NYT, non-actor found for Becket, screenings of Groser, set-dressing, screening, approaching release, still in the edit, final screening, and Venice Film Festival, seeking distribution, soon to premiere, opens, initial reception, circulating in shortened version, 1945 Théâtre du Vieux Colombier production, compared to Martin Browne's, royalties, apparently a hit, reviewed, reaches 150 performances, Fluchère's involvement, 1946 German production, 1947 Edinburgh Festival production, 1948 Milton Academy production, 1949 broadcast, 1949 Berlin production, politically resonant, 1952 University of Rennes, Grand Théâtre abridgment, 1952 Théatre National Populaire production, 1953 Old Vic revival, waiting on Donat, TSE on, 1954 Harvard production,
Murdock, Harold,

1.HaroldMurdock, Harold Murdock (1862–1934), a Boston banker, became Director of Harvard University Press in 1920.
Murdock, Kenneth B.,

1.KennethMurdock, Kenneth B. B. Murdock (1895–1975), Associate Professor of English, Harvard University, 1930–2; Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1931–6; Master of Leverett House, 1931–41. Works include Increase Mather (1924), Literature and Theology in Colonial New England (1949); The Notebooks of Henry James (with F. O. Matthiessen, 1947).
see also Murdocks, the
Murdocks, the, taken to Sweeney Agonistes, taken to Timon of Athens,
Murray, Gilbert, his Electra, at Oedipus Coloneus,
Murray, Lady Mary Henrietta,

1.LadyMurray, Lady Mary Henrietta Mary Henrietta Murray (1865–1956), ardent supporter of women’s suffrage.
Murray, Stephen,

2.StephenMurray, Stephen Murray (1912–83), stage, screen, TV and radio actor.

 collapses at Family Reunion dress-rehearsal, returns as Charles,
Murry, John Middleton,

1.JohnMurry, John Middleton Middleton Murry (1889–1957), English writer and critic; editor of the Athenaeum, 1919–21; The Adelphi, 1923–48. In 1918, he married Katherine Mansfield. He was friend and biographer of D. H. Lawrence. His first notable critical work was Dostoevsky (1916); his most influential study, The Problem of Style (1922). Though as a Romanticist he was an intellectual opponent of the avowedly ‘Classicist’ Eliot, Murry offered Eliot in 1919 the post of assistant editor on the Athenaeum (which Eliot had to decline); in addition, he recommended him to be Clark Lecturer at Cambridge in 1926, and was a steadfast friend to both TSE and his wife Vivien. See F. A. Lea, The Life of John Middleton Murry (1959); David Goldie, A Critical Difference: T. S. Eliot and John Middleton Murry in English Literary Criticism, 1919–1928 (1998).

 TSE's peculiar relationship with, dismissed qua Marxist by Mirsky and Rowse, attacks TSE over Social Credit, TSE delighted to praise his Shakespeare, taking orders, at first Moot meeting, anointed reader of Boutwood Lectures, Shakespeare,
'Music of Poetry, The', outlined, revised for print,
Mussolini, Benito, and Yugoslavia, and Abyssinia, his policies, his usefulness to Hitler, his authoritarianism distinguished from Church authority,
Myers, Charles,

2.CharlesMyers, Charles Myers (1856–1948), Canon of Salisbury, from 1927.
Nason, Margaret ('Meg') Geraldine,

1.MargaretNason, Margaret ('Meg') Geraldine (Meg) Geraldine Nason (1900–86), proprietor of the Bindery tea rooms, Broadway, Worcestershire, whom TSE and EH befriended on visits to Chipping Campden.

 sends TSE birthday letter, sends TSE birthday cake, sends TSE box of toffee, apparently forgets TSE's birthday, but remembers, ill, expecting operation, among the saved, a 'Cosy Pet', and sister to lunch, given small iron wheelbarrow, her health,
National Book League,
National Government of 1931, TSE on,
National Theatre, The, questioned in principle, and TSE's January 1938 'Commentary', and their Public Relations Committee, TSE resists overtures from,
Nattier, Jean-Marc, EH's resemblance to portraits by,
Nazism, TSE on, and the Church,
'Need for Poetic Drama, The', delivered then revamped, sent to EH,
Needham, Joseph,

1.JosephNeedham, Joseph Needham (1900–95), biochemist, historian of science and civilisation in China, and Christian socialist, was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (a Fellow for life, he served as Master for ten years from 1966). Works include The Sceptical Biologist (1929) and Chemical Embryology (3 vols, 1931); but his major project – conceived during WW2 when he set up the Sino-British scientific cooperation office and served as Scientific Counsellor at the British Embassy in Chongqing – was a huge history of Chinese science, technology and medicine. A polymath and a pro-Chinese witness (he was for some years persona non grata in the USA), he was ultimately regaled with honours. In 1992 he was made a Companion of Honour; and in 1994 he received the Einstein Medal from UNESCO.
Nef, Elinor Castle,

7.ElinorNef, Elinor Castle Castle Nef (d. 1953). The comic figure of Mrs Catherine Nickleby is given to digressive, unfocused chatter.

 forces Cocktail Party reading on TSE,
Nef, John Ulric,

3.JohnNef, John Ulric Ulric Nef (1899–1988), Professor of Economic History, invited TSE to visit Chicago to offer a series of seven or eight lectures, under the auspices of the Committee on Social Thought (a high-level interdisciplinary department which he co-founded in 1941).
Neighbourhood Theatre, The, Thunder Rock,
Neilson, Elizabeth Muser,

5.ElizabethNeilson, Elizabeth Muser Muser Neilson.
Neilson, William Allan,

8.WilliamNeilson, William Allan Allan Neilson (1869–1946), Scottish-American scholar, educator, lexicographer, author (works include studies of Shakespeare and Robert Burns; editions of Shakespeare): President of Smith College, 1917–39. See Margaret Farrand Thorp, Neilson of Smith (1956).

 as TSE's host at Smith, familiar of Sheff's, confers assistant professorship on EH, able to extend EH's contract, as President of Smith,
Nelson, Mabel,

2.RobertNelson, Mabel SencourtGeorge, Robert Esmonde Gordon ('Robert Sencourt');b8nSencourt, RobertGeorge, Robert Esmonde Gordon ('Robert Sencourt') notes that when he was visiting the Eliots, two of his friends from New Zealand, Mabel Nelson and a son, lived nearby: ‘Mabel … made friends with Vivienne – a friendship on which Vivienne came increasingly to depend … [S]he had a sensitive understanding of psychological abnormality’ – even more so after TSE’s departure for the USA. ‘To avoid being alone, Vivienne … asked my friend Mabel Nelson to keep her company for a while, but soon Mabel … was feeling that she simply could not endure this situation any longer. Few of us are prepared to cope with mental illness’ (T. S. Eliot, 118, 121–2). TSE to Alida Monro, 3 Oct. 1932: ‘Mrs Nelson seemed to me to play her part so perfectly, with such understanding and tact, that I rather wish that she was to stay permanently.’

 as companion to VHE, steps in for Lucy Thayer, whom Alida compares her to,
Nesbitt, Cathleen (née Kathleen Mary Nesbitt),

1.CathleenNesbitt, Cathleen (née Kathleen Mary Nesbitt) Nesbitt, née Kathleen Mary Nesbitt (1888–1982), English actor of stage, screen and TV (she was encouraged to take up acting by Sarah Bernhardt, a friend of her father’s). Educated at Queen’s University, Belfast, and at the Sorbonne, she first acted in a revival of Arthur Wing Pinero’s The Cabinet Minister (1910). In 1912 she became the fiancée of the poet Rupert Brooke (who was to die in the war). She starred as the mischievously perceptive Julia Shuttlethwaite in The Cocktail Party. Later best known for her roles in film, she starred as Mrs Higgins in My Fair Lady (with Rex Harrison, 1956); as Cary Grant’s grandmother in An Affair to Remember (1957); as Lady Matheson in Separate Tables (1958), and in Alfred Hitchcock’s final film Family Plot (1976). Appointed CBE for her services to drama, 1978.

 in Cocktail Party reading, reputation enhanced by Cocktail Party, praised by The Times, at cast buffet,
New Britain Movement,
New England,
see America
New English Weekly, TSE joins editorial committee of, discussed with Mairet, TSE writing 'Views and Reviews' for, and Edward VIII, TSE's natural post-Criterion home, two contributions to, TSE attacks H. G. Wells in, prints East Coker, commission TSE on Keynes,
'New Hampshire', copied for EH, inspired by Hopkins and Gertrude Stein,
New Theatre, St. Martin's Lane, Gielgud's Hamlet at, Leontovich's Antony and Cleopatra, home to The Cocktail Party, which finally comes off,
New York,
see America
New York Times, Ada's obituary in, interviews TSE,
New Yorker, reports on TSE's tea-party, issues correction over knuckle-cracking,
Newman, Cardinal John Henry, TSE reading,
Newton, Eric,

5.EricNewton, Eric Newton (1893–1965), artist, writer, art critic (Manchester Guardian and The Times) and broadcaster. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University, 1959.
see also Newtons, the
Newtons, the,
Nichols, Robert,

1.RobertNichols, Robert Nichols (1893–1944), writer; war poet; author of Wings Over Europe (play, 1928).

 substituted for TSE in Finland, apologises needlessly, Wings Over Europe,
Nicholson, Harold,

3.HaroldNicholson, Harold Nicolson (1886–1968) relinquished in 1930 a thriving career in the Diplomatic Service to work as a journalist for the Evening Standard. In Mar. 1931 he left the Standard to join Sir Oswald Mosley’s New Party, and became editor of the New Party’s journal Action.

 lunch in Bloomsbury company with, compared to his wife, and Oswald Mosley, EH sent cutting of broadcast by, addresses appeasement on BBC, on Aeolian Hall poetry recital,
Nicholson, Norman,

2.NormanNicholson, Norman Nicholson (1914–87): English poet, playwright, novelist and critic, who held fast to his small home town of Millom in Cumberland (Cumbria), on the western edge of the English Lake District. TSE published his work with Faber & Faber: poetry including Five Rivers (1944), Rock Face (1948) and The Pot Geranium (1954); and verse plays including The Old Man of the Mountains (1945). Recipient of the Queen’s Award for Poetry 1977, he was made OBE in 1981. See further Kathleen Jones, Norman Nicholson: The Whispering Poet (2013).

 in New Plays by Poets series, The Old Man of the Mountains,
Niebuhr, Reinhold,

3.ReinholdNiebuhr, Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971), influential theologian, ethicist, philosopher, and polemical commentator on politics and public affairs: see Biographical Register.

 talks theology for seven hours, TSE on, speaks passionately, offers paper on adolescence, commended to EH, at the Moot, reminds TSE of Babbitt, dines with TSE in Princeton, Human Nature,
Niemeyer, Sir Otto,

4.SirNiemeyer, Sir Otto Otto Niemeyer (1883–1971) worked for H.M. Treasury before joining the Bank of England, where he was a director, 1938–62, and a director of the Bank for International Settlements, 1931–65.
Nimitz, Fleet Admiral Chester, Sr,

6.FleetNimitz, Fleet Admiral Chester, Sr Admiral Chester Nimitz, Sr. (1885–1966) had been Commander in Chief of the US Pacific Fleet and of the Pacific Ocean Areas in WW2; from 1945, Chief of Naval Operations.

 at Princeton degree ceremony,
Nobel Prize for Literature, EH congratulates TSE on receiving, how the news reached TSE, TSE's response to, ceremonials recounted by TSE,
Nock, Arthur,

4.ArthurNock, Arthur Nock (1902–63), English-born and educated Professor of the History of Religion at Harvard, 1930–63; editor of Harvard Theological Review, 1930–63. Resident of Eliot House.
Noctes Binanianae, presented to JDH,
Noel-Buxton, Rt Hon. Lord,

4.TheNoel-Buxton, Rt Hon. Lord Rt Hon Lord Noel-Buxton, PC, thanked TSE on 31 Jan. 1936; and Edward Fuller, Publicity Secretary of the Fund, notified TSE (12 Mar. 1936) that the meeting had generated £35 – ‘the gift of which I feel sure is very largely due to your able advocacy of this work’.
Noel-Buxton, Rufus,

1.RufusNoel-Buxton, Rufus Buxton (1917–80), a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, was to become 2nd Baron Noel-Buxton. In WW2 he was invalided from an Officer Cadet Training Unit and became a research assistant at the Agricultural Economics Research Institute in Oxford, while also lecturing to the forces. After two further years as a producer on the BBC North American Service, he joined Farmers’ Weekly, 1950–2. In later years he became famous for fording a number of perilous English rivers. His publications include Without the Red Flag (1936); The Ford: A Poem (1955); Westminster Wader (F&F, 1957).

 seeks passage on cargo ship, importunes TSE with sonnets, visits to Shamley, continues to ply TSE with verses, TSE walks four miles to lunch with, as poet, visits Shamley again,
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.
Norris, William Foxley, Dean of Westminster (formerly of York), consulted on 'Thoughts After Lambeth',
North Kensington 'Community Centre', TSE to trumpet on wireless, visited, TSE's wireless broadcast accepted, TSE makes appeal on behalf of,
Norton, Charles Eliot,

10.CharlesNorton, Charles Eliot Eliot Norton (1827–1908), author, social critic and translator; friend of artists and writers including Carlyle, Ruskin and Leslie Stephen; Professor of the History of Art, Harvard.

 and Virginia Woolf, TSE reading up on, bastion of vanished Boston world,
Norton, Elizabeth ('Lily') Gaskell,

5.ElizabethNorton, Elizabeth ('Lily') Gaskell Gaskell Norton (1866–1958), second child of Prof. Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908); correspondent of Henry James, James Russell Lowell and Edith Wharton. Resident at 19 Chestnut Street, Boston, Mass.

 visits the Eliots, TSE takes liking to, at second Norton lecture, TSE on, TSE confides to over lunch,
Norwood, Sir Cyril,

4.SirNorwood, Sir Cyril Cyril Norwood (1875–1956), educationalist; Head of Bristol Grammar School, 1906–16; Master of Marlborough College, 1917–25; Headmaster of Harrow, 1926–34; President of St John’s College, Oxford, 1934–46. Norwood headed the Board of Education Committee of the Secondary School Examinations Council, which produced Curriculum and Examinations in Secondary Schools (1941); and in 1943 the Norwood Report on secondary education provided for the separation of secondary schools in England and Wales into grammar, technical and secondary modern.

 gives feeble speech at exhibition,
'Note on In Parenthesis and The Anathemata by David Jones, A',
'Note on Monstre Gai, by Wyndham Lewis, A',
'Note on the Verse of John Milton, A',
'Note on Two Odes of Cowley, A', and Grierson Festschrift,
'Note on War Poetry, A',
'Notes on the Way',
'Notes Towards a Definition of Culture', commissioned by Reckitt, outline for, drafted,
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, sketched by TSE, interrupted, being worked up, TSE writing, stimulated by Christ Church symposium, last chapter to be rewritten, under revision, represents complete statement of TSE's beliefs, EH on, EH requests inscribed copy for Marguerite Hearsey,
Noyes, James Atkins,

6.JamesNoyes, James Atkins Atkins Noyes (1857–1945), mutual acquaintance in Cambridge, Mass., pursued library and genealogical work, 1895–1905; a great clubman. Father of EH’s friend Penelope Noyes.

 ailing, his condition,
see also Noyeses, the
Noyes, Penelope Barker,

12.PenelopeNoyes, Penelope Barker Barker Noyes (1891–1977), who was descended from settlers of the Plymouth Colony, lived in a historic colonial house (built in 1894 for her father James Atkins Noyes) at 1 Highland Street, Cambridge, MA. Unitarian. She was a close friend of EH.

 shows TSE familiar snapshot of EH, present when TSE fell for EH, in London, browner and thinner, intellectually inferior to Margaret Thorp, mentions EH to TSE, and the Folk Lore Society, at first Norton lecture, reports favourably of Dear Jane, TSE on, laments TSE's returning to VHE, hosts Eleanor, TSE and most boring woman ever, VHE cables for TSE's whereabouts, offers EH employment, EH's Cataumet summer holiday with, hosts party, potential host for Murder cast, sartorially speaking, and her father, EH visits, sails for England, distorted by wealth, TSE's dinner at the Connaught with,
see also Noyeses, the
Noyeses, the, compared to the Thorps, speculation as to the wealth of, EH to 'holiday' with,
Nuffield, William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount, and The Rock,
Oakeshott, Walter F.,

4.WalterOakeshott, Walter F. F. Oakeshott (1903–87), a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford (first class honours in Greats), he was a school and university administrator, and scholar of medieval art. Assistant Master, Winchester College, 1931–8. High Master of St Paul’s School, London, 1939–46. Headmaster of Winchester, 1946–54. Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, 1954–72. Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, 1962–4. President of the Bibliographical Society, 1966–8. Fellow of the British Academy, 1971. Knighted, 1980. He became famous in June 1934 for his discovery, in the Fellows’ Library at Winchester, of a manuscript copy of Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur (now British Library: Add MS 59678). The ‘Winchester Manuscript’ was to be published in The Works of Sir Thomas Malory, ed. Eugène Vinaver (1947); see Oakeshott, ‘The Finding of the Manuscript’, Essays on Malory, ed. J. A. W. Bennett (Oxford, 1963), 1–3.
Oakley, Michael,

2.MichaelOakley, Michael Oakley (1922–2002) attended Belmont Abbey School (a Benedictine public school) – where he happened to star as Becket in a school production of Murder in the Cathedral, being coached by Robert Speaight; he was also a prefect, and Head of School – and upon leaving school he joined the monastery as Brother James: he remained an oblate member of the community for the entirety of his career. At Belmont Abbey School he taught for many years English, Latin, Greek, French and Art. He went on to translate Horace’s Odes, and Virgil’s Aeneid (the Everyman Edition), and he fulfilled the wish of Monsignor Ronald Knox that after his death Oakley should complete his unfinished translation of The Imitation of Christ. A gifted poet and light versifier, he greatly enjoyed writing epigrams and acrostics. From 1969 he taught at the Belmont Prep School at Aldervasley Hall, Derbyshire.

 torn between poet and mendicant, TSE on his juvenalia,
O'Brien, Fr William Braithwaite, SSJE,
O'Brien, George,

5.GeorgeO'Brien, George O’Brien (1892–1973), politician, economist, academic and author; Professor of National Economics – later Political Economy – at University College, Dublin, 1921–61.
Ocampo, Victoria,

2.VictoriaOcampo, Victoria Ocampo (1890–1979), a wealthy Argentinian publisher, and editor of the magazine Sur, who visited Europe from time to time, was to become in 1934 a friend of Virginia Woolf; and she published editions in Spanish of works by writers including Virginia Woolf and Graham Greene: see Review 23 (Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, 1978); Doris Meyer, Victoria Ocampo (New York, 1979). On 28 June 1962 TSE told the Secretary of ‘Comision de Homenaje a Victoria Ocampo’ (Buenos Aires): ‘I would be glad to be recorded as one who recognized the place occupied by Senora Victoria Ocampo in the literary world.’
O'Casey, Sean,

SeanO'Casey, Sean O’Casey (1880–1964): Irish playwright. A socialist and anti-imperialist, with a lengthy but troubled association with the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, his works were challenging and often controversial. His plays include The Shadow of a Gunman (1923); Juno and the Paycock (1924, winner of the Hawthornden Prize); The Plough and the Stars (1926); and The Silver Tassie (first produced in 1929).

 TSE's impression of, cited in review of The Rock, compared to Robert Ardrey, The Silver Tassie, Within the Gates,
Ockenden, Revd Albion C.,

5.RevdOckenden, Revd Albion C. Albion C. Ockenden (ca. 1889–1937), Rector of St John’s Episcopal Church, Northampton, Mass., from 1926.

 discusses confirmation with EH, whose conversion he encourages,
O'Connell, Cardinal William Henry,

7.WilliamO'Connell, Cardinal William Henry Henry O’Connell (1859–1944), Catholic priest; Archbishop of Boston from 1907; appointed cardinal in 1911.

 last bastion of Boston decency,
O'Connor, Frank,

5.FrankO'Connor, Frank O’Connor (1903–66), distinguished Irish novelist, playwright and short-story writer; his works include Collected Stories (1981); An Only Child (autobiography, 1961); and a fine translation (1945) of the seventeenth-century satire The Midnight Court, by Brian Merriman.
O'Conor, Norreys Jephson,

5.NorreysO'Conor, Norreys Jephson Jephson O’Conor (1885–1958), American author. Works include Songs of the Celtic Past (1918) and Battles and Enchantments (1922).
O'Donovan, Brigid,

3.BrigidO'Donovan, Brigid O’Donovan, TSE’s secretary from Jan. 1935 to Dec. 1936: see Biographical Register.

 succeeds Tacon Gilbert, TSE's first impressions of, instructed how to deal with VHE, whom she deflects, books TSE tickets to Gondoliers, mislays correspondence, approaches TSE with spiritual difficulties, on holiday in Spain, whence she returns by destroyer, considers career move, moves to the BBC, supplanted in role at F&F, TSE in bad odour with, 'pugnacious',
Oei Hui-lan,

1.OeiOei Hui-lan Hui-lan (1889–1992), Chinese-Indonesian celebrity and regaled socialite, was the wife of V. K. Wellington Koo – Koo Vi Kyuin (1888–1985) – statesman and ambassador (and participant in the founding of the League of Nations and the United Nations), who had served the new Republic of China as acting premier and briefly as President, Oct. 1926 to June 1927.
'Of the Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles', written at Pike's Farm,
Ó’Faoláin, Seán,

12.SeánÓ’Faoláin, Seán Ó’Faoláin (1900–91), novelist and short-story writer. Brought up in Ireland (where he was born John Francis Whelan), he attended University College Cork – for a while in the early 1920s he was an ardent nationalist and joined the Irish Volunteers – and he was a Commonwealth Fellow at Harvard University, 1926–8. Founder-editor of the Irish periodical The Bell, he also served as Director of the Arts Council of Ireland, 1957–9. Following Midsummer Night Madness and Other Stories (1932), he produced a wealth of stories: see Collected Stories of Seán Ó’Faoláin (1983).

 appears at Desmond Fitzgerald dinner,
Offenberg, Florence Constance Madeleine von,

1.FlorenceOffenberg, Florence Constance Madeleine von Constance Madeleine von Offenberg, of 3 Southwell Gardens, was born in Lithuania and naturalised as a British citizen in Dec. 1938.
Ogden, Charles Kay ('C. K.'),

1.C. K. OgdenOgden, Charles Kay ('C. K.') (1889–1957), psychologist, linguist, polymath, was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where in 1912 he founded Cambridge Magazine and co-founded (1911) the Heretics. He went on to devise ‘Basic English’ – ‘an auxiliary international language’ based on a vocabulary of just 850 English words – ‘BASIC’ being an acronym for British American Scientific International Commercial; and in 1927 he established in London the Orthological (Basic English) Institute. Works include The Foundations of Aesthetics (with I. A. Richards and James Wood, 1921), The Meaning of Meaning (with IAR, 1923), and Basic English (1930); and with F. P. Ramsey he translated the Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung of Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922). He was editor of the psychological journal Psyche, and he edited the series ‘The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method’. See W. Terrence Gordon, C. K. Ogden: a bio-bibliographical study (1990); C. K. Ogden: A Collective Memoir, ed. P. Sargant Florence and J. R. L. Anderson (1977).

 plays TSE Anna Livia Plurabelle, his recording of Anna Livia Plurabelle, the state of his rooms, described,
'Old Possum Strikes Back, The', enclosed for EH,
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, conceived as money-spinner, written as jeu d'esprit, individual poems sent to EH, early fragment of 'Rumpuscat', as outlined to GCF, and 'the Heaviside layer', TSE despairs of finishing, provisionally Mr Eliot's Book of Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats and Other Birds & Beasts, as advertised by GCF, delayed by Milton and Byron essays, written to relieve political gloom, written in tours de force, written occasionally, and Children's Hour, TSE asked to recite, TSE at leisure to write, Hodgson promises to illustrate, Hodgson as 'the Man in White Spats', to appear autumn 1939, TSE to design cover, published, read in the Roberts household, sent to EH, reception, selling strongly, being reprinted, published in America, EH receives, the illustrations, the original Cat Morgan, read to the Roberts children, 'Bustopher Jones: The St. James's Street Cat', 'Gus: The Theatre Cat', 'Marching Song of the Pollicle Dogs', 'Old Deuteronomy', 'Song of the Jellicles', 'The Naming of Cats', 'The Old Gumbie Cat', 'The Practical Cat', 'The Rum Tum Tugger',
Old Vic, The, relationship to Sadler's Wells, presents Laughton's Macbeth, presents Othello, presents Henry IV, Part II, presents The Witch of Edmonton, Olivier's (complete) Hamlet, presents Murder, Guthrie's Measure for Measure, Emlyn Williams's Richard III, Alec Guinness's Hamlet, considers Family Reunion, presents Midsummer Night's Dream, TSE's fellow air-warden involved with, Hamlet starring Robert Helpmann at, engages Martin Browne to produce Coriolanus, Wolfit's Tamburlaine, wants to revive Murder, to produce The Confidential Clerk,
Oldham, Joseph,

8.JosephOldham, Joseph (‘Joe’) Houldsworth Oldham (1874–1969), missionary, adviser, organiser: see Biographical Register.

 lunches with TSE, convenes discussion of contemporary Christianity, at the Unemployment Conference, éminence grise in Council for Life and Work, hearing improved, spearheading anti-Nazi Church movement, puts TSE up to BBC talk, sent TSE's Revelation contribution, which he prizes, organises Lambeth Council, initiates 'Moot', and the Moot, first Moot meeting, bewails mankind, anointed reader of Boutwood Lectures, founds new wartime committee, which meets, sent drafts for CNL, as editor of CNL, views diverge from those of TSE, pleased with TSE's education supplement, needs holiday, convenes education group meeting, propagates yet another religious body, his style, to meet Michael Roberts, Church, Community and State,
see also Oldhams, the
Oldhams, the,
Oliver, F. S.,

2.F. S. OliverOliver, F. S. (1864–1934), businessman, author, polemicist: see Biographical Register.

 as friend to The Criterion, Endless Adventure,
Olivier, Laurence,

2.LaurenceOlivier, Laurence Olivier (1907–89), English actor and director; many of his most notable successes in the 1930s and 1940s were in Shakespearian roles.

 as Hamlet, considered for Family Reunion,
see also Oliviers, the
Oliviers, the, lobbying TSE for roles, invite TSE to post-performance party,
'On Poetry: An Address by T. S. Eliot on the Occasion of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Concord Academy, Concord, Massachusetts, June 3, 1947',
'On Poetry and Drama', GCF describes TSE delivering,
On Poetry and Poets, sent to EH, reception,
'On Reading Official Reports',
'On the Place and Function of the Clerisy',
O'Neill, Eugene,

2.EugeneO'Neill, Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953), American playwright; author of works including Anna Christie (1920); The Emperor Jones (1920); The Hairy Ape (1922); All God’s Chillun Got Wings (1924); Desire Under the Elms (1924); Mourning Becomes Electra (1931); The Iceman Cometh (1940); Long Day’s Journey into Night (1941, 1956). Nobel Prize, 1936.

 TSE's unformed opinion on, as modern dramatist, pure 'sensationalism', denounced along with TSE, All God's Chillun, Mourning Becomes Electra,
'Opera', and watching Wagner with EH,
Oppenheimer, J. Robert,

7.J. RobertOppenheimer, J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67): American theoretical physicist, known as the ‘father of the atomic bomb’ for his wartime work as head of the Los Alamos Laboratory as part of the Manhattan Project which developed the nuclear weapons that were deployed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In 1947 he became director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; chair of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1947–52.

 Institute for Advance Study reputedly graced by, apparently a supporter of Wallace,
Orage, A. R.,

7.A. R. OrageOrage, A. R. (1873–1934), owner-editor of the socialist and literary paper New Age, 1907–24; founder of the New English Weekly, 1932; disciple of G. I. Gurdjieff; proponent of C. H. Douglas’s Social Credit. See further Mairet, A. R. Orage: A Memoir (1936).

 sympathetic to Credit Reform, and Major Douglas, obituary composed for, TSE on, speech at dinner honouring,
Origo, Iris (née Cutting),

1.IrisOrigo, Iris (née Cutting) Origo, née Cutting (1902–88), Anglo-American writer who grew up in Italy and married in 1924 Antonio Origo: the couple bought and renovated a Tuscan estate ‘La Foce’. Works include Leopardi: A Study in Solitude (1935) and War in Val d’Orcia (memoir, 1947).
Orr, Elaine,

7.InOrr, Elaine 1916 Scofield Thayer married Elaine Orr, who later fell in love with and bore a child by E. E. Cummings. In 1924 she fell for Frank MacDermot, whom she had met on a boat, and duly took him as her third husband.
Orwell, George,
Osborne, Maurice Machado,

3.MauriceOsborne, Maurice Machado Machado Osborne (1886–1958), architect and engineer (Harvard 1908).
O'Sullivan, Richard,

7.RichardO'Sullivan, Richard O’Sullivan, KC, KSG (1888–1963), barrister, wrote on the Christian origin of the Common Law of England. He was founder of the Sir Thomas More Society.
Otway, Thomas, Venice Preserv'd and Family Reunion,
Owen, Wilfred,

8.WilfredOwen, Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), soldier and war poet, was killed in France one week before the end of WW1. See Jon Stallworthy, Wilfred Owen: A Biography (1974).

 qua poet, the poet of the First World War,
Oxford and Cambridge Club, Richmond puts TSE up for, thus becomes TSE's new club, TSE to oppose motion allowing smoking in library, considered 'home', winningly anti-social, intended 1933 homecoming refuge, fortuitously closing, its indispensability, TSE's London perch, TSE's costly wine-menu mistake, Perkinses and EH entertained at, graced by Old Cheshire Cheese, unfortunately closed, TSE's acting barbers, keeps TSE warm and fed, resort of TSE's free weekends, currently stocking Old Cheshire Cheese, TSE's temporary bathroom, during 1937 Coronation, changing of guard at, under rationing, during the Blitz, TSE again perched at, keeps TSE warm,
Oxford Movement Centenary, TSE committed to speaking at, TSE to chair Albert Hall meeting of,
Oxford, Oxfordshire,
see England
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,
P. E. N. Club,
Packard, Frederick C., Jr.,

5.FrederickPackard, Frederick C., Jr. C. Packard, Jr. (1899–1985), Instructor at Harvard University (who in due course became Professor of Speech and Dramatics), had recorded TSE reading ‘The Hollow Men’ and ‘Gerontion’ for the ‘Harvard Vocarium’.
Paderewski, Jan Ignace, TSE attends concert given by, which he defends from detractors,
Page, Austin,
12/07/32;
 Hocus Pocus,
12/07/32;
Page-Barbour Lectures, The (afterwards After Strange Gods), as yet unwritten, two lectures to be written in two days, finished, TSE stays in Charlottesville during, rewritten for publication, being proofread, approved by D'Arcy, reception, TSE regrets comments on D. H. Lawrence,
Paget, Lt.-Col. Charles, 6th Marquess of Anglesey,

2.Lt.-ColPaget, Lt.-Col. Charles, 6th Marquess of Anglesey. Charles Paget (1885–1947), 6th Marquess of Anglesey; his wife was Marjorie Paget (1883–1946), eldest daughter of Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland.
Pakenham, Edward, 6th Earl of Longford,

4.EdwardPakenham, Edward, 6th Earl of Longford Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford (1902–61), Anglo-Catholic Irish peer, politician (Irish Nationalist), dramatist and translator, succeeded to the earldom in 1915 and was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. Chairman of the Gate Theatre, Dublin, 1930–6. Yahoo (1933), his play about Jonathan Swift – ‘the father of modern Irish nationalism,’ as Longford hailed him – was running at the Westminster Theatre, London.

 and TSE's 1936 Dublin visit, at the Robinsons,
Pakenham, Frank, 7th Earl of Longford,

9.FrankPakenham, Frank, 7th Earl of Longford Pakenham (1905–2001), known as Lord Pakenham, 1945–61; 7th Earl of Longford from 1961; politician and social campaigner. He was a Foreign Office minister at the time of this letter, responsible for the British occupation zone in Germany.
Palmer, Roundell Cecil, Viscount Wolmer,

2.RoundellPalmer, Roundell Cecil, Viscount Wolmer Cecil Palmer (1887–1971), Viscount Wolmer, 1895–41; Conservative politician (MP for Aldershot, 1918–40); Minister for Economic Warfare (running the Special Operations Executive), 1942–5. In 1940, on the death of his father, he became 3rd Earl of Selborne.

 member of All Souls Club, against Chamberlain's government,
Paris,
see France
Park, Marion Edwards,

1.MarionPark, Marion Edwards Edwards Park (1875–1960), President of Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, 1922–42.
Parker, Wilfrid, Bishop of Pretoria,

3.WilfridParker, Wilfrid, Bishop of Pretoria Parker (1883–1966): Anglican priest; Bishop of Pretoria, 1933–50. TSE dined with Parker and his wife on Thursday, 18 Feb.
Parsons, Ian, beseeches Rosenberg preface, 'Poetry, Drama, and Satire',
Parsons, Rt Revd Richard, Bishop of Southwark,

3.TheParsons, Rt Revd Richard, Bishop of Southwark Rt Revd Richard Parsons (1882–1948), Bishop of Southwark, 1932–41.
Partridge, Edward Hincks,

3.EdwardPartridge, Edward Hincks Hincks Partridge (1901–62): headmaster of Giggleswick School, 1931–55. Initially submitted with the title Look Before You Weep, Partridge’s book was to be published as Freedom in Education: The Function of the Public Boarding School (F&F, 1943).
Partridge, Eric Honeywood,
Pascal, Blaise, misquoted, quoted on tyranny, spiritually helpful, Pensées,
Patch, Howard Rollin,

10.HowardPatch, Howard Rollin Rollin Patch (1889–1963), scholar of Chaucer, taught medieval literature at Smith College, 1919–57. (In a later year he would tutor Sylvia Plath.) His wife was Helen K. Patch.
see also Patches, the
Patches, the,
'Paul Elmer More', pleases More himself,
Paulhan, Jean,

1.JeanPaulhan, Jean Paulhan (1884–1968), editor of Nouvelle Revue Française, 1925–40, 1946–68. He was active in the French Resistance during WW2. His works include Entretiens sur des fait-divers (1930); Les Fleurs de Tarbes, ou, La Terreur dans les lettres (1936); and On Poetry and Politics, ed. Jennifer Bajorek et al. (2010). See William Marx, ‘Two Modernisms: T. S. Eliot and La Nouvelle Revue Française’, in The International Reception of T. S. Eliot, ed. Elisabeth Däumer and Shyamal Bagchee (2007), 25–33.

 called on in Paris,
Peake, Catherine Marie (née Knight),
Peake, Charles,

4.CharlesPeake, Charles Peake (1897–1958), British diplomat; 1939, Head of the Foreign Office News Department and chief press adviser to the Ministry of Information. In 1941 he became Acting Counsellor in Washington, DC. Knighted in 1956.
Pearce, Stella May,

2.StellaPearce, Stella May Mary Pearce (1901–2001), fashion designer and dress historian: see Biographical Register.

 and The Rock, shows TSE Canterbury costumes, Family Reunion costumes,
see also Newtons, the
Pearmain, Margaret,

3.EdwardWelch, Edward Sohier Sohier Welch (1888–1948), lawyer, had married TSE’s cousin Barbara Hinkley in 1909. TheyPearmain, Margaret were divorced in 1926, and he married Margaret Pearmain later the same year. See Elizabeth F. Fideler, Margaret Pearmain Welch (1893–1984): proper Bostonian, activist, pacifist, reformer, preservationist (Eugene, Oregon, 2017).
Pearn, Inez,

6.InezPearn, Inez Pearn (1913–76) – she was christened Marie Agnes Pearn, and later published fiction as Elizabeth Lake – child of a broken marriage who was brought up in convent boarding schools, won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford, where she read Spanish Literature. After meeting Spender at Oxford, she married him just three weeks later, in Dec. 1936. Two years later, she met the poet and sociologist Charles Madge (married at the time to the poet Kathleen Raine), and in 1939 she left Spender for Madge: she and Madge were to be married in 1942, and they had two children. In later years she published well-received novels including Spanish Portrait (1945), Marguerite Reilly (1946) and The First Rebellion (1951).

