[22 Paradise Rd., Northampton, Mass.]

T. S.Eliot

EmilyHale

Shamley
Letter 97.

20 October 1941

Dearest,

I have to write this late at night, instead of after tea as I should have done. I sometimes remember several urgent notes to write on Monday, in preparation for going to town on Tuesday; butSecond World WarGreece enters war;c9 this time, while pondering notes for Newcastle in the morning, thereLivingstone, Sir Richard;a4 cameClassical AssociationTSE's communiqué to Greek Minister;a3 a summons from Richard Livingstone to write a letter to the Greek Minister on behalf of the Classical Association, to mark the anniversary of the entry of Greece into the war. That kind of monumental work is very trying; but I have finally composed something, peppered it with a few Greek quotations from the only book I had at hand (the Greek anthology) andGaselee, Sir Stephen;a5 copied it out to show a copy to Stephen Gaselee who is to sign it too as Chairman.1 (MyClassical AssociationPresidential Address for;a4 PresidentialClassics and the Man of Letters, The;a1 Address comes in April, when they have a corroboree at Cambridge during the vacation).2 YourHale, Emilyas president of S. P. C. A.;o3 letter 105 on the 2nd is to hand, and suggests that you must begin at once to draw upon whatever reserves of strength you have laid up during September. What is the Civil Defence work, and what part in it are you playing? The trouble with jobs like your presidency of the S.P.C.A.3 is that people always explain to you clearly beforehand how little there is for you to do and then if you are conscientious (as you are) you find a great deal more for yourself.

TheShamley Wood, Surreydaily and weekly life at;a3 autumn is setting in, which means that when I come back from town I have to take an earlier train, because the taxis may be scarce after dark. I usually have to take a cab from Guildford station, as the buses are crowded at that time and there is no accommodation in them for bulky bags full of manuscripts. Thistravels, trips and plansTSE's 1941 Northern tour;e3itinerary;a3 weekend I propose to read no manuscripts, but rest and ponder my notes. I spend two nights next week, I believe, at Gateshead, which is near Newcastle, and part of the daytime in Durham; thenRobertses, theand which TSE eventually visits;a3 intend to go to Penrith the following morning and spend a night with Janet and the children, MichaelRoberts, Michaelworking for BBC;b1 being now at the BBC. ThereBehrens, Margaret Elizabeth (née Davidson)comes to lodge at Shamley;a1 is anotherShamley Wood, Surreydramatis personae;a4 lodger here now, a friend of the family named Mrs. Behrens,4 evacuated from Mentone (she is Scotch, only her husband was of a wellknown Jewish family). Shebirdsbudgerigar;a7belonging to Mrs Behrens;a1 has brought with her a budgerigar. I rather welcome having another person, so as to disappear in the crowd, and she is very pleasant and comfortable.

I am rather glad you have a small class: it must be more satisfactory as you can do so much more for them, and in this kind of work especially individual attention must count for so much. But I hope they don’t guage [sc. gauge] salaries according to the number of pupils – that would be a very bad principle indeed. IEliot, Henry Ware, Jr. (TSE's brother);g3 amEliots, the Henry;b3 sorry that you were unable to get hold of Henry and Theresa, as I should have liked your private report on his health. He is a frail person. But I am grateful to you for trying. The'Rudyard Kipling'approved by Kipling's daughter;a8 Kipling essay has proved to be the right length, which is a relief. Mrs. Bambridge is his daughter and sole heir.

I wish we could have a walk in the garden before I go to bed.

Your loving

Tom

1.See Letters 9, 941, for TSE’s message to the Greek Minister, 21 Oct. 1941.

2.The Classics and the Man of Letters (Oxford, 1942): CProse 6, 295–309.

3.EH was president of the local branch of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1941–2; and was to continue as a director of the organisation (‘Miss Emily Hale Elected President of Woman’s Club’, Daily Hampshire Gazette, 20 Apr. 1961).

4.MargaretBehrens, Margaret Elizabeth (née Davidson) Elizabeth Behrens, née Davidson (1885–1968), author of novels including In Masquerade (1930); Puck in Petticoats (1931); Miss Mackay (1932); Half a Loaf (1933).

Behrens, Margaret Elizabeth (née Davidson), comes to lodge at Shamley,

20/10/41;

tends to Shamley hens,

19/11/41;

mainstay of Shamley sanity,

02/02/42;

16/03/42;

09/11/42;

does not spoil her dog,

01/02/43;

24/05/43;

19/07/43;

takes refuge from Shamley's dogs,

18/12/43;

28/12/43;

reports on poultry-feeding manuscript,

27/03/44;

24/04/44;

13/05/44;

sequesters dogs for TSE's recording,

05/06/44;

makes vatic pronouncements on Operation Overlord,

cheers up Shamley,

jeremiad on Shamley,

12/11/44, 12/11/44[n];

introduces Violet Powell to TSE,

in Ilfracombe,

settled in Lee,

during Christmas 1945,

12/01/46;

departing for Menton,

visited in Menton,

birds, TSE reading Birds of the Countryside,

11/08/33;

American Yellow warbler ('Summer Yellowbird'), fellow passenger on the Laetitia,

01/07/33;

Baltimore Oriole, spotted in Maine,

01/06/33;

blackbird, more innocent singer than nightingale,

04/04/36;

Blue Heron, spotted in Maine,

01/06/33;

blue tits, at Pike's Farm,

21/10/33;

budgerigar, belonging to Mrs Behrens,

20/10/41;

cardinals, spotted near Charlottesville,

16/05/33;

chaffinch, at Pike's Farm,

21/10/33;

Chestnut-sided warbler, spotted in Maine,

01/06/33;

chiffchaff, more piping than the nightingale,

04/04/36;

in Shamley woods,

09/02/43;

