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T. S.Eliot
EmilyHale
TS
Faber & Faber Ltd
27 January 1936
DearestHale, EmilyTSE's names, nicknames and terms of endearment for;x3'Girl';c7 my Girl,

I must start this letter tonight, though there is so much to say that I cannot hope to finish it till tomorrow night at least; but meanwhile you should have received my wire from Dublin, and my second wire on returning to London. But first of all I want to say, that when I go away my chief thought on starting my journey back, is whether I shall find a letter from you. The next thing to running to you with outstretched arms, is to run to a letter lying on my table. I found your dear letter of January 13th waiting for me when I got to Grenville Place at 7.45 this morning; and after my bath and while I was having breakfast, your next letter of the 16th from Manchester Connecticut arrived. So that this was a very rich and rewarding return, and I read them both over several times during the morning.

Firsttravels, trips and plansTSE's 1936 visit to Ireland;c1recounted;a2 of all, the News part of my letter. I had a very comfortable passage on the Liverpool boat, breakfasted on it, took a taxi at North Wall, Dublin, and, after stopping at the post office to cable you, arrivedCoffey, Dr Denis J.;a1 at the Coffeys in Fitzwilliam Square. I was greeted by Mrs. Coffey and the second son Donough, who is a barrister; later by Dr. Coffey (President of the National or Catholic University) and the daughter Moira. A little later the young Jesuit who had asked me to come to speak arrived; I discussed with him what I was to say that evening, and then he took me for a walk about Dublin, visiting the Government buildings and Trinity College etc. Then back to find that Mr. Coffey had arranged an elaborate and large lunch party, all of men (that couldn’t happen in England – if a man was having a lunch for men only, he would arrange it at his club) mostly university folk – that is to say, the Catholic University. IIrelandTSE on Irish hospitality;a2 observe that the Irish, however poor – and mostly they are poor – when they give parties do so most lavishly. Cocktails, sherry, sauterne, burgundy, port, brandy and cigars: too much. IMacNeill, Eóinrelates experiences of prison;a1 satCarson, Edward;a1 next to a charming old professor, Euen MacNeill, who had charming reminiscences of his experiences in gaol – they have all been in gaol at one time or another, and are very charming about it – MacNeill started the Irish Volunteers, in opposition to Carson’s Ulster Volunteers.1 The lunch lasted till about four, when I was able to go up to my room and take a nap; then I dressed (white tie) for a family dinner, and we went to the College for the meeting. ThisIrelandTSE's experience of Irish audiences;a3 lasted from eight till nearly twelve, there were so many speakers: I must say that the Irish can listen more patiently and for a longer time to speeches than any other people. That is because every speech has its political implications. After that, more people to meet, and back to bed about two. The next morning I crawled out to breakfast at ten, and after that interviewed two reporters, Miss Fitzgibbon and Mr. Murphy, andLaverty, Maura;a1 at much greater length Miss Laverty of the Broadcasting Station, with a view to a dialogue between herself and the Distinguished Visitor (myself ) to take place on Saturday evening.2 ThenFitzgerald, Desmondat Dublin literary lunch;a1 offO'Connor, Frank;a1 toGogarty, Oliver St. Johnat Dublin literary lunch;a1 Jammet’s the fashionable French restaurant on Stephen’s Green, toPakenham, Edward, 6th Earl of Longfordand TSE's 1936 Dublin visit;a2 lunch with Desmond Fitzgerald,3 Dr. Gogerty [sic] (a famous wit of Dublin, made illustrious through being the original of ‘Buck Mulligan’ in Ulysses)4 the Earl of Longford, and Frank O’Connor, a prominent young novelist.5 After'Tradition and the Practice of Poetry'Dublin version of;a1 lunch, returned to the Coffeys and rested a bit, but had to be at the College again at four, to deliver my lecture on ‘The Relation of Contemporary Literatures’.6 This over, and introductions to new people, returned to rest a bit and dress again (formally) for a large dinner party at the Coffeys, which began at eight and ended at one. Being Friday, three different and elaborate fish courses. Think of me among the Riordans and the Doolans and the MacCorvilles and the Tierneys, in full evening dress! thenTrench, Wilbraham Fitzjohnand the Book of Kells;a1 on Saturday morning, I was called for by Professor Trench of Trinity College,7 to show me the whole of the Book of Kells (ordinary visitors only see two pages at a time); thenCurran, Constantine Peter ('C. P.');a1 backRussell, William George ('Æ')being exhibited in Dublin;a1 in time to be called for by Mr. Con Curran8 to take me to see a show of paintings by the late George Russell,9 thence to the Hogans for lunch; and then taken by car by the Hogan brothers and Con P. Curran into the Wicklow hills to Glendaloch to see the seventh century churches and cemetaries [sic] (in the rain).10 Back just in time to get to the Post Office to see the dialogue which Miss Laverty had made out of our conversation – I am sending it to you. You will notice that Miss Laverty has put my remarks into her own language, and that she has attributed some remarks to me which were her own thoughts. While broadcasting I tried to translate back into my own vocabulary, but got rather flustered towards the end.11 The whole piece about Censorship had to be skipped, which was just as well. AfterFitzgerald, Desmondentertains TSE in Ireland;a2 that Desmond Fitzgerald was waiting for me, and motored me out to his home in Bray (a distant suburb by the sea) where I had dinner quietly with his wife and sons; andÓ’Faoláin, Seánappears at Desmond Fitzgerald dinner;a1 afterMontgomery, Niall;a1 dinnerMacDonagh, Donaghat Desmond Fitzgerald dinner;a1 severalDevlin, Denis;a1 people came in: the Longfords, Sean O’Faoloin [sic],12 Neil Montgomery,13 Donagh Mac Donagh [sic],14 Denis Devlin (a quiet and charming young poet)15 and a few others. Then the Longfords motored me back to Dublin, and I got to bed about two o’clock. On Sunday, crept down to breakfast about half-past nine, andalcoholGuinness before Mass;b7 found young Moira Coffey (rather pretty and smart) drinking a glass of Guinness’s stout as a preparation to taking me to Mass at the University Church. Irish people, to do honour to guests, always take them about in some vehicle, even when the destination is within walking distance; old Dr. Coffey has a horror of motors, because at the beginning of the century someone who had bought a motor car took him out in it and had an accident; so we went in a very ancient cab driven by an old man named Healey, who apparently has no other customer than Dr. Coffey. After Mass, we were picked up by Mr. and Mrs. MacCorville (only Mr. MacC has been in gaol, Mrs. hasn’t) who drove us (myself, Moira and Donagh Coffey) out through the Wicklow hills to the Kilcroney County Club (i.e. golf club) where we had the largest cocktail I ever saw, and drove back to the Coffeys in time for lunch. ThereMurder in the Cathedral1936 University College, Dublin student production;e3;a1 the only guest was a Father Burke, an intelligent and educated priest whom I liked. But lunch lasted till 3.30, and then we had to get ready for the performance to be given by the students in my honour, of ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ at 4, in the college. The performance began pretty promptly, for Ireland, but there was a very long tea interval, whichPlunkett, George Noblepresents TSE with his poems;a1 enabled everybody to talk to everybody, and the venerable Count Plunkett,16 whose son was shot in the 1916 uprising, presented me with his book of poems, and I signed my name a good many times, andRyan, James;a1 met the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Ryan,17 and the Minister of Finance in the last government; so the performance was not over until nearly seven. Then we went back quietly to the Coffeys for a cold supper, and they motored me to the dock at Dun Laoghaire (pronounced ‘Leary’) to the boat.

That’sIrelandin general;a4 a brief statement of events, but I can hardly begin to put into words all I have to say about Ireland. I think that everything that has ever been said about Ireland, good and bad, is true. Anything may be true in Ireland. I have never met with such complete and thoughtful hospitality, yet there was never any really hot water, and I did not get a proper bath the whole time. There is an enormous fire blazing in your bedroom however late you are, but the hot water bottle is cold. The banquets are magnificent – everyone in full dress, and the table shining with silver (possibly borrowed) and many courses and many wines; yet they will put up some cheap calendar on the wall: some impressive piece of furniture may be dangerously mended with paste and string, and door handles tend to come off in your hands. Motor cars are unreliable; most of them often have to be cranked. However they hate the English in principle, they are not only hospitable to the individual, but even deferential. They are unhappy and disillusioned, yet gay and irresponsible. I began to feel irresponsible myself – nothing seems to matter. The society is so mixed that you cannot at all classify people as in England. I was fascinated by it. ThereEnglandthe English;c1compared to the Irish;b6 is one great difference. TheIrelandthe Irish compared to the English;a5 English, for the most part, have small morality and no religion, but they are kept in order by good form. The Irishman has no good form whatever. He is very religious, but if his religion goes, everything goes. Here is an example.

IEsmonde, Sir Osmund Thomas Grattantransformed since TSE's Oxford days;a1 was lunching with Fitzgerald and Longford and the others, as I mentioned, at the most fashionable restaurant in Dublin. As we were going out, I was stopped by a man who had been sitting by himself at a table near the door. I was rather startled, because he was a bloated middle-aged man, with several days beard, a blotched face, a bleary eye, supporting himself on a stick, dirty, dressed in rags of torn clothes. He was obviously drunk from the night before and busy getting drunk again. HeOxford UniversityTSE's student literary club at;a8 asked me whether I was T. S. Eliot, and reminded me that we had been members of a literary club at Oxford, and did I remember any of the other men, he couldn’t think of their names etc. I gradually realised, with some horror, that he was a man named Sir Osmund Grattan-Esmonde Bt.,18 of an old and wealthy Irish Catholic family. At Oxford, he had been a dandy and an aesthete, and a brilliant speaker. He had then, I believe, been active in Nationalist politics: but here he was, gone completely to the devil. That is the sort of thing that can happen in Ireland. If an Englishman sank as low as that, he would avoid previous acquaintances, he would certainly not present himself in a conspicuous restaurant in London. But the Irish have no sense of respectability. And there is something to be said for it. IWolcott, Rogersmugly respectable;a6 thoughtLowell, Abbott Lawrencesmugly respectable;a7 that IAmericaBoston, Massachusetts;d1its society;b3 should like a few people like Roger Wolcott and Lawrence Lowell,19 and a lot of damned smug Bostonians, to meet an Irishman like Ozzie Esmonde, and be asked by God whether they thought themselves better men than he at the Last Judgment.

