[41 Brimmer St., Boston]

T. S.Eliot
EmilyHale
TS
Faber & Faber Ltd
27 April 1931
Dear Dove,

I can only begin a letter to you to-day; I shall continue it tomorrow, and then it must be sent off whether it is finished or not, because there is always supposed to be a mail out on Tuesday afternoons. I had hoped for a clear morning this day (Monday) but yesterday afternoon – just as I was bustling off to deliver'Dryden the Critic, Defender of Sanity';a2 my third and last broadcast talk on Dryden – JamesJoyce, Jamesappears suddenly in London;a1 Joyce1 rang up and announced his sudden presence in London – so this morning I trotted off early to see him at the Belgravia Hotel – there are few people for whom I would do as much – butJoyce, Jamesadmired and esteemed by TSE;a2 I have always liked Joyce and furthermore I consider him so much more important a person than myself, whose shoelaces (qua writer of English) I am unworthy to untie etc. I had to spend the morning with him, and only arrived here at 12:15, havingDawson, Christopher;a1 a lunch engagement with Christopher Dawson2 and DouglasJerrold, Douglas;a2 Jerrold at 1:15. IEnglandthe English weather;c3cursed by Joyce;a1 found Joyce able to see much better than a year ago, and able to walk about without guidance and to write legibly, which is a great deal for him, but cursing the wet English weather, and staying as near to Victoria Station as possible so as to get back quickly to France if the weather doesn’t improve. Otherwise he intends to stay in London for a month or so until his son finds him a new flat in Paris.

But I shall mention Joyce again from time to time. Your dear letter of the 17th arrived this morning, before I have answered the other – how very good you are to me, I hope to make you realise all the joy and delight and strengthening each letter brings. I am relieved to have heard from you after receiving my next letter to the deplorable one. So now I will wish my Bird good-night, though it is just lunch time (and breakfast time for her – I hope doves breakfast well), and recommence tomorrow.

April 29th WEDNESDAY. Now I can go on for a bit! Nothing much has happened meanwhile, except that theJoyce, Jamestakes flat in Kensington;a3 Joyces have taken a flat in Kensington for a year, and I am trying to find out for him about a ‘biography’ of him which is announced, and about which he was not consulted and is therefore incensed;3 and FrankMorley, Frank Vigorreturns from New York;a3 Morley has returned from New York, of which I am gIad, and theFabers, the;a3 Fabers return from Wales tomorrow (No, TomFaber, Thomas Erle ('Tom', TSE's godson)not named for TSE;a14 was not named for me, but I am his god-father nevertheless – ILear, EdwardThe Book of Nonsense;a8 have just got him Lear’s Nonsense Book, not the Limericks but the songs).5

Although the Dryden is done with, thankfully, I'Pensées of Pascal, The'undertaken in ignorance;a1 am still rushed, with an essay on Pascal to be written by next Monday if possible as Introduction to an Everyman Library edition of the Pensées; I know almost nothing about the subject, but took it on in order to learn, and have become quite absorbed in that extraordinary character; I hope it will be a good essay.6 (Although I have written no verse, I have been told that my prose in the last six months is better writing than any before, which is encouraging – and an unconscious compliment to You).