Common whitethroat, identified in Winchester,

01/08/33;

cuckoo, compared to nightingale,

as herald of spring,

its song,

dove, EH as TSE's,

Evening grosbeak,

finches, at autumntide,

01/10/33;

more piping than the nightingale,

04/04/36;

swarm at Shamley,

09/02/43;

geese, slaughtered at autumntide,

01/10/33;

hermit thrush, TSE's personal poetic bird,

04/04/36;

heron, at Shamley,

31/01/44;

House Sparrow ('English Sparrow'), fellow passenger on the Laetitia,

01/07/33;

kestrels, over the Surrey fields,

01/10/33;

lapwings, in the Surrey fields,

01/10/33;

Longbilled Marsh Wren, spotted in Maine,

01/06/33;

magpies, in the fields of Surrey,

01/10/33;

mockingbird, TSE 'the Missouri Mockingbird',

08/12/31;

and Walt Whitman,

04/04/36;

nightingale, EH addressed as,

11/08/35;

'clanging' at Pike's Farm,

04/04/36;

and Sophocles,

04/04/36;

10/07/36;

associated with Pike's Farm,

01/04/41;

hoped for at Herbert Read's,

10/04/42;

Pied Wagtail, on lawn at Pike's Farm,

28/07/33;

songbirds, TSE and Hodgson discuss,

08/01/32;

tanagers, spotted near Charlottesville,

16/05/33;

thrush, inspires humility in TSE,

17/08/33;

more innocent singer than the nightingale,

04/04/36;

wagtails, on the lawn at Shamley,

24/04/44;

Willow Warbler ('Willow Wren'), identified in Winchester,

01/08/33;

wren, more piping than the nightingale,

04/04/36;

Classical Association, TSE disqualifies himself for presidency,

01/04/41;

Livingstone confers Presidency on TSE,

05/05/41;

TSE's communiqué to Greek Minister,

20/10/41;

Presidential Address for,

Classics and the Man of Letters, The,

being written,

revised with suggestions from GCF,

16/03/42;

reception,

01/06/42, 01/06/42[n];

Eliot, Henry Ware, Jr. (TSE's brother),

18/08/31;

07/09/31;

hears TSE's Dryden broadcast,

22/12/31;

as potential confidant,

01/01/32;

sibling most attuned to TSE's needs,

18/08/32;

witness to the Eliots in 1926,

18/08/32;

surprises TSE in Boston,

10/10/32;

his aura of futility,

24/10/32;

disputes New Yorker profile of TSE,

02/11/32[n];

at Eliot family Thanksgiving,

14/11/32;

attends second Norton lecture,

his business in Chicago,

07/02/33[n];

hosts TSE in New York,

16/05/33;

TSE reads his second detective story,

his immaturity,

accuses TSE of wrath,

29/08/34;

writes TSE long critical letter,

20/09/35;

31/12/35;

the favourite of TSE's parents,

19/02/36;

17/03/36;

sends New York Murder clippings,

15/04/36;

writes again about religion,

28/04/36;

insensitive to European affairs,

28/04/36;

07/05/36;

Peabody Museum employ as research associate,

09/07/36;

gives TSE pyjamas for Christmas,

26/12/36;

sends TSE luggage for Christmas,

05/01/38;

15/02/38;

hosts Murder's Boston cast,

15/02/38[n];

sends present to Morley children,

18/02/38;

cables TSE on 50th birthday,

27/09/38;

given draft of Family Reunion,

gives TSE portfolio,

champions Kauffer's photograph of TSE,

10/03/39[n];

explains operation on ears,

30/08/39;

15/09/39;

sends list of securities,

19/10/39;

takes pleasure in shouldering Margaret,

09/11/39;

undergoes serious operation,

30/11/39;

recovering at home,

08/12/39;

as curator of Eliotana,

as curator of Eliotana,

01/06/42[n];

war imperils final reunion with,

06/02/40;

22/02/40;

14/06/40;

and TSE's rumoured Vatican audience,

19/06/40;

12/07/40;

corresponds with TSE monthly,

26/07/40;

offers Tom Faber wartime refuge,

26/07/40;

nervous about TSE during Blitz,

30/10/40,

03/12/40;

as described by Frank Morley,

17/12/40;

recalls The Dry Salvages,

has appendix out,

cautioned as to health,

30/06/42;

frail,

27/08/42;

condition worries TSE,

as correspondent,

friend to J. J. Sweeney,

09/08/43;

16/10/43;

tries TSE's patience,

16/10/43;

reports on Ada,

23/10/43;

describes Ada's funeral,

14/11/43;

beleaguered by Margaret,

14/11/43;

10/01/44;

24/04/44;

sent Picture Post F&F photos,

19/06/44;

01/09/44;

03/10/44;

likened to Grandfather Stearns,

goitre operated on,

his archaeological endeavours,

back in hospital,

imagined in exclusively female company,

ill again,

as brother,

has pneumonia,

terminal leukaemia,

prospect of his death versus Ada's,

09/11/46;

anxieties induced by deafness,

25/11/46;

writes to TSE despite illness,

death,

memorial service for,

14/05/47;

on EH's presumption,

01/05/47[n];

Michael Roberts's symptoms reminiscent of,

02/01/49;

his Chicago acquaintance,

20/10/50;

friends with Robert Lowell's father,

29/07/51;

invoked against EH,

27/11/56;

on TSE's love for EH,

16/12/59;

03/01/69;

buried in Garrett family lot,

03/01/69;

The Rumble Murders,

08/04/32;

see bio

3.HenryEliot, Henry Ware, Jr. (TSE's brother) Ware Eliot (1879–1947), TSE’s older brother: see Biographical Register.

