[Grace Toll Hall, Scripps College, Claremont]

T. S.Eliot
EmilyHale
TS
B-11 Eliot House
4 November 1932
My Lady,

SoCharles Eliot Norton Lectures (afterwards The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism)'The Relation of Criticism and Poetry' (afterwards 'Introduction');b6TSE on giving the lecture;a6 far as I can judge, my first lecture went off pretty well.1 We had it in the New Lecture Hall – I don’t know whether you have ever been there; it is quite the largest hall, with a gallery, except Sanders Theatre; it was not only full but there were crowds of people standing and sitting on the floor; and it looked as if there had been more outside who had not been able to get in. They were extremely attentive and quiet. Your humble servant more than terrified at having to address so large a gathering. So much larger it was than anything I have addressed before, that it seemed to me that I was speaking into an utter vacuum; or that every word I said would somehow become flattened out and trivial before it reached anyone. I was possessed by the feeling that I was not really keeping people’s attention, that they were really disappointed, that they were getting tired. The few opinions I have collected are wholly to the contrary; but everybody has been so kind to me that I still feel that this is only one more occasion of kindness. MyLowes, John Livingstonshepherds TSE through first lecture;a4 mentor, Professor Lowes (the dearest little creature living, and the humblest in spite of his success) came back with me, and consented to partake of a small gin and bitters (which I much needed myself) and seemed wholly satisfied and talked of holding the next in Sanders Theatre itself (I hope not). INoyes, Penelope Barkerat first Norton lecture;b7 sawEliot, Revd Christopher Rhodes (TSE's uncle)sleeps through first Norton lecture;a3 a few faces in the audience – Penelope, and Uncle Christopher who appeared to be sound asleep, but happy – SpencerSpencer, Theodoreappears deaf during first Norton lecture;a6, who looked as if he couldn’t hear a word I was saying, but said that he heard it all. Otherwise, I have no impression of the audience at all; I felt as if I was making a speech literally to an empty house. IWentworth, Elizabeth;a1 was addressed afterwards by some people I knew, who were all very kind and appeared pleased; Elizabeth Wentworth, AnnaWeld, Anna;a1 Weld whoEliot, Marion Cushing (TSE's sister)delighted with first Norton lecture;b1 came with Marion, Marion herself who was certainly happy about it, theRand, Edward Kennardat first Norton lecture;a1 vice-president of the Forum Club, GrandgentGrandgent, Charles H.;a2, Kennard Rand,2 yourPerkins, Dr John Carroll (EH's uncle)at first Norton lecture;a5 uncle who was extraordinarily kind and with whom I had a few words, andPerkins, Edith (EH's aunt)at first Norton lecture;a6 your aunt whom I only waved to across a dozen strangers. I felt that I did not succeed in conveying to him how much real pleasure it gave me that he and Mrs. Perkins should have taken the trouble to come to hear me; I wish that he might know. As we were a few minutes late in starting (owing to the fact that people kept coming in) and as Lowes had to make a tiny speech about me (excessively laudatory) to begin with, I found that I had more to say, on my manuscript, than I had time for; so the last three or four pages have got to be worked in next time. But I feel a hungry craving to know what the mass of the audience really felt about it all; how much satisfaction (in the sense of having had all that they wanted of me) they felt, and how much sympathy was established, if any. I don’t think that I shall feel any more confidence about my next lecture than I have about this. AfterwardsSpencer, Theodorehosts TSE after the first Norton lecture;a7 went to Spencer’s house, whereGarnett, DavidTSE regaled with tales of;a1 was a MrsAmericaVirginia;h7scene of David Garnett's escapade;a1. Curtis, who talked amusingly about convoying David Garnett through Virginia in search of remains of Pocohontas,3 and Lincoln Kirstein of Filene’s and the Hound & Horn, a very sympathetic and likeable young jew.4 Returned perfectly sober. And the chief pleasure of the event was the thought of writing to my dear Emily about it, and it is not altogether a pleasure after all, because I do not know what my ‘audience’ really made of it. ButCharles Eliot Norton Lectures (afterwards The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism)'The Relation of Criticism and Poetry' (afterwards 'Introduction');b6EH promised copy;a7 I shall be sending you a copy of my words, or that is the complete version not all of which I had time to recite (minus various gags which I introduced from time to time to liven it up).

