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T. S.Eliot
EmilyHale
B-11 Eliot House
26 March 1933
Fourth in Lent
Dear Dove,

I arrived from Philadelphia this morning. OnPrinceton UniversityTSE on his trip to;a5 the whole, this excursion was a very pleasant one. I went to Princeton on Thursday – a tedious all-day journey, with a change in New York and again at Princeton Junction, andMore, Paul ElmerTSE's Princeton sojourn with;a5 was met by Paul More. Just'Bible and English Literature, The'lecture given at Princeton;a1'Bible as Scripture and as Literature, The''Bible and English Literature, The' had time to change, dineMore, Louis T.;a2 with him and his brother Louis, who is Professor of Physics & Head of the Graduate School at Cincinnati, and lecture at 8:15; my lecture (Ladies Alliance) on the Bible & English Literature went very well indeed, with a new head and a new tail, and somewhat lengthened; signed some books, gave an interview for the college journal, andSpeight, Francis;a1 returned to More’s, in company of a Professor Speight,1 toRoot, Robert Kilburn;a1 meet a selection of younger instructors, and Professor Root the Chaucer expert.2 After the company left, More produced something called apple-jack, and we sat talking until 2:30. The next morning, I breakfasted at 10:30, then looked over the Princeton buildings with the Mores. IPrinceton Universityits architecture;a6 don’t approve of American Gothic for colleges, but this is certainly very well done; the graduate school hall is a perfect imitation of an English hall; the chapel (interior) is very well done indeed, and the stained glass the best I have seen in America, better indeed than any stained glass of modern manufacture that I have seen in England. IWicks, Robert Russell;a1 was interested to find that although the chapel (compulsory) is run by some non-sectarian college preacher named Wicks,3 the Episcopalian young priest, Father Crocker, who had been at the Mores’ party the night before, has a chapel (I mean a side-chapel) where he is allowed to celebrate Mass.4 PrincetonPrinceton Universitycompared to Harvard and Yale;a7 isHarvard Universitycompared to Princeton;b1 more pleasing in its setting, andYale Universitycompared to Princeton;a4 much less sordid, than either Yale or Harvard; the most attractive of the American universities. AfterThorps, thecalled on in Princeton;c3Thorp, Margaret (née Farrand)Thorps, theThorp, WillardThorps, the that, I called upon the Thorps (who had been present at my lecture). Found that they had a pleasant flat over a shop in the High Street (I should think it wd. be rather noisy). Margaret asked about you, but we did not get very far with that, because her husband was so anxious to talk to me about what I thought of American educational methods. I cannot help feeling that she is a much more interesting person than he is. I could only stay for an hour or so, and then back to the More’s [sic] for lunch; then a nap, and then by a complicated route (three changes) to Haverford.5 IMore, Paul Elmerhis importance since Whibley's death;a6 was happy with More; he to some extent supplies the gap left for me by the death of Whibley; on some cardinal points we take the same views; and I regard him as rather a great man. He is wholly unpretentious. HeSweeney Agonistesrated TSE's best by More;a6 is inclined to agree with me that Sweeney Agonistes is the best thing I have done. WeAmericaits religious and educational future;a9 both take a dark view of the future of education and religion in America. I wish that I had gone to Haverford first and Princeton second; becauseHotsons, thecompared to Paul More as hosts;a2 after More, the Hotsons andHaverford Collegepreponderance of Quakers;a1 the people at Haverford seemed so exasperatingly mediocre; and they were very nice to me. Yet I was not happy with them. IChristianityQuakerism;c7;a1 find that that there are two kinds of Quakers: Trinitarian Quakers & Unitarian Quakers, or Hicksites. The former flourish at Haverford (Pres. Comfort)6 and the latter at Swarthmore (Pres. Aydelotte).7 Both Pres. came to dinner at the Hotsons that evening. A plague of [sc. on] both your houses. TheHotsons, thedescribed for EH;a3Hotson, LeslieHotsons, theHotson, MaryHotsons, the