[No surviving envelope]

T. S.Eliot
EmilyHale
TS
B-11 Eliot House
11 April 1933
My dear Lady

And it is six days since I have written to you; but I have not had a moment for writing these six days <Notgames, diversionssolitaire patience;a1 quite true: there are moments when I just must play solitaire patience>; have not even freedom of mind enough to put down any bedtime notes (only once, but I am not sure whether I shall send it or not). Brunswick'Edward Lear and Modern Poetry';a3 wasAmericaBrunswick, Maine;d2TSE on visiting;a2 successful, I believe; but very tiring.1 There were so many people that a queer accident occurred. I arrived on Thursday just in time to compose myself for lunch. Lunch of about eight people, then dictated an abstract of my talk (Edward Lear revised) to a secretary who bore a faint resemblance to you, but only at certain angles which did not happen often enough, thenBowdoin College, Brunswick, MaineTSE on his visit to;a3 was taken by a young don to look over the college, the art museum and the chapel; the chapel a monstrosity; theFeke, Robertredeems Bowdoin College Museum of Art;a1 art museum saved by five superb portraits by an 18th century artist named Feke, of whom I never heard before, but who was a genius (an American, the sitters were members of the Bowdoin family).2 ThenWilder, Philip Sawyer;a1 to tea at a Professor Wilder’s,3 more people, and the secretary (she is his secretary). ThenSills, Kenneth C. M.;a1 backSills, Edith Lansing Koon;a1 again to the Sills’s4 just in time to dress for dinner. Descended to find a swarm of folk already there; then was approached by a lady who I thought to be the Wild Woman of Providence, only this time obviously perfectly sober, and not made up. I turned green, I expect; she shook hands and observed that we had met before; but I really had the jitters, I believe they are called here, and spent the next ten minutes dodging her, while more folk arrived. While I was still wondering whether she was the Wild Woman of Providence or not, we went in to dinner; at least 16 souls if not more, and I found myself out on her right. By this time I had decided she was not the Wild Woman, so was more collected; but looked round to identify the hostess, and could not. It was not till half way through dinner that I realised that the mystery lady was my hostess, namely Mrs. President Sills; and that we had indeed met before, in fact at lunch. I was not in a position to explain, but tried to make up by being extra pleasant. (MyEliot HouseTSE's cello-playing neighbour;b6 neighbour is tuning his cello this evening, he never plays it, but seems to tune it once a month). Itsmokingand TSE's definition of 'civilised';a4 is a civilised house: I mean that I had a private bathroom, an armchair, ashtrays, matches & cigarettes, and detective stories in my bedroom. After that lectured to a large audience, standingLongfellow, Henry WadsworthTSE lectures before bust of;a1 in front of a Bust of Longfellow, andHawthorne, NathanielTSE flanked by portrait of;a1 with a Portrait of Hawthorne (what a great writer he is!) on my right. OnHale, Agnes (née Burke);a1 my right at dinner was Mrs. Robert Hale; MrHale, Robert;a1. Robert Hale was also present,5 but I had no opportunity to talk to him, and he did not seem to recognise me, and in fact that being so I rather preferred to remain incognito, as there was no occasion to remark that I had met him before. After the lecture returned and talked to the Sills’s till ten thirty, and drank ginger ale and ate cake; thenreading (TSE's)The Scarab Murder Case;c2 read (in my bedroom) the Scarab Murder Case6 andreading (TSE's)translation of Dante;c3 parts of a translation of Dante by the father in law of Professor Chase who was a fellow pupil with me under Irving Babbitt.7 The next morning had a ‘conference’ alone with twentyfive undergraduates in a sort of comfortable smoking room; they were sweet boys, and plied me with questions for two hours and made me read poetry; afterRice, Elmersucceeds TSE as Norton Professor;a1 that back to lunch with another large party in honour of the man who was to lecture that night as my successor, Mr. Elmer Rice the dramatist: <not very interesting>.8 Arrived at Boston