I foundIrelandits politics;a6 myself in the centre of local politics, and to some extent being made use of in them. The Irish are now more or less independent politically, but that alone does not bring prosperity, and they are depressed and disillusioned. The government is in a difficult position between conservatives and radicals, the farmers unhappy because they have to pay taxes, and pretty heavy ones, as in the old days; the outlet of emigration is stopped; and the discontented elements tend to be revolutionary. The government has to conciliate the clergy, who are mostly good pious folk, and the narrowest-minded in the world. The present discontent of the young literary folk (and literary people are important in Ireland) centres about the censorship of books, which is narrowly clerical, the encouragement of the Irish (they naturally want to write in English, because they are little read at home, however patriotic they are, and their public is in England and America), and the insistence upon orthodoxy. They were annoyed that when I was asked to speak, there were no representatives of Irish literature asked to speak too, but only priests and professors. (I am sending you separately the programme, Fr. Savage’s address, my reply, and my lecture the next day). HoweverYeats, William Butler ('W. B.')defended at UCD;b7, they were on the whole immensely pleased with my defense of Yeats, andJoyce, Jamesdefended by TSE at UCD;c3 my remarks about Joyce, who otherwise would never have been mentioned at all! When I began to speak of the latter, there was a great burst of applause from about half of the audience, and silence on the part of the other. That was considered very daring; and I was considered very wily because of my insistence upon Joyce’s essential Catholicism, and his Jesuit education: which did somewhat take the wind out of the sails of the other party.20 (I also send my broadcast talk, to amuse you. Miss Laverty not only wrote down what I did say, in her own language, but put into my mouth several notions of her own). The lecture the next day also seemed to please them.

TheMurder in the Cathedral1936 University College, Dublin student production;e3described by TSE;a2 performance of ‘Murder’ was most interesting, and did them credit. None of the young people had seen the London performance, or consulted anyone in England; so it was entirely their own conception. The producer took the part of the Archbishop as well, so that he did not know his lines; and the knights also stumbled and garbled very badly. But the fourth tempter was brilliant. What especially struck me was the work of the chorus; because this was in some respects much finer than that of Miss Fogerty’s girls. There were six girls; they were dressed alike, very simply, in black dresses with grey shawls and aprons, and both in dress and in movement managed to give the effect of old women such as you may see in Dublin streets to-day. It was most effective. They wisely did not attempt any elaborate partitioning of lines, but spoke mostly either altogether, or in sets of three antiphonally. The Irish voice also has a harshness (as well as a softness) which was very suitable. One did not think of them as refined young ladies, though they were the college girls of Dublin, but as what they pretended to be. I think that the Irish middleclass person is much nearer to the peasant that the corresponding person in England, and so can reproduce such things more vitally. That nearness to the present [sic] is what one would expect in a society which is mostly agricultural and very poor.

On the other hand, there were ways in which the Irish temperament failed to bring out a good deal. I think it may be that the Irish temperament is less complex, at any rate different. Everything was either extremely serious or comic, mostly the former: all those shades intermediate or blended between the serious and the comic, that part of the emotional scale so much used in England, were missed out, giving an effect of crudity, although of great intensity. I felt that had I been less tired and beset I might have learned more from it, of the difference between the Irish and English; or I could have done by seeing it repeated.

January 29th.    

HereGeorge Vhis funeral;a3 I must stop this letter after all. I wasted a good deal of yesterday morning by going to a Requiem for the King at All Saints and finding when I got there that I had misread the card and the Requiem is tomorrow. IMorrell, Lady Ottolinedebriefed on Ireland;f9 have had to have tea with Otto to talk about Ireland, andCamerons, theremoved from Oxford to London;a1 dined with the Camerons last night: they have come to live in Regents Park and given up their house in Oxford. AndSave the Children FundTSE's speech for;a1 tomorrow night there is a remainder of the speaking tasks I undertook in the autumn – to say a few words on behalf of the ‘Save the Children Fund’. I shall write again on Friday. Meanwhile, my dearest, I thank you for your two letters, of which I shall say more. I will only say this now, that I want you to be reconciled to the thought of having me sometimes kneel at your feet, because that attitude represents something of my feeling towards you that is essential and that cannot be expressed in any other physical position. BesidesHale, Emilyrelationship with TSE;w9EH kissed on the right foot;e6, I love your foot, and to kiss it has a special symbolism, because you have to take off your stocking to let me kiss it, and that is a kind of special act of consent. But now I leave a kiss on your throat and neck and shoulders for you to take to sleep with you tonight.

Sweet Love, my Emilie. I am missing you terribly.

Your adoring
Tom.

1.EóinMacNeill, Eóin MacNeill (1867–1945); scholar; Gaelic nationalist politician, co-founder of the Gaelic League; Minister for Education, 1922–35. He served too in other public and governmental roles.From 1908, Professor of Early Irish History, University College Dublin.

EdwardCarson, Edward Carson, Baron Carson (1854–1935), Irish Unionist politician, barrister and judge, organised the Irish Volunteers in order to secure military resistance to Home Rule, 1912–14.

2.MauraLaverty, Maura Laverty (1907–66), author, journalist and broadcaster, who worked for Radió Teilifis Éireann, interviewed TSE on Sat., 25 Jan.

3.DesmondFitzgerald, Desmond Fitzgerald (1888–1947), Irish Nationalist politician; poet. See Letters 4; Karl O’Hanlon in the Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/desmond-fitzgerald-on-ts-eliot-a-revolutionary-taste-in-poetry-1.4438458.

4.OliverGogarty, Oliver St. John St John Gogarty (1878–1957), Irish poet, author, politician and conversationalist.

5.FrankO'Connor, Frank O’Connor (1903–66), distinguished Irish novelist, playwright and short-story writer; his works include Collected Stories (1981); An Only Child (autobiography, 1961); and a fine translation (1945) of the seventeenth-century satire The Midnight Court, by Brian Merriman.

6.This lecture – given at University College Dublin, on 24 Jan. 1936 – was first published posthumously under the title ‘Tradition and the Practice of Poetry’: see CProse 5, 300–10.

7.WilbrahamTrench, Wilbraham Fitzjohn Fitzjohn Trench (1873–1939), Professor of English Literature, Trinity College Dublin.

8.C. P. (ConstantineCurran, Constantine Peter ('C. P.') Peter) Curran (1880–1972), contemporary and friend of Joyce at Trinity College Dublin; lawyer and historian of eighteenth-century Dublin art and architecture; author of James Joyce Remembered (1968).

9.WilliamRussell, William George ('Æ') George Russell, known by the cipher Æ (1867–1935), writer, critic, poet, painter.

10.YearsLittle Giddingand TSE's St. Kevin's cave excursion;a2n later, when TSE received a fan-letter from Curran, he responded, 4 May 1960: ‘It is a particularly pleasant reminder of a very happy visit to Dublin in the far-away days before the war when you took me to the exhibition of A. E.’s paintings and when we went to see St Kevin’s cave (to which I later referred in a poem called “Little Gidding” [I, 35–7]) with the Hogans.’ St Kevin’s Cave is at lake Glendalough in County Wicklow, where St Kevin set up a hermitage: it is still the site of pilgrimage.

11.TSE’swritingand routine;a1 remarks, broadcast on RTE on Sat., 25 Jan., included: ‘I feel that steady application is even more important to an author than is genius. Most well-known writers, you will find, plan their day in a methodical way. There have been exceptions, of course – notably Balzac, whose best work was done during periods of literary frenzy when he would lock himself into his study for days and nights at a time, emerging only when the frenzy had subsided and the work was completed. In spite of such exceptions, I maintain that a regular system in writing is better and more productive than spasmodic eruptions of genius. <This steady, regular application is not possible to poets, however.> In my opinion, a writer should turn to poetry with a fresh eager mind and this is possible only if he treats his poetry as a side-issue and not as a profession. Only in this way will he avoid staleness.’

Of his role as editor of the Criterion: ‘Reading poetry is something like tea-tasting. After reading a certain amount one’s palate, to a great extent, loses the powers of sensitive discrimination, and one is likely to find the taste of what has gone before influencing one’s critical perception.’

OfJoyce, Jamesqua poet;c5n poetswritingpoetry versus prose;b6n as writers of prose: ‘Frankly, I do not see how anyone can write good poetry and not be capable of writing good prose as well. If a writer possesses the gift of poetic expression it naturally follows that his prose will benefit. All of the well-known modern Irish poets are masters of prose. James Joyce is a great poet as well as a great prose writer. Yeats’sYeats, William Butler ('W. B.')qua writer of prose;b8 prose, what there is of it, is recognised as excellent. Admittedly, it lacks the progressiveness, the modern quality which distinguishes his poetry, and it savours a little of the nineties, but it is nevertheless splendid prose of its period.’ Of his impressions of Ireland: ‘If you accept the axiom that what is lovable and admirable in a man is but a reflection of the country that bore him, I think you will find here an eloquent admission of what I think of Ireland.’