 TSE's obiter dictum on,
Pecci, Vincenzo, Pope Leo XIII,

6.VincenzoPecci, Vincenzo, Pope Leo XIII Pecci (1810–1903), Italian, served as Pope Leo XIII, 1878–1903.

 identified with Grandma Eliot,
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).
Peel, Albert,

3.AlbertPeel, Albert Peel (1887–1949), Congregationalist preacher and historian.
Peel, Eileen,

1.EileenPeel, Eileen Peel (1909–99), British stage and screen actor, was to play Lavinia Chamberlayne at Henry Miller’s Theatre in New York, 21 Jan. 1950–13 Jan. 1951; later in London. GreyBlake, Grey Blake (1902–71), British stage and film actor, was to be Peter Quilpe.

 as Lavinia in Cocktail Party,
Peel, Robert,

PeelPeel, Robert (1909–92), who was born in England and lived in Brookline, Mass., had published his undergraduate dissertation, The Creed of a Victorian Pagan (on George Meredith), in 1931; a Christian Scientist, he went on to publish Christian Science: Its Encounter with American Culture (1958) and a 3-vol. life of Mary Baker Eddy – the fruit of twenty years of research – The Years of Discovery (1966), The Years of Trial (1971), The Years of Authority (1977). He taught English and Philosophy at Principia College and was Chief, Editorial Section, Christian Science Committee on Publication.

 enthuses about English 26,
Pelham, Lady Prudence,
Pellegrini, Sheila (née Cudahy),

4.SheilaPellegrini, Sheila (née Cudahy) Pellegrini, née Cudahy (1920–2001), poet, editor and publisher; daughter of Edward Aloysius Cudahy, Jr., who was son of the co-founder of the Cudahy Packing Company, Omaha. In 1943 she married Giorgio Pellegrini and launched a publishing firm with him. Following her husband’s death in 1952, in 1953 she merged her firm with Farrar, Straus.
'Pensées of Pascal, The', undertaken in ignorance, to be revised,
Penty, Arthur J.,

11.ArthurPenty, Arthur J. J. Penty (1875–1937), architect (he was involved in the development of Hampstead Garden Suburb), and social critic influenced by Ruskin, Carlyle, Matthew Arnold and Edward Carpenter, as well as in part by G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, was an advocate of guild socialism, anti-modernism and anti-industrialism, agrarian reconstructionism, and Anglican socialism. A regular contributor to periodicals including The Guildsman, G. K.’s Weekly, The Crusader and The Criterion, his works include Old Worlds for New (1917), A Guildsman’s Interpretation of History (1920), and Towards a Christian Sociology (1923).

 described, like TSE, anti-industrial, Means and Ends discussed with,
Percy Graeme Turnbull Memorial Lectures, The (otherwise The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry), TSE engaged to give, to cannibalise TSE's Clark Lectures, TSE on delivering, described, their fate,
Perham, Margery,

2.MargeryPerham, Margery Perham (1895–1982), researcher and traveller; writer on African affairs; from 1924, Fellow of St Hugh’s College, Oxford; Reader in Colonial Administration and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, 1939–48; Director of the Oxford Institute of Colonial Studies, 1945–8. Her publications include African Discovery (1937).
Perkins, Dr John Carroll (EH's uncle),

3.DrPerkins, Dr John Carroll (EH's uncle) John Carroll Perkins (1862–1950), Minister of King’s Chapel, Boston: see Biographical Register.

 wished speedy recovery, Perkins household apparently restored, and TSE's King's Chapel address, at first Norton lecture, writes about second Norton lecture, supplied with tobacco, unused to intelligent opposition, suggests title for Murder, recommended Endless Adventure, TSE on, novelty birthday-present suggested for, comes by The Achievement of T. S. Eliot, once again preaching, his accent, his versus Eliot-family Unitarianism, reports on TSE from Aban Court, remarks on photograph of TSE, his Pastor Emeritus position endangered, starved of male company, more remote with age, donates Eliotana to Henry's collection, relations with Aunt Edith, ailing, altered with age, and Campden memories, sends photograph of EH portrait, on 1946 reunion with TSE, withdrawn, according to EH, honoured by bas-relief, celebrates 86th birthday, feared for, celebrates 87th birthday, thanks EH for her help, his final illness, dies, elegised by TSE, funeral, obituary and funeral, obituary, TSE receives old clothes of, Miss Lavorgna on, apparently communicated in Anglican churches, Annals of King's Chapel,
see also Perkinses, the
Perkins, Edith (EH's aunt), her relationship to EH queried, to accompany EH to Scripps, asks TSE to dinner, at first Norton lecture, shares pew with TSE, accompanies TSE to Symphony Concert, in audience at Milton Academy, catches cold in Florence, in TSE's private opinion, TSE's occasional poem for, her relationship with EH analysed, dislikes Jeanette McPherrin, explains EH's breakdown to TSE, on the Harvard Murder, as Campden hostess, and TSE's wartime instructions to EH, gives lunch at American Women's Club, gives TSE balsam pillow, requests English edition of Cats, as horticulturalist, without Campden garden, compared to Irene Hale, gives TSE photograph of EH, attends Ada's funeral, reports on EH's Millbrook situation, pressed for ham and pineapple recipe, sight affected in one eye, gives lecture, sight failing, sight deteriorates in other eye, thanked for 1946 hospitality, gives to Books Across the Sea, according to EH, asks TSE to present slides to RHS, which TSE does, on EH and TSE's relationship, and Hidcote House, friendly with Marion, TSE pitches her book to publishers, depressed by the heat, somewhat recovered, approaching 80th, faced with husband's death, letter of condolence to, sent birthday poem, visited in Boston, has sciatica, reports on EH's dramatic activities, Miss Lavorgna on, in her old-age infirmity, suffers 'shock', sacks nurse, EH preserved from, sends funeral tribute to Cousin Will, and the Hale letters, nursing home sought for, moved into nursing home, where TSE writes to her, suffers stroke, deteriorating, relations with EH, her legacy to EH,
see also Perkinses, the
Perkins, Palfrey,

18.PalfreyPerkins, Palfrey Perkins (1883–1976), who graduated from the Harvard Divinity School, was Unitarian Minister in Buffalo, New York, 1926–33; later of King’s Chapel, Boston, 1933–53.

 lacking in charisma, improved on further acquaintance, conducting Christmas service, conducts EH's mother's funeral,
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,
Perry, Bliss,

7.BlissPerry, Bliss Perry (1860–1954), critic, author, editor, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1899–1909.

 antithetical to TSE, but TSE repents of dismissing, doomed to amuse,
Perry, Henry Ten Eyck,

16.HenryPerry, Henry Ten Eyck Ten Eyck Perry (1890–1973), Professor of English, University of Buffalo.
Perry, Rachel Berenson,

4.RachelPerry, Rachel Berenson Berenson Perry (1880–1933), wifePerry, Ralph Barton of Ralph Barton Perry (1876–1957), Chair of the Philosophy Department at Harvard University, 1906–14; from 1930, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy; author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning study The Thought and Character of William James (1935).

 a friend,
see also Perrys, the
Perry, Ralph Barton,

4.RachelPerry, Rachel Berenson Berenson Perry (1880–1933), wifePerry, Ralph Barton of Ralph Barton Perry (1876–1957), Chair of the Philosophy Department at Harvard University, 1906–14; from 1930, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy; author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning study The Thought and Character of William James (1935).
see also Perrys, the
Perrys, the,
'Personal Anthology: Poetry broadcast with John Laurie, A',
Peter, John,

1.ThePeter, John ‘odiousPeter, John'A New Interpretation of The Waste Land';a1 essay’ in question was ‘A New Interpretation of The Waste Land’, by John Peter, Lecturer in English, University of Manitoba – ‘an impecunious junior professor in the Canadian middle west,’ as he was later to call himself (in 1969) – published in Essays in Criticism II (July 1952), 242–66. Peter himself sent TSE an offprint of his article. TheHigginson, G. F.issues formal reprimand on TSE's behalf;a2 piece so offended TSE that he briefed his solicitor, G. F. Higginson, to send this formal reprimand:

 'A New Interpretation of The Waste Land',
Peterhouse College, Cambridge,
Peters, Harold,

6.HaroldPeters, Harold Peters (1888–1943), close friend of TSE at Harvard, 1906–9. After graduation, he worked in real estate, and saw active service in the Massachusetts Naval Militia during WW1, and on leaving the navy he spent most of the rest of his life at sea. Leon M. Little, ‘Eliot: A Reminiscence’, Harvard Advocate, 100: 3.4 (Fall 1966), 33: ‘[TSE’sPeters, Haroldas TSE's quondam sailing companion;a2n] really closest friend was Harold Peters, and they were an odd but a very interesting pair. Peters and Eliot spent happy hours sailing together, sometimes in thick fog, off the Dry Salvages. In 1932 Peters sailed round the world for two years as skipper of an 85-foot auxiliary schooner, Pilgrim, having previously participated in the transatlantic race from Newport to Plymouth, and in the Fastnet Race. In 1943 he died after falling from a motor-boat that was in process of being hoisted into a dry dock at Marblehead.

 in London, un-deracinated, compared to TSE, as TSE's quondam sailing companion, spends weekend with the Eliots, his tattoos, TSE longs to sail with, less estranged from TSE than expected, makes bizarre appearance, too old for American Navy, dies in accident, his death,
Phelps, William Lyon,

2.WilliamPhelps, William Lyon Lyon Phelps (1865–1943) taught at Yale for 41 years, becoming Lampson Professor of English Literature in 1901. A compelling, popular lecturer, he was the first to teach a course on the modern novel – which proved controversial at the start. Works include Essays on the Modern Novel (1910) and The Advance of the English Novel (1916). Phelps noted, in Autobiography with Letters (New York, 1939), of hisPhelps, William Lyonon lunch with TSE;a2n lunch with TSE on 23 Feb.: ‘We talked a good deal about Paul Elmer More, whom we both admired. Mr Eliot gives one the same impression in conversation that one receives in reading him – intense sincerity.’

 on lunch with TSE,
Philippe, Charles-Louis, Bubu de Montparnasse,
Philipps, Elizabeth, Viscountess St. Davids,

5.ElizabethPhilipps, Elizabeth, Viscountess St. Davids Philipps, Viscountess St Davids (1884–1974). (She was to take her seat in the House of Lords in Nov. 1963.) The friend was one Robert Thompson.
Phillimore, Stephen, Archdeacon of Middlesex,

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

2.WilliamPhillips, William Phillips (1878–1968), career diplomat, served as American Ambassador to Italy, 1936–Oct. 1941. In 1942 he was chief of the United States Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA), London; and from Oct. 1942 he was to be personal representative of F. D. Roosevelt in India.
Philosophical Club, TSE gives paper to,
Phipps, Sir Eric,

3.SirPhipps, Sir Eric Eric Phipps (1875–1945), distinguished diplomat; Ambassador to Germany, 1933–7; Ambassador to France from 1937 until his retirement (on grounds of ill health) in Nov. 1939.
Phoenix Theatre, London, Saint-Denis's White Guard, Saint-Denis's Twelfth Night,
Picasso, Pablo, TSE claims affinity with Stravinsky and, his Barnes Foundation paintings delight,
Pickman, Edward Motley,

2.EdwardPickman, Edward Motley Motley Pickman (1886–1959) and his wife, Hester Marion Pickman, née Chanler (1898–1989), were descended from an affluent and cultivated New England trading family: they had homes on Beacon Hill, Boston, and at Old Farm, Bedford, Mass. They had six children. See Hugh Whitney, ‘Edward Motley Pickman’, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3rd series, 72 (Oct. 1957–Dec. 1960), 364–70.

 writing unfinishable book,
see also Pickmans, the
Pickmans, the, at Professor Woods's, host TSE at country estate, TSE takes to, inevitably at Chamber Music Club, TSE spiritually at home with,
Pickthorn, Kenneth,

8.KennethPickthorn, Kenneth Pickthorn (1892–1975), historian and politician; Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: see Biographical Register.

 among TSE's Corpus 'friends', hosts TSE in Cambridge, described for EH, politically in sympathy with TSE,
see also Pickthorns, the
Pickthorns, the, host TSE in Cambridge, visited, walk on the Backs with,
Picture Post, photographs Family Reunion rehearsals,
Pieper, Josef,

6.JosefPieper, Josef Pieper (1904–97): German Catholic philosopher influenced by Thomas Aquinas, Professor of Philosophical Anthropology at the University of Münster, 1950–76. His noted publications include Leisure, the Basis of Culture, trans. Alexander Dru, with introduction by TSE (F&F, 1952); The End of Time: A Meditation on the Philosophy of History, trans. Michael Bullock (1954); and The Silence of St Thomas, trans. Daniel O’Connor (F&F, 1957).

 and family charm TSE, TSE's preface for, Leisure the Basis of Culture,
Pierce, Ross E., dumps verse on TSE, 'somewhat psychopathic', his return funded by TSE,
Pike's Farm, TSE installed at, daily life at, Morley on TSE at, TSE's situation at, TSE's stay with the Eameses extended, TSE missing, TSE's June 1934 fortnight at, village bells at New Year, September 1935 week at, the Morleys mean to leave, graced by nightingales,
see also Morleys, the
Pilsudski, Marshal Józef, The Memories of a Polish Revolutionary and Soldier,
Piovene, Guido,

4.GuidoPiovene, Guido Piovene (1907–74); Italian journalist and author.
Pitt-Rivers, George Henry Lane Fox,

6.GeorgePitt-Rivers, George Henry Lane Fox Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (1890–1966), landowner, anthropologist and author. Private Secretary (1920–1) and ADC (1920–4) to the Governor-General of Australia; Secretary-General and Hon. Treasurer, International Union for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems, 1928–37; Life Member of the Council of the Eugenics Society. Works include The Clash of Culture and the Contact of Races (1927) and Problems of Population (ed., 1932). As years went on, he became involved with quasi-fascist and racist groups, and he was interned as a political prisoner by order of the Home Secretary, 1940–2. Writing on The Clash of Culture, Geoffrey Tandy noted his ‘less palatable observations’: ‘The gravamen of the charge against him is “clerkly treason”. The time is still not yet and the anthropologist should stick to his anthropology’ (Criterion 7 [June 1928], 440).
Pivot Club, TSE gives poetry reading for,
Plomer, William,

1.WilliamPlomer, William Plomer (1903–1973), South African-born poet, novelist, librettist; co-founder, with Roy Campbell and Laurens van der Post, of the first bilingual South African literary journal, Voorslag (‘Whiplash’), 1925–6; author of Turbott Wolfe (1926) and Sado (1931); a biography of Cecil Rhodes (1933); poetry including Collected Poems (1960); publisher’s reader for Jonathan Cape; discoverer of the diaries of the Revd Francis Kilvert (1938–40); collaborator with Benjamin Britten (libretti include The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son). Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, 1963, CBE, 1968. See The Autobiography of William Plomer (1944); Peter F. Alexander, William Plomer; A Biography (1989).
Plunket Greene, Gwendolen,

3.GwendolenPlunket Greene, Gwendolen Plunket Greene (1878–1959), younger daughter of the composer Hubert Parry, was married to the Irish baritone Harry Plunket Greene (1865–1936); they had two sons and a daughter, but had separated in 1920.

 described for EH, apologises for strange evening,
Plunket Greene, Olivia,

5.OliviaPlunket Greene, Olivia Plunket Greene (1907–58), Gwen’s alcoholic daughter – one of the ‘Bright Young Things’ of the 1920s – was fruitlessly pursued by Evelyn Waugh (who is said to have depicted her in Vile Bodies, 1930). See further D. J. Taylor, Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation: 1918–1940 (2007).

 subsists on alcohol, mysticism and Dickens,
Plunkett, George Noble,

16.GeorgePlunkett, George Noble Noble Plunkett (1851–1948), Irish nationalist politician, a Papal Count. Three of his sons – Joseph, George and Jack – were sentenced to death after the 1916 Rising; Joseph was executed but his brothers had their sentences commuted.

 presents TSE with his poems,
Poe, Edgar Allan, TSE's Indian Service broadcast on, TSE's Churchill Club talk on, From Poe to Valéry,
'Poet Who Gave the English Speech, The', sent to EH,
'Poetic Drama Today and Tomorrow',
'Poetical and Prosaic Use of Words, The',
poetry, the danger of illustrating, versus the law, as career path, as social construct, as against didacticism, as redefined by Sweeney Agonistes, TSE on his oeurvre, TSE's own reasons for writing, TSE doubts his own, TSE's unrecorded epigram on, TSE on his own, and the importance of models, relieves TSE's longing for EH, nonsense poetry, versus drama, and TSE's new drawing-desk, and theatre-going audiences, and the dissimulation of feeling, TSE on writing after long intermission, jealousy among poets, and personal experience, TSE's defended from EH's charge of 'futility', and emotion, and marriage to VHE, and varieties of audience,
'Poetry and Drama',
'Poetry in the Theatre', delivered in Sweden, revamped for Salisbury audience, rewritten for Rome,
Poetry Reading for China, dreaded by TSE, recounted, recounted to JDH,
Poetry Society of Maryland, TSE lecture to,
'Poetry, Speech and Music',
Poets' Theatre Guild, TSE's presidential address to,
Polanyi, Michael,

14.MichaelPolanyi, Michael Polanyi (1891–1976), Hungarian-born British chemist, economist and philosopher; head of the Department of Chemistry at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, 1926–33. After quitting Nazi Germany, he was appointed (from 1933) to a Chair of Chemistry at the University of Manchester, and he then became Professor of Social Sciences at Manchester (the chair having been created for him), 1948–58. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1944. A polymath, his works include The Contempt of Freedom: The Russian Experiment and After (1940); Full Employment and Free Trade (1945); Science, Faith and Society (1946); The Logic of Liberty (1951); The Study of Man (1959); Beyond Nihilism (1960).
Pole, Reginald,

4.ReginaldPole, Reginald Pole was a sometime noted American Shakespearean actor. His son Rupert Pole became even more famous when he married (bigamously) Anaïs Nin. Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–58) was the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury.

 acts opposite EH in Claremont,
Pollock, Sir Frederick,

8.SirPollock, Sir Frederick Frederick Pollock, PC, FBA (1845–1937), distinguished jurist and academic: Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, 1883–1903; Professor of Common Law at the Inns of Court, 1884–90. Authoritative works included The Law of Torts (1897) and History of English Law before the Time of Edward I (with F. W. Maitland, 1895). Editor of the Law Reports, 1895–1935; first editor of the Law Quarterly Review.
Ponsonby, Arthur, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede,

10.ArthurPonsonby, Arthur, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1871–1946), diplomat and politician; leader of the Labour Party in the House of Lords, 1931–5; a prominent member of the Peace Pledge Union; and Chair of the International Council of the War Resisters’ International.

 and Labour Party foreign policy,
Pope-Hennessy, John,

9.JohnPope-Hennessy, John Pope-Hennessy (1913–94), British art historian specialising in the Italian Renaissance; Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1967–73; Director of the British Museum, 1974–6. Author of Introduction to Italian Sculpture (3 vols, 1955–63).
Porter, James,
Porter, Ruth Wadsworth Furness,

10.RuthPorter, Ruth Wadsworth Furness Wadsworth Furness Porter (1875–1942) – whose ancestors included famous New Englanders, and who was related to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and TSE – graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1896. Cultivated and gregarious, she was married in 1898 to James Foster Porter (1871–1939), who ran a trust by the name of the Porter Realty Trust – the family inheritance included a large farm that would become the Chicago Loop. They lived in a grand lakeside home at 1085 Sheridan Avenue, Hubbard Woods, Winnetka, Illinois, and enjoyed too a holiday home in Maine. Their five children included the renowned painter Fairfield Porter (1907–75): see Justin Spring, Fairfield Porter; A Life in Art (Yale University Press, 2000); Material Witness: The Selected Letters of Fairfield Porter, ed. Ted Leigh (University of Michigan Press, 2005).
Porteus, Hugh Gordon,

6.HughPorteus, Hugh Gordon Gordon Porteus (1906–93), literary and art critic; author: see Biographical Register. HisBartek, Zenda partner was Zenka Bartek, who left him in 1944.

 hosts TSE in his garrett, relieved by advance from F&F, fails to get drunk at Criterion gathering,
Portugal, as per TSE's 1938 sojourn,
'Possibilities of the Chorus in the Modern Theatre, The', intended for Group Theatre audience, stimulated by EH, reception,
Post, Chandler,
bio;

2.ChandlerPost, Chandler Post (1881–1959), Professor of Greek and Fine Arts, Harvard, 1922–34; Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, 1934–50. Works include A History of European and American Sculpture (1921) and A History of Spanish Painting (12 vols, 1930–47).
27/10/32;
10/06/33;
Post, Dr Lawrence Tyler,
bio;

2.DrPost, Dr Lawrence Tyler Lawrence Tyler Post, A.B. (Yale, 1909), M.D. (Johns Hopkins), was Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Head of Department, University of Washington.
19/05/53;
Pottle, Frederick A.,

3.FrederickPottle, Frederick A. A. Pottle (1897–1987), great scholar, taught at Yale University, 1925–66, becoming a full professor in 1930. He devoted the best part of his career to the editing of James Boswell’s journals and letters (Yale was to purchase 13,000 pages of the papers in 1949), publishing the first thirteen volumes of a projected total of 30–35 volumes: Boswell’s London Journal appeared in 1950. Other works include James Boswell, The Earlier Years, 1740–1769 (1966). The papers had come into the possession of the Talbot family upon the marriage of the fifth Lord Malahide to Boswell’s great-granddaughter, and were concealed for several years at Malahide Castle, County Dublin.
Pound, Dorothy Shakespear,

4.DorothyPound, Dorothy Shakespear Shakespear Pound (1886–1973), artist and book illustrator, married Ezra Pound (whom she met in 1908) in 1914: see Biographical Register.

 dines with the Eliots, taken to dinner, TSE bids farewell to, ill and stuck in Rapallo, visited by TSE in Washington,
see also Pounds, the
Pound, Ezra,

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

 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
Pound, Omar,

1.OmarPound, Omar Shakespear Pound (1926–2010), author, editor and poet; son of Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear, he was born in Paris and brought up in his early years by his maternal grandmother, Olivia Shakespear; he met his father for the first time only in 1938. During 1940–2 he was a boarder at Charterhouse School, where TSE took a proactive avuncular interest in the progress and well-being of ‘the unfortunate Omar’: ‘I make a point of trying to see him about twice a quarter. The whole situation is difficult and I am afraid that the future is not going to be easy for him. I like the boy who at the present moment thinks that he would like to make hotel keeping his profession.’ On leaving school, Pound undertook to study hotel management and worked in a London hotel; but in 1945 he enlisted in the US Army and served terms in France and Germany. Subsequently he studied at Hamilton College, New York (his father’s alma mater); at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London; and at McGill University. Later he taught in Boston; at the American School of Tangier; at the Cambridgeshire School of Arts and Technology; and at Princeton. He brought out Arabic & Persian Poems (1970) and volumes of his own poetry, and was co-editor (with Philip Grover) of Wyndham Lewis: A Descriptive Bibliography (1978). Other editions include Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters 1908–1914 (1984), and Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945–1946, edited with Robert Spoo (1999).

 invited to lunch at Shamley, TSE's impression of, his situation, his prospects, and EP's indictment, and wife call on TSE,
Pounds, the, their irreligion,
Powel, Harford Willing Hare,

1.HarfordPowel, Harford Willing Hare, Jr. Willing Hare Powel, Jr. (1887–1956), writer and publicist. HisPowel, Harford Willing Hare son, Harford Willing Hare Powel (1916–65), suffered a severe wartime injury that necessitated several years of convalescence; but he went on to graduate from Brown University (AB, 1952; MA in English, 1954), and taught English at Phillips Andover Academy, Massachusetts, 1954–9.
Powel, Harford Willing Hare, Jr.,

1.HarfordPowel, Harford Willing Hare, Jr. Willing Hare Powel, Jr. (1887–1956), writer and publicist. HisPowel, Harford Willing Hare son, Harford Willing Hare Powel (1916–65), suffered a severe wartime injury that necessitated several years of convalescence; but he went on to graduate from Brown University (AB, 1952; MA in English, 1954), and taught English at Phillips Andover Academy, Massachusetts, 1954–9.
Powell, Lady Violet (née Pakenham),

4.LadyPowell, Lady Violet (née Pakenham) Violet Powell, née Pakenham (1912–2002), writer and biographer; wife of the novelist Anthony Powell (1905–2000). Her eldest brother was Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford (1902–61), Irish peer and politician who ran the Gate Theatre, Dublin, 1930–6.
Power, Tyrone,

2.TyronePower, Tyrone Power (1914–58), popular American movie star: action hero.
Power, William,

7.WilliamPower, William Power (1873–1951), journalist and literary critic; President of the Scottish Centre of PEN, 1934–8; Chair of the Scottish National Party, 1940–2. Author of Literature and Oatmeal (1935) and Should Auld Acquaintance (autobiography, 1937).
'Practical Cat, The', composed for Publishers' Exhibition, copied for EH,
Praxiteles, and EH's nose,
Praz, Mario,

7.MarioPraz, Mario Praz (1896–1982), scholar and critic of English literature; author of La carne, la morte e il diavolo nella letteratura romantica (1930; The Romantic Agony, 1933). Educated in Bologna, Rome and Florence, he came to England in 1923 to study for the title of libero docente. He was Senior Lecturer in Italian, Liverpool University, 1924–32; Professor of Italian Studies, Victoria University of Manchester, 1932–4; and Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Rome, 1934–66. Other works include Il giardino dei sensi (1975); ‘Dante in Inghilterra’, La Cultura, Jan. 1930, 65–6; ‘T. S. Eliot e Dante’, Letteratura 15 (July 1937), 12–28; ‘T. S. Eliot and Dante’, Southern Review 3 (Winter 1937), 525–48; The Flaming Heart (1958). Praz translated ‘Triumphal March’, in Solaria, Dec. 1930; repr. in Circoli (Genoa) 3: 6 (Nov./Dec. 1933), 54–7; The Waste Land, as ‘La Terra Desolata’, Circoli 2: 4 (July/Aug. 1932), 27–57; and ‘Fragment of an Agon’, as ‘Frammento di un agone’, Letteratura 1: 2 (Apr. 1937), 97–102. In 1952 he was awarded an honorary KBE.
'Preface' (to Bubu de Montparnasse),
'Preface' (to English Poetry and its Contribution to the Knowledge of a Creative Principle),
'Preface' (to Leisure the Basis of Culture),
'Preface to Roll Call',
'Preface' (to The Dark Side of the Moon), finished,
'Preface' (to The Little Book of Modern Verse),
'Preface' (to The Need for Roots),
'Preface' (to Thoughts for Meditation),
Prescott, William Hickling ('W. H.'),

1.W. H. PrescottPrescott, William Hickling ('W. H.') (1796–1859), renowned historian and Hispanist.
'Presidential address to the Alliance Française',
'Presidential Message to Books Across the Sea',
Prewitt, W. H.,

1.W. H. PrewittPrewitt, W. H., verger of St Stephen’s.
Prichard, Matthew,

1.MatthewPrichard, Matthew Prichard (1865–1936), charismatic English aesthete who had served as Assistant Director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1904–7, where he met the collector Isabella Stewart Gardner, the artist and curator Okakura Kakuzo (1862–1913), and the critic Roger Fry (who was then working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). A devotee of Henri Bergson, Prichard advocated a non-representational theory of aesthetics; and while living in Paris in 1908–14 introduced Henri Matisse to Byzantine art. TSE fell under the influence of Prichard after being introduced to him by his brother Henry. From 1918 until his death on 15 Oct. 1936, Prichard lived in London, where he attracted a group of staunch admirers at the Gargoyle Club (including John Pope-Hennessy and the club’s owner).

 his influence on TSE, 'Mr Silvero' in 'Gerontion', TSE's formative experience with,
Prickett, John,

1.JohnPrickett, John Prickett (1907–95), Headmaster of Kent College for Boys, Canterbury, 1933–60.
Priestley, J. B.,

1.J. B. PriestleyPriestley, J. B. (1894–1984), novelist, playwright, social commentator, broadcaster; author of bestselling novels including The Good Companions (1929) and Angel Pavement (1930); and plays including Time and the Conways (1937) and An Inspector Calls (1945).

 meets TSE as theatre proprietor, and Family Reunion's unsuccess, invites TSE to dinner, speaks at Purchase Tax meeting, as radio broadcaster, as playwright, Dangerous Corner, I Have Been Here Before, Time and the Conways,
Princeton University, according to TSE's fantasy, TSE engaged to lecture at, and Ronald Bottrall, TSE on his trip to, its architecture, compared to Harvard and Yale, Alumni Weekly print TSE's More tribute, possible wartime lectures at, and Allen Tate, among American colleges, extends wartime invitation to TSE, invites TSE to conference, Johnson lectures revamped for, confers honorary degree on TSE, and TSE's Institute for Advanced Study position, EH's information on, and Herbert Read, and EH's bequest,
Professor William Ellery Sedgwicks, the, accompany TSE to Maine,
Prufrock and Other Observations, and Harriet Weaver, TSE owns no copy of,
'Publishing of Poetry, The',
Pudney. John,

1.JohnPudney. John Pudney (1909–77), poet and journalist, went to Gresham’s School, Holt, Norfolk, with W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten. In his early career he worked intermittently for the Listener, the BBC and the News Chronicle; later he found success with a plethora of short stories, TV and radio plays, children’s books and ten adult novels. Works include Collected Poems (1957). See Pudney, Home and Away (1960) and Thank Goodness for Cake (1978); Frederick Alderson, ‘John and “Johnny”: John Pudney 1909–1977’, London Magazine, 21: 9/10 (Dec. 1981/Jan. 1982), 79–87.

