[Grace Toll Hall, Scripps College, Claremont]
I have no particular excuse for writing tonight except that I have not written since Saturday; and I am going to be very busy this week: theRadcliffe Club, Wellesley College;a2 Radcliffe Club tomorrow (dinner beforehand with Mrs Frederick Day, whom I am sure you know but whom I can’t in the least remember) andSheffield, Ada Eliot (TSE's sister)hosts post-Radcliffe Club reception;b7 a reception afterwards (Ada has to ‘pour’) withAmericaits horrors;c2overheating in general;a6 I suppose the inevitable ice cream. I suppose the reason why people here eat ice cream on every occasion is that the houses are so overheated with such dry heat. TheSt. Botolph Club, Bostondreaded poets' dinner at;a2 poets’ dinner at the St. Botolph Club on Wednesday (ArlingtonRobinson, Edwin Arlingtondue at poets' dinner;a1 RobinsonFrost, Robertat poets' dinner;a1,1 Frost,2 MacleishMacLeish, Archibald;a13 etc.) the only thing in favour of which is that there is to be no speechmaking. OnWentworth, Mark Hunking;a1 Thursday to go out to dinner at Mark Wentworth’s in Concord;4 this is a chore, but old family friends. FridayEliot, Marion Cushing (TSE's sister);b4 MarionSpencer, Katherine;a2 andWomen's Republican Club, BostonTSE and Marion dine at;a1 I must dine with Katie Spencer at the Women’s Republican Club in Boston; a farewell before Katie goes to Florence for the winter, and I cannot be sorry that she is going. SaturdayClement, JamesWayland weekends with;a3 to spend the night with Jim Clement in Wayland – returnWolcott, Edith Prescott;a2 on Sunday in time for church, lunch at Mrs. Wolcott sr.’s (Barbara’s car to fetch me; supperEliot, Margaret Dawes (TSE's sister)takes TSE to hear spirituals;b2 with Margaret (she lives at the Hotel Commander, a squalid place, I think it) and go to some Hampton Negro Spiritual Minstrel Show. OnMorison, Samuel Eliotropes TSE into speech;a1 Monday I have to make an afterdinner speech atColonial Society, The;a1 the annual dinner of the Colonial Society (this Sam Morison got me into, and I couldn’t see my way out); Tuesday another concert of the Chamber Music Club; WednesdayGrahams, theobject of TSE's pity;a1 to the Grahams.5 The Grahams require some little explanation. GrahamGraham, Gerald S.and his wife described;a1 is a very ingenuous young Canadian, of humble origin, father a backwoods Presbyterian minister, educated by scholarship at Trinity Cambridge, married a London girl6 whom he met when she was at Girton, and has been a tutor here (at Eliot House) for I imagine not above two years. WifeWare, Winifred Emily;a1 had a child (Caesarian operation) which died, and since then has had various physical ailments, bladder trouble etc. and has been hysterical and considered subject for psychiatric treatment. I have seen her once (went to lunch, they have an upper-part in Chauncy Street) and have not yet seen any symptoms, except that she seemed negligent of her dress and especially of her hair. She ought to go to a hairdresser & get a wave; it is very lank & colourless. He has bought her a dog. Says there is no reason why she should not have another child in time, and doctors hope she will. Well, Graham, for some reason unknown to me, as he can know nothing about my own life, has kind-of fallen on my neck, and seems to hope that somehow I may have great curative powers. Chiefly perhaps because the wife belonged to an intellectual Cambridge set of young people (she can’t be more than 27) some of the men of which I happen to know; and he says she admires my poetry etc. What a trying situation for me: I don’t know how much of a situation it is, but I know enough to hate being involved in other people’s most intimate domestic affairs. I have volunteered to go in the evening and read poetry aloud, which pleased him, but I fear that he expects me to talk to her privately and preach the gospel etc. This is all in brackets, you understand, to explain one evening next week. Thursday of course is Thanksgiving Day; I wish that I might spend it with You andPerkinses, the;b6 Mr. & Mrs. Perkins (by the way, I am dining with them on Dec. 6th to meet Mr. & Mrs. Bliss Perry).7 ISheffield, Ada Eliot (TSE's sister)hosts the Eliot family Thanksgiving;b8 shall dine (midday) at Ada’s (thank Heaven) and escape early; allEliot, Henry Ware, Jr. (TSE's brother)at Eliot family Thanksgiving;b1 membersSmith, Theodora ('Dodo') Eliot (TSE's niece)at Eliot family Thanksgiving;a6 of immediate family except Theresa coming, Henry