Eliots, the Henry, attend TSE's Yale lecture,

26/02/33;

21/05/33;

get on TSE's nerves,

10/06/33;

move to Cambridge, Mass.,

09/07/36;

join Randolph holiday,

06/09/36,

10/09/36,

11/09/36;

TSE enjoys birthday dinner chez,

30/09/36;

12/07/40;

as potential parents,

EH urged to see,

invited to EH's birthday,

their dynamic,

Gaselee, Sir Stephen,

29/03/38;

at the Literary Society,

14/06/38;

possible wartime employer for TSE,

memorial service,

4.SirGaselee, Sir Stephen Stephen Gaselee (1882–1943), librarian, bibliographer, classical scholar; Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge; Pepys Librarian, 1909–19; Librarian and Keeper of the Foreign Office from 1920; President of the Bibliographical Society, 1932; Hon. Librarian of the Athenaeum Club; President of the Classical Association, 1939; Fellow of the British Academy, 1939. Works include The Oxford Book of Medieval Latin Verse (1928); obituary in The Times, 17 June 1943, 7.

Hale, Emily, visits the Eliots for tea,

03/10/30,

03/11/30;

returns to Boston,

06/10/30;

likened to TSE's mother,

03/11/30;

TSE identifies with her 'reserve',

27/01/31;

encouraged to write for periodicals,

04/03/31;

visits West Rindge,

12/05/31;

summers in Seattle,

01/06/31;

presents herself as cossetted,

13/08/31;

blames herself for an unfulfilled life,

13/08/31;

returns to Boston,

22/09/31;

consulted over TSE's Norton Professorship,

27/10/31;

holidays in Castine,

24/06/32;

vacations in New Bedford,

06/07/32;

TSE fears accident befalling,

travels to stay in Seattle,

09/08/32;

Frank Morley on Ada on,

09/08/32[n];

arrives in California,

05/09/32;

brought to tears by music,

06/10/32;

goes horse-riding,

18/11/32;

baited over how to boil an egg,

14/02/33;

TSE passes old school of,

26/02/33;

takes motoring holiday via San Francisco,

01/04/33,

15/04/33;

summers in Seattle,

06/07/33;

TSE composes squib for,

28/07/33;

takes TSE's hand in dream,

09/08/33;

returned to California,

02/09/33;

TSE sends Harvard Vocarium record,

02/11/33;

holidays in West Rindge,

08/06/34;

returns to Boston before embarking for England,

arrives in England,

to travel to Paris,

returns to London,

feels inferior to 'brilliant society',

22/10/34;

invited to Sweeney Agonistes rehearsal,

29/10/34,

31/10/34;

attends Richard II with TSE,

29/10/34;

attends Sweeney Agonistes,

09/11/34;

takes TSE to Gielgud's Hamlet,

20/11/34;

taken to see Stravinsky conducting,

20/11/34;

leaves for Italy,

07/12/34;

takes tea at OM's before leaving,

07/12/34;

mistaken for TSE's sister,

28/12/34;

returns to Florence,

20/02/35;

sails for the Riviera,

18/03/35;

returns from France,

04/04/35;

returns to Chipping Campden,

08/04/35;

to Guernsey with Jeanie McPherrin,

17/04/35;

taken to Henry IV on return,

03/05/35;

shares open taxi with TSE through Parks and Whitehall,

09/05/35;

and TSE attend The Gondoliers,

visit to the Russian ballet,

invited to Murder in Canterbury,

20/05/35,

16/06/35;

and TSE attend 1066 And All That,

taken to Tovaritch,

07/06/35,

10/06/35,

20/09/35;

and Morleys set for ballet,

16/06/35,

25/06/35,

26/06/35;

which she excuses herself from,

01/07/35;

criticised for flower-arranging,

11/08/35,

19/08/35,

13/02/36;

and TSE walk in the Cotswolds,

11/08/35;

feels inferior to Margaret Thorp,

26/08/35,

31/08/35;

and TSE theatre-going with Thorps,

31/08/35,

04/09/35;

taken to Timon of Athens,

24/09/35,

14/11/35;

taken to Peer Gynt,

24/09/35;

visited at Campden for TSE's birthday,

30/09/35;

takes lodgings in Oxford,

30/09/35;

lodges at 19 Rosary Gardens,

08/10/35;

watches TSE read to Student Christian Movement,

14/10/35;

and TSE visit Kenwood House,

22/10/35;

dines with the Maritains,

30/10/35;

describes tea with the Woolfs,

14/11/35[n];

returns to America,

12/12/35;

visits Ada on Boston homecoming,

10/01/36;

possible career-move into politics,

pays winter visit to Rindge,

19/03/36;

and Eleanor Hinkley attend New York Murder,

26/03/36;

moves to 154 Riverway with Perkinses,

28/04/36;

considers volunteering for charity,

28/04/36;

living at 5 Clement Circle,

18/06/36;

holidays in Cataumet,

14/07/36;

returns abruptly to Cambridge,

24/07/36;

recuperates in New Hampshire,

06/09/36,

10/09/36;

moves to 240 Crescent St., Northampton, Mass.,

30/09/36;

lectures at Concord,

30/10/36;

returns to Brimmer Street,

16/12/36;

returns to Boston during vacation,

23/03/37;

sails for England,

23/04/37[n],

07/06/37;

in residence at Chipping Campden,

05/07/37;

travels to Yorkshire,

15/08/37;

returned to Chipping Campden,

18/08/37;

returns and moves to 22 Paradise Road, Northampton, Mass.,

21/09/37;

spends Thanksgiving in Boston,

23/11/37;

stays at Hotel Lincolnshire with the Perkinses,

16/12/37;

vacations at New Bedford,

23/12/37;

visits New York,

11/02/38;

holidays in Charleston,

22/03/38;

as patron of school,

29/03/38[n];

returns to Northampton,

29/03/38;

sails for England,

21/06/38;

day at Windsor with TSE,

01/08/38;

fortnight at Campden with TSE,

23/08/38;

at Campden with TSE again,

23/08/38;

returns to America with 'Boerre',

13/09/38;

ordered to stay in America in case of war,

27/09/38;

given Family Reunion draft with her comments,

21/10/38,

27/01/39,

10/02/39;