I have not yet got my ‘Hayfever’ text, but hope to have it before the performance. Iflowers and florasweet peas;c9and EH's performance in Hay Fever;a1 had a mad idea of cabling flowers – but did not know where to – and then I reflected that it might be more an annoyance or embarrassment than a pleasure to have an anonymous bunch of sweet peas appear – so abandoned the project, reluctantly. I hope you do not overtire yourself, though I am glad you should get away at times; I have not heard of the Landons before, – I am sorry about scents, but imagined that they would be prohibitively expensive in America; perhaps some day I may see you in Paris and see what Caron or Guerlain can do in that way – IFranceParis;b7EH pictured in;a2 should love to see you lunching at Foyot or Voisin or even at the Nymphes du Luxembourg looking over the Gardens or at Latesier’s in the Avenue Victor-Hugo or the Taverne Perigourdine with a paté and a petit vin mousseux de Saumur – I like to chatter sometimes and that is my mood this morning – I shall write more seriously on Friday, on which day, I hope you will be having your picture done as I am very impatient – I should like to have two poses, please, if possible. It makes me happy to think of mine being dignified with a leather frame in your room upstairs. ICorpus Christi College, Cambridge;a2 may go to Corpus (Cambridge) for a weekend at the end of May – otherwise – but that is for Friday. ThereLewis, WyndhamEH promised copy of portrait by;a1 is a reproduction of a drawing of me by Wyndham Lewis7 several years ago – theSchiff, Sydney (Stephen Hudson)owns Wyndham Lewis's drawing of TSE;a1 original in the possession of Sydney Schiff Esqre.8 – which I am trying to find for you.9 Your Easter Card is on my mantel here, amongStead, William Forcehis photograph on TSE's mantel;a4 a photograph of W. Force Stead (who wrote the sad letter)[,] oneFaber, Thomas Erle ('Tom', TSE's godson)his photograph on TSE's mantel;a2 of Tom Faber, oneFassett, Irene Pearlher photograph on TSE's mantel;a1 of Irene Fassett (my first and best secretary, now dead)10 andDobrée, Bonamyphotograph of his home on TSE's mantel;a2 one of Bonamy Dobrée’s country house in Norfolk. What a Silly letter this has been: but you must allow me to be trivial at times, as I am sometimes sombre; O my dear, my Turtle,11 my dear –

Tom

[Enclosed: MS letter from W. Rothenstein, Royal College of Art, South Kensington, S.W.7:

25. 4. 31

IRothenstein, Sir William;a2 shall be most pleased to come in next Wednesday: it will be a pleasure to see you again & to meet yr friends of the “Criterion”.

W. Rothenstein

[with MS annotation from TSE to EH]

Did I send you ever his book of portrait drawings, including one of me? If not, I will.

1.JamesJoyce, James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish novelist, playwright, poet; author of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), Finnegans Wake (1939).

2.ChristopherDawson, Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), cultural historian: see Biographical Register.

3.JJ to TSE (undated): I am […] sending you an account of what seems to me a fourth book on me – following Gilbert’s, Goldring’s and Duff’s. What do you say about it’ (Princeton).

4.ThomasFaber, Thomas Erle ('Tom', TSE's godson) Erle Faber (1927–2004), TSE’s godson and principal dedicatee of Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, was to become a physicist, teaching at Cambridge, first at Trinity, then for fifty years at Corpus Christi. He served too as chairman of the Geoffrey Faber holding company.

5.Edward Lear, The Book of Nonsense (1930).

6.Pascal’s Pensées, with Introduction by TSE (Everyman’s Library, 1931).

7.WyndhamLewis, Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957), painter, novelist, philosopher, critic: see Biographical Register.

8.SydneySchiff, Sydney (Stephen Hudson) Schiff (1868–1944), British novelist and translator: see Biographical Register.

9.Wyndham Lewis made a drawing of TSE in June 1922: see illus. in Letters 2.

10.IreneFassett, Irene Pearl Pearl Fassett (1900–28), born in Paddington, London, had been TSE’s secretary at The Criterion. She died of pulmonary tuberculosis on 28 July 1928, aged 27.

11.See William Shakespeare, The Phoenix and the Turtle (1601).

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, TSE's friends at, honorary fellowship coveted at, TSE's favourite Oxbridge college, TSE twice guest at, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, awards TSE degree, and the Boutwood Lectures, and Tom Faber,
Dawson, Christopher, co-orchestrates BBC religious talks, signatory to Credit Reform letter, encouraged to expand Christianity and Sex, writes Times's Abdication Crisis editorial, anointed reader of Boutwood Lectures, promised article for Dublin Review, in Oxford, where he hosts TSE,

2.ChristopherDawson, Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), cultural historian: see Biographical Register.

Dobrée, Bonamy, Criterion monthly meeting regular, photograph of his home on TSE's mantel, in thumbnail, and Flint take TSE for farewell lunch, as country squire, promulgates Credit Reform, sings songs with TSE, shilling life of, and 'Byron', doomed to American lecture tour, reduced to doing his own gardening, detects life in Willard Thorp, farewell lunch for, training gunner officers, chairs TSE's reading,
see also Dobrées, the

3.Bonamy DobréeDobrée, Bonamy (1891–1974), scholar and editor: see Biographical Register.