Hotsons are rather simple-lifers; they sing Elizabethan duets – John Come Kiss Me etc. – she chirps and growls (but he howls better than she chirps). She was Mary Peabody, a cousin of the Christopher Eliots.8 Incidentally, it is more restful to visit an old tired man like More, who has no axe to grind, than young hopeful academic people like the Hotsons, who have to make the most of a distinguished visitor. They can’t help it; if they didn’t invite the presidents and the professors to meet me they would make themselves unpopular; but More is in a position not to care. Then'Study of Shakespeare Criticism, The'as delivered;a2 theSchelling, Felix E.;a1 lecture, on Shakespeare criticism, anyway Professor Schelling seemed to like it.9 ThenChristianitythe Church Year;d8Lady Day;b7 the next morning was Lady Day – I must say they were very thoughtful – I told them it was a day of obligation for me – so they found a church some distance off and drove me there in time for 7:30 Mass. They are excellent hosts. MaryAmericaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania;g6and TSE's private Barnes Foundation tour;a2 hadRenoir, Pierre-Augustehis Barnes Foundation paintings delight;a1 managedCézanne, PaulBarnes Foundation paintings delight;a1 toFranceFrench culture;b2French painting;a2 getMatisse, HenriBarnes Foundation paintings delight TSE;a1 us admittedPicasso, Pablohis Barnes Foundation paintings delight;a2 to ade Chirico, GiorgioBarnes Foundation paintings delight TSE;a1 privateModigliani, AmedeoBarnes Foundation paintings among his best;a1 galleryDelacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugènepart of Barnes Foundation collection;a1 inDaumier, Honoréinterests TSE;a1 PhiladelphiaVan Gogh, Vincenthis Barnes Foundation paintings;a1 whichGauguin, Paulin the Barnes Foundation collection;a1 noManet, Édouardinteresting minor works by;a1 oneCorot, Jean-Baptiste-Camilleparticularly beautiful portrait by;a1 is ever allowed to enter – belonging to a Dr. Barnes10 – where there is a really remarkable collection of French painting – some lovely Renoirs of all types, many good Cezannes – Matisse – Picasso – Chirico – Modigliani of the best – everybody except Derain and Vlaminck well represented, and some good older painters – Delacroix – two most interesting Daumier – Van Gogh and Gauguin of course – some interesting minor examples of Manet, and an extraordinarily lovely little portrait by Corot; incidentally some of the very finest African masks from the West Coast: a really exciting collection which filled me with joy. BarnesBarnes, Albert C.confounds TSE's expectations;a1 is said to be a Bear, but Butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth, he would introduce all his assistants to me, and presented me with a big book he has written about Matisse.11 I wish I could take you through it. ItAmericaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania;g6TSE on;a1 was all as fantastic as California, and not like Philadelphia at all – a most correct, charming colonial town, with a New England decorum and a southern relaxation. AfterwardsFranklin, Benjamin'lecherous old humbug';a1, lunch at the Franklin Club (one is not allowed to forget that lecherous old humbug in Philadelphia)12 toStork, Charles Wharton;a1 talk to the literati, including Mr. Charles Wharton Stork, local poet, who has written (so he tells me) a 5 act play called Tristram (never produced), but more recently another play on Ninon de Lenclos in which one of the characters is Moliere, and that he is proud of.13 Both in verse. I told him there was nothing to do but to go on. AfterAmericaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania;g6Independence Hall;a3 joshing these folk for some time we went (Hotson & I) to inspect the Independence Hall, which is a really first rate piece of architecture, something one should not Miss – inside is the Liberty Bell, that set you free, a fire Bell with a quotation from Leviticus round it, a fine Bell but there is a bad crack in it. Philadelphia is the most Colonial town I have struck. And on our way back to Haverford we met a Professor of the local Yeomanry, or Civic Guard, all the Young Bloods of the place on horse, like the Horse Guards, no doubt