AndHale, Emily Jose Milliken (EH's mother)reported to be better;b4 I had just time to ask Mr. Perkins privately how your mother was, and he said that she was very much better and that he had wired to you to that effect; so now I hope you are looking after yourself a little as well as after La Locandiera. I should appreciate a word from you just to reassure me on this matter.

Je te prie, chère professeur et confrère, d’agréer l’expression de mes sentiments les plus volcaniques,5

Tom

1.‘T. S. Eliot will begin Harvard Norton Lectures’, Boston Globe, Fri., Oct. 28, 1932, 5: ‘T. S. Eliot, distinguished American poet and critic, who has lived in London for some years […] will begin the first series of Norton lectures on the evening of Nov. 4 in the new lecture hall on Kirkland st, Cambridge […]

‘The subjects and dates for the first series of four lectures are Nov 4, “The Relation of Criticism and Poetry”; Nov 25, “Poetry and Criticism in the Time of Elizabeth”; Dec 2, “The Classical Tradition: Dryden on Johnson”; Dec 9, “The Theories of Coleridge and Wordsworth.”’

LoucksBlackmur, Richard Palmer ('R. P.')on TSE's first Norton lecture;a1n (‘The Exile’s Return’, 19–20) reports of TSE’s first lecture: ‘R. P. Blackmur recalled TSE as “mild, serious, nervous, very tall, very white, smiling uncertainly in round cheeks, with smooth-slick parted hair – displayed but undisplaying – altogether, I think, in an agony which he had to make serene” (Fraser 104).’

Henry Regnery, who found TSE’s ‘Oxford English’ accent ‘hard to follow’, was surprised to learn that the professor was a Midwesterner like himself (Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher [1979], 213).

2.E. KennardRand, Edward Kennard Rand (1871–1945), classicist and medievalist, taught at Harvard from 1901, becoming Pope Professor of Latin, 1931–42. Founded the Medieval Academy of America, 1925, and edited the journal Speculum. Author of Ovid and His Influence (1925); Studies in the Script of Tours (2 vols, 1929–34); The Building of Eternal Rome (Lowell Lectures, 1943). TSE to Gladys H. McCafferty, 19 June 1958: ‘Ken Rand was one of my teachers at Harvard for whom I have the warmest personal affection …’

3.See David Garnett, Pocohontas, or the Nonparell of Virginia (1933). Garnett (1892–1981), author, publisher; founder with Francis Meynell of the Nonesuch Press; author of Lady into Fox (1922; James Tait Black Memorial Prize), The Sailor’s Return (1925), Aspects of Love (1955) – the source for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical (1989). See Sarah Knights, Bloomsbury’s Outsider: A Life of David Garnett (2015).

4.LincolnKirstein, Lincoln Kirstein (1907–96), writer, impresario, connoisseur of art, was born into a wealthy, cultivated Jewish family (his father was chief executive of the Boston department store Filene’s). At Harvard he set up, with a contemporary, Varian Fry, the periodical Hound & Horn: A Harvard Miscellany – specifically modelling it on The Criterion – which ran from 1927 until 1934. Smitten by what he styled ‘balletptomaine’, he launched in 1933, with his friend M. M. Warburg, the School of American Ballet, and then the American Ballet, which became the resident company of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 1946, he founded, with George Balanchine, the Ballet Society, later the New York City Ballet, of which he was General Director, 1946–89. In the 1960s he commissioned and helped to fund the New York State Theater building at the Lincoln Center. In 1935 he published Dance: A Short History of Classic Theatrical Dancing. See further Martin Duberman, The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein (2007).

5.‘I beg you, dear professor and colleague, to accept the expression of my most volcanic feelings’.

