[35 School St., Andover, Mass.]

T. S.Eliot
EmilyHale
TS
19 Carlyle Mansions
14 February 1951
St. Valentine.
My dear,

IElsmith, Dorothy Olcott;c6 was distressed to learn (first from Dorothy Elsmith) of your sprained ankle, especially coming at that time after your other strain and distress. I have never had this experience, and I imagine that it is very painful for several days – it happened to one of my colleagues a few days ago; and I believe that you should be very careful and ‘favour’ that ankle for a long time afterwards. You are very stoical about such misfortunes. As for myself, I have had no recurrence of bronchial trouble since the one day after my visit to Cambridge, and I see no reason why it should recur (I have not had influenza). Sotravels, trips and plansTSE's spring 1951 trip to Spain;h3;a1 I hope to go on peacefully, not leaving London, until I get to Spain early in April. IMme Amery;a2 shall have to take a two weeks holiday in July also, so as to give the housekeeper a holiday; whether I go abroad again or not depends on whether I have enough balance left after Spain of the travel allowance fixed by the Treasury. The address you have sent me looks suitable for midsummer, though not for when one is told to seek heat and sun at the end of the winter. On the other hand, I might go to Switzerland: I have been invited to a religious conference there, but as I have declined to be an active member, and said I could only go as an observer, I cannot expect to have any of my expenses paid. (IBritish Council;b7 want to go to Spain only as a tourist, and shall not let the British Council people there know, as they would certainly want me to lecture and read). And I shouldn’t want to go to Switzerland unless I could have a few days on my own apart from the conference.

IGeorge, Ruthsubmits poem to TSE;a2 was touched by Miss George’s poem, which struck me as not at all bad, and I wrote to her at once1 – knowing that if I did not write at once I should probably forget to write at all. AsMurder in the CathedralHoellering film;g1still in the edit;b6 for other activities, there are still discussions about one or two scenes in the film: it is still ‘rough’, and there are a few bits to be fitted in, and then the music and noises to be adjusted; but I hope it will be produced in May. OnCocktail Party, The1950 New Theatre production;e1comes off at New Theatre;a5 SaturdayNew Theatre, St. Martin's Lanewhich finally comes off;a4 night was the final performance of The Cocktail Party at the New Theatre, afterGuinness, Alecat TSE's Cocktail Party buffet;b4 which INesbitt, Cathleen (née Kathleen Mary Nesbitt)at cast buffet;a4 gave a buffet supper to the cast (some of the earlier cast turned up too, including Alex Guinness and Cathleen Nesbit) andCocktail Party, The1950 New Theatre production;e1to close with provinicial tour;a4 they are now performing the play in Golder’s [sic] Green, after which Bournemouth, Oxford etc. for about eight weeks before closing altogether. By the end of a run, one realises who are the really accomplished actors, and has a peculiar respect for those whose performance is just as good at the end as ever it was. ThatHunter, Ianin The Cocktail Party;a1 isPeel, Eileenas Lavinia in Cocktail Party;a1 Ian Hunter2 and Eileen Peel. (Cathleen Nesbitt was good too, in New York: all the more creditable since she has never really been able to see what the play is all about). IreneWorth, Ireneas Celia;a7 Worth, I have decided, was too much inside the part: she was living it instead of acting it, with the result that she deteriorated. It is high time she had a change, becauseSpeaight, Robertruined by Becket;e8 I don’t want her to go on being Celia, just as Bobbie has never really got over being an archbishop.

I hope for more news soon, and may it be better news. I shall write again in a few days.

Lovingly
Tom

1.Not identified. TSE’s letter not found.

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.

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,
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,
Elsmith, Dorothy Olcott, 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

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.

George, Ruth, 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,

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.

Guinness, Alec, 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,

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

Hunter, Ian, in The Cocktail Party,

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.

Mme Amery, tolerates TSE's lie-abed ways,

1.MadameMme Amery Amery: housekeeper at 19 Carlyle Mansions, Chelsea.

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Nesbitt, Cathleen (née Kathleen Mary Nesbitt), in Cocktail Party reading, reputation enhanced by Cocktail Party, praised by The Times, at cast buffet,

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.

New Theatre, St. Martin's Lane, Gielgud's Hamlet at, Leontovich's Antony and Cleopatra, home to The Cocktail Party, which finally comes off,
Peel, Eileen, as Lavinia in Cocktail Party,

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.

Speaight, Robert, 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,

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.

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Worth, Irene, 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,

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).