Of seeming arms to make a short assay;

Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.14

DinnerJones, Rufus;a1 again (I had a nap meanwhile, which was well, as the Rev. Rufus Jones15 called during my slumber – I had slept badly with nightmares the night before) withCret, Paul Philippe;a1 M. & Madame Cret (French architect, local resident)16 andRepplier, Agnes;a1 Miss Agnes Repplier (essayistJohnson, Dr Samuelhis cats;a1, knows the names of Dr. Johnson’s cats, speaks perfect English & would love the Stracheys, sly humour her speciality);17 then, in a snowstorm, was deposited at Broad St. Station for my train by the Crets.

MaryHotson, Maryridiculed;a1 Hotson is an American type. Her mother, and her mother’s father, old Frederick May, were Cranks: abolition, anti-vivisection and vegetarianism. But proper. Not World Leagues for Sexual Reform. No ideas, but heaps of whimsies. Mary is one of those American women who believe that if you are to be a social success (and most American women believe in social success) you must cultivate a light manner, and Gay. She is like an Elephant trying to behave like a butterfly. Why catch an elephant in a butterfly net? God meant her to be grave, stolid and placid; she is not God’s idea of a butterfly, even of a Unitarian Quaker butterfly. She tries to behave at once like a Unitarian Quakeress and like a grand lady of the world, and it can’t be done. She decorates her face with nothing but soap and water; whereas if she was to play her role a very careful application of just the right powder and rouge would be required. If she would behave as she looks, or if she would see to it that she looked as she wishes to behave, she might be rather pretty; as it is, she is simply embarrassing. As for Leslie, he is pure homespun. And I dare say you will think it necessary to think me a Brute to talk like this about my Kind Hosts, when I got 100 dollars too. I dare you to say just what you think; but of course you will manage to be too busy.

Having accumulated no notes, I enclose a few odd letters. If I have no news from you in three days, I shall telephone to Mrs. Perkins.

à toi
Tom

1.FrancisSpeight, Francis Speight (1896–1989), artist, taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, 1925–61; he was Artist in Residence and Professor at East Carolina University.

2.RobertRoot, Robert Kilburn Kilburn Root (1877–1950) taught at Princeton from 1905; as Professor of English, 1926–33; Dean of the Faculty, 1933–46. Works include The Poetry of Chaucer (1906).

3.RobertWicks, Robert Russell Russell Wicks (1882–1963), Dean of the Chapel, Princeton University, 1928–47.

4.Revd John Crocker (1900–84), educated at Princeton and at Oxford, was chaplain for Episcopal students at Princeton, 1930–5. Later, Headmaster of Groton School, 1939–65.

5.TSE stayed with Prof. Leslie Hotson (1897–1992), Canadian-born Shakespearean researcher and controversialist, and his wife Mary Peabody at Haverford College, where he lectured on ‘The Development of Shakespearean Criticism’, in Roberts Hall on 24 Mar.

6.William Wistar Comfort (1874–1955), President of Haverford College, 1917–40.

7.Franklin Aydelotte (1880–1956) was educated at Indiana University (majoring in English) and as a Rhodes Scholar at Brasenose College, Oxford. He served as President of Swarthmore College (though he was not a Quaker), 1921–39, before becoming Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton University, 1940–7. American Secretary to the Rhodes Trust, 1918–52. See further Michael G. Moran, Frank Aydelotte and the Oxford Approach to English Studies in America (University Press of America, 2006).

Swarthmore College was established to pursue the unorthodox teachings of Elias Hicks (1748–1830), a travelling Quaker minister who caused a split in the Religious Society of Friends by advocating that the central rule of life was the Inner Light.

8.Mary May Peabody Hotson (1896–1993), socialist and political activist; graduate of Radcliffe College; was married in 1919 to Hotson by her uncle, a Unitarian minister. See We Answered with Love: Pacifist Service in World War I: The Letters of Leslie Hotson and Mary Peabody, ed. Nancy Learned Haines (2016).

9.FelixSchelling, Felix E. E. Schelling (1858–1945), John Welsh Centennial Professor of English Literature, University of Pennsylvania. Scholar of Renaissance Studies.

10.AlbertBarnes, Albert C. C. Barnes (1872–1951), chemist, businessman, art collector and educator, made his fortune after developing, with a German colleague, a silver nitrate antiseptic called Argyrol, and then fortuitously selling his company at a profit in July 1929, a few months before the stock market crash. Thereafter he dedicated his energies to purchasing works of art – his collection eventually included some of the best works of Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso and Modigliani, as well as African-American art – and setting up the Barnes Foundation.