encouraged to write drama criticism,

09/12/38,

19/05/39;

vacations in New Bedford,

13/01/39;

advises TSE against Tewkesbury choruses,

27/01/39,

02/03/39;

holidays with the Havenses,

17/03/39;

sails for England,

06/06/39;

at Chipping Campden,

29/06/39;

stays with the Adam Smiths in Scotland,

17/08/39, 17/08/39[n];

returns to America with Perkinses,

04/09/39;

safely returned,

20/09/39;

sent copy of TSE's daily prayers,

29/09/39;

sent first CNL,

19/10/39;

sends TSE selected American plays,

11/01/40;

holidays in New Bedford,

20/01/40;

spends Easter in Harwichport,

31/03/40;

holiday destinations,

14/06/40[n];

holidays in Cape Cod,

06/07/40;

returns to the Perkinses at 90 Commonwealth Avenue,

19/07/40;

stays with Elsmiths in Woods Hole,

26/07/40;

holidays on Grand Manan,

03/09/40,

28/09/40;

visits Perkinses in Boston,

03/12/40;

returns to 90 Commonwealth Avenue,

09/06/41;

holidays in Madison, Wisc.,

23/06/41;

travels on to Maine,

21/07/41;

holidays on Grand Manan,

08/08/41;

holidays in Bangor, Maine,

22/09/41;

as president of S. P. C. A.,

20/10/41;

spends Christmas holiday in New Bedford,

02/02/42;

holidays in Woods Hole,

21/06/42;

loans out her Eliotana,

08/09/42,

07/12/42;

removes from Smith to the Perkinses,

08/09/42;

spends time in Maine,

13/10/42;

repairs to New Bedford,

24/01/43;

spends time in Tryon, N. C.,

09/03/43;

returned to Boston,

03/04/43;

spends three days in New York,

03/04/43;

shares details of will,

12/04/43;

holidays on Grand Manan,

07/07/43;

leaves TSE portrait in event of predeceasing him,

30/08/43,

21/08/46;

late summer in New Brunswick,

13/09/43;

vacations in New Bedford,

17/01/44;

repairs to New Bedford,

14/02/44;

resident in Millbrook,

13/03/44;

takes short holiday at 'Bleak House',

24/07/44;

holidays on Grand Manan,

31/07/44;

visits Woods Hole,

21/08/44;

visits New Bedford,

24/09/44;

holidays in New Bedford,

05/02/45;

spends holiday at Sylvia Knowles's,

29/04/45;

holidays in Dorset, Vt.,

30/07/45;

holidays briefly in Farmington,

15/04/46;

holidaying on Grand Manan,

02/09/46, 02/09/46[n];

TSE seeks Trojan Women translation for,

19/10/46[n];

moves to 9 Lexington Road,

15/09/47;

gives Christmas readings,

17/12/47;

congratulates TSE on OM,

01/01/48;

urges TSE not to despair at honours,

04/02/48;

spends Easter in Boston,

19/03/48;

race-relations and the WPA,

11/04/48[n];

sings Bach's B Minor Mass,

25/05/48;

removes from Concord to Andover,

08/06/48;

on life in Grand Manan,

24/08/48;

congratulates TSE on Nobel Prize,

04/11/48;

resident at 35 School Street, Andover,

13/04/49;

summers between Boston, Woods Hole, New Bedford and Grand Manan,

13/06/49,

23/07/49,

08/08/49;

recounts journey to Grand Manan,

08/08/49;

takes The Cocktail Party personally,

08/08/49;

then repents of doing so,

11/09/49;

post-Christmas stay in New Bedford,

31/12/49;

reports on Cocktail Party's opening,

19/02/50;

summers between Chocorua and Campobello,

14/05/51;

tours westward to California during summer holiday,

05/08/52,

24/08/52,

05/10/52;

attends British Drama League summer school,

06/04/53[n];

holidays in Grand Manan,

16/07/55;

asks TSE for occasional poem,

10/11/55;

week in the Virgin Islands,

18/03/56,

14/04/56;

summers between Mount Desert and California,

20/07/56,

11/08/56,

15/09/56;

spends holidays in New Bedford,

23/12/56;

recuperates in New Bedford,

11/01/57;

returns, briefly to Chipping Campden,

02/10/57;

Eleanor Hinkley reports on,

11/11/57;

writes to EVE,

13/10/58;

sends EVE photograph of TSE,

13/10/58;

makes tour of Scandinavia,

13/08/59;

approaches TSE on Smith's behalf,

13/08/59;

which approach TSE declines,

26/08/59;

writes to TSE on GCF's death,

04/04/61;

moves back to Concord,

18/08/63;

pays visit to Seattle,

29/11/63;

reacts to TSE's death,

writes to EVE,

meets EVE,

dies,

appearance and characteristics, her shapely neck,

20/01/31;

TSE's memory for certain of her old dresses,

20/01/31;

particularly four dresses,

13/02/31;

which TSE then describes,

02/03/31;

TSE begs EH to describe her clothing,

04/03/31;

in silk, autumn 1930,

01/05/31;

costumed in a 'Titian wig',

18/05/31;

EH encouraged to gain weight,

EH encouraged to tan,

her Jantzen suit,

TSE begs a slip of hair from,

10/11/31,

21/06/32,

02/01/36;

her gold-and-green tea gown,

26/01/32;

her Praxitelean nose,

15/03/32,

23/03/34,

30/07/34;

EH congratulated on 'perm',

21/06/32;

EH refuses TSE lock of hair,

her voice,

Guardsman dress,

as a Botticelli Madonna,

14/02/33;

her hands,

23/03/34,

[undated: March 1933];

recommended skin-cream,

[undated: March 1933];

'new goldy dress',

10/06/33;

TSE inquires after,

17/08/33;

in TSE's dreams,

07/11/33;

