[No surviving envelope]

T. S.Eliot

EmilyHale

T. S. Eliot, B-11 Eliot House,

Cambridge [Printed letterhead]

October 14th 1932

Emily dear,

I am much disturbed at not hearing from you all this week; I had hoped for a little note of greeting, after speaking to you. I do not know whether to be worried, or vexed, or abject: O please let me know which to be.

IPerkinses, the;a9 dine with the Perkins’s on the 21st. TheBrahms, Johannes2nd Symphony;a3 BrahmsEliot, Marion Cushing (TSE's sister)Symphony concerts with TSE;a8 2nd Symphony was very fine, and they played it better, I thought, than any of the earlier numbers on the programme.

distractedlyCharles Eliot Norton Lectures (afterwards The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism)'The Relation of Criticism and Poetry' (afterwards 'Introduction');b6hard-going;a3 – while trying to write a lecture that doesn’t come right,

Tom

Brahms, Johannes, ranked by TSE alongside Beethoven,

01/05/31;

07/02/33;

2nd Symphony,

14/10/32;

Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (afterwards The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism), weekend spent meditating,

a task for Lent,

contemplated,

stimulated by Mirsky,

preoccupying TSE,

hard-going,

outlined,

TSE yet to begin,

unsatisfactory,

'The Relation of Criticism and Poetry' (afterwards 'Introduction'), TSE preparing,

23/08/32;

and the Charles Norton references,

hard-going,

a week's toil over,

TSE on giving the lecture,

04/11/32;

EH promised copy,

04/11/32;

'Poetry and Criticism in the Time of Elizabeth' (afterwards 'Apology for the Countess of Pembroke'),

10/10/32;

so far promising,

14/11/32;

finished,

24/11/32;

TSE on giving the lecture,

25/11/32;

'The Classical Tradition: Dryden on Johnson' (afterwards 'The Age of Dryden'), TSE on the lecture itself,

03/12/32,

06/12/32;

'The Theories of Coleridge and Wordsworth' (afterwards 'Wordsworth and Coleridge'), TSE immersed in,

03/12/32;

TSE wonders at audience for,

06/12/32;

finished,

06/12/32;

TSE's jokes lost on audience,

09/12/32;

'The practice of Shelley and Keats' (afterwards 'Shelley and Keats'), TSE on giving the lecture,

17/02/33;

'Arnold and the Academic Mind' (afterwards 'Matthew Arnold'), unprepared with less than two weeks,

22/02/33;

27/02/33;

completed the morning of lecture,

05/03/33;

'The Modern Mind', as yet unfinished,

14/03/33;

TSE on giving the lecture,

19/03/33;

'Conclusion', TSE on giving the lecture,

01/04/33;

TSE's immediate reflections on,

19/04/33;

being revised for publication,

improved by Sheff's criticisms,

27/08/33;

in proof,

07/10/33;

copy inscribed to EH,

28/10/33;

Maritain on,

20/05/35[n];

seem intemperate on further reflection,

08/10/37;

Eliot, Marion Cushing (TSE's sister),

described,

her reading habits,

not a suitable confidant,

01/01/32,

06/08/34;

TSE reflects on reunion with,

29/09/32;

10/10/32;

Symphony concerts with TSE,

to the cinema with TSE,

02/11/32;

delighted with first Norton lecture,

04/11/32;

recommends TSE hairdresser for baldness,

09/11/32;

14/11/32;

attends second Norton lecture,

25/11/32;

hosts birthday party for Margaret,

06/12/32;

remembered in St. Louis,

07/02/33;

worried by Dodo's manner,

07/02/33;

TSE's pride in,

07/02/33;

vigilant on TSE's health,

13/02/33;

11/04/33;

on Randolph family holiday,

21/05/33;

congratulates TSE on separation,

13/07/33;

1934 summer in England with Dodo, July arrival anticipated,

arrangements for,

visit to Chipping Campden,

off to Salisbury,

walks to Kelmscott,

returns from Winchester,

20/08/34;

forces Regent's Park on TSE,

01/07/35;

excessively humble,

20/05/35;

next to Ada in TSE's affections,

19/01/36;

protects TSE from overbearing Hinkleys,

31/01/36;

09/07/36;

supported Landon over FDR,

23/11/36;

co-hosts Murder party,

11/02/38;

1939 summer in England with Dodo,

trip in doubt,

Southwold week planned,

02/06/39;

due 19 June,

06/06/39;

taken to Dulwich,

29/06/39;

ballet and dinner with,

29/06/39;

Southwold holiday with,

06/07/39,

24/07/39,

26/07/39;

given to post-lunch naps,

24/07/39;

26/07/39;

30/11/39;

sends Christmas supplies to Shamley,

19/01/42;

as correspondent,

03/04/43,

08/12/46;

easiest Eliot in Ada's absence,

experiences crisis,

importance as sister,

28/09/46;

Henry's fondness for,

28/09/46;

devoutly Unitarian,

16/10/46;

ignorant of Henry's true condition,

undernourished,

abortive 1948 summer in England,

cancelled,

which comes as relief,

05/07/48;

06/10/48;

hosts family dinner-party,

17/11/48;

letter about Nobel Prize to,

18/12/48;

TSE leaves money with,

02/01/49;

1949 visit to England with Dodo, June arrival anticipated,

plans for,

EH bids 'bon voyage',

13/06/49;

visit to Cambridge,

23/07/49;

return from Southwold,

31/08/49;

Borders tour,

27/09/49;

Basil Street Hotel stay,

Thanksgiving with,

reports on Dr Perkins's funeral,

efforts to support financially,

30/12/51[n];

tethered to Margaret,

06/04/53;

joins TSE in St. Louis,

08/06/53;

08/05/54;

1954 trip to England with Dodo,

19/06/54;

22/07/54;

25/08/54;

visit to Ely and Cambridge,

26/09/54;

04/09/54;

07/03/56;

in light of Margaret's death,

invoked against EH,

TSE to Theresa on,

1.Marian/MarionEliot, Marion Cushing (TSE's sister) Cushing Eliot (1877–1964), fourth child of Henry Ware Eliot and Charlotte Eliot: see Biographical Register.

Perkinses, the,

26/05/31;

likely to be interested in An Adventure,

01/06/31;

compared to Mary Ware,