Emily Hale To Henry Eliot
Boston
As I shall not have a good chance to answer your inquiries about some of the ‘harvest’ I sent you for the next ten days or so, I send as best I can, the answers for the items asked for.
The'Development of Shakespeare's Verse, The';b3 Shakespeare addresses were delivered at Edinburgh University in the autumn of 1939, I think. Title, I am not sure of – ‘Shakespeare as Poet and Dramatist’ perhaps.
The address about ‘traditional poetry’, claims no memory, except perhaps a talk before the Book Fair in London in 1935.
ILewis, Wyndhamhis sketch of TSE loaned to Henry;b9 believe the pencil sketch by Wyndham Lewis has not been published – at least in no book – possibly some magazine article.
Thecheeseletter to Times on Stilton;b3 letter on Stilton cheese was early in the summer of 1938, I think.1
You see, I have not the keen collector’s instinct about the works of my distinguished friend, as you would like me to have, and I fear my reply is of little use to you.
I am distressed to hear you have to lose all of your teeth – and hope such a sacrifice will be very worth while in the end.
With affectionate greetings to Theresa and even to yourself,
1.‘Stilton Cheese’ (letter to the editor), The Times, 29 Nov. 1935, 15: CProse 5, 286–7.
7.WyndhamLewis, Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957), painter, novelist, philosopher, critic: see Biographical Register.