11.Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia, The Art of Henri Matisse (Philadelphia, 1933).

12.BenjaminFranklin, Benjamin Franklin (1705–90) – polymathic statesman, diplomat, scientist, writer – one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America – was born in Boston but spent many years from the age of 17 in Philadelphia (where he was a printer and newspaper publisher, and, among many other achievements, set up in 1751 the Academy and College of Philadelphia, which in due course became the University of Philadelphia). TSE dubs him ‘lecherous’ possibly because Franklin at the age of 17 proposed marriage to a 15-year-old girl named Deborah Read. While Franklin was away in England, Read married another man who soon deserted her, and Franklin subsequently established a common-law marriage with her.

13.CharlesStork, Charles Wharton Wharton Stork (1881–1971), poet, playwright, novelist; editor of Contemporary Verse, 1917–25; translator of Scandinavian verse; taught at the University of Philadelphia.

14.John Dryden, ‘Cymon and Iphigenia’ (Fables Ancient and Modern), 407–8; quoted in the essay in Selected Essays.

15.RufusJones, Rufus Jones (1863–1948), Quaker historian and theologian; editor of the Friends’ Review, 1893–1912; taught philosophy and psychology at Haverford College, 1893–1934.

16.PaulCret, Paul Philippe Philippe Cret (1876–1945), French-born architect, taught design in the Dept of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania for thirty years. Among the projects he headed were the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC; the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia; the master plan for the University of Texas at Austin (including the central tower); the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Philadelphia; and the Duke Ellington Bridge, Washington, DC.

17.AgnesRepplier, Agnes Repplier (1855–1950), noted American essayist based in Philadelphia.

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,
see also American Presidential Election
Barnes, Albert C., confounds TSE's expectations,

10.AlbertBarnes, Albert C. C. Barnes (1872–1951), chemist, businessman, art collector and educator, made his fortune after developing, with a German colleague, a silver nitrate antiseptic called Argyrol, and then fortuitously selling his company at a profit in July 1929, a few months before the stock market crash. Thereafter he dedicated his energies to purchasing works of art – his collection eventually included some of the best works of Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso and Modigliani, as well as African-American art – and setting up the Barnes Foundation.