America, TSE on not returning in 1915, and TSE as transatlantic cultural conduit, dependence on Europe, TSE's sense of deracination from, and the Great Depression, TSE a self-styled 'Missourian', as depicted in Henry Eliot's Rumble Murders, its national coherence questioned, its religious and educational future, versus Canadian and colonial society, where age is not antiquity, drinks Scotland's whisky, and FDR's example to England, underrates Europe's influence on England, redeemed by experience with G. I.'s, TSE nervous at readjusting to, and post-war cost of living, more alien to TSE post-war, its glories, landscape, cheap shoes, its horrors, Hollywood, climate, lack of tea, overheated trains, over-social clubs, overheating in general, perplexities of dress code, food, especially salad-dressing, New England Gothic, earthquakes, heat, the whistle of its locomotives, 'Easter holidays' not including Easter, the cut of American shirts, television, Andover, Massachusetts, EH moves to, Ann Arbor, Michigan, TSE on visiting, Augusta, Maine, EH stops in, Baltimore, Maryland, and TSE's niece, TSE engaged to lecture in, TSE on visiting, Bangor, Maine, EH visits, Bay of Fundy, EH sailing in, Bedford, Massachusetts, its Stearns connections, Boston, Massachusetts, TSE tries to recollect society there, its influence on TSE, its Museum collection remembered, inspires homesickness, TSE and EH's experience of contrasted, described by Maclagan, suspected of dissipating EH's energies, EH's loneliness in, Scripps as EH's release from, possibly conducive to TSE's spiritual development, restores TSE's health, its society, TSE's relations preponderate, TSE's happiness in, as a substitute for EH's company, TSE's celebrity in, if TSE were there in EH's company, its theatregoing public, The Times on, on Labour Day, Brunswick, Maine, TSE to lecture in, TSE on visiting, California, as imagined by TSE, TSE's wish to visit, EH suggests trip to Yosemite, swimming in the Pacific, horrifies TSE, TSE finds soulless, land of earthquakes, TSE dreads its effect on EH, Wales's resemblance to, as inferno, and Californians, surfeit of oranges and films in, TSE's delight at EH leaving, land of kidnappings, Aldous Huxley seconds TSE's horror, the lesser of two evils, Cannes reminiscent of, TSE masters dislike of, land of monstrous churches, TSE regrets EH leaving, winterless, its southern suburbs like Cape Town, land of fabricated antiquities, Cambridge, Massachusetts, TSE's student days in, socially similar to Bloomsbury, TSE lonely there but for Ada, TSE's happiness in, exhausting, EH's 'group' in, road safety in, Casco Bay, Maine, TSE remembers, Castine, Maine, EH holidays in, Cataumet, Massachusetts, EH holidays in, Chicago, Illinois, EH visits, reportedly bankrupt, TSE on, TSE takes up lectureship in, its climate, land of fabricated antiquities, Chocurua, New Hampshire, EH stays in, Concord, Massachusetts, EH's househunting in, EH moves from, Connecticut, its countryside, and Boerre, TSE's end-of-tour stay in, Dorset, Vermont, EH holidays in, and the Dorset Players, Elizabeth, New Jersey, TSE on visiting, Farmington, Connecticut, place of EH's schooling, which TSE passes by, EH holidays in, Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, EH recuperates in, Gerrish Island, Maine, TSE revisits, Hollywood, perceived debauchery of its movies, TSE's dream of walk-on part, condemned by TSE to destruction, TSE trusts Murder will be safe from, Iowa City, Iowa, TSE invited to, Jonesport, Maine, remembered, Kittery, Maine, described, Lexington, Massachusetts, and the Stearns family home, Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, visited by EH, Madison, Wisconsin, Aurelia Bolliger hails from, Ralph Hodgson sails for, EH summers in, as conceived by TSE, who eventually visits, Maine, its coast remembered by TSE, TSE recalls swimming off, Minneapolis, on EH's 1952 itinerary, TSE lectures in, New Bedford, Massachusetts, EH's holidays in, TSE's family ties to, New England, and Unitarianism, more real to TSE than England, TSE homesick for, in TSE's holiday plans, architecturally, compared to California, and the New England conscience, TSE and EH's common inheritance, springless, TSE remembers returning from childhood holidays in, its countryside distinguished, and The Dry Salvages, New York (N.Y.C.), TSE's visits to, TSE encouraged to write play for, prospect of visiting appals TSE, as cultural influence, New York theatres, Newburyport, Maine, delights TSE, Northampton, Massachusetts, TSE on, EH settles in, TSE's 1936 visit to, autumn weather in, its spiritual atmosphere, EH moves house within, its elms, the Perkinses descend on, Aunt Irene visits, Boerre's imagined life in, TSE on hypothetical