'new and nuder' swimsuit demanded,

28/06/34;

her black dress/red jacket outfit,

29/10/34;

dressed in blue,

12/04/35;

in charming black dress,

20/05/35;

her sense of humour,

11/08/35;

her New England conscience,

11/08/35;

the famous apricot dress,

her hair,

various dresses,

EH's idea of new dresses,

09/06/41;

EH hair cut in the new style,

29/06/41,

19/07/43;

blue dress worn following masque,

13/07/42;

as actor, as Olivia in Twelfth Night,

13/02/31;

in the Cambridge Dramatic club,

23/02/31;

as Roxane in Cyrano in 1915/16,

02/03/31;

as Judith Bliss in Hay Fever,

EH considers giving up for teaching,

15/06/31;

in the 'stunt show' with TSE,

21/07/31,

18/10/32;

as Beatrice, TSE hopes,

07/09/31;

in The Footlight Club,

10/11/31;

in Berkeley Square,

04/12/31,

22/12/31;

in The Yellow Jacket,

EH praised over Ruth Draper,

16/02/32;

under Ellen van Volkenburg,

10/05/32[n];

cast as an octogenarian,

20/04/32;

in The Old Lady Shows Her Medals,

03/05/32,

13/05/32,

23/05/32;

TSE speculates as to her future in,

20/05/32;

and teaching,

03/05/33;

as Lady Bracknell,

21/05/33, 21/05/33[n];

TSE begs to write part for,

21/05/33;

in The Footlight Club,

14/05/36,

26/05/36;

potentially in summer theatre company,

12/06/36,

14/07/36;

as the Duchess of Devonshire,

29/06/36;

potentially in The Family Reunion,

16/03/37,

31/03/37;

Cambridge Dramatic club reunion,

30/11/39;

The Wingless Victory,

in masque with TSE,

in a Van Druten play,

27/03/44;

as Lodovico Sforza,

10/04/44;

in play by Laurence Housman,

22/12/44;

as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit,

06/05/46,

02/09/46[n];

with Paul Stephenson,

in Kind Lady,

joins the Dorset Players,

06/05/46[n];

as director ('producer'), La Locandiera,

24/10/32,

18/11/32, 18/11/32[n],

25/11/32;

Lady Gregory's The Dragon,

18/11/32[n],

19/03/33, 19/03/33[n],

Dust of the Road,

Comus,

10/05/34, 10/05/34[n],

possibly temporarily at St. Catherine's, Va.,

31/01/36,

02/02/36,

21/02/36;

chorus work at Smith,

28/12/39;

Electra,

06/07/40;

Quality Street,

18/12/43;

The Merchant of Venice,

Dear Brutus,

Christmas play,

Richard II,

10/03/47, 10/03/47[n],

Hay Fever,

Christmas pantomime,

The Dorset Players,

a reading of Outward Bound,

Molnár's The Swan,

Dulcy,

The School for Scandal,

01/05/49,

13/06/49,

18/06/49;

Fanny and the Servant Problem,

Dear Brutus again,

Twelfth Night,

Prunella,

Christmas play,

Antigone,

The Merry Wives of Windsor,

21/03/54,

10/04/54;

As You Like It,

03/04/55;

The Admirable Crichton,

Holy Night,

The Tempest,

as teacher, EH lectures on 'Modern British Verse',

08/12/30[n];

as a career,

20/01/31;

at Milwaukee-Downer College, Mich.,

19/03/31[n];

at Simmons College, Boston,

19/03/31[n];

EH considers post at Scripps,

18/08/31;

which she accepts,

16/02/32;

arrives at Scripps,

05/09/32;

establishes drama workshop at Scripps,

18/11/32[n];

EH lectures on TSE,

13/12/32, 13/12/32[n],

21/12/32[n];

EH's advice that TSE lecture less slowly,

07/02/33;

as described by Scripps student,

21/12/32[n];

and being admired by students,

03/05/33;

TSE sees her teaching as a kind of acting,

03/05/33;

requests year's leave from Scripps,

16/03/34;

resigns position at Scripps,

02/04/34;

declares intention to teach again,

13/12/34;

possibly, temporarily, at St. Catherine's, Va.,

possibly at Smith,

post at St. Catherine's rejected,

02/02/36;

appointed to position at Smith,

18/05/36,

19/05/36;

is installed at Smith,

30/09/36;

reappointed with pay-rise,

02/03/37;

reappointed again for two years,

her work at Smith,

unsettled at Smith,

in time of war,

insecure over job at Smith,

22/04/41,

12/05/41;

from which EH takes 'sabbatical',

30/06/42;

let go by Smith,

13/07/42,

11/05/43;

takes job at Concord Academy,

05/11/43;

appointed to post at Bennett Junior College, Millbrook,

appointment to permanent Concord position,

24/04/44,

13/05/44;

EH thinks of giving up,

31/07/44;

lectures on Family Reunion,

19/02/45;

her work at Concord Academy,

25/11/46[n],

10/03/47[n];

resignation from Concord Academy,

07/08/47;

takes permanent position at Abbot,

29/02/48,

25/05/48,

12/09/48;

EH admits to being sheltered by,

11/11/57;

retirement from Abbot,

11/11/57, 11/11/57[n];

according to Abbot Academy tribute,

11/11/57[n];

birthdays, presents and love-tokens, EH's birthday compared to TSE's,

21/08/31;

TSE sends Terry–Shaw correspondence for EH's birthday,

24/11/31;

EH sends TSE pomme purée,

09/09/32;

present from EH,

29/09/32;

flowers for EH's birthday arrive too soon,

02/11/32;

EH wearing TSE's ring,

21/12/32[n];

two rings bought for EH,

25/05/33, 25/05/33,

10/06/33,

22/10/34;

EH bought typewriter,

10/09/33;

TSE 'cables' EH roses,

24/10/33,

28/10/33,

19/11/33;

TSE consults EH over potential present,

17/10/34;

TSE's second 'sapphire' ring for,

26/10/34;