'Bible and English Literature, The', lecture given at Princeton,
see also 'Bible as Scripture and as Literature, The'
Cézanne, Paul, Barnes Foundation paintings delight,
Christianity, and human isolation, and modern economics, Ada on TSE's personal piety, scheme for 'Pro Fide' bookshop, among the Eliot family, and beauty, its sects like different clubs, Anglo-Catholicism, TSE's conversion to, which he dates to Eccleston Square meeting, Anglican Missal sought for EH, but unfortunately out of print, discussed at Boston Theological School, and the Petrine Claims, apostolic succession, over Roman Catholicism, as refuge from VHE, and the Reformation, asceticism, discipline, rigour, the necessity for, and TSE's daily exhortation, making and breaking habits, mastering emotions and passions, as salubrious, only remedy for a prurient culture, confession and communion, more possible during Harvard year, the case for unattainable ideals, in time of war, gets TSE up before 7 o'clock, hereditary with TSE, belief, and good poetry, faced with Second World War, and conversion, antidote to TSE's skepticism, Christendom, TSE ponders the decline of, TSE on his prominence within, its ruin, the Church Visible and Invisible, and TSE's war work, the Malabar Church, prospect of total reunion within, confession, helps to objectify sin, more dreaded than dentist, harder in the morning, death and afterlife, the struggle to prepare for, consoles TSE in life, and cremation, Requiem Mass, gives meaning to life, and what makes a desirable burial place, the nature of eternal life, divorce, unrecognised by Anglo-Catholic Church, which TSE regrets, in church law, would separate TSE from Church, evil, TSE's belief in, and moral percipience, guilt, and the New England conscience, hell, TSE's 1910 vision of, and damnation, according to TSE, liturgy, TSE's weekly minimum, Mass of the Pre-sanctified, Requiem Mass versus Mass of Good Friday, and whether to serve at Mass, Imposition of Ashes, at Christmas, High Mass over Mattins, aversion to Low Church Mattins, Roman service in Wayland, Tenebrae, in country parish church, as guest at Kelham, remarkable sermon, over Christmas, Tenebrae and Family Reunion, during Holy Week, Mass of Charles King and Martyr, love, loving one's neighbour, marriage, TSE's need for privacy within, mysticism and transcendence, interpenetration of souls, intimations of life's 'pattern', 'doubleness', arrived at through reconciliation, orthodoxy, only remedy for contemporary culture, and pagans, sets TSE at odds with modernity, necessarily trinitarian, 'Christian' defined, iniquities of liberal theology, and creed, authority, Transubstantiation, TSE disclaims 'self-centredness' in maintaining, politics, the Church and social change, how denomination maps onto, need for working-class priests, church leaders against totalitarianism and Nazism, Christianity versus Fascism and Communism, Papal Encyclical against Nazi Germany, the 'Dividend morality', Presbyterianism, TSE quips on the meanness of, Quakerism, resignation, reconciliation, peace, TSE's love allows for, 'peace that passeth all understanding', the struggle to maintain, following separation from VHE, retreat and solitude, EH at Senexet, the need for, a need increasing with age, and TSE's mother, Roman Catholicism, TSE's counter-factual denomination, Rome, sacraments, Holy Communion, marriage, sainthood, TSE's idea of, the paradoxes of, susceptible of different sins, sins, vices, faults, how to invigilate, the sense of sin, the sinner's condition, bound up with the virtues, as a way to virtue, TSE's self-appraisal, when humility shades into, when unselfishness shades into, among saints, proportionate to spiritual progress, daydreaming, despair, lust, pride, perfection-seeking pride, spiritual progress and direction, TSE's crisis of 1910–11, EH's crisis, versus automatism, TSE's sense of, towards self-knowledge, in EH's case, as personal regeneration, temptation, to action/busyness, the Church Year, Advent, Christmas, dreaded, happily over, TSE rebuked for bah-humbugging, church trumps family during, season of irreligion, thoughts of EH during, unsettling, fatiguing, in wartime, Easter preferred to, Ash Wednesday, Lent, season for meditation and reading, prompts thoughts of EH, Lady Day, Holy Week, its intensity, arduous, preserved from public engagements, exhausting but refreshing, excitingly austere, Easter, better observed than Christmas, missed through illness, Unitarianism, the Eliots' as against EH's, the prospect of spiritual revival within, as personified by TSE's grandfather, regards the Bible as literature, as against Catholicism, divides EH from TSE, and whether Jesus believed himself divine, according to Dr Perkins, in England as against America, over-dependent on preachers' personality, TSE's wish that EH convert from, outside TSE's definition of 'Christian', the issue of communion, baptism, impossibly various, virtues heavenly and capital, bound up with the vices, better reached by way of sin, charity, towards others, in Bubu, TSE's intentness on, delusions of, as against tolerance, chastity, celibacy, beneath humility, TSE lacks vocation for, faith, and doubt, hope, a duty, TSE's struggle for, humility, distinguished from humiliation, comes as relief, greatest of the virtues, propinquitous to humour, not an Eliot virtue, opposed to timidity, danger of pride in, is endless, TSE criticised for overdoing, theatre a lesson in, most difficult of the virtues, possessed by EH, possessed by EH to a fault, TSE compares himself to EH in, the paradox of, distinguished from inferiority, self-discovery teaches, possessed by Dr Perkins, patience, recommended to EH, its foundations, possessed by Uncle John, purity, distinguished from purification, temperance, with alcohol, beneath humility,
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille, particularly beautiful portrait by,
Cret, Paul Philippe,

16.PaulCret, Paul Philippe Philippe Cret (1876–1945), French-born architect, taught design in the Dept of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania for thirty years. Among the projects he headed were the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC; the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia; the master plan for the University of Texas at Austin (including the central tower); the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Philadelphia; and the Duke Ellington Bridge, Washington, DC.