residence in, EH returns to, Peterborough, New Hampshire, visited by EH, TSE's vision of life at, Petersham, Massachusetts, EH holidays in, TSE visits with the Perkinses, EH spends birthday in, Edith Perkins gives lecture at, the Perkinses cease to visit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, TSE on, and TSE's private Barnes Foundation tour, Independence Hall, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, surrounding countryside, Portsmouth, Maine, delights TSE, Randolph, New Hampshire, 1933 Eliot family holiday in, the Eliot siblings return to, Seattle, Washington State, EH summers in, EH's situation at, TSE prefers to California, EH repairs to post-Christmas, EH visits on 1952 tour, EH returns to, Sebasco, Maine, EH visits, South, the, TSE's first taste of, TSE's prejudices concerning, St. Louis, Missouri, TSE's childhood in, TSE's homesickness for, TSE styling himself a 'Missourian', possible destination for TSE's ashes, resting-place of TSE's parents, TSE on his return to, the Mississippi, compared to TSE's memory, TSE again revisits, TSE takes EVE to, St. Paul, Minnesota, TSE on visiting, the Furness house in, Tryon, North Carolina, EH's interest in, EH staying in, Virginia, scene of David Garnett's escapade, and the Page-Barbour Lectures, TSE on visiting, and the South, Washington, Connecticut, EH recuperates in, West Rindge, New Hampshire, EH holidays at, White Mountains, New Hampshire, possible TSE and EH excursion to, Woods Hole, Falmouth, Massachusetts, TSE and EH arrange holiday at, TSE and EH's holiday in recalled, and The Dry Salvages, TSE invited to, EH and TSE's 1947 stay in, EH learns of TSE's death at,
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Blackmur, Richard Palmer ('R. P.'), on TSE's first Norton lecture,
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, and the Charles Norton references, hard-going, a week's toil over, TSE on giving the lecture, EH promised copy, 'Poetry and Criticism in the Time of Elizabeth' (afterwards 'Apology for the Countess of Pembroke'), so far promising, finished, TSE on giving the lecture, 'The Classical Tradition: Dryden on Johnson' (afterwards 'The Age of Dryden'), TSE on the lecture itself, 'The Theories of Coleridge and Wordsworth' (afterwards 'Wordsworth and Coleridge'), TSE immersed in, TSE wonders at audience for, finished, TSE's jokes lost on audience, 'The practice of Shelley and Keats' (afterwards 'Shelley and Keats'), TSE on giving the lecture, 'Arnold and the Academic Mind' (afterwards 'Matthew Arnold'), unprepared with less than two weeks, completed the morning of lecture, 'The Modern Mind', as yet unfinished, TSE on giving the lecture, 'Conclusion', TSE on giving the lecture, TSE's immediate reflections on, being revised for publication, improved by Sheff's criticisms, in proof, copy inscribed to EH, Maritain on, seem intemperate on further reflection,
see also Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry
Eliot, Marion Cushing (TSE's sister), described, her reading habits, not a suitable confidant, TSE reflects on reunion with, Symphony concerts with TSE, to the cinema with TSE, delighted with first Norton lecture, recommends TSE hairdresser for baldness, attends second Norton lecture, hosts birthday party for Margaret, remembered in St. Louis, worried by Dodo's manner, TSE's pride in, vigilant on TSE's health, on Randolph family holiday, congratulates TSE on separation, 1934 summer in England with Dodo, July arrival anticipated, arrangements for, visit to Chipping Campden, off to Salisbury, walks to Kelmscott, returns from Winchester, forces Regent's Park on TSE, excessively humble, next to Ada in TSE's affections, protects TSE from overbearing Hinkleys, supported Landon over FDR, co-hosts Murder party, 1939 summer in England with Dodo, trip in doubt, Southwold week planned, due 19 June, taken to Dulwich, ballet and dinner with, Southwold holiday with, given to post-lunch naps, sends Christmas supplies to Shamley, as correspondent, easiest Eliot in Ada's absence, experiences crisis, importance as sister, Henry's fondness for, devoutly Unitarian, ignorant of Henry's true condition, undernourished, abortive 1948 summer in England, cancelled, which comes as relief, hosts family dinner-party, letter about Nobel Prize to, TSE leaves money with, 1949 visit to England with Dodo, June arrival anticipated, plans for, EH bids 'bon voyage', visit to Cambridge, return from Southwold, Borders tour, Basil Street Hotel stay, Thanksgiving with, reports on Dr Perkins's funeral, efforts to support financially, tethered to Margaret, joins TSE in St. Louis, 1954 trip to England with Dodo, visit to Ely and Cambridge, 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.

