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T. S.Eliot
EmilyHale
TS
Faber & Faber Ltd
14 July 1947
Dearest Emily,

I was very glad and pleased to get your good letter of the 6th – not quite as quick as mine to you: and I imagine that the acceleration is seasonal, and that letters will be slower again in the winter – and to know something of what has happened to you in what will, in a few days, be a month since I last spoke to you. ParticularlyNoyes, Penelope BarkerEH visits;e5 I am glad that your short visit at Penelope’s was satisfactory. I hope that the following days have not robbed you of the benefit of that rest; forHale, Emilyas actor;v8in Kind Lady;d4 I cannot tell just how exhausting you will find that frightful though fascinating rôle. It is, I can see, a wonderful opportunity in a way, for the success or failure of the play turns on that one part. I am sure in any case that you will make a magnificent and bloodcurdling thing of it. I wish I could see photographs.

IEliot, Theresa Garrett (TSE's sister-in-law)after Henry's death;e2 am glad you have seen Theresa. I get short notes from her, and I get the impression that she is still in a rather distracted state, since what she writes is far from consecutive: half a dozen topics in as many sentences, and nothing pursued. IFurness, Laura;a7 thought Cousin Laura very pathetic: she seemed already remote, and while I think she was full of affection, she was almost inexpressive. But I put it down partly to the likelihood that a visit like mine would remind her that she did not expect to be alive in a year’s time to see me again. ILamb, Annie Lawrence (TSE's cousin);a7 think Cousin Annie had that feeling too, but she was perfectly lucid and in command of herself. YourCheetham, Revd EricTSE on;h1 suggestion about Eric Cheetham has struck me. (Actually, he is off to New York on Friday for a holiday: he is to be entertained there for a few days by friends, and probably work his way by preaching, and is then going to spend three weeks with your Mrs. Maclulish at New Castle! he will be away just under six weeks – his doctor prescribed a complete change, and he has been suffering, among other troubles, from a very tiresome temporary curate). In order to say anything to Cheetham, one has to make a very deliberate and firm assault – the poor man does not realise that he does not leave much space for one to get in a word in the conversation; as I always imagine him having to listen to so many old ladies and invalids and lame ducks who need somebody to talk to, I have always let him use me as a safety valve for letting off steam about his difficulties. Often, even in a business conversation, it is an effort to put one’s own views. But he is a good man (and a good preacher too: he startled the congregation on Sunday by suddenly asking – while talking about people using their religion for selfish purposes – ‘do you ever pray for the barmaid at Bailey’s Hotel?’) and I think he is fond of me; and he is under the impression that I have been a great support to him in the past, though when I think of the war years when I was never there on a Sunday, and when he was carrying on under the greatest difficulties, I cannot agree at all.

PrincetonPrinceton Universityconfers honorary degree on TSE;b9 and Yale were just a whirlwind. Princeton very tiring: the dinner the night before, in the new gymnasium, was for 2000 people: it began at 7.30 and the speeches were not ended until midnight. VeryHorton, Mildred H. (née McAfee);a1 dull speeches too: and Mrs. Horton, the President of Wellesley,1 made one which I thought in pretty poor taste. The Princeton affair was too big: there were 36 honorary degrees, and no chance to meet anybody interesting.2 PresidentTruman, Harry S.speaks at Princeton degree ceremony;a3 Truman finished his speech (he is less unimpressive on the platform than in his photographs) at 1.15 the next day; I was rather nervous, as I knew I had to catch a train at 1.47; aThorps, the;d9 nice undergraduate steered me to the Thorps’ car, and we got to the Junction with ten minutes to spare, andSeymour, Charles;a1 I went up to New York in the company of the President of Yale (a genial man, more likeable than either Conant or Dodds, with the air of a bank president, but he was a King’s man)3 and a couple of Deans, having a cocktail and a sandwich with them in the restaurant car. YaleYale Universityconfers degree on TSE;b4 was much more agreeable than Princeton, because the affair was not gigantic: dinnerAlexander, Field Marshal Harold, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis;a1 at President Seymour’s, with some pleasant people, andWavell, General Archibaldan intellectual;a7 the Alexanders turned up again (a good plain soldier I should say, and I understand quite one of the best generals in the war, but not of the stature intellectually of Wavell).4 Only 9 degrees at Yale, and the ceremony more impressive than either Harvard or Princeton. ForEisenhower, Dwight D. ('Ike')at degree ceremony;a1 the rest, oneNimitz, Fleet Admiral Chester, Srat Princeton degree ceremony;a1 had a look, at Princeton, at people like Eisenhower5 and Nimitz6 (Eisenhower has a very pleasing face) but was not presented to them. TheMarshall, George C.delights TSE;a1 highest spot, in the whole of these affairs, was meeting Marshall at Harvard.7 MrsConant, Grace Thayer (née Richards);a1. Conant the most charming of presidential wives,8 butDodds, Margaret (née Murray);a1 Mrs. Dodds rather distinguished and very handsome.9