 Joseph: A Play,
Purchase Tax, TSE's efforts to exclude books from,
Pusey House, Oxford, TSE engaged to speak at,
Pusey, Nathan,

2.NathanPusey, Nathan Pusey (1907–2001): President of Harvard University, 1953–71.
Quayle, Anthony,

3.AnthonyQuayle, Anthony Quayle (1913–89): celebrated British theatre actor and director; later best known for starring in postwar movies which earned him Golden Globe and Oscar nominations.

 as Iago, as producer of Troilus, as host,
see also Quayles, the
Quayle, Dorothy (née Hyson), hosts TSE to party,
see also Quayles, the
Quayles, the, entertain TSE in Stratford,
Queen's Theatre, The, presents Guthrie's School for Scandal,
Quennell, Peter,

2.PeterQuennell, Peter Quennell, ‘Mr T. S. Eliot’ – review of Collected Poems 1909–1935 and Essays Ancient and Modern', New Statesman & Nation 11 (18 Apr. 1936), 603–4.

 'cadaverous deathshead', reviews Collected Poems,
Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur,

2.SirQuiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863–1944) – ‘Q’ – critic, poet, novelist, editor and anthologist; King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, Cambridge, Fellow of Jesus College. His publications include the Oxford Book of English Verse 1250– 1900 (1900) and On the Art of Writing (lectures, 1916). See further A. L. Rowse, Quiller Couch: A Portrait of ‘Q’ (1988).

 remains King Edward VII Professor, his debt to R. L. Stevenson,
Rabelais, François, TSE finds nothing offensive in,
Racine, Jean, quoted on plotting, Bérénice,
Radcliffe Club, Wellesley College, TSE recounts lecture to,
Radcliffe, Philip,

5.PhilipRadcliffe, Philip Radcliffe (1905–86), Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; university lecturer from 1948. J. B. Trend told Tacon Gilbert (20 July), that Radcliffe possessed ‘the rare combination of being both a learned, scholarly musician and an acute critic of contemporary music, who goes to International Festivals’.
Raine, Kathleen,

3.KathleenRaine, Kathleen Raine (1908–2003), poet and scholar, read Natural Sciences and Psychology at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating in 1929. Briefly married in 1929 to Hugh Sykes Davies, she then married Charles Madge, though that marriage was almost as short-lived. She was a Research Fellow at Girton College, 1955–61; and Andrew Mellon Lecturer at the National Gallery of Arts in Washington, DC, in 1962. Her early poetry was published by Tambimuttu (founder of Poetry London): her first volume was Stone and Flower (1943), with illustrations by Barbara Hepworth; other collections include The Year One (1952) and Collected Poems (1956, 2000). Critical works include Blake and Tradition (2 vols, 1968–9) – ‘It makes all other studies of Blake obsolete,’ said C. S. Lewis – Thomas Taylor the Platonist: Selected Writings (1969); William Blake (1970), and Yeats, The Tarot and the Golden Dawn (1972); and she published four volumes of autobiography: Farewell Happy Fields (1972), The Land Unknown (1975), The Lion’s Mouth (1977), India Seen Afar (1990). In 1968 she failed to win the Oxford Chair of Poetry; and in 1991 she turned down an invitation from the Royal Society of Literature to become one of its ten Companions of Literature. She won the W. H. Smith Literary Award 1972, and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 1992; and in 2000 she was appointed both CBE and Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1980 she launched Temenos (‘Sacred Enclosure’), a review ‘devoted to the arts of the imagination’ and stressing ‘the intimate link between the arts and the sacred’; and in 1990, with patronage from the Prince of Wales, she founded the Temenos Academy of Integral Studies, which she styled ‘a school of wisdom’.

 evacuated to the Roberts, presented to Edith Sitwell,
Raleigh, Lady Lucie Gertrude Jackson,

2.11bRaleigh, Lady Lucie Gertrude Jackson TheRaleigh, Lady Lucie Gertrude Jacksonhosts TSE during Canterbury Murder;a1 Precincts, Canterbury, where TSE was accommodated during the production of Murder in the Cathedral, was the home of Lucy, Lady Raleigh (whose daughter had married her godfather, TSE’s friend Charles Whibley).

 hosts TSE during Canterbury Murder,
Rambert, Marie,

6.MarieRambert, Marie Rambert (1888–1982) – wife of Ashley Dukes – Polish-born ballet dancer and teacher (she studied with Nijinksy and Karsavina, joined Diaghileff’s ballet corps, and trained Frederick Ashton), founded the Ballet Rambert in 1926. Knighted in 1962. See Rambert, Quicksilver: Autobiography (1972); Clement Crisp, Ballet Rambert: 50 Years and on (1981).

 reports on Murder tour,
Ramsey, Allen Beville,

8.AllenRamsey, Allen Beville Beville Ramsey (1872–1955): Master of Magdalene College, 1925–47.
Rand, Edward Kennard,

2.E. KennardRand, Edward Kennard Rand (1871–1945), classicist and medievalist, taught at Harvard from 1901, becoming Pope Professor of Latin, 1931–42. Founded the Medieval Academy of America, 1925, and edited the journal Speculum. Author of Ovid and His Influence (1925); Studies in the Script of Tours (2 vols, 1929–34); The Building of Eternal Rome (Lowell Lectures, 1943). TSE to Gladys H. McCafferty, 19 June 1958: ‘Ken Rand was one of my teachers at Harvard for whom I have the warmest personal affection …’

 at first Norton lecture, amuses TSE with quip, praises The Dry Salvages,
'Rannoch, by Glencoe', and TSE's tour through Rannoch Moor, as remembered by Morley, sent to EH, whose comments are welcomed, re-sent with notes,
Ransom, John Crowe,

4.JohnRansom, John Crowe Crowe Ransom (1888–1974): celebrated Southern poet, critic and essayist. Educated at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and as a Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, 1910–13, he taught for many years from 1914 at Vanderbilt, where he was a central figure in the group known as the Fugitives (other prominent members included Allen Tate and Robert Penn Warren), and as a ‘Southern Agrarian’ he advocated the preservation of a traditional Southern culture centring on agriculturalism rather than on industrialism. From 1937 he taught at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, where he was founding editor of the Kenyon Review. He was a key figure in the influential critical movement known as the New Criticism. His small body of poetry includes Chills and Fever (1924) and Two Gentlemen in Bonds (1927); winner of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry 1951 and the National Book Award 1964. Works of criticism include The World’s Body (1938) and The New Criticism (1941).

 meets TSE at van Doren's,
Rattigan, Terence, Separate Tables,
Ray, Man,

1.ManRay, Man Ray (1890–1976), pioneering photographer and artist; born Emmanuel Rodnitsky, the son of a Russian-Jewish tailor who had settled in Philadelphia. He grew up in New York, where even as a teenager he adopted his redolent pseudonym, and fell under the influence of Alfred Stieglitz’s Gallery 291 on Fifth Avenue. He became one of the leaders of Dadaism and Surrealism. For most of his adult life he lived in Paris, where he built his reputation as an experimental photographer; he also made notable contributions to film.

 takes TSE's 'best portraits', which feature TSE in 'offending' hat, which are damned by EH, his aesthetic, 'best portraits' now considered 'villainous',
Raynes Park County School, TSE's prize-day appearance at, invites TSE to give talk,
Read, Herbert,

3.Herbert ReadRead, Herbert (1893–1968), English poet and literary critic: see Biographical Register.

 indebted to Hulme, on Wilfred Owen, part of Criterion inner circle, his divorce, on TSE and children, TSE formulates his dislike for, hosts TSE in Hampstead, his dismal birthday-party, and his old ladies object of TSE and JDH's practical jokes, at Dobrée's farewell lunch, begrudged contribution to Milton volume, clashes with TSE in Criterion, discusses Anglo-French relations with TSE and Saurat, TSE spends weekend with, hosts TSE in Bucks, and Bukhari to lunch with TSE, his political persuasions, wheeled out at Norwegian dinner, on Canterbury excursion,
see also Reads, the
Read, Margaret (née Ludwig), in nursing home,
see also Reads, the
Reade, Charles, Peg Woffington,
Reading by Famous Poets, Aeolian Hall, described by TSE, according to 'The Londoner's Diary', Picture Post on, Harold Nicholson on,
reading (TSE's), The Road Back, Hay Fever, sermons of Revd Dr William E. Channing, Racine's Bérénice, in general, the Bible, The Witch of Edmonton again, letters of other authors, a life of Mohammed, a life of Calvin, R. S. Wilson's life of Marcion the Heretic, Living My Life, French detective stories, French novels, recent books on economics and finance, the Epistles of St. Paul, The Lady of the Lake, Letters of Charles Eliot Norton, never deeply or widely enough, The Scarab Murder Case, translation of Dante, detective stories, Letters of Mrs Gaskell and Charles Eliot Norton, second-rate detective story, disinterestedly, for leisure, Vision of God, Faith of a Moralist, Newman's sermons, Birds of the Countryside, Modern Reader's Bible, The Face of Death, René Bazin's Charles de Foucauld, Charles Petrie's Monarchy, Thurber's My Life and Hard Times, Oliver's Endless Adventure (vol. 3), Madame Sorel's memoirs, book on French policing, detective story for committee, The League of Frightened Men, The Garden Murder Case, The Luck of the Bodkins, The House in Paris, The Life of Charles Gore, Middleton Murry's Shakespeare, Dr Goebbels for book committee, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, MS of German gunman in Chicago, Shakespeare, to replenish, Middlemarch, the Gospel, City of God, St. John of the Cross, psalm or two a day, Ibsen, Twenty Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre, poems submitted to Criterion, My Name is Million, psalms, especially Psalm 130, Edmund Burke, Lives of the Poets, Virgil,
Reading University, TSE's Humanities Club lecture,
Reads, the, take TSE to Toscanini, give TSE refuge during Blitz, house TSE's possessions,
Reckitt, Maurice,

2.MauriceReckitt, Maurice Reckitt (1888–1980), Anglo-Catholic and Christian socialist writer; editor of Christendom: A Quarterly Journal of Christian Sociology: see Biographical Register.

 drinks and smokes in godly company, at 'Pro Fide' bookshop meeting, reviews Christian Society, against TSE's elite Christian Society, and 'Notes Towards a Definition of Culture',
Redgrave, Michael,

1.According to Browne (The Making of T. S. Eliot’s Plays,147), MichaelRedgrave, Michael Redgrave – aged 31 – ‘had already made a name for himself at the Old Vic, with John Gielgud in his season at the Queen’s, and with Michel Saint-Denis at the Phoenix’. TSE to James Forsyth, 16 July 1940 (tseliot.com), on Redgrave: ‘He is a most likeable person and very easy to work with. Unlike some actors he does not assume that he knows more about the play than the author does, and is always anxious to co-operate.’

 interested in Family Reunion, agrees to play Harry, preferred to Gielgud, as Harry, which does not increase his reputation, performance pruned by Martin Browne,
Reed, Henry,

1.HenryReed, Henry Reed on ‘The Making of a Poem’, BBC, with reading by Cecil Trouncer. TrouncerTrouncer, Cecil (1898–1953), British actor, best known for appearances in films including Pygmalion (1938); later, London Belongs to Me (1948), The Magic Box (1951) and The Pickwick Papers (1952).

 his broadcast on 'Gerontion' approved,
Rees, Goronwy,

1.GoronwyRees, Goronwy Rees (1909–79), Welsh writer and academic.
Rees, Sir Richard,

2.SirRees, Sir Richard Richard Rees, 2nd Baronet (1900–70) – diplomat, writer, artist – the original of Ravelston in George Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying – was editor of The Adelphi, 1930–6. His works include Brave Men: A Study of D. H. Lawrence and Simone Weil (1958), George Orwell: Fugitive from the Camp of Victory (1961) and Simone Weil: A Sketch for a Portrait (1966).
Reeves, John Morris,

6.JohnReeves, John Morris Morris Reeves (1909–78), who published as James Reeves, was at this time a final-year student of English at Jesus College, Cambridge (where he edited Granta and collaborated with Jacob Bronowski in founding the periodical Experiment). He was a schoolmaster and lecturer in teachers’ training colleges, 1933–52. A prolific poet, author, writer for children, and critical anthologist, his publications included Collected Poems, 1929–74 (1974); Complete Poems for Children (1973); Understanding Poetry (1965). See also ‘A conversation with James Reeves’, the Review (Oxford) no. 11–12 [no date], 68–70.
Reith, Sir John Charles Walsham,

8.SirReith, Sir John Charles Walsham John Reith (1889–1971) – Director-General of the BBC, 1927–38 – wrote on 31 Mar.: ‘I have listened to your four talks with great interest, and satisfaction – for want of a better word. I should like particularly to mention the last one, which I thought most impressive. I hope it will have some real effect among those who listened to it.’

 compliments and thereby disconcerts TSE,
Reitz, Leila (née Wright),

8.LeilaReitz, Leila (née Wright) Reitz, née Wright (1887–1959), South African politician, social reformer, advocate of women’s rights and suffrage – the first woman elected to Parliament in S. Africa, she served in the House of Assembly, 1933–43 – was married to the lawyer and politician Deneys Reitz (1882–1944), who had served with distinction in the Boer Wars and enjoyed a prominent career culminating in his appointment as South African High Commissioner to the UK, 1943.
'Religion and Literature',
religion, religious beliefs,
see Christianity
Religious Drama Conference, Oxford, 1955,
'Religious Drama: Mediæval and Modern',
Remarque, Erich, The Road Back,
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, his Barnes Foundation paintings delight,
Repplier, Agnes,

17.AgnesRepplier, Agnes Repplier (1855–1950), noted American essayist based in Philadelphia.
'Responsibility of the European Man of Letters, The', trilingual commission, French broadcast, German broadcast,
'Responsibility of the Man of Letters in the Cultural Restoration of Europe, The', and The Norseman, Norseman sent to EH,
Reunion by Destruction: Reflections on a Scheme for Church Union in South India, contemplated by TSE, suspended, on its second draft, sent to EH, for which TSE prepares her,
Reynolds, Joshua, TSE joins club founded by, in Ragley Hall's collection,
Rice, Elmer,

8.ElmerRice, Elmer Rice, born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein (1892–1967), playwright, socialist, screenwriter, enjoyed Broadway success with plays including On Trial (1914), The Adding Machine (1923) and Street Scene (1929; Pulitzer Prize for Drama). He was the first director of the New York office of the Federal Theater Project. See too The Living Theatre (1960); Minority Report (autobiography, 1964).

 succeeds TSE as Norton Professor, produces Federal Theatre Murder, resigns from production,
Richards, Audrey,

1.AudreyRichards, Audrey Richards (1899–1984): social anthropologist and author, who had taught and undertaken research at the London School of Economics, at the University of Witwatersrand, and at the University of London, was the first Director of the East African Institute of Social Research at Makerere College, Kampala, Uganda, 1950–6. She was later to hold the post of Smuts Reader in Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 1961–7. Appointed CBE in 1955, she was elected FBA in 1967. See further Adam Kuper, ‘Audrey Richards 1899–1984’, in Cambridge Women: Twelve Portraits, ed. Edward Shils and Carmen Blacker (1996), 221–44.
Richards, Dorothy (née Pilley), TSE's fondness for, as hostess,
see also Richardses, the
Richards, Gwynedd,

1.GwyneddRichards, Gwynedd was Enid Faber’s sister; DorothyFaber, Dorothy Brace was Geoffrey Faber’s sister.
Richards, Ivor Armstrong ('I. A.'),

4.I. A. RichardsRichards, Ivor Armstrong ('I. A.') (1893–1979), theorist of literature, education and communication studies: see Biographical Register.

 indebted to Hulme, his admiration for Hopkins, in TSE's assessment, consulted on Harvard living arrangements, his character and background, invites TSE to Antony and Cleopatra, telegrams praise for Murder, likes 'Cape Ann', Empson's mentor, invites TSE to Pepys Dinner, and TSE's honorary fellowship, vacillating on Harvard position, which he commits to, extends TSE 1940 American invitation, recommended for EH's 'criticism' course, has appendicitis, and TSE's honorary Harvard degree, invited for Institute for Advanced Study discussion, and Lewis's portrait of TSE,
see also Richardses, the
Richards, Philip S.,

1.PhilipRichards, Philip S. S. Richards, a graduate of University College Southampton, taught at a secondary school in Portsmouth and was a contributor to the Criterion; author of Belief in Man (1932); Humanism (1934); The Challenge of the Church to Humanism (1936).

 weekend's walking in Sussex with, described for EH,
Richardses, the, at the Eliots' tea-party, compared to the Pickthorns, host TSE for Cambridge weekend, on TSE's stay, treat TSE to G. C. Coulton and Shakespeare, TSE rewatches The Rock with, leaving England for Harvard, host TSE before departing Magdalene, wartime dinner with,
Richardson, Samuel, unread by TSE,
Richmond, Bruce,

3.BruceRichmond, Bruce Richmond (1871–1964), editor of the TLS, 1902–37.

 discovered lunching with David Garnett, recommends TSE for Oxford and Cambridge Club, TSE plots his TLS successor, in his usual club chair, TSE's obligation to,
see also Richmonds, the
Richmond, Elena, interests TSE in Hindu cause, home-hunting for TSE in Hampshire,
see also Richmonds, the
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.
Richmonds, the, TSE's new South Kensington neighbours, TSE's alcholic weekend with, host TSE in Sussex, TSE's Netherhampton weekends with, make their home over to maternity hospital,
Ridler, Anne (née Bradby),

3.AnneRidler, Anne (née Bradby) (Bradby) Ridler (30 July 1912–2001), poet, playwright, editor; worked as TSE’s secretary, 1936–40: see Biographical Register.

 already favoured for F&F promotion, greatly preferred to O'Donovan, her secretarial duties, impresses TSE, her impending marriage, ill and engaged, invites TSE to be godfather, TSE writes preface for, TSE's blurb for, writes letter of condolence to GCF, presented to Edith Sitwell, 'une âme pure', Little Book of Modern Verse, The Shadow Factory,
Ritz, The, TSE gives theatre tea-party at,
Roberts, Andrew, delights in clockwork train, loves 'Skimbleshanks',
see also Robertses, the
Roberts, Edward Adam,

4.EdwardRoberts, Edward Adam Adam Roberts (b. 29 Aug. 1940) was in due course to be Montague Burton Professor of International Relations and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford; President of the British Academy. Knighted in 2002.

 TSE's godson, silver mug bought for, as baby, TSE considers financial responsibility for,
see also Robertses, the
Roberts, Harriet Ide Keen,
Roberts, Janet, just returned from the Alps, laments The Criterion's closure, remembers EH in Scotland, her parents recalled by EH, sends TSE butter, resemblance to husband, TSE's fondness for, writes about Rome broadcast, confides Michael's illness, following Michael's death, TSE reads to her children, dinner with over Christmas, worried about Michael's job,
see also Robertses, the
Roberts, John,

1.TSE to Robert Speaight, 4 Nov. 1947: ‘Could you do me the kindness of dining with me on Wednesday the 12th to meet G. B. Angioletti who will be here under the auspices of the British Council. I do not know whether you know him though I am sure you are one of the people he would like to meet. He used to be Italian correspondent of The Criterion and is a very well known man of letters. I don’t think he speaks much English, but I am pretty sure of his French although I have only known him by correspondence in all the years of our acquaintance.’ The identity of the other man at the dinner party is not knownRoberts, John.

 his christening,
see also Robertses, the
Roberts, Michael,

1.MichaelRoberts, Michael Roberts (1902–48), critic, editor, poet: see Biographical Register.

 sketched in thumbnail, reviews Collected Poems, introduces radio Waste Land, described for EH, EH interests herself in, singles out Burnt Norton, asks TSE to be godfather, fingered for TSE's mentor role, recommended for EH's 'criticism' course, working for BBC, resemblance to wife, assists TSE in judging translations, at Norwegian diplomatic dinner, makes way for TSE's broadcast, terminally ill, dies of leukaemia, The Modern Mind, New Signatures, T. E. Hulme,
see also Robertses, the
Roberts, Richard Ellis,

1.RichardRoberts, Richard Ellis Ellis Roberts (1879–1953), author and critic; literary editor of the New Statesman & Nation, 1932–4; Life and Letters To­day, 1934; biographer of Stella Benson (1939).

 presses religious dining-club on TSE, likened to Mr Chadband, member of All Souls Club,
Roberts, Ursula,

3.UrsulaRoberts, Ursula Roberts (1887–1971), author, was married to the Revd William Corbett Roberts, vicar of St George’s Church, Bloomsbury, London. She was a member of the Church League for Women’s Suffrage (later the League of the Church Militant); Hon. Treasurer and Hon. Press Secretary of the East Midland Federation of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies; a member of the Anglican Group for the Ordination of Women; and a member of the interdenominational Society for the Ministry of Women in the Church. Writing as ‘Susan Miles’, publications includine Dunch (1918), The Hares, and other verses (1924) and Lettice Delmer (novel in verse, 1958; repr. 2002); and a biography of her husband, Portrait of a Person (1955).
Robertses, the, evacuate to Penrith, to where they invite TSE, and which TSE eventually visits, TSE's second Penrith visit, among TSE's few intimates, third son born to, Easter Egg hunt with, in mourning,
Robertson, Sir Malcolm,

1.SirRobertson, Sir Malcolm Malcolm Robertson (1877–1951), diplomat and politician – Ambassador to Argentina, 1927–9; Conservative MP for Mitcham, Surrey, 1940–5 – served as Chairman of the British Council, 1941–5.
Robeson, Paul, his evocative 'Ol' Man River',
Robinson, Dolly,

11.DollyRobinson, Dolly Robinson (1901–77), artist and theatre designer, was granddaughter on her mother’s side of Edward Dowden (1843–1913), critic and poet; Professor of Oratory and English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin.
Robinson, Edwin Arlington,

1.EdwinRobinson, Edwin Arlington Arlington Robinson (1869–1935), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

 due at poets' dinner, but doesn't show,
Robinson, Fred,

7.FredRobinson, Fred Robinson (1871–1966), distinguished Celticist and scholar of Chaucer – his invaluable edition of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was to appear in 1933 – Gurney Professor of English, Harvard.

 accompanies TSE and Hinkleys to theatre,
Robinson, Lennox,

3.LennoxRobinson, Lennox Robinson (1886–1958) – playwright – wrote on 17 June: ‘I hope you’ll be comfortable, it’s only a small house but nicely situated. Of course I’ll meet you on arrival.’

 The Far-Off Hills,
Robson, Flora, as Lady Macbeth,
Rock, The, TSE invited to write, outlined to the Martin Brownes, as TSE's theatrical apprenticeship, outlined for EH, TSE's motivation in undertaking, four choruses drafted, from which TSE quotes approvingly, TSE busy on the prose, its political, anti-Blackshirt scene, and its censors, its 'bastard' cockney, 'Rahere' scene sent to EH, its production, difficulties of composition, and Patricia Shaw-Page's 'prologue', awaiting final chorus, on the point of completion, cockney dialogue revised, Lord Chamberlain's Office pronounces on, its anti-fascism, in rehearsal, the dress-rehearsal, opening night and reception, cuts pondered, Tandy on cuts to, approaching finale, reception, two connected supper-parties, its choruses, Cornish schoolgirl recites chorus from, quoted by EH, EH on,
Roditi, Edouard,

2.EdouardRoditi, Edouard Roditi (1910–92), poet, critic, biographer, translator: see Biographical Register.

 appeals to TSE for direction,
Rodrigues, Agostinho,

1.AgostinhoRodrigues, Agostinho Rodrigues (?1912–95), sculptor, was born in Madeira; worked for a while in London before leaving in 1940 to study in the USA, where he passed the rest of his life.

 TSE sitting for, sculpts bust of TSE,
Roelker, Anna Rossiter,

3.AnnaRoelker, Anna Rossiter Rossiter Roelker (1887–1974), wife of William Greene Roelker, historian, of Providence, R.I.
Rogers, Paul, in Murder in the Cathedral,
Rojas, José Antonio Muñoz,

2.JoséRojas, José Antonio Muñoz Antonio Muñoz Rojas (1909–2009), poet, translator and editor.
Roll, Erich, TSE rewriting About Money,
Rolle, Richard,
Rome,
see Italy
Roosevelt, Eleanor, her feminism approved at Shamley, gives speech, approved by TSE, guest of honour at library-opening, Downing Street reception for,
Roosevelt, Franklin D., an inspriration to radicals, TSE on prospect of his re-election, TSE's preference in 1936 election, TSE's views on, makes appeal to Hitler, and Italy's declaration of war, re-elected, 'Day of Infamy' speech, compared to Truman,
see also First New Deal
Root, Robert Kilburn,

2.RobertRoot, Robert Kilburn Kilburn Root (1877–1950) taught at Princeton from 1905; as Professor of English, 1926–33; Dean of the Faculty, 1933–46. Works include The Poetry of Chaucer (1906).
Rosenberg, Isaac,

10.IsaacRosenberg, Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), English poet, artist and soldier (killed in action); widely recognised as one of the most important poets of WWI: one of sixteen WW1 poets to be commemorated with a stone in Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey. See further Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Isaac Rosenberg, poet and painter (1975). Jack Isaacs reported in a letter (‘Eliot’s Friends’, The Observer, 18 June 1967) that TSE first heard of Isaac Rosenberg from Sydney Schiff – ‘and Eliot praised [Rosenberg] and spread his fame long before the bandwagon rumbled. He once said to me that no English anthology that did not include Rosenberg was worth anything.’

 TSE courted to preface his poems, championed by TSE, as war poet,
Rosenthal, Fr George David,

3.FrRosenthal, Fr George David George David Rosenthal (1881–1938) – ‘Rosie’ – a graduate of Keble College, Oxford, was from 1918 Vicar of St Agatha’s, Sparkbrook, Birmingham. His family was Jewish, but his father had converted to Christianity and became a priest in the Church of England.

 produces whisky and cigars, put out by Harris,
Rossetti, Christina, quoted by a maudlin TSE, recited at Poetry Bookshop, admired by TSE, worshipper at Christ Church, Woburn Square, Virginia Woolf's hairstyle likened to, EH sends TSE prayer of,
Rotch, Edith Eliot (TSE's cousin),

3.EdithRotch, Edith Eliot (TSE's cousin) Eliot Rotch (1874–1969), a graduate of Radcliffe College, became a champion ice skater and tennis player, winner of the national women’s doubles in 1909 and 1910; she later became an expert on radio operation, working for two decades for the Postal Telegraph Company.
Rotha, Paul,

7.PaulRotha, Paul Rotha (1907–84) – born Paul Thompson – documentary filmmaker, film historian and critic; collaborator with John Grierson. See Rotha, Documentary Film (F&F, 1935).
Rothenstein, Sir William,

5.SirRothenstein, Sir William William Rothenstein (1872–1945), artist and administrator: see Biographical Register.

 his drawings sent to EH, TSE on his drawing, drawings not unacceptable to EH, at Fred Manning's funeral, writes Manning's obituary,
Rothermere, Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount, and The Rock,
Rothermere, Mary Lilian (née Share),

1.MaryRothermere, Mary Lilian (née Share) Lilian Rothermere, née Share (1874–1937), Viscountess Rothermere. The daughter of George Wade Share, she married in 1893 Harold Sydney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868–1940). Discussions concerning her support of The Criterion – a successor to Art and Letters – began in July 1921, and the project became a reality when the first issue of the Criterion appeared in Oct. 1922, featuring the first UK publication of The Waste Land.

 introduced to TSE by Sydney Schiff, TSE recalls wearing make-up to the parties of,
Rothschild, Victor,

1.TheRothschild, Victor Hutchinsons’ daughter Barbara was engaged to be married, on 28 Dec. 1933, to Victor Rothschild (1910–90), who would become a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, 1935–9. In 1937 he was to succeed his uncle as 3rd Baron Rothschild.

 disapproved of by parents-in-law, TSE's first impressions of, takes in JDH,
see also Rothschilds, the
Rothschilds, the, as JDH's hosts,
Rowe, Sir Reginald Percy Pfeiffer,

6.SirRowe, Sir Reginald Percy Pfeiffer Reginald Percy Pfeiffer (‘P.P.’) Rowe (1868–1945), barrister, philanthropist, poet and novelist; Under Treasurer of Lincoln’s Inn; Chairman, since 1910, of the Improved Tenements Association (he was knighted in 1934 for this important social work); founder and Hon. Treasurer of the Sadler’s Wells Fund; President of National Federation of Housing Societies.

 meddles with Russian ballet,
Rowse, Alfred Leslie ('A. L.'),

3.A. L. RowseRowse, Alfred Leslie ('A. L.') (1903–97), Cornish historian and poet: see Biographical Register.

 compared qua Marxist to Mirsky and Murry, at risk of assaulting Smyth, as 'Cornishman', at heavy Criterion gathering, at All Souls dinner, takes issue with Spender,
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, TSE's speech to,
Royal Horticultural Society, TSE makes presentation to,
Royal Societies Club, inferior to the Oxford and Cambridge,
royalism, and TSE's hypothetical political party,
Rudge, Olga,
'Rudyard Kipling', contemplated, begun, laid aside, taken on holiday, prevents all other work, finished with GCF's help, approved by Kipling's daughter, approved by EH,
Rukeyser, Muriel, attends the Vassar Sweeney Agonistes,
Rundle, Stanley, Language as a Social and Political Factor,
Ruskin, John, fathered Bloomsbury,
Russell, Ada Dwyer,

10.AdaRussell, Ada Dwyer Dwyer Russell (1863–1952), American actor who in 1912 entered into a romantic partnership with the poet Amy Lowell. Earlier in her life Dwyer had married an actor named Harold Russell, but the couple had promptly separated following the birth of a daughter – they were never to be divorced – and it was almost two decades afterwards that she began the lesbian relationship with Lowell.
Russell, Bertrand, his malign influence, first impressions of TSE, impressions of VHE, introduced TSE to OM, once introduced TSE to A. N. Whitehead, and TSE's conversion, his decline traced, barred from teaching philosophy, barred by American judge,
Russell, Francis, Baron Russell of Killowen,

6.FrancisRussell, Francis, Baron Russell of Killowen Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen (1867–1946), Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
Russell Hotel, The, TSE's week at,
Russell, William George ('Æ'),

9.WilliamRussell, William George ('Æ') George Russell, known by the cipher Æ (1867–1935), writer, critic, poet, painter.

 being exhibited in Dublin,
Ryan, James,

17.JamesRyan, James Ryan (1891–1970), Fianna Fáil politician; Minister for Agriculture, 1932–47.
Rylands, George ('Dadie'),

1.GeorgeRylands, George ('Dadie') ‘Dadie’ Rylands (1902–99), literary scholar and theatre director, was from 1927 a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Early publications included Russet and Taffeta (verse, 1925), Poems (1931) and Words and Poetry (1928) – all published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press (for which he worked for six months in 1924). As director of the Marlowe Society, he became famous for his productions of plays by Shakespeare; he taught generations of talented students including Peter Hall, Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen; and in 1946 he became chairman of the Arts Theatre, Cambridge. He was appointed CH in 1987.

 disliked by TSE, TSE advises on directing Family Reunion, which production he remembers to EVE,
Sachville, Herbrand, 9th Earl de la Warr,

3.HerbrandSachville, Herbrand, 9th Earl de la Warr Sachville, 9th Earl De La Warr (1900–75), was the first hereditary peer to join the Labour Party: he held a number of ministerial posts (including President of the Board of Education, 1938–40), and concluded his political career by serving as Postmaster-General in the last Conservative administration of Winston Churchill.
Sackville-West, Vita, TSE on, Annie Lamb recounts family history of, rated at Aeolian Hall reading, All Passion Spent,
Sacred Wood, The, EH discovers inscribed copy of,
Sadler, Sir Michael, donations to Bodleian via,
Sadler's Wells Theatre, Twelfth Night at, Hamlet at, Midsummer Night's Dream at, produces The Cherry Orchard, to produce Henry VIII, presents Love for Love, The Friends of Sadler's Wells, how TSE became involved with, Lilian Baylis impresses at,
Saerchinger, César,

3.CésarSaerchinger, César Saerchinger (1884–1971), American broadcaster and writer; Director of European Service, Columbia Broadcasting System; author of Hello, America! Radio Adventures in Europe (1938), The Way Out of War (1940) and Artur Schnabel: A Biography (1958).
St. Andrew's Church, Bemerton, compared to Little Gidding,
St. Andrew's, Walberswick,
St. Anne's Church House, Soho, initial meeting at, TSE's connection with, TSE chairs talk at, 'Culture Class', final 'Culture Class', lunch-hour Lenten talk for,
St. Augustine, City of God,
St. Botolph Club, Boston, TSE a temporary member, dreaded poets' dinner at,
St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, engages TSE to speak, and 'The Need for Poetic Drama', TSE's Shirley Society address,
St. Catherine's School, Richmond, Va., EH and possible short-term post at, whose terms EH rejects, then reconsiders, keeps EH in suspense, ultimately disappoints her,
St. Cyprian's Church, Clarence Gate, described for EH,
St. Edmund's Church, Southwold,
St. George's Church, Crowhurst, TSE on,
St. Ignatius of Loyola, recommended to TSE by Underhill,
St. John of the Cross, and Miss Plunket Greene, in Burnt Norton, his obscurity, discussed at JDH's, in Sweeney and generally, on spiritual sin, wartime reading,
St. John's Catholic Seminary, Wonersh, and 'Johnson as Critic and Poet',
St. John's Church, Waterloo Road,
St. John's College, Cambridge, TSE attends feast at,
St. John's Episcopal Church, Northampton,
St. Louis,
see America
St. Luke's, Sydney Street, early communion at, local to Carlyle Mansions,
St. Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge, hallowed by memories of EH,
St. Mary the Virgin, Iffley, TSE and Paul More visit,
St. Mary Woolnoth, King William Street, TSE gives CNL talk at,
St. Mary's Church, Leighton Bromswold, Herbert-inspired pilgrimage to,
St. Paul, TSE on reading, as saint, and orthodoxy,
St. Paul's Cathedral, London, TSE and EH's taxi-ride round, Underhill and Kirk's consecration, in wartime, Demant made canon at, requiem for Laud at,
St. Paul's School, London, addressed on modern poetry,
St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Lavenham,
St. Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, EH encouraged to visit, vestry goings-on, churchwarding at, Christmas at, receives TSE's BBC fee, two days' continuous prayer at, Christmas without, Lent without, wartime Easter at, in wartime, wartime Holy Week, TSE reduced to Sundays at, fundraising for,
Saint-Denis, Michel,

2.CompagnieSaint-Denis, Michel des Quinze: theatre production company organised by Michel Saint-Denis (nephew of Jacques Copeau), together with the playwright André Obey, at the Théatre du Vieux-Colombier, Paris, 1929–34.

 counsels Doone against Mercury venture, has proposal for TSE, his Three Sisters, his White Guard, interested in Family Reunion, negotiating with Dukes, his Twelfth Night, his Family Reunion interest checked,
Saintsbury, George,

7.GeorgeSaintsbury, George Saintsbury (1846–1933), English literary critic, scholar and historian; Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, 1895–1915. TSE had selected Saintsbury’s essay ‘Dullness’ to launch the Criterion: 1: 1 (Oct. 1922), 1–15.

