[1418 East 63d St., Seattle]
ThankAmericaits glories;c1landscape;a1 you very much for writing a letter on August 11th, with the charming photograph of Chocorua.1 I look forward to that sort of scenery again! (Speaking of dentists, I am in the clutches of one now, and it is taking a lot of time out of this week). Is your friend at Peterboro Mrs. Sam Morison, I wonder?2 He is a distant relative of mine, and I saw something of them here (theyGeorge, Robert Esmonde Gordon ('Robert Sencourt');b6 are friends of Sencourt) and I hope to see something of them this winter. Mrs. M. I hardly know.
From now on my letters will be irregular and scrappy, I fear, but I shall try to get some word to you before I go, at least once a week. I have three weeks left. Besides the dentist, the preparations, theCriterion, TheOctober 1932;c4'Commentary';a1 Criterion commentary which I am now writing, andCharles Eliot Norton Lectures (afterwards The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism)'The Relation of Criticism and Poetry' (afterwards 'Introduction');b6TSE preparing;a1 the first lecture which I am trying to prepare, IEliot, Vivien (TSE's first wife, née Haigh-Wood)taken to Eastbourne;c6 haveEliots, the T. S.holiday in Eastbourne;f2 gottravels, trips and plansthe Eliots' August 1932 Eastbourne holiday;a6;a1 to take V. to Eastbourne for four days next week – a terrible burden on top of everything else. So I shall not have time for a proper letter until I settle down at Eliot House, when I shall make up for my present meagreness of news, thoughts and feelings; and, as I may or may not receive one more letter from you, I hope you will make up too! L’oiseau s’en vole vers l’occident.3 O western star!
1.Mount Chocorua, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
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.
The friend of EH in question was more probably Milly Morison (Mrs George Abbot Morison), who resided at 1534 North Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
3.‘The bird flies to the west.’
3.RobertGeorge, Robert Esmonde Gordon ('Robert Sencourt') Esmonde Gordon George – Robert Sencourt (1890–1969) – critic, historian, biographer: see Biographical Register.
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.