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Thank you very much for your letter of this morning which arrived pleasantly with my dinner: and it is a great honour to have a letter written to one before breakfast, and I appreciate you writing often, because it is a long time since I saw you in Canterbury and had to dart away to get back to the Precincts before 11, and I have felt the lack of the stimulus of your company very much indeed – it will be just over a month – and I know that I much prefer hearing you talk to talking myself. TheMorleys, the;e6 latestFabers, the1935 summer holiday with;c5 arrangementtravels, trips and plansEH's 1934–5 year in Europe;b4TSE's July 1935 Campden week;e1 is that thetravels, trips and plansTSE's 1935 Faber summer holiday;b9;a3 Morleys are to go to the Fabers at the same time as myself – at any rate it is over sooner – and they want to motor there stopping at Campden to pick me up. That is all very well if they don’t come too soon – it will probably be on the 30th – they intended to arrive about tea time and rattle on to Gloucester for the night, but perhaps they could be persuaded to stay the night at the Noel Arms is it and start the next morning. You see Geoffrey is anxious to get rid of us before the 12th, when he starts killing grouse, and neither Morley nor myself is of any use with a gun and I don’t like killing things anyway, I think people might be hired to kill grouse, but on the other hand it seems to me ignoble for men to be employed just to walk across a field as beaters.
ITandys, theTSE's Hampton weekends with;a1 onlyMcPherrin, Jeanette;c7 hope that Jeanie will not be here just over this weekend, as I shall be at the Tandy’s [sic] at Hampton for Saturday and Sunday nights; but of course the rooms will be available in any case. IBussys, the;a3 have had to make an engagement to dine with the Bussys on Wednesday next, otherwise I hope to keep free. Of course I shall be delighted to see about a sea-basket. WasLowell, Lucy;a1 that Miss Lucy Lowell1 who was at Canterbury, a little mousy lady looking rather sad? Why is she sad? IStewart, Lady Alice Kingspecimen 'merry old lady';a1 like choleric old men and merry old ladies – I like to collect them – I found a new and excellent specimen next me at my lunch to-day, Lady Stewart of Murdostoun or something like that with a nice Scotch burr;2 andShakespear, Oliviaspecimen 'merry old lady';a4 Mrs. Shakespear I am dining with tomorrow. I'Should there be a Censorship of Books?';a3 hopeGreen Quarterly;a2 my little speech on the Censorship of Books went well – it gave me enough trouble, and I was not satisfied with it – and there were about fifty people present but the chicken was tough. IGeorge, Robert Esmonde Gordon ('Robert Sencourt');c5 had a better lunch yesterday at the Comedy with Robert. Iappearance (TSE's)teeth;c2blamed for hair-loss;a5 am glad to know that your spirits are a little better; to tell the truth I have suffered from depression since Canterbury, and lacking your company, andappearance (TSE's)teeth;c2liable to be removed;a6 perhaps partly losing my hair and being poisoned by my teeth or so the doctor says but I hope I shall not have to have them all out, because false ones are such a bother, though no doubt I should look much nicer with them. Oh dear I wish you did not always have to be meeting old people. WhatTimes Literary Supplement, Theintrigue over Richmond's successor;a4 wasRichmond, BruceTSE plots his TLS successor;a8 the news from Canterbury in the Times? Speaking of the Times, we have been having a little intriguing to get a suitable successor nominated for the Literary Supplement after Bruce Richmond – butRichmonds, the;a5 it is a nuisance that I have to go to the Richmonds just than [sc. that] weekend instead of coming to you. TheAbyssinia CrisisTSE's opinion of Abyssinians;a2 newsMussolini, Benitoand Abyssinia;a2 is too depressing to think about – Mussolini is playing a very dangerous game I think – the Abyssinians seem to be the innocent party but I don’t like to think of harmless Italian boys being mauled and tortured by those savages, as they will be. MyWaterlow, Sydneyon Abyssinia;a2 old friend Sydney Waterlow (now Minister to Greece) was Minister to Abyssinia for a time and found it intolerable, ‘coming’ as he said ‘after having lived among a civilised people like the Siamese’. AndEuropethrough the 1930s;a2 what’s more, if Italy really does have a tough time there, as I think she will, it may tempt out the mad dogs in Europe. But dear dear, these things should NOT claim too much of one’s attention, when they are things one can do nothing about; there is plenty of opportunity for being ‘Un-ego-ish’ if you like in ones own village of Campden and Kensington – and you have a great deal more opportunity than I should wish you to have. Now I must stop and catch the post – Ireading (TSE's)detective story for committee;e2 spent the earlier part of the evening reading a detective story which I must report on in committee tomorrow.
1.LucyLowell, Lucy Lowell (1860–1944), from Boston, Mass.; President of the Alliance of Unitarian Women, 1917–23.
2.Alice Margaret Christie (born ca. 1863) married SirStewart, Lady Alice King Robert King Stewart (1852–1930), who succeeded as Laird of the Murdostoun estate in North Lanarkshire (1,760 acres) in 1873. After Sir Robert's death, Lady Alice King Stewart, OBE, JP, who was a patron of various voluntary bodies, moved from the castle to nearby Cleghorn House until her death in 1940.
3.RobertGeorge, Robert Esmonde Gordon ('Robert Sencourt') Esmonde Gordon George – Robert Sencourt (1890–1969) – critic, historian, biographer: see Biographical Register.
1.LucyLowell, Lucy Lowell (1860–1944), from Boston, Mass.; President of the Alliance of Unitarian Women, 1917–23.
2.JeanetteMcPherrin, Jeanette McPherrin (1911–92), postgraduate student at Scripps College; friend of EH: see Biographical Register.
3.BruceRichmond, Bruce Richmond (1871–1964), editor of the TLS, 1902–37.
6.OliviaShakespear, Olivia Shakespear (1863–1938), novelist and playwright; mother of Dorothy Pound, made an unhappy marriage in 1885 with Henry Hope Shakespear (1849–1923), a solicitor. She published novels including Love on a Mortal Lease (1894) and The Devotees (1904). Through a cousin, the poet Lionel Johnson (1867–1902), she arranged a meeting with W. B. Yeats, which resulted in a brief affair and a lifetime’s friendship. Yeats wrote at least two poems for her, and she was the ‘Diana Vernon’ of his Memoirs (ed. Denis Donoghue, 1972). See Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters 1909–1914, ed. Omar S. Pound and A. Walton Litz (1984), 356–7.
2.Alice Margaret Christie (born ca. 1863) married SirStewart, Lady Alice King Robert King Stewart (1852–1930), who succeeded as Laird of the Murdostoun estate in North Lanarkshire (1,760 acres) in 1873. After Sir Robert's death, Lady Alice King Stewart, OBE, JP, who was a patron of various voluntary bodies, moved from the castle to nearby Cleghorn House until her death in 1940.
3.SydneyWaterlow, Sydney Waterlow, KCMG (1878–1944) joined the diplomatic service in 1900 and served as attaché and third secretary in Washington. TSE met him in 1915, when Waterlow invited him to review for the International Journal of Ethics (Waterlow was a member of the editorial committee). In 1919 Waterlow served at the Paris Peace Conference (helping to negotiate the Treaty of Versailles), and in 1920 he was re-appointed to the Foreign Office, later serving as Minister to Bangkok, 1926–8; Sofia, 1929–33; Athens, 1933–9. See further Sarah M. Head, Before Leonard: The Early Suitors of Virginia Woolf (2006).