 TSE pays homage to final dwelling-place,
Salazar, António de Oliveira,

4.AntónioSalazar, António de Oliveira de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970), leader of the authoritarian government of Portugal. F&F was to publish books by and about him.

 F&F to publish book by, in TSE's recollection,
Salisbury Cathedral, evensong at,
Samuel, Walter, 2nd Viscount Bearsted,

7.WalterSamuel, Walter, 2nd Viscount Bearsted Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted, MC (1882–1948); chair since 1921 of the Shell Transport and Trading Company (forerunner of the oil and gas multinational Shell; founded in 1897 by his father and uncle); collector of art – his collection included works by Rembrandt, Canaletto and Hogarth – at the family home at Upton House, Warwickshire.
Sandburg, Carl,

4.W. H. AudenAuden, Wystan Hugh ('W. H.')condoles TSE over Sandburg accusation;c2n (Brooklyn Heights, NYC, 17 Dec. 1940): ‘That dreary old banjo-strummer Carl Sandburg attacked you the other day as a fascist. If I were an American already I should have written an answer to the Herald Tribune, but I suppose it’s better to let such lies die of themselves.’ SandburgSandburg, Carl (1878–1967), poet, biographer, editor, and writer for children. A proud midwesterner, he grew up in Illinois and left school at thirteen in order to take up a series of labouring jobs before becoming a reporter for the Chicago Daily News. In his mature years he produced many works in prose including a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Abraham Lincoln, and popular works for children rooted in the local culture including Rootabaga Stories (1922); collections of folk songs; and volumes of poetry including Chicago Poems (1916), Corn Huskers (1918), Smoke and Steel (1920) and Collected Poems (1950).

 accuses TSE of fascism,
Sands, Ethel,

2.EthelSands, Ethel Sands (1873–1962), wealthy and cultured American-born artist, patron and collector: at her London home, 15 The Vale, Chelsea, she courted many of the artists and writers of the age.

 bores TSE, 'right' kind of American abroad,
Sankey, John, Viscount Sankey,

1.JohnSankey, John, Viscount Sankey Sankey, Viscount Sankey (1866–1948), Labour politician, was Lord Chancellor, 1929–35. Anglo-Catholic.
Sansom, George,

1.GeorgeSansom, George Sansom (1883–1965), British commercial counsellor in Tokyo, 1926–39. HisSansom, Katherine wife was Katharine Sansom (1883–1998), journalist; author of Living in Tokyo (1937). Knighted in 1935, Sansom was elected in 1947 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. After the war, he became the first Director of the Far Eastern Institute at Columbia University. Works include Japan: A Short Cultural History (1931); History of Japan (3 vols, 1958–64). See Gordon Daniels, ‘Sir George Sansom (1883–1965): Historian and Diplomat’, Britain and Japan 1859–1991: Themes and Personalities, ed. Sir Hugh Cortazzi and Gordon Daniels (1991), 277–88.
Sansom, Katherine,

1.GeorgeSansom, George Sansom (1883–1965), British commercial counsellor in Tokyo, 1926–39. HisSansom, Katherine wife was Katharine Sansom (1883–1998), journalist; author of Living in Tokyo (1937). Knighted in 1935, Sansom was elected in 1947 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. After the war, he became the first Director of the Far Eastern Institute at Columbia University. Works include Japan: A Short Cultural History (1931); History of Japan (3 vols, 1958–64). See Gordon Daniels, ‘Sir George Sansom (1883–1965): Historian and Diplomat’, Britain and Japan 1859–1991: Themes and Personalities, ed. Sir Hugh Cortazzi and Gordon Daniels (1991), 277–88.
Sansom, Robert,

2.RobertSansom, Robert Sansom (1903–79), actor; subsequently best known for film and TV work.

 as Becket in Murder, known to EH,
Santayana, George,
Sargent, Daniel,

34.DanielSargent, Daniel Sargent (1890–1987), historian, biographer, and poet, taught at Harvard, 1914–34, and was thereafter a full-time writer. Author of eleven books including Thomas More (1933). He lived at 30 The Fenway, Boston Mass., and was Secretary of the Boston Art Commission.
see also Sargents, the
Sargent, John Singer,
Sargents, the, host TSE and Maritain,
Saroyan, William,

7.WilliamSaroyan, William Saroyan (1908–81): American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist; author of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934) and The Time of Your Life (play, 1939), winner of the Pulitzer Prize (declined) and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, and adapted for a 1948 film starring James Cagney.

 TSE making story selection of, TSE's blurbs for, finally meets TSE, The Beautiful People,
Sartre, Jean-Paul, denounced along with TSE, Huis-Clos,
Sassoon, Lady Sybil, Marchioness of Cholmondeley,

2.SybilSassoon, Lady Sybil, Marchioness of Cholmondeley Sassoon (1894–1989) – scion of the Sassoon banking family – married (1913) George Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley (1883–1968), of Houghton Hall, Norfolk.
Sassoon, Siegfried,

5.SiegfriedSassoon, Siegfried Sassoon, MC (1886–1967), poet, writer and soldier. Initially recognised as a war poet and satirist, he won greater fame with his fictionalised autobiography Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (F&F, 1928: James Tait Black Award), which was followed by Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston’s Progress (1936). He was appointed CBE in 1951.

 bumps into TSE, described for EH, Hodgson's affection for encourages TSE's, as war poet,
Saunders, Douglas,
Saurat, Denis,

3.DenisSaurat, Denis Saurat (1890–1958), Anglo-French scholar, writer, broadcaster; Professor of French Language and Literature, King’s College London, 1926–50; Director of the Institut français du Royaume Uni, 1924–45; author of La Pensée de Milton (1920: Milton: Man and Thinker, 1925).

 arranges TSE's introduction to de Gaulle, at Valéry memorial, at Centre Universitaire Meditérranéen,
Savage, Roland Buke, SJ,

5.RolandSavage, Roland Buke, SJ Burke Savage, SJ (1912–98) – a student at the time: a scholastic pursuing his university studies – invited TSE to participate in the Inaugural Meeting of the English Literary Society of University College, Dublin, to take place on 22 Jan. 1936 (Burke Savage was the Auditor), for a fee of £25 plus expenses. TSE would be expected in the first instance to speak to the Auditor’s Paper, ‘Literature at the Irish Crossroads’ – of which the ‘general trend’ would be ‘an analysis of the “Celtic Renaissance” movement, and some thoughts on the future development of an “English Literature” in Ireland’, said Savage – and they would arrange too for TSE to give, on the following day, a lecture on any literary subject of his own choosing. Burke Savage sent a covering note on 7 Jan. 1936, along with a copy of his address for TSE’s information. The Inaugural Meeting of the English Literary Society, University College, Dublin, 23 Jan. 1936, was to be chaired by Dr Coffey, President. The ‘Auditor’s Address’ was entitled ‘Literature at the Irish Crossroads’: see CProse 5, 293–9. TSE would propose the ‘Resolution’, ‘That the Auditor deserves the best thanks of the Society for his Address’; he was to be seconded by Professor Daniel Corkery.
Save the Children Fund, TSE's speech for, for which he is thanked,
Savile Club, London, lunch with Yeats at, hosts dinner honouring Murder,
Sayers, Dorothy L.,

1.DorothySayers, Dorothy L. L. Sayers (1893–1957), crime writer, playwright, translator, essayist: see Biographical Register.

 congratulates TSE on Family Reunion, on Family Reunion and Christian acceptance, takes tea with TSE, scheme for a wartime theatre, her Christian News-Letter contributions, at Bishop Bell's conference,
Sayers, Michael,

1.MichaelSayers, Michael Sayers (1911–2010), Dublin-born writer of Jewish Lithuanian ancestry, had been taught French at Trinity College, Dublin, by Samuel Beckett. In the 1930s he was drama critic of the New English Weekly and, for a time, shared a flat in Kilburn, London, with George Orwell and Rayner Heppenstall. Some of his stories were included in Best British Short Stories, ed. Edward O’Brien; but in 1936 he left London for New York, where he worked as dramaturge for the designer and producer Norman Bel Geddes. During WW2 his interests pursued a pro-communist direction, for which he was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee (having until that time enjoyed success as a writer for NBC Television). In later years he wrote plays for the BBC, and contributed episodes to TV series including Robin Hood and Ivanhoe. He worked too on the screenplay of Casino Royale (1967).
Scaife, Roger L.,

3.RogerScaife, Roger L. L. Scaife (1875–1951), Harvard graduate, worked for Houghton Mifflin from 1898; for Little, Brown from 1934; and in 1943, aged 68, he became the fourth director of Harvard University Press, retiring in 1947. Max Hall, Harvard University Press: A History (1986).
Schelling, Felix E.,

9.FelixSchelling, Felix E. E. Schelling (1858–1945), John Welsh Centennial Professor of English Literature, University of Pennsylvania. Scholar of Renaissance Studies.
Schiff, Sydney (Stephen Hudson),

8.SydneySchiff, Sydney (Stephen Hudson) Schiff (1868–1944), British novelist and translator: see Biographical Register.

 owns Wyndham Lewis's drawing of TSE, described for EH,
Schildkraut, Joseph, singled out in La Gallienne's Camille,
Schlumberger, Jean,

5.JeanSchlumberger, Jean Schlumberger (1877–1968), novelist, dramatist, and poet; co-founder of the Nouvelle Revue Française. His writings include L’Inquiete paternité (1911), Un Homme heureux (1921), Saint-Saturnin (1931), Plaisirs à Corneille (1937) and Éveils (1950).
Schubert, Franz,
Schuman, Robert,

1.RobertSchuman, Robert Schuman (1886–1963): French statesman (born in Luxembourg); Christian Democrat; Minister of Finance, 1946–7; Prime Minister, 1947–8; Foreign Minister, 1948–53. His ‘Schuman Declaration’ (made on 9 May 1950) sought to develop supranational European institutions: the concept would in time beget the Council of Europe and the European Union.
Schumann, Robert,
Schumpeter, Joseph,

5.JosephSchumpeter, Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), influential Austrian-born political economist; Finance Minister of German-Austria, 1919. Professor of Economics, Harvard University.

 meets TSE at Professor Nock's,
Scofield, Paul,

7.PaulScofield, Paul Scofield (1922–2008): renowned British actor; awarded Best Performance by a Leading Actor in the 1962 Tony Awards for his performance in the Broadway production of A Man for All Seasons (he received too the Academy Award for Best Actor for his reprisal in the movie, 1966). Many other accolades included Best Actor in a Supporting Role (BAFTA) for his performance in The Crucible (1996). Appointed CBE, 1956; CH, 2001.

 as Troilus at Stratford, Family Reunion's finest Harry,
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,
Scott, Mary Derby (née Peabody),

3.MaryScott, Mary Derby (née Peabody) Derby Scott, née Peabody (1881–1981), daughter of the prominent Boston architect Robert Swain Peabody.
Scott, Walter, and the Literary Society, beloved of Grandfather Stearns, The Lady of the Lake, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion,
Scotti, Prince Tommaso Gallarati,

5.PrinceScotti, Prince Tommaso Gallarati Tommaso Gallarati Scotti (1878–1966): author, soldier, diplomat; Ambassador to the UK, 1946–51.
Scripps College, Claremont, EH headhunted to teach at, but EH declines post, still a possibility, TSE on whether or not to accept post, which EH does, TSE hopes to visit EH at, sounds picturesque, EH expects suite at, EH reassured about feeling 'inadequate', EH arrives at, TSE asks for full report of, grows on EH, EH's all-arts theatrical workshop at, TSE's lecture at, TSE's desire to deliver EH from, TSE's visit to, its suspicious characters, its effect on EH despaired of, year's leave requested from, EH considers returning to, encouraged by TSE to return, despite TSE forswearing, refuses EH's return, EH on not returning, under Jaqua, EH's existence at, EH's extra-curricular work at, preferred to Smith, bequeathed EH's TSE book collection, compared to Concord Academy,
Seabury, Frida Semler,

1.MortimerSeabury, Mortimer Seabury (1886–1968); FridaSeabury, Frida Semler Semler Seabury (1887–1974).
Seabury, Mortimer,

1.MortimerSeabury, Mortimer Seabury (1886–1968); FridaSeabury, Frida Semler Semler Seabury (1887–1974).
Sears, the,
Seaver, Mattie,

4.MattieSeaver, Mattie Seaver (1885–1964), whom TSE knew as a resident of St. Louis, Missouri.
Seaverns, Helen,

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

 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,
Second Sino-Japanese War,
Second World War, the prospect of, F&F plans in the event of, Britain's preparations for, prognostications as to its outbreak, and The Family Reunion, and the policy of appeasement, and transatlantic tourism, evacuation imminent, TSE discusses its outbreak with Dutchman, TSE refrains from commenting on, TSE's thoughts on, its effect on TSE, the 'Winter War', the 'Phoney War', Molotov–Ribbentrop pact, rationing, evacuation, seems continuous with First World War, invasion of Poland, invasion of Denmark and Norway, Chamberlain's resignation, Italy's declaration of war, Dunkirk, The Blitz, Battle of Cape Matapan, Operation Barbarossa, Greece enters war, Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War, Libyan campaign, North African campaign, and TSE's decision to remain in England, in relation to the First, prospect of its end unsettles, and returning to London, bombing of German cities, its effect on TSE's work, prognostications as to its end, the Little Blitz, Operation Overlord, V-1 Cruise Missile strikes, Operation Market Garden, and continental privations, and post-war European prospects, The Battle of the Bulge, possibility of post-war pandemic, V-2 Bombs, concentration camps, Germany's surrender, VE Day, and post-war Anglo-American relations, VJ Day, atomic bomb, its long-term economic consequences,
Sedgwick, Christina Davenport,

2.ChristinaSedgwick, Christina Davenport Davenport Sedgwick (1897–1951) married in 1922 the novelist John Philip Marquand (1893–1960) – who had worked as a journalist for the Boston Evening Transcript and was to win the Pulitzer Prize for The Late George Apley (1938) and enjoyed continuing success with the series of ‘Mr Moto’ spy novels, 1935–57. They were to divorce in 1935.
Sedgwick, Mabel (née Cabot),

8.MabelSedgwick, Mabel (née Cabot) Sedgwick, née Cabot, wife of William Ellery Sedgwick, Jr. (1872–1960), editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1908–38.
see also (William) Ellery Sedgwicks, the
Sedgwick, Professor William Ellery,

3.ProfessorSedgwick, Professor William Ellery William Ellery Sedgwick (1899–1942) taught English at Harvard, 1926–38, before joining Bennington College, Vermont. His widow was the former Sarah F. Cabot of Boston; and his brother was O. Sedgwick, foreign correspondent of the New York Times.

 meets TSE, has drunken highbrow dispute, elegised,
see also Professor William Ellery Sedgwicks, the
Sedgwick, Sarah ('Sally') Cabot, spirits TSE from Norton lecture,
see also Professor William Ellery Sedgwicks, the
Sedgwick, (William) Ellery,

9.WilliamSedgwick, (William) Ellery Ellery Sedgwick (1872–1960), editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1908–38.

 stands too close for comfort,
see also (William) Ellery Sedgwicks, the
Seldes, Gilbert,

5.GilbertSeldes, Gilbert Seldes (1893–1970), journalist, critic, was a war correspondent before editing The Dial, 1920–3. He wrote a number of ‘New York Chronicles’ for the Criterion. In later years he was a prolific essayist; he wrote for the Broadway theatre; and he was the first director of TV programmes for CBS News, and founding Dean of the Annenburg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. His works include The Seven Lively Arts (1924), an influential study of popular arts. See Michael Kammen, The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States (1996).

 at Bunny Wilson's tea,
Selected Essays, being proofed, dedicated to Harriet Weaver, puts TSE off writing, its contents, TSE hopeful of royalties from,
Selwyn, Phyllis Eleanor,

1.PhyllisSelwyn, Phyllis Eleanor Eleanor Selwyn was daughter of the Rt Revd Sir Edwyn Hoskyns.

 dies tragically,
see also Selwyns, the
Selwyn, Revd Edward Gordon, Dean of Winchester,

9.RevdSelwyn, Revd Edward Gordon, Dean of Winchester Edward Gordon Selwyn (1885–1959), editor of Theology: A Monthly Journal of Historic Christianity, 1920–33. Educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge (Newcastle Scholar; Porson Scholar and Prizeman; Waddington Scholar; Browne’s Medallist; 2nd Chancellor’s Medallist), he was Rector of Redhill, Havant, 1919–30; Provost in Convocation, 1921–31; Dean of Winchester, 1931–58. Works include The Approach to Christianity (1925); Essays Catholic & Critical by Members of the Anglican Communion (ed., 1926). In 1910, he married Phyllis Eleanor Hoskyns, daughter of E. C. Hoskyns (then Bishop of Southwell).

 fellow-guest at Chichester, on TSE's 1933 homecoming itinerary, TSE on, discusses geopolitics and theology, hosts TSE in Winchester, with TSE over South Indian Church,
see also Selwyns, the
Selwyns, the, their Winchester household,
Senexet, Woodstock, EH interests TSE in, described, EH makes retreat to, which she writes about,
'Sermon Preached at Magdalene College Chapel, A', as preached,
Seventh Lambeth Conference,
Seyler, Athene, Edith Evans compared to, compared to Marie Lloyd and Nellie Wallace, contemplated for The Cocktail Party,
Seymour, Charles,

3.CharlesSeymour, Charles Seymour (1885–1963), historian and university administrator; President of Yale University, 1937–51. He had taken his first degree at King’s College, Cambridge, in 1904.
Seymour, Hugh, 8th Marquess of Hertford,

8.Ragley Hall: seventeenth-century house near Stratford-on-Avon; owned at this time by HughSeymour, Hugh, 8th Marquess of Hertford Seymour, 8th Marquess of Hertford (1930–97), who inherited the pile at the age of ten.
Seymour, Lady Elizabeth Margaret (née Cator),

2.LadySeymour, Lady Elizabeth Margaret (née Cator) Seymour, née Elizabeth Margaret Cator (1858–1958) – she lived to 100 – married Seymour at the age of twenty-seven; they had five children.
Seymour, Lady Helen Frances,

9.LadySeymour, Lady Helen Frances Helen Frances Grosvenor Seymour (1888–1970) was widowed in 1940.

 in decaying ancestral home,
Seymour, Revd Lord Victor,

7.RevdSeymour, Revd Lord Victor Lord Victor Seymour (1859–1935), son of the 5th Marquess of Hertford: vicar of St Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Road, London, 1900–29; immediate predecessor to Father Eric Cheetham.

 dies,
Shakespear, Olivia,

6.OliviaShakespear, Olivia Shakespear (1863–1938), novelist and playwright; mother of Dorothy Pound, made an unhappy marriage in 1885 with Henry Hope Shakespear (1849–1923), a solicitor. She published novels including Love on a Mortal Lease (1894) and The Devotees (1904). Through a cousin, the poet Lionel Johnson (1867–1902), she arranged a meeting with W. B. Yeats, which resulted in a brief affair and a lifetime’s friendship. Yeats wrote at least two poems for her, and she was the ‘Diana Vernon’ of his Memoirs (ed. Denis Donoghue, 1972). See Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters 1909–1914, ed. Omar S. Pound and A. Walton Litz (1984), 356–7.

 takes tea with TSE, at Fred Manning's funeral, specimen 'merry old lady', loneliest of old ladies, dies,
Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca, inscribed to EH in 1927,
Shakespeare Association Council, meeting of, TSE lectures to,
Shakespeare, William, Bunny Wilson and TSE discuss, writing Murder increases TSE's admiration for, but equally wariness of, spiritually 'helpful', preferable in modern dress, EH imagined as Lady Macbeth, later as Hermione, All's Well that Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Hamlet, Henry VIII, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Richard II, Richard III, 'Sonnet CXXXII', The Tempest, Timon of Athens, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale,
'Shakespearian Criticism I. From Dryden to Coleridge by T. S. Eliot',
Shamley Wood, Surrey, TSE issued standing invitation to, his situation as paying guest, daily and weekly life at, dramatis personae, Christmas at, ideal situation for illness, overheated, depressingly female, TSE leads fire practice at, TSE takes week's rest from, its melodramas, TSE quarantined from, its lack of music, and Reay's homecoming, TSE distributes food parcels at, TSE's gradual removal from, TSE's post-war week's holiday at, post-hernia convalescence at,
Shapiro, Karl,

5.‘A Letter from T. S. Eliot. To the Editor of Poetry’, Poetry 76 (May 1950), 88: CProse 7, 473–4. KarlShapiro, Karl Shapiro (1913–2000), poet and critic, a graduate of the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University, served in the US Army through the war, was editor of Poetry, 1948–50. He was an opponent of the decision by the Bollingen Prize committee to make the award to EP for Pisan Cantos (1949). He taught English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1956–66, and edited Prairie Schooner; and he served a term as Poetry Consultant at the Library of Congress. His works in poetry include Person, Place, and Thing (1942); V Letter and Other Poems (1945) and Poems of a Jew (1950); and he won prizes and awards including the Levison Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Shelley Memorial Prize.
Shaw, Fr C. P.,

4.FatherShaw, Fr C. P. C. P. Shaw, President of the Guild of All Souls.
Shaw, George Bernard, and Shaw–Terry correspondence, TSE invited to lunch with, TSE on, chirologist compares TSE to, discusses poetic drama with TSE, writes better prose than Noël Coward, EH comments on, repudiates TSE's defence of EP, TSE against memorial tribute to, Heartbreak House, Methusaleh, Pygmalion, The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles,
Shaw, Gilbert,

6.GilbertShaw, Gilbert Shaw (1886–1967), Anglican clergyman and spiritual director; from 1940, influential vicar of St Anne’s, Soho, London. See Rod Hacking, ‘Gilbert Shaw (1886–1967)’, Fairacres Chronicle 19: 2 (Summer 1986), 6–10.
Shaw, Martin,

1.MartinShaw, Martin Shaw (1875–1958), composer of stage works, choral pieces and recital ballads: see Biographical Register.

 delighted with The Rock's choruses, which later he chants, argues with Martin Browne at dress-rehearsal,
Sheffield, Ada Eliot (TSE's sister),

2.AdaSheffield, Ada Eliot (TSE's sister) Eliot Sheffield (1869–1943), eldest of the seven Eliot children; author of The Social Case History: Its Construction and Content (1920) and Social Insight in Case Situations (1937): see Biographical Register.

 TSE's most likely family confidant, to host TSE on Boston return, TSE pictures his birthday-party with, Madison Street preferable to Eliot House, after seventeen years' separation, TSE begins to confide in, TSE and Henry visit together, accompanies TSE to Wellesley, counsels separation from VHE, speaks frankly with TSE about his domestic affairs, hosts post-Radcliffe Club reception, hosts the Eliot family Thanksgiving, attends second Norton lecture, hosts Wellesley English faculty and TSE, remembered in St. Louis, and TSE to discuss Yale lecture and VHE, hosts TSE for last time, informs the Hinkleys of TSE's separation, replies to EH on TSE and divorce, distinguishes her faith from TSE's, takes to Frank Morley, on the Perkinses, TSE advises on wines, on Aunt Susie, EH urged to be familial with, her struggles for independence, as sounding-board for EH's career, TSE's favourite sibling, shielded TSE from over-bearing Hinkleys, incompletely aware of TSE and EH's relationship, within the Eliot family dynamic, seems 'reserved' to EH, at Hinkley dinner, invites EH to lunch, reports improvement in EH's spirits, hosts TSE on 1936 arrival, and Marion and Theresa's Murder party, reassures TSE about Henry's ears, subscribed to CNL, her intellectual orbit, on Hastings's bust of TSE, war jeopardises TSE seeing again, apparently ill, recovering from major operation, has cancer, has second operation, ailing, in reportedly critical condition, her death contemplated, TSE's intimacy with, TSE's deathbed correspondence with, remembers TSE as boy, pursuing intellectual interests from deathbed, her place in the Eliot family, dies, in Henry's final report, EH describes her funeral, New York Times obituary, Boston Herald obituary, Sheff's memorial tribute to, TSE on her final illness, TSE's absence at death, wished for on VHE's death, invoked against EH,
see also Sheffields, the
Sheffield, Alfred Dwight ('Shef' or 'Sheff'),

8.AlfredSheffield, Alfred Dwight ('Shef' or 'Sheff') Dwight Sheffield (1871–1961) – ‘Shef’ or ‘Sheff’ – husband of TSE’s eldest sister, taught English at University School, Cleveland, Ohio, and was an English instructor, later Professor, of Group Work at Wellesley College. His publications include Lectures on the Harvard Classics: Confucianism (1909) and Grammar and Thinking: a study of the working conceptions in syntax (1912).

 respected by TSE, helps with The Use of Poetry, seems sympathetic to EH, corresponds with TSE in Ada's stead, writes explaining Ada's condition, writes touchingly, faced with Ada's death, writes from Ada's deathbed, as correspondent, shares tributes to Ada, reads 'credo' at Ada's funeral, which instances his jargon, shares prognosis on Henry, advises on urgency of TSE's trip, reports on Henry's condition, offers TSE financial assistance, exasperation with Eleanor Hinkley,
see also Sheffields, the
Sheffields, the, TSE feels able to confide in, save TSE from homesickness, discuss marriage to VHE with TSE, Radcliffe Club paper rehearsed with, Norton Lectures practised on, source of TSE's happiness in Cambridge, Mass., too polite, and the Eliot family Randolph holiday, compared to Marion as confidants, their marriage analysed, on second Randolph family holiday, and TSE's view of FDR, sound on American politics, to receive TSE's South India pamphlet,
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, as against Dante, his letters, furnished original Burnt Norton epigraph, TSE and Epipsychidion, appeal for Testaccio Cemetery,
Sheppard, John,

2.JohnSheppard, John Sheppard (1881–1968), Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, 1933–54; knighted, 1950. Works include Greek Tragedy (1911) and Aeschylus & Sophocles: Their Work and Influence (1927).
Sheppard, Richard 'Dick',

5.RichardSheppard, Richard 'Dick' ‘Dick’ Sheppard (1880–1937), vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, 1914–26; Dean of Canterbury, 1929–31; foremost pacifist: author of We say “No”: the plain man’s guide to pacifism (1935); and organiser of the Peace Pledge Union, 1936. See Neil Berry, ‘Pacifism’s Führer: Dick Sheppard’s struggle to avert world war’, TLS, 1 Dec. 2017, 19–20.
Sherek, Henry,

4.HenrySherek, Henry Sherek (1900–1967), theatre producer: see Biographical Register.

 dissuades TSE from coaching actors, confounds TSE's expectations, recommends New York Cocktail Party transfer, suffers girth-induced sciatica, desires three TSE plays in repertory, which TSE resists, lordly behaviour over Confidential Clerk, American Confidential Clerk production, takes Confidential Clerk to Paris, which proves a misadventure,
see also Shereks, the
Shereks, the, at premiere for Confidential Clerk,
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, The School for Scandal,
Sherrill, Henry Knox,

5.HenrySherrill, Henry Knox Knox Sherrill (1890–1980), Episcopal clergyman; Bishop of Massachusetts, 1930–47. Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, 1947–58.

 inscrutable, compared to English bishops,
Sherwood, Robert, Hopkins and Roosevelt,
Short, Dorothy Field,

2.MrsShort, Dorothy Field Dorothy Field Short (b. 1886), writer, editor, journalist, musician and activist – from 1930, Local and National Officer of the National Council of Women of Great Britain – was married to the artist and caricaturist Norman Dudley Short (1882–1951).
Shorthouse, John Henry,

8.JohnShorthouse, John Henry Henry Shorthouse, John Iglesant: A Romance (2 vols., 1881): historical fiction about Little Gidding.

 John Inglesant and Little Gidding,
'Should there be a Censorship of Books?',
Sibelius, Jean, on the Fabers' gramophone, Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 6,
Sibley, Emily,

4.EmilySibley, Emily Sibley (b. 1888), who was born in Cambridge, Mass., and educated at Radcliffe College and Simmons College, taught home economics at the Choate School, Brookline, Mass., 1920–50. She was an active member of the First Parish Unitarian Church, Cambridge.
Siepmann, Charles Arthur,

2.CharlesSiepmann, Charles Arthur Arthur Siepmann (1899–1985), radio producer and educator, was awarded the Military Cross in WW1. He joined the BBC in 1927, and became Director of Talks, 1932–5; Regional Relations, 1935–6; Programme Planning, 1936–9. He was University Lecturer, Harvard, 1939–42; worked for the Office of War Information, 1942–5; and was Professor of Education, New York University, 1946–67. Works include Radio’s Second Chance (1946), Radio, Television and Society (1950), TV and Our School Crisis (1959). See Richard J. Meyer, ‘Charles A. Siepmann and Educational Broadcasting’, Educational Technology Research and Development 12: 4 (Winter 1964), 413–30.
see also British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Signet Society, The, TSE reads Sweeney Agonistes to, TSE's association with,
'Significance of Charles Williams, The', finished,
Sills, Edith Lansing Koon,

4.KennethSills, Kenneth C. M. C. M. Sills (1879–54), Winkley Professor of Latin Language and Literature, 1907–46; President of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 1918–52. HisSills, Edith Lansing Koon wife was Edith Lansing Koon Sills (1888–1978), a graduate of Wellesley College and sometime high school teacher.
Sills, Kenneth C. M.,

4.KennethSills, Kenneth C. M. C. M. Sills (1879–54), Winkley Professor of Latin Language and Literature, 1907–46; President of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 1918–52. HisSills, Edith Lansing Koon wife was Edith Lansing Koon Sills (1888–1978), a graduate of Wellesley College and sometime high school teacher.
Simon, Margaret,

1.MargaretSimon, Margaret Simon (b. 1900).
Simon, Sir John,

11.SirSimon, Sir John John Simon (1873–1954), Conservative politician, with the unusual distinction of being Foreign Secretary (at the date of this letter), then later Home Secretary and Chancellor. A barrister in his earlier life, he was to serve as Lord Chancellor in Sir Winston Churchill’s wartime government.
Simpson, Dr Bertram F., Bishop of Kensington,

2.DrSimpson, Dr Bertram F., Bishop of Kensington Bertram F. Simpson (1883–1971), Bishop of Kensington, 1932–42.

 and TSE's three-bishop lunch,
Simpson, Revd Canon Sparrow,

3.RevdSimpson, Revd Canon Sparrow Canon Sparrow Simpson, DD (1859–1952), chaplain of St Mary’s Hospital, Ilford.
Sims, Admiral William Sowden,

9.AdmiralSims, Admiral William Sowden William Sowden Sims (1858–1936) had been in command of all US naval forces in Europe during WW1. His wife Anne Erwin Hitchcock (m. 1905) was 23 years his junior.
Sinclair, Marjorie, Baroness Pentland,

5.MarjorieSinclair, Marjorie, Baroness Pentland Sinclair, Baroness Pentland, DBE (1880–1970), who grew up in Canada, was the widow of John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland (1860–1925).
Sitwell, Edith,

2.EdithSitwell, Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), poet, biographer, anthologist, novelist: see Biographical Register.