'Dryden the Critic, Defender of Sanity',
England, TSE as transatlantic cultural conduit for, discomforts of its larger houses, and Henry James, at times unreal, TSE's patriotic homesickness for, which is not a repudiation of America, TSE's want of relations in, encourages superiority in Americans familiar with, reposeful, natural ally of France, compared to Wales, much more intimate with Europe than America, TSE on his 'exile' in, undone by 'Dividend morality', in wartime, war binds TSE to, post-war, post-war privations, the English, initially strange to TSE, contortions of upward mobility, comparatively rooted as a people, TSE more comfortable distinguishing, the two kinds of duke, TSE's vision of wealthy provincials, its Tories, more blunt than Americans, as congregants, considered racially superior, a relief from the Scottish, don't talk in poetry, compared to the Irish, English countryside, around Hindhead, distinguished, the West Country, compared to New England's, fen country, in primrose season, the English weather, cursed by Joyce, suits mistiness, preferred to America's, distinguished for America's by repose, relaxes TSE, not rainy enough, English traditions, Derby Day, Order of Merit, shooting, Varsity Cricket Match, TSE's dislike of talking cricket, rugby match enthralls, the death of George V, knighthood, the English language, Adlestrop, Gloucestershire, visited by EH and TSE, Amberley, West Sussex, ruined castle at, Arundel, West Sussex, TSE's guide to, Bath, Somerset, TSE 'ravished' by, EH visits, Bemerton, Wiltshire, visited on Herbert pilgrimage, Blockley, Gloucestershire, tea at the Crown, Bosham, West Sussex, EH introduced to, Bridport, Dorset, Tandys settled near, Burford, Oxfordshire, EH staying in, too hallowed to revisit, Burnt Norton, Gloucestershire, TSE remembers visiting, and the Cotswolds, its imagined fate, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, less oppressive than Oxford, TSE's vision of life in, possible refuge during Blitz, Charlbury, Oxfordshire, visited by EH and TSE, Chester, Cheshire, TSE's plans in, TSE on, Chichester, West Sussex, the Perkinses encouraged to visit, EH celebrates birthday in, TSE's guide to, 'The Church and the Artist', TSE gives EH ring in, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, Perkinses take house at, shockingly remote, TSE's first weekend at, likened to Florence, TSE jealous of memories associated with, its Arts & Crafts associations, its attractions to Dr Perkins, forever associated with TSE and EH, sound of the Angelus, without EH, treasured in TSE's memory, excursions from, EH on 'our' garden at, Stamford House passes into new hands, EH's fleeting return to, Cornwall, TSE's visit to, compared to North Devon, Cotswolds, sacred in TSE's memory, Derbyshire, as seen from Swanwick, Devon ('Devonshire'), likened to American South, the Eliots pre-Somerset home, its scenery, Dorset, highly civilised, TSE feels at home in, TSE's Tandy weekend in, Durham, TSE's visit to, East Anglia, its churches, TSE now feels at home in, East Coker, Somerset, visited by Uncle Chris and Abby, TSE conceives desire to visit, reasons for visiting, described, visited again, and the Shamley Cokers, now within Father Underhill's diocese, photographs of, Finchampstead, Berkshire, visited by TSE and EH, specifically the Queen's Head, Framlingham, Suffolk, visited, Garsington, Oxfordshire, recalled, Glastonbury, Somerset, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, highly civilised, its beautiful edge, its countryside associated with EH, TSE at home in, its domestic architecture, Hadsleigh, Suffolk, visited, Hampshire, journey through, TSE's New Forest holiday, Hereford, highly civilised, Hull, Yorkshire, and 'Literature and the Modern World', Ilfracombe, Devon, and the Field Marshal, hideous, Knole Park, Kent, Lavenham, Suffolk, visited, Leeds, Yorkshire, TSE lectures in, touring Murder opens in, the Dobrées visited in, home to EVE's family, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, TSE's visit to, especially the Bishop's Palace, Lincolnshire, arouses TSE's curiosity, unknown to EH, Lingfield, Surrey, Little Gidding, Cambridgeshire, TSE's long-intended expedition to, London, in TSE's experience, TSE's isolation within, affords solitude and anonymity, contrasted to country life, its fogs, socially freer than Boston and Paris, eternally misty, its lionhunters, rain preferable in, more 'home' to TSE than America, socially more legible than Boston, its society compared to Boston's, TSE's desire to live among cockneys, South Kensington too respectable, Clerkenwell, Camberwell, Blackheath, Greenwich scouted for lodging, its comparatively vigorous religious life, Camberwell lodging sought, Clerkenwell lodging sought, and music-hall nostalgia, abandoned by society in August, the varieties of cockney, TSE's East End sojourn, South Kensington grows on TSE, prepares for Silver Jubilee, South Kensington street names, Dulwich hallowed in memory, so too Greenwich, during 1937 Coronation, preparing for war, Dulwich revisited with family, in wartime, TSE as air-raid warden in, Long Melford, Suffolk, Lowestoft, Suffolk, Lyme Regis, Dorset, with the Morleys, Marlborough, Wiltshire, scene of a happy drink, Needham Market, Suffolk, Newcastle, Northumberland, TSE's visit to, Norfolk, appeals to TSE, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, dreary, Nottinghamshire, described for EH, Oxford, Oxfordshire, as recollected by TSE, past and present, EH takes lodgings in, haunted for TSE, in July, compared to Cambridge, Peacehaven, Sussex, amazing sermon preached in, Penrith, TSE's visit to, Rochester, as Dickens described, Salisbury, Wiltshire, in the Richmonds' company, Shamley Green, Surrey, TSE's ARP work in, its post office, Pilgrim Players due at, Somerset, highly civilised, TSE at home in, Southwold, Suffolk, TSE visits with family, Stanton, Gloucestershire, on TSE and EH's walk, Stanway, Gloucestershire, on EH and TSE's walk, Suffolk, TSE visits with family, Surrey, Morley finds TSE lodging in, evening bitter at the Royal Oak, TSE misses, as it must have been, Sussex, commended to EH, TSE walking Stane Street and downs, EH remembers, Walberswick, Suffolk, Wells, Somerset, TSE on visiting, Whipsnade, Bedfordshire, EH and TSE visit, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, delightful name, Wiltshire, highly civilised, TSE at home in, Winchelsea, East Sussex, visited, Winchester, TSE on, Wisbech, Lincolnshire, TSE on visiting, Worcestershire, TSE feels at home in, Yeovil, Somerset, visited en route to East Coker, York, TSE's glimpse of, Yorkshire,
see also British General Election
Faber, Thomas Erle ('Tom', TSE's godson), not named for TSE, his photograph on TSE's mantel, sends one-word letter, poem written for, and 'The Naming of Cats', which consoles him, decorates matchbox for TSE, given watch for Christmas, bought telescope, takes TSE to Madame Tussaud's, in school Mikado, win scholarship but splits infinitive, TSE's impotence as godfather to, bought fishing rod, TSE goes fishing with, treated by TSE in Cambridge, now don at Corpus Christi, Cambridge,
see also Fabers, the

