[35A School St., Andover, Mass.]
The date of departure approaches: the Q. Mary sails on the 19th. IGiroux, Robert ('Bob');b1 arrive in New York on the 25th, for two days at Robert Giroux’ (219 E. 66th); thenTate, Allen;a4 to Minneapolis on the 28th, staying I don’t know where, at the house of some friend of Allen Tate (only address c/o Professor Tate, the Univ. of Minnesota); then for three nights, onNef, John Ulric;a5 May 1st, to Chicago (c/o Prof. John Nef, 5650 Dorchester Avenue), then back to Giroux for two nights; thenCastle, William R., Jr.hosts TSE in Washington;a2 to Washington from the 9th c/o William R. Castle, 2200 S. Street, N.W.; andEliot, Theresa Garrett (TSE's sister-in-law);h2 thence toHinkley, Eleanor Holmes (TSE's first cousin)invites TSE to stay in Boston;e8 Theresa’s by the 14th – moving later to Eleanor’s. I trust that your number is still Andover (Mass.) 2195 M., as I hope to telephone on the 14th.
A very busy time of it, this last fortnight. DifficultiesLittles, the Clarence;a1Little, Clarence C.
IHale, Emilyweek in the Virgin Islands;t7 much enjoyed your account of the West Indies. How I wish you could have had a[t] least a fortnight of that balmy climate.
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).
7.RobertGiroux, Robert ('Bob') Giroux (1914–2008): American book editor and publisher: see Biographical Register.
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.
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).
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).