 TSE likens EH's portrait to, which displeases EH, which likeness TSE presently disclaims, shockingly altered, now seems more herself, brings Pavel Tchelitchew to tea, to tea on New Year's Day, at Harold Monro's funeral, dragoons TSE into poetry reading, at which she is rated, at odds with Dorothy Wellesley, at Poetry Reading for China, sends TSE whisky in hospital,
see also Sitwells, the
Sitwell, Lady Ida (née Denison), as mother,
Sitwell, Osbert,

3.OsbertSitwell, Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969), poet and man of letters. Early in his career, he published collections of poems, including Argonaut and Juggernaut (1919), and a volume of stories, Triple Fugue (1924); but he is now most celebrated for his remarkable memoirs, Left Hand, Right Hand (5 vols, 1945–50), which include a fine portrayal of TSE. TSE published one sketch by him in the Criterion. See John Lehmann, A Nest of Tigers: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell in their Times (1968); John Pearson, Façades: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell (1978); Philip Ziegler, Osbert Sitwell (1998). TSE to Mary Trevelyan, 16 Oct. 1949: ‘Edith and Osbert are 70% humbug – but kind – and cruel' (in Mary Trevelyan, 'The Pope of Russell Square’, 19).

 talks politics with Joyce, describes the Eliots' dinner-party, the Eliots dine with, rated at Aeolian Hall reading, mis-introduced, memoirs of TSE,
see also Sitwells, the
Sitwell, Sacheverell,

2.SacheverellSitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988), writer, poet, art critic; youngest of the Sitwell trio. TSE thought him the ‘most important and difficult poet’ in Wheels (1918). Reviewing The People’s Palace, he praised its ‘distinguished aridity’, and said he ‘attributed more’ to Sacheverell Sitwell than to any poet of his generation (Egoist 5: 6, June/July 1918). But ‘Sachie’ was best known for idiosyncratic books on travel, art and literature, including Southern Baroque Art (1924). His wife was the Canadian-born Georgia Doble (1905–80). Valerie Eliot to Philip Ziegler, 25 July 1996: ‘Sachie was Tom’s favourite in the family.’ See Sarah Bradford, Sacheverell Sitwell: Splendours and Miseries (1993).

 the Eliots dine with, unaminously ejected from committee,
see also Sitwells, the
Sitwells, the, as poets and people, their poetic limitations, the Eliots dine with, rated at Aeolian Hall reading,
Skinner, John W.,

2.JohnSkinner, John W. W. Skinner (1890–1955), headmaster of Culford School, Bury St Edmunds, 1924–51.
Sluder, Ella Cochran,

3.EllaSluder, Ella Cochran Cochran Sluder (1872–1951), resident of St. Louis, Missouri; widow of Dr Greenfield Sluder (1865–1928), a renowned specialist in nose and throat diseases; director of the Department of Laryngology at the Washington University Medical School. Her daughter Martha Sluder (1908–78) was married to John Jacob Glessner, Instructor in English, Harvard.
Smith, Abigail Eliot (TSE's cousin),

3.AbigailSmith, Abigail Eliot (TSE's cousin) Eliot Smith (1900–84), daughter of Holmes and Rose Eliot Smith, graduated from Wellesley College in 1922, and took her MD at Washington University School of Medicine, 1927. She was Assistant Resident in Medicine, Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, 1930–2; Instructor in Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, 1932–4; Physician to out-patients, Washington University Dispensary, 1936–42; Cardiologist, Out-Patient Department, St. Louis County Hospital, 1942; and Assistant Physician, Wellesley College, from 1942.

 hosts TSE in St. Louis, appears in London, taken to dinner by TSE, visits London again,
Smith Academy, St. Louis,
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, Charlotte ('Chardy') Stearns (TSE's niece),

2.TheodoraSmith, Theodora ('Dodo') Eliot (TSE's niece) Eliot Smith (1904–92) – ‘Dodo’ – daughter of George Lawrence and Charlotte E. Smith: see Biographical Register. Theodora’sSmith, Charlotte ('Chardy') Stearns (TSE's niece) sister was Charlotte Stearns Smith (b. 1911), known as ‘Chardy’.

 resembles her mother, to lunch with Lucia Joyce and Barbara Hutchinson, TSE's quasi-paternal affection for, her wedding described, Dodo looks severely on, her marriage finishes, her life described, coming over with Dodo,
Smith, Charlotte Eliot (TSE's sister, née Eliot), described, her departure from Unitarianism, her visit in 1924, would have been in TSE's confidence, remembered in St. Louis, her marriage,
Smith College, TSE's speaking engagement at, which proves luxurious, EH considers matronship at, offers EH job, appoints EH assistant professor, in TSE's recollection, EH installed at, TSE's response to EH's initial response, EH unhappy with work at, reappoints EH, reappoints EH again for two years, compared to Scripps, EH encouraged to stick at, despite feeling unsettled, reappoints and promotes EH again, EH's employment insecurities at, EH considers leaving for war-work, appoints Hallie Flanagan, places staff under assessment, does not renew EH's contract, TSE reflects on EH's time at, EH visits, EH invites TSE to speak at, which TSE declines, EH approaches Marianne Moore for,
Smith, Dodie, Autumn Crocus,
Smith, George Lawrence (TSE's brother-in-law), remarries, as husband to TSE's sister,
Smith, Guy Vernon, Bishop of Willesden,

1.GuySmith, Guy Vernon, Bishop of Willesden Vernon Smith (1880–1957), Bishop of Willesden, 1929–40: Vice-Chairman of the Forty-Five Churches Fund, Diocese of London.

 and TSE's three-bishop lunch,
Smith, Holmes (TSE's uncle),

1.RoseSmith, Rose Greenleaf Eliot (TSE's aunt) Greenleaf Eliot (1862–1936), andSmith, Holmes (TSE's uncle) Holmes Smith (1863–1937), Professor of Drawing and the History of Art, Washington University; first President of the College Art Association.

 as TSE's St. Louis host, at TSE's Washington University reception,
Smith, Isabel Fothergill,

38.IsabelSmith, Isabel Fothergill Fothergill Smith (1890–1990), first Dean of Scripps, 1929–35; Professor of Geology and Tutor in Sciences, 1929–35. See Jill Stephanie Schneiderman, ‘Growth and Development of a Woman Scientist and Educator’, Earth Sciences History 11: 1 (1992), 37–9.
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, Logan Pearsall,

3.LoganSmith, Logan Pearsall Pearsall Smith (1865–1946), American-born writer, journalist, critic, anthologist. Educated at Haverford College, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, he settled in England in the 1880s (becoming a British subject in 1913), and proceeded to read Literae Humaniores at Balliol College, Oxford. Through his family circle he became known to a large number of artistic figures including G. B. Shaw, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Roger Fry, Bertrand Russell and Bernard Berenson. Works include Words and Idioms (1925), Unforgotten Years (1938). See further A Portrait of Logan Pearsall Smith, drawn from his letters and diaries, ed. J. Russell; A Chime of Words: The Letters of Logan Pearsall Smith, ed. E. Tribble (1984).
Smith, Martin Linton, Bishop of Rochester,
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, Rose Greenleaf Eliot (TSE's aunt),

1.RoseSmith, Rose Greenleaf Eliot (TSE's aunt) Greenleaf Eliot (1862–1936), andSmith, Holmes (TSE's uncle) Holmes Smith (1863–1937), Professor of Drawing and the History of Art, Washington University; first President of the College Art Association.

 hosts TSE in St. Louis, dies,
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.
Smith, Theodora ('Dodo') Eliot (TSE's niece),

2.TheodoraSmith, Theodora ('Dodo') Eliot (TSE's niece) Eliot Smith (1904–92) – ‘Dodo’ – daughter of George Lawrence and Charlotte E. Smith: see Biographical Register. Theodora’sSmith, Charlotte ('Chardy') Stearns (TSE's niece) sister was Charlotte Stearns Smith (b. 1911), known as ‘Chardy’.

 1931 visit to England, described, to lunch with Lucia Joyce and Barbara Hutchinson, TSE's almost fatherly affection for, in contrast to her sister, at Eliot family Thanksgiving, attends second Norton lecture, TSE reports on from Boston, TSE cultivates, and Marion's 1934 visit to England, visit to Chipping Campden, visit to Salisbury, walk with TSE to Kelmscott, Regent's Park visit, TSE on, 1935 visit to England, taken to the ballet, at the Russian ballet's Aurore, to tea with cousins, her way of addressing relations, TSE tells Trevelyan about, 1936 visit to England, ballet outing, taken to Cheetham's pageant, taken to Kensington Gardens, returns to America with TSE, 1938 visit to England, with Chardy, and Marion's 1939 visit to England, in doubt, Southwold week, taken to Dulwich, taken to ballet and dinner, writes to TSE, visited in Baltimore, 1949 visit to England, taken to Cambridge, then to Southwold, tours the Borders with TSE, 1950 visit to England, taken to The Cocktail Party, due for the summer, recovering from operation, arrives from Scotland, 1953 visit to England, in Edinburgh for Confidential Clerk, 1954 visit to England, 1955 visit to England, reports on the American weather, 1956 visit to England,
Smith, William Henry, 3rd Lord Hambleden,

1.WilliamSmith, William Henry, 3rd Lord Hambleden Henry Smith, 3rd Lord Hambleden (1903–48), Governing Director of W. H. Smith.

 on Oldham's wartime committee, and CNL,
smoking, like a schoolboy, with Jim Clement, despite Mt Holyoke rules, and TSE's definition of 'civilised', a pipe again, Chesterfields, tobacconist to Dr Perkins, cigarettes versus gaspers, birthday cigarettes, JDH's Christmas cigars, bedside cigarettes, French cigarettes versus Ringer's Mild Shag, as practised by Virginia Woolf, pipes from the Tandys, and drinking, French cigarettes, TSE forced to halve intake, against doctor's orders, TSE gives up,
Smuts, Field Marshal Jan,

6.FieldSmuts, Field Marshal Jan Marshal Jan Smuts, OM, CH (1870–1950): South African (Afrikaner) lawyer (he read Law at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple), soldier, statesman; Prime Minister of the Union of S. Africa, 1919–24, 1939–48. An internationalist, he was a proponent of the League of Nations, United Nations and Commonwealth of Nations.

 doesn't particularly impress TSE,
Smyth, Revd Charles,

9.RevdSmyth, Revd Charles Charles Smyth (1903–87), ecclesiastical historian; Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: see Biographical Register.

 among TSE's Corpus 'friends', at 'Pro Fide' bookshop meeting, at risk of assaulting Rowse, on Criterion gathering dress-code, TSE's ambitions for, criticises Christian Society, and wife visited by TSE, made Canon of Westminster, invites TSE to Royal Maundy,
Smyth, Revd Frederic Hastings,

1.RevdSmyth, Revd Frederic Hastings Frederic Hastings Smyth (1888–1960), Episcopalian; Christian-Marxist theologian, was to establish at Harvard in 1939 the Society of the Catholic Commonwealth. Works include Manhood into God (1940) and Sacrifice: A Doctrinal Homily (1953). See Terry Brown, Metacosmesis: The Christian Marxism of Frederic Hastings Smyth and the Society of the Catholic Commonwealth (PhD dissertation, Toronto School of Theology, 1987).
Snell, Ada Laura Fonda,

2.AdaSnell, Ada Laura Fonda Laura Fonda Snell (1870–1972) taught English at Mount Holyoke College, 1900–38.
'Social Function of Poetry, The', suggested by British–Norwegian Institute, as received by the Norwegians, developed for Valéry evening,
Society of Fellows, The, described,
Society of Retreat Conductors, Queen's Gate, TSE makes retreat with,
Society of Saint John the Evangelist, Cambridge, Mass., TSE attends early Mass at, St. Andrew's Day observed at,
Society of the Friends of Little Gidding, TSE becomes Vice-President of,
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,
Society of Young Publishers, TSE's talk to,
Sofaer, Abraham, as one of Murder's tempters,
Sollory, William Fisher,

1.WilliamSollory, William Fisher Fisher Sollory (1881–1959), whom TSE had known for over twenty years. TSE and Vivien were the witnesses at Paddington Register Office on 4 Apr. 1926 at Sollory’s marriage, at the age of 45, to the Eliots’ domestic servant Ellen Kollond (aet. 48). Following Ellen’s death, Sollory married Alice Hawes in 1935. Sollory and his wife endured many years of hardship while bringing up their family; and TSE was a constant benefactor, sending money and clothing.
Sophocles, and the nightingale, Oedipus Coloneus,
Sorabji, Cornelia,

4.ElenaSorabji, Cornelia Richmond invited TSE to meet Cornelia Sorabji (1866–1954) – barrister and prominent social reformer, and author of a book of reminiscences entitled India Calling – at their London home, 3 Sumner Place, S.W.7, on Fri., 29 Mar. Sorabji’s ‘Note re Orthodox Hindus and Protection for Religion’ lamented one specific aspect of the Report on the Indian Constitutional Reform, to the effect that the protection accorded to religion since 1858 (Queen Victoria’s Proclamation) would seem to have been deliberately withdrawn.

 appeals to TSE, going blind, runs into bus, verses for her Red Cross Book,
Sorel, Cécile,

1.CécileSorel, Cécile Sorel, born Céline Émile Seurre (1873–1966), French comic actor with the Comédie-Française, 1901–33; celebrated for her performance as Célimène in Molière’s The Misanthrope. See Cécile Sorel: An Autobiography, trans. Philip John Stead (1953).
Soulié, Marguerite,
South Africa, TSE on,
Southwark Cathedral, TSE makes appeal for,
Southwell Minster, described for EH,
Spain, under Franco in 1946, as per TSE's 1951 trip,
see also Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War, divisions of English public opinion on, Battle of Guadalajara, and air raids,
Spark, Muriel,

1.MurielSpark, Muriel Spark, née Camberg (1918-2006): British author, novelist, poet, essayist and memoirist. She was born and brought up in Edinburgh, where her father was Jewish of Lithuanian ancestry; her mother an Anglican (who converted to Judaism). An early marriage in 1937, to an older man, Sidney Spark, came to a swift end when she discovered her husband to be depressive and violent. She had one son, Samuel Robin Spark (1938–2016), who grew up to be an artist. After early years of struggle, including a period as editor of Poetry Review, 1947–48, she proved her career and critical reputation with the publication of The Comforters (1957), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) and The Girls of Slender Means (1963).

 importunes then castigates TSE,
Sparrow, John,

2.JohnSparrow, John Sparrow (1906–92) was so precocious as a scholar at Winchester College that at sixteen he published an edition of John Donne’s Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1923). Educated after school at New College, Oxford, he was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, 1931. From 1929 he was a Fellow of All Souls College; Warden, 1952–77. Works include Sense and Poetry: Essays on the Place of Meaning in Contemporary Verse (1934), Controversial Essays (1966). See John Lowe, The Warden: A Portrait of John Sparrow (1998).

 at King's feast,
Spaull, Guy, as tempter in Murder,
Speaight, Evelyn (née Bowen),

9.EvelynSpeaight, Evelyn (née Bowen) Bowen (1911–94), Welsh actor and writer, founder-director of the Welsh National Theatre Company, 1933–6. Her marriage to Speaight ended in divorce in 1939.
Speaight, Robert,

2.RobertSpeaight, Robert Speaight (1904–77), actor, producer and author, was to create the role of Becket in Murder in the Cathedral in 1935: see Biographical Register.

 singled out as Malvolio, chats to TSE at OM's, talked through part of Becket by TSE, excited at TSE's dramatic ambitions, never happier on stage, committed to Mercury Murder revival, unimprovable as Becket, in Mercury Theatre production, issues TSE with Irish introductions, his performance agreed to be going stale, at 100th performance of Murder, cast in Williams's Cranmer, his Becket critiqued by Tandy, as Becket, records Becket's sermon, which TSE is against, at post-performance feast in Cambridge, better as Cranmer than Becket, sermon reblocked for Duchess Theatre, at Savile Club Murder dinner, and the royal visit, becoming conceited, performance pruned in re-rehearsal, problems with his performance persist, in EH's report, compared to Robert Sansom, broadcasts East Coker, gives small dinner at Garrick, swoops on Shamley to record TSE, discounted from film of Murder, complains and is disingenuously soothed, as Elijah in Nicholson's debut, attends Family Reunion with TSE, still playing Becket, misrepresents TSE's views, in Belgium, ruined by Becket, in The Confidential Clerk,
'Speech at Aix-en-Provence on receiving an honorary degree',
'Speech at the opening of Le Livre anglais exhibition',
'Speech for Les Grandes Conférences catholiques',
'Speech to the Fédération britannique des comités de l’Alliance française',
Speight, Francis,

1.FrancisSpeight, Francis Speight (1896–1989), artist, taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, 1925–61; he was Artist in Residence and Professor at East Carolina University.
Spencer, Anna Morris (née Murray),

13.SpencerSpencer, Anna Morris (née Murray) married Anna Morris Murray (b. 1902) in 1927.
see also Spencers, the
Spencer, Eloise (née Worcester),

5.EloiseSpencer, Eloise (née Worcester) Spencer, née Worcester, had married Professor Theodore Spencer in the summer of 1948; sadly, her husband died of a heart attack on 18 Jan. 1949.
Spencer, Herbert,
Spencer, Katherine,
Spencer, Theodore,

2.TheodoreSpencer, Theodore Spencer (1902–48), writer, poet and critic, taught at Harvard, 1927–49: see Biographical Register.

 offers TSE suite in Eliot House, looks after TSE, shares whisky and conversation with TSE, talks poetry till late, appears deaf during first Norton lecture, hosts TSE after the first Norton lecture, and English 26, learns to tie tie from TSE, and Matthiessen co-direct Dekker, TSE shares homosexual experiences with, hails Burnt Norton, worth discussing American politics with, speaks with EH, and TSE's honorary Harvard degree, dies of heart attack,
see also Spencers, the
Spencer-Churchill, Charles Richard, 9th Duke of Marlborough, disreputable sort of duke,
Spencer-Churchill, Lord Ivor,

3.LordSpencer-Churchill, Lord Ivor Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1898–1956), younger son of the 9th Duke of Marlborough and his first wife, the American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt. (It was a loveless match arranged by her mother, and it ended in divorce.) Consuelo Vanderbilt’s second husband was Lt. Col. Jacques Balsan, a pioneering French pilot. Ivor Churchill became a collector of art.

 at the Hutchinsons,
Spencers, the, weekend excursion with, evening of chamber music with, which is subsequently repeated,
Spender, Natasha (née Litvin),

3.NatashaSpender, Natasha (née Litvin) Spender, née Litvin (1919–2010), pianist, had met Spender in the previous year.

 plays piano after dinner, described,
Spender, Stephen,

12.Stephen SpenderSpender, Stephen (1909–95), poet and critic: see Biographical Register.

 described for EH, poems published by F&F, what TSE represents to, attacks After Strange Gods, his objections to After Strange Gods, and Sweeney rehearsal, and lunching young men generally, evening with JDH, Jennings and TSE, TSE chairs his 'free verse' talk, at the Woolfs with TSE and EH, describes club lunch with TSE, his first marriage, 'Eclipse of the Highbrow' controversy, introduces new wife Natasha, gives musical party, at Lady Colefax's Wavell dinner, part of British contingent at Norwegian dinner, chairs TSE's Whitman talk, which he does in fireman's uniform, at poetry reading to Free Hungarians, takes issue with Roy Campbell, exchanges conciliatory sonnets with TSE, object of Rowse's anger, his German sensibility, an innocent fool, encomium for TSE's 75th, 'Four Poems', The Temple, Trial of a Judge, 'Vienna',
Spens, Will,

7.WillSpens, Will Spens (1882–1962), educator and scientist; Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: see Biographical Register.

 among TSE's Corpus 'friends', described for EH, hosts TSE for degree, and the Boutwood Lectures, and 'A Liberal Manifesto',
Sperry, Willard Learoyd,

5.WillardSperry, Willard Learoyd Learoyd Sperry (1882–1954), Congregationalist minister; Dean of the Harvard Divinity School, 1922–53; Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, 1928–53.

 excoriated by TSE, 'pathetic',
spring, tormenting, bittersweet, unsettles, the cruelties of April, troubles, ennervates, irritates, weakens, languorous, at Shamley, in wartime, melancholy,
Squire, Sir John Collings ('J. C.'),

9.J. C. SquireSquire, Sir John Collings ('J. C.') (1884–1958), poet, essayist and parodist, was literary editor of the New Statesman; founding editor, 1919–34, of London Mercury – in which he was antipathetic to modernism; he sniffed at The Waste Land: ‘it is a pity that a man who can write as well as Mr Eliot does in this poem should be so bored (not passionately disgusted) with existence that he doesn’t mind what comes next, or who understands it’ (23 Oct. 1922). Evelyn Waugh mocked him – as ‘Jack Spire’, editor of the London Hercules – in Decline and Fall (1928). Knighted 1933.

 bores TSE, as boss,
Stalin, Joseph, and Second Sino-Japanese War, post-Anschluss,
Stamp, Josiah,

6.JosiahStamp, Josiah Stamp (1880–1941), civil servant, industrialist, economist; author of The Christian Ethic as an Economic Factor (1926) and Christianity and Economics (1939).
Starkie, Enid,

10.EnidStarkie, Enid Starkie (1897–1970), Irish literary critic; Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford; ultimately Reader; author of Baudelaire (1933), Arthur Rimbaud in Abyssinia (1937), From Gautier to Eliot: The Influence of France on English Literature, 1851–1939 (1962), Flaubert: The Making of the Master (1967). CBE, 1967. See further Joanna Richardson, ‘The One and Only Enid’, Sunday Times, 19 Aug. 1973; Richardson, Enid Starkie: A Biography (1973).
Stauffer, Professor Donald,

5.TSE rented Prof. Donald Stauffer’s white frame house at 14 Alexander Street for the first term of the academic year 1948–9. StaufferStauffer, Professor Donald (1902–52) was Professor of English at Princeton; his works included English Biography Before 1700 (1930). TSE worked at composing The Cocktail Party for the most part in his third floor office (room 307) in Fuld Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study. (At14 Alexander Street, Princeton, New Jerseylater inhabited by Randall Jarrell;a2n aJarrell, Randallsubsequent inhabitant of 14 Alexander Street;a1n later date, the poet Randall Jarrell lived at 14 Alexander Street.)
Stauffer, Tom,

3.TomStauffer, Tom Stauffer (1902–52), American academic; Professor of English, Princeton University. Author of English Biography before 1700 (1930); The Art of Biography in 18th Century England (1941); The Intent of the Critic (1941).
Stavisky, Serge Alexandre, and the Stavisky affair,
Stead, Anne Frances (née Goldsborough),

4.W. F. Stead was married in 1911, in Baltimore, Md., toStead, Anne Frances (née Goldsborough) Anne Frances Goldsborough (1886–1959), who became a Catholic in 1930 and chose to live a conventual life in Birmingham. Their elder son, Philip (b. 1913), had learning disabilities and was institutionalised for life; the second son, Peter (b. 1926), remained close to his father.

 leaving marriage for nunnery,
Stead, William Force,

2.WilliamStead, William Force Force Stead (1884–1967), poet, critic, diplomat, clergyman: see Biographical Register.

 described for EH, and TSE's baptism, left by wife for nunnery, his photograph on TSE's mantel, resigns chaplainship for Rome, visits Campden,
Stearns, Asahel (TSE's great-uncle),

2.AsahelStearns, Asahel (TSE's great-uncle) Stearns (1774–1839), a graduate of Harvard University, Federalist, was a member of the Massachusetts Senate, 1817–31. He was a Professor of Law at Harvard, 1817–29.
Stearns, Charlotte (née Blood, TSE's maternal grandmother),

1.TSE’s mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843–1929), wasStearns, Thomas, Jr. (TSE's maternal grandfather) the second daughter (of nine children) of Thomas Stearns, Jr., a merchant, andStearns, Charlotte (née Blood, TSE's maternal grandmother) Charlotte Stearns, née Blood. His home at Foxcroft House, otherwise known as Stearns House, stood at 17 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Mass.; built in 1882, it was demolished in 1926.

 in TSE's recollection,
Stearns, Oliver (TSE's great-uncle),

3.OliverStearns, Oliver (TSE's great-uncle) Stearns (1807–85), Unitarian clergyman and theologian, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, served as minister of the Second Congregational Church, Northampton, Mass., 1831–9, and at the Third Church of Higham, Mass., 1839–56. Thereafter he became President of the Meadville Theological School, 1856–63, before being appointed as Parkman Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Care, Harvard University, and Parkman Professor of Theology, 1869–78. He was Dean of the Divinity School, 1870–85.
Stearns, Priscilla (née Cushing),

1.PriscillaStearns, Priscilla (née Cushing) Stearns, née Cushing (1779–1856), wife of Thomas Stearns (1778–1826), maternal great-grandfather. William B. O. Peabody, The Springfield collection of hymns for sacred worship (Springfield, Mass., 1835); inscribed with ownership of Priscilla Cushing Stearns, and printed: ‘Wm. C. Stearns, Legacy of Hannah C. Stearns’ (TSE library).
Stearns, Robert Chauncy (TSE's uncle),
Stearns, Thomas, Jr. (TSE's maternal grandfather),

1.TSE’s mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843–1929), wasStearns, Thomas, Jr. (TSE's maternal grandfather) the second daughter (of nine children) of Thomas Stearns, Jr., a merchant, andStearns, Charlotte (née Blood, TSE's maternal grandmother) Charlotte Stearns, née Blood. His home at Foxcroft House, otherwise known as Stearns House, stood at 17 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Mass.; built in 1882, it was demolished in 1926.

 in TSE's recollection,
Stein, Gertrude, inspires 'New Hampshire' and 'Virginia',
Steiner, Rudolph,

8.RudolphSteiner, Rudolph Steiner (1861–1925), Austrian philosopher; esotericist; founder of the movement of anthroposophy: postulating the reality of a spiritual world apprehensible by human senses.
Stephen, Sir Leslie,

11.SirStephen, Sir Leslie Leslie Stephen (1832–1904) – first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–91 – became fast friends with Charles Eliot Norton during a trip to the USA in 1863.
see also Stephens, the
Stephens, James,

7.JamesStephens, James Stephens (?1882–1950), Irish novelist and poet; close friend of OM.

 prattling on at OM's, tiresome compared to Ralph Hodgson, VHE invites to tea, gives tea-party, compared to TSE,
Stephens, the, England's Bostonians, the heart of Bloomsbury,
Stephenson, Martha Tucker Mazyck,

39.PresumablyStephenson, Martha Tucker Mazyck Martha Tucker Mazyck Stephenson, wife of Nathaniel Wright Stephenson (1867–1935), Professor of History and Biography at Scripps College, 1927–35: author of Lincoln and the Union (1919); Nelson W. Aldrich (1930); A History of the American People (2 vols, 1934).
see also Stephensons, the
Stephenson, Nathaniel Wright,
see also Stephensons, the
Stephenson, Paul,

5.PaulStephenson, Paul Stephenson (1898–1974), theatre director – he worked for various theatres, with seasons at the Central City Opera House, Colorado (where he directed Lillian Gish in Camille), and at the Brattleboro Theater Group, Vermont – was first engaged for the summer season at the Dorset Players, Vermont in 1939–40, After war service in the Marine Corps, he returned to the Dorset Players for the summers of 1946 and 1947. But box office takings during 1947 were so poor that the final shows were cancelled: Stephenson was not asked back for the summer of 1948.

 direction of Kind Lady, strikes out from Dorset Players, the Dorset Players conspire against,
Stephensons, the,
Stern, Irma,

10.IrmaStern, Irma Stern (1894–1966): celebrated South African artist, of German-Jewish descent.
Stevenson, Adlai, compared to Eisenhower,
Stevenson, Robert Louis, as model for John Buchan,
Stewart, Charles, and TSE play detective, and wife give tea-party, killed by train, his death, his funeral,
Stewart, Hugh Fraser,

6.HughStewart, Hugh Fraser Fraser Stewart, DD (1863–1948), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, since 1918. An authority on Pascal, his works include a posthumous bilingual edition of the Pensées.

 and TSE's long-intended Little Gidding expedition, The Secret of Pascal,
Stewart, Lady Alice King,

2.Alice Margaret Christie (born ca. 1863) married SirStewart, Lady Alice King Robert King Stewart (1852–1930), who succeeded as Laird of the Murdostoun estate in North Lanarkshire (1,760 acres) in 1873. After Sir Robert's death, Lady Alice King Stewart, OBE, JP, who was a patron of various voluntary bodies, moved from the castle to nearby Cleghorn House until her death in 1940.

 specimen 'merry old lady',
Stewart, Walter W.,

4.WalterStewart, Walter W. W. Stewart (1885–1958), economist and expert on banking, and government adviser, had joined the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton University in 1938. TSE to Elizabeth Horton, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, 27 Jan. 1960: ‘I was terribly sorry to hear of Professor Stewart’s death. He was very kind to me when I was in Princeton, and also I liked him immensely and enjoyed his company.’
Stillman, Charles Chauncey, endows Charles Eliot Norton Chair,
Stimson, Frederic Jesup,

2.FredericStimson, Frederic Jesup Jesup Stimson (1855–1943); writer and lawyer; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1915–21.
Stocks, Mary Danvers,

1.MaryStocks, Mary Danvers Danvers Stocks (1891–1975), economist and campaigner for women’s suffrage, was Principal of Westfield College (at the time a women-only constituent college of the University of London), 1939–51. Later, ennobled as Baroness Stocks.

 writes CNL,
Stokes, Adrian,

3.AdrianStokes, Adrian Stokes (1902–72), gifted and influential author, art historian and critic, painter, and aficionado of the ballet; friend of Osbert Sitwell and Ezra Pound. Works include Stones of Rimini (1935), To-Night the Ballet (1934), Russian Ballets (1935), Colour and Form (1937), Greek Culture and the Ego (1958), and Painting and the Inner World (1963). The book to which TSE refers here was The Quattro Cento: Part 1: Florence and Verona (F&F, 1932).

 at Sitwell dinner-party, TSE's blurb for Russian Ballets,
Stork, Charles Wharton,

13.CharlesStork, Charles Wharton Wharton Stork (1881–1971), poet, playwright, novelist; editor of Contemporary Verse, 1917–25; translator of Scandinavian verse; taught at the University of Philadelphia.
Stott, Sir Philip Sidney,

1.SirStott, Sir Philip Sidney Philip Sidney Stott, 1st Baronet (1858–1937), Lancashire-born architect and civil engineer who specialised in designing mills – and he acquired additional wealth from the shares he retained in the mills that he built. From 1913 he resided at Stanton Court, Gloucs., a Jacobean manor house near Broadway, Worcestershire, and he made benefactions to the local community. He served too as a Justice of the Peace and as High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
Stout, Rex, The League of Frightened Men,
Strachey, John,

9.JohnStrachey, John Strachey (1901–1963) – son of John Strachey, editor of the Spectator – was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and went on to edit the Socialist Review, having joined the Labour Party in 1923. He was MP for Birmingham Aston, 1929–31, and was for a while a member of Sir Oswald Mosley’s New Party before joining the Communist Party from the later 1930s. He was Labour MP for Dundee (later Dundee West), 1945–63, serving as Minister for Food in 1946 (when he was made a Privy Counsellor) and Secretary of State for War, 1950–1. A Marxist-Leninist theorist of repute in the 1930s, he wrote The Coming Struggle for Power (1932) and The Menace of Fascism (1933). His former communism was criticised during the Fuchs affair.
see also Stracheys, the
Strachey, Lytton,

3.LyttonStrachey, Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), writer and critic; a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group. Works include Eminent Victorians (1918) and Queen Victoria (1921). See Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey: A Biography (1971); The Letters of Lytton Strachey, ed. Paul Levy (1972).

 kissed TSE, his death, once argued with Bishop Gore about General Gordon, memorialised, met TSE at Garsington, once warned TSE against OM, and Dr Karl Martin, TSE fears having denounced,
see also Stracheys, the
Strachey, Pernel,

4.Strachey’sStrachey, Philippa ('Pippa') several sisters included Philippa Strachey (1872–1968) – ‘Pippa’ – who was prominent in the movement for women’s rights. As Secretary of the London National Society for Women’s Suffrage she organised in 1907 the first mass feminist demonstration of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, and during WW1 she organised the Women’s Service (finding jobs for women and training them for skilled work). She was Secretary of the London Society for Women’s Service, 1918–51. PernelStrachey, Pernel Strachey (1876–1951), French scholar, was Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, 1923–41. Another sister with whom TSE was acquainted was Ray (Rachel) Strachey (1887–1940), feminist activist, politician and writer; author of Women’s Suffrage and Women’s Service (1927). See Jennifer Holmes, A Working Woman: The Remarkable Life of Ray Strachey (1029); Barbara Caine, Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family (Oxford, 2005).
see also Stracheys, the
Strachey, Philippa ('Pippa'),

4.Strachey’sStrachey, Philippa ('Pippa') several sisters included Philippa Strachey (1872–1968) – ‘Pippa’ – who was prominent in the movement for women’s rights. As Secretary of the London National Society for Women’s Suffrage she organised in 1907 the first mass feminist demonstration of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, and during WW1 she organised the Women’s Service (finding jobs for women and training them for skilled work). She was Secretary of the London Society for Women’s Service, 1918–51. PernelStrachey, Pernel Strachey (1876–1951), French scholar, was Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, 1923–41. Another sister with whom TSE was acquainted was Ray (Rachel) Strachey (1887–1940), feminist activist, politician and writer; author of Women’s Suffrage and Women’s Service (1927). See Jennifer Holmes, A Working Woman: The Remarkable Life of Ray Strachey (1029); Barbara Caine, Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family (Oxford, 2005).
see also Stracheys, the
Strachey, Sir Charles,