included, and Theodora; and Ada will see to it that I get away early, becauseCharles Eliot Norton Lectures (afterwards The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism)'Poetry and Criticism in the Time of Elizabeth' (afterwards 'Apology for the Countess of Pembroke');b7so far promising;a1 my second lecture (Norton) is on Friday. The lecture is partly written and I think it is fairly good, so far it is an Apology for Sir Philip Sidney and shows How Shakespeare Preserved the Dramatic Unities.8 AfterSedgwick, Professor William Ellery;a2 theSedgwick, (William) Ellery;a1 lecture I have to go to young Ellery Sedgwick’s (63 Brattle Street) to meet Ellery Sedgwick Senior (his uncle I find).9 And after that I have SO FAR no engagements until Dec. 1st at the King’s Chapel.
Yesterday, Sunday, was a busy day. UpSociety of Saint John the Evangelist, Cambridge, Mass.TSE attends early Mass at;a2 with the lark for early Mass at the Cowley House; bathed, shaved, breakfasted, readBoston Evening Transcript;a1 the Transcript with amazement, wentChurch of St. John the Evangelist, Bowdoin StreetHigh Mass at;a1 to High Mass at St. John’s Bowdoin Street. IRussell, Ada Dwyer;a1 mustMonroe, HarrietTSE's sense of obligation to;a1 explain that a Mrs. Russell in Brookline, whomLowell, Amyher ex-lover invites TSE to lunch;a1 I never heard of, but who comes from Salt Lake City and was the Most Intimate Friend of Amy Lowell,10 rang me up on Friday and said that Harriet Monroe11 was to spend Sunday with her and would I come to lunch. So'Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The'Harriet Monroe's part in;a1 as Harriet Monroe was the first editor to publish me (‘Prufrock’ in Poetry) I thought it my duty to go. ToHillyer, RobertTSE suspends judgement on;a1 resume the thread, I repaired from St. Johns to the house of Professor Robert Hillyer12 at 4 Hawthorn Street Cambridge; for he had undertaken to convoy me to Mrs. Russell’s (685 Chestnut Hill Avenue) in his car. Common little man, I thought, but kindly; how intelligent or profound I do not yet know, but have doubts. WifeHillyer, Dorothy Hancock Tilton;a1 similar, but in spite of her appearance – blowzy, red lips – improves on acquaintance. ThereHillyers, thetheir stereotypical cocktail-party;a1 IAmericaBoston, Massachusetts;d1its society;b3 found a cocktail party going; something I never saw the like of on the corner of Brattle Street in my time. A Mr. & Mrs. Murray I think their name was – he apparently a graduate student in English – a young woman named Charlotte Lyman who looked as if she had been bred for points for a prizefighter’s face, and another young woman with a red gash where her mouth had been, completed the party. The cocktails were numerous, but mild, I am glad to say. Hillyer had met me at the door and enquired which church I had come from, as if, I thought, to tip off the party inside. The conversation, however, though proper enough, was such as one is told forms the staple of American society: they were talking about one young Ames, apparently a wealthy worthless drunkard who had committed suicide in an aeroplane with two others, and then moved on to adventures in Boston speak-easies. You will I hope know better than I what sort of company I had fallen in with. After a time the party broke up, and we eventually arrived at Brookline a quarter of an hour late. The hostess fat and jolly, and very likeable, because naturally liking anybody; the house a large & luxurious Brookline house; MissMonroe, Harrietin person;a2 Monroe like a little old mid-west Yankee schoolmarm, devoted to poetry and Poetry, though no manifest reason why she should not have been devoted to some other cause instead; at once antique and very modern. I notice that there are folk who either ask you questions, or else carry on a conversation about people and things of which you know nothing. On this occasion, I did not hold the floor at any time, but behaved modestly. The dinner was very good – a shade too opulent, but every item perfect, even a touch of garlic – a bottle of real wine – I do not say good wine, because it was rather too sweet – barsac at least – poured out from a real French bottle swathed in a napkin. There was some talk about Poetry Prizes of which I knew nothing. InLowell, AmyTSE admires oil painting of;a2 the hall was an oil portrait of Amy Lowell at the age of 18, looking exquisitely pretty and slender. Now about all this, what the HELL am I to make of it? I am beginning to suffer from social indigestion.
