[Grace Toll Hall, Scripps College, Claremont]
Please, dear, let me know the name of the hotel to go to in Claremont (if there is one). Itravels, trips and plansTSE's 1933 westward tour to Scripps;a8TSE's itinerary;a4 am wiring to you to-day to ask you to wire me if you go to Seattle, because I don’t want to arrive in Claremont before you are back. IUniversity of Southern Californiasubsequent negotiations with;a3 hope you will answer my other questions in time. Itravels, trips and plansTSE's 1933 westward tour to Scripps;a8and TSE's need to lecture;a2 amLeland Stanford Junior University (Stanford)negotiates with TSE over lecture;a2 now in negotiation with the University of Southern California & with Leland Stanford, and if I can arrange dates with them, I shall be quite satisfied financially & can almost write off my travelling expenses. IHale, Emilyas teacher;w1EH lectures on TSE;a9 don’t envy you having to talk about T.S.E. but your only difficulty is that you know too much about the subject!1 I am over ears in preparations, and shall probably have to stay here to work over Christmas, and come straight out to the Coast, instead of spending a day or two in New York with my brother as I had expected.
1.InHale, Emilyas teacher;w1EH lectures on TSE;a9 advance of TSE’s brief visit to Claremont, EH gave an introductory talk in the Toll Hall browsing room.
In ‘Campus Acquaintance Reviews Modern Man of the Moment’, The Scripture (Scripps College student newspaper), 12 Dec. 1932, one student reported some of EH’s remarks in oratio obliqua: ‘He has often been termed “modern” because of his inclusive technique, his use of sordid detail and his attitude of disillusionment, evinced during his “bitter period,” 1922–28. In 1928 he became a convert of the Anglo-Catholic Church. With this faith he has gained resignation if not optimism, in his view of life.
‘He has been criticized by his critics for a certain attitude of passive unconcern toward the actualities of life today. He has been lauded and hailed with equal vehemence as being the greatest influence in the modern literary world. A man of extremes, a man of undoubted faults and highest virtues; T. S. Eliot is admittedly a world figure today.’