[41 Brimmer St., Boston]

T. S.Eliot
EmilyHale
TS
The Criterion
1 April 1932
Dear Lady,

The last few days have been very busy again. YesterdayRoberts, Richard Ellis;a1 I had to go to lunch with Ellis Roberts, the literary editor of the New Statesman,1 in Lincolns’ [sic] Inn, tode Montalk, Geoffrey Wladisla Potocki;a1 discuss whether anything could be done about an unfortunate foolish young New Zealander named Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk (yes, thats his name) who was given six months imprisonment in the third division for trying to get some obscene poems privately printed, and to discuss whether anything could be done to alter the law on the subject of obscene libel.2 ThereRoberts, Harriet Ide Keen;a1 was also Mrs. Roberts – I hadn’t known that there was any – aBeerbohm, Florence, Lady (née Kahn)'overpowering' Southerner;a1 rather gushing but very amiable and intelligent American woman, evidently a southerner by her manner – I only realised what she was after I had said that I found Mrs. Max Beerbohm rather ‘overpowering’ – which astonished her – then I realised that (except for Mrs. B. being a Jewess) they were exactly the same type of American southerner. Nothing very definite accomplished; hurried back to Russell Square, thenEnglish Church Union;a4 presently round the corner to a committee meeting at the English Church Union to discuss some books to be published by them; a largeish meeting, PrebendaryHarris, Revd Charles;a2 Harris enjoying the chairmanship with his accustomed suavity, CanonSimpson, Revd Canon Sparrow;a1 Sparrow-Simpson3 dozing peacefully, several stalwart young priests and monks smoking pipes and full of animation, and so forth. ThenEliots, the T. S.to OM's tea-party for Yeats;c7 homeMorrell, Lady Ottolinegives tea-party for Yeats;c1 at 4.30 to fetch V. to go to Ottoline’s, whereYeats, William Butler ('W. B.')at OM's tea-party;a2 there was a good assembly, for Yeats4 had turned up and he is now a very rare visitant in London.5 Yeats talked rather brilliantly and persuasively about the Irish situation (atGardiner, Rolf;a1 this moment a young man named Rolf Gardiner6 was [sc. has] asked to see me, so I must stop for fifteen minutes) …

which turned out to be twentyfive minutes, of course, but he is an enthusiastic youth with many – perhaps too many ideas for the regeneration of England, including folkdancing and the employment of out of work miners at market gardening …

and Yeats put forward a good case for dropping the Oath of Allegiance, which he says is the only way to get control over the wild gunmen of the country. WhileMoore, Thomas ('T.') Sturgeinterrupts Yeats telling story at his expense;a2 he was telling a comic story about a quarrel between Sturge Moore and a Hindoo saint, Sturge himself came in, but it passed off amicably. ThenBelgion, Montgomeryand Alida Monro dine chez Eliot;a2 AlidaMonro, Alida (née Klementaski)and the Poetry Bookshop's future;a5 Monro and Montgomery Belgion came to dinner, and I had to draft a letter for her to send to the press about the future of the Poetry Bookshop. HodgsonHodgson, Ralphhis Bull Terrier in disgrace;a8 coming to dinner tonight; weEliots, the T. S.host Ralph Hodgson despite his dog's behaviour;c8 are concealing from him thedogsBull Terrier;b8Ralph Hodgson's 'Picky' bites cat;a1 fact thatcatsthe Eliots' Persian;a1 his bullterrier bit the ear of the Persian cat, which is consequently in hospital for a week. The weekend I hope will see some arrears worked off; andMattuck, Rabbi Israel Isidor;a1 on Monday I must call upon a Jewish Rabbi in Hampstead, about a book,7 andOldham, Joseph;a2 in the afternoon from 4 to 10 attend a meeting of J. H. Oldham’s group to discuss the future of Christian theology and so on.

When I am in a rush the only kind of letter I can write is a mere description of the rush. The'Modern Dilemma, The'receives unlikely praise;a4 broadcast talks seem to have given satisfaction on the whole, andReith, Sir John Charles Walshamcompliments and thereby disconcerts TSE;a1 I had a letter from the chief, Sir John Reith, this morning – a man I dislike – to say that he liked them.8 They have also procured me an invitation to address a dining club of vicars in June!

IChristianityAnglo-Catholicism;a8Anglican Missal sought for EH;a3 want, if I may, to send you an Anglican missal, which might interest you: a missal, because it is at least an anthology of Bible literature which is the best anthology that was ever made, and an Anglican missal because the Roman one uses a poor modern translation instead of the King James version.

believe that though I am rished [sc. rushed] in fact, I am not distracted from you in mood. I hope for a longer letter from You on Monday or Tuesday.
ton
Tom

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).

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.

The Times reported his evidence on 9 Feb.: ‘The manuscript in question was intended as a literary experiment for publication among his friends, who were literary people. He had not the slightest intention of publishing it to the general public.’

His defence counsel submitted that this was a case of ‘a poet writing for a small circle of poets and literary experimenters to test words. Serious-minded writers like D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce used words regarded as objectionable in order to make them respectable.