The Hillyers convoyed me back (Mrs. H. does the driving) and I arrived in my room, sober but exhausted, at 3:15; lay down and dozed for an hour; did a little work; dressed, dinedSpencers, theevening of chamber music with;a2 with the Theodore Spencers at 7:30 (MrsSpencer, Anna Morris (née Murray);a1. Spencer, née Nancy Murray of Boston – never heard of them but apparently rich, another conundrum for me)13 – anotherAmericaits horrors;c2perplexities of dress code;a7 puzzle the way of dressing, why on some occasions women dress as if for a Court, and men always in what they call Tuxedos – cocktails & whisky; thenWomen's Republican Club, BostonTSE made honorary member of;a2 we drove in to the Women’s Republican Club to a session of the Chamber Music Club to hear a Burgin Quartette. The music was my reward for the day. Edward Pickman has kindly had me made an honorary member of the Club, which means that I can attend all the concerts without paying anything. WhenWomen's Republican Club, Bostonpart of Boston monde;a3 we arrived, I found it a Blaze of Fashion, or so it seemed to my Bloomsbury eyes. There was a large Panell’d Room, with little tables set about like a cabaret, and one tall Candle on each and an ashtray and the usual paper matches. I was introduced to a number of people whose names to me are dark, and I guess will be dark to history as well, but who looked frightfully grand, andGreenes, the Copley;a2 I observed that Mr. and Mrs. Copley Green whom I mentioned before, in the distance. (ThePickmans, theTSE takes to;a3 Pickmans I like). Then after a lot of chatter in came the fiddlers, and fiddled away for dear life (I enclose the programme);14 theBeethoven, Ludwig vanTSE's authorial envy of;a3 Beethoven was perhaps not perfectly done, but is such a grand thing that it is worth hearing always; and rewarded me for my arduous day.15 And then the Spencers brought me back to Cambridge. Everybody is so extraordinarily kind and gentle that it makes matters difficult. IEnglandLondon;h1socially more legible than Boston;b2 mean, in London, I know whom to cultivate & whom to avoid, and they are black and white, sheep & goats; but here it seems more difficult to distinguish the tares from the wheat – especiallywritingand Beethoven;a8 whenBeethoven, Ludwig van'Razumovsky' Quartet in F major;b2 one can hear the F major quartette (that’s the way I should like to be able to write!)
So there is my account of myself for the last day and my programme for the next ten, and so, my dear small Bird, I subscribe myself
1.EdwinRobinson, Edwin Arlington Arlington Robinson (1869–1935), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
2.RobertFrost, Robert Frost (1874–1963), celebrated American poet and critic, spent three years (1912–15) with his wife in England, where he was influenced by friendships with Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves and Ezra Pound. His poetry – rooted in the vernacular of rural life in New England, and with a deep sensitivity to marital and domestic strain and conflict – won immediate critical and popular success. Noted publications included A Boy’s Will (1913), North of Boston (1914), Mountain Interval (1916) and New Hampshire (1923). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times; and in 1962 he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. See The Letters of Robert Frost, vols 1–3, ed. Donald Sheehy et al. (2014–21); Jeffrey Meyers, Robert Frost: A Biography (1996); Jay Parini, Robert Frost: A Life (2000).
