[240 Crescent St., Northampton, Mass.]
This is a hurried note to thank you for yours of the 2nd and 3d November by the ‘Queen Mary’, and to say how sorry I am I have not been able to write oftener lately. This is for the Bremen, and there will [be] another mail on the 18th by the Normandie, which I shall be able to write for. ICambridge Literary Society'The Idiom of Modern Verse';a2 must go to Cambridge this afternoon to talk, comingSt. Catherine's College, Cambridgeand 'The Need for Poetic Drama';a2 backBritish Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)'The Need for Poetic Drama';a8 tomorrow morning to finish my B.B.C. talk and another Cambridge talk next week. From Sunday week I shall be better off. I am glad to think that you have been seeing more people. ThePatches, the;a1Patch, Howard Rollin
I hope that I can write a more ‘helpful’ letter next!
So the wardrobe is gradually improving and filling out. But how is your physical strength now, at the beginning of the winter??
1.MildredBoie, Mildred Louise Louise Boie (b. 1907), educated in Minnesota and at Newnham College, Cambridge, became assistant professor of English at Smith College, 1935–7; associate editor of poetry for the Atlantic Monthly in Boston, 1937–40; Head of Publicity for the American Unitarian Association and Service Committee, 1940–3. From 1943 to 1946 she worked with the American Red Cross at U.S. Army bases in France, Italy and Egypt, and was awarded the Bronze Star by the United States Army. She published Better Than Laughter (poetry, 1946). On 17 Aug. she wrote to remind TSE that they had talked ‘five years ago’ about possible extension lecturing; and at Frederick Eliot’s house in St Paul, Minnesota, TSE had been encouraging. ‘I have been writing some verse and criticism’; and she had been asked too to discuss modern poetry at the meeting of the Modern Language Association in December.
1.MildredBoie, Mildred Louise Louise Boie (b. 1907), educated in Minnesota and at Newnham College, Cambridge, became assistant professor of English at Smith College, 1935–7; associate editor of poetry for the Atlantic Monthly in Boston, 1937–40; Head of Publicity for the American Unitarian Association and Service Committee, 1940–3. From 1943 to 1946 she worked with the American Red Cross at U.S. Army bases in France, Italy and Egypt, and was awarded the Bronze Star by the United States Army. She published Better Than Laughter (poetry, 1946). On 17 Aug. she wrote to remind TSE that they had talked ‘five years ago’ about possible extension lecturing; and at Frederick Eliot’s house in St Paul, Minnesota, TSE had been encouraging. ‘I have been writing some verse and criticism’; and she had been asked too to discuss modern poetry at the meeting of the Modern Language Association in December.