completely exhausted by so many people at 7:30 Friday evening. On Saturday tried to pull myself together; and wrote part of my talk for yesterday; thenNoyes, Penelope Barkerhosts Eleanor, TSE and most boring woman ever;c4 to dinner with Eleanor at Penelope’s, with the most boring Woman I have Ever Met and her husband. It wasn’t Penelopes fault; these people were etchers and friends of her cousins the Arnes (if that is the name) are were [sic] here for something or other and she asked them out of loyalty to her cousins. The presence of Eleanor did not cheer me up; I am always content with the Noyes’s alone, but I [words – possibly 'think she' – obscured by staining] found the strange woman just as exasperating as I did. I was so tired on Sunday that I did not get to church till the 11 o’clock (I had gone on Saturday at 7:30); thenSt. Botolph Club, Boston;a3 looked at the papers at the St. Botolph till nearly 1:30 asBullard, Ellen Twistleton;a1 I was to lunch with Miss Ellen Bullard at that time. Miss Bullard is a cousin of the Charles Eliots and the Nortons; in fact, appears to be the same relation to me that the former are (I am more nearly related to the Nortons than the Eliots).9 She is very agreeable, I imagine she goes to King’s Chapel, at any rate her sister does – when she is here – for her sister is wife to the Ex-Chancellor of the Diocese of Rochester, andUnderhill, Revd Francis, Bishop of Bath and Wells;b5 lives next door to Francis Underhill now! I found the sister and the husband very agreeable too, talked about Underhill and the Dean of Arches: I shall almost certainly meet them again during the summer, as I shall go down to Rochester to visit Underhill. These cross-references are odd. ToiledThomas, Thomas HeadTSE on dinner with;a4 at the typewriter with what was left of the afternoon, and dined or supped with Tom Thomas in Cambridge, his wife and two youngish British people, the husband apparently teaches art somewhere, they bothMoore, Georgeinsupportable;a1 come from the Slade School and knew Tonks and George Moore. (I never could abide George Moore).10 So tired after all that, that I slept the Monday morning until eleven, andChristianityconfession;b3harder in the morning;a3 missed a confession appointment for 9:30;11 but it is difficult to make confessions so early in the day anyway. Then'Two Masters' (afterwards 'The Modern Dilemma')reprised and revised;a2 revised my talk for the Unitarians. AtAdams, James Luther;a1 four was fetched by a minister from Salem named Adams;12 taken to the abode of the Rev Mr. Arnold in Jamaica Plain, where were assembled about 20 Unitarian ministers of all ages, includingEliot, Revd Christopher Rhodes (TSE's uncle)in audience for 'Two Masters';a5 Uncle Christopher (I knew that your uncle could not come, but he is a member). They seemed sharp as mustard, compared to the Episcopals; I only regretted that their questions had little bearing on the paper I read them, but mostly on the questions: why was I not a Papist? IChristianityAnglo-Catholicism;a8and the Petrine Claims;a6 dare sayChristianityAnglo-Catholicism;a8apostolic succession;a7 that they were left unsatisfied with my replies about the Petrine Claims and the apostolic succession;13 but it is extremely difficult to make one’s position intelligible to anyone but an Anglican in England. After that, I had to sup hurriedly, make my postponed Lenten confession, and then prepare my lecture on Modern Poetry for this morning. All this is really an elaborate explanation of why I have not written for six days. ThisEliot, Marion Cushing (TSE's sister);c2 afternoon I have relaxed: thatClements, theat the movies with TSE;a4Clement, JamesClements, theClement, MargotClements, the is to say, I went to tea with Marian, andClair, RenéLe Million;a2 after an early supper went to a kinema with the Clements to see a René Clair film, ‘Le Million’, which is quite excellent:14 suchFranceFrench culture;b2compared to English culture;a3 things make one feel uncomfortably that if they had any equivalent to Derby Day, Ascot, Henley, and the Eton & Harrow Match, the French might almost excel the Anglo-Saxon culture. O yes, this afternoon I wrote 14 letters, but what is that among so many?