2.SirStrachey, Sir Charles Charles Strachey (1862–1942), diplomat.
see also Stracheys, the
Stracheys, the, England's Bostonians, at the heart of Bloomsbury, have their own accent,
Stravinsky, Igor, diminished in TSE's admiration, influenced 'The Hollow Men', TSE claims affinity with Picasso and, L'Histoire du soldat, Perséphone, Petrouschka, Le Sacre du printemps,
Street, Alicia,

2.AliciaStreet, Alicia Street, author and lecturer.
Streit, Clarence K.,

2.ClarenceStreit, Clarence K. K. Streit, Union Now: A Proposal for a Federal Union of The Leading Democracies (1939).
Strindberg, August, as influence on TSE,
'Strindbergs inflytande på T. S. Eliot betydande',
Strong, Leonard Alfred George ('L. A. G.'),

4.L. A. G. StrongStrong, Leonard Alfred George ('L. A. G.') (1896–1958), English novelist, historian, poet and critic.
Student Christian Movement, poetry reading for, Swanwick summer-camp,
Student Movement House, Gower Street, Christmas Play, poetry reading for,
'Study of Shakespeare Criticism, The', tarted up for Haverford, as delivered,
Sturzo, Don Luigi,

6.LuigiSturzo, Don Luigi Sturzo (1871–1959), Italian Catholic priest and Christian socialist. Co-founder of the Partito Popolare Italiano in 1919, he was obliged by the rising fascists to go into exile.
Subercaseaux, Léon,

1.LéonSubercaseaux, Léon Subercaseaux (1894–1956), Chilean consul in London, and his wife Paz Larrain de Subercaseaux (d. 1994). They had a house at Windlesham, Surrey.
Suez Crisis,
Suhrkamp, Peter,

2.PeterSuhrkamp, Peter Suhrkamp (1891–1959): German journalist, teacher, translator, dramaturg, and founder of the very successful publishing house of Suhrkamp-Verlag: authors on the publisher’s list included Hermann Hesse, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Max Frisch, TSE and Marcel Proust. See Roberto Calasso, ‘Peter Suhrkamp’, The Art of the Publisher (2015), 107–10.
summer, in Woburn Square, ennervates, intolerable when hot for long, unthinkable in America, in London, and the drought of 1934, painfully reminiscent of Gloucestershire,
Sumner, Humphrey,

2.HumphreySumner, Humphrey Sumner (1893–1951): historian; Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1925–44; Professor of History, University of Edinburgh, 1944–5; Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, 1945–51.
Sunday Times, announces Murder production, awards TSE £1,000 Literary Prize,
Sunderland-Taylor, Alice Maud Mary,

6.AliceSunderland-Taylor, Alice Maud Mary Maud Mary Sunderland-Taylor (1872–1942), owner of Stamford House, Chipping Campden, which the Perkinses were renting for the season. (Sunderland-Taylor, a spinster and retired schoolteacher from Stamford, Lincolnshire, liked to spend her summers in Yugoslavia.) Edith Perkins wrote from Aban Court Hotel, Harrington Gardens, South Kensington, London, to invite TSE to meet Sunderland-Taylor at dinner on Mon. 29 Nov.

 and the last days of Chipping Campden, writes to TSE about books, her death and memory,
Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, George, 5th Duke of Sutherland,

14.GeorgeSutherland-Leveson-Gower, George, 5th Duke of Sutherland Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland (1888–1963): Conservative politician and patron of the film industry. Following service in the regular army, Sutherland succeeded to the dukedom in 1913. He served in two successive Conservative administrations: as Under-Secretary of State for Air, 1922–4; Paymaster-General, 1925–8; Under-Secretary of State for War, 1928–9. In 1936 he became a Privy Councillor, and served as Lord Steward of the Household, 1935–6. He was first Chairman of the British Film Institute, 1933–6. He married Clare Josephine O’Brian (1903–88) in 1944, after the death of his first wife the previous year.
Swabey, Henry,

2.HenrySwabey, Henry Swabey (1916–96) was studying at Durham University and preparing to take orders in the Anglican Church: see further A. David Moody, Ezra Pound: Poet: A Portrait of the Man and his Work, II: The Epic Years 1921–1939 (Oxford, 2014), 205–7.
Swan, Ethel,

2.EthelSwan, Ethel Swan, a Faber & Gwyer ‘pioneer’, joined the firm on 12 Oct. 1925, as telephonist and receptionist, retiring in 1972 after 47 years. PeterSwan, EthelPeter du Sautoy's tribute to;a2n du Sautoy reported in 1971: ‘These duties she still performs with admirable skill and charm … SheJoyce, Jameson the phone to the F&F receptionist;c1n has an amazing memory for voices and it is certain that if James Joyce were to return to earth to telephone a complaint (he called us “Feebler and Fumbler”) she would say “Good morning, Mr Joyce” before he could introduce himself, as if he had previously been telephoning only yesterday. Many a visiting author or publisher from overseas has felt more kindly towards Faber & Faber as a result of Miss Swan’s friendly recognition’ (‘Farewell, Russell Square’, The Bookseller no. 3410 [1 May 1971], 2040).

 Peter du Sautoy's tribute to, profiled, Cocktail Party inscribed to, and VHE, her gym routine, notably unphotographed by Picture Post, 'une âme pure', a 'saved soul', shares TSE's birthday-cake,
Sweeney, as pictured by TSE,
Sweeney Agonistes, TSE's desire to illustrate, copy inscribed to EH, defended as poetry, recited for Signet Society, importance of the drummer, rated TSE's best by More, Hallie Flanagan's Vassar production, and TSE's Vassar visit, its characters compared to Auden's, new direction in drama, discussed with Rupert Doone, Group Theatre production, JDH on Doone's production, TSE on Doone's production, Rupert Doone explains his production, reviewed by Desmond MacCarthy, and Yeats's Mercury Theatre season, referred to as 'dance play', revival compared to Group Theatre premiere, EH taken to revival, EH's opinion on, its St. John of the Cross epigraph, TSE reflects on,
Sweeney, James Johnson,

4.JamesSweeney, James Johnson Johnson Sweeney (1900–86), museum curator and writer on modern art; Curator of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935–45; Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1952–60. Sweeney wrote ‘East Coker: A Reading’, Southern Review 6 (Spring 1941), 771–91 – an essay that TSE enjoyed – and ‘Little Gidding: Introductory to a Reading’, Poetry 62 (July 1943), 214–23. He did not complete a book-length study of TSE’s works.

 TSE singles out his East Coker exegesis, apparently writing book on Four Quartets,
Sweeney, John ('Jack'),

2.JohnSweeney, John ('Jack') ‘Jack’ Sweeney (1906–86): poet, critic, curator, patron of the arts; brother of the art critic and museum curator James Johnson Sweeney. Educated at Georgetown University and Cambridge (where he worked with I. A. Richards), in 1942 he became curator of Harvard University’s Poetry Room, and from 1946 Subject Specialist for the Widener Library. He married in 1949 Máire MacNeill (1904–87), folklorist; author of The Festival of Lughnasa (1962): see Maureen Murphy, ‘Máire MacNeill (1904–1987)’, Béaloideas 72 (2004), 1–30.
Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels,
Swing, Raymond Gram,

3.RaymondSwing, Raymond Gram Gram Swing (1887–1968) – newspaper journalist and radio broadcaster – was especially valued for his anti-Nazi radio commentaries beamed from London during WW2.
Swinton, Maj.-Gen. Sir Ernest,

3.Major-GenSwinton, Maj.-Gen. Sir Ernest. Sir Ernest Swinton (1868–1951), army officer, was Chichele Professor of Military History and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University, 1925–39.

 argues with GCF,
Sword of the Spirit, The, committee meetings of,
Sykes, Christopher,

4.ChristopherSykes, Christopher Sykes (1907–86), author and journalist; friend of Robert Byron (author of The Road to Oxiana; he and Sykes were travelling companions) and Evelyn Waugh. Having passed an active war in the Special Operations Executive and Special Air Service, he worked in BBC Radio and lived with his wife, Camilla Georgiana and family in Chelsea, not far from TSE and Hayward. Works include Four Studies in Loyalty (1946); Nancy: The Life of Lady Astor (1972); Evelyn Waugh: A Biography (1975).
see also Sykeses, the
Sykeses, the, Christmas dinner with,
Synge, John Millington ('J. M'), his diction, The Playboy of the Western World,
'T. S. Eliot on Poetry in Wartime',
Tagore, Rabindranath,

6.RabindranathTagore, Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Bengali poet, author, composer, philosopher, painter; winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1913. See Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson, Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man (1995), 173: ‘One non-enthusiast was T. S. Eliot […] He appears (like Kipling) to have maintained an absolute silence about Tagore, though he did agree in 1951 to write a preface to an anthology of “thoughts for meditation” that included Tagore. One might perhaps have expected Eliot to put Tagore down, as he did Goethe and as Pound would do several times both in private and in print after 1913. He would have reacted against Tagore’s links with American Unitarianism, the religion Eliot had rejected in his own family, and he would have distrusted Tagore’s interpretation of Indian spirituality. But perhaps Eliot was in some way touched by the man (he did attend one of Tagore’s lectures), and decided to hold his peace on Tagore. One of Eliot’s fellow students at Harvard, R. F. Rattray, who looked after Tagore in 1913, implied this in a 1940 letter to Tagore in Shantiniketan: “it may be that it was impressions of you that worked into [Eliot’s] poem The Waste Land: ‘Shanti! Shanti! Shanti!’” Tagore replied: “I am interested to read what you say about Mr T. S. Eliot. Some of his poetry [has] moved me by [its] evocative power and consummate craftsmanship. I have translated … one of his lyrics called ‘The Journey of the Magi’”.’ EVE to Robinson: ‘I never heard TSE mention Tagore, and I can find no correspondence in connection with the latter’s translation of “Journey of the Magi”.’

 sends Ceylonese poet TSE's way,
Tai-chi, Quo,

1.QuoTai-chi, Quo Tai-chi (1888–1952), Nationalist Chinese Ambassador to the UK, 1932–41.
Talcott, Agnew Allen,

3.CharlotteTalcott, Agnew Allen Stearns Smith married Agnew Allen Talcott on 30 Oct. 1931. Henry Eliot to TSE, 14 Dec. 1931: ‘Chardy and Agnew are a charming couple; he is a fine young chap, in my opinion, and they seem admirably suited.’
Talcott, Priscilla Stearns,

4.PriscillaTalcott, Priscilla Stearns Stearns Talcott (b. 19 Feb. 1934), daughter of Agnew Talcott and Charlotte Stearns Smith.

 speaks of 'dates',
Tambimuttu, Meary James Thuairajah ('Tambi'),

MearyTambimuttu, Meary James Thuairajah ('Tambi') James Thurairajah Tambimuttu – ‘Tambi’ (1915–83) – Tamil poet, editor and publisher, was born in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and educated at Columbo before arriving in London in Jan. 1938, aged twenty-three. In 1939 he launched Poetry London, which ran for fourteen volumes through the 1940s, publishing figures including Lawrence Durrell, Kathleen Raine, Roy Campbell, and Keith Douglas. In 1943 he established the imprint Editions Poetry London: works produced included Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Keith Douglas’s Alamein to Zem Zem and Cleanth Brooks’s Modern Poetry and the Tradition. After three years back in Ceylon, 1949–52, he ventured to New York – launching Poetry London–New York (1956–60) – and spent his last years in London. TSE published his anthology Poetry in Wartime (1942). See further Tambimuttu: Bridge between Two Worlds, ed. Jane Williams (1989).

 T. S. Eliot: A Symposium,
Tandy, Alison, thanks TSE, and 'The Naming of Cats', her birthday-party, TSE buys her watch for Christmas, her birthday in Dorset,
see also Tandys, the
Tandy, Anthea Margaret Crane,

2.AntheaTandy, Anthea Margaret Crane Margaret Crane Tandy, who was to be TSE’s godchild.
see also Tandys, the
Tandy, Geoffrey,

2.GeoffreyTandy, Geoffrey Tandy (1900–69), marine biologist; Assistant Keeper of Botany at the Natural History Museum, London, 1926–47; did broadcast readings for the BBC (including the first reading of TSE’s Practical Cats on Christmas Day 1937): see Biographical Register.

 at Pike's Farm, on cuts to The Rock, playing on slot-machine with TSE, described for EH, plays golf with TSE, at Dobrée's farewell lunch, his film of TSE, on Speaight's Becket, in poor spirits, part of Criterion inner circle, gives Christmas Eve BBC address, Metaphysical readings prepared for, brings TSE sherry in bed, accompanies TSE to Cambridge and Wisbech, TSE's stylistic influence discerned in, and the original 'Cats' broadcast, repeats 'Cats' broadcast, away on war business, his conversation missed, his war work,
see also Tandys, the
Tandy, James Napper,

7.JamesTandy, James Napper Napper Tandy (1739–1803), Irish Protestant member of United Irishmen; revolutionary; popular hero immortalised in the street ballad ‘The Wearing of the Green’.

 ancestor of Geoffrey Tandy,
Tandy, Polly, knits jumper for TSE, remembers TSE's birthday, sends TSE birthday chicken,
see also Tandys, the
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,
Tate, Allen,

7.AllenTate, Allen Tate (1899–1979), poet, critic, editor, attended Vanderbilt University (where he was taught by John Crowe Ransom and became associated with the group known as the Fugitives). He became Poet-in-Residence at Princeton, 1939–42; Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress, 1944–5; and editor of the Sewanee Review, 1944–6; and he was Professor of Humanities at the University of Minnesota, 1951–68. His works include Ode to the Confederate Dead (1930), The Mediterranean and Other Poems (1936), Reactionary Essays on Poetry and Ideas (1936); The Fathers (novel, 1938).

 presses TSE for contribution to book, states his beliefs, at Princeton,
see also Tates, the
Tates, the, as a couple,
Tatlow, Canon Tissington,

3.TissingtonTatlow, Canon Tissington Tatlow (1876–1957), Rector of All Hallows, Lombard Street, London, 1926–37; Hon. Chaplain to the Student Christian Movement of Great Britain and Ireland (of which he was founder and general secretary, 1903–29).

 obliged with poetry reading,
Taupin, René,

4.RenéTaupin, René Taupin (1905–81), French translator and critic who moved in the 1920s to the USA, where he lectured in Romance Languages at Columbia University, New York. A friend of the poet Louis Zukofsky [?] and correspondent of Ezra Pound, he was author of L’Influence du symbolisme français sur la poésie américaine, de 1910 à 1920 (1929) – The Influence of French Symbolism on Modern American Poetry (rev. edn 1981) – the work to which TSE refers in these remarks. See TSE’s letter to Taupin, 12 Apr. 1928.

 The Influence of French Symbolism on Modern American Poetry,
Taylor, A. E., Faith of a Moralist,
Taylor, Eleanor Sanger,

7.EleanorTaylor, Eleanor Sanger Sanger Taylor (1891–1982). John Taylor (1891–1964).
Taylor, John, psychoanalysis explains TSE's aversion to,
Tchelitchew, Pavel,
Tearle, Godfrey,

1.GodfreyTearle, Godfrey Tearle (1884–1953): British stage and screen actor. Knighted in 1953.

 in Othello,
Tempest, Marie, tribute matinée sold out,
Temple, William, Archbishop of York (later of Canterbury),

10.WilliamTemple, William, Archbishop of York (later of Canterbury) Temple (1881–1944), Anglican clergyman, Archbishop of York and later of Canterbury: see Biographical Register.

 consulted over 'Thoughts After Lambeth', invites TSE to unemployment conference, as administrator, sustains 'Intercommunion' correspondence with TSE, unworthy of his see, incorrigible signatory, careless enthusiast, TSE writes talk on education for, his death,
'Tendency of Some Modern Poetry, The', delivered from notes at University of Minnesota, again for Poetry Society of Maryland, again at Bryn Mawr College,
Tennant, Pamela Winefred, Lady Glenconner,

2.PamelaTennant, Pamela Winefred, Lady Glenconner Winefred Paget, Lady Glenconner (1903–89), wife of Christopher Tennant, Baron Glenconner.

 at Clive Bell's lunch-party,
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron, TSE compared to, TSE commissioned to introduce, adapted to express TSE's own feelings, TSE's In Memoriam broadcast, TSE's pilgrimage to Farringford,
Terry, Beatrice,

6.TSE’s aunt Susie Hinkley treated TSE and some other friends to a performance (at an unknown venue) of a touring production of Camille (The Lady of the Camellias) – using an English translation by Henriette Metcalf of Alexander Dumas’s own stage version of his novel – put on by the Civic Repertory Theatre of New York, under the direction of Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991). TheTerry, Beatrice touring company included Le Gallienne herself; Beatrice Terry (1890–1970), a niece of the legendary actress Ellen Terry (1847–1928); and Donald Cameron (1888– 1955), a reputed Canadian actor.

 singled out in Camille,
Terry, Ellen, Terry–Shaw correspondence,
Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair,
'That Poetry is made with words',
Thayer, Florence, asks TSE to visit son in hospital,
Thayer, Lucy Ely,

1.LucyThayer, Lucy Ely Ely Thayer (1887–1952) – a cousin of TSE’s old friend Scofield Thayer, and a friend and confidante of Vivien Eliot – had been a witness at the Eliots’ wedding on 26 June 1915.

 expected as VHE's companion, expected from 1 October, compared with Mrs Nelson, writes to TSE from London,
Thayer, Polly,

4.PollyThayer, Polly Thayer (1904–2006), Boston painter; daughter of Harvard Law School Dean Ezra Ripley Thayer and Ethel Randolph Thayer.
Thayer, Scofield,

11.ScofieldThayer, Scofield Thayer (1890–1982), American poet and publisher; pioneering editor of the Dial. Thayer came from a wealthy New England family, which enabled him to travel and to become a patron of the arts. He was a friend of TSE from Milton Academy, where he was his junior by a year. Like TSE, he went on to Harvard and Oxford, where from 1914 he spent two years studying philosophy at Magdalen College: it was in his rooms there that TSE met Vivien Haigh-Wood in 1915. From 1919 to 1925 he was editor of the Dial, having joined forces with James Sibley Watson (who became president of the magazine) to save it from closure. Re-launched as a monthly in January 1920, the Dial became the most enterprising cultural and arts magazine in the USA. It published TSE’s ‘London Letters’ and The Waste Land as well as important essays by him such as ‘Ulysses, Order and Myth’; Yeats, Pound, Cummings, Joyce and others of the most important Anglophone modernists; and influential European writers including Mann, Hofmannsthal and Valéry. A meeting between Thayer and Lady Rothermere prompted her to finance the Criterion, with Eliot as editor.

 TSE urged to visit, has been asking for TSE, TSE on visiting,
Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, Paris, produces The Cocktail Party,
Théâtre National Populaire, Paris, stages Meurte dans la cathédrale,
Theological Literature Association,
Thomas, Brandon, Charlie's Aunt,
Thomas, Dylan,

2.DylanThomas, Dylan Thomas (1914–53) published Eighteen Poems in 1934, Twenty-Five Poems in 1936. Other works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (1940), Under Milk Wood (1954), Adventures in the Skin Trade (1955) and Collected Poems 1934–1953 (1966). TSE to Hugh Gordon Porteus, 17 Dec. 1957: ‘I did not know Dylan Thomas very well and never took to him particularly, although I have been impressed by the warmth of affection for him of people whose opinions I respect including Vernon Watkins himself, whom I like very much, but I was rather too senior perhaps to see the side of him that must have been so very lovable.’

 cannot get drunk at Criterion gathering, TSE reads poetry alongside,
'Thomas Heywood',
Thomas, Mary Ann Davenport (née Perkins),

4.MaryThomas, Mary Ann Davenport (née Perkins) Ann Davenport Thomas, née Perkins (1880–1951), bore five children.
Thomas, Thomas Head, 20 years on from TSE's year in Paris, TSE on dinner with, drinks beer with TSE,
Thomas, W. D.,

2.ProfessorThomas, W. D. W. D. Thomas.
Thompson, Francis,
Thompson, Robert, his poetry beyond help,
Thomson, George Malcolm,
Thorndike, Sybil,

9.SybilThorndike, Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976): acclaimed British actor of stage and screen, she was a dominant presence in productions of Shakespeare and the Classics – arguably the greatest tragedienne of the twentieth century. George Bernard Shaw felt such a regard for her talent that he wrote Saint Joan (1924) specifically for her. In 1938–9 there were discussions with a view to staging the premiere of The Family Reunion, to be directed by John Gielgud (who was eager to play the hero, the tormented Harry), with Thorndike as Agatha. But Thorndike is reported to have advised Gielgud, ‘You know, Eliot’s not going to let you have his play – he says you have no faith.’ In Peter Brooks’s revival of the play at the Phoenix Theatre, London, in June 1956, she was the matriarch Amy (with Paul Scofield as Harry). Thorndike to TSE, 8 June 1956: ‘My ambition is fulfilled – to be in one of your plays …’ Created a Dame of the British Empire in 1931, in 1970 she was appointed as a Companion of Honour.

 ideal Family Reunion casting, courted by TSE, lined up for Agatha, exerts influence on Gielgud, again, ideal casting for Confidential Clerk, TSE apologises to, praised in The Sacred Wood, eventually plays Amy,
Thorold, Algar,

3.AlgarThorold, Algar Thorold (1866–1936), diplomat, author, journalist: see Biographical Register.
Thorp, Margaret (née Farrand),

16.MargaretThorp, Margaret (née Farrand) Farrand (1891–1970), author and journalist – see Margaret Thorp in Biographical Register.

 accompanied TSE and EH to Tristan, VHE's liking for, TSE on, TSE's Tristan references lost on, compared to husband, possible trustee of Hale correspondence, one of EH's few confidants, would think TSE romantic, TSE on EH's feeling of inferiority to, approachable but for Willard, Criterion review of her book, an unsoothing presence, F&F publish book by, teased for liberalism, EH on, EH seeks job opportunity through, encouraging EH to augment Princeton deposit, America at the Movies,
see also Thorps, the
Thorp, Willard,

1.Margaret Thorp, née Farrand (1891–1970), contemporary and close friend of EH; noted author and biographer. WillardThorp, Willard Thorp (1899–1990) was a Professor of English at Princeton University. See Biographical Register. See further Lyndall Gordon, Hyacinth Girl, 126–8, 158–9.

 introduced by TSE to Dobrée, at the Criterion meeting, grows on TSE, teaches Ombre to the Eliots, EH thinks of entrusting letters to, seems lifeless, has stiffening effect on TSE, requests Paul More tribute, which he delivers to More, congratulates TSE on Family Reunion, invited TSE to Princeton, due to teach at Harvard, compared to Margaret, resembles Sweden's Crown Prince, formally notified of EH's bequest, objects to TSE's 50-year moratorium, and EH's 'recordings', seeks again to shorten moratorium, but again refused, invited to petition TSE directly, but shifts responsibility to Dix, makes transcript of EH's 'recording',
see also Thorps, the
Thorpe, W. A., at heavy Criterion gathering,
Thorps, the, EH brings to TSE's notice, to tea chez Eliot, take flat in Lincoln's Inn, attend TSE's Poetry Bookshop reading, VHE invites to party, host the Eliots to tea, grow on TSE, host the Eliots for claret, cheesecake and Ombre, invite VHE to supper, compared to the Noyeses, take offence where none intended, called on in Princeton, appear in Campden, worth discussing American politics with, TSE imagines living with, TSE against leaving letters to, likeness to the Webbs, EH on, differentiated, take in worthy Chaplin exhibition, unrelaxing hosts, advise EH over terms of Princeton bequest, and EH's 'recording', pushing EH to write autobiography,
'Thoughts After Lambeth', discussed with Bishop Bell, finished, proof sent to EH, commended by Lord Halifax, critiqued by Aldous Huxley,
'Three Sonnets to Geoffrey Cust Faber Esqre', enclosed to EH,
'Three Voices of Poetry, The', undertaken to oblige GCF, 'slight',
Throop, George R.,

3.GeorgeThroop, George R. R. Throop (1882–1949), classicist; Chancellor of Washington University, St Louis, 1927–44.
Thurber, James, My Life and Hard Times,
Thurburn, Gwynneth L.,

3.GwynnethThurburn, Gwynneth L. L. Thurburn (1899–1993), Vice-Principal, Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art.
Thurston, Fr Herbert, SJ,
Tilesius, Arne,

ArneTilesius, Arne Tiselius (1902–71) was a Swedish biochemist at Uppsala University who won the chemistry prize for his work on proteins.

 in TSE's Nobel Prize cohort,
Tillyard, Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall ('E. M. W.'),

2.E. M. W. TillyardTillyard, Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall ('E. M. W.') (1889–1962): Fellow in English of Jesus College, Cambridge, 1926–59; Master, 1945–59. Works include The Personal Heresy: A Controversy (with C. S. Lewis, 1939); The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare (1943), Shakespeare’s History Plays (1944) and The Muse Unchained: An Intimate Account of the Revolution in English Studies at Cambridge (1958).

 lures TSE to Jesus College,
Time, hounds JDH and Cheetham, TSE learns of Cocktail Party royalties in,
Time & Tide, pays well, TSE's contributions prove controversial, EH objects to TSE's tone in,
Times Literary Supplement, The, 'Thomas Heywood', TSE on, TSE arranges EH's subscription to, intrigue over Richmond's successor,
Times, The, no longer reliable, no longer government mouthpiece, 'Eclipse of the Highbrow' controversy, reviews The Cocktail Party,
Tinker, Chauncey Brewster,

4.ChaunceyTinker, Chauncey Brewster Brewster Tinker (1876–1963), Sterling Professor of English Literature, Yale University. 1923–45.
Tippett, Michael,

9.MichaelTippett, Michael Tippett (1905–98), composer celebrated for works including the oratorio A Child of Our Time (written 1939–41; performed 1944) and the opera The Midsummer Marriage (1955). See also Oliver Soden, Michael Tippett: The Biography (2019).

 visits the Morleys,
'To the Indians Who Died in Africa by T. S. Eliot', conceived as epigram, TSE sits on his verses, copied for EH, whom his verses please,
'To the Reader' (preface to Inoubliable France),
Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace,
Tomkins, Oliver,

7.OliverTomkins, Oliver Tomkins (1908–92), Anglican priest; from 1945, Secretary of the World Council of Churches; Bishop of Bristol, 1959–72.
Tomlin, E. Walter F.,

10.E. WalterTomlin, E. Walter F. F. Tomlin (1914–88), writer and administrator; author of a memoir T. S. Eliot: A Friendship (1988): see Biographical Register.

 at Kelham, last to leave Criterion gathering, on TSE's return from Austria, distracts TSE from EH leaving,
Toscanini, Arturo, the Reads accompany TSE to hear, EH hears in America,
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.
'Towards a Christian Britain', perplexes TSE, on its fourth draft, broadcast,
Toynbee, Arnold, fellow contributor to BBC series,
'Tradition and the Practice of Poetry', Dublin version of,
Traherne, Thomas, TSE prepares selection from,
Transport Workers' Strike, 1946,
Travellers' Club, London, Christmas Day lunch at,
travels, trips and plans, EH's 1930 trip to England, EH's proposed 1931 England visit, called off, EH's 1932 summer holidays, the Eliots' Derby Day excursion, related, the Eliots' July 1932 Hindhead visit, the Eliots' August 1932 Eastbourne holiday, described, TSE's 1932–3 year in America, Norton Professorship offered to TSE, and the prospect of reunion with EH, which TSE refuses to see as decisive, which angers EH, who writes and destroys a response, TSE's financial imperatives, TSE's itinerary, and the question of discretion, opportunity for adventurous lecture-tours, TSE speculates on attendant feelings, TSE on the voyage over, TSE reflects on, TSE's return from, the Eliot family's Randolph holiday, TSE's 1933 westward tour to Scripps, proposed to EH, and TSE's need to lecture, possibly via St. Louis, TSE's itinerary, possible stopover in Seattle, a shameful source of happiness, still a happy thought, described by Havens and others, TSE reflects on, TSE's return from, TSE wonders at after-effect on EH, EH urged to reflect honestly on, Ada on, and a conversation about divorce, in EH's recollection, possible EH 1933 summer in England, TSE's 1933 Faber summer holiday, set for mid-August, postponed, rearranged, TSE buys summer outfits for, described, TSE's 1933 tour of Scotland, possible itinerary, Morley's preparations for, described for EH, TSE's 1933 trip to Paris, mooted, described, EH's 1934–5 year in Europe, TSE delighted at the prospect, attempts to coordinate with TSE's 1934 summer plans, the Perkinses due in Chipping Camden, EH's itinerary, TSE's initial weekend at Chipping Campden, TSE books rooms in Lechlade, TSE visits Campden again with family, and again alone, which visit TSE reflects on, TSE's plans to entertain EH en route to Europe, EH's continental itinerary, VHE and propriety inhibit pre-Paris arrangements, L'Escargot lunch, weekend in Sussex for EH's birthday, possible London tea-party, second lunch at L'Escargot, EH and TSE's November excursions, a month which TSE reflects happily on, EH's summer 1935 plans, EH departs England, EH in Florence, arrived in Rome, TSE coordinating with EH's return, TSE recommends Siena, EH returns to Florence, EH sails for Riviera, EH returns from France, L'Escargot lunch on EH's return, EH sails for Guernsey, May 1935, EH's June 1935 London sortie, TSE attends Dr Perkins's birthday, TSE's July 1935 Campden week, TSE offers to fund EH in London, where EH joins Jeanie McPherrin, TSE's Campden birthday weekend, prospect of EH spending month at Blomfield Terrace, Thorp theatre outing, TSE's 6–8 September Campden weekend, EH staying at 19 Rosary Gardens, EH to Campden for 15–17 November, EH sails for Boston, EH and TSE's final farewell, TSE and EH's final weeks in London, their excursion to Finchampstead, TSE reflects on, excursion to Greenwich, EH reflects on the final weeks of, TSE's 1934 Faber summer holiday, described, TSE's dream of Cairo, TSE's invitation to Finland, palmed off on Robert Nichols, TSE's 1935 tour of Scotland, proposed by Blake, attempts to coordinate with EH, TSE's itinerary, TSE's 1935 Faber summer holiday, TSE writes from, described, TSE's 1936 visit to Ireland, TSE's itinerary, recounted, TSE's spring/summer 1936 trip to Paris, first contemplated, date fixed, Morleys invited, TSE's itinerary, recounted, TSE's 1936 Faber summer holiday, TSE writes from, TSE's 1936 American trip, spring arrival dependent on New York Murder, if not spring, then autumn, possible excursions, autumn better for seeing EH, and possible Princeton offer, and possible Smith visit, efforts to coordinate with EH, passage on Alaunia booked, TSE's itinerary, Murder to pay for, coordinating with Eliot Randolph holiday, the moment of parting from EH, TSE's birthday during, TSE reflects on, TSE's 1937 tour of Scotland, itinerary, recounted, the Morley–Eliot 1937 trip to Salzburg, contemplated, itinerary, EH receives postcard from, described, as relayed to OM, EH's 1937 summer in England, and Mrs Seaverns, EH accompanies TSE to Edinburgh, itinerary coordinated with EH, dinner at L'Escargot, TSE's 10–11 July Campden visit, TSE's 17–22 July Campden visit, TSE's 21 August Campden visit, EH travels to Yorkshire, TSE reminisces about, TSE's 1937 Faber summer holiday, TSE reports from, leaves TSE sunburnt, TSE's 1938 trip to Lisbon, outlined to EH, TSE advised on, travel arrangements, the voyage out, described, EH's 1938 summer in England, and whether EH should spend it at Campden, EH's arrival confirmed, TSE's July Campden visit, EH's late-July London stay, TSE's 5–21 August Campden fortnight, TSE's 3–6 September Campden visit, EH's September London stay, TSE reflects on, TSE's 1938 Faber summer holiday, TSE's preparations for, TSE reports from, possible EH England Christmas 1938 visit, possible TSE 1939 visit to America, mooted for spring, complicated by Marion and Dodo's trip, shifted to autumn, threatened by war, made impossible, EH's 1939 England visit, TSE's efforts to coordinate with, threatened by war, complicated by Marion's arrival, EH's itinerary, EH's initial London stay, TSE's 7–20 July Campden visit, TSE's 22–30 August Campden visit, TSE's 2–4 September Campden visit, EH again London, EH and TSE's parting moments, in TSE's memory, memory vitiated by EH's subsequent letter, TSE's 1939 Faber summer holiday, TSE writes from, possible wartime transatlantic crossings, contingencies, in case of EH being ill, TSE's reasons for and against, and TSE's New York proposition, following invasion Denmark and Norway, impossible for TSE unless official, TSE's desire to remain in England, TSE's reasons for and against accepting lectureship, given Ada's impending death, TSE's abortive 1940 Italian mission, possible but confidential, lectures prepared for, and the prospect of seeing EP, might include Paris, itinerary, in jeopardy, final preparations for, cancelled, TSE's 1940 visit to Dublin, approved by Foreign Office, in national interest, itinerary, recounted, involves TSE's first plane-journey, TSE's 1940 Faber summer holiday, TSE reports from, TSE's 1941 Faber summer holiday, Kipling and fishing-rod packed for, TSE reports from, TSE's 1941 Northern tour, proposed by the Christendom group, arranged with Demant, itinerary, recounted, TSE's 1942 British Council mission to Sweden, TSE makes cryptic allusion to, as recounted to EH, as recounted to JDH, return leg in London, as war-work, TSE's 1942 New Forest holiday, described, TSE's 1942 week in Scotland, recounted, TSE's abortive 1942 Iceland mission, TSE's 1943 trip to Edinburgh, recounted, TSE's abortive 1943 Iceland mission, TSE's 1943 New Forest holiday, TSE's 1944 trip to Edinburgh, TSE's abortive 1944 North Africa mission, TSE's May 1945 trip to Paris, described, TSE's June 1945 trip to Paris, recounted, possible post-war American visit, and Henry's impending death, ideally ancillary to work, possibly as F&F's representative, waits on TSE's health and Carlyle Mansions, TSE's 1945 September fortnight in Lee, described, TSE's 1945 Christmas in Lee, described, TSE's 1946 summer in America, date for passage fixed, paperwork for, TSE's itinerary, its aftermath, recounted, TSE's 1947 summer in America, dependent on lecture engagements, TSE seeks to bring forward, Henry's condition brings further forward, set for April, itinerary, EH reflects on, TSE's scheduled December 1947 visit to Marseilles and Rome, itinerary, TSE's preparations for, dreaded, Roman leg described by Roger Hinks, EH's hypothetical March 1948 visit to England, TSE's postponed 1948 trip to Aix, itinerary, recounted, home via Paris, TSE's 1948 trip to America, itinerary, TSE's visit to EH in Andover, disrupted by Nobel Prize, TSE's 1948 Nobel Prize visit to Stockholm, itinerary, recounted, TSE's 1949 family motor-tour of Scotland, described, TSE's October–November 1949 trip to Germany, possible itinerary, preparations for, final itinerary, TSE's account of, the return via Belgium, TSE's January 1950 voyage to South Africa, all but fixed, itinerary, described by TSE, recounted by Faber, EH's 1950 summer in England, TSE books EH's hotel room for, TSE's efforts to coordinate with EH's movements, EH in Campden, TSE reports to Aunt Edith on, TSE's 1950 visit to America, and TSE's possible Chicago post, the Chicago leg, November itinerary, TSE's spring 1951 trip to Spain, itinerary, recounted, TSE's September 1951 Geneva stay, itinerary, recounted, TSE's 1951 British Council mission to Paris, recounted, TSE's second 1951 British Council mission to Paris, recounted, TSE's 1952 visit to Rennes and the Riviera, itinerary, recounted, TSE's 1952 visit to America, itinerary, efforts to coordinate with EH's summer, TSE on meeting with EH, TSE's 1952 rest cure in Switzerland, TSE's 1953 visit to St. Louis and America, set for June, to include fortnight in Cambridge, itinerary, EH's 1953 trip to England, EH's Alnwick plans, TSE books hotel for EH, and EH's ticket to Confidential Clerk, TSE's 1953 visit to Geneva, TSE's 1953–4 trip to South Africa, itinerary, described, arrival described to JDH, GCF on, TSE's 1954 Geneva rest cure, Geneva preferred to Paris, TSE's deferred 1955 visit to Hamburg, prospect inspires reluctance in TSE, proposed for spring 1955, dreaded, TSE now returned from, TSE's 1955 visit to America, and contingent speaking engagements, foreshortened, itinerary, Washington described, TSE's return from, TSE's 1955 Geneva rest cure, TSE's 1956 visit to America, passage fixed for April, itinerary, TSE in the midst of, TSE reflects on, TSE's 1956 Geneva rest cure, itinerary, recounted, illness during, EH's 1957 visit to England, TSE and EVE invited to Campden, TSE reciprocates with London invitation, but EH leaves England abruptly, which TSE consults Eleanor Hinkley over, who duly explains, TSE and EVE's 1958 trip to America, as rumoured to EH, EH's 1959 tour of Scandinavia, funded by bequest from cousin, TSE and EVE's 1959 trip to America, TSE and EVE's 1963 trip to America,
Treaty of Versailles, TSE on, letter to The Times on, and Germany's subsequent violations, Keynes's book on, and Hitler's remilitarisation of the Rhineland, Hitler inveighs against,
Trench, Wilbraham Fitzjohn,