4.ThomasFaber, Thomas Erle ('Tom', TSE's godson) Erle Faber (1927–2004), TSE’s godson and principal dedicatee of Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, was to become a physicist, teaching at Cambridge, first at Trinity, then for fifty years at Corpus Christi. He served too as chairman of the Geoffrey Faber holding company.

Fabers, the, model of happiness and respectability, their domestic situation, Faber children to tea chez Eliot, visit TSE at Pike's Farm, compared to the Morleys, closer to TSE than to VHE, 1933 summer holiday with, Ty Glyn Aeron described, request TSE to write play, too absorbed in their children, at the Morleys' party, give anti-Nazi party for author, host poker party, 1934 summer holiday with, take TSE to lunch in Oxford, 1935 summer holiday with, for which the children are bought tent, give party, 1936 summer holiday with, at Morleys' Thanksgiving Day party, sail model boats with TSE, and TSE's foggy adventure, cinema-going with TSE, take TSE to Witch of Edmonton, and Morleys take TSE to pantomime, and TSE attend opening of Ascent of F6, 1937 summer holiday with, and the Bradfield Greek play, School for Scandal with, take TSE to pantomime again, 1938 summer holiday with, 1939 summer holiday with, offer possible wartime refuge, 1940 summer holiday with, host TSE in Hampstead during war, TSE makes bread sauce for, brought vegetables from Shamley, move to Minsted, and TSE attend musical revue, 1941 summer holiday with, Minsted as substitute for nursing-home, trying to sell Welsh home, take TSE to International Squadron, invite TSE to Wales for Christmas, host TSE at Minsted, away fishing in Scotland, mourn TSE's post-war independence, 1947 Minsted summer stay, 1948 Minsted summer stay, host TSE for weekend, on 1950 South Africa trip, on TSE's 1951 Spain trip, 1951 Minsted summer stay, 1952 Minsted summer stay, 1953 Minsted summer stay, on 1953–4 South Africa trip, 35th wedding anniversary weekend,
Fassett, Irene Pearl, her photograph on TSE's mantel, her funeral, remembered en passant,