3.ArchibaldMacLeish, Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), poet and playwright, studied at Yale and at Harvard Law School (he abandoned the practice of law and took up poetry in 1923), then lived in France for a while in the 1920s. Conquistador (1933) won a Pulitzer Prize; and for his Collected Poems, 1917–1952 (1953) he won three awards: a second Pulitzer, the Bollingen Prize and the National Book Award. His verse play J.B. (1957) won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award. During WW2, at President Roosevelt’s bidding, he was Librarian of Congress, and he served with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. He was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Harvard, 1949–62.
4.MarkWentworth, Mark Hunking Hunking Wentworth (1879–1944) and his wife Lucy Cushing Snow Wentworth (1886–1961) lived with their two children at 2 Elm Street, Concord, Mass. Mark Wentworth’s sister Elizabeth Ladd Wentworth (1875–1940) was a good friend of TSE’s sister Marion, andWentworth, Elizabethfriendly to VHE;a3n had also been friendly to Vivien Eliot when she visited London on vacation in the early 1930s.
5.GeraldGraham, Gerald S. S. Graham (1903–88), a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, was Instructor in History at Harvard, 1930–6, where he was befriended by TSE. After a period as Assistant Professor of History at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, he was a Guggenheim Fellow, 1940–1; and during WW2 he served in the Canadian Army. Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London, 1949–70; Life-Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Commonwealth Society; general editor of the Oxford West African History series. An authority on naval power and the British Empire, his works include Sea Power and British North America, 1783–1820: A Study in British Colonial Policy (1941) and The Politics of Naval Supremacy (1967). See further Perspectives of Empire: Essays presented to Gerald S. Graham, ed. J. E. Flint and Glyndwyr Williams (1973). TSE told Mary Trevelyan, 15 June 1949, he was ‘giving dinner to Professor Graham, the very meritorious Professor of Canadian History at London University whom I knew when he was tutor at Eliot House’.
Graham to Valerie Eliot, 28 July 1984: ‘T. S. E. was a most compassionate man. That is why he “picked me up” in Eliot House in 1932. We were brought close to each other because (unbeknownst to me at the time) we shared a common misery … I loved the man.’
6.EmilyWare, Winifred Emily Ware.
7.BlissPerry, Bliss Perry (1860–1954), critic, author, editor, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1899–1909.
8.Lecture II, ‘Apology for the Countess of Pembroke’, given on 25 Nov. 1932.
9.WilliamSedgwick, (William) Ellery Ellery Sedgwick (1872–1960), editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1908–38.
10.AdaRussell, Ada Dwyer Dwyer Russell (1863–1952), American actor who in 1912 entered into a romantic partnership with the poet Amy Lowell. Earlier in her life Dwyer had married an actor named Harold Russell, but the couple had promptly separated following the birth of a daughter – they were never to be divorced – and it was almost two decades afterwards that she began the lesbian relationship with Lowell.
AmyLowell, Amy Lowell (1874–1925), a scion of the Boston Brahmin family; noted Imagist poet; lesbian (the love poems addressed to Ada Dwyer Russell are among her finest works); traveller, anthologist (Some Imagist Poets [New York, 1915]). Her works include A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (1912), What’s O’Clock (1925; winner of a posthumous Pulitzer Prize); The Complete Poems of Amy Lowell (1955). See Carl Rollyson, Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography (2013).
11.HarrietMonroe, Harriet Monroe (1860–1936), American poet and editor, based in Chicago. In 1912 she was founder of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, which she continued to co-edit until 1936. The magazine provided a launching place for many poets, including TSE (‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ was published in Poetry in 1915), Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, W. B. Yeats and Robert Frost. She was co-editor, with Alice Corbin Henderson (first associate editor of Poetry) of The New Poetry: An Anthology (New York, 1917), which TSE reviewed in the Egoist (Oct. 1917). Her autobiography, A Poet’s Life: Seventy Years in a Changing World, appeared posthumously in 1937. See Ann Massa, ‘Harriet Monroe and T. S. Eliot: A curious and typical response’, Notes and Queries 230 [32: 3], Sept. 1985, 380–2; Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters: The First Fifty Years, 1912–1962, ed. Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young (2002).