I shall be thankful when there are no events, and I have nothing whatever to write about: it is not until then that you will realise my true genius in letter writing. HavingYale Universityand 'English Poets as Letter Writers';a2 delivered at Yale a Lecture on the subject I know all about it. IHinkley, Susan Heywood (TSE's aunt, née Stearns)TSE's occasional poem for;b2 enclose a copy of a poem written to order for Aunt Susie, which, considering the circumstances, I think pretty good: so you need not bother to comment on it.15 Je te prie de prier pour l’âme de ton fidèle serviteur et Camelot du Roi (Madame la Princesse) … et l’assurance de ma consideration parfaîte …16

Tom

AfterChristianityUnitarianism;d9and whether Jesus believed himself divine;a7 they had done questioning me they asked me if I would like to ask any questions. I only asked one. I referred to some recent scholarship which supported very strongly the authenticity of the Gospel of John, and then asked them whether they would consider it damaging to Unitarianism if it were certain that Jesus believed in his own divinity. The interesting thing was to find no unanimity at all: some were sure that he didn’t so believe, others that it didn’t matter etc. Had there been time I should have gone on to another question: if Jesus believed in his own divinity and was mistaken, was he not in so far inferior to the Buddha, who had no delusions about himself ?

1.Loucks, ‘The Exile’s Return’, 27: ‘April 6–7. With Theodore Dreiser and others, TSE participated in the Institute of Modern Literature at Bowdoin, lecturing on “The Poetry of Edward Lear” and joining in a round table conference (“Bowdoin College Program”).’

2.RobertFeke, Robert Feke (ca. 1705–ca. 1752), American artist; born on Long Island, New York. The Bowdoin College Museum of Art owns five portraits of the Bowdoin family.

3.ProfessorWilder, Philip Sawyer Philip Sawyer Wilder, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.

4.KennethSills, Kenneth C. M. C. M. Sills (1879–54), Winkley Professor of Latin Language and Literature, 1907–46; President of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 1918–52. HisSills, Edith Lansing Koon wife was Edith Lansing Koon Sills (1888–1978), a graduate of Wellesley College and sometime high school teacher.

5.RobertHale, Robert Hale (1889–1976) graduated in law as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he met TSE. After some years as an attorney, he served in the Maine State Legislature, and was a U.S. Representative from Maine, 1943–58. HisHale, Agnes (née Burke) wife was Agnes Burke.

6.S. S. Van Dine, The Scarab Murder Case (1929).

7.Dante: The Divine Comedy, trans. Henry Johnson (Yale University Press, 1916).

8.ElmerRice, Elmer Rice, born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein (1892–1967), playwright, socialist, screenwriter, enjoyed Broadway success with plays including On Trial (1914), The Adding Machine (1923) and Street Scene (1929; Pulitzer Prize for Drama). He was the first director of the New York office of the Federal Theater Project. See too The Living Theatre (1960); Minority Report (autobiography, 1964).

9.EllenBullard, Ellen Twistleton Twistleton Bullard (1865–1959) lived on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. W. S. Bullard (d. 1897) had married Charles Eliot Norton’s eldest sister.

10.George Moore (1852–1933), Irish novelist, art critic, dramatist and memoirist.

11.Spence Burton, SSJE, had arranged to hear TSE’s confession on Mon., 10 Apr., at St Francis’ House.

12.JamesAdams, James Luther Luther Adams (1901–94), influential theologian and scholar, was minister of the Second Church, Unitarian, in Salem, Massachusetts, 1927–34. After a number of years with the faculty of the Unitarian and Universalist Meanville/Lombard Theological School, Chicago, he was appointed Professor of Christian Ethics at Harvard Divinity School, 1956–68.

13.The Petrine Claims depend on the Catholic doctrine that the Pope, as lineal successor to St Peter, first Bishop of Rome, is supreme head of the universal Church, with priority over all other bishops of the Church: see Matthew 16: 18–19: ‘And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.’

14.Le Million (1929): musical comedy dir. René Clair.

15.Presumably ‘The Jim Jum Bears’, which opens:

The Jim Jum Bears are at their Tricks,
The Jim Jum Bears have been at it again;

They’ve broken a clock and scattered the bricks

And one went right through a window pane.—(Poems I, 302–3)

Ricks and McCue note, in Poems II, 609: ‘on notepaper of Eliot House, Cambridge, autographed, and with a note by Eleanor Hinkley: “Written at request of my grandmother, Susan Hinkley (who was cousin Tom’s aunt), for my three sons … for her to put in a picture book she was making for her great-grandsons, for Christmas, I believe in 1937.”’