10.IreneFassett, Irene Pearl Pearl Fassett (1900–28), born in Paddington, London, had been TSE’s secretary at The Criterion. She died of pulmonary tuberculosis on 28 July 1928, aged 27.

flowers and flora, aconite, at Shamley, imagined in Cambridge, azaleas, summon memories of EH, bamboo, imagined by TSE in California, bluebells, in Shamley Wood, bourgainvillea, imagined by TSE in California, cactus, imagined by TSE in California, carnations, from Chipping Campden, catkins, at Shamley, celandine, spotted at Shamley, chrysanthemums, TSE prefers to roses, cowslips, at Shamley, crocuses, at Shamley, imagined in Cambridge, gladioli, sent to EH in TSE's name, hawthorn ('may'), summons memories of EH, heliotrope, enclosed in letter from Christine Galitzi, hibiscus, imagined by TSE in California, laburnum, summons memories of EH, lilacs, in Russell and Woburn Squares, summon memories of EH, lilies-of-the-valley, delivered to EH on the Samaria, Michaelmas daisies, around Pike's Farm, palms, imagined by TSE in California, primroses, and the English spring, at Shamley, pussy-willow, at Shamley, rhododendrons, summon memories of EH, roses, in autumn, sent to EH on birthday, from Chipping Campden, left by EH in TSE's Grenville rooms, their emotionally disturbing scent, given to TSE as EH's parting gift, for EH's birthday, snowdrops, at Shamley, sweet peas, and EH's performance in Hay Fever, effect of their scent on TSE, no longer painful to TSE, delivered to EH, TSE buys himself at Gloucester Road, cheer TSE up, the essence of summer, sent to Aunt Edith, violets, EH gives TSE as buttonhole, emotionally disturbing, left by departing EH, wisteria, summons memories of EH, Wood anemone, at Shamley, yew, sprig picked for TSE by EH, zinnias, TSE prefers over roses,
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,
Jerrold, Douglas, condemned for fascist inclinations,

6.DouglasJerrold, Douglas Jerrold (1893–1964), publisher and author; Director of Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1929–59; editor of the English Review: see Biographical Register.

Joyce, James, appears suddenly in London, admired and esteemed by TSE, takes flat in Kensington, lunches with TSE at fish shop, gets on with Osbert Sitwell, GCF on, consumes TSE's morning, dines in company chez Eliot, obstinately unbusinesslike, bank-draft ordered for, indebted to Harriet Weaver, writes to TSE about daughter, his place in history, evening with Lewis, Vanderpyl and, TSE appreciates loneliness of, TSE's excuse for visiting Paris, insists on lavish Parisian dinner, on the phone to the F&F receptionist, TSE's hairdresser asks after, defended by TSE at UCD, for which TSE is attacked, qua poet, his Miltonic ear, requires two F&F directors' attention, anecdotalised by Jane Heap, part of TSE's Paris itinerary, in Paris, strolls with TSE, and David Jones, and EP's gift of shoes, his death lamented, insufficiently commemorated, esteemed by Hugh Walpole, TSE's prose selection of, Indian audience addressed on, TSE opens exhibition dedicated to, TSE on the Joyce corpus, TSE on his letters to, Anna Livia Plurabelle, Joyce's recording of, Dubliners, taught in English 26, Ulysses, modern literature undiscussable without, Harold Monro's funeral calls to mind, its true perversity, likened to Gulliver's Travels, F&F negotiating for, 'Work in Progress' (afterwards Finnegans Wake), negotiations over, conveyed to London by Jolas, 'very troublesome', new MS delivered by Madame Léon,
see also Joyces, the

1.JamesJoyce, James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish novelist, playwright, poet; author of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), Finnegans Wake (1939).