12.RobertHillyer, Robert Hillyer (1895–1961), poet, taught from 1926 at Harvard, where he became Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, 1937–44. Collected Verse (1933) won a Pulitzer Prize. He became notorious when he published in the Saturday Review of Literature in 1949 a condemnation of the award of the Bollingen Prize to the ‘fascist’ Ezra Pound for Pisan Cantos.
13.SpencerSpencer, Anna Morris (née Murray) married Anna Morris Murray (b. 1902) in 1927.
14.First Concert of the Chamber Music Club, Eighth Season, at the Women’s Republican Club, 13 Nov.
15.Beethoven’s first Razumovsky Quartet in F major (Opus 59, no. 1).
2.JamesClement, James Clement (1889–1973), Harvard Class of 1911, marriedClement, Margot Marguerite C. Burrel (who was Swiss by birth) in 1913. In later years, TSE liked visiting them at their home in Geneva.
3.HenryEliot, Henry Ware, Jr. (TSE's brother) Ware Eliot (1879–1947), TSE’s older brother: see Biographical Register.
6.MargaretEliot, Margaret Dawes (TSE's sister) Dawes Eliot (1871–1956), TSE's second-oldest sister sister, resident in Cambridge, Mass. In an undated letter (1952) to his Harvard friend Leon M. Little, TSE wrote: ‘Margaret is 83, deaf, eccentric, recluse (I don’t think she has bought any new clothes since 1900).’
1.Marian/MarionEliot, Marion Cushing (TSE's sister) Cushing Eliot (1877–1964), fourth child of Henry Ware Eliot and Charlotte Eliot: see Biographical Register.
2.RobertFrost, Robert Frost (1874–1963), celebrated American poet and critic, spent three years (1912–15) with his wife in England, where he was influenced by friendships with Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves and Ezra Pound. His poetry – rooted in the vernacular of rural life in New England, and with a deep sensitivity to marital and domestic strain and conflict – won immediate critical and popular success. Noted publications included A Boy’s Will (1913), North of Boston (1914), Mountain Interval (1916) and New Hampshire (1923). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times; and in 1962 he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. See The Letters of Robert Frost, vols 1–3, ed. Donald Sheehy et al. (2014–21); Jeffrey Meyers, Robert Frost: A Biography (1996); Jay Parini, Robert Frost: A Life (2000).
5.GeraldGraham, Gerald S. S. Graham (1903–88), a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, was Instructor in History at Harvard, 1930–6, where he was befriended by TSE. After a period as Assistant Professor of History at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, he was a Guggenheim Fellow, 1940–1; and during WW2 he served in the Canadian Army. Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London, 1949–70; Life-Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Commonwealth Society; general editor of the Oxford West African History series. An authority on naval power and the British Empire, his works include Sea Power and British North America, 1783–1820: A Study in British Colonial Policy (1941) and The Politics of Naval Supremacy (1967). See further Perspectives of Empire: Essays presented to Gerald S. Graham, ed. J. E. Flint and Glyndwyr Williams (1973). TSE told Mary Trevelyan, 15 June 1949, he was ‘giving dinner to Professor Graham, the very meritorious Professor of Canadian History at London University whom I knew when he was tutor at Eliot House’.
3.HenryGreenes, the CopleyGreene, Henry Copley
12.RobertHillyer, Robert Hillyer (1895–1961), poet, taught from 1926 at Harvard, where he became Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, 1937–44. Collected Verse (1933) won a Pulitzer Prize. He became notorious when he published in the Saturday Review of Literature in 1949 a condemnation of the award of the Bollingen Prize to the ‘fascist’ Ezra Pound for Pisan Cantos.