I think perhaps it was helpful for me, however, to end with such a feverish three days: the whole thing was so dramatic that it eased the departure. And the air trip itself is dreamlike.

I mind what you say about not having too many visitors. You are right. IRobertses, thethird son born to;a7 went to tea at the Roberts’s yesterday: Janet enquired after you. She has just had a third son,10 but looked very well, and is off to her mother’s with the children very soon. TheMorleys, thereturn to Lingfield;k7 Morleys are just arriving at Lingfield, and want me to come to stay with them. But I don’t think I can fit it in as part of my convalescence, and I do not think I want the company of a small, boisterous and very talkative child quite as soon as that. TheMirrleeses, the;b6 pointFabers, the1947 Minsted summer stay;h4 of the other visits is that the Mirrlees and the Fabers are not far apart; I shall try to get a car to take me to the former, and I think the latter can fetch me from the former.

It may be desirable at this stage that I should have a spell of lying on my back and looking at the ceiling. IPerkinses, the;m1 have thought very much of the Perkins’s, and you are never far away from my conscious mind.

ISperry, Willard Learoyd;a4 wonder whether Willard Sperry caught his plane: he was to have had a degree at Yale (whereAcheson, Dean;a1 ISherrill, Henry Knox;a4 sat at lunch between Mr. Dean Acheson11 and Bishop Sherrill) but was said to be ill.

Very lovingly
Tom

Please remember me to those nice people of the Dorset Players.

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.

2.TheEinstein, Albertat Princeton degree ceremony;a2 Commencement Exercises of the Bicentennial Convocation at Princeton University took place in Nassau Hall on 17 June 1947. ‘Eliot was somewhat overshadowed by people like President Truman, former President Hoover, General Eisenhower, Admiral Nimitz, Bernard Baruch and Albert Einstein’ (Margaret M. Keenan, ‘Mr Eliot’s Stay in Princeton’, Princeton History 2 (1977), 61).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

10.John Roberts (b. 28 June 1947): journalist and writer specialising in global energy issues.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. ('Ike'), at degree ceremony, compared to Adlai Stevenson, ill,

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.

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
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,
Furness, Laura, at TSE's King's Chapel talk, approaching death,
see also Furness sisters, the

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.

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',
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.

Lamb, Annie Lawrence (TSE's cousin), not so pious as TSE assumed, recounts colourful history of Sackville-Wests, writes to TSE about Murder,

35.AnnieLamb, Annie Lawrence (TSE's cousin) Lawrence (Rotch) Lamb (1857–1950) was married to Horatio Appleton Lamb (1850–1926).

Marshall, George C., delights TSE, announces Marshall plan,

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.

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,
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,
Nimitz, Fleet Admiral Chester, Sr, at Princeton degree ceremony,

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.

Noyes, Penelope Barker, 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

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.

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,
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,
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,
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.

Sherrill, Henry Knox, inscrutable, compared to English bishops,

5.HenrySherrill, Henry Knox Knox Sherrill (1890–1980), Episcopal clergyman; Bishop of Massachusetts, 1930–47. Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, 1947–58.

Sperry, Willard Learoyd, excoriated by TSE, 'pathetic',

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.

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,
Truman, Harry S., TSE sympathises with, better suited to the times than FDR, speaks at Princeton degree ceremony,

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).

Wavell, General Archibald, 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,

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.

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,