16.‘Please pray for the soul of your faithful servant and Camelot du Roi (Madame Princess) … and the assurance of my perfect consideration …’

Adams, James Luther,

12.JamesAdams, James Luther Luther Adams (1901–94), influential theologian and scholar, was minister of the Second Church, Unitarian, in Salem, Massachusetts, 1927–34. After a number of years with the faculty of the Unitarian and Universalist Meanville/Lombard Theological School, Chicago, he was appointed Professor of Christian Ethics at Harvard Divinity School, 1956–68.

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
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, TSE on his visit to,
Bullard, Ellen Twistleton,

9.EllenBullard, Ellen Twistleton Twistleton Bullard (1865–1959) lived on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. W. S. Bullard (d. 1897) had married Charles Eliot Norton’s eldest sister.

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,
Clair, René, À Nous la liberté, Le Million,
Clements, the, their marriage, take TSE to hockey match, at the movies with TSE, send TSE food, in Geneva,
'Edward Lear and Modern Poetry', delivered at Bowdoin, repeated gratis at Wellesley,
Eliot House, TSE offered suite in, possesses telephone, TSE offered more peaceful suite in, oppressively luxurious compared to Oxbridge, TSE moved to B-11, TSE takes up residence in, its library, conspicuous lack of teapots, TSE suffers company over breakfast, TSE's compeers at, TSE's tea-parties in, obscene limericks over dinner at, TSE reads poetry to, TSE's cello-playing neighbour, repository for Eliotana, its chaotic mealtimes, noisy,
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].)

Feke, Robert, redeems Bowdoin College Museum of Art,

2.RobertFeke, Robert Feke (ca. 1705–ca. 1752), American artist; born on Long Island, New York. The Bowdoin College Museum of Art owns five portraits of the Bowdoin family.

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,
games, diversions, solitaire patience, shuffleboard, crossword puzzles, cricket and swimming at Pike's Farm, light reading, 'Go' (Wei-Ki), 'Peabody' card-game,
Hale, Agnes (née Burke),

5.RobertHale, Robert Hale (1889–1976) graduated in law as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he met TSE. After some years as an attorney, he served in the Maine State Legislature, and was a U.S. Representative from Maine, 1943–58. HisHale, Agnes (née Burke) wife was Agnes Burke.

Hale, Robert,

5.RobertHale, Robert Hale (1889–1976) graduated in law as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he met TSE. After some years as an attorney, he served in the Maine State Legislature, and was a U.S. Representative from Maine, 1943–58. HisHale, Agnes (née Burke) wife was Agnes Burke.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, TSE flanked by portrait of,
Hinkley, Susan Heywood (TSE's aunt, née Stearns), reports on I. A. Richards, writes to TSE about Hugh Walpole, delighted at Dear Jane's acceptance, retails TSE with ex-son-in-law's adulteries, possibly more perceptive than Eleanor, Eleanor's success might improve, at the second Norton lecture, TSE's occasional poem for, sympathises with TSE over separation, shares family drama with TSE, as correspondent, impediment to intimacy with Eleanor, eventually repelled Ada, reports daughter's reaction to Murder, writes innocently boastful letter, indifferent to war, writes in daughter's stead, in Ada's memory, overbearing mother, 'wambling', dependent on Eleanor,
see also Hinkleys, the
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, TSE lectures before bust of,
Moore, George, insupportable,
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.