EH refits new rings from TSE,

01/11/34;

TSE receives flowers for Christmas,

28/12/34;

EH given 'powder box' for Christmas,

03/01/35;

EH's present to TSE goes amiss,

missing present (calendar) explained,

31/01/35;

EH left cigarettes by TSE,

08/04/35;

EH gives TSE cigarette case,

12/04/35;

TSE necklace-hunting for EH,

15/05/35;

pearls suggested for EH,

15/05/35;

EH bought sapphire bracelet,

03/10/35;

EH gives TSE a signet ring,

EH bought blue-gray scarf,

22/12/35;

EH gives TSE silk handkerchiefs,

27/12/35;

TSE has signet ring engraved,

10/01/36;

further ring sought for EH,

04/02/36,

28/07/36;

EH with TSE on his birthday,

30/09/36;

EH gives TSE initialled leather portfolio,

26/12/36;

TSE given ashtrays and matchbox,

furs sought for EH,

EH gives TSE stool,

roses sent to EH on birthday,

02/11/37;

TSE given diary and hairbrush box,

30/12/37,

25/01/38;

TSE given rosary and print,

27/09/38;

EH buys TSE towel rails,

04/10/38;

TSE receives diary for Christmas,

09/12/38,

29/12/38;

1810 ring bought for EH,

08/09/39;

EH buys TSE various ties,

29/09/39,

02/11/39,

25/08/41;

war means no flowers,

27/10/39,

18/11/40;

EH's lapis lazuli ring,

18/11/40;

TSE neglects to cable EH,

27/10/41;

EH knits socks for TSE,

[early July 1942];

which turn out large,

27/08/42;

EH sends TSE 'snowflake' socks,

20/10/42;

EH remembers TSE's birthday with reference to Shakespeare,

04/10/43;

TSE sent marmalade and liver-paste,

20/11/44;

EH writes poem for TSE's birthday,

26/09/46;

EH sends TSE provisions,

01/03/47,

08/10/47,

17/10/47;

EH loses sapphire from ring,

16/10/49,

25/10/49;

diamond circlet given to EH in 1939,

16/10/49;

EH gives TSE socks for Christmas,

11/01/51;

[late May 1955];

TSE gives EH 'evening bag',

20/07/56,

11/08/56;

EH unthanked for Christmas present,

20/07/56,

23/12/56;

correspondence with TSE, TSE petitions EH to bestow on the Bodleian,

08/12/30;

TSE exalts as authoritative,

12/01/31,

19/02/32;

TSE envisions as reading-group,

10/04/31;

the only writing TSE enjoys,

18/05/31;

TSE as Cyrano to EH's Roxane,

18/05/31;

TSE's dependence on,

05/06/31;

TSE's nights spent planning,

09/06/31;

TSE rereads with pleasure,

23/06/31;

the strain of interruption,

30/06/31;

switches to Air Mail,

03/07/31;

TSE on his decision to renew,

18/09/31;

TSE marks first anniversary of,

02/11/31;

keeps TSE sane,

01/12/31;

TSE hopes to telephone,

TSE wishes to maintain when in America,

12/01/32;

EH would withhold from the Bodleian bequest,

19/02/32;

from which TSE tries to dissuade her,

19/02/32;

TSE violently dependent on,

04/03/32;

TSE begs EH that it be preserved,

15/03/32;

less exciting to EH than at first,

15/03/32;

TSE's horror of sounding sermonic,

20/04/32,

03/05/32;

if such a correspondence were profitable,

06/05/32;

and TSE's respectful reticence,

05/06/32;

EH suggests entrusting to Willard Thorp,

06/07/32;

but subsequently explains she meant Margaret Thorp,

29/07/32;

EH's to do with as pleases,

29/07/32;

and the prospect of TSE writing every night,

04/08/32;

TSE still rereads with pleasure,

13/08/32;

excites TSE too much to write smoothly,

16/08/32;

compared with talking,

18/08/32,

15/10/39;

phone call finally arranged,

03/10/32;

which finally takes place,

10/10/32,

15/10/32;

EH importuned to write more,

12/10/32,

24/10/32;

TSE promises three letters a week,

15/10/32;

EH refuses more than one,

02/11/32;

a solitude within a solitude,

29/11/32;

EH switches to typewriter,

16/12/32;

which TSE offers to buy,

20/12/32;

observed weekly by EH's students,

21/12/32[n];

flatters TSE most when EH writes undutifully,

05/03/33,

27/11/36;

TSE's dread of EH rationing,

15/04/33,

11/12/33;

TSE's efforts to moderate himself within,

15/04/33;

TSE imagines the unsealing of,

TSE offers to cease,

a place to vent one's feelings,

17/06/33,

01/07/33;

TSE rebuked for 'intolerance' within,

01/07/33;

EH learns to type,

10/09/33;

hinders TSE from work,

07/10/33;

TSE on life before,

28/10/33;

third anniversary marked,

02/11/33;

thwarted by TSE's self-loathing,

06/02/34;

TSE doubts having pursued,

20/02/34,

02/08/34;

restraints on TSE's ardour lifted,

20/08/34;

more constrained by day,

29/11/34;

TSE worries about burdening EH with,

30/01/35;

worth TSE getting home early for,

31/12/35;

by day, by night,

13/01/36,

17/03/36;

TSE specially treasures recent 'love letters',

16/01/36,

15/03/38;

more delightful since EH's reciprocation,

02/02/36,

04/10/38;

and TSE's diminished ardour,

27/01/39;

switches to transatlantic airmail,

constrained by war,

opened by censor,

and Shamley Green post-office,

17/12/40;

TSE apologises for,

21/06/42;

EH free to dispose of, within limits,

13/10/42;

particularly constrained by EH's letter of 1939,

13/10/42,

07/12/42;

and the experience of delay,

03/04/43;