12.SeánÓ’Faoláin, Seán Ó’Faoláin (1900–91), novelist and short-story writer. Brought up in Ireland (where he was born John Francis Whelan), he attended University College Cork – for a while in the early 1920s he was an ardent nationalist and joined the Irish Volunteers – and he was a Commonwealth Fellow at Harvard University, 1926–8. Founder-editor of the Irish periodical The Bell, he also served as Director of the Arts Council of Ireland, 1957–9. Following Midsummer Night Madness and Other Stories (1932), he produced a wealth of stories: see Collected Stories of Seán Ó’Faoláin (1983).

13.NiallMontgomery, Niall Montgomery (1915–87), distinguished architect, poet and playwright; friend of Samuel Beckett; and authority on the work of James Joyce. See Christine O’Neill, ‘Niall Montgomery: An Early Irish Champion of Joyce’, James Joyce Journal 1 (2008), 1–16.

14.DonaghMacDonagh, Donagh MacDonagh (1912–68), Irish poet and playwright; barrister and judge (the youngest judge in Ireland on his appointment in 1941). His works include collections of verse: Variations and Other Poems (1941) and A Warning to Conquerors (1968); and verse plays including the acclaimed Happy as Larry (1946) and Lady Spider (1980). In a later year, TSE wrote this blurb for The Hungry Grass (F&F, 1947): ‘Donagh MacDonagh is an Irish poet of established reputation, whose work has until now been known in England only by those poems which have appeared from time to time in English magazines. This is the first collection of his poems to be published in this country. It will lead, we believe, to a valuation of this poet which will give him an assured place among the poets of his generation.’

15.DenisDevlin, Denis Devlin (1908–59), Irish poet and career diplomat; close friend of Brian Coffey, with whom he published Poems (1930). Collected Poems was edited by J. C. C. Mays (1989).

16.GeorgePlunkett, George Noble Noble Plunkett (1851–1948), Irish nationalist politician, a Papal Count. Three of his sons – Joseph, George and Jack – were sentenced to death after the 1916 Rising; Joseph was executed but his brothers had their sentences commuted.

17.JamesRyan, James Ryan (1891–1970), Fianna Fáil politician; Minister for Agriculture, 1932–47.

18.SirEsmonde, Sir Osmund Thomas Grattan Osmond Thomas Grattan Esmonde, 12th baronet (1896–1936), diplomat and politician.

19.Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943), President of Harvard University, 1909–33.

20.TSE’sJoyce, Jamesdefended by TSE at UCD;c3 reply to Burke-Savage’s presentation – ‘Literature at the Crossroads’ – includes these remarks (p. 4): ‘There remains one great and lamentably isolated figure. James Joyce seems to me the most universal, the most Irish and the most Catholic writer in English in his generation. The spectacle of anyone educated in the Faith, who has subsequently lapsed from it or revolted from it, must always be a melancholy one; but we must distinguish here between a man and his work. The important thing in Joyce’s work is not the author’s conscious attitude towards his hereditary faith, but the fact that he has never been able to escape from it. Whatever he thinks of his education, and whatever its particular effect upon his temperament, his work is certainly an unconscious tribute to the kind of education he received – an education without which, I believe, he would not have achieved such eminence. The mind exhibited in the work remains profoundly Catholic and religious. This aspect of his work is perhaps more conspicuous to an observer brought up in, or habituated to the secularised atmosphere of England or America. What is fundamentally sound in it, for those who are mature enough to find it, is Catholic. In an essay published several years ago I developed this point by a rather detailed comparison of a story in the volume “Dubliners” called The Dead, with stories by Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Hardy. I am not here concerned with estimates of the native gifts of all these authors; only with the importance of the religious background. It is to this that the superiority of the story of Joyce is primarily due; and it is the inferiority in this respect that leaves the accomplishment of the others so largely a waste of great gifts in error and triviality.’

The novelist James Hanley to TSE, 31 Jan. 1936: ‘I listened with great interest to your speech on the wireless last week from Ireland and need I say how thrilled I was when you spoke of James Joyce as you did, especially after Father Savage’s speech. Though I am myself Irish, having a Cork mother & Dublin father I would not care to live in that country ever again; and though I owe something to Catholicism for stimulating my imagination, I am all against the clerical conception of literary ethics. It was so splendid to hear Joyce championed in his own country and by one not Irish.’

DonaghJoyce, Jamesfor which TSE is attacked;c4n MacDonagh to TSE, 10 Feb. 1936: ‘Our leading Catholic paper has an attack on you for your praise of Joyce.’

Patricia Hutchins to TSE, 16 Nov. 1953: ‘Someone [Felix Hacket] was talking to me about the disapproval of Joyce at University College until fairly recently, and he said, “When T. S. Eliot mentioned in his lecture that Joyce was a Catholic writer, there was complete silence.”’

TSE replied to Hutchins, 23 Nov. 1953: ‘The incident in question took place at a meeting at University College, Dublin, I think in 1937 – at any rate, several years before the war. It was an unusual occasion which is, no doubt, well known to you. A local scholar – on this occasion, I think, a young Jesuit, whose name I have forgotten – presents a thesis, and a visitor is invited over to present a different, or at least his own, point of view on the same theme. The thesis of the lecturer consisted primarily, to the best of my recollection, of a severe criticism of W. B. Yeats for having made so much use of the pre-Christian mythology of Ireland, instead of drawing on the equally venerable Cathoic traditions. My function accordingly was primarily to present my own view of Yeats’s employment of pagan mythology. The whole disputation was certainly very fairly conducted, and of course I was given the opportunity to read the first address in order to prepare my rejoinder to it. After that there were a number of other speakers who talked more or less on the same questions.

‘I cannot now remember what was said by anybody and I do not know what became of the text of my own address. I therefore cannot remember whether I made a statement to the effect that Joyce was a Catholic writer. I know, however, that I did speak of Joyce, and of course in his praise. I am sure that complete silence is not an exact description of my words [sic]. So far as I can remember, the greater part of the audience remained in silence, but there was a considerable demonstration of applause from a group of young people at the back of the room, who were evidently well pleased that the name of Joyce should be mentioned, and his work openly preferred on such an occasion. But the whole proceedings went forward in perfect order.’

alcohol, as pleasure, as temptation, as weakness, whisky as necessity, whisky as suppressant, as aid to sleep, and American Prohibition, the 'bedtime Guinness', too much sherry, whisky as medicine, at The Swan, Commercial Road, GCF's pillaged whisky, and buying cheap delicious wine, 'whisky' vs 'whiskey', erroneous belief about brandy, Guinness before Mass, asperity on port, at JDH and TSE's dinner, Château Latour 1874, Château Leoville-Poyferré 1915, fine wines at JDH's, wartime whisky, bottle of beer with wireless, 'dry sherry' and rationing,
America, TSE on not returning in 1915, and TSE as transatlantic cultural conduit, dependence on Europe, TSE's sense of deracination from, and the Great Depression, TSE a self-styled 'Missourian', as depicted in Henry Eliot's Rumble Murders, its national coherence questioned, its religious and educational future, versus Canadian and colonial society, where age is not antiquity, drinks Scotland's whisky, and FDR's example to England, underrates Europe's influence on England, redeemed by experience with G. I.'s, TSE nervous at readjusting to, and post-war cost of living, more alien to TSE post-war, its glories, landscape, cheap shoes, its horrors, Hollywood, climate, lack of tea, overheated trains, over-social clubs, overheating in general, perplexities of dress code, food, especially salad-dressing, New England Gothic, earthquakes, heat, the whistle of its locomotives, 'Easter holidays' not including Easter, the cut of American shirts, television, Andover, Massachusetts, EH moves to, Ann Arbor, Michigan, TSE on visiting, Augusta, Maine, EH stops in, Baltimore, Maryland, and TSE's niece, TSE engaged to lecture in, TSE on visiting, Bangor, Maine, EH visits, Bay of Fundy, EH sailing in, Bedford, Massachusetts, its Stearns connections, Boston, Massachusetts, TSE tries to recollect society there, its influence on TSE, its Museum collection remembered, inspires homesickness, TSE and EH's experience of contrasted, described by Maclagan, suspected of dissipating EH's energies, EH's loneliness in, Scripps as EH's release from, possibly conducive to TSE's spiritual development, restores TSE's health, its society, TSE's relations preponderate, TSE's happiness in, as a substitute for EH's company, TSE's celebrity in, if TSE were there in EH's company, its theatregoing public, The Times on, on Labour Day, Brunswick, Maine, TSE to lecture in, TSE on visiting, California, as imagined by TSE, TSE's wish to visit, EH suggests trip to Yosemite, swimming in the Pacific, horrifies TSE, TSE finds soulless, land of earthquakes, TSE dreads its effect on EH, Wales's resemblance to, as inferno, and Californians, surfeit of oranges and films in, TSE's delight at EH leaving, land of kidnappings, Aldous Huxley seconds TSE's horror, the lesser of two evils, Cannes reminiscent of, TSE masters dislike of, land of monstrous churches, TSE regrets EH leaving, winterless, its southern suburbs like Cape Town, land of fabricated antiquities, Cambridge, Massachusetts, TSE's student days in, socially similar to Bloomsbury, TSE lonely there but for Ada, TSE's happiness in, exhausting, EH's 'group' in, road safety in, Casco Bay, Maine, TSE remembers, Castine, Maine, EH holidays in, Cataumet, Massachusetts, EH holidays in, Chicago, Illinois, EH visits, reportedly bankrupt, TSE on, TSE takes up lectureship in, its climate, land of fabricated antiquities, Chocurua, New Hampshire, EH stays in, Concord, Massachusetts, EH's househunting in, EH moves from, Connecticut, its countryside, and Boerre, TSE's end-of-tour stay in, Dorset, Vermont, EH holidays in, and the Dorset Players, Elizabeth, New Jersey, TSE on visiting, Farmington, Connecticut, place of EH's schooling, which TSE passes by, EH holidays in, Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, EH recuperates in, Gerrish Island, Maine, TSE revisits, Hollywood, perceived debauchery of its movies, TSE's dream of walk-on part, condemned by TSE to destruction, TSE trusts Murder will be safe from, Iowa City, Iowa, TSE invited to, Jonesport, Maine, remembered, Kittery, Maine, described, Lexington, Massachusetts, and the Stearns family home, Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, visited by EH, Madison, Wisconsin, Aurelia Bolliger hails from, Ralph Hodgson sails for, EH summers in, as conceived by TSE, who eventually visits, Maine, its coast remembered by TSE, TSE recalls swimming off, Minneapolis, on EH's 1952 itinerary, TSE lectures in, New Bedford, Massachusetts, EH's holidays in, TSE's family ties to, New England, and Unitarianism, more real to TSE than England, TSE homesick for, in TSE's holiday plans, architecturally, compared to California, and the New England conscience, TSE and EH's common inheritance, springless, TSE remembers returning from childhood holidays in, its countryside distinguished, and The Dry Salvages, New York (N.Y.C.), TSE's visits to, TSE encouraged to write play for, prospect of visiting appals TSE, as cultural influence, New York theatres, Newburyport, Maine, delights TSE, Northampton, Massachusetts, TSE on, EH settles in, TSE's 1936 visit to, autumn weather in, its spiritual atmosphere, EH moves house within, its elms, the Perkinses descend on, Aunt Irene visits, Boerre's imagined life in, TSE on hypothetical residence in, EH returns to, Peterborough, New Hampshire, visited by EH, TSE's vision of life at, Petersham, Massachusetts, EH holidays in, TSE visits with the Perkinses, EH spends birthday in, Edith Perkins gives lecture at, the Perkinses cease to visit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, TSE on, and TSE's private Barnes Foundation tour, Independence Hall, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, surrounding countryside, Portsmouth, Maine, delights TSE, Randolph, New Hampshire, 1933 Eliot family holiday in, the Eliot siblings return to, Seattle, Washington State, EH summers in, EH's situation at, TSE prefers to California, EH repairs to post-Christmas, EH visits on 1952 tour, EH returns to, Sebasco, Maine, EH visits, South, the, TSE's first taste of, TSE's prejudices concerning, St. Louis, Missouri, TSE's childhood in, TSE's homesickness for, TSE styling himself a 'Missourian', possible destination for TSE's ashes, resting-place of TSE's parents, TSE on his return to, the Mississippi, compared to TSE's memory, TSE again revisits, TSE takes EVE to, St. Paul, Minnesota, TSE on visiting, the Furness house in, Tryon, North Carolina, EH's interest in, EH staying in, Virginia, scene of David Garnett's escapade, and the Page-Barbour Lectures, TSE on visiting, and the South, Washington, Connecticut, EH recuperates in, West Rindge, New Hampshire, EH holidays at, White Mountains, New Hampshire, possible TSE and EH excursion to, Woods Hole, Falmouth, Massachusetts, TSE and EH arrange holiday at, TSE and EH's holiday in recalled, and The Dry Salvages, TSE invited to, EH and TSE's 1947 stay in, EH learns of TSE's death at,
see also American Presidential Election
Camerons, the, removed from Oxford to London, at JDH's, evening with Freddie Ayer and, first television-watching experience with,
Carson, Edward,