‘The Recorder [Sir Ernest Wild, KC], summing up, said that a man must not say he was a poet and be filthy. He had to obey the law just the same as ordinary citizens, and the sooner the highbrow school learnt that the better for the morality of the country.

‘The jury, without leaving the box, found de Montalk Guilty, and the Recorder … said that no decent-minded jury could have come to any other decision than that the defendant had attempted to deprave our literature.’

He was sentenced to 6 months in prison.

Montalk’s friend Douglas Glass had first approached Leonard Woolf to organise the appeal.

See further Stephanie de Montalk, Unquiet World: The Life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk (Wellington, New Zealand, 2001); Ian MacNiven, Lawrence Durrell: A Biography (1998), 83.

3.RevdSimpson, Revd Canon Sparrow Canon Sparrow Simpson, DD (1859–1952), chaplain of St Mary’s Hospital, Ilford.

4.W. B. YeatsYeats, William Butler ('W. B.') (1865–1939), Irish poet and playwright: see Biographical Register.

5.See too OM's journal – BL Add. MS 88886/4/30:

AprilMorrell, Lady Ottolineat which the Eliots are described;c2n 10 or 11. Sunday

[Yeats] The first time I had the Eliots to meet him. L.A. Strong – Cattaui – R. Speight [sic] – Sturge M. […] He talked very well just about the speaking of Shakespeare poetry. & how Granville Barker made all his actors stress the same lines.

Then at tea he talked about the Joyce man. That he has written a book like S. Moore’s […]

He talked a great deal to Tom Eliot about the Joyce experiences,,,

I didn’t find it very interesting.

However Yeats seemed very happy & enjoyed it I think.

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).

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.

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.’

He went on: ‘Some time I should rather like to have a talk with you about our religious policy; I am not satisfied with it.’

Beerbohm, Florence, Lady (née Kahn), 'overpowering' Southerner, in Roberts's Peer Gynt,
Belgion, Montgomery, 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,

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

cats, the Eliots' Persian, the adopting of, possible abduction of Janes's pet, Cat Morgan,
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,
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.

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,
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,
English Church Union, Literature Committee, punchline to self-directed quip, and Christendom, amalgamates with Anglo-Catholic Congress, Literature Commitee amalgamates with Catholic Literature Association,
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).

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

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.’

Hodgson, Ralph, 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

4.RalphHodgson, Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962), Yorkshire-born poet; fond friend of TSE: see Biographical Register.

Mattuck, Rabbi Israel Isidor, history of the Jews discussed with,

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.

'Modern Dilemma, The', and educational broadcasting generally, being composed, receives unlikely praise, TSE against turning into book, approved by EH, earns TSE 60 guineas,
Monro, Alida (née Klementaski), 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,

3.AlidaMonro, Alida (née Klementaski) Klementaski (1892–1969) married Harold Monro on 27 Mar. 1920: see Alida Monro in Biographical Register.

Moore, Thomas ('T.') Sturge, his pink and white complexion, interrupts Yeats telling story at his expense, EH left chatting to, 'sheep in sheep's clothing',

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.

Morrell, Lady Ottoline, on Dr Roger Vittoz, chez Eliot to meet Nora Joyce, on tea with the Eliots, first impression of Joyce, on TSE as 'modern', on the Eliots and the Hinkleys, the Eliots to tea with, which she records, invited to dinner chez Eliot, which she describes, religion debated at tea given by, where Ralph Hodgson meets TSE, on the Eliots' old-fashioned party, described, by request, for EH, met TSE through Bertrand Russell, invites the Eliots to meet Walter de la Mare, gives tea-party for Yeats, at which the Eliots are described, dines chez Eliot, at the Eliots' tea party, lightning rod for VHE's misinformation, stirred up by Gordon George, attacks After Strange Gods, on the gralloching of After Strange Gods, on TSE as friend, gives TSE vintage jewellery tips, invites EH and TSE to tea, on EH, discusses Yeats with TSE, at Sweeney Agonistes, gives tea-party attended by EH, requests tête-à-tête with TSE, and the Group Theatre, to visit Viceroy of India, departs for India, pushiness in medical matters, dressing Indian on her return, intimidates GCF, EH invited to tea with, petitioned on Barker's behalf, issues TSE with Irish introductions, debriefed on Ireland, gives TSE customary diary, complains of Yeats over tea, between convalescence and Italy, and Dr Karl Martin, dies, TSE her final guest,
see also Morrells, the

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

Oldham, Joseph, 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

8.JosephOldham, Joseph (‘Joe’) Houldsworth Oldham (1874–1969), missionary, adviser, organiser: see Biographical Register.

Reith, Sir John Charles Walsham, compliments and thereby disconcerts TSE,

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.’

Roberts, Harriet Ide Keen,
Roberts, Richard Ellis, presses religious dining-club on TSE, likened to Mr Chadband, member of All Souls Club,

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).

Simpson, Revd Canon Sparrow,

3.RevdSimpson, Revd Canon Sparrow Canon Sparrow Simpson, DD (1859–1952), chaplain of St Mary’s Hospital, Ilford.

Yeats, William Butler ('W. B.'), 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,

4.W. B. YeatsYeats, William Butler ('W. B.') (1865–1939), Irish poet and playwright: see Biographical Register.