reading (TSE's), The Road Back, Hay Fever, sermons of Revd Dr William E. Channing, Racine's Bérénice, in general, the Bible, The Witch of Edmonton again, letters of other authors, a life of Mohammed, a life of Calvin, R. S. Wilson's life of Marcion the Heretic, Living My Life, French detective stories, French novels, recent books on economics and finance, the Epistles of St. Paul, The Lady of the Lake, Letters of Charles Eliot Norton, never deeply or widely enough, The Scarab Murder Case, translation of Dante, detective stories, Letters of Mrs Gaskell and Charles Eliot Norton, second-rate detective story, disinterestedly, for leisure, Vision of God, Faith of a Moralist, Newman's sermons, Birds of the Countryside, Modern Reader's Bible, The Face of Death, René Bazin's Charles de Foucauld, Charles Petrie's Monarchy, Thurber's My Life and Hard Times, Oliver's Endless Adventure (vol. 3), Madame Sorel's memoirs, book on French policing, detective story for committee, The League of Frightened Men, The Garden Murder Case, The Luck of the Bodkins, The House in Paris, The Life of Charles Gore, Middleton Murry's Shakespeare, Dr Goebbels for book committee, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, MS of German gunman in Chicago, Shakespeare, to replenish, Middlemarch, the Gospel, City of God, St. John of the Cross, psalm or two a day, Ibsen, Twenty Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre, poems submitted to Criterion, My Name is Million, psalms, especially Psalm 130, Edmund Burke, Lives of the Poets, Virgil,
Rice, Elmer, succeeds TSE as Norton Professor, produces Federal Theatre Murder, resigns from production,

8.ElmerRice, Elmer Rice, born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein (1892–1967), playwright, socialist, screenwriter, enjoyed Broadway success with plays including On Trial (1914), The Adding Machine (1923) and Street Scene (1929; Pulitzer Prize for Drama). He was the first director of the New York office of the Federal Theater Project. See too The Living Theatre (1960); Minority Report (autobiography, 1964).

St. Botolph Club, Boston, TSE a temporary member, dreaded poets' dinner at,
Sills, Edith Lansing Koon,

4.KennethSills, Kenneth C. M. C. M. Sills (1879–54), Winkley Professor of Latin Language and Literature, 1907–46; President of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 1918–52. HisSills, Edith Lansing Koon wife was Edith Lansing Koon Sills (1888–1978), a graduate of Wellesley College and sometime high school teacher.

Sills, Kenneth C. M.,

4.KennethSills, Kenneth C. M. C. M. Sills (1879–54), Winkley Professor of Latin Language and Literature, 1907–46; President of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 1918–52. HisSills, Edith Lansing Koon wife was Edith Lansing Koon Sills (1888–1978), a graduate of Wellesley College and sometime high school teacher.

smoking, like a schoolboy, with Jim Clement, despite Mt Holyoke rules, and TSE's definition of 'civilised', a pipe again, Chesterfields, tobacconist to Dr Perkins, cigarettes versus gaspers, birthday cigarettes, JDH's Christmas cigars, bedside cigarettes, French cigarettes versus Ringer's Mild Shag, as practised by Virginia Woolf, pipes from the Tandys, and drinking, French cigarettes, TSE forced to halve intake, against doctor's orders, TSE gives up,
Thomas, Thomas Head, 20 years on from TSE's year in Paris, TSE on dinner with, drinks beer with TSE,
'Two Masters' (afterwards 'The Modern Dilemma'), delivered to Unitarian ministers, reprised and revised,
Underhill, Revd Francis, Bishop of Bath and Wells, receives TSE's confession of love for EH, consulted on 'Thoughts After Lambeth', suggests separation from VHE is TSE's duty, confession with, introduces TSE to his cousin Evelyn, TSE's only confidant as to EH, becomes Dean of Rochester, writes to TSE about separation, against TSE shirking Oxford Movement Centenary, and TSE's 1933 return, invites TSE to school prize-day, at King's School prize-day, consulted on question of divorce, supportive over TSE's separation, his books commended to EH, visited in Rochester, and wife as TSE's Rochester hosts, and Miss O'Donovan, becomes Bishop of Bath and Wells, his consecration attended, perhaps, as Bishop, above receiving TSE's confession, takes Evelyn Underhill's funeral, visited in Wells, adjudicates on limit to godchildren, hosts Gordon George for week, dies,

2.Revd Francis UnderhillUnderhill, Revd Francis, Bishop of Bath and Wells, DD (1878–1943), TSE’s spiritual counsellor: see Biographical Register.

Wilder, Philip Sawyer,

3.ProfessorWilder, Philip Sawyer Philip Sawyer Wilder, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.

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,