TSE equivocates on preserving,

07/07/43;

varied with airgraph,

30/08/43;

again, EH's to do with as she pleases,

30/08/43,

15/07/45;

still intended for Bodleian,

30/08/43;

TSE chastened for short cables,

24/01/44;

TSE's letters 'undemonstrative and impersonal',

26/04/45;

post-war frequency,

27/10/45,

17/12/45;

being and not being loving by letter,

16/09/46;

EH asks TSE to reduce,

17/12/47,

04/02/48;

TSE criticised for following monthly injunction,

19/03/48,

29/03/48;

TSE rebuked for impersonality,

26/10/50;

EH formally bequeaths to Princeton,

26/07/56;

TSE unfussed as to repository,

21/08/56;

TSE reiterates 50-year prohibition,

06/10/56,

14/10/56;

TSE's worries as to future appearances,

27/10/56;

EH promises Princeton her statement on,

19/11/56,

28/11/56;

promises letters with ten-year seal,

19/11/56;

attempts to shorten TSE's moratorium,

23/11/56;

which TSE refuses,

27/11/56,

11/12/56;

which forces EH to relent,

03/12/56;

TSE encouraged to return EH's letters,

16/12/59;

EH deposits further material with Princeton,

21/03/62;

EH makes 'recording' for Princeton,

15/07/63,

24/08/63;

EH renews plea to shorten moratorium,

12/09/63;

and is again refused,

18/09/63;

TSE destroys EH's letters,

18/09/63;

TSE repents of severe letter,

19/09/63;

which EH never receives,

29/11/63;

EH suspects TSE of destroying her letters,

05/01/64;

EH instructs Princeton to discard 'recording',

17/01/65;

EH ultimately respects TSE's wishes,

17/01/65;

EH on TSE's destruction of her letters,

27/11/65;

family, her father,

02/12/30;

her childhood compared to TSE's,

07/09/31;

TSE desires family history of,

18/11/32;

EH encouraged to keep younger company,

EH's unity with parents,

02/04/35;

EH's relations with aunt and uncle,

EH's relations with aunt and uncle,

01/07/35[n],

10/09/35[n];

EH photographed with parents,

06/02/40;

and EH's obligations to,

finances,

health, physical and mental, admits to breakdown,

15/01/32;

TSE compares 'nightmares' with,

16/08/32;

TSE's desire to nurse,

suffers neuritis,

then neuralgia,

recommended suncream,

01/07/33;

suffers arthritis,

16/02/34;

suffers with sinuses,

her teeth,

experiences insomnia,

30/01/35;

suffers 'hives',

18/03/35;

suffers crisis body and soul,

24/07/36,

19/08/36;

feels depressed over Christmas,

15/01/37;

suffers neuralgia,

25/05/37;

suffers intestinal flu,

11/03/38;

has shingles,

19/04/38;

admitted to hospital,

03/09/42;

convalesces on Grand Manan,

13/10/42;

recuperates in Washington, Conn.,

06/04/53;

photographs of, as a child,

03/02/31;

Edith Sitwellesque photograph,

14/04/31;

18/05/31;

in 18th-century costume,

16/07/31;

in 18th-century French costume,

12/11/32;

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,

05/03/33;

01/06/33;

painful, because taken in the 'interim',

17/06/33;

in bacchanalian pose,

19/09/34;

'Semitic',

26/09/34;

among young people,

27/02/35;

set 'Elizabeth' giggling,

07/06/35;

Diana Mannersesque,

19/07/35;

are mnemonic aids to TSE,

16/08/35;

kneeling beside can of flowers, TSE's favourite,

23/08/35,

05/10/46;

with ordinarily sized hands,

23/08/35;

smoking in chair,

[Undated fragment, September 1935];

as child with big ears,

15/04/36;

taken on TSE's arrival in Claremont,

25/06/36;

in Jane Austen fashion,

19/02/37,

15/12/41;

in unfamiliar jacket,

09/11/37;

14/06/38;

taken in autumn,

26/01/40;

with mother and father,

06/02/40;

04/08/40;

as a child, in TSE's note-case throughout Blitz,

28/09/40;

in Wingless Victory,

06/09/41;

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,

08/05/31,

21/03/33;

Letters from Baron Friedrich von Hügel to a Niece,

24/11/31,

20/01/40;

All Passion Spent,

04/12/31;

Bubu de Montparnasse,

F&F thriller,

Eyeless in Gaza,

Dante,

Hopkins and Roosevelt,

16/10/49;

Henry Irving: The Actor and His World,

30/12/51;

relationship with TSE, TSE's first acquaintance with,

03/11/30;

its abnormality,

07/01/31;

runs to admiration from EH,

27/01/31;

and TSE's habitual reserve,

its morality under examination,

03/02/31;

defended by TSE,

04/02/31;

its susceptibilities envisaged by TSE,

16/02/31;

EH admits estrangement within,

30/03/31;

and TSE's desire for intimacies,

14/04/31;

provokes sorrow and fury in TSE,

18/05/31;

confided to the Perkinses, Miss Ware and Father Underhill,

26/05/31;

TSE's chance to be frivolous,

26/05/31,

10/01/36,

13/01/36;

and the prospect of TSE's Harvard year,

TSE dates first meeting to 1905,

18/08/32;

whereas EH dates to 1915,

18/08/32[n];

TSE's terror of renewing in California,

20/12/32;

teaches TSE true companionship,

13/02/33;

runs to a 'kiss',

14/02/33;

as perpetual progress and revelation,

EH offered manumission from,

01/06/33;

if TSE were not married,

seems more real for TSE's American year,

01/07/33;

TSE's reasons against marrying,

TSE fears having misled over,

19/11/33,

23/01/34;

EH again offered manumission from,

19/11/33,

23/01/34,

20/02/34;

EH writes to Ada concerning,

19/11/33,

20/02/34;