7.WilbrahamTrench, Wilbraham Fitzjohn Fitzjohn Trench (1873–1939), Professor of English Literature, Trinity College Dublin.

 and the Book of Kells,
Trend, John Brande ('J. B.'),

3.J. B. TrendTrend, John Brande ('J. B.') (1887–1958), journalist, musicologist – he wrote articles on music for the Criterion – was to become Professor of Spanish at Cambridge, 1933–52. See Margaret Joan Anstee, JB – An Unlikely Spanish Don: The Life & Times of John Brande Trend (Sussex Academic Press, 2013).

 part of Criterion inner-circle,
Trevelyan, George Macaulay ('G. M.'), sees TSE in Cambridge,
Trevelyan, Julian,

2.JulianTrevelyan, Julian Trevelyan (1910–88) – son of the classical scholar and poet Robert Calverley Trevelyan, grandson of the Liberal politician and writer Sir George Trevelyan, nephew of the historian George Macaulay Trevelyan – went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read English in 1928. After training under Stanley William Hayter at the printmaking workshop at the ‘Atelier Dix-Sept’ in Paris, where he worked with Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoshka, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso, he took to Surrealism and exhibited at the International Exhibition of Surrealism in 1936. Also in 1936 he participated, with Tom Harrisson, Humphrey Jennings and Charles Madge, in the Mass-Observation project in Bolton, Lancashire. He was a founder-member of the Printmakers’ Council. In later years he specialised in etching and taught at the Chelsea College of Art and at the Royal College of Art (where he became Head of the Etching Department). In 1986 he was awarded a senior Fellowship of the Royal College of Art, and in 1987 he was elected an Academician of the Royal College of Art. He was married first to Ursula Darwin (divorced 1950), and then to the painter Mary Fedden. See further Julian Trevelyan: Catalogue raisonné of prints, ed. Silvie Turner (1999).
Trevelyan, Mary,

2.MaryTrevelyan, Mary Trevelyan (1897–1983), Warden of Student Movement House, worked devotedly to support the needs of overseas students in London (her institution was based at 32 Russell Square, close to the offices of F&F; later at 103 Gower Street); founder and first governor of International Students House, London. Trevelyan left an unpublished memoir of her friendship with TSE – ‘The Pope of Russell Square’ – whom she long desired to marry. See further Biographical Register.

 recalling TSE's foggy adventure, and Student Movement House, describes situation in liberated Europe, reports from liberated Belgium, returns to London, smuggles TSE's whisky into hospital, significance of VHE's death explained to, TSE describes relationship with EH to, a 'kindly thorn',
Triumphal March, just completed, original typesetting disappoints TSE, and the Armistice, its allusions explained, EH appreciates,
Trollope, Anthony, Barchester novels recommended by TSE,
Trouncer, Cecil,

1.HenryReed, Henry Reed on ‘The Making of a Poem’, BBC, with reading by Cecil Trouncer. TrouncerTrouncer, Cecil (1898–1953), British actor, best known for appearances in films including Pygmalion (1938); later, London Belongs to Me (1948), The Magic Box (1951) and The Pickwick Papers (1952).

 overdoes reading of 'Gerontion',
Trouncer, Margaret,

2.MargaretTrouncer, Margaret Trouncer (1903–82), author of A Courtesan of Paradise: The Romantic Story of Louise de la Vallière, Mistress of Louis XIV (F&F, 1936). See http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/18th-december-1982/23/obituary-margaret-trouncer

 introduced to TSE by EH, presses manuscript on TSE, which JDH's friend reads, loses baby, on warpath with second book, which TSE is keen on, on to her third book, produces novel, A Courtesan of Paradise,
Truman, Harry S.,

2.HarryTruman, Harry S. S. Truman (1884–1972) – 34th Vice President of the USA since 20 Jan. 1945 – succeeded as 33rd President on the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt on 12 Apr. 1945. He was to authorise the first use of nuclear weapons against Japan in Aug. 1945. He went on to implement the Marshall Plan to re-establish the postwar economy of Western Europe; and he set up both the Truman Doctrine and NATO (to contain the threat of Communist expansion).

 TSE sympathises with, better suited to the times than FDR, speaks at Princeton degree ceremony,
Truro School, Cornwall, TSE's speech-day address to,
Tucker, J. Josephine,

3.TSETucker, J. Josephine mischievously implies that EH’s boss, J. Josephine Tucker, Head of Concord Academy, 1940–9, might be the Ukrainian-born American singer, comedian and actor Sophie Tucker (1886–1966), ‘Last of the Red-Hot Mamas’. Josephine Tucker invited TSE to give the Commencement address at Concord Academy in 1946.
Turleigh, Veronica,

2.VeronicaTurleigh, Veronica Turleigh (1903–71), Irish stage and screen actor, educated at University College Dublin; admired by her friend Alec Guinness .

 in The Dog Beneath the Skin,
Turnbull, Eleanor,

24.EleanorTurnbull, Eleanor Turnbull (1875–1964), scholar and translator of Spanish poetry.
Turnbull, Margaret,

22.MargaretTurnbull, Margaret Turnbull (1887–1981), a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, had gained a Masters in History from the University of Pennsylvania. Her husband was Bayard Turnbull (1879–1954).

 grand and unintelligible,
Turner, J. Clifford,

3.J. CliffordTurner, J. Clifford Turner – who was later to publish Voice and Speech in the Theatre (1950). The unidentified cutting that TSE enclosed with this letter reported of Clifford Turner’s reading of ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ – his contribution to an evening of recitations at the Grotrian Hall, on behalf of the English Verse Speaking Association – ‘His air of sedate and settled melancholy exactly matched the poem, and suited both its wit and its more obviously beautiful lines. This was certainly a genuine contribution to the poem.’

 recites 'Prufrock' to TSE,
Twain, Mark, and belonging to the International Mark Twain Society, TSE's unfulfilled introduction to,
'Twenty-Five Years in Gloucester Road', sent to EH,
'Two Masters' (afterwards 'The Modern Dilemma'), delivered to Unitarian ministers, reprised and revised,
Ty Glyn Aeron, Wales, described for EH,
'Types of English Religious Verse', prepared for Italy,
Underhill, Evelyn,

1.EvelynUnderhill, Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), spiritual director and writer on mysticism and the spiritual life: see Biographical Register.

 introduced to TSE by her cousin Francis, mentioned by von Hügel, delights TSE, who feels easy in her company, reception at the house of, on TSE's Perkins tea guest-list, sherry-party chez, quizzed on divinity textbooks, her death, TSE's unpublished tribute to, which he sends to The Times, her correspondence surveyed for publication, Worship,
Underhill, Revd Francis, Bishop of Bath and Wells,

2.Revd Francis UnderhillUnderhill, Revd Francis, Bishop of Bath and Wells, DD (1878–1943), TSE’s spiritual counsellor: see Biographical Register.

 receives TSE's confession of love for EH, consulted on 'Thoughts After Lambeth', suggests separation from VHE is TSE's duty, confession with, introduces TSE to his cousin Evelyn, TSE's only confidant as to EH, becomes Dean of Rochester, writes to TSE about separation, against TSE shirking Oxford Movement Centenary, and TSE's 1933 return, invites TSE to school prize-day, at King's School prize-day, consulted on question of divorce, supportive over TSE's separation, his books commended to EH, visited in Rochester, and wife as TSE's Rochester hosts, and Miss O'Donovan, becomes Bishop of Bath and Wells, his consecration attended, perhaps, as Bishop, above receiving TSE's confession, takes Evelyn Underhill's funeral, visited in Wells, adjudicates on limit to godchildren, hosts Gordon George for week, dies,
United Nations, its creation in San Francisco, UNESCO's attempt to define Human Rights,
'Unity of European Culture, The', intended for German audience, proliferates into three broadcasts,
Unity Theatre, London, Spender's Trial of a Judge,
Universal Christian Council for Life and Work, TSE asked to advise Archbishop of Canterbury over, meeting to discuss,
University Club of Montreal, dinner of poets at,
University College Nottingham, Harvard depute TSE to,
University College of North Wales, TSE considers lecturing 'Development of Shakespeare's Verse' for, but subsequently prepares lectures on Dr Johnson, lectures drafted for, itinerary for visit to, final preparations for trip to, TSE's adventure to, photograph of TSE's visit,
University of Aix-en-Provence, eventually confers degree on TSE, TSE's degree ceremony reported on, and Henri Fluchère,
University of Bristol, honorary degree in the offing, cancels TSE's lectures, TSE's Lewis Fry Lectures,
University of California, Berkeley, possibly on TSE's westward lecture-tour, TSE lectures at, and is well paid for,
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), engages TSE to lecture, during which TSE feels overwrought, but is well paid,
University of Cambridge, and I. A. Richards, TSE dreams of professorship at, and English intellectual hierarchy, refreshingly austere, less painful than Oxford, confers honorary degree on TSE, King Edward VII Professorship,
University of Chicago, invites TSE to lecture, 'The Aims of Education' being prepared for, TSE's sojourn at,
University of Glasgow, TSE's W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture, described,
University of Hamburg, awards TSE Hanseatic Goethe Prize,
University of Leeds, confers honorary degree on TSE,
University of London, awards TSE degree,
University of Minneapolis, Gideon D. Seymour Memorial Lecture,
University of Minnesota, lecture to,
University of Munich, awards TSE degree in absentia,
University of Paris, honorary doctorate coveted and dreaded, eventually awarded,
University of Rennes, awards degree to TSE,
University of St. Andrew's, awards TSE honorary degree,
University of Southern California, offers TSE $150 to lecture, subsequent negotiations with,
Unwin, J. D.,

4.J. D. UnwinUnwin, J. D. (1895–1936), ethnologist and social anthropologist; author of Sex and Culture (1934) and Hopousia: or, The Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society (1940) – which was to be reviewed by TSE in Purpose 7 (July/Dec. 1940), 154–8: CProse 6, 100–4.
Unwin, Stanley,
Updike, Daniel Berkeley,

7.DanielUpdike, Daniel Berkeley Berkeley Updike (1860–1941), printer and historian of typography; founder in 1896 of the illustrious and highly successful Merrymount Press.
'Usk', TSE's original passage through, and the Mabinogion,
Vaisey, Harry Bevir, KC,

2.HarryVaisey, Harry Bevir, KC Bevir Vaisey, KC (1877–1965), barrister-at-law; later a senior judge in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales. Author of The Canon Law of the Church of England: Being a Report of the Archbishops’ Commission on Canon Law (1947). He had the title ‘Chancellor’ as the legal representative of various Church of England dioceses.
'Valedictory: Forbidding Mourning: to the Lady of the House, A', TSE recites again,
Valéry, Paul,

4.Paul ValéryValéry, Paul (1871–1945), poet, essayist and literary theorist: see Biographical Register.

 only nominally editor of Commerce, on TSE's Paris agenda, chairs TSE's lecture in French, is dying, memorial celebration for, TSE's broadcast honouring, TSE introduces American translation of, Le Cimétière marin,
'Value and Use of Cathedrals in England To-day, The',
van der Spuy, Maj.-Gen. Kenneth,

6.Major-Generalvan der Spuy, Maj.-Gen. Kenneth Kenneth van der Spuy, CBE, MC (1892–1991): South African Air Force officer.
Van Dine, S. S., The Garden Murder Case,
van Doren, Mark,

3.Markvan Doren, Mark van Doren (1894–1972), who was literary editor of The Nation, 1924–8, taught English for many years at Columbia University, New York (where his pupils included John Berryman, Robert Giroux and Allen Ginsberg). Works include The Poetry of John Dryden (1920).

 introduces TSE to Crowe Ransom,
Van Druten, John,

2.JohnVan Druten, John Van Druten (1901–57), noted British-born American playwright, theatre director and screenwriter. His many plays include Diversion (1927), London Wall (1931) and Behold, We Live (1932); and he was later celebrated for I Am a Camera (1951), based on the novels of Christopher Isherwood, which was to be transformed into the great musical Cabaret (1966).
Van Dusen, Revd Dr Henry Pitney,

3.RevdVan Dusen, Revd Dr Henry Pitney Dr Henry Pitney (‘Pit’) Van Dusen (1897–1975): Christian internationalist and ecumenist, and philosopher (who gained his PhD at Edinburgh University in 1932), taught at Union Theological Seminary from 1928, and was President of Union Theological, 1945–63.
Van Gogh, Vincent, his Barnes Foundation paintings,
van Volkenburg, Ellen, EH's training with,
van Zyl, Gideon Brand,

4.Gideonvan Zyl, Gideon Brand Brand van Zyl (1873–1956): Governor-General of the Union of S. Africa, 1945–50.
Vanderpyl, Fritz R.,

4.FritzVanderpyl, Fritz R. R. Vanderpyl (1876–1965), Belgian poet and novelist; art critic of Le Petit Parisien. TSE to Sydney Schiff, 22 Aug. 1920, with a sketch of those attending: ‘dined with Joyce in Paris … Fritz Vanderpyl, a friend of Pound and myself, was also present’ (Letters 1, 494).
Vane, Sutton, Outward Bound,
Vann, Fr Gerald, reviews Christian Society,
Vansittart, Lady Sarita Enriqueta (née Ward),

5.LadyVansittart, Lady Sarita Enriqueta (née Ward) Vansittart (1891–1985) – born Sarita Enriqueta Ward – wife of the diplomat Sir Robert Vansittart (1881–1957), Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, 1930–8; later Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the British government – was the widow of Sir Colville Barclay (1869–1929).

 friend of JDH's,
Vansittart, Sir Robert,

2.SirVansittart, Sir Robert Robert Vansittart (1881–1957), diplomat and author: see Biographical Register.

 and TSE's invitation to Finland, removed from office, possible wartime employer for TSE, TSE writes in sympathy to, approves TSE's visit to Dublin, post-retirement lunch with,
Vassar College, and Sweeney Agonistes, TSE's visit remembered and reported, and Hallie Flanagan's role at, TSE remembers his journey to, produces The Tempest,
Vaughan, Ernest, 7th Earl of Lisburne,

2.ErnestVaughan, Ernest, 7th Earl of Lisburne Vaughan, 7th Earl of Lisburne (1892–1963), landowner, was Lord-Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, 1923–56. HisVaughan, Maria Isabel Regina Aspasia (née de Bittencourt), Countess of Lisburne first wife (m. 1914) was Maria Isabel Regina Aspasia de Bittencourt, daughter of Don Julio Fermine Albert de Bittencourt, of the Chilean legation.

 mourns favourite gun-dog,
Vaughan, Henry, readings selected from,
Vaughan, Maria Isabel Regina Aspasia (née de Bittencourt), Countess of Lisburne,

2.ErnestVaughan, Ernest, 7th Earl of Lisburne Vaughan, 7th Earl of Lisburne (1892–1963), landowner, was Lord-Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, 1923–56. HisVaughan, Maria Isabel Regina Aspasia (née de Bittencourt), Countess of Lisburne first wife (m. 1914) was Maria Isabel Regina Aspasia de Bittencourt, daughter of Don Julio Fermine Albert de Bittencourt, of the Chilean legation.

 claims to remember TSE,
Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y, in the Prado,
Verdi, Giuseppe, Otello,
Verlaine, Paul, quoted,
'Verse of John Milton, The',
Vickers, Geoffrey,

3.GeoffreyVickers, Geoffrey Vickers (a solicitor and social theorist; non-Christian), ‘Educating for a Free Society’, Christian News-Letter, 31 Jan 1940, 1–7.
Vidler, Revd Alec R.,

1.RevdVidler, Revd Alec R. Alec R. Vidler (1899–1991), Anglican priest, theologian and periodical editor; librarian of St Deiniol’s Library at Hawarden, Chester (later Warden), 1939–48; editor of Theology: A Monthly Review, 1939–48. He was a noted participant in the discussion group ‘The Moot’, and served on the editorial board of the Christian News-Letter, and as editor of its associated books. Canon of St George’s Chapel, Windsor, 1948–56, he became in 1956 Fellow and Dean of King’s College, Cambridge, and university lecturer in Divinity, 1956–66. Works include The Modernist Movement in the Roman Church: Its Origins and Outcome (1934); Scenes from a Clerical Life: An Autobiography (1977).
'Views and Reviews: Journalists of Yesterday and Today',
'Views and Reviews: On Going West',
Vigodarzere, Countess Aurelia Cittadella,
Vijayatunga, Jinadasa,

5.JinadasaVijayatunga, Jinadasa Vijayatunga (b. 1902).
Vilar, Jean,

3.JeanMurder in the Cathedral1945 Théâtre du Vieux Colombier production;g2 Vilar’s production of Murder in the Cathedral opened at the Vieux-Colombier Theatre on 18 June 1945. VilarVilar, Jean (1912–71), actor-producer and administrator, who founded his acting company in 1943, was awarded in 1945 the Prix du Théâtre for his outstanding work on Murder and on Strindberg’s Dance of Death. In 1947 he founded the Avignon Festival, the first drama festival in France; and he was appointed director of the prestigious state-owned Théâtre National Populaire, 1947–63. His acting roles included Macbeth, Don Juan and the gangster in Brecht’s Arturo Ui; and his productions extended from French plays to Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Beckett and Robert Bolt.

 as Becket in Meurtre, acclaimed with Prix du Théâtre, revives Meurtre,
Vines, Sherard,

5.SherardVines, Sherard Vines (1890–1974), poet and academic, taught at Keio University, Tokyo, 1923–8; and was G. F. Grant Professor of English at University College Hull, 1929–52. Publications include The Kaleidoscope (1921), Triforium (1928), Tofuku: or Japan in Trousers (1931).
Virgil, TSE re-reading, but has nothing to say about,
'Virgil and the Christian World',
Virgil Society, The, TSE made inaugural president, letter written on behalf of, TSE's Presidental Address for,
'Virginia', copied and explained for EH,
'Virginia Woolf',
Vittoz, Dr Roger,

1.DrVittoz, Dr Roger Roger Vittoz (1863–1925), Swiss psychiatrist recommended to TSE by Ottoline Morrell. He published one book, Traitement des psychonévroses par la réeducation du controle cerebral (Paris, 1911), of which there was an English translation by H. B. Brooke: Treatment of Neurasthenia by Means of Brain Control (2nd edn, 1913). MorrellMorrell, Lady Ottolineon Dr Roger Vittoz;a1n wrote of Vittoz: ‘He taught his patients a system of mental control and concentration, and a kind of organisation of mind, which had a great effect on steadying and developing me … The man himself impressed me by his extraordinary poise and goodness. Part of the treatment was the formation of the habit of eliminating unnecessary thoughts and worries from one’s mind, and to do this one had to practise eliminating letters from words, or one number from a set of numbers’ (Ottoline: The Early Memoirs, 1917). Other patients of Vittoz included William James, Joseph Conrad and Julian Huxley. To Richard Aldington, 6 Nov. 1921 (during his mental collapse and just before leaving for Lausanne, where he was to be treated by Dr Vittoz; Letters 1, 609–10), TSE spoke of suffering from ‘an aboulie and emotional derangement which has been a lifelong affliction’. (According to T. S. Matthews, Great Tom: Notes Towards the Definition of T. S. Eliot (1974), 71, aboulie is to be ‘defined as absence morbide de volonté’.) See R. Dupond, La Cure des psychonévroses par la méthode de Dr. Vittoz (Paris, 1934); H. Lefebvre, Un ‘Sauveur’: Le Docteur Vittoz (Paris, 1951); Adam Piette, ‘Eliot’s Breakdown and Dr. Vittoz’, English Language Notes 33: 1 (Sept. 1995), 35–8.

 TSE's regime under,
Waddell, Helen,

2.HelenWaddell, Helen Waddell (1889–1965), Irish scholar, translator, poet, playwright; assistant editor of The Nineteenth Century and After; vice-president of the Irish Literary Society (W. B. Yeats was a friend). Works include The Wandering Scholars (1927); Medieval Latin Lyrics (1929); The Desert Fathers (1936). See Felicitas Corrigan, Helen Waddell: A Biography (1986).

 meets TSE over supper,
Wagner, Richard, still capable of exciting TSE, Parsifal, unsuitable music for Good Friday, Tristan und Isolde, TSE remembers attending with EH, which confirmed TSE's love for EH, dating this occasion, retains private resonance for TSE,
Wahl, Jean André,
Wales, TSE's first impressions of, topography, reminds TSE of California, compared to England, Brecon and Usk Valley, compared to Scotland,
Wallace, Henry,

1.HenryWallace, Henry Wallace (1888–1965) was U.S. Vice President in F. D. Roosevelt’s third term in office, but was replaced on the ticket for the 1944 election by Harry Truman.

 'danger to freedom', his supporters scorned,
Waller, Robert,

3.RobertWaller, Robert Waller (1913–2005), poet, writer, radio producer; ‘ecological humanist’ who helped to found the magazine The Ecologist. His writings include Prophet of the New Age: The Life & Thought of Sir George Stapledon, F.R.S. (F&F, 1962).
Wallop, Gerard, Viscount Lymington (later 9th Earl of Portsmouth),

6.GerardWallop, Gerard, Viscount Lymington (later 9th Earl of Portsmouth) Wallop (1898–1984), farmer, landowner (Fairleigh House, Farleigh Wallop, Basingstoke), politician, writer on agricultural topics, was Viscount Lymington, 1925–43, before succeeding his father as 9th Earl of Portsmouth. Conservative Member of Parliament for Basingstoke, 1929–34. Active through the 1930s in the organic husbandry movement, and, in right-wing politics, he edited New Pioneer, 1938–40. Works include Famine in England (1938); Alternative to Death (F&F, 1943). See Philip Conford, ‘Organic Society: Agriculture and Radical Politics in the Career of Gerard Wallop, Ninth Earl of Portsmouth (1898–1984)’, The Agricultural History Review 53: 1 (2005), 78–96; Craig Raine, T. S. Eliot (Oxford, 2006), 190–4; and Jeremy Diaper, T. S. Eliot and Organicism (Clemson, S. C., 2018).

 also at anti-Fabian dinner, compared to American conservatives, discusses agriculture, visited at Farleigh,
Walpole, Horace, TSE suggests EH and he read letters of,
Walpole, Hugh,

7.NovelistWalpole, Hugh, man of letters, bibliophile and generous patron, Sir Hugh Walpole (1884–1941) became first chairman of the selection committee of the Book Society and of the Society of Bookmen. His novels include The Cathedral (1922) and the Herries saga (1930–3).

 in thumbnail, to be knighted, qua toaster, failed by his Times obituary, his memorial service, Times obituary protested by TSE,
'Walt Whitman and Modern Poetry',
Wambaugh, Susan Elizabeth,

3.SusanWambaugh, Susan Elizabeth Elizabeth Wambaugh (1884–1945).
Wand, William, Bishop of London, private screening of Murder arranged for,
Ward, Mary Augusta (née Arnold),

2.MaryWard, Mary Augusta (née Arnold) Augusta Ward, née Arnold (1851–1920) – her grandfather was Thomas Arnold; her uncle Matthew Arnold – noted British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward; teacher, journalist, anti-suffragist (founding president of the Women’s National Anti-Suffrage League, she also edited the Anti-Suffrage Review). Author of several well-regarded novels including Robert Elsmere (1888) and Lady Rose’s Daughter (1903).
Warde, Beatrice (née Becker),

BeatriceWarde, Beatrice (née Becker) Warde, née Becker (1900–69), influential American scholar of typography; author; proponent of clarity in graphic design; publicity manager for the Monotype Corporation and editor of The Monotype Recorder and the Monotype Newsletter; associate of Eric Gill. Her works include an acclaimed essay on typography, ‘The Crystal Goblet’, which started out as a speech to the British Typographers’ Guild and has been widely reprinted. Founder and Vice-President of the cultural movement ‘Books Across the Sea’, which worked to secure a regular interchange of books between the USA and the UK during the wartime ban on the import and export of non-essential goods. TSE was presently to become chair of the formal organisation, which by 1944 had swopped up to 4,000 volumes between the two countries. See Warde, ‘Books Across the Sea: Ambassadors of good will’, The Times, 2 Jan. 1942, 5.

 TSE to meet, at reception in her honour, 'a spellbinder',
Warden of the Cinque Ports, one of TSE's two remaining ambitions,
Ware, Mary Lee,

3.MaryWare, Mary Lee Lee Ware (1858–1937), independently wealthy Bostonian, friend and landlady of EH at 41 Brimmer Street: see Biographical Register.

 in TSE's recollection, confidant of EH, at West Rindge, travels to Italy, disparaged by TSE, for gilded unworldliness, but TSE repents of disparaging, possibly in Florence, TSE moderates his opinion of, antipathetic to TSE, visited at Rindge, TSE disclaims dislike for, TSE detained from visiting, suffers stroke, dies of second stroke, her will sent to TSE, EH sends memorial for, includes EH in will, and 'the vanished Rindge', her collection of glass flowers,
Ware, Winifred Emily,

6.EmilyWare, Winifred Emily Ware.
Warner, Langdon,

30.LangdonWarner, Langdon Warner (1881–1955), American archaeologist and art historian; specialist in East Asian art; Professor at Harvard; Curator of the Fogg Museum – and reputedly one of the models for Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones. Katharine Sansom thought him ‘a jolly sort of buccaneer … the gentlest of men and a passionate aesthete’ (Sir George Sansom and Japan, 20).
Warren, Austin,

3.AustinWarren, Austin Warren (1899–1986), literary critic, author and educator. Educated at Wesleyan University, Harvard, and Princeton, he taught from 1926 at Boston University. In 1930–1, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, he was researching in London, where he was introduced to TSE. His works included Alexander Pope as Critic and Humanist (1929); Richard Crashaw: A Study in the Baroque Sensibility (1939); and, with René Wellek, The Theory of Literature (1949). He later taught at the University of Michigan, 1948–68.
Washington University, St. Louis, honours TSE with reception, later invitation refused on medical grounds, TSE's address to, awards TSE honorary degree,
Waste Land, The, once seemed like a consummation, those lines addressed to EH, the figure of 'Marie', and TSE's stay at Lausanne, where it was mostly written, TSE forced to recite at garden-party, TSE recites at Wellesley, TSE on his recording of, TSE relives 'Hyacinth girl' episode, compared to Burnt Norton, dramatised for broadcast, Bridson on 'dramatised' broadcast, referenced by Lord Halifax, TSE reads 'What the Thunder Said' before the Queen, read at Harvard,
Waterfield, Phoebe,

3.PhoebeWaterfield, Phoebe Waterfield (b. 1912) later worked with the Adelphi Players and the Pilgrim Players.

 singled out from Murder chorus,
Waterlow, Sydney,

3.SydneyWaterlow, Sydney Waterlow, KCMG (1878–1944) joined the diplomatic service in 1900 and served as attaché and third secretary in Washington. TSE met him in 1915, when Waterlow invited him to review for the International Journal of Ethics (Waterlow was a member of the editorial committee). In 1919 Waterlow served at the Paris Peace Conference (helping to negotiate the Treaty of Versailles), and in 1920 he was re-appointed to the Foreign Office, later serving as Minister to Bangkok, 1926–8; Sofia, 1929–33; Athens, 1933–9. See further Sarah M. Head, Before Leonard: The Early Suitors of Virginia Woolf (2006).

 Roger Wolcott reminscent of, on Abyssinia, ex-husband to Orlo Williams's wife, discussed with Virginia Woolf,
Watson, Henrietta,

1.HenriettaWatson, Henrietta Watson (1873–1964), Scottish stage and screen actor.

