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The train stops here ½ hour – my writing is so bad at least that it is illegible when the train is moving, so must take advantage of the stop. BerkeleyUniversity of California, BerkeleyTSE lectures at;a2 went off well – a large & friendly audience. Among others who spoke to me at the end were two Scripps graduates – one said she had been back in the autumn & met you, & spoke appreciatively of the girls’ warm regard for you. IUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)during which TSE feels overwrought;a3 think that at Los Angeles I was just suffering from a slight emotional collapse – everything seemed to go dead, and nothing worth saying. AtHart, Frank William;a1 Berkeley I pulled myself together, & my hosts the Harts 1 – not exciting people, but very kind – let me have a quiet day beforehand. There was a reception at their house afterwards – university professors – a very nice lot. Berkeley seems a good deal more civilised than Los Angeles: but most of the professors were easterners.
Nowtravels, trips and plansTSE's 1933 westward tour to Scripps;a8TSE reflects on;a9 that it is all over I only want to get back to Cambridge & work – I grudge the rest of the month to be spent lecturing. I came as near to happiness as one can come in 10 days – & more than ever in my life. ButAmericaCalifornia;d3horrifies TSE;a5 California itself seems a nightmare – scenery & no soul – & it is a worse nightmare to think of your being there alone. SomethingScripps College, ClaremontTSE's desire to deliver EH from;c9 must be done to get you out of it when your time is up (slaving for a pittance) but meanwhile you can keep your soul alive. You can’t do it just by ‘service’ – only devoting yourself to your girls – though I don’t minimise the good you are doing, or the good one does oneself by doing good to others. You must find time to read & to think, by yourself –
What kind of scent do you like best?
You must get something to soften the water.
Don’tHale, Emilyphotographs of;w7;a9 forget the photographs. I wish I had the Kodak instead of mine.
I wonder whether you will have got any new or different impression of me? Is that egotism on my part? But perhaps you are even a little disillusioned. I return Cambridge the 27th. A toi Tom.
1.FrankHart, Frank William William Hart (1881–1965), Professor of Education, University of California.
1.FrankHart, Frank William William Hart (1881–1965), Professor of Education, University of California.