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Randolph, New Hampshire
Yourtravels, trips and plansTSE's 1932–3 year in America;a7the Eliot family's Randolph holiday;b6 letterAmericaRandolph, New Hampshire;g91933 Eliot family holiday in;a1 of June 5 reached me here. ThatSheffield, Alfred Dwight ('Shef' or 'Sheff');a2 is to say, I motored up from New York, but had left instructions with Sheff to pick up (I can’t do anything properly with this my brother’s typewriter) all letters and telegrams, and we met here. HenryEliots, the Henryget on TSE's nerves;a4Eliot, Henry Ware, Jnr (TSE's brother)
What I figure is to get back to Cambridge Friday night the 16th, goMilton Academy, BostonTSE's Commencement Address for;a2 to Milton on Saturday morning, lunch there after the ceremonies, tryLambs, the;a2 to call on the Lambs in the afternoon, dinePerkinses, the;d2 with the Perkins’s on Saturday, andClement, JamesWayland weekends with;a3 go to Jim’s overnight on Sunday. MondayPost, Chandler;a2 I must dine with Chandler Post3 to discuss the Encyclopaedia, TuesdayRand, Edward Kennard;a3 with Kennard Rand, WednesdaySheffield, Ada Eliot (TSE's sister)hosts TSE for last time;c6 I hope at Ada’s, and entrain for Montreal on Thursday morning. Now I should like to telephone to you (if you don’t mind) on Saturday night the 17th. Would 9 p.m. your time be convenient? If not, please send a short wire just saying ‘Monday instead’ or if you will ‘don’t telephone’ but I should not like that at all. I don’t know whether you have ‘daylight saving time’ or not in California, but to be on the safe side I will telephone at 1 p.m. which if you have not daylight saving time will be 10.p.m. for you instead of 9. If Saturday is allright and you don’t mind, don’t wire.
YouHale, Emilybirthdays, presents and love-tokens;w2two rings bought for EH;a7 have been more than kind about the rings – incidentally letting slip one alarming fact about the neuritis – I shall ask Mrs. Perkins to look into that, and I am happy to think that you have worn the better one – andHale, Emilyappearance and characteristics;v7'new goldy dress';c3 that you have a new goldy dress; but I did want to get a goodsized blue stone, which I thought would match you better, and some day I will.
ICailliet, Dr EmileTSE to inscribe poem for;a1 think I did send Caillet [sc. Cailliet] an Ariel Poem – I meant to – however, I will send him something else when I get back.
TheColumbia Universityconfers degree on TSE;a1 Columbia exercises went off very well – IButler, Nicholas Murray;a1 was impressed by President Butler, who does these things well.4 MondayPhelps, William Lyon;a3 night a grand dinner at his house, mostly Trustees and degree recipients, ofYale University;a5 whom I knew only Wm. Lyon Phelps at Yale.5 TalkedStamp, Josiah;a1 to Sir Josiah Stamp, the economist and railway magnate, who seems intelligent.6 Next day lunch with the Alumni Association – speeches, but not by me – then slept for an hour before the ceremony which took place in the open air in blazing sun before an audience of 20,000. Butler made nice speeches and I have a silk blue and white and black hood and a diploma to show for it, but I do not like to be called Doctor. IKing, Stanley;a1 was the youngest doctor anyway, unless President King of Amherst7 is younger. OCardozo, Benjamin N.specially impresses TSE;a1 and at the lunch I had a few words with Judge Cardozo of the Supreme Court who impressed me more than anyone I met – very fine head, Portuguese Jew of good family.8
I don’t feel up to anything better than a news letter to-day, but I shall write at least once more while here. I hope you [do] not think I spend all my time having my ugly mug photographed – but I had to sit for the Class Album at Bachrach’s – so I had one struck for you – because it was most unlike any you have and I think less fatuous; but you may burn it. I am taking snap shots here. If I get used to this typewriter I may be able to express something more than news items on it; but after the 14th I shan’t know where to write. Yes I knew that there was something on my mind; IHale, EmilyTSE fears accident befalling;b5 particularly and expressly hope you will not try to DRIVE up to Seattle EVEN with a companion, and alone would be Madness. If you have a companion you may drive to S. Francisco and put the car aboard a boat; otherwise I hope you will store the car at Claremont or anyway go to Seattle by train or boat. PLEASE ANSWER THIS.
1.DrEliot, Dr Martha May (TSE's cousin) Martha May Eliot (1891–1978), pediatrician: see Biographical Register.
2.DrDunham, Dr Ethel Collins Ethel Collins Dunham (1883–1969) – Martha Eliot’s life partner (they met at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) – specialised in the welfare of newborn and premature babies; from 1927, Associate Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Medicine. In 1935 she was to be appointed Head of Child Development at the Children’s Bureau, where she pursued numerous initiatives. In 1949–51 she worked on the problem of premature birth at the World Health Organization in Geneva. In 1957 she was the first woman to receive the John Howland Award of the American Pediatric Society: Martha May Eliot received the award in 1967.
