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You have been in my mind all over the weekend – I don’t mean literally that you can ever be in my mind more at one time than another, you are always in my mind, but – IHale, Emilyreturns to London;d5 was thinking of you alone on Monday night and coming back alone – at least I hope you got back last night – and that you had a pleasant time – and that Jeanie was not depressed at being left alone in strange surroundings. ICaetani, Marguerite (née Chapin);a7 don’t for a moment suppose that you had time to see Marguerite – so I enclose a letter received from her after you left – you see you will have to meet her eventually. I have replied saying that meanwhile it would be a great favour to me if she would ask Miss Mc.Pherrin [sic] to come to see her. By the way, her name was Chapin, and they come from Springfield Mass.
I had a foolish hope that I might see you this week; but somehow I should never dare just present myself at the hotel, however near – it is really only a few steps in a perfectly straight line. So I should be very grateful if you would let me hear from you by Monday. Also'Literature and the Modern World'delivered in Leeds;a1 that I have to goEnglandLeeds, Yorkshire;g5TSE lectures in;a1 to Leeds tomorrow to lecture;1 IMorleys, the;d1 return Friday and go down to Lingfield to stay with the Morleys till Monday morning. I should have loved to go there any previous weekend – but last weekend I had to stay at home to finish my Leeds lecture – and I have to put off this visit to Lingfield twice; IEnglandChichester, West Sussex;d9EH celebrates birthday in;a2 haven’t been there since July; andtravels, trips and plansEH's 1934–5 year in Europe;b4weekend in Sussex for EH's birthday;b8 the following weekend I WANT to go to Chichester IF I am really invited to the Birthday. And I hope in that case that it will not cause any misunderstanding if I say that I Naturally want to be my own guest at the hotel in Chichester. BeforeBell, George, Bishop of Chichester (earlier Dean of Canterbury)the Perkinses given introduction to;a8 I leave in the morning I will write to the Bishop and also write those fresh introductions & post them to your aunt. AndHale, Emilybirthdays, presents and love-tokens;w2TSE consults EH over potential present;b1 I really must ask you to let me know, for instance, whether you like opals (which appear to be your birth stone) or what stone you prefer to have, and if there is anything else in the way of jewellery you prefer to a ring: otherwise you may get what you don’t want, and we shall both be dissatisfied. Dont say anything about Woolworth’s, in view of what has happened before: IMorrell, Lady Ottolinegives TSE vintage jewellery tips;d7 have got the names of shops that Ottoline patronises for old jewellery. Please let me know – if you have anything to say – on Monday.
I shall be a Prey to anxiety until I hear of your safe return.
IWinckworth, Peter;a1 have been very busy – last night I had to dine with the Winckworth family2 and take the chair at a meeting of the Seven Years Association – a society of young church people.3 I think I managed better than my speech at Kensington Town Hall. AfterThorold, Algar;a2 that I had to go on (at 10 o’clock) to the dinner in honour of Algar Thorold at the St. James’s Club, and got home exhausted about midnight. The Irish party I was going to on the evening of our lunch was Terrible. SomethingFaber, Enid Eleanorand the Irish waiter;a3 of its nature may be indicated by Enid Faber’s conversation with the waiter. He asked her what she would have to drink? She said, lemonade. He said ‘You’ll be having it laced?’ She replied No, just lemonade. ‘But’ he said in consternation, ‘then you’ll be lavin’ the party just as ye came’. IKiernan, Delia;a1 am dodging a lady I met there named Mrs. Kiernan.4 She rang up afterwards and said would I come up and see her sometime in Streatham to drink poteen. She added that the family had gone to Ireland, so there were plenty of beds, because nobody could be expected to find his way home after drinkin’ poteen. Ide la Mare, Richard;a2 have given instructions that if she telephones again she is to be connected with Mr. De la Mare.
I am longing for your news. Please let me know also what day you leave for Chichester. I wonder if there is any possibility of seeing you before the 27th.
NowCheetham, Revd Eric;a6 I have to go to a party downstairs given by the Vicar to the male members of the parish. I hope they all come, because I have never counted more than six altogether.
1.TSE’s lecture at Leeds was ultimately published as ‘‘Literature and the Modern World’, The Teaching Church Review 5: 1 (Feb. 1935), 11–15: CProse 5, 196–204.
2.PeterWinckworth, Peter Winckworth was author of Sensible Christians (1935); Does Religion Cause War? (1934); The Way of War: Verses (1939); A Simple Approach to Canon Law (1951); The Seal of the Confessional and the Law of Evidence (1952); A Verification of the Faculty Jurisdiction (1953); A History of the Gresham Lectures (1966); Beware of the Archdeacon: A Commentary on the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure, 1963 (Oxford, 1972).
3.TSE chaired the South Kensington meeting of the Seven Years Association on 16 Oct.
4.DeliaKiernan, Delia Kiernan, of Ballsbridge, Dublin.
4.RtBell, George, Bishop of Chichester (earlier Dean of Canterbury) Revd George Bell, DD (1883–1958), Bishop of Chichester, 1929–58: see Biographical Register.
4.MargueriteCaetani, Marguerite (née Chapin) Caetani, née Chapin (1880–1963) – Princesse di Bassiano – literary patron and editor: see Biographical Register. LéliaCaetani, Lélia Caetani (1913–77), sole daughter, was to marry Hubert Howard (1908–87), a scion of the English Catholic House of Howard, who worked to preserve the Caetani heritage at Rome and at the castle of Sermoneta.
4.RevdCheetham, Revd Eric Eric Cheetham (1892–1957): vicar of St Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Road, London, 1929–56 – ‘a fine ecclesiastical showman’, as E. W. F. Tomlin dubbed him. TSE’s landlord and friend at presbytery-houses in S. Kensington, 1934–9. See Letters 7, 34–8.
12.Richardde la Mare, Richard de la Mare (1901–86) – elder son of the poet Walter de la Mare – director of F&F, in charge of design and production: see Biographical Register.
1.TSE was mistaken here. EnidFaber, Enid Eleanor Eleanor Faber (1901–95) was the daughter of Sir Henry Erle Richards (1861–1922), Fellow of All Souls College and Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at Oxford University, and Mary Isabel Butler (1868–1945).
4.LadyMorrell, Lady Ottoline Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938), hostess and patron: see Biographical Register.
3.AlgarThorold, Algar Thorold (1866–1936), diplomat, author, journalist: see Biographical Register.
2.PeterWinckworth, Peter Winckworth was author of Sensible Christians (1935); Does Religion Cause War? (1934); The Way of War: Verses (1939); A Simple Approach to Canon Law (1951); The Seal of the Confessional and the Law of Evidence (1952); A Verification of the Faculty Jurisdiction (1953); A History of the Gresham Lectures (1966); Beware of the Archdeacon: A Commentary on the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure, 1963 (Oxford, 1972).