EH blames TSE for his ardour,

02/08/34;

then apologises for blaming TSE,

06/08/34;

leads to unhappiness in EH,

06/08/34;

possible drain on EH's health,

06/08/34;

its perceived inequalities,

17/08/34,

20/08/34, 20/08/34;

pity and gratitude would corrupt,

17/08/34;

TSE conditionally promises marriage,

17/08/34,

21/02/36,

02/11/46;

TSE sees as an imposition on EH,

04/09/34;

potentially richer for meeting TSE's friends,

EH 'kisses' TSE,

EH rests head on TSE's shoulder,

01/08/35,

27/08/35,

14/11/35;

EH strokes TSE's face,

30/09/35;

as consubstantial union,

TSE's love finally reciprocated,

25/11/35;

mutual embraces,

11/12/35;

EH kissed on the right foot,

11/12/35,

16/01/36,

27/01/36;

TSE favoured with birthday kiss,

13/12/35;

exhausting,

06/01/36;

should proceed without hope of marriage,

21/02/36;

TSE again regrets misleading EH,

11/03/36;

as one of mutual dependence,

11/01/37;

its unsatisfactions,

29/03/38;

its seasonal rhythm,

27/01/39;

but for VHE would be marriage,

30/08/39[n];

EH seeks post-war clarity on,

26/04/45;

and the prospect of VHE's death,

28/05/45;

following VHE's death,

TSE reflects on the deterioration of,

03/02/47[n];

TSE reflects generally on,

14/02/47;

and men and women generally,

01/05/47,

26/11/56;

according to Theresa Eliot,

01/05/47[n];

EH reflects on,

07/08/47;

since TSE discounted marriage,

30/11/47;

had TSE behaved differently in 1914,

30/11/47;

its new dispensation,

26/10/50;

source of mutual anguish,

13/06/52;

apropos of TSE's second marriage,

11/01/57,

16/01/57;

EH's marriage regret,

03/02/57;

EH recoils from publicising,

18/08/63;

TSE re-evaluates,

25/09/63,

01/10/63;

EH writes to EVE about,

06/11/66;

religious beliefs and practices, claims experience of 'vision',

02/12/30;

admits suffering spiritual crisis,

11/08/31;

goes on retreat,

14/06/32;

and TSE's definition of sainthood,

compared to TSE's,

professes to resent the Church,

03/03/36;

makes retreat to Senexet,

14/05/36;

the issue of communion,

the possibility of confirmation,

12/02/37;

source of worry to EH,

confronts TSE on religious differences,

13/09/38;

TSE on her 'Christian spirit',

03/12/40;

fears TSE considers her damned,

22/04/41;

TSE pointedly refrains from criticising,

08/12/41;

unclear to TSE,

16/10/46;

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,

04/02/31;

the strangeness of not broadcasting,

31/03/31;

first felt in 1913,

21/07/31;

recognised by TSE the night of Tristan und Isolde,

21/07/31;

TSE's reasons for not declaring in 1913,

21/07/31;

what TSE said instead of declaring,

a pain of sorts,

unconfided to friends,

01/01/32,

05/09/32;

not immune to jealousy of EH's male friends,

04/03/32;

its passion tempered by religion,

13/05/32;

and the torment of resignation,

26/07/32,

19/11/33;

defiled by possessiveness and anger,

29/01/33;

and a particular journey back from Pasadena,

10/02/33;

in light of California stay,

13/02/33;

increases his desire to quarrel with EH,

14/02/33,

27/02/33;

TSE doubts decision to declare,

27/02/33,

19/11/33,

23/01/34;

eternally unconditional,

30/04/33;

shows TSE true meaning of tenderness,

defined by TSE,

violent,

clarified and strengthened by Chipping Campden reunion,

30/07/34,

02/08/34;

disquiets EH,

06/08/34;

obstructive to EH loving another,

06/08/34;

TSE initially relieved to find unrequited,

17/08/34;

queered by inexperience,

17/08/34;

TSE repents of over-prizing,

17/08/34,

20/08/34;

startles TSE, like 'a burglar',

20/08/34;

strengthened and deepened,

04/09/34;

irrespective of physical beauty,

22/11/35;

finally reciprocated,

25/11/35;

ideal when unreciprocated,

12/12/35;

relieved only by poetry,

12/12/35,

10/01/36;

as against love's travesties,

18/02/36;

as expressed in Burnt Norton,

19/03/36;

over time,

27/01/39;

apparently undimmed but dwarfed by war,

07/10/39,

06/09/41,

01/01/43;

and the first time TSE spoke EH's name,

13/07/42;

thwarted by question of divorce,

13/10/42;

EH questions,

26/04/45;

now better adjusted to reality,

04/09/46;

argument over communion challenges,

02/11/46;

would run to jealously but not marriage,

03/02/47[n];

as expressed in 1914 on Chestnut Hill,

30/11/47;

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',

07/02/33;

'Emily of Fire & Violence',

14/02/33;

'Bouche-de-Fraise',

21/05/33;

'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',

20/01/31;

letter to The Times about King's jubilee,

24/05/35;

account of communion at Beaulieu,

13/06/35,

16/08/35;

EH asks to write about TSE,

15/02/38;

review of La Machine infernale,

09/12/38;

review of Dangerous Corner,

19/05/39;

a note for S. P. C. A.,

22/03/42;

an 'epigram',

24/01/44;

'Actors at Alnwick',

14/11/54;

'An Etching',

31/08/31, 31/08/31[n];

'The Giocanda Smile',

07/02/53;

'The Personal Equation in Spoken English',

31/03/40;

'A Play from Both Sides of the Footlights',

13/02/31,

16/02/31;

'Summer Sunshine: A Memory of Miss Minna Hall',

16/12/51[n];

'They flash upon the inward eye',

10/07/36;

Livingstone, Sir Richard, puts TSE up in Oxford,

30/10/40;

described for EH,

18/11/40;

confers Presidency of Classical Association on TSE,

05/05/41;

20/10/41;

TSE declines lecture invitation from,

20/11/44;