[Stamford House, Chipping Campden]

T. S.Eliot

EmilyHale

The Criterion

Wednesday

[postmarked 1 Sept. 1937]

Dearest,

Thank you for your dear letter. IHale, Irene (née Baumgras);b7 have forwarded the excellent letter to Mrs Hale. This is only to explain that the reason why I have not written to you or Mrs Perkins is that I am having the usual two days in bed with a slight temperature – I will write tomorrow, and expect to be out & about on Friday, so don’t worry, & will see you on Saturday at tea.

Your devoted

Tom

Hale, Irene (née Baumgras), descends on Campden,

25/03/35;

TSE on,

25/03/35[n];

compared to Mrs Perkins,

25/03/35[n];

07/06/35;

10/06/35;

EH reaches limit with,

13/06/35;

and Orlando and the parrots,

04/09/35;

EH's relations with,

10/09/35;

shares EH's Oxford lodgings,

oppresses EH,

her effect on Campden life,

17/08/37;

01/09/37;

menaces Chipping Campden,

15/09/37;

14/06/38;

descends on EH in Northampton,

in Northampton,

decamps from Northampton,

03/12/40;

taken less seriously by EH,

27/10/41;

not to be indulged,

03/11/41;

less exhausting than Mrs Perkins,

08/12/41;

yet still exhausting,

01/09/44;

indifferent to hardships of relations,

07/09/47;

see bio

3.IreneHale, Irene (née Baumgras) Hale, née Baumgras, widow of Philip Hale, celebrated as the prolific and influential music critic of the Boston Herald. Irene Hale, who was herself an accomplished pianist, had studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where she gained the Springer Gold Medal 1881, and continued with her studies in Europe under Raif and Moritz Mosckowski: she later wrote music under the name Victor Rene.