Daumier, Honoré, interests TSE,
de Chirico, Giorgio, Barnes Foundation paintings delight TSE,
Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugène, part of Barnes Foundation collection,
France, TSE's Francophilia shared by Whibley, TSE dreams of travelling in, synonymous, for TSE, with civilisation, the Franco-Italian entente, over Portugal, TSE awarded Légion d’honneur, subsequently elevated from chevalier to officier, TSE describes a typical French reception, Switzerland now favoured over, French cuisine, French culture, Exhibition of French Art 1200–1900, French painting, compared to English culture, French language, tires TSE to speak, TSE hears himself speaking, TSE dreads speaking in public, and TSE's false teeth, French politics, French street protest, England's natural ally, post-Versailles, post-war Anglo-French relations, French theatre, the French, more blunt than Americans, as compared to various other races, Paris, TSE's 1910–11 year in, EH pictured in, its society larger than Boston's, TSE's guide to, Anglo-French society, strikes, TSE dreads visiting, post-war, the Riviera, TSE's guide to, the South, fond 1919 memories of walking in, Limoges in 1910, Bordeaux,
Franklin, Benjamin, 'lecherous old humbug',

12.BenjaminFranklin, Benjamin Franklin (1705–90) – polymathic statesman, diplomat, scientist, writer – one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America – was born in Boston but spent many years from the age of 17 in Philadelphia (where he was a printer and newspaper publisher, and, among many other achievements, set up in 1751 the Academy and College of Philadelphia, which in due course became the University of Philadelphia). TSE dubs him ‘lecherous’ possibly because Franklin at the age of 17 proposed marriage to a 15-year-old girl named Deborah Read. While Franklin was away in England, Read married another man who soon deserted her, and Franklin subsequently established a common-law marriage with her.

Gauguin, Paul, in the Barnes Foundation collection,
Harvard University, rumours of TSE defecting to, TSE's student days at, makes TSE feel inadequate, Annenberg Hall disparaged, its society, English 26 (Modern English Literature), class described, on Shaw and Chesterton, on Hardy, positive feedback on, on Yeats, on modern poetry, on Joyce contra Lawrence, final lecture, compared architecturally to Yale, hockey match, compared to Princeton, produces Murder, TSE's student cooking at, engages MacNeice at TSE's instance, TSE's election to Phi Beta Kappa Society, where TSE's writers' cramp began, Harvard calendar given to TSE, TSE's student bodybuilding regime at, speaking engagement at, poetry reading at, confers honorary degree on TSE, stages Murder at Germanic Museum, Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, produces Murder again, Class Reunion at, which TSE gets out of, possible deposit for Hale letters,
Haverford College, preponderance of Quakers,
Hotson, Mary, ridiculed, not quite an Eliot, a kind of bore,
see also Hotsons, the

6.TSEHotson, Leslie stayed with Leslie andHotson, Mary Mary Hotson at Haverford College, where he lectured on ‘The Development of Shakespearean Criticism’ in Roberts Hall on 24 Mar.

Hotsons, the, compared to Paul More as hosts, described for EH, their heartiness, looking after Georgina Dobrée,
Johnson, Dr Samuel, his cats, TSE reads aloud from the Rambler, TSE's fellow lie-abed, TSE joins club founded by, imbibed for lecture, TSE's projected Lives of the Poets essay, TSE's projected Lives of the Poets book, subject of TSE's Princeton lectures, The Vanity of Human Wishes,
Jones, Rufus,

15.RufusJones, Rufus Jones (1863–1948), Quaker historian and theologian; editor of the Friends’ Review, 1893–1912; taught philosophy and psychology at Haverford College, 1893–1934.

Manet, Édouard, interesting minor works by,
Matisse, Henri, Barnes Foundation paintings delight TSE,
Modigliani, Amedeo, Barnes Foundation paintings among his best,
More, Louis T.,

2.LouisMore, Louis T. T. More (1870–1944), physicist, humanist; critic of the Darwinian theory of evolution; Dean of the Graduate School, University of Cincinnati. His works include Isaac Newton: A Biography (1934).