Lear, Edward, illustrates Scripps talk on English humour, subject of TSE's Ann Arbor lecture, again in Buffalo, again in Smith, again at Bowdoin, yardstick for TSE's own nonsense, TSE bangs on about, The Book of Nonsense,
Lewis, Wyndham, EH promised copy of portrait by, indebted to Harriet Weaver, famous evening with Joyce and, remembered in Paris, apparently numbers TSE among enemies, visiting Joyce in 1920 with, asks to paint TSE, TSE sitting for, portrait shown to EH, departed for America, and the fate of TSE's portrait, one of TSE's 'group', his sketch of TSE loaned to Henry, importunes another portrait, his portraits of TSE, second portrait acquired by Magdalene, TSE views first portrait in Durban, Blasting and Bombadiering, The Lion and the Fox,

7.WyndhamLewis, Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957), painter, novelist, philosopher, critic: see Biographical Register.

Morley, Frank Vigor, TSE on sharing an office with, Criterion monthly meeting regular, returns from New York, indispensable in proofing Selected Essays, Criterion lunch in company with, joins farewell lunch for Hodgson, offers TSE post-separation refuge, acts for TSE during separation, spirits TSE away to Surrey, on TSE at Pike's Farm, as châtelain, acting as TSE's courier, on TSE's relationship to children, music-hall evening with, suggests tour of Scotland, which he plans out, suggests trip to Paris, thanks Joyce for hospitality, on TSE's 1933 tour of Scotland, negotiating for Ulysses, his absence means more work, treasured and missed, gets on famously with Ada, mercifully returned to F&F, produces birthday-cake, peacekeeper between Rowse and Smyth, in on Sherlock Holmes prank, encourages TSE to go to Finland, on TSE's 1935 tour of Scotland, and TSE drink GCF's whisky, takes TSE to Wimbledon, monopolises typewriter for joint story, as tennis-player, overawes GCF, TSE and EH's elected emergency go-between, good with thrusting young authors, backs publication of Nightwood, helps deal with Joyce, naturally projects strength, his French, escapes Criterion gathering to catch last train home, unusually subdued among the French, submits his Johnson Society paper, depends on TSE, on TSE's 1937 tour of Scotland, which Morley describes, two nights' sleep in a caravan with, potential reader for Family Reunion, his father dies, Spender discussed with, sends TSE corrected Anabasis, heads for New York and Baltimore, his energy, returns from America, visiting dying mother, shoulders burden of EP, insufficiently honours EP, Boutwood Lectures submitted to, accepts Harcourt Brace position, what his leaving F&F will mean, taken to tea with Woolfs, remembers EH taking priority, first wartime letter from, which reports on TSE's family, sounds depressed in America, sounds less depressed to GCF, among TSE's closest friends, his conversation missed, on Christian Society's American reception, suspected of indiscretion, EH explains 'Defence of the Islands' to, indifferent to Cats, entrusted with emergency Dry Salvages, America's effect on, gives Henry MS of 'Yeats', suggests 'Night Music' over 'Kensington Quartets', Ada too ill to see, his use of 'poised', puts TSE up in New York, on TSE's 1947 New York stay, presently unemployed, but inherits Graham Greene's job,
see also Morleys, the

4.FrankMorley, Frank Vigor Vigor Morley (1899–1980), American publisher and author; a founding editor of F&F, 1929–39: see Biographical Register.

'Pensées of Pascal, The', undertaken in ignorance, to be revised,
Rothenstein, Sir William, his drawings sent to EH, TSE on his drawing, drawings not unacceptable to EH, at Fred Manning's funeral, writes Manning's obituary,

5.SirRothenstein, Sir William William Rothenstein (1872–1945), artist and administrator: see Biographical Register.

Schiff, Sydney (Stephen Hudson), owns Wyndham Lewis's drawing of TSE, described for EH,

8.SydneySchiff, Sydney (Stephen Hudson) Schiff (1868–1944), British novelist and translator: see Biographical Register.

Stead, William Force, described for EH, and TSE's baptism, left by wife for nunnery, his photograph on TSE's mantel, resigns chaplainship for Rome, visits Campden,

2.WilliamStead, William Force Force Stead (1884–1967), poet, critic, diplomat, clergyman: see Biographical Register.