 Amy in Family Reunion revival,
Watt, Alan, killed in North Africa, described to JDH,
Watt, Bill,

3.BillWatt, Bill Watt, literary agent.

 the Fabers' wartime lodger, TSE to visit, implores TSE to visit him in Cambridge, where TSE eventually visits,
Wavell, Archibald John Arthur (later 2nd Earl Wavell),
Wavell, General Archibald,

5.GeneralWavell, General Archibald Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883–1950), Commander-in-Chief Middle East in the early phase of WW2. He was later Commander-in-Chief in India and finally Viceroy of India until not long before Partition.

 met TSE at Winchester College, appointed to ABDA, Lady Colefax dinner for, described for EH, his one eye, dismissed as Viceroy of India, an intellectual, possible theatre-trip with, a 'pet', fond of Kipling, deserts TSE for golf, gossips with actresses, relays Cara Brocklebank's death,
Weaver, Harriet Shaw,

5.HarrietWeaver, Harriet Shaw Shaw Weaver (1876–1961), English editor and publisher, and political activist, whom Virginia Woolf described as ‘modest judicious & decorous’ (Diary, 13 Apr. 1918). In 1912, Weaver offered financial support to the Freewoman, a radical periodical founded and edited by Dora Marsden, which was renamed in 1913 (at the suggestion of Ezra Pound) The Egoist. Weaver became editor in 1914, turning it into a ‘little magazine’ with a big influence in the history of literary modernism. Following in the footsteps of Richard Aldington and H.D., TSE became assistant editor in 1917 (having been nominated by Pound) and remained so until it closed in 1919. When Joyce could not secure a publisher for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Weaver in 1917 converted the Egoist into a press to publish it. She went on to publish TSE’s first book, Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), Pound’s Quia Pauper Amavi, Wyndham Lewis’s novel Tarr, Marianne Moore’s Poems, and other notable works. (She played a major role as Joyce’s patron, served as his literary executor, and helped to put together The Letters of James Joyce.)

 invited to tea, TSE's fondness for, in thumbnail,
Webb, Beatrice and Sidney, likened to the Thorps, Soviet Communism,
Webb-Odell, Revd Rosslyn,

1.RevdWebb-Odell, Revd Rosslyn Rosslyn Webb-Odell, MA (1879–1942), rector of St Anne’s, Soho; Organising Director of the Forty-five Churches Fund for the Diocese of London; editor of The Christian Faith: a series of essays … (1922) and Church Reform (1924).

 meets TSE over The Rock, to be convinced of choruses, bullish on ticket-sales,
Webster, John, The Duchess of Malfi,
Weidlé, Wladimir,

11.Wladimir WeidléWeidlé, Wladimir (1895–1979), Russian art critic and man of letters; emigrated to France in 1924; author of Les Abeilles d’Aristée: Essai sur le destin actuel des lettres et des arts (1936).

 considered for Criterion commentary,
Weil, Simone,

4.‘PrefaceWeil, Simone to The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind, by Simone Weil; trans. Arthur Wills (1952): CProse 7, 662–70. Simone Weil (1909–43) was a French philosopher, secondary school teacher, political activist (she was for a time a Marxist, pacifist and trade unionist, and she fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War and for the French Resistance under Charles de Gaulle in London), and idealistic mystic. Her influential works include La Pesanteur et la Grâce (1947); Oppression et liberté (1955). TSE to Herbert Read, 21 Mar. 1951: ‘a preface or introduction to a book by Simone is about the most serious job of the kind that one could undertake. One is so impressed by this terrifying woman that one wants to do something that at least would not risk her disapproval of it.’

 TSE's preface for, TSE on,
Welch, E. Sohier, Jr,
Welch, Edward Sohier,

3.EdwardWelch, Edward Sohier Sohier Welch (1888–1948), lawyer, had married TSE’s cousin Barbara Hinkley in 1909. TheyPearmain, Margaret were divorced in 1926, and he married Margaret Pearmain later the same year. See Elizabeth F. Fideler, Margaret Pearmain Welch (1893–1984): proper Bostonian, activist, pacifist, reformer, preservationist (Eugene, Oregon, 2017).

 Barbara Hinkley justified in leaving, marries again, dies suddenly,
Welch, Francis Hinkley, TSE damns with faint praise, chauffeurs and grows on TSE,
Welch, Margaret Pearmain,
Weld, Anna,
Welles, Orson, and Family Reunion,
Wellesley College, October 1932 poetry reading at, post-reading supper with English Department of, TSE attends Paderewski concert at, TSE obliges Sheff by lecturing at, 1936 poetry reading at, 1947 poetry reading at, Jeanie McPherrin asks TSE to read at,
Wellesley, Dorothy, Duchess of Wellington,

4.DorothyWellesley, Dorothy, Duchess of Wellington Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (1889–1956) – known as Lady Gerald Wellesley (in 1914 she married the 7th Duke of Wellington, but they separated without divorce in 1922) – socialite, author, poet, editor; close friend of W. B. Yeats, who published her work in the Oxford Book of English Verse; editor of the Hogarth Living Poets series.

 Yeats presses on TSE, qua poet, on first impression, at Clive Bell's, at odds with Edith Sitwell,
Wellesley, Gerald, 7th Duke of Wellington, hijacks TSE and JDH's dinner,
Wells Cathedral,
Wells, Herbert George ('H. G.'), TSE meets ex-mistress of, inevitably at the Garrick, opposed by TSE on Rights of Man, The New World Order,
Wentworth, Elizabeth, friendly to VHE,
Wentworth, Mark Hunking,

4.MarkWentworth, Mark Hunking Hunking Wentworth (1879–1944) and his wife Lucy Cushing Snow Wentworth (1886–1961) lived with their two children at 2 Elm Street, Concord, Mass. Mark Wentworth’s sister Elizabeth Ladd Wentworth (1875–1940) was a good friend of TSE’s sister Marion, andWentworth, Elizabethfriendly to VHE;a3n had also been friendly to Vivien Eliot when she visited London on vacation in the early 1930s.
West Cornwall School for Girls, TSE's prize-day address to,
West, Mae, dismissed,
West, Rebecca,

1.RebeccaWest, Rebecca West (1892–1983) – nom de plume of Cicily Isabel Fairfield – author, journalist, critic, wrote for newspapers including The Freewoman, The Star, Daily News and New Statesman; later for the New Yorker. Her novels include The Return of the Soldier (1918) and The Fountain Overflows (1956); and her non-fiction included Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (2 vols, 1941), The Meaning of Treason (1949) and The Vassall Affair (1963). For some years the lover of H. G. Wells, in 1930 she married a banker named Henry Andrews. Appointed Dame of the British Empire in 1959, she was also made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and a Companion of Literature.

 at Clive Bell's,
Westfield College, London, venue for Moot meeting,
Westminster St. George's by-election, 1931, TSE votes anti-Rothermere–Beaverbrook,
Westminster Theatre, The, London, The Moon in the Yellow River, presents Uncle Vanya, presents Volpone, their Volpone versus Phoenix Society's, presents Troilus and Cressida, and The Family Reunion, presents Distant Point: A Soviet Play,
'What does the Church stand for?',
'What France Means to You',
What is a Classic?, begun, drafted, rewritten for publication, enjoyable to write, proof corrected, sent to EH,
'What is Minor Poetry?',
Wheatley, Alan, as Harry in Family Reunion,
Wheelwright, John Brooks,

9.JohnWheelwright, John Brooks Brooks Wheelwright (1897–1940), architect from Boston Brahmin background; poet; editor; socio-political activist (founder-member of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party). Author of Rock and Shells (1933), Mirrors of Venus (1938); Political Self-Portrait (1940).

 strikes TSE as pathetic, inevitably at Chamber Music Club,
Wheen, Arthur,

ArthurWheen, Arthur Wheen (1897–1971), librarian and translator, grew up in Sydney, Australia, and came to Europe with the Australian Expeditionary Force in WW1 (he received the Military Cross ‘for some incredible act of valour in the last war, which provoked a temporary breakdown,’ as TSE said). A Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford, 1920–3, he worked in the Library of the Victoria & Albert Museum; as Keeper, 1939–62. He translated novels relating to WW1, winning praise for his version of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front (1929); and he wrote a novella, Two Masters (1924, 1929). TSE wrote of him: ‘He’s completely honest, and one of the most silent men I know.’ FVM thought his modest friend ‘the best critic I know, bar none’ (to Morley Kennerley, 5 July 1933). See We talked of other things: The life and letters of Arthur Wheen 1897–1971, ed. Tanya Crothers (2011).

 sends TSE his translation of The Road Back,
Whibley, Charles,

7.CharlesWhibley, Charles Whibley (1859–1930), journalist and author: see Biographical Register.

 as friend, memorialised by TSE, his marriages, introduced TSE to GCF, disliked Lady Colefax, recalled by J. M. Barrie, introduced TSE to Pickthorn, stayed in Cognac chez Hennessey, as older male friend, his portrait remains on TSE's office wall,
Whibley, Philippa (née Raleigh),

4.PhilippaWhibley, Philippa (née Raleigh) Raleigh, daughter of Walter Raleigh, Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, became Charles Whibley’s second wife in 1927. She was his god-daughter.

 on TSE's Whibley memorial address, chief guest chez Eliot,
White, Fr Victor Francis, OP, recommended to Muriel Spark,
Whitehead, Alfred North ('A. N.'),

5.A. N. WhiteheadWhitehead, Alfred North ('A. N.') (1861–1947), mathematical logician and speculative philosopher; Fellow and Senior Mathematical Lecturer, Trinity College, Cambridge (1880–1910); Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University (1924–37). Collaborated with Bertrand Russell on the three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910, 1912, 1913).

 TSE makes Bertrand Russell connection with,
Whiting, Isabel,

1.AnWhiting, Isabel old, close friend of EH’s, Isabel Whiting lived for some years at 11 Mason Street, Cambridge, MA; later at 9 Phillips Place, Cambridge, MA.

 TSE inscribes book to, for which she thanks TSE, visits EH, EH stays with,
Whitman, Walt, and the mocking-bird,
Whittier, John Greenleaf, Snow-Bound,
Whitty, Dame May,

6.TheWhitty, Dame May part of Mrs Bramson, in Emlyn Williams’s thriller Night Must Fall (which premiered at the Duchess Theatre, London, in 1935), was played by Dame May Whitty (1865–1948).

 considered for The Family Reunion, Gielgud potentially able to cast, lined up for Dowager,
Whitworth, Geoffrey,

1.GeoffreyWhitworth, Geoffrey Whitworth (1883–1951), dramatist; founder of the British Drama League and editor of its periodical, Drama: A Monthly Record of the Theatre in Town and Country at Home & Abroad; Hon. Secretary of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Committee.

 hosts Group Theatre fundraiser, and the Granville-Barkers, and 'The Future of Poetic Drama',
Whitworth, Phyllis,

3.PhyllisWhitworth, Phyllis Whitworth, née Bell (1884–1964), theatrical producer and manager; married in 1910 to Geoffrey Whitworth (1883–1951), dramatist; founder of the British Drama League.

 fundraising for the Group Theatre,
Whyte, James Huntingdon ('J. H.'),

2.J. H. WhyteWhyte, James Huntingdon ('J. H.'), editor of The Modern Scot (St Andrews). See Towards a New Scotland: Being a Selection from ‘The Modern Scot’ (1935).
Wicks, Robert Russell,

3.RobertWicks, Robert Russell Russell Wicks (1882–1963), Dean of the Chapel, Princeton University, 1928–47.
Wilberforce, Pamela Margaret (TSE's secretary),

7.PamelaWilberforce, Pamela Margaret (TSE's secretary) Margaret Wilberforce (1909–97), scion of the Wilberforce family (granddaughter of Samuel Wilberforce) and graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, was appointed ‘secretary-typist’ to the Chairman’s office on 1 July 1930, at a salary of £2.10.0 a week. She was required to learn typing and shorthand; she asked too for time to improve her German.

 fobs off Lady Astor, advised on Staffordshire Terriers, engaged to be married, handsome girl reminds TSE of,
Wilberforce, Richard,

5.RichardWilberforce, Richard Wilberforce (1907–2003), Fellow of All Souls College; distinguished barrister; later to be a High Court Judge; Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1964–82.
Wilbur, Earl Morse,

1.EarlWilbur, Earl Morse Morse Wilbur (1866–1956), Unitarian minister, educator and historian, studied at the University of Vermont and at Harvard Divinity School, and succeeded TSE’s cousin Thomas Lamb Eliot as minister of the Portland Oregon Unitarian Church in 1893. In 1898 he married Eliot’s daughter, Dorothea Dix Eliot (1871–1957); they had two children. He was Dean, President, 1911–31, and Professor of Homiletics and Practical Theology, 1931–4, of the Pacific Unitarian School for Ministry, in Berkeley, Caifornia. A dedicated scholar, he studied languages including Latin, Hungarian and Polish, and did research in countries including Poland, Italy, Spain, France and England, as well as in American archives. His crowning achievement was the publication of his two volumes: A History of Unitarianism: Socinianism and Its Antecedents (1945), and A History of Unitarianism in Transylvania, England, and America to 1900 (1952). In 1953, the American Unitarian Association awarded him the Annual Unitarian Award in Recognition of Distinguished Service to the Cause of Liberal Religion.
see also Wilburs, the
Wilburs, the,
Wilde, Oscar, envied by TSE,
Wilder, Philip Sawyer,

3.ProfessorWilder, Philip Sawyer Philip Sawyer Wilder, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.
Wilder, Thornton, The Skin of Our Teeth,
Willey, Basil,

2.BasilWilley, Basil Willey (1897–1978), Lecturer in English, Cambridge University; King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, 1946–64; works include The Seventeenth Century Background (1934) and The English Moralists (1964).
(William) Ellery Sedgwicks, the,
Williams, Alice Isabella (née Pollock),
see also Williamses, the
Williams, Charles,

5.CharlesWilliams, Charles Williams (1886–1945), novelist, poet, playwright, writer on religion and theology; biographer; member of the Inklings: see Biographical Register.

 described for EH, at Guthrie's Measure for Measure, on Family Reunion, reviewed by TSE, visited by TSE at OUP, and C. S. Lewis lunch with TSE, dies, 'une âme pure', TSE's eulogy on, TSE writes introduction to promote, All Hallow's Eve, Cranmer, Descent of the Dove, Seed of Adam,
Williams, Emlyn, as Angelo, as Richard III, on Family Reunion casting wishlist,
Williams, Henry Herbert, Bishop of Carlisle,

7.HenryWilliams, Henry Herbert, Bishop of Carlisle Williams (1872–1961), Bishop of Carlisle, 1920–41.
Williams, Orlo,

1.OrlandoWilliams, Orlo (Orlo) Williams (1883–1967), Clerk to the House of Commons, scholar and critic; contributor to TLS; Chevalier, Légion d’honneur. His works include The Clerical Organisation of the House of Commons 1661–1850 (1954); Vie de Bohème: A Patch of Romantic Paris (1913); Some Great English Novels: The Art of Fiction (1926).

 part of Criterion inner circle, finally hosts TSE for dinner,
see also Williamses, the
Williams, Tennessee,

1.TennesseeWilliams, Tennessee Williams: pen name of Thomas Lanier Williams III (1911–83): renowned American playwright; author of The Glass Menagerie (1944); A Streetcar Named Desire (1947).

 comes to lunch with TSE,
Williams, W. Moses,

1.W. MosesWilliams, W. Moses Williams, Professor of Education and Head of the Training Department, University College, Swansea.

 as TSE's Bangor host,
Williamses, the, TSE dines with,
Williamson, George,

2.GeorgeWilliamson, George Williamson (1898–1968) taught at Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1925–7; then at Stanford University, and at the University of Chicago (1936–68), where he was Professor of English from 1940. His works include The Talent of T. S. Eliot (University of Washington Chapbooks no. 32, 1929); The Donne Tradition (1930); and A Reader’s Guide to T. S. Eliot: A Poem-by-Poem Analysis (New York, 1953). F&F was to bring out The Senecan Amble: A Study in Prose Form from Bacon to Collier (1951).
Williamson, Hugh Ross,

10.HughWilliamson, Hugh Ross Ross Williamson (1901–78), author, historian, dramatist, journalist and broadcaster; editor of The Bookman, 1930–4. In 1943 he was ordained in the Church of England and was for twelve years an Anglo-Catholic curate before converting to Roman Catholicism in 1955. A prolific author, he wrote over 35 books, including The Poetry of T. S. Eliot (1932), biographies and histories. See too The Walled Garden (autobiography, 1956).

 introduces TSE to his bibliographer, The Poetry of T. S. Eliot,
Wilson, Edmund 'Bunny',

3.EdmundWilson, Edmund 'Bunny' ‘Bunny’ Wilson (1895–1972), influential literary critic, cultural commentator and memoirist, worked in the 1920s as managing editor of Vanity Fair; later as associate editor of The New Republic and as a prolific book reviewer. Works include Axel’s Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930 (1931) – which includes a chapter on TSE – The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature (1941); and the posthumous Letters on Literature and Politics 1912–1972 (ed. Elena Wilson, 1977).

 as critic, TSE's New York stay with, TSE on, recommended for EH's 'criticism' course, TSE gives lunch for, American Jitters: A Year of the Slump,
Wilson, Horace,
Wilson, John Dover,

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).

 TSE bones up on, as TSE's host in Edinburgh, receives TSE's Shakespeare lectures,
Wilson Knight, George Richard ('G.'),

8.G. WilsonWilson Knight, George Richard ('G.') Knight (1897–1985) served in WW1 and took a degree in English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 1923. He held teaching posts in secondary schools before being appointed Chancellors’ Professor of English, Toronto University, 1931–40. In 1946 he was made Reader in English Literature at the University of Leeds, where he became Professor, 1955–62. His works include The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy (1930) – for which TSE wrote the introduction – and The Imperial Theme: Further Interpretations of Shakespeare’s Tragedies including the Roman Plays (1931). See also Wilson Knight, ‘T. S. Eliot: Some Literary Impressions’, Sewanee Review 74: 1 (Winter 1966), 239–55; Phillip L. Marcus, ‘T. S. Eliot and Shakespeare’, Criticism 9: 1 (Winter 1967), 63–72; G. Wilson Knight, ‘Thoughts on The Waste Land’, Denver Quarterly 7: 2 (Summer 1972), 1–13.

 TSE's attends paper given by,
Wilson, R. S., his Marcion,
Winchester College, compared with Eton, TSE attends student concert at,
Winckworth, Peter,

2.PeterWinckworth, Peter Winckworth was author of Sensible Christians (1935); Does Religion Cause War? (1934); The Way of War: Verses (1939); A Simple Approach to Canon Law (1951); The Seal of the Confessional and the Law of Evidence (1952); A Verification of the Faculty Jurisdiction (1953); A History of the Gresham Lectures (1966); Beware of the Archdeacon: A Commentary on the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure, 1963 (Oxford, 1972).
Winnington-Ingram, Arthur Foley, Bishop of London, a dreaded censor, but passes The Rock,
winter, from Woburn Square window, in London, of fog and smoke, heavy snow, coldest in memory, skating on Serpentine possible, at Shamley, of 1947,
Withington, Robert,

3.RobertWithington, Robert Withington (1884–1957): Professor of English, Smith College, 1917–52.
Wodehouse, P. G., his play performed at Kelham, 'master of style', The Luck of the Bodkins,
Wolcott, Edith Prescott, a grandmotherly masterpiece, TSE's reasons for doting on,
Wolcott, Roger, likened to Sydney Waterlow, TSE on, distinguished from Barbara, smugly respectable,
see also Wolcotts, the
Wolcott, Susan, her wedding,
Wolcotts, the, 'stupid noisome mercantile plebian snobs', TSE's dislike of,
Wolfe, Humbert,

5.HumbertWolfe, Humbert Wolfe (1885–1940) – originally Umberto Wolff (the family became British citizens in 1891, and he changed his name in 1918) – poet, satirist, critic, civil servant. The son of Jewish parents (his father was German, his mother Italian), he was born in Bradford (where his father was in a wool business), and went to the Grammar School there. A graduate of Wadham College, Oxford, he worked at the Board of Trade and the Ministry of Labour, and spent time as UK representative at the International Labour Organisation in Geneva. He found fame with Requiem (1927), and in 1930 was mooted as a successor to Robert Bridges as Poet Laureate. He edited over forty books of verse and prose, and wrote many reviews. See Philip Bagguley, Harlequin in Whitehall: A Life of Humbert Wolfe, Poet and Civil Servant, 1885–1940 (1997).

 a poetaster, intercedes for Jan Culpin's refugee, at Red Cross do,
Wolfit, Donald,

4.DonaldWolfit, Donald Wolfit (1902–68), distinguished actor and touring manager, being especially noted for his performances in Shakespeare. Knighted in 1957. Mosca was played by Alan Wheatley (1907–91), noted actor of stage, screen and TV (and translator of Lorca) – now perhaps best remembered for playing the (superbly hateful, as I recall) Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s’ BBC TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood.

 in Volpone, his Tamburlaine,
Wolpe, Berthold,

1.BertholdWolpe, Berthold Wolpe (1905–89): typographer, calligrapher, graphic artist, book designer, author and editor; designer of several typefaces, the most distinctive being Albertus. By origin a German Jew, he quit Germany in 1935 and came to the UK; but at the outbreak of war he was sent as an enemy alien to Australia – from where he was retrieved by the typographer Stanley Morison. He was naturalised British in 1947. He worked as chief designer for Faber & Faber, 1941–75, enhancing the firm’s reputation for putting out ingenious and attractive book jackets. In addition, he published volumes of his own work including Renaissance Handwriting (with Alfred Fairbank, 1960). He won the Royal Designer of Industry Award, 1959; an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art, 1968; and he was made OBE in 1983. He was married in Nov. 1941 to the artist Margaret Leslie Smith (1919–2006). See Charles Mozley, Wolperiana: An Illustrated Guide to Berthold L. Wolpe (1960); Berthold Wolpe: A Retrospective Survey (1980); Phil Cleaver, Berthold Wolpe: The Total Man (2018).

 dines with TSE,
Women's City Club, Boston, TSE reads poetry to,
Women's Republican Club, Boston, TSE and Marion dine at, TSE made honorary member of, part of Boston monde, hosts Chamber Music Club,
Wood, Charles, 2nd Viscount Halifax,

4.C. L. WoodWood, Charles, 2nd Viscount Halifax, 2nd Viscount Halifax (1839–1934), Anglo-Catholic ecumenist: President of the English Church Union, 1868–1919, 1927–34 – lived at Hickleton Hall, Doncaster, S. Yorkshire, where TSE visited him in Oct. 1927. TSE to his mother, 5 Oct. 1927: ‘He is a very saintly man – he is already over 89 – much older than you – but leads a very busy and active life’ (Letters 3, 736). Lord Halifax wrote on 27 Feb., ‘I have read your pamphlet with the greatest interest, &, if I may say so without the great impertinence, or presumption, think it quite admirable.’ (This letter was evidently not sent to EH.)

 commends 'Thoughts After Lambeth', TSE recalls weekend spent with, approaching sainthood, death mourned, disposes TSE favourably towards his son,
Wood, Edward, 3rd Viscount Halifax (later 1st Earl of Halifax),

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).

 at The Literary Society, 'wooden', rumoured to be pro-German, his position post-Anschluss, subtler than Churchill, references The Waste Land,
Wood, Herbert George ('H. G.'),
Wood, Lady Agnes Elizabeth, Viscountess Halifax (née Courtenay),

12.HisWood, Lady Agnes Elizabeth, Viscountess Halifax (née Courtenay) mother was Lady Agnes Elizabeth Courtenay (1838–1919).

 and Lord Halifax's pedigree,
Wood, Sidney, Jr.,

11.SidneyWood, Sidney, Jr. Wood, Jr. (1911–2009), American tennis player; winner of Wimbledon singles title in 1931.
Woodliffe, Phyllis,

2.PhyllisWoodliffe, Phyllis Woodliffe (from Wanstead Park, Essex) played ‘Mrs Bert’ in The Rock.

 as Mrs Bert in The Rock,
Woodruff, Douglas,

5.DouglasWoodruff, Douglas Woodruff (1897–1978), Catholic journalist and author; editor of the Tablet, 1936–67; chairman of the Catholic publishing house Burns & Oates, 1948–62.
Woods, Professor James Haughton,

2.JamesWoods, Professor James Haughton Haughton Woods (1864–1935), Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, 1913–34. He gave courses in Indian philosophy, and his Yoga System of Patanjali (1914) was the first American scholarly study of Indian philosophy. TSE studied Greek Philosophy with Woods in 1911–12, and ‘Philosophical Sanskrit’ in 1912–13. After TSE submitted his thesis, Woods told him he wanted to create a ‘berth’ for him in the Philosophy Department at Harvard. TSE was later to record that ‘a year in the mazes of Patanjali’s metaphysics under the guidance of James Woods left me in a state of enlightened mystification’ (After Strange Gods, 40).

 hosts TSE to tea, mondain for Boston, chairs Philosophy Faculty Club dinner,
Woodward, Ernest Llewellyn,

2.ErnestWoodward, Ernest Llewellyn Llewellyn Woodward (1890–1971): historian; Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1919–44; Professor of International Relations and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1944–51; Research Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1951–61. His works include Three Studies in European Conservatism (1929), Great Britain and the German Navy (1935), The Age of Reform, 1815–1870 (1938) and Short Journey (1942).
Woolf, Leonard,

13.LeonardWoolf, Leonard Woolf (1880–1969), writer and publisher; husband of Virginia Woolf: see Biographical Register.

 TSE's confidant in matters of mental health, and Keynes discuss Abyssinia, intimate with Labour Party divisions, described by EH, among his pets, shows TSE rings of Saturn, TSE promises article for Political Quarterly, TSE sends letter of condolence, invites TSE to Rodmell alone, at Rodmell alone,
see also Woolfs, the
Woolf, Virginia,

1.VirginiaWoolf, Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), novelist, essayist and critic: see Biographical Register.

 the only woman TSE sees alone, characteristic letter from, her snobbery, TSE's most trusted female friend, TSE underrates, on the Eliots' Rodmell visit, as estate agent, her letters, as novelist, apparently drained by Lady Colefax, and Lytton Strachey's death, compared qua friend to OM, recounts TSE's practical jokes, her feminism, her anecdote of Bostonian snobbery, on 9 Grenville Place, TSE treasures but never reads, on TSE visiting Rodmell, EH taken to tea with, described by EH, on meeting EH, on Murder in the Cathedral, after 'long illness', represents TSE at OM's funeral, records TSE on Family Reunion, on TSE's wartime Sussex stay, on wartime dinner with TSE, her death, TSE strikes as conceited, TSE's scheduled final visit to, two journals vie for TSE's tribute to, TSE's tribute to, esteemed by Walpole, her absence at Rodmell, air-stewardess asks TSE about, A Room of One's Own, Jacob's Room, The Waves,
see also Stephens, the, Woolfs, the
Woolfs, the, at Clive Bell's for lunch, TSE's dearest London friends, company compared to that of Christians, host TSE and Elizabeth Bowen to tea, Rodmell described, closer to TSE than to VHE, visited on TSE's 1933 return, refreshingly childless, amazed by TSE's appearance, and Tomlin dine with TSE, Keynes and TSE dine with, TSE's Bloomsbury weekend with, described in their Tavistock Square domain, have TSE for tea, TSE dines with, and TSE argue about honours, compared to the de la Mares, host TSE for weekend, abandon London for Sussex, where they invite TSE, TSE's Sussex stay with, on their return from Sussex, host TSE, give dinner without mentioning war, TSE plans to visit in Sussex, 52 Tavistock Square bombed,
Wordsworth, William, in amongst the Romantics, TSE's failure to appreciate,
Workman, Herbert Brook,

4.HerbertWorkman, Herbert Brook Brook Workman (1862–1951), Methodist minister and historian; from 1903, Principal of Westminster College; from 1930, President of the Wesleyan Conference.
World Conference of Churches, 1937, TSE's address to, keeps TSE from Campden,
World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace, TSE denounced at,
'World Tribute to Bernard Shaw', written in protest,
Worth, Irene,

6.IreneWorth, Irene Worth (1916–2002), hugely talented American stage and screen actor, was to progress from TSE’s play to international stardom on stage and screen. She joined the Old Vic company in 1951, as a leading actor under Tyrone Guthrie; and in 1953 she appeared at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, where her appearances included a further partnership with Alec Guinness (Hotel Paradiso). In 1962 she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, where her roles included a remorseless Goneril to Paul Scofield’s Lear in Peter Brook’s production of King Lear. In 1968 she played a dynamic Jocasta in Brook’s production of Seneca’s Oedipus (trans. Ted Hughes) – featuring a huge golden phallus – alongside John Gielgud. Numerous acting awards fell to her remarkable work: a BAFTA, and three Tony Awards including the award for Best Actress in a Play for Tiny Alice (1965), and yet another Tony for Best Featured Actress in Lost in Yonkers (1991).

 reputation enhanced by Cocktail Party, praised by The Times, in The Cocktail Party, intelligent, compared to Margaret Leighton, as Celia, in The Queen and the Rebels,
'Writer as Artist, The',
writing, and routine, to EH, like talking to the deaf, development and development in the writer, and 're-creative thought', TSE's pace of working, correspondence, and Beethoven, and whether to keep a notebook, dialogue, and loving one's characters, and the necessity for reinvention, to someone as against speaking, plays written chiefly for EH, prose between poems, poetry versus prose, and originality, poetry three hours every morning, plot, and obscurity, blurbs, letters of rejection, requires periods of fruitful latency, on new typewriter, TSE's 'old Corona', the effect of war on, and reading, as taught by the book, prize-day addresses, weekly articles, concisely, from imagination, from experience, for broadcast, out of doors, rewriting old work, and public-speaking, by hand,
Wu Mi,

2.WuWu Mi Mi (1894–1978), Professor of Comparative Literature, Tsinghua University. I. A. Richards had given him this introduction. ‘He is young, naïve, simple as a Huron, very scholarly in the old style, the leader of the movement against a vernacular literary Chinese & in favour of the old classic language. He also lectures on Romantic Poetry! at Tsing Hua University. (Heaven knows what he says about it!) Also editor of what comes nearest to a Literary Supplement for Northern China. And his name is Mr. Wu. (Chinese Wu Mi) I’m sure he could do you something interesting on the literary problem (or tangle) of modern China – where they have quite as difficult a job on as the West had in passing from Latin to vernaculars as literary languages. He is one of the few youngish Chinese who does know Old Style Chinese well & is esteemed as a writer of it.’
Wu Wen-Tsao,

4.AdaWu Wen-Tsao Sheffield explained to TSE, in an undated letter, that Wu Wen-Tsao represented Yenching University at the Harvard Tercentenary celebration. Mrs Wu, who wrote poetry in Chinese, was a graduate student at Wellesley and taught at Yenching until her marriage.
Wycherley, William, The Country Wife, compared to Autumn Crocus, Athene Seyler and Edith Evans remembered in, does not disgust TSE, TSE on,
Wycombe by-election, 1952,
Wycombe Grammar School, TSE recalls his time at,
Wynward, Diana (née Dorothy Isobel Cox),

2.DianaWynward, Diana (née Dorothy Isobel Cox) Wynyard, Dorothy Isobel Cox (1906–64): distinguished stage and film actor.

 in Othello, at post-performance party,
Yale University, and 'English Poets as Letter Writers', more like Oxford than Harvard, compared to Princeton, negotiates amateur production of Murder, exhibits first editions of TSE, superior cadre of university, and George P. Baker's theatre-group, Herbert Read to lecture at, poetry reading at, confers degree on TSE, potential place of deposit for correspondence,
'Yeats', TSE enjoying, finished, on delivering,
Yeats, Anne,

3.AnneYeats, Anne Yeats (1919–2001) was the only daughter of W. B. Yeats and his wife, Georgie Hyde-Lees.

 requests copy of 'Yeats',
Yeats, Georgie (née Hyde-Lees),

9.GeorgieYeats, Georgie (née Hyde-Lees) Yeats, née Hyde-Lees (1892–1968), daughter of Gilbert and Nelly Hyde-Lees, was a close friend of Ezra Pound’s wife, Dorothy Shakespear. After the death of Georgie’s father, her mother married Henry Tucker, Dorothy Shakespear’s maternal uncle.

 lunch with, requests copy of 'Yeats',
Yeats, William Butler ('W. B.'),

4.W. B. YeatsYeats, William Butler ('W. B.') (1865–1939), Irish poet and playwright: see Biographical Register.

 known to TSE from 1916, at OM's tea-party, TSE to lunch with, TSE lectures on, gets away with more 'poetic' prose, discusses theatre companies, and abortive Mercury Theatre season, on Sweeney Agonistes, on Rupert Doone, TSE loyal to despite Doone, who records antipathy between TSE and, Murder copied out for, meeting up with TSE, and TSE discuss 'modern' poetry, presses Dorothy Wellesley on TSE, defended at UCD, qua writer of prose, in TSE's view, yet to master dramatic verse, TSE wonders how to mourn, stimulates East Coker, and 'Yeats', TSE unveils Woburn Walk plaque, At the Hawk's Well, Purgatory, Resurrection,
Yeh, George,

2.GeorgeYeh, George Yeh (1903–81) – Yeh Kung-chao (Ye Gongchao) – son of a cultivated Cantonese family, gained an MA in Indo-European linguistics at Cambridge, after taking a first degree in the USA, where his gifts brought him to the attention of Robert Frost. From 1935 he taught in the Department of Western Languages and Literature at Peking University. After the overthrow by the Communists of Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang government in 1949, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs for the government of Nationalist China; and in 1958–61 he was Taiwanese Ambassador to Washington; later an adviser to President Chiang Kai-shek. He wrote several books on literature and culture, and won a number of medals and citations.

 addresses Spender as 'Steve',
YMHA (later 92Y), New York, TSE gives reading at,
Zabel, Morton Dauwen,

3.MortonZabel, Morton Dauwen Dauwen Zabel (1901–64): American poet, literary critic, editor; associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 1928–36; editor, 1936–7. Professor of English at the University of Chicago, 1947–64. Works include Literary Opinion in America (anthology, 1937) and Craft and Character: Texts, Method, and Vocation in Modern Fiction (1957).
Zajdlerowa, Zoë, The Dark Side of the Moon,
Zander, Léon,

1.LéonZander, Léon Zander, Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe, Paris, was trying to interest F&F in The Lamb of God by Sergius Bulgakov (1871–1944), Russian Orthodox Christian theologian and philosopher.