More, Paul Elmer, greatly preferred to Irving Babbitt, the prospect of Madeira and theology with, TSE's Princeton sojourn with, his importance since Whibley's death, quoted on the virtues, TSE's two days in Oxford with, discusses Anglicanism with TSE, TSE hopes to pay final visit, near death, TSE finishes note on, important older male friend, posthumous work reviewed, his letters returned to executors,

4.PaulMore, Paul Elmer Elmer More (1864–1937), critic, scholar, philosopher: see Biographical Register.

Picasso, Pablo, TSE claims affinity with Stravinsky and, his Barnes Foundation paintings delight,
Princeton University, according to TSE's fantasy, TSE engaged to lecture at, and Ronald Bottrall, TSE on his trip to, its architecture, compared to Harvard and Yale, Alumni Weekly print TSE's More tribute, possible wartime lectures at, and Allen Tate, among American colleges, extends wartime invitation to TSE, invites TSE to conference, Johnson lectures revamped for, confers honorary degree on TSE, and TSE's Institute for Advanced Study position, EH's information on, and Herbert Read, and EH's bequest,
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, his Barnes Foundation paintings delight,
Repplier, Agnes,

17.AgnesRepplier, Agnes Repplier (1855–1950), noted American essayist based in Philadelphia.

Root, Robert Kilburn,

2.RobertRoot, Robert Kilburn Kilburn Root (1877–1950) taught at Princeton from 1905; as Professor of English, 1926–33; Dean of the Faculty, 1933–46. Works include The Poetry of Chaucer (1906).

Schelling, Felix E.,

9.FelixSchelling, Felix E. E. Schelling (1858–1945), John Welsh Centennial Professor of English Literature, University of Pennsylvania. Scholar of Renaissance Studies.

Speight, Francis,

1.FrancisSpeight, Francis Speight (1896–1989), artist, taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, 1925–61; he was Artist in Residence and Professor at East Carolina University.

Stork, Charles Wharton,

13.CharlesStork, Charles Wharton Wharton Stork (1881–1971), poet, playwright, novelist; editor of Contemporary Verse, 1917–25; translator of Scandinavian verse; taught at the University of Philadelphia.

'Study of Shakespeare Criticism, The', tarted up for Haverford, as delivered,
Sweeney Agonistes, TSE's desire to illustrate, copy inscribed to EH, defended as poetry, recited for Signet Society, importance of the drummer, rated TSE's best by More, Hallie Flanagan's Vassar production, and TSE's Vassar visit, its characters compared to Auden's, new direction in drama, discussed with Rupert Doone, Group Theatre production, JDH on Doone's production, TSE on Doone's production, Rupert Doone explains his production, reviewed by Desmond MacCarthy, and Yeats's Mercury Theatre season, referred to as 'dance play', revival compared to Group Theatre premiere, EH taken to revival, EH's opinion on, its St. John of the Cross epigraph, TSE reflects on,
Thorps, the, EH brings to TSE's notice, to tea chez Eliot, take flat in Lincoln's Inn, attend TSE's Poetry Bookshop reading, VHE invites to party, host the Eliots to tea, grow on TSE, host the Eliots for claret, cheesecake and Ombre, invite VHE to supper, compared to the Noyeses, take offence where none intended, called on in Princeton, appear in Campden, worth discussing American politics with, TSE imagines living with, TSE against leaving letters to, likeness to the Webbs, EH on, differentiated, take in worthy Chaplin exhibition, unrelaxing hosts, advise EH over terms of Princeton bequest, and EH's 'recording', pushing EH to write autobiography,
Van Gogh, Vincent, his Barnes Foundation paintings,
Wicks, Robert Russell,

3.RobertWicks, Robert Russell Russell Wicks (1882–1963), Dean of the Chapel, Princeton University, 1928–47.

Yale University, and 'English Poets as Letter Writers', more like Oxford than Harvard, compared to Princeton, negotiates amateur production of Murder, exhibits first editions of TSE, superior cadre of university, and George P. Baker's theatre-group, Herbert Read to lecture at, poetry reading at, confers degree on TSE, potential place of deposit for correspondence,