[1418 East 63d St., Seattle]

T. S.Eliot
EmilyHale
TS
Faber & Faber Ltd
21 July 1931
My dear Dove,

I have exactly minus five minutes to write – but I should feel very unhappy and humiliated if I did not get off one line to you today – I shall be back after lunch but may be called away at once – I shall explain in a letter later in the week. I love your photographs – the grand one is (now don’t suppose that I am thinking of the dress, well as it does become you, but of the pose and expression) the Emily of whom I always have and always shall be, in awe – from whom a contemptuous look or reproving word would be crushing (I only regret that the ear is rather mixed up with curls, so that its form is not clear – I should like the ear completely exposed and outlined); the other is rather the Emily whom I should like to support and protect from the world). I can’t even type this morning; IJoyce, Jamesobstinately unbusinesslike;a9 have spent the whole morning trying to persuade Joyce to be more businesslike, andOgden, Charles Kay ('C. K.')plays TSE Anna Livia Plurabelle;a1 have to go to lunch with Ogden to talk about gramophone records;1 so my dear Lady, goodbye till Thursday or Friday. I enclose three samples of letters of bores. Your

Tom

1.C. K. OgdenOgden, Charles Kay ('C. K.') (1889–1957), psychologist, linguist, polymath, was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where in 1912 he founded Cambridge Magazine and co-founded (1911) the Heretics. He went on to devise ‘Basic English’ – ‘an auxiliary international language’ based on a vocabulary of just 850 English words – ‘BASIC’ being an acronym for British American Scientific International Commercial; and in 1927 he established in London the Orthological (Basic English) Institute. Works include The Foundations of Aesthetics (with I. A. Richards and James Wood, 1921), The Meaning of Meaning (with IAR, 1923), and Basic English (1930); and with F. P. Ramsey he translated the Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung of Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922). He was editor of the psychological journal Psyche, and he edited the series ‘The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method’. See W. Terrence Gordon, C. K. Ogden: a bio-bibliographical study (1990); C. K. Ogden: A Collective Memoir, ed. P. Sargant Florence and J. R. L. Anderson (1977).

Ogden wrote (16 July) to arrange the lunch: ‘let us meet at 58 Frith St & lunch thereabouts … Call there first for a drink & hear the Joyce under favourable circumstances.’

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).

Ogden, Charles Kay ('C. K.'), plays TSE Anna Livia Plurabelle, his recording of Anna Livia Plurabelle, the state of his rooms, described,

1.C. K. OgdenOgden, Charles Kay ('C. K.') (1889–1957), psychologist, linguist, polymath, was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where in 1912 he founded Cambridge Magazine and co-founded (1911) the Heretics. He went on to devise ‘Basic English’ – ‘an auxiliary international language’ based on a vocabulary of just 850 English words – ‘BASIC’ being an acronym for British American Scientific International Commercial; and in 1927 he established in London the Orthological (Basic English) Institute. Works include The Foundations of Aesthetics (with I. A. Richards and James Wood, 1921), The Meaning of Meaning (with IAR, 1923), and Basic English (1930); and with F. P. Ramsey he translated the Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung of Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922). He was editor of the psychological journal Psyche, and he edited the series ‘The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method’. See W. Terrence Gordon, C. K. Ogden: a bio-bibliographical study (1990); C. K. Ogden: A Collective Memoir, ed. P. Sargant Florence and J. R. L. Anderson (1977).