AmyLowell, Amy Lowell (1874–1925), a scion of the Boston Brahmin family; noted Imagist poet; lesbian (the love poems addressed to Ada Dwyer Russell are among her finest works); traveller, anthologist (Some Imagist Poets [New York, 1915]). Her works include A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (1912), What’s O’Clock (1925; winner of a posthumous Pulitzer Prize); The Complete Poems of Amy Lowell (1955). See Carl Rollyson, Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography (2013).
3.ArchibaldMacLeish, Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), poet and playwright, studied at Yale and at Harvard Law School (he abandoned the practice of law and took up poetry in 1923), then lived in France for a while in the 1920s. Conquistador (1933) won a Pulitzer Prize; and for his Collected Poems, 1917–1952 (1953) he won three awards: a second Pulitzer, the Bollingen Prize and the National Book Award. His verse play J.B. (1957) won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award. During WW2, at President Roosevelt’s bidding, he was Librarian of Congress, and he served with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. He was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Harvard, 1949–62.
11.HarrietMonroe, Harriet Monroe (1860–1936), American poet and editor, based in Chicago. In 1912 she was founder of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, which she continued to co-edit until 1936. The magazine provided a launching place for many poets, including TSE (‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ was published in Poetry in 1915), Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, W. B. Yeats and Robert Frost. She was co-editor, with Alice Corbin Henderson (first associate editor of Poetry) of The New Poetry: An Anthology (New York, 1917), which TSE reviewed in the Egoist (Oct. 1917). Her autobiography, A Poet’s Life: Seventy Years in a Changing World, appeared posthumously in 1937. See Ann Massa, ‘Harriet Monroe and T. S. Eliot: A curious and typical response’, Notes and Queries 230 [32: 3], Sept. 1985, 380–2; Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters: The First Fifty Years, 1912–1962, ed. Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young (2002).
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.
7.BlissPerry, Bliss Perry (1860–1954), critic, author, editor, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1899–1909.
1.EdwinRobinson, Edwin Arlington Arlington Robinson (1869–1935), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
10.AdaRussell, Ada Dwyer Dwyer Russell (1863–1952), American actor who in 1912 entered into a romantic partnership with the poet Amy Lowell. Earlier in her life Dwyer had married an actor named Harold Russell, but the couple had promptly separated following the birth of a daughter – they were never to be divorced – and it was almost two decades afterwards that she began the lesbian relationship with Lowell.
3.ProfessorSedgwick, Professor William Ellery William Ellery Sedgwick (1899–1942) taught English at Harvard, 1926–38, before joining Bennington College, Vermont. His widow was the former Sarah F. Cabot of Boston; and his brother was O. Sedgwick, foreign correspondent of the New York Times.
9.WilliamSedgwick, (William) Ellery Ellery Sedgwick (1872–1960), editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1908–38.
2.AdaSheffield, Ada Eliot (TSE's sister) Eliot Sheffield (1869–1943), eldest of the seven Eliot children; author of The Social Case History: Its Construction and Content (1920) and Social Insight in Case Situations (1937): see Biographical Register.
2.TheodoraSmith, Theodora ('Dodo') Eliot (TSE's niece) Eliot Smith (1904–92) – ‘Dodo’ – daughter of George Lawrence and Charlotte E. Smith: see Biographical Register. Theodora’sSmith, Charlotte ('Chardy') Stearns (TSE's niece) sister was Charlotte Stearns Smith (b. 1911), known as ‘Chardy’.
13.SpencerSpencer, Anna Morris (née Murray) married Anna Morris Murray (b. 1902) in 1927.
4.MarkWentworth, Mark Hunking Hunking Wentworth (1879–1944) and his wife Lucy Cushing Snow Wentworth (1886–1961) lived with their two children at 2 Elm Street, Concord, Mass. Mark Wentworth’s sister Elizabeth Ladd Wentworth (1875–1940) was a good friend of TSE’s sister Marion, andWentworth, Elizabethfriendly to VHE;a3n had also been friendly to Vivien Eliot when she visited London on vacation in the early 1930s.