Eliot, Revd Christopher Rhodes (TSE's uncle), sees TSE in Boston, dinner with, sleeps through first Norton lecture, in audience for 'Two Masters', commits heresy, tours Eliot country, qua Unitarian, intellectually inferior to Martha, memorialised,

2.RevdEliot, Revd Christopher Rhodes (TSE's uncle) Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1856–1945) andEliot, Abigail Adams (TSE's cousin) his daughter Abigail Adams Eliot (b. 1892). ‘After taking his A.B. at Washington University in 1856, [Christopher] taught for a year in the Academic Department. He later continued his studies at Washington University and at Harvard, and received two degrees in 1881, an A.M. from Washington University and an S.T.B. from the Harvard Divinity School. He was ordained in 1882, but thereafter associated himself with eastern pastorates, chiefly with the Bulfinch Place Church in Boston. His distinctions as churchman and teacher were officially recognized by Washington University in [its] granting him an honorary Doctorate of Laws in 1925’ (‘The Eliot Family and St Louis’: appendix prepared by the Department of English to TSE’s ‘American Literature and the American Language’ [Washington University Press, 1953].)

Garnett, David, TSE regaled with tales of, dines with Bell, JDH and TSE,

6.DavidGarnett, David Garnett (1892–1981), author, publisher; founder with Francis Meynell of the Nonesuch Press; author of Lady into Fox (1922: James Tait Black Memorial Prize), The Sailor’s Return (1925), and Aspects of Love (1955 – the source for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, 1989). See Sarah Knights, Bloomsbury’s Outsider: A Life of David Garnett (2015).

Grandgent, Charles H.,

7.CharlesGrandgent, Charles H. H. Grandgent (1862–1939), scholar of linguistics and phonetics, and Dante; Professor of Romance Languages, Harvard, 1896–1932; Secretary of the Modern Language Association, 1902–11; President, 1912. Founding President of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, 1923. His works include An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Boston, 1907).

Hale, Emily Jose Milliken (EH's mother), admission to McLean's Hospital, EH's frequent visits to, her state of mind, compared to VHE, a comparison regretted and refined, a strain on EH, falls ill, and suffering more generally, reported to be better, in the hands of physicians, in TSE's prayers, TSE (un-falsely) consoles EH over, her health, doctor prognosticates on, business relating to, TSE meditates on, war affects care for, and TSE's hope for the afterlife, final illness, dies, her funeral, anniversary of death marked, Theresa on,
Kirstein, Lincoln,

4.LincolnKirstein, Lincoln Kirstein (1907–96), writer, impresario, connoisseur of art, was born into a wealthy, cultivated Jewish family (his father was chief executive of the Boston department store Filene’s). At Harvard he set up, with a contemporary, Varian Fry, the periodical Hound & Horn: A Harvard Miscellany – specifically modelling it on The Criterion – which ran from 1927 until 1934. Smitten by what he styled ‘balletptomaine’, he launched in 1933, with his friend M. M. Warburg, the School of American Ballet, and then the American Ballet, which became the resident company of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 1946, he founded, with George Balanchine, the Ballet Society, later the New York City Ballet, of which he was General Director, 1946–89. In the 1960s he commissioned and helped to fund the New York State Theater building at the Lincoln Center. In 1935 he published Dance: A Short History of Classic Theatrical Dancing. See further Martin Duberman, The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein (2007).

Lowes, John Livingston, helps TSE to settle at Harvard, TSE takes to, discusses Norton Lectures with TSE, shepherds TSE through first lecture, at St. Botolph poets' dinner, whisky-fuelled discussion with, remembers TSE's parents, assesses TSE's Norton tenure,

1.JohnLowes, John Livingston Livingston Lowes (1867–1945), American scholar of English literature – author of the seminal study of Coleridge’s sources, The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination (1927) – taught for some years, 1909–18, at Washington University, St. Louis, where he was known to TSE’s family. He later taught at Harvard, 1918–39.

Noyes, Penelope Barker, shows TSE familiar snapshot of EH, present when TSE fell for EH, in London, browner and thinner, intellectually inferior to Margaret Thorp, mentions EH to TSE, and the Folk Lore Society, at first Norton lecture, reports favourably of Dear Jane, TSE on, laments TSE's returning to VHE, hosts Eleanor, TSE and most boring woman ever, VHE cables for TSE's whereabouts, offers EH employment, EH's Cataumet summer holiday with, hosts party, potential host for Murder cast, sartorially speaking, and her father, EH visits, sails for England, distorted by wealth, TSE's dinner at the Connaught with,
see also Noyeses, the

12.PenelopeNoyes, Penelope Barker Barker Noyes (1891–1977), who was descended from settlers of the Plymouth Colony, lived in a historic colonial house (built in 1894 for her father James Atkins Noyes) at 1 Highland Street, Cambridge, MA. Unitarian. She was a close friend of EH.

