[240 Crescent St., Northampton, Mass.]

T. S.Eliot
EmilyHale
TS
The Criterion
13 November 1936
Dearest,

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 RollinPatches, the Patch’s [sic] seemed to me agreeable people, and I hope that you will find them so. MissBoie, Mildred Louise;a1 Boie (I imagine the name is Scandinavian) is a protegée of Frederick’s – I met her at his house in St. Paul :1 she has been in London too and came to see me, though I did not see her last summer, as I was just going to Wales. She did not impress me as highly interesting or intelligent – rather heavy in fact: but these are superficial impressions.

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??

My Emilie from her Tom

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.

Boie, Mildred Louise,

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.

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), TSE's committee service for, its future discussed, TSE working on autumn programme for, TSE on educational broadcasting in general, Barbara Burnham production of Murder, lobbies TSE for next play, 'The Need for Poetic Drama', Metaphyical poet broadcasts for, 'The Church's Message to the World', Christmas Day 'Cats' broadcast, dramatic Waste Land adaptation, which is censored for broadcast, repeats 'Cats', plays Parsifal on Good Friday, broadcasts Hawkins interview with TSE, 'Towards a Christian Britain', 1941 production of Murder, Eastern Service broadcasts East Coker, broadcasts Webster talk, Tennyson talk, Dry Salvages, Poe talk, Dryden talk, Joyce talk, European Service broadcasts TSE's talk, TSE declines Christmas broadcast for, wants to record 'Milton II', broadcasts TSE's personal poetry selection, broadcasts Gielgud's Family Reunion, marks TSE's 60th birthday, Gielgud Family Reunion repeated, solicits TSE post-Nobel Prize, TSE's EP broadcast for, records TSE reading Ash-Wednesday, floats Reith Lectures suggestion, approaches Marilyn Monroe to star in Fitts's Lysistrata,
Cambridge Literary Society, 'The Idiom of Modern Verse', TSE's lecture to,
Patches, the,
St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, engages TSE to speak, and 'The Need for Poetic Drama', TSE's Shirley Society address,