EdwardCarson, Edward Carson, Baron Carson (1854–1935), Irish Unionist politician, barrister and judge, organised the Irish Volunteers in order to secure military resistance to Home Rule, 1912–14.

Coffey, Dr Denis J.,

11.DrCoffey, Dr Denis J. Denis J. Coffey (1865–1945), first President of University College Dublin, 1908–40. Formerly Professor of Physiology, and Dean of the Catholic University Medical School.

Curran, Constantine Peter ('C. P.'),

8.C. P. (ConstantineCurran, Constantine Peter ('C. P.') Peter) Curran (1880–1972), contemporary and friend of Joyce at Trinity College Dublin; lawyer and historian of eighteenth-century Dublin art and architecture; author of James Joyce Remembered (1968).

Devlin, Denis,

15.DenisDevlin, Denis Devlin (1908–59), Irish poet and career diplomat; close friend of Brian Coffey, with whom he published Poems (1930). Collected Poems was edited by J. C. C. Mays (1989).

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
Esmonde, Sir Osmund Thomas Grattan, transformed since TSE's Oxford days,

18.SirEsmonde, Sir Osmund Thomas Grattan Osmond Thomas Grattan Esmonde, 12th baronet (1896–1936), diplomat and politician.

Fitzgerald, Desmond, at Dublin literary lunch, entertains TSE in Ireland, discusses poetry and scholastics,

3.DesmondFitzgerald, Desmond Fitzgerald (1888–1947), Irish Nationalist politician; poet. See Letters 4; Karl O’Hanlon in the Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/desmond-fitzgerald-on-ts-eliot-a-revolutionary-taste-in-poetry-1.4438458.

George V, near death, dies, his funeral,
Gogarty, Oliver St. John, at Dublin literary lunch,

4.OliverGogarty, Oliver St. John St John Gogarty (1878–1957), Irish poet, author, politician and conversationalist.

