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UnlessHale, Emilyas director ('producer');v9Comus;a4 your plans have been altered, ‘Comus’ is over and Claremont behind you, and you are on the train pointing towards Chicago and Boston. And I hope, feeling no relapse after the relaxation of the strain and fatigue under which you have been tolling, but, unless the train is very hot and crowded, enjoying the beginning of a long holiday. NotHale, Emilyreturns to Boston before embarking for England;d2 that Boston will be all holiday, I know; for the most part that will be tiring too; andPerkinses, thetake house at Chipping Camden;e5 IEnglandChipping Campden, Gloucestershire;e1Perkinses take house at;a1 hope that the announcement, which must have reached you just before leaving, of a house at Chipping Camden [sc. Campden] will precipitate your arrival here. I do not know Chipping Camden, but gather that it is very lovely, and that Mrs. Perkins is pleased with both house and garden. If you fit in everything you have to do and have the luck to find a passage, ittravels, trips and plansEH's 1934–5 year in Europe;b4the Perkinses due in Chipping Camden;a4 will be good if you arrived before they take up residence on the 15th; but that is hardly to be expected. You will go straight there, I suppose – so that I shall have no glimpse of you, and shall be unable to judge for myself of your health, for an indefinite period? Or will you stop in London on the way, I wonder. I wish that Chipping Camden were in a neighbourhood which I had excuses for visiting, but alas I have no friends thereabouts. And I do hope that you will not find a difficult job of housekeeping before you; but I trust that Mrs. Perkins will want to look after that herself.
I think I shall feel rather diffident with you at first. I don’t want this remark to make you feel self-conscious or ill at ease with me – only because, partly through hearing from you so rarely during the past year; and knowing, if I may say so, that I have passed through various phases in your mind in that time, I must be aware also that I do not know just what the present phase is. But I will, I assure you, adapt myself humbly to any situation.
I hardly expect to hear from you again until you arrive, and it seems a long time since I have heard from you; and there does not seem very much to say at the moment. I have passed another uneventful week, and return regretfully to town next Thursday. ThereEliot, Vivien (TSE's first wife, née Haigh-Wood)separation from;f1complicated by VHE renewing lease on flat;c4 is a certain anxiety at present. I hear from my lawyer who hears from hers, that68 Clarence Gate Gardens, LondonVHE leases for herself;a4 V. has taken on a new lease of the same flat in her own name. This relieves me of any financial responsibility towards the landlord, and of [the] unpleasant task of getting her out by legal methods. On the other hand, I know that she is very foolish to take a flat beyond her present means, and if she lives accordingly she will get into bankruptcy, and if she economises accordingly she will have to live very poorly. And it complicates the problem of getting my own possessions away from the flat: possibly I may have to take legal proceedings for those.
I am impatient until you arrive in England.