Perkins, Dr John Carroll (EH's uncle), wished speedy recovery, Perkins household apparently restored, and TSE's King's Chapel address, at first Norton lecture, writes about second Norton lecture, supplied with tobacco, unused to intelligent opposition, suggests title for Murder, recommended Endless Adventure, TSE on, novelty birthday-present suggested for, comes by The Achievement of T. S. Eliot, once again preaching, his accent, his versus Eliot-family Unitarianism, reports on TSE from Aban Court, remarks on photograph of TSE, his Pastor Emeritus position endangered, starved of male company, more remote with age, donates Eliotana to Henry's collection, relations with Aunt Edith, ailing, altered with age, and Campden memories, sends photograph of EH portrait, on 1946 reunion with TSE, withdrawn, according to EH, honoured by bas-relief, celebrates 86th birthday, feared for, celebrates 87th birthday, thanks EH for her help, his final illness, dies, elegised by TSE, funeral, obituary and funeral, obituary, TSE receives old clothes of, Miss Lavorgna on, apparently communicated in Anglican churches, Annals of King's Chapel,
see also Perkinses, the

3.DrPerkins, Dr John Carroll (EH's uncle) John Carroll Perkins (1862–1950), Minister of King’s Chapel, Boston: see Biographical Register.

Perkins, Edith (EH's aunt), her relationship to EH queried, to accompany EH to Scripps, asks TSE to dinner, at first Norton lecture, shares pew with TSE, accompanies TSE to Symphony Concert, in audience at Milton Academy, catches cold in Florence, in TSE's private opinion, TSE's occasional poem for, her relationship with EH analysed, dislikes Jeanette McPherrin, explains EH's breakdown to TSE, on the Harvard Murder, as Campden hostess, and TSE's wartime instructions to EH, gives lunch at American Women's Club, gives TSE balsam pillow, requests English edition of Cats, as horticulturalist, without Campden garden, compared to Irene Hale, gives TSE photograph of EH, attends Ada's funeral, reports on EH's Millbrook situation, pressed for ham and pineapple recipe, sight affected in one eye, gives lecture, sight failing, sight deteriorates in other eye, thanked for 1946 hospitality, gives to Books Across the Sea, according to EH, asks TSE to present slides to RHS, which TSE does, on EH and TSE's relationship, and Hidcote House, friendly with Marion, TSE pitches her book to publishers, depressed by the heat, somewhat recovered, approaching 80th, faced with husband's death, letter of condolence to, sent birthday poem, visited in Boston, has sciatica, reports on EH's dramatic activities, Miss Lavorgna on, in her old-age infirmity, suffers 'shock', sacks nurse, EH preserved from, sends funeral tribute to Cousin Will, and the Hale letters, nursing home sought for, moved into nursing home, where TSE writes to her, suffers stroke, deteriorating, relations with EH, her legacy to EH,
see also Perkinses, the
Rand, Edward Kennard, at first Norton lecture, amuses TSE with quip, praises The Dry Salvages,

2.E. KennardRand, Edward Kennard Rand (1871–1945), classicist and medievalist, taught at Harvard from 1901, becoming Pope Professor of Latin, 1931–42. Founded the Medieval Academy of America, 1925, and edited the journal Speculum. Author of Ovid and His Influence (1925); Studies in the Script of Tours (2 vols, 1929–34); The Building of Eternal Rome (Lowell Lectures, 1943). TSE to Gladys H. McCafferty, 19 June 1958: ‘Ken Rand was one of my teachers at Harvard for whom I have the warmest personal affection …’

Spencer, Theodore, offers TSE suite in Eliot House, looks after TSE, shares whisky and conversation with TSE, talks poetry till late, appears deaf during first Norton lecture, hosts TSE after the first Norton lecture, and English 26, learns to tie tie from TSE, and Matthiessen co-direct Dekker, TSE shares homosexual experiences with, hails Burnt Norton, worth discussing American politics with, speaks with EH, and TSE's honorary Harvard degree, dies of heart attack,
see also Spencers, the

2.TheodoreSpencer, Theodore Spencer (1902–48), writer, poet and critic, taught at Harvard, 1927–49: see Biographical Register.

Weld, Anna,
Wentworth, Elizabeth, friendly to VHE,