3.Chandler Post (1881–1959), Professor of Greek and Fine Arts, Harvard, 1922–34; Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, 1934–50. Works include A History of European and American Sculpture (1921) and A History of Spanish Painting (12 vols, 1930–47).
4.TSEColumbia Universityconfers degree on TSE;a1 was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at the 179th Commencement Exercise at Columbia University, New York, 6 June. NicholasButler, Nicholas Murray Murray Butler (1862–1947), philosopher, was President of Columbia University, 1901–45; Nobel Peace laureate, 1931.
5.William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943), scholar and critic specialising in the novel, and well-regarded journalist and broadcaster, taught English at Yale until retirement in 1933.
6.JosiahStamp, Josiah Stamp (1880–1941), civil servant, industrialist, economist; author of The Christian Ethic as an Economic Factor (1926) and Christianity and Economics (1939).
7.StanleyKing, Stanley King (1883–1951), eleventh President of Amherst College, Mass., 1932–46.
8.BenjaminCardozo, Benjamin N. N. Cardozo (1870–1938), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, was appointed (by Pres. Herbert Hoover) Judge of the Supreme Court, 1932–8. Both of his maternal grandparents were Western Sephardim of the Portuguese Jewish Community of New York.
4.TSEColumbia Universityconfers degree on TSE;a1 was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at the 179th Commencement Exercise at Columbia University, New York, 6 June. NicholasButler, Nicholas Murray Murray Butler (1862–1947), philosopher, was President of Columbia University, 1901–45; Nobel Peace laureate, 1931.
4.DrCailliet, Dr Emile Emile Cailliet (1894–1981), Professor of French Literature and Civilisation, Scripps College and Claremont Graduate School, 1931–41 – ‘dear Mons. Caillet [sic],’ as EH called him (letter to Ruth George, 6 Dec. 1935; Scripps).
8.BenjaminCardozo, Benjamin N. N. Cardozo (1870–1938), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, was appointed (by Pres. Herbert Hoover) Judge of the Supreme Court, 1932–8. Both of his maternal grandparents were Western Sephardim of the Portuguese Jewish Community of New York.
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.
2.DrDunham, Dr Ethel Collins Ethel Collins Dunham (1883–1969) – Martha Eliot’s life partner (they met at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) – specialised in the welfare of newborn and premature babies; from 1927, Associate Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Medicine. In 1935 she was to be appointed Head of Child Development at the Children’s Bureau, where she pursued numerous initiatives. In 1949–51 she worked on the problem of premature birth at the World Health Organization in Geneva. In 1957 she was the first woman to receive the John Howland Award of the American Pediatric Society: Martha May Eliot received the award in 1967.
1.DrEliot, Dr Martha May (TSE's cousin) Martha May Eliot (1891–1978), pediatrician: see Biographical Register.
7.StanleyKing, Stanley King (1883–1951), eleventh President of Amherst College, Mass., 1932–46.
5.AiméeLamb, Aimée LambLambs, theLamb, Aimée
2.WilliamPhelps, William Lyon Lyon Phelps (1865–1943) taught at Yale for 41 years, becoming Lampson Professor of English Literature in 1901. A compelling, popular lecturer, he was the first to teach a course on the modern novel – which proved controversial at the start. Works include Essays on the Modern Novel (1910) and The Advance of the English Novel (1916). Phelps noted, in Autobiography with Letters (New York, 1939), of hisPhelps, William Lyonon lunch with TSE;a2n lunch with TSE on 23 Feb.: ‘We talked a good deal about Paul Elmer More, whom we both admired. Mr Eliot gives one the same impression in conversation that one receives in reading him – intense sincerity.’
2.ChandlerPost, Chandler Post (1881–1959), Professor of Greek and Fine Arts, Harvard, 1922–34; Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, 1934–50. Works include A History of European and American Sculpture (1921) and A History of Spanish Painting (12 vols, 1930–47).
2.E. KennardRand, Edward Kennard Rand (1871–1945), classicist and medievalist, taught at Harvard from 1901, becoming Pope Professor of Latin, 1931–42. Founded the Medieval Academy of America, 1925, and edited the journal Speculum. Author of Ovid and His Influence (1925); Studies in the Script of Tours (2 vols, 1929–34); The Building of Eternal Rome (Lowell Lectures, 1943). TSE to Gladys H. McCafferty, 19 June 1958: ‘Ken Rand was one of my teachers at Harvard for whom I have the warmest personal affection …’
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.
8.AlfredSheffield, Alfred Dwight ('Shef' or 'Sheff') Dwight Sheffield (1871–1961) – ‘Shef’ or ‘Sheff’ – husband of TSE’s eldest sister, taught English at University School, Cleveland, Ohio, and was an English instructor, later Professor, of Group Work at Wellesley College. His publications include Lectures on the Harvard Classics: Confucianism (1909) and Grammar and Thinking: a study of the working conceptions in syntax (1912).
6.JosiahStamp, Josiah Stamp (1880–1941), civil servant, industrialist, economist; author of The Christian Ethic as an Economic Factor (1926) and Christianity and Economics (1939).