Hale, Emily, visits the Eliots for tea, returns to Boston, likened to TSE's mother, TSE identifies with her 'reserve', encouraged to write for periodicals, visits West Rindge, summers in Seattle, presents herself as cossetted, blames herself for an unfulfilled life, returns to Boston, consulted over TSE's Norton Professorship, holidays in Castine, vacations in New Bedford, TSE fears accident befalling, travels to stay in Seattle, Frank Morley on Ada on, arrives in California, brought to tears by music, goes horse-riding, baited over how to boil an egg, TSE passes old school of, takes motoring holiday via San Francisco, summers in Seattle, TSE composes squib for, takes TSE's hand in dream, returned to California, TSE sends Harvard Vocarium record, holidays in West Rindge, returns to Boston before embarking for England, arrives in England, to travel to Paris, returns to London, feels inferior to 'brilliant society', invited to Sweeney Agonistes rehearsal, attends Richard II with TSE, attends Sweeney Agonistes, takes TSE to Gielgud's Hamlet, taken to see Stravinsky conducting, leaves for Italy, takes tea at OM's before leaving, mistaken for TSE's sister, returns to Florence, sails for the Riviera, returns from France, returns to Chipping Campden, to Guernsey with Jeanie McPherrin, taken to Henry IV on return, shares open taxi with TSE through Parks and Whitehall, and TSE attend The Gondoliers, visit to the Russian ballet, invited to Murder in Canterbury, and TSE attend 1066 And All That, taken to Tovaritch, and Morleys set for ballet, which she excuses herself from, criticised for flower-arranging, and TSE walk in the Cotswolds, feels inferior to Margaret Thorp, and TSE theatre-going with Thorps, taken to Timon of Athens, taken to Peer Gynt, visited at Campden for TSE's birthday, takes lodgings in Oxford, lodges at 19 Rosary Gardens, watches TSE read to Student Christian Movement, and TSE visit Kenwood House, dines with the Maritains, describes tea with the Woolfs, returns to America, visits Ada on Boston homecoming, possible career-move into politics, pays winter visit to Rindge, and Eleanor Hinkley attend New York Murder, moves to 154 Riverway with Perkinses, considers volunteering for charity, living at 5 Clement Circle, holidays in Cataumet, returns abruptly to Cambridge, recuperates in New Hampshire, moves to 240 Crescent St., Northampton, Mass., lectures at Concord, returns to Brimmer Street, returns to Boston during vacation, sails for England, in residence at Chipping Campden, travels to Yorkshire, returned to Chipping Campden, returns and moves to 22 Paradise Road, Northampton, Mass., spends Thanksgiving in Boston, stays at Hotel Lincolnshire with the Perkinses, vacations at New Bedford, visits New York, holidays in Charleston, as patron of school, returns to Northampton, sails for England, day at Windsor with TSE, fortnight at Campden with TSE, at Campden with TSE again, returns to America with 'Boerre', ordered to stay in America in case of war, given Family Reunion draft with her comments, encouraged to write drama criticism, vacations in New Bedford, advises TSE against Tewkesbury choruses, holidays with the Havenses, sails for England, at Chipping Campden, stays with the Adam Smiths in Scotland, returns to America with Perkinses, safely returned, sent copy of TSE's daily prayers, sent first CNL, sends TSE selected American plays, holidays in New Bedford, spends Easter in Harwichport, holiday destinations, holidays in Cape Cod, returns to the Perkinses at 90 Commonwealth Avenue, stays with Elsmiths in Woods Hole, holidays on Grand Manan, visits Perkinses in Boston, returns to 90 Commonwealth Avenue, holidays in Madison, Wisc., travels on to Maine, holidays on Grand Manan, holidays in Bangor, Maine, as president of S. P. C. A., spends Christmas holiday in New Bedford, holidays in Woods Hole, loans out her Eliotana, removes from Smith to the Perkinses, spends time in Maine, repairs to New Bedford, spends time in Tryon, N. C., returned to Boston, spends three days in New York, shares details of will, holidays on Grand Manan, leaves TSE portrait in event of predeceasing him, late summer in New Brunswick, vacations in New Bedford, repairs to New Bedford, resident in Millbrook, takes short holiday at 'Bleak House', holidays on Grand Manan, visits Woods Hole, visits New Bedford, holidays in New Bedford, spends holiday at Sylvia Knowles's, holidays in Dorset, Vt., holidays briefly in Farmington, holidaying on Grand Manan, TSE seeks Trojan Women translation for, moves to 9 Lexington Road, gives Christmas readings, congratulates TSE on OM, urges TSE not to despair at honours, spends Easter in Boston, race-relations and the WPA, sings Bach's B Minor Mass, removes from Concord to Andover, on life in Grand Manan, congratulates TSE on Nobel Prize, resident at 35 School Street, Andover, summers between Boston, Woods Hole, New Bedford and Grand Manan, recounts journey to Grand Manan, takes The Cocktail Party personally, then repents of doing so, post-Christmas stay in New Bedford, reports on Cocktail Party's opening, summers between Chocorua and Campobello, tours westward to California during summer holiday, attends British Drama League summer school, holidays in Grand Manan, asks TSE for occasional poem, week in the Virgin Islands, summers between Mount Desert and California, spends holidays in New Bedford, recuperates in New Bedford, returns, briefly to Chipping Campden, Eleanor Hinkley reports on, writes to EVE, sends EVE photograph of TSE, makes tour of Scandinavia, approaches TSE on Smith's behalf, which approach TSE declines, writes to TSE on GCF's death, moves back to Concord, pays visit to Seattle, reacts to TSE's death, writes to EVE, meets EVE, dies, appearance and characteristics, her shapely neck, TSE's memory for certain of her old dresses, particularly four dresses, which TSE then describes, TSE begs EH to describe her clothing, in silk, autumn 1930, costumed in a 'Titian wig', EH encouraged to gain weight, EH encouraged to tan, her Jantzen suit, TSE begs a slip of hair from, her gold-and-green tea gown, her Praxitelean nose, EH congratulated on 'perm', EH refuses TSE lock of hair, her voice, Guardsman dress, as a Botticelli Madonna, her hands, recommended skin-cream, 'new goldy dress', TSE inquires after, in TSE's dreams, 'new and nuder' swimsuit demanded, her black dress/red jacket outfit, dressed in blue, in charming black dress, her sense of humour, her New England conscience, the famous apricot dress, her hair, various dresses, EH's idea of new dresses, EH hair cut in the new style, blue dress worn following masque, as actor, as Olivia in Twelfth Night, in the Cambridge Dramatic club, as Roxane in Cyrano in 1915/16, as Judith Bliss in Hay Fever, EH considers giving up for teaching, in the 'stunt show' with TSE, as Beatrice, TSE hopes, in The Footlight Club, in Berkeley Square, in The Yellow Jacket, EH praised over Ruth Draper, under Ellen van Volkenburg, cast as an octogenarian, in The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, TSE speculates as to her future in, and teaching, as Lady Bracknell, TSE begs to write part for, in The Footlight Club, potentially in summer theatre company, as the Duchess of Devonshire, potentially in The Family Reunion, Cambridge Dramatic club reunion, The Wingless Victory, in masque with TSE, in a Van Druten play, as Lodovico Sforza, in play by Laurence Housman, as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, with Paul Stephenson, in Kind Lady, joins the Dorset Players, as director ('producer'), La Locandiera, Lady Gregory's The Dragon, Dust of the Road, Comus, possibly temporarily at St. Catherine's, Va., chorus work at Smith, Electra, Quality Street, The Merchant of Venice, Dear Brutus, Christmas play, Richard II, Hay Fever, Christmas pantomime, The Dorset Players, a reading of Outward Bound, Molnár's The Swan, Dulcy, The School for Scandal, Fanny and the Servant Problem, Dear Brutus again, Twelfth Night, Prunella, Christmas play, Antigone, The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, The Admirable Crichton, Holy Night, The Tempest, as teacher, EH lectures on 'Modern British Verse', as a career, at Milwaukee-Downer College, Mich., at Simmons College, Boston, EH considers post at Scripps, which she accepts, arrives at Scripps, establishes drama workshop at Scripps, EH lectures on TSE, EH's advice that TSE lecture less slowly, as described by Scripps student, and being admired by students, TSE sees her teaching as a kind of acting, requests year's leave from Scripps, resigns position at Scripps, declares intention to teach again, possibly, temporarily, at St. Catherine's, Va., possibly at Smith, post at St. Catherine's rejected, appointed to position at Smith, is installed at Smith, reappointed with pay-rise, reappointed again for two years, her work at Smith, unsettled at Smith, in time of war, insecure over job at Smith, from which EH takes 'sabbatical', let go by Smith, takes job at Concord Academy, appointed to post at Bennett Junior College, Millbrook, appointment to permanent Concord position, EH thinks of giving up, lectures on Family Reunion, her work at Concord Academy, resignation from Concord Academy, takes permanent position at Abbot, EH admits to being sheltered by, retirement from Abbot, according to Abbot Academy tribute, birthdays, presents and love-tokens, EH's birthday compared to TSE's, TSE sends Terry–Shaw correspondence for EH's birthday, EH sends TSE pomme purée, present from EH, flowers for EH's birthday arrive too soon, EH wearing TSE's ring, two rings bought for EH, EH bought typewriter, TSE 'cables' EH roses, TSE consults EH over potential present, TSE's second 'sapphire' ring for, EH refits new rings from TSE, TSE receives flowers for Christmas, EH given 'powder box' for Christmas, EH's present to TSE goes amiss, missing present (calendar) explained, EH left cigarettes by TSE, EH gives TSE cigarette case, TSE necklace-hunting for EH, pearls suggested for EH, EH bought sapphire bracelet, EH gives TSE a signet ring, EH bought blue-gray scarf, EH gives TSE silk handkerchiefs, TSE has signet ring engraved, further ring sought for EH, EH with TSE on his birthday, EH gives TSE initialled leather portfolio, TSE given ashtrays and matchbox, furs sought for EH, EH gives TSE stool, roses sent to EH on birthday, TSE given diary and hairbrush box, TSE given rosary and print, EH buys TSE towel rails, TSE receives diary for Christmas, 1810 ring bought for EH, EH buys TSE various ties, war means no flowers, EH's lapis lazuli ring, TSE neglects to cable EH, EH knits socks for TSE, which turn out large, EH sends TSE 'snowflake' socks, EH remembers TSE's birthday with reference to Shakespeare, TSE sent marmalade and liver-paste, EH writes poem for TSE's birthday, EH sends TSE provisions, EH loses sapphire from ring, diamond circlet given to EH in 1939, EH gives TSE socks for Christmas, TSE gives EH 'evening bag', EH unthanked for Christmas present, correspondence with TSE, TSE petitions EH to bestow on the Bodleian, TSE exalts as authoritative, TSE envisions as reading-group, the only writing TSE enjoys, TSE as Cyrano to EH's Roxane, TSE's dependence on, TSE's nights spent planning, TSE rereads with pleasure, the strain of interruption, switches to Air Mail, TSE on his decision to renew, TSE marks first anniversary of, keeps TSE sane, TSE hopes to telephone, TSE wishes to maintain when in America, EH would withhold from the Bodleian bequest, from which TSE tries to dissuade her, TSE violently dependent on, TSE begs EH that it be preserved, less exciting to EH than at first, TSE's horror of sounding sermonic, if such a correspondence were profitable, and TSE's respectful reticence, EH suggests entrusting to Willard Thorp, but subsequently explains she meant Margaret Thorp, EH's to do with as pleases, and the prospect of TSE writing every night, TSE still rereads with pleasure, excites TSE too much to write smoothly, compared with talking, phone call finally arranged, which finally takes place, EH importuned to write more, TSE promises three letters a week, EH refuses more than one, a solitude within a solitude, EH switches to typewriter, which TSE offers to buy, observed weekly by EH's students, flatters TSE most when EH writes undutifully, TSE's dread of EH rationing, TSE's efforts to moderate himself within, TSE imagines the unsealing of, TSE offers to cease, a place to vent one's feelings, TSE rebuked for 'intolerance' within, EH learns to type, hinders TSE from work, TSE on life before, third anniversary marked, thwarted by TSE's self-loathing, TSE doubts having pursued, restraints on TSE's ardour lifted, more constrained by day, TSE worries about burdening EH with, worth TSE getting home early for, by day, by night, TSE specially treasures recent 'love letters', more delightful since EH's reciprocation, and TSE's diminished ardour, switches to transatlantic airmail, constrained by war, opened by censor, and Shamley Green post-office, TSE apologises for, EH free to dispose of, within limits, particularly constrained by EH's letter of 1939, and the experience of delay, TSE equivocates on preserving, varied with airgraph, again, EH's to do with as she pleases, still intended for Bodleian, TSE chastened for short cables, TSE's letters 'undemonstrative and impersonal', post-war frequency, being and not being loving by letter, EH asks TSE to reduce, TSE criticised for following monthly injunction, TSE rebuked for impersonality, EH formally bequeaths to Princeton, TSE unfussed as to repository, TSE reiterates 50-year prohibition, TSE's worries as to future appearances, EH promises Princeton her statement on, promises letters with ten-year seal, attempts to shorten TSE's moratorium, which TSE refuses, which forces EH to relent, TSE encouraged to return EH's letters, EH deposits further material with Princeton, EH makes 'recording' for Princeton, EH renews plea to shorten moratorium, and is again refused, TSE destroys EH's letters, TSE repents of severe letter, which EH never receives, EH suspects TSE of destroying her letters, EH instructs Princeton to discard 'recording', EH ultimately respects TSE's wishes, EH on TSE's destruction of her letters, family, her father, her childhood compared to TSE's, TSE desires family history of, EH encouraged to keep younger company, EH's unity with parents, EH's relations with aunt and uncle, EH's relations with aunt and uncle, EH photographed with parents, and EH's obligations to, finances, health, physical and mental, admits to breakdown, TSE compares 'nightmares' with, TSE's desire to nurse, suffers neuritis, then neuralgia, recommended suncream, suffers arthritis, suffers with sinuses, her teeth, experiences insomnia, suffers 'hives', suffers crisis body and soul, feels depressed over Christmas, suffers neuralgia, suffers intestinal flu, has shingles, admitted to hospital, convalesces on Grand Manan, recuperates in Washington, Conn., photographs of, as a child, Edith Sitwellesque photograph, in 18th-century costume, in 18th-century French costume, in broad-brimmed 'picture' hat, TSE buys Kodak, in deck-chair, eating sandwich, in a car, 'the Beautiful one', which TSE has enlarged for his dressing-table, painful, because taken in the 'interim', in bacchanalian pose, 'Semitic', among young people, set 'Elizabeth' giggling, Diana Mannersesque, are mnemonic aids to TSE, kneeling beside can of flowers, TSE's favourite, with ordinarily sized hands, smoking in chair, as child with big ears, taken on TSE's arrival in Claremont, in Jane Austen fashion, in unfamiliar jacket, taken in autumn, with mother and father, as a child, in TSE's note-case throughout Blitz, in Wingless Victory, as child, in gold frame, in familiar jacket, taken with Boerre, surround TSE at Shamley, with baby, in a group, of EH's portrait, in sailor suit, all inadequate, carrying lamp, with Rag Doll, at Campobello, reading, Henry James, Letters from Baron Friedrich von Hügel to a Niece, All Passion Spent, Bubu de Montparnasse, F&F thriller, Eyeless in Gaza, Dante, Hopkins and Roosevelt, Henry Irving: The Actor and His World, relationship with TSE, TSE's first acquaintance with, its abnormality, runs to admiration from EH, and TSE's habitual reserve, its morality under examination, defended by TSE, its susceptibilities envisaged by TSE, EH admits estrangement within, and TSE's desire for intimacies, provokes sorrow and fury in TSE, confided to the Perkinses, Miss Ware and Father Underhill, TSE's chance to be frivolous, and the prospect of TSE's Harvard year, TSE dates first meeting to 1905, whereas EH dates to 1915, TSE's terror of renewing in California, teaches TSE true companionship, runs to a 'kiss', as perpetual progress and revelation, EH offered manumission from, if TSE were not married, seems more real for TSE's American year, TSE's reasons against marrying, TSE fears having misled over, EH again offered manumission from, EH writes to Ada concerning, EH blames TSE for his ardour, then apologises for blaming TSE, leads to unhappiness in EH, possible drain on EH's health, its perceived inequalities, pity and gratitude would corrupt, TSE conditionally promises marriage, TSE sees as an imposition on EH, potentially richer for meeting TSE's friends, EH 'kisses' TSE, EH rests head on TSE's shoulder, EH strokes TSE's face, as consubstantial union, TSE's love finally reciprocated, mutual embraces, EH kissed on the right foot, TSE favoured with birthday kiss, exhausting, should proceed without hope of marriage, TSE again regrets misleading EH, as one of mutual dependence, its unsatisfactions, its seasonal rhythm, but for VHE would be marriage, EH seeks post-war clarity on, and the prospect of VHE's death, following VHE's death, TSE reflects on the deterioration of, TSE reflects generally on, and men and women generally, according to Theresa Eliot, EH reflects on, since TSE discounted marriage, had TSE behaved differently in 1914, its new dispensation, source of mutual anguish, apropos of TSE's second marriage, EH's marriage regret, EH recoils from publicising, TSE re-evaluates, EH writes to EVE about, religious beliefs and practices, claims experience of 'vision', admits suffering spiritual crisis, goes on retreat, and TSE's definition of sainthood, compared to TSE's, professes to resent the Church, makes retreat to Senexet, the issue of communion, the possibility of confirmation, source of worry to EH, confronts TSE on religious differences, TSE on her 'Christian spirit', fears TSE considers her damned, TSE pointedly refrains from criticising, unclear to TSE, TSE's love for, and their conversation in Eccleston Square, declared, in 1915, and TSE's desire to be EH's spiritual possession, source of serenity to TSE, the strangeness of not broadcasting, first felt in 1913, recognised by TSE the night of Tristan und Isolde, TSE's reasons for not declaring in 1913, what TSE said instead of declaring, a pain of sorts, unconfided to friends, not immune to jealousy of EH's male friends, its passion tempered by religion, and the torment of resignation, defiled by possessiveness and anger, and a particular journey back from Pasadena, in light of California stay, increases his desire to quarrel with EH, TSE doubts decision to declare, eternally unconditional, shows TSE true meaning of tenderness, defined by TSE, violent, clarified and strengthened by Chipping Campden reunion, disquiets EH, obstructive to EH loving another, TSE initially relieved to find unrequited, queered by inexperience, TSE repents of over-prizing, startles TSE, like 'a burglar', strengthened and deepened, irrespective of physical beauty, finally reciprocated, ideal when unreciprocated, relieved only by poetry, as against love's travesties, as expressed in Burnt Norton, over time, apparently undimmed but dwarfed by war, and the first time TSE spoke EH's name, thwarted by question of divorce, EH questions, now better adjusted to reality, argument over communion challenges, would run to jealously but not marriage, as expressed in 1914 on Chestnut Hill, TSE's names, nicknames and terms of endearment for, 'Lady', 'Dove', 'My saint', 'Bienaimée', TSE's reason for calling her 'Dove', 'Isolde', 'My Lady', 'Emilie', 'Princess', 'Lady bird', 'Birdie', 'riperaspberrymouth', 'Emily of Fire & Violence', 'Bouche-de-Fraise', 'Bouch-de-Framboise', 'Raspberrymouth', not 'Wendy', 'Nightingale', 'Mocking Bird', 'Love', 'My true love', 'my Self', 'Emilia' and Shelley's Epipsychidion, 'my Own', 'Girl', 'Western Star', 'Darling', 'My Life', 'My Lamb', 'Beloved my Female', 'My own Woman', writings, an article on 'Weimar', letter to The Times about King's jubilee, account of communion at Beaulieu, EH asks to write about TSE, review of La Machine infernale, review of Dangerous Corner, a note for S. P. C. A., an 'epigram', 'Actors at Alnwick', 'An Etching', 'The Giocanda Smile', 'The Personal Equation in Spoken English', 'A Play from Both Sides of the Footlights', 'Summer Sunshine: A Memory of Miss Minna Hall', 'They flash upon the inward eye',
Ireland, according to TSE's prejudice, TSE on Irish hospitality, TSE's experience of Irish audiences, in general, the Irish compared to the English, its politics, its wartime neutrality, its folklore,
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).

Laverty, Maura,

2.MauraLaverty, Maura Laverty (1907–66), author, journalist and broadcaster, who worked for Radió Teilifis Éireann, interviewed TSE on Sat., 25 Jan.

Little Gidding, things 'done to others' harm', and TSE's St. Kevin's cave excursion, TSE's pilgrimage to the eponymous, and John Inglesant, in the Four Quartets scheme, as TSE's war work, latent within TSE, being drafted, first draft finished, suspended, to be taken up again, partly redrafted at Buckler's Hard, further redrafting, seven lines from completion, redrafting finished, in which JDH proved indispensable, NEW version sent to EH, published, sales, ends hopefully,
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, TSE's first impression of, TSE despairs of liking, EP on, on further inspection, TSE's dislike for redoubled, his pronunciation, smugly respectable,

1.AbbottLowell, Abbott Lawrence Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943), educator and legal scholar; President of Harvard University, 1909–33.

MacDonagh, Donagh, at Desmond Fitzgerald dinner, gives intellectual tea-party,

14.DonaghMacDonagh, Donagh MacDonagh (1912–68), Irish poet and playwright; barrister and judge (the youngest judge in Ireland on his appointment in 1941). His works include collections of verse: Variations and Other Poems (1941) and A Warning to Conquerors (1968); and verse plays including the acclaimed Happy as Larry (1946) and Lady Spider (1980). In a later year, TSE wrote this blurb for The Hungry Grass (F&F, 1947): ‘Donagh MacDonagh is an Irish poet of established reputation, whose work has until now been known in England only by those poems which have appeared from time to time in English magazines. This is the first collection of his poems to be published in this country. It will lead, we believe, to a valuation of this poet which will give him an assured place among the poets of his generation.’

MacNeill, Eóin, relates experiences of prison,

1.EóinMacNeill, Eóin MacNeill (1867–1945); scholar; Gaelic nationalist politician, co-founder of the Gaelic League; Minister for Education, 1922–35. He served too in other public and governmental roles.From 1908, Professor of Early Irish History, University College Dublin.

Montgomery, Niall,

13.NiallMontgomery, Niall Montgomery (1915–87), distinguished architect, poet and playwright; friend of Samuel Beckett; and authority on the work of James Joyce. See Christine O’Neill, ‘Niall Montgomery: An Early Irish Champion of Joyce’, James Joyce Journal 1 (2008), 1–16.

Morrell, Lady Ottoline, on Dr Roger Vittoz, chez Eliot to meet Nora Joyce, on tea with the Eliots, first impression of Joyce, on TSE as 'modern', on the Eliots and the Hinkleys, the Eliots to tea with, which she records, invited to dinner chez Eliot, which she describes, religion debated at tea given by, where Ralph Hodgson meets TSE, on the Eliots' old-fashioned party, described, by request, for EH, met TSE through Bertrand Russell, invites the Eliots to meet Walter de la Mare, gives tea-party for Yeats, at which the Eliots are described, dines chez Eliot, at the Eliots' tea party, lightning rod for VHE's misinformation, stirred up by Gordon George, attacks After Strange Gods, on the gralloching of After Strange Gods, on TSE as friend, gives TSE vintage jewellery tips, invites EH and TSE to tea, on EH, discusses Yeats with TSE, at Sweeney Agonistes, gives tea-party attended by EH, requests tête-à-tête with TSE, and the Group Theatre, to visit Viceroy of India, departs for India, pushiness in medical matters, dressing Indian on her return, intimidates GCF, EH invited to tea with, petitioned on Barker's behalf, issues TSE with Irish introductions, debriefed on Ireland, gives TSE customary diary, complains of Yeats over tea, between convalescence and Italy, and Dr Karl Martin, dies, TSE her final guest,
see also Morrells, the

4.LadyMorrell, Lady Ottoline Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938), hostess and patron: see Biographical Register.

Murder in the Cathedral, idea for initially suggested by Laurence Irving, offered to Martin Browne, St. Thomas as TSE's muse, TSE on writing, tentatively, 'The Archbishop Murder Case', uncertainties over title, currently 'Fear in the Way', which proves unpopular, TSE on rewriting, title settled on, final revisions for printer, tentatively critiqued by EH, and EH on TSE as dramatist, chorus copied for EH, Virginia Woolf's aspersions on, the form of its choruses, defended from obscurity, did not test TSE's plotting, book-sales to-date, $1,000 offered for American rights, pays for 1936 American trip, Italian and Hungarian rights sold, and Whiggery, Savile Club dinner to celebrate, compared to next play, discrepancies of Canterbury Text, Martin Browne's initial response to, TSE recognised as author of, TSE on its cheerful title, EH on, abandoned Mercury Theatre premiere, suggested by Yeats and Doone, in the offing, and Doone's response to first draft, EH requested at, imperilled, text copied for Yeats, 1935 Canterbury Festival production, in rehearsal, opening night, reception, final performance, and EH's response, 1935–6 Mercury Theatre revival, Martin Browne pushing for, in rehearsal, which EH attends, compared to Canterbury original, at the box-office, its 100th performance, still running, proposed tour to end, 1936 BBC radio version, BBC bid to produce, broadcast fixed, BBC memo on, in rehearsal, TSE on, abortive 1936 New York transfer, Dukes visits America to arrange, blighted by Brace's actions, quashed by Federal Theatre production, its usurper founders, deferred to autumn, unsolicited 1936 New York production, licensed by Brace, to be directed by Rice, seemingly withdrawn, Rice resigns from, delights EH and Eleanor Hinkley, TSE sent press-cuttings for, EH reports on, TSE speculates as to textual discrepancies, attended by Eleanor Roosevelt, extended and potentially expanded, TSE to the Transcript on, may predispose immigration authorities favourably in future, royalties from, 1936 University College, Dublin student production, described by TSE, rumoured Australian and American productions, 1936 Gate Theatre touring production, TSE's long-held wish, scheduled, 1936 touring production, due at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge, as it was played in Cambridge, 1936 America pirate production, 1937 Duchess Theatre West End transfer, date fixed for, announced in Times, dress-rehearsal attended, reception, reviewed, royalties, still playing, ticket sales pick up, coming to an end, receives royal visit, 1937 touring production, scheduled post-Duchess, beginning in Leeds, then Manchester, going strong, 1937 Harvard University production, 1937 Amherst College production, singled out for praise, 1937 Old Vic production, touring production arrived at, in rehearsal, 1937 Tewkesbury Drama Festival production, 1938 American tour, projected for January 1937, said date seconded by Dukes, deferred to September 1937, confirmed again by Dukes, pre-tour dates in Golders Green, then Liverpool, opening in Boston in January, over which EH is consulted, tour itinerary, Family Reunion keeps TSE from, preparatory re-rehearsal for, pre-crossing Liverpool dates, EH's judgement desired, EH reports on first night, reviewed in The Times, EH sends New York cuttings, prematurely transferred to New York, Dukes reports on, Westminster Cathedral Hall charity performance, 1940 Latham Mercury revival, revival suggested in rep with Family Reunion, wartime modern-dress production suggested, ambushes TSE, in rehearsal, first night, reviewed, Browne's wartime Pilgrim Players' adaptation, Hoellering film, Hoellering's initial approach made, Hoellering's vision for, TSE adapting for screen, reconnoitre of Canterbury for, casting Becket, recording made for, development process described to NYT, non-actor found for Becket, screenings of Groser, set-dressing, screening, approaching release, still in the edit, final screening, and Venice Film Festival, seeking distribution, soon to premiere, opens, initial reception, circulating in shortened version, 1945 Théâtre du Vieux Colombier production, compared to Martin Browne's, royalties, apparently a hit, reviewed, reaches 150 performances, Fluchère's involvement, 1946 German production, 1947 Edinburgh Festival production, 1948 Milton Academy production, 1949 broadcast, 1949 Berlin production, politically resonant, 1952 University of Rennes, Grand Théâtre abridgment, 1952 Théatre National Populaire production, 1953 Old Vic revival, waiting on Donat, TSE on, 1954 Harvard production,
O'Connor, Frank,

5.FrankO'Connor, Frank O’Connor (1903–66), distinguished Irish novelist, playwright and short-story writer; his works include Collected Stories (1981); An Only Child (autobiography, 1961); and a fine translation (1945) of the seventeenth-century satire The Midnight Court, by Brian Merriman.

Ó’Faoláin, Seán, appears at Desmond Fitzgerald dinner,

12.SeánÓ’Faoláin, Seán Ó’Faoláin (1900–91), novelist and short-story writer. Brought up in Ireland (where he was born John Francis Whelan), he attended University College Cork – for a while in the early 1920s he was an ardent nationalist and joined the Irish Volunteers – and he was a Commonwealth Fellow at Harvard University, 1926–8. Founder-editor of the Irish periodical The Bell, he also served as Director of the Arts Council of Ireland, 1957–9. Following Midsummer Night Madness and Other Stories (1932), he produced a wealth of stories: see Collected Stories of Seán Ó’Faoláin (1983).

Oxford University, TSE's time at, and English intellectual hierarchy, TSE dreams of professorship at, refreshingly austere, how it miseducates, in TSE's memory, TSE's student literary club at, and the Nuffield endowments, TSE's Romanes Lectures nomination, awards TSE honorary degree,
Pakenham, Edward, 6th Earl of Longford, and TSE's 1936 Dublin visit, at the Robinsons,

4.EdwardPakenham, Edward, 6th Earl of Longford Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford (1902–61), Anglo-Catholic Irish peer, politician (Irish Nationalist), dramatist and translator, succeeded to the earldom in 1915 and was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. Chairman of the Gate Theatre, Dublin, 1930–6. Yahoo (1933), his play about Jonathan Swift – ‘the father of modern Irish nationalism,’ as Longford hailed him – was running at the Westminster Theatre, London.

Plunkett, George Noble, presents TSE with his poems,

16.GeorgePlunkett, George Noble Noble Plunkett (1851–1948), Irish nationalist politician, a Papal Count. Three of his sons – Joseph, George and Jack – were sentenced to death after the 1916 Rising; Joseph was executed but his brothers had their sentences commuted.

Russell, William George ('Æ'), being exhibited in Dublin,

9.WilliamRussell, William George ('Æ') George Russell, known by the cipher Æ (1867–1935), writer, critic, poet, painter.

Ryan, James,

17.JamesRyan, James Ryan (1891–1970), Fianna Fáil politician; Minister for Agriculture, 1932–47.

Save the Children Fund, TSE's speech for, for which he is thanked,
'Tradition and the Practice of Poetry', Dublin version of,
travels, trips and plans, EH's 1930 trip to England, EH's proposed 1931 England visit, called off, EH's 1932 summer holidays, the Eliots' Derby Day excursion, related, the Eliots' July 1932 Hindhead visit, the Eliots' August 1932 Eastbourne holiday, described, TSE's 1932–3 year in America, Norton Professorship offered to TSE, and the prospect of reunion with EH, which TSE refuses to see as decisive, which angers EH, who writes and destroys a response, TSE's financial imperatives, TSE's itinerary, and the question of discretion, opportunity for adventurous lecture-tours, TSE speculates on attendant feelings, TSE on the voyage over, TSE reflects on, TSE's return from, the Eliot family's Randolph holiday, TSE's 1933 westward tour to Scripps, proposed to EH, and TSE's need to lecture, possibly via St. Louis, TSE's itinerary, possible stopover in Seattle, a shameful source of happiness, still a happy thought, described by Havens and others, TSE reflects on, TSE's return from, TSE wonders at after-effect on EH, EH urged to reflect honestly on, Ada on, and a conversation about divorce, in EH's recollection, possible EH 1933 summer in England, TSE's 1933 Faber summer holiday, set for mid-August, postponed, rearranged, TSE buys summer outfits for, described, TSE's 1933 tour of Scotland, possible itinerary, Morley's preparations for, described for EH, TSE's 1933 trip to Paris, mooted, described, EH's 1934–5 year in Europe, TSE delighted at the prospect, attempts to coordinate with TSE's 1934 summer plans, the Perkinses due in Chipping Camden, EH's itinerary, TSE's initial weekend at Chipping Campden, TSE books rooms in Lechlade, TSE visits Campden again with family, and again alone, which visit TSE reflects on, TSE's plans to entertain EH en route to Europe, EH's continental itinerary, VHE and propriety inhibit pre-Paris arrangements, L'Escargot lunch, weekend in Sussex for EH's birthday, possible London tea-party, second lunch at L'Escargot, EH and TSE's November excursions, a month which TSE reflects happily on, EH's summer 1935 plans, EH departs England, EH in Florence, arrived in Rome, TSE coordinating with EH's return, TSE recommends Siena, EH returns to Florence, EH sails for Riviera, EH returns from France, L'Escargot lunch on EH's return, EH sails for Guernsey, May 1935, EH's June 1935 London sortie, TSE attends Dr Perkins's birthday, TSE's July 1935 Campden week, TSE offers to fund EH in London, where EH joins Jeanie McPherrin, TSE's Campden birthday weekend, prospect of EH spending month at Blomfield Terrace, Thorp theatre outing, TSE's 6–8 September Campden weekend, EH staying at 19 Rosary Gardens, EH to Campden for 15–17 November, EH sails for Boston, EH and TSE's final farewell, TSE and EH's final weeks in London, their excursion to Finchampstead, TSE reflects on, excursion to Greenwich, EH reflects on the final weeks of, TSE's 1934 Faber summer holiday, described, TSE's dream of Cairo, TSE's invitation to Finland, palmed off on Robert Nichols, TSE's 1935 tour of Scotland, proposed by Blake, attempts to coordinate with EH, TSE's itinerary, TSE's 1935 Faber summer holiday, TSE writes from, described, TSE's 1936 visit to Ireland, TSE's itinerary, recounted, TSE's spring/summer 1936 trip to Paris, first contemplated, date fixed, Morleys invited, TSE's itinerary, recounted, TSE's 1936 Faber summer holiday, TSE writes from, TSE's 1936 American trip, spring arrival dependent on New York Murder, if not spring, then autumn, possible excursions, autumn better for seeing EH, and possible Princeton offer, and possible Smith visit, efforts to coordinate with EH, passage on Alaunia booked, TSE's itinerary, Murder to pay for, coordinating with Eliot Randolph holiday, the moment of parting from EH, TSE's birthday during, TSE reflects on, TSE's 1937 tour of Scotland, itinerary, recounted, the Morley–Eliot 1937 trip to Salzburg, contemplated, itinerary, EH receives postcard from, described, as relayed to OM, EH's 1937 summer in England, and Mrs Seaverns, EH accompanies TSE to Edinburgh, itinerary coordinated with EH, dinner at L'Escargot, TSE's 10–11 July Campden visit, TSE's 17–22 July Campden visit, TSE's 21 August Campden visit, EH travels to Yorkshire, TSE reminisces about, TSE's 1937 Faber summer holiday, TSE reports from, leaves TSE sunburnt, TSE's 1938 trip to Lisbon, outlined to EH, TSE advised on, travel arrangements, the voyage out, described, EH's 1938 summer in England, and whether EH should spend it at Campden, EH's arrival confirmed, TSE's July Campden visit, EH's late-July London stay, TSE's 5–21 August Campden fortnight, TSE's 3–6 September Campden visit, EH's September London stay, TSE reflects on, TSE's 1938 Faber summer holiday, TSE's preparations for, TSE reports from, possible EH England Christmas 1938 visit, possible TSE 1939 visit to America, mooted for spring, complicated by Marion and Dodo's trip, shifted to autumn, threatened by war, made impossible, EH's 1939 England visit, TSE's efforts to coordinate with, threatened by war, complicated by Marion's arrival, EH's itinerary, EH's initial London stay, TSE's 7–20 July Campden visit, TSE's 22–30 August Campden visit, TSE's 2–4 September Campden visit, EH again London, EH and TSE's parting moments, in TSE's memory, memory vitiated by EH's subsequent letter, TSE's 1939 Faber summer holiday, TSE writes from, possible wartime transatlantic crossings, contingencies, in case of EH being ill, TSE's reasons for and against, and TSE's New York proposition, following invasion Denmark and Norway, impossible for TSE unless official, TSE's desire to remain in England, TSE's reasons for and against accepting lectureship, given Ada's impending death, TSE's abortive 1940 Italian mission, possible but confidential, lectures prepared for, and the prospect of seeing EP, might include Paris, itinerary, in jeopardy, final preparations for, cancelled, TSE's 1940 visit to Dublin, approved by Foreign Office, in national interest, itinerary, recounted, involves TSE's first plane-journey, TSE's 1940 Faber summer holiday, TSE reports from, TSE's 1941 Faber summer holiday, Kipling and fishing-rod packed for, TSE reports from, TSE's 1941 Northern tour, proposed by the Christendom group, arranged with Demant, itinerary, recounted, TSE's 1942 British Council mission to Sweden, TSE makes cryptic allusion to, as recounted to EH, as recounted to JDH, return leg in London, as war-work, TSE's 1942 New Forest holiday, described, TSE's 1942 week in Scotland, recounted, TSE's abortive 1942 Iceland mission, TSE's 1943 trip to Edinburgh, recounted, TSE's abortive 1943 Iceland mission, TSE's 1943 New Forest holiday, TSE's 1944 trip to Edinburgh, TSE's abortive 1944 North Africa mission, TSE's May 1945 trip to Paris, described, TSE's June 1945 trip to Paris, recounted, possible post-war American visit, and Henry's impending death, ideally ancillary to work, possibly as F&F's representative, waits on TSE's health and Carlyle Mansions, TSE's 1945 September fortnight in Lee, described, TSE's 1945 Christmas in Lee, described, TSE's 1946 summer in America, date for passage fixed, paperwork for, TSE's itinerary, its aftermath, recounted, TSE's 1947 summer in America, dependent on lecture engagements, TSE seeks to bring forward, Henry's condition brings further forward, set for April, itinerary, EH reflects on, TSE's scheduled December 1947 visit to Marseilles and Rome, itinerary, TSE's preparations for, dreaded, Roman leg described by Roger Hinks, EH's hypothetical March 1948 visit to England, TSE's postponed 1948 trip to Aix, itinerary, recounted, home via Paris, TSE's 1948 trip to America, itinerary, TSE's visit to EH in Andover, disrupted by Nobel Prize, TSE's 1948 Nobel Prize visit to Stockholm, itinerary, recounted, TSE's 1949 family motor-tour of Scotland, described, TSE's October–November 1949 trip to Germany, possible itinerary, preparations for, final itinerary, TSE's account of, the return via Belgium, TSE's January 1950 voyage to South Africa, all but fixed, itinerary, described by TSE, recounted by Faber, EH's 1950 summer in England, TSE books EH's hotel room for, TSE's efforts to coordinate with EH's movements, EH in Campden, TSE reports to Aunt Edith on, TSE's 1950 visit to America, and TSE's possible Chicago post, the Chicago leg, November itinerary, TSE's spring 1951 trip to Spain, itinerary, recounted, TSE's September 1951 Geneva stay, itinerary, recounted, TSE's 1951 British Council mission to Paris, recounted, TSE's second 1951 British Council mission to Paris, recounted, TSE's 1952 visit to Rennes and the Riviera, itinerary, recounted, TSE's 1952 visit to America, itinerary, efforts to coordinate with EH's summer, TSE on meeting with EH, TSE's 1952 rest cure in Switzerland, TSE's 1953 visit to St. Louis and America, set for June, to include fortnight in Cambridge, itinerary, EH's 1953 trip to England, EH's Alnwick plans, TSE books hotel for EH, and EH's ticket to Confidential Clerk, TSE's 1953 visit to Geneva, TSE's 1953–4 trip to South Africa, itinerary, described, arrival described to JDH, GCF on, TSE's 1954 Geneva rest cure, Geneva preferred to Paris, TSE's deferred 1955 visit to Hamburg, prospect inspires reluctance in TSE, proposed for spring 1955, dreaded, TSE now returned from, TSE's 1955 visit to America, and contingent speaking engagements, foreshortened, itinerary, Washington described, TSE's return from, TSE's 1955 Geneva rest cure, TSE's 1956 visit to America, passage fixed for April, itinerary, TSE in the midst of, TSE reflects on, TSE's 1956 Geneva rest cure, itinerary, recounted, illness during, EH's 1957 visit to England, TSE and EVE invited to Campden, TSE reciprocates with London invitation, but EH leaves England abruptly, which TSE consults Eleanor Hinkley over, who duly explains, TSE and EVE's 1958 trip to America, as rumoured to EH, EH's 1959 tour of Scandinavia, funded by bequest from cousin, TSE and EVE's 1959 trip to America, TSE and EVE's 1963 trip to America,
Trench, Wilbraham Fitzjohn, and the Book of Kells,

7.WilbrahamTrench, Wilbraham Fitzjohn Fitzjohn Trench (1873–1939), Professor of English Literature, Trinity College Dublin.

Wolcott, Roger, likened to Sydney Waterlow, TSE on, distinguished from Barbara, smugly respectable,
see also Wolcotts, the
writing, and routine, to EH, like talking to the deaf, development and development in the writer, and 're-creative thought', TSE's pace of working, correspondence, and Beethoven, and whether to keep a notebook, dialogue, and loving one's characters, and the necessity for reinvention, to someone as against speaking, plays written chiefly for EH, prose between poems, poetry versus prose, and originality, poetry three hours every morning, plot, and obscurity, blurbs, letters of rejection, requires periods of fruitful latency, on new typewriter, TSE's 'old Corona', the effect of war on, and reading, as taught by the book, prize-day addresses, weekly articles, concisely, from imagination, from experience, for broadcast, out of doors, rewriting old work, and public-speaking, by hand,
Yeats, William Butler ('W. B.'), known to TSE from 1916, at OM's tea-party, TSE to lunch with, TSE lectures on, gets away with more 'poetic' prose, discusses theatre companies, and abortive Mercury Theatre season, on Sweeney Agonistes, on Rupert Doone, TSE loyal to despite Doone, who records antipathy between TSE and, Murder copied out for, meeting up with TSE, and TSE discuss 'modern' poetry, presses Dorothy Wellesley on TSE, defended at UCD, qua writer of prose, in TSE's view, yet to master dramatic verse, TSE wonders how to mourn, stimulates East Coker, and 'Yeats', TSE unveils Woburn Walk plaque, At the Hawk's Well, Purgatory, Resurrection,

4.W. B. YeatsYeats, William Butler ('W. B.') (1865–